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  • How much am I worth hourly as a software/web developer? [closed]

    - by luckysmack
    I may be starting a new job very soon as a developer for both web and desktop software. The primary languages I will be using is ASP.NET with C# with some php for existing projects(I've already had one interview which went very well). The job deals primarily in advertising. But this is my first real job in the market, I have no degrees, but have some college time(~1yr). So I am primarily self taught. They are fully aware of my skill set and lack of degrees or certificates. I applied as an entry level developer. It will be a permanent and full time/hourly position, and not a per contract job. So since it my cherry job, im not really sure what to ask for. even though im self taught im pretty confident in my skills and know what im doing fairly well. I pick up on new concepts very well and find new things fairly easy to learn. Here is a very brief summary of my skills: PHP: ~2years C#/.NET: 2 months Python: Basics only. ~1 month OOP Familiarity: Great (1 year) MVC Familiarity: Great (1 year) PHP Frameworks used: CakePHP(6 months), Yii(3 months), Lithium(3 months) CMS Familiar with: Drupal(1.5 years), Wordpress(only basics) I also have ~2yrs experience in maintaining my own VPS server and the hassles all that entails (linux/debian) Pretty much all the above will be used at this job. Although I will be using C# a vast majority of the time. I only recently started learning it but am moving along fairly rapidly and its all going smooth as butter. So what have I built? I have one proprietary site built in drupal which is used an an order log for products, inventory, and their shipments. It is also able to process payments through paypal merchant services. I have worked on a handful of other small apps used here and there I'm not able to show but which worked fairly well (all in php using frameworks though). The business does fairly well and is far from a a typical corporate type environment. It is much closer to a small development studio. And it is based out of northern California. I don't know how/what more info I can give on them. I also want this to be able to be referenced by other people possibly so I am looking for general tips and ideas to get an answer as well. I had trouble finding a reasonable range on other websites which seemed to be either way to low, or showed what a veteran developer makes. I know this is a fairly subjective question, but it is difficult to get a reasonable answer or guesstimate anywhere else. Even if only a little bit help, its much appreciated. So as for the direct question, based on all this info (did I miss anything?), how much should I ask for hourly? How much am I worth as a software developer?

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  • C#/.net features to cut off assuming no backward compatibility needed?

    - by Gulshan
    Any product or framework evolves. Mainly it's done to catch up the needs of it's users, leverage new computing powers and simply make it better. Sometimes the primary design goal also changes with the product. C# or .net framework is no exception. As we see, the present day 4th version is very much different comparing with the first one. But thing comes as a barricade to this evolution- backward compatibility. In most of frameworks/products there are features would have been cut off if there was no need to support backward compatibility. According to you, what are these features in C#/.net? Please mention one feature per answer.

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  • MS Grad Student Project

    - by Bernie Perez
    I'm a computer science grad student at UCLA specializing in security and/or mobile devices. I'm looking for ideas for my M.S. Project. Something with research and experimenting or testing. I have a few in mind, just wondering if the community has some good thoughts. I'm currently working on a project that deals with offload security related operations to a grid-powered/cloud server to improve battery life on phones or tablets, aka Security-Aware software on mobile devices. I might be able to expand on this for my project... but I'm open to any new types of ideas. I have another idea about secure communications with a peer-2-peer ad-hoc network, but its seems a little dull. Hope this questions is not off topic for this StackExchange. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.

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  • Learning a new language using broken unit tests

    - by Brian MacKay
    I was listening to a dot net rocks the other day where they mentioned, almost in passing, a really intriguing tool for learning new languages -- I think they were specifically talking about F#. It's a solution you open up and there are a bunch of broken unit tests. Fixing them walks you through the steps of learning the language. I want to check it out, but I was driving in my car and I have no idea what the name of the project is or which dot net rocks episode it was. Google hasn't helped much. Any idea?

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  • How to proceed when a bug in open source libraries is suspected?

    - by Suma
    We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially when sometimes documentation is not exactly 100 % complete). As the libraries are often quite complex, debugging them to pinpoint the source of the problem is sometimes quite hard. Can you help me to summarize what other options are there and how to exactly proceed with them? I have just recently hit some strange problems when using TCMalloc (Google scalable memory allocator) on Windows, so I would most welcome answers which would apply to this particular library, but more general answers are good as well. 1) Ask the maintainer/owner of the project for assistance. How can this be done? 2) Hire someone to identify and fix the issue. How to do this? How can I find someone with enough expertise in some particular library? ... any other options?

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  • How necessary is it to learn JavaScript before jQuery?

    - by benhowdle89
    In my opinion, when I looked at JavaScript, it looked like not my cup of tea. When I came across jQuery, I loved it. I sat and watched Nettuts+ 15 days of jQuery screencasts, 1 year later and now I'm fairly confident I wouldn't develop a website without including jQuery's library. I have never felt this has held me back but my question is, will this come back and bite me in the ass one day, the fact that I didn't have a solid JavaScript foundation before jumping feet first into one of its best (if not the best) frameworks? Did anyone else take this approach?

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  • learn the programming language for computing functions about integers

    - by asd
    Hi I know something about Pascal, Mathematica and Matlab, but I dont have any idea about C,C++,C# languages. I want to learn one of the languages that they they are fast and exact to compute some arithmetic functions for large numbers(for example larger than $10^3000$). I asked somebody and he said he used C++ and he said I computed this sequence in less than 10 min. I want to know C, C++, C# and visual kind of theses programs and know which is better for my goal. Let $f$ be an arithmetic function and A={k1,k2,...,kn} are integers in increasing order. Now I want to start with k1 and compare f(ki) with f(k1). If f(ki)f(k1), put ki as k1. Now start with ki, and compare f(kj) with f(ki), for ji. If f(kj)f(ki), put kj as ki, and repeat this procedure. At the end we will have a sub sequence B={L1,...,Lm} of A by this property: f(L(i+1))f(L(i)), for any 1<=i<=m-1 I have written a code for this program with Mathematica, and it take some hours to compute f of ki's or the set B for large numbers. For example, let f is the divisor function of integers. Do you know how to write the code for my purpose in Mathematica or Matlab. Mathematica is preferable.

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  • how to write the code for this program specially in mathematica? [closed]

    - by asd
    I implemented a solution to the problem below in Mathematica, but it takes a very long time (hours) to compute f of kis or the set B for large numbers. Somebody suggested that implementing this in C++ resulted in a solution in less than 10 minutes. Would C++ be a good language to learn to solve these problems, or can my Mathematica code be improved to fix the performance issues? I don't know anything about C or C++ and it should be difficult to start to learn this languages. I prefer to improve or write new code in mathematica. Problem Description Let $f$ be an arithmetic function and A={k1,k2,...,kn} are integers in increasing order. Now I want to start with k1 and compare f(ki) with f(k1). If f(ki)f(k1), put ki as k1. Now start with ki, and compare f(kj) with f(ki), for ji. If f(kj)f(ki), put kj as ki, and repeat this procedure. At the end we will have a sub sequence B={L1,...,Lm} of A by this property: f(L(i+1))f(L(i)), for any 1<=i<=m-1 For example, let f is the divisor function of integers. Here I put some part of my code and this is just a sample and the question in my program could be more larger than these: «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« f[n_] := DivisorSigma[0, n]; g[n_] := Product[Prime[i], {i, 1, PrimePi[n]}]; k1 = g[67757] g[353] g[59] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^3 2^7; k2 = g[67757] g[353] g[59] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^5 2^7; k3 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^7; k4 = g[67759] g[349] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^5 2^6; k5 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^8; k6 = g[67759] g[349] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^3 2^7; k7 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^5 2^6; k8 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^9; k9 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^3 2^7; k10 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^5 2^7; k11 = g[67759] g[349] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^4 2^6; k12 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^3 2^8; k13 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^4 2^6; k14 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^3 2^9; k15 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5]^2 6^4 2^7; k16 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[23] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^8; k17 = g[67757] g[359] g[59] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^7; k18 = g[67757] g[359] g[53] g[23] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^9; k19 = g[67759] g[353] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^6; k20 = g[67763] g[347] g[53] g[19] g[11] g[7] g[5] 6^4 2^7; k = Table[k1, k2, k3, k4, k5, k6, k7, k8, k9, k10, k11, k12, k13, k14, k15, k16, k17, k18, k19, k20]; i = 1; count = 0; For[j = i, j <= 20, j++, If[f[k[[j]]] - f[k[[i]]] > 0, i = j; Print["k",i]; count = count + 1]]; Print["count= ", count] ««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««

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  • How important is a big-name school for fresh grads?

    - by Fishtoaster
    How important, if at all, is what school you go to towards your job prospects coming out of college? That is, how much difference is there between how a graduate of MIT/Stanford/etc treated vs RIT vs Monroe Community College vs Joe's Discount Diploma shop? I'm asking specifically outside of the education itself, and more towards the perceived value of your degree to prospective employers. What do you think?

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  • As a programmer, are you required to do timesheets?

    - by vcsjones
    Timesheets are something that I've never been fond of, but non-the-less something that is a requirement within my company. They don't bother me so much, but they seem to really grind some other people's gears. I suppose I have a few questions, and feedback would be great. Are you required to do timesheets, assuming you aren't a contractor? (That is understandable to me). What is the granularity of timesheets that you would be comfortable with or that you use? (ex: all entries must be under two hours). Would timesheets ever factor into your reasons for not accepting a job or leaving a current one? How has management within your organization justified timesheets if you aren't billing to a client?

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  • Why do the interfaces show ipv6 address along with ipv4

    - by nixnotwin
    I have manually specified only ipv4 address for my interfaces. But all the interfaces automatically show inet6 address as well. Does it mean that ubuntu starts an ipv6 tunnel by default. If it does, isn't it dangerous, as ipv6 assigns public ips for all LAN clients. I only have a firewall on my NAT router, and my clients, who's interfaces show ipv6 address, do not have firewalls. Here is a screenshot: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 34:dc:47:2e:ad:13 inet6 addr: fe80::28cf:38ff:fb7b:da19/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5783 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2961324 (2.9 MB) TX bytes:1573757 (1.5 MB) Interrupt:46 Note: For privacy reasons I have modified the HWaddr and inet6 addr values.

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  • Tweak Conky Layout via a script

    - by begtognen
    I'm using a script in Conky in order to display my new gmail on my desktop. It works beautifully, but is kind of ugly, and I'm not sure how to fix it. What I've currently got looks like this: And what I'd like is this: Any ideas for how to make that happen are much appreciated. Here's the script I'm currently using (I think I've snipped out the correct part, if I haven't please let me know.) #!/usr/bin/perl use Switch; use Text::Wrap; my $what=$ARGV[0]; $user="username"; #username for gmail account $pass="password"; #password for gmail account $file="/tmp/gmail.html"; #temporary file to store gmail #wrap format for subject $Text::Wrap::columns=65; #Number of columns to wrap subject at $initial_tab=""; #Tab for first line of subject $subsequent_tab="\t"; #tab for wrapped lines $quote="\""; #put quotes around subject #limit the number of emails to be displayed $emails=-1; #if -1 display all emails &passwd; #give password the proper url character encoding switch($what){ #determine what the user wants case "n" {&gmail; print "$new\n";} #print number of new emails case "s" { #print $from and $subj for new email &gmail; if ($new0){ my $size=@from; if ($emails!=-1 && $size$emails){$size=$emails;} #limit number of emails displayed for(my $i=0; $i$emails){print "$emails out of $size new emails displayed\n";} } } case "e" { #print number of new emails, $from, and $subj &gmail; if($new==0){print "You have no new emails.\n";} else{ print "You have $new new email(s).\n"; my $size=@from; if ($emails!=-1 && $size$emails){$size=$emails;} #limit number of emails displayed for(my $i=0; $i$emails){print "$emails out of $size new emails displayed\n";} } } else { print "Usage Error: gmail.pl \n"; print "\tn displays number of new emails\n"; print "\ts displays from line and subject line for each new email.\n"; print "\te displays the number of new emails and from line plus \n"; print "\t\tsubject line for each new email.\n"; } #didn't give proper option } sub gmail{ if(!(-e $file)){ #create file if it does not exists `touch $file`; } #get new emails `wget -O - https://$user:$pass\@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom --no-check-certificate $file`; open(IN, $file); #open $file my $i=0; #initialize count $new=0; #initialize new emails to 0 my $flag=0; while(){ #cycle through $file if(//){$flag=1;} elsif(/(\d+)/){$new=$1;} #grab number of new emails elsif($flag==1){ if(/.+/){push(@subj, &msg);} #grab new email titles elsif(/(.+)/){push(@from, $1); $flag=0;} #grab new email from lines } } close(IN); #close $file } sub passwd{ #change to url escape codes in password #URL ESCAPE CODES $_=$pass; s/\%/\%25/g; s/\#/\%23/g; s/\$/\%24/g; s/\&/\%26/g; s/\//\%2F/g; s/\:/\%3A/g; s/\;/\%3B/g; s/\/\%3E/g; s/\?/\%3F/g; s/\@/\%40/g; s/\[/\%5B/g; s/\\/\%5C/g; s/\]/\%5D/g; s/\^/\%5E/g; s/\`/\%60/g; s/\{/\%7B/g; s/\|/\%7C/g; s/\}/\%7D/g; s/\~/\%7E/g; $pass=$_; } sub msg{ #THE HTML CODED CHARACTER SET [ISO-8859-1] chomp; s/(.+)/$1/; #get just the subject #now replace any special characters s/\&\#33\;/!/g; #Exclamation mark s/\&\#34\;/"/g; s/\"\;/"/g; #Quotation mark s/\&\#35\;/#/g; #Number sign s/\&\#36\;/\$/g; #Dollar sign s/\&\#37\;/%/g; #Percent sign s/\&\#38\;/&/g; s/\&\;/&/g; #Ampersand s/\&\#39\;/'/g; #Apostrophe s/\&\#40\;/(/g; #Left parenthesis s/\&\#41\;/)/g; #Right parenthesis s/\&\#42\;/*/g; #Asterisk s/\&\#43\;/+/g; #Plus sign s/\&\#44\;/,/g; #Comma s/\&\#45\;/-/g; #Hyphen s/\&\#46\;/./g; #Period (fullstop) s/\&\#47\;/\//g; #Solidus (slash) s/\&\#58\;/:/g; #Colon s/\&\#59\;/\;/g; #Semi-colon s/\&\#60\;//g; s/\>\;//g; #Greater than s/\&\#63\;/\?/g; #Question mark s/\&\#64\;/\@/g; #Commercial at s/\&\#91\;/\[/g; #Left square bracket s/\&\#92\;/\\/g; #Reverse solidus (backslash) s/\&\#93\;/\]/g; #Right square bracket s/\&\#94\;/\^/g; #Caret s/\&\#95\;/_/g; #Horizontal bar (underscore) s/\&\#96\;/\`/g; #Acute accent s/\&\#123\;/\{/g; #Left curly brace s/\&\#124\;/|/g; #Vertical bar s/\&\#125\;/\}/g; #Right curly brace s/\&\#126\;/~/g; #Tilde s/\&\#161\;/¡/g; #Inverted exclamation s/\&\#162\;/¢/g; #Cent sign s/\&\#163\;/£/g; #Pound sterling s/\&\#164\;/¤/g; #General currency sign s/\&\#165\;/¥/g; #Yen sign s/\&\#166\;/¦/g; #Broken vertical bar s/\&\#167\;/§/g; #Section sign s/\&\#168\;/¨/g; #Umlaut (dieresis) s/\&\#169\;/©/g; s/\©\;/©/g; #Copyright s/\&\#170\;/ª/g; #Feminine ordinal s/\&\#171\;/«/g; #Left angle quote, guillemotleft s/\&\#172\;/¬/g; #Not sign s/\&\#174\;/®/g; #Registered trademark s/\&\#175\;/¯/g; #Macron accent s/\&\#176\;/°/g; #Degree sign s/\&\#177\;/±/g; #Plus or minus s/\&\#178\;/²/g; #Superscript two s/\&\#179\;/³/g; #Superscript three s/\&\#180\;/´/g; #Acute accent s/\&\#181\;/µ/g; #Micro sign s/\&\#182\;/¶/g; #Paragraph sign s/\&\#183\;/·/g; #Middle dot s/\&\#184\;/¸/g; #Cedilla s/\&\#185\;/¹/g; #Superscript one s/\&\#186\;/º/g; #Masculine ordinal s/\&\#187\;/»/g; #Right angle quote, guillemotright s/\&\#188\;/¼/g; s/\¼\;/¼/g; # Fraction one-fourth s/\&\#189\;/½/g; s/\½\;/½/g; # Fraction one-half s/\&\#190\;/¾/g; s/\¾\;/¾/g; # Fraction three-fourths s/\&\#191\;/¿/g; #Inverted question mark s/\&\#192\;/À/g; #Capital A, grave accent s/\&\#193\;/Á/g; #Capital A, acute accent s/\&\#194\;/Â/g; #Capital A, circumflex accent s/\&\#195\;/Ã/g; #Capital A, tilde s/\&\#196\;/Ä/g; #Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#197\;/Å/g; #Capital A, ring s/\&\#198\;/Æ/g; #Capital AE dipthong (ligature) s/\&\#199\;/Ç/g; #Capital C, cedilla s/\&\#200\;/È/g; #Capital E, grave accent s/\&\#201\;/É/g; #Capital E, acute accent s/\&\#202\;/Ê/g; #Capital E, circumflex accent s/\&\#203\;/Ë/g; #Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#204\;/Ì/g; #Capital I, grave accent s/\&\#205\;/Í/g; #Capital I, acute accent s/\&\#206\;/Î/g; #Capital I, circumflex accent s/\&\#207\;/Ï/g; #Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#208\;/Ð/g; #Capital Eth, Icelandic s/\&\#209\;/Ñ/g; #Capital N, tilde s/\&\#210\;/Ò/g; #Capital O, grave accent s/\&\#211\;/Ó/g; #Capital O, acute accent s/\&\#212\;/Ô/g; #Capital O, circumflex accent s/\&\#213\;/Õ/g; #Capital O, tilde s/\&\#214\;/Ö/g; #Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#215\;/×/g; #Multiply sign s/\&\#216\;/Ø/g; #Capital O, slash s/\&\#217\;/Ù/g; #Capital U, grave accent s/\&\#218\;/Ú/g; #Capital U, acute accent s/\&\#219\;/Û/g; #Capital U, circumflex accent s/\&\#220\;/Ü/g; #Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#221\;/Ý/g; #Capital Y, acute accent s/\&\#222\;/Þ/g; #Capital THORN, Icelandic s/\&\#223\;/ß/g; #Small sharp s, German (sz ligature) s/\&\#224\;/à/g; #Small a, grave accent s/\&\#225\;/á/g; #Small a, acute accent s/\&\#226\;/â/g; #Small a, circumflex accent s/\&\#227\;/ã/g; #Small a, tilde s/\&\#228\;/ä/g; #Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#229\;/å/g; #Small a, ring s/\&\#230\;/æ/g; #Small ae dipthong (ligature) s/\&\#231\;/ç/g; #Small c, cedilla s/\&\#232\;/è/g; #Small e, grave accent s/\&\#233\;/é/g; #Small e, acute accent s/\&\#234\;/ê/g; #Small e, circumflex accent s/\&\#235\;/ë/g; #Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#236\;/ì/g; #Small i, grave accent s/\&\#237\;/í/g; #Small i, acute accent s/\&\#238\;/î/g; #Small i, circumflex accent s/\&\#239\;/ï/g; #Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#240\;/ð/g; #Small eth, Icelandic s/\&\#241\;/ñ/g; #Small n, tilde s/\&\#242\;/ò/g; #Small o, grave accent s/\&\#243\;/ó/g; #Small o, acute accent s/\&\#244\;/ô/g; #Small o, circumflex accent s/\&\#245\;/õ/g; #Small o, tilde s/\&\#246\;/ö/g; #Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#247\;/÷/g; #Division sign s/\&\#248\;/ø/g; #Small o, slash s/\&\#249\;/ù/g; #Small u, grave accent s/\&\#250\;/ú/g; #Small u, acute accent s/\&\#251\;/û/g; #Small u, circumflex accent s/\&\#252\;/ü/g; #Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark s/\&\#253\;/ý/g; #Small y, acute accent s/\&\#254\;/þ/g; #Small thorn, Icelandic s/\&\#255\;/ÿ/g; #Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark s/^\s+//; return $_; }

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  • How to remove a package from the list of packages to be installed in apt-get?

    - by George
    After I tried installing vim using apt-get install, apt-get keeps giving me a segmentation fault while trying to install vim-runtime. I'm pretty sure it's just with that one specific package, and whenever I try to do apt-get install to install any other package, vim-runtime is in the list of packages that will be installed, and it's always the first package that tries to install, so I can't install any other packages. How can I remove vim-runtime from the list of packages that will be installed? It always shows up even if it is not a dependency of a package I want to install. Note: This is on an Ubuntu rootfs running on ARM.

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  • To same computer Remote desktop thrue WRT54G router

    - by Kangarooo
    Cant access from my Same comp same comp to test if all is ok. Tryd all mentioned posibilities. Tryd my ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx / localhost with / without :5900 added with / without in "Remote desktop" checked "Configure network automatically to accept connection" with / without in router WRT54G enabled port 5900 forwardet to my comp 192.168.1.3 UPNP is enabled. I can connect to one other comp witch isnt using router and checked "Configure network automatically to accept connection" and to one thrue TENDA W311R+ router where ive put port forwarding to 5900 and there works xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5900 Whats wrong? What ive missed?

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  • How Do I Print Photos?

    - by Takkat
    Other than for Windows in Ubuntu there are no fancy utilities provided from printer manufacturers to print photos. I am aware of Gnome Photo Printer and of Photoprint, the first being easy to handle, the latter having more options. However I wonder if there are any other or maybe even better alternatives (including plugins) to perform the following tasks: Print photos in the best photo-resolution the driver offers Adjust paper size for standard values of photo papers Choose paper tray if the printer has more than one Print out multiple photos on one page including mixed sizes (grids) Multiple prints with same settings Borderless printing if the printer is capable of this Any additional options like pre-processing for color correction or noise reduction would be nice to have but are not so essential. Update According to this spec it seems not to so easy to accomplish the simple task of printing photos. Indeed all applications I have gone through have major drawbacks that make printing photos almost impossible. Below I will list what put me off using them for photo printing: Gnome Photo Printer: no thumbnails, no grids Photoprint: does not keep settings, GUI broken, no standard photo size, no thumbs Eye Of Gnome: no multiple pages, no grids Gimp + Images Grid Layout: far too many steps to finally find that prints are always different to their previews. F-Spot: no grids Picasa 3: no grids, very few fixed paper sizes, 300 dpi only flPhoto: strange GUI, no thumbs, no printer settings, did not print at all Windows: Ooops - everything works fine! But I want Ubuntu to do this! After half a pack of ink cartridges and half a pack of photo paper cards I am getting tired of testing. At least Gimp and Picasa looked promising but both don't keep their promise when it comes to printing. I'd already be happy to quickly print a few photos with EOG if bug #80220 was fixed - but it's still on "wishlist".

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  • Randomly displayed flashing lines, no response to all shortcuts, just power off. [syslog included]

    - by B. Roland
    Hello! I have an old machine, and I want to use for that to learn employees how to use Ubuntu, and to be easyer to switch from Windows. I've been installed 10.04, and updated, but this strange stuff is happend. Graphical installion failed, same strange thing. With alternate workd. Sometimes, when I boot up, a boot message displayed: Keyboard failure..., often diplayed after reboot, and after shutdown, when I haven't plugged off from AC. I replaced the keyboard yet, same failure... If I powered off, and plugged off from AC, no keyboard problems displayed in boot time. Details Configuration: Dell OptiPlex GX60 - in original cover, no changes. 256 MB DDR 166 MHz Intel® Celeron® Processor 2.40 GHz Dell 0C3207 Base Board I know, that is not enough, but I have three other Nec compuers, with nearly similar config, and they works well with 9.10, 10.04, 10.10. Live CDs I've been tried with 10.04 and 10.10, but the problem is displayed too. With 9.10 no strange things displayed, but it froze, during a simple apt-get install. Syslog An error loop is logged here, but I paste the whole startup and error lines. The flashing lines are displayed sometimes immediately after login, but sometimes after 10 minutes, but once occured, that nothing happend. Strange thing is displayed immediately after login: here. An other boot, after some minutes, strange lines, and loop in log appeard: here. The loop should be that: Jan 23 00:20:08 machine_name kernel: [ 46.782212] [drm:i915_gem_entervt_ioctl] *ERROR* Reenabling wedged hardware, good luck Jan 23 00:20:08 machine_name kernel: [ 47.100033] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung Jan 23 00:20:08 machine_name kernel: [ 47.100045] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000 Jan 23 00:20:08 machine_name kernel: [ 47.101487] [drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 16 at 9) Jan 23 00:20:11 machine_name kernel: [ 49.152020] [drm:i915_gem_idle] *ERROR* hardware wedged Jan 23 00:20:11 machine_name gdm-simple-slave[1245]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory Jan 23 00:20:11 machine_name acpid: client 1239[0:0] has disconnected Jan 23 00:20:11 machine_name acpid: client connected from 1247[0:0] Jan 23 00:20:11 machine_name acpid: 1 client rule loaded UPDATE Added syslog things: before errors, error loop, the complete shutdown(after the big updates): Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Sucessfully called chroot. Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Sucessfully dropped privileges. Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Sucessfully limited resources. Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Running. Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Watchdog thread running. Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Canary thread running. Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Sucessfully made thread 1337 of process 1337 (n/a) owned by '1001' high priority at nice level -11. Jan 28 20:40:30 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Jan 28 20:40:32 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Sucessfully made thread 1345 of process 1337 (n/a) owned by '1001' RT at priority 5. Jan 28 20:40:32 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Jan 28 20:40:32 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Sucessfully made thread 1349 of process 1337 (n/a) owned by '1001' RT at priority 5. Jan 28 20:40:32 machine_name rtkit-daemon[1339]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Jan 28 20:40:37 machine_name pulseaudio[1337]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed Jan 28 20:41:33 machine_name AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon Jan 28 20:41:44 machine_name kernel: [ 167.691563] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Jan 28 20:47:33 machine_name AptDaemon: INFO: Quiting due to inactivity Jan 28 20:47:33 machine_name AptDaemon: INFO: Shutdown was requested Jan 28 20:59:50 machine_name kernel: [ 1253.840513] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Jan 28 21:17:02 machine_name CRON[1874]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Jan 28 21:17:38 machine_name kernel: [ 2321.553239] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Jan 28 22:07:44 machine_name kernel: [ 5327.840254] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Jan 28 22:17:02 machine_name CRON[2665]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Jan 28 22:32:38 machine_name sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: Called Jan 28 22:32:38 machine_name sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: username = [some_user] Jan 28 22:32:38 machine_name sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: /home/some_user is already mounted Jan 28 22:57:03 machine_name kernel: [ 8286.641472] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Jan 28 22:57:24 machine_name sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: Called Jan 28 22:57:24 machine_name sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: username = [some_user] Jan 28 22:57:24 machine_name sudo: pam_sm_authenticate: /home/some_user is already mounted Jan 28 23:07:42 machine_name kernel: [ 8925.272030] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung Jan 28 23:07:42 machine_name kernel: [ 8925.272048] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000 Jan 28 23:07:42 machine_name kernel: [ 8925.272093] [drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 171453 at 171452) Jan 28 23:07:45 machine_name kernel: [ 8928.868041] [drm:i915_gem_idle] *ERROR* hardware wedged Jan 28 23:08:10 machine_name acpid: client 925[0:0] has disconnected Jan 28 23:08:10 machine_name acpid: client connected from 8127[0:0] Jan 28 23:08:10 machine_name acpid: 1 client rule loaded Jan 28 23:08:11 machine_name kernel: [ 8955.046248] [drm:i915_gem_entervt_ioctl] *ERROR* Reenabling wedged hardware, good luck Jan 28 23:08:12 machine_name kernel: [ 8955.364016] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung Jan 28 23:08:12 machine_name kernel: [ 8955.364027] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000 Jan 28 23:08:12 machine_name kernel: [ 8955.364407] [drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 171457 at 171452) Jan 28 23:08:14 machine_name kernel: [ 8957.472025] [drm:i915_gem_idle] *ERROR* hardware wedged Jan 28 23:08:14 machine_name acpid: client 8127[0:0] has disconnected Jan 28 23:08:14 machine_name acpid: client connected from 8141[0:0] Jan 28 23:08:14 machine_name acpid: 1 client rule loaded Jan 28 23:08:15 machine_name kernel: [ 8958.671722] [drm:i915_gem_entervt_ioctl] *ERROR* Reenabling wedged hardware, good luck Jan 28 23:08:15 machine_name kernel: [ 8958.988015] [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung Jan 28 23:08:15 machine_name kernel: [ 8958.988026] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000000 Jan 28 23:08:15 machine_name kernel: [ 8958.989400] [drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 171459 at 171452) Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: tty4 main process (848) killed by TERM signal Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: tty5 main process (856) killed by TERM signal Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name NetworkManager: nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 15, shutting down normally. Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: tty2 main process (874) killed by TERM signal Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: tty3 main process (875) killed by TERM signal Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: tty6 main process (877) killed by TERM signal Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: cron main process (890) killed by TERM signal Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: tty1 main process (1146) killed by TERM signal Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name avahi-daemon[644]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name avahi-daemon[644]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 10.238.11.134. Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name acpid: exiting Jan 28 23:08:16 machine_name init: avahi-daemon main process (644) terminated with status 255 Jan 28 23:08:17 machine_name kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Jan 28 23:09:00 machine_name kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jan 28 23:09:00 machine_name rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="516" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start Jan 28 23:09:00 machine_name rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103 Jan 28 23:09:00 machine_name rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101 Jan 28 23:09:00 machine_name rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ] When I hit the On/Off button, the system shuts down normally. May be it a hardware problem, but I don't know... Can you say something useful to solve my problem?

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  • Are there plans to use the empty space in the SoundMenu?

    - by Kyle Clarke
    There seems to be roughly 4 lines of space next to the album art. However only 3 are used. Song Title Artist Album If nothing is planned for the 4th line. I propose that it is used for track time/length. This way you can tell how far along a song is without the need of a scrub bar. Unrelated, but I feel that the play-lists section should display how many songs are in that play list. Some of my play lists have no songs, and without realising this, it seems like a bug that the songs wont play.

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  • Looking for an ultra portable laptop for Ubuntu

    - by prule
    Hi, I'm in the market for a new laptop, and portability is important since I really only use it when I'm travelling to and from work - primarily for programming. I've been searching high and low for something like this: less than 2kg hopefully Intel i5 (but negotiable) NO dvd drive - just don't need it 4G ram either 7200rpm disk or SSD (ssd preferable) 13 inch screen not too pricey (MacBook Air is about $1700 AUD) available in Australia The Dell Inspiron 13z and Lenovo Edge 13 look close, but I've not found anything that says I'm not going to have a fight with compatibility. The MacBook Air 13 looks like the PERFECT hardware, but I'm afraid it will just be easier to run MacOS than Ubuntu. I want to stay with Ubuntu, but the MacBook Air is only $1700 so I'm in danger of becoming another apple fanboi if I can't find anything competitive. Going through all the sites looking for stuff has been a huge waste of time System 76 doesn't deliver to Australia http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and http://www.linlap.com/ are hard work and not confidence inspiring http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/nsintro.html is hard work again, searching for every laptop they say has excellent compatibility on the web to find out what spec it is http://zareason.com/shop/Strata-Pro-13.html (at $1345 USD) looks interesting, but I've got no idea how much I'll get stung by customs importing Dell Inspiron 13z with i5, 4G, 320 7200rpm disk, ATI Mobility Radeon HD5430 - 1GB, Dell Wireless 1501 802.11b/g/n @ $1200 AUD seems like the only competitor but is it compatible? (Dell support offer no opinion - as far as they are concerned they only have 2 models that are certified for ubuntu) Am I worrying too much about the compatibility? Should I just go with Dell? Or switch to MacOS? (It would be good to have a searchable database that had the full machine specs, and compatibility - I'm thinking about building something... but I don't have much time right now...) Thanks. UPDATE I went with a MacBook Air. The price/weight/power was just right. Everything else was either too pricy (i5) or too heavy, or underpowered (SU7300 1.3GHz). Its a pity, because I didn't really want to leave Ubuntu. I'll still run it on my media center and spare (heavy) laptop.

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  • Using the fsc mount option with nfsroot kernel parameter to allow FS-cache

    - by meanderix
    I'm PXE-booting a Ubuntu 10.10 system, where I specify the kernel parameters as follows: append root=/dev/nfs initrd=ubuntu-boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-24-generic nfsroot=11.22.33.44:/data/nfsroot,fsc ip=dhcp rw I need to use the mount option 'fsc' in order to use FS-cache functionality (the cachefilesd package.) However, when I try this I get the following error upon boot: nfsmount: bad option 'fsc' Why doesn't nfsmount permit this option? (It works fine when you mount manually with "mount -o fsc" after booting up.)

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  • How to make in CLI check for updates to be happening every 4 weeks and install them automatically without going to Software sources?

    - by Kangarooo
    I have a set of custom commands I run on my computers after I install them. How do I make Ubuntu check for updates every 4 weeks and install them automatically on check? I would need this done via command line so I can set it up for usual users when I set up their computers. The first command will make the update manager check for updates every 2 weeks because they not always come so much and to save the bandwidth of the Ubuntu servers. I also need to set it so that users don't need to click to install updates since it's tiring every time I help a friend set up a computer.

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  • How to set individual NTFS partitions permissions behaviour for each user account?

    - by ryniek
    I have two NTFS partitions (DOWNLOADS for downloaded files and VM for my VirtualBox .vdi file) for which i must have full permissions for my allday use account. They should be also automounting when i login to this account. But i've also set Guest account for guests. For Guest account, i want make VM partition fully disabled and invisible (and thus it mustn't automount) but DOWNLOADS partition should be shared with limited privileges with Guest account. Editing fstab i'm able to share DOWNLOADS partition with Guest on limited privileges but VM can be only set to limited and have disabled automounting - so guest can't mount it but it still can be seen in Nautilus, plus I must always mount it manually when i login to allday account. Is there some trick to make what i want? Here's my fstab config: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 #Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=35e66658-5ee9-40cf-bf56-8204959e3df0 / xfs defaults 01 #Entry for /dev/sda2 : UUID=26c714cf-4236-45e7-9c46-cfcf91a215ae /home xfs defaults 02 #Entry for /dev/sda5 : UUID=1315BCB027C44639 /media/DOWNLOADS ntfs-3g auto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,nodev,locale=pl_PL.utf8 0 0 #Entry for /dev/sda6 : UUID=60FF39EB72B72264 /media/VM ntfs noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0077,nodev,locale=pl_PL.utf8 0 0 #Entry for /dev/sda7 : UUID=c52411f5-105c-45d1-971f-412f962c350e none swap sw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 Thanks

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  • Drive reporting incorrect free space

    - by Oli
    So I swapped my shiny SATA SSD for an even shinier PCI-E SSD. I run my core OS on the SSD because it's silly-fast. I did this on my old SSD so I created a new EXT4 partition and then just dded the data across (sorry I don't know the exact command I ran anymore) and after reinstalling grub, I booted onto the PCI-E SSD. At first glance everything had worked perfectly and things were running faster than ever. But then I noticed the free disk space on the new, larger drive: it was almost exactly the same as it was on the other disk... A disk that was half its size. So it looks as if I've copied the files across incorrectly and it's copied some of the filesystem metadata along with it. Tools like du and Disk Usage Analyzer come back with the correct figures. Things that look at the partition (and not the files) seem to think the drive is 120GB I've been using this drive for a week now so it's way out of sync with the old SSD so dumping the data and starting again isn't a job that fills me with joy but two questions: Is there a way to fix my filesystem so it knows what it's really on about? fsck e2fsck and badblocks all seem to be able to scan it without finding a problem with it. If I do plug my old SSD back in, copy the data off my PCI-E on to it and then copy it back onto a fresh filesystem (eg juggle the data around), what's the best way of doing that? I obviously want to keep all the permissions and softlinks where they are.

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  • CVV Code For Authorize.com using osCommerce

    - by user3567
    Hi I need to add a CVV code for verifying credit cards upon check out on my osCommerece shopping cart. I think this will involve a code for the authorize.net php and the checkout processing php but not sure. Found this great write up, but it is only for the authorize.net php and it doesn't create a filed for the CVV to be keyed. Also it throws an error with the 'echo validate.' Can't seem to find anything in any forums for osCommerce or any place out. Hoping someone here will have some knowledge. Thanks.

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  • Which Bliki (Blog+Wiki) solution can you recommend?

    - by asmaier
    I'm searching for a good Bliki solution, meaning a combination of blog and wiki that I can install on my own web space. I would like to be able to write articles in the wiki style much like with media wiki. So I want to use a wiki markup language, have a revision history, comments, internal links to other pages (maybe in other languages) and be able to collaboratively edit the articles. On the other side I would like to have a blog-like view on my articles, showing new articles (and changes to existing articles) in a time ordered fashion. It would be nice if it would be possible to search through the articles and also tag the articles, so one could generate a tag cloud for the articles. A nice feature would also be to be able to order the articles according to views or even a voting system for the articles. Good would also be a permission system to keep certain articles private, showing them only to people logged in to the platform. Apart from these nice to have features an absolute must have feature for the Bliki platform I'm searching is the possibility to handle math equations (written in LaTeX syntax) and display them either as pictures like media wiki or even better using Mathjax. At the moment I'm using a web service called wikiDot which offers some of the mentioned features, however the free version shows to much advertisements, the blog feature is not mature, the design is quite ugly and loading of the page is often slow. So I want to install a Bliki solution on my own webspace. Can you recommend any solution for that?

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  • Website not coming in Search engine results because of a term

    - by curiosity
    We have this site which is named Vialogues (Video+Discussion web based application). https://vialogues.com It has been around for sometime on the internet and we have also submitted sitemap.xml to search engines. However when we search on google or bing or yahoo using the keyword Vialogues, We are given results of the keyword dialogues and this message “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”. I am wondering if it's possible to list the site without the search engine suggesting “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”?

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