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Open Your Desktop to Nature with the Magic Landscapes Theme for Windows 7

- by Asian Angel

Are you looking for a nature filled theme for your desktop? Then the Magic Landscapes theme may be just what you are looking for. This terrific theme comes with seventeen wallpapers showcasing the work of photographer Michael Breitung. Download the Magic Landscapes Theme [Windows 7 Personalization Gallery] How To Properly Scan a Photograph (And Get An Even Better Image) The HTG Guide to Hiding Your Data in a TrueCrypt Hidden Volume Make Your Own Windows 8 Start Button with Zero Memory Usage

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Interesting conversation about the nature of info-wars

- by Malcolm Anderson

Over at Schlock Mercenary, Howard Taylor has started a facinating conversation on the nature of Info-Wars. As Howard puts it: Somebody (I forget who) tweeted that the Wikileaks fight right now is the first infowar in history. I disagree. I think we've fought numerous infowars in the last fifteen years. And that's really what I want to see discussed in the comments. We can argue right and wrong until the eCows come 127.0.0.1 but nobody is going to walk away convinced. I want to see a list of information-age conflicts that you feel qualify as "infowar." Me, I think the RIAA vs file-sharing qualifies. My buddy Rodney suggested RBLs vs Spammers (the spammers won that one.) Somebody pointed out that the Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games back in the 80's might qualify.

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Challenges in multi-player Android Game Server with RESTful Nature

- by Kush

I'm working on an Android Game based on Contract Bridge, as a part of my college Summer Internship project. The game will be multi-player such that 4 Android devices can play it, so there's no BOT or CPU player to be developed. At the time of getting project, I realized that most of the students had already worked on the project but none of their works is reusable now (for variety of reasons like, undocumented code and design architecture, different platform implementation). I have experience working on several open source projects and hence I emphasis to work out on this project such that components I make become reusable as much as possible. Now, as the game is multi-player and entire game progress will be handled on server, I'm currently working on Server's design, since I wanted to make game server reusable such that any client platform can use it, I was previously confused in selecting Socket or REST for Game Server's design, but later finalized to work on REST APIs for the server. Now, since I have to keep all players in-sync while they make movements in game, on server I've planned to use Database which will keep all players' progress, specific for each table (in Bridge, 4 players play on single table, and server will handle many such game tables). I don't know if its an appropriate decision to use database as shared medium to track progress of each game table (let me know if there's an appropriate or better option). Obviously, when game is completed for the table, data for that table on server's database is discarded. Now the problem is that, access to REST service is an HTTP call, so as long as client doesn't make any request, server will remain idle, and consider a situation where A player has played a card on his device and the device requests to apply this change on the server. Now, I need to let rest of the three devices know that the player has played a card, and also update view on their device. AFAIK, REST cannot provide a sort-of Push-notification system, since the connection to the server is not persistent. One solution that I thought was to make each device constantly poll the server for any change (like every 56 ms) and when changes are found, reflect it on the device. But I feel this is not an elegant way, as every HTTP request is expensive. (and I choose REST to make game play experience robust since, a mobile device tends to get disconnected from Internet, and if there's Socket-like persistent connection then entire game progress is subject to lost. Also, portability on client-end is important) Also, imagining a situation where 10 game tables are in progress and 40 players are playing, a server must be capable to handle flooded HTTP requests from all the devices which make it every 56 ms. So I wonder if the situation is assumed as DoS attack. So, explaining the situation, am I going on the right track for the server design? I wanted to be sure before I proceed much further with the code.

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The blocking nature of aggregates

- by Rob Farley

I wrote a post recently about how query tuning isn’t just about how quickly the query runs – that if you have something (such as SSIS) that is consuming your data (and probably introducing a bottleneck), then it might be more important to have a query which focuses on getting the first bit of data out. You can read that post here. In particular, we looked at two operators that could be used to ensure that a query returns only Distinct rows. and The Sort operator pulls in all the data, sorts it (discarding duplicates), and then pushes out the remaining rows. The Hash Match operator performs a Hashing function on each row as it comes in, and then looks to see if it’s created a Hash it’s seen before. If not, it pushes the row out. The Sort method is quicker, but has to wait until it’s gathered all the data before it can do the sort, and therefore blocks the data flow. But that was my last post. This one’s a bit different. This post is going to look at how Aggregate functions work, which ties nicely into this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. I’ve frequently explained about the fact that DISTINCT and GROUP BY are essentially the same function, although DISTINCT is the poorer cousin because you have less control over it, and you can’t apply aggregate functions. Just like the operators used for Distinct, there are different flavours of Aggregate operators – coming in blocking and non-blocking varieties. The example I like to use to explain this is a pile of playing cards. If I’m handed a pile of cards and asked to count how many cards there are in each suit, it’s going to help if the cards are already ordered. Suppose I’m playing a game of Bridge, I can easily glance at my hand and count how many there are in each suit, because I keep the pile of cards in order. Moving from left to right, I could tell you I have four Hearts in my hand, even before I’ve got to the end. By telling you that I have four Hearts as soon as I know, I demonstrate the principle of a non-blocking operation. This is known as a Stream Aggregate operation. It requires input which is sorted by whichever columns the grouping is on, and it will release a row as soon as the group changes – when I encounter a Spade, I know I don’t have any more Hearts in my hand. Alternatively, if the pile of cards are not sorted, I won’t know how many Hearts I have until I’ve looked through all the cards. In fact, to count them, I basically need to put them into little piles, and when I’ve finished making all those piles, I can count how many there are in each. Because I don’t know any of the final numbers until I’ve seen all the cards, this is blocking. This performs the aggregate function using a Hash Match. Observant readers will remember this from my Distinct example. You might remember that my earlier Hash Match operation – used for Distinct Flow – wasn’t blocking. But this one is. They’re essentially doing a similar operation, applying a Hash function to some data and seeing if the set of values have been seen before, but before, it needs more information than the mere existence of a new set of values, it needs to consider how many of them there are. A lot is dependent here on whether the data coming out of the source is sorted or not, and this is largely determined by the indexes that are being used. If you look in the Properties of an Index Scan, you’ll be able to see whether the order of the data is required by the plan. A property called Ordered will demonstrate this. In this particular example, the second plan is significantly faster, but is dependent on having ordered data. In fact, if I force a Stream Aggregate on unordered data (which I’m doing by telling it to use a different index), a Sort operation is needed, which makes my plan a lot slower. This is all very straight-forward stuff, and information that most people are fully aware of. I’m sure you’ve all read my good friend Paul White (@sql_kiwi)’s post on how the Query Optimizer chooses which type of aggregate function to apply. But let’s take a look at SQL Server Integration Services. SSIS gives us a Aggregate transformation for use in Data Flow Tasks, but it’s described as Blocking. The definitive article on Performance Tuning SSIS uses Sort and Aggregate as examples of Blocking Transformations. I’ve just shown you that Aggregate operations used by the Query Optimizer are not always blocking, but that the SSIS Aggregate component is an example of a blocking transformation. But is it always the case? After all, there are plenty of SSIS Performance Tuning talks out there that describe the value of sorted data in Data Flow Tasks, describing the IsSorted property that can be set through the Advanced Editor of your Source component. And so I set about testing the Aggregate transformation in SSIS, to prove for sure whether providing Sorted data would let the Aggregate transform behave like a Stream Aggregate. (Of course, I knew the answer already, but it helps to be able to demonstrate these things). A query that will produce a million rows in order was in order. Let me rephrase. I used a query which produced the numbers from 1 to 1000000, in a single field, ordered. The IsSorted flag was set on the source output, with the only column as SortKey 1. Performing an Aggregate function over this (counting the number of rows per distinct number) should produce an additional column with 1 in it. If this were being done in T-SQL, the ordered data would allow a Stream Aggregate to be used. In fact, if the Query Optimizer saw that the field had a Unique Index on it, it would be able to skip the Aggregate function completely, and just insert the value 1. This is a shortcut I wouldn’t be expecting from SSIS, but certainly the Stream behaviour would be nice. Unfortunately, it’s not the case. As you can see from the screenshots above, the data is pouring into the Aggregate function, and not being released until all million rows have been seen. It’s not doing a Stream Aggregate at all. This is expected behaviour. (I put that in bold, because I want you to realise this.) An SSIS transformation is a piece of code that runs. It’s a physical operation. When you write T-SQL and ask for an aggregation to be done, it’s a logical operation. The physical operation is either a Stream Aggregate or a Hash Match. In SSIS, you’re telling the system that you want a generic Aggregation, that will have to work with whatever data is passed in. I’m not saying that it wouldn’t be possible to make a sometimes-blocking aggregation component in SSIS. A Custom Component could be created which could detect whether the SortKeys columns of the input matched the Grouping columns of the Aggregation, and either call the blocking code or the non-blocking code as appropriate. One day I’ll make one of those, and publish it on my blog. I’ve done it before with a Script Component, but as Script components are single-use, I was able to handle the data knowing everything about my data flow already. As per my previous post – there are a lot of aspects in which tuning SSIS and tuning execution plans use similar concepts. In both situations, it really helps to have a feel for what’s going on behind the scenes. Considering whether an operation is blocking or not is extremely relevant to performance, and that it’s not always obvious from the surface. In a future post, I’ll show the impact of blocking v non-blocking and synchronous v asynchronous components in SSIS, using some of LobsterPot’s Script Components and Custom Components as examples. When I get that sorted, I’ll make a Stream Aggregate component available for download.

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The blocking nature of aggregates

- by Rob Farley

I wrote a post recently about how query tuning isn’t just about how quickly the query runs – that if you have something (such as SSIS) that is consuming your data (and probably introducing a bottleneck), then it might be more important to have a query which focuses on getting the first bit of data out. You can read that post here. In particular, we looked at two operators that could be used to ensure that a query returns only Distinct rows. and The Sort operator pulls in all the data, sorts it (discarding duplicates), and then pushes out the remaining rows. The Hash Match operator performs a Hashing function on each row as it comes in, and then looks to see if it’s created a Hash it’s seen before. If not, it pushes the row out. The Sort method is quicker, but has to wait until it’s gathered all the data before it can do the sort, and therefore blocks the data flow. But that was my last post. This one’s a bit different. This post is going to look at how Aggregate functions work, which ties nicely into this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. I’ve frequently explained about the fact that DISTINCT and GROUP BY are essentially the same function, although DISTINCT is the poorer cousin because you have less control over it, and you can’t apply aggregate functions. Just like the operators used for Distinct, there are different flavours of Aggregate operators – coming in blocking and non-blocking varieties. The example I like to use to explain this is a pile of playing cards. If I’m handed a pile of cards and asked to count how many cards there are in each suit, it’s going to help if the cards are already ordered. Suppose I’m playing a game of Bridge, I can easily glance at my hand and count how many there are in each suit, because I keep the pile of cards in order. Moving from left to right, I could tell you I have four Hearts in my hand, even before I’ve got to the end. By telling you that I have four Hearts as soon as I know, I demonstrate the principle of a non-blocking operation. This is known as a Stream Aggregate operation. It requires input which is sorted by whichever columns the grouping is on, and it will release a row as soon as the group changes – when I encounter a Spade, I know I don’t have any more Hearts in my hand. Alternatively, if the pile of cards are not sorted, I won’t know how many Hearts I have until I’ve looked through all the cards. In fact, to count them, I basically need to put them into little piles, and when I’ve finished making all those piles, I can count how many there are in each. Because I don’t know any of the final numbers until I’ve seen all the cards, this is blocking. This performs the aggregate function using a Hash Match. Observant readers will remember this from my Distinct example. You might remember that my earlier Hash Match operation – used for Distinct Flow – wasn’t blocking. But this one is. They’re essentially doing a similar operation, applying a Hash function to some data and seeing if the set of values have been seen before, but before, it needs more information than the mere existence of a new set of values, it needs to consider how many of them there are. A lot is dependent here on whether the data coming out of the source is sorted or not, and this is largely determined by the indexes that are being used. If you look in the Properties of an Index Scan, you’ll be able to see whether the order of the data is required by the plan. A property called Ordered will demonstrate this. In this particular example, the second plan is significantly faster, but is dependent on having ordered data. In fact, if I force a Stream Aggregate on unordered data (which I’m doing by telling it to use a different index), a Sort operation is needed, which makes my plan a lot slower. This is all very straight-forward stuff, and information that most people are fully aware of. I’m sure you’ve all read my good friend Paul White (@sql_kiwi)’s post on how the Query Optimizer chooses which type of aggregate function to apply. But let’s take a look at SQL Server Integration Services. SSIS gives us a Aggregate transformation for use in Data Flow Tasks, but it’s described as Blocking. The definitive article on Performance Tuning SSIS uses Sort and Aggregate as examples of Blocking Transformations. I’ve just shown you that Aggregate operations used by the Query Optimizer are not always blocking, but that the SSIS Aggregate component is an example of a blocking transformation. But is it always the case? After all, there are plenty of SSIS Performance Tuning talks out there that describe the value of sorted data in Data Flow Tasks, describing the IsSorted property that can be set through the Advanced Editor of your Source component. And so I set about testing the Aggregate transformation in SSIS, to prove for sure whether providing Sorted data would let the Aggregate transform behave like a Stream Aggregate. (Of course, I knew the answer already, but it helps to be able to demonstrate these things). A query that will produce a million rows in order was in order. Let me rephrase. I used a query which produced the numbers from 1 to 1000000, in a single field, ordered. The IsSorted flag was set on the source output, with the only column as SortKey 1. Performing an Aggregate function over this (counting the number of rows per distinct number) should produce an additional column with 1 in it. If this were being done in T-SQL, the ordered data would allow a Stream Aggregate to be used. In fact, if the Query Optimizer saw that the field had a Unique Index on it, it would be able to skip the Aggregate function completely, and just insert the value 1. This is a shortcut I wouldn’t be expecting from SSIS, but certainly the Stream behaviour would be nice. Unfortunately, it’s not the case. As you can see from the screenshots above, the data is pouring into the Aggregate function, and not being released until all million rows have been seen. It’s not doing a Stream Aggregate at all. This is expected behaviour. (I put that in bold, because I want you to realise this.) An SSIS transformation is a piece of code that runs. It’s a physical operation. When you write T-SQL and ask for an aggregation to be done, it’s a logical operation. The physical operation is either a Stream Aggregate or a Hash Match. In SSIS, you’re telling the system that you want a generic Aggregation, that will have to work with whatever data is passed in. I’m not saying that it wouldn’t be possible to make a sometimes-blocking aggregation component in SSIS. A Custom Component could be created which could detect whether the SortKeys columns of the input matched the Grouping columns of the Aggregation, and either call the blocking code or the non-blocking code as appropriate. One day I’ll make one of those, and publish it on my blog. I’ve done it before with a Script Component, but as Script components are single-use, I was able to handle the data knowing everything about my data flow already. As per my previous post – there are a lot of aspects in which tuning SSIS and tuning execution plans use similar concepts. In both situations, it really helps to have a feel for what’s going on behind the scenes. Considering whether an operation is blocking or not is extremely relevant to performance, and that it’s not always obvious from the surface. In a future post, I’ll show the impact of blocking v non-blocking and synchronous v asynchronous components in SSIS, using some of LobsterPot’s Script Components and Custom Components as examples. When I get that sorted, I’ll make a Stream Aggregate component available for download.

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Understanding The Very Nature Of Linux - Becoming Core Programmer

- by MrWho

Well, I want to know how I should exactly start and get into the right path to become a core programmer and also get decent understanding of Linux infrastructure and fundamentals. I know my question may seem general or something but that's not because of my inability to ask a question.I'm just confused, I've programmed in a few languages and have got my hand dirty to code so I'm aware of the big picture of what the programmers actually do.Now, I want to get deeper and start my studies in a different level than I used to learn before, I want to become advanced core programmer and learn where it really start from.I'd like to know the bit by bit of what the today's operating systems like linux have been built on. I DO really need good references, books would be preferred for learning the fundamentals.If someone tell me the general path of what I'm supposed to do, it would be really appreciated.

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"On Redefinition, Nature, and Triggers"

Our technologist redefines tables, compares keys, and warns about DDL in triggers.

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Lightning Wallpaper Collection for Your Nexus 7

- by Akemi Iwaya

Lightning can be frightfully powerful and eerily beautiful at the same time, a force of nature that is not to be taken lightly. Harness the ‘power of nature’ by electrifying your Nexus 7′s screen with the first in our series of Lightning Wallpaper collections. Lightning Series 1 Note: Click on the pictures to view and download the full-size versions at their individual homepages. The images shown here are in thumbnail format.

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A question on nature of generated assembly in C++ and code Algebra

- by Reetesh Mukul

I wrote this code: #include <iostream> int main() { int a; std::cin >> a; if(a*a== 3){ std::cout << a; } return 0; } On MSVC I turned ON all optimization flags. I expected that since a*a can never be 3, so compiler should not generate code for the section: if(a*a== 3){ std::cout << a; } However it generated code for the section. I did not check GCC or LLVM/CLang. What are the limits of expectation from a C++ compiler in these scenarios?

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Designing a fluid Javascript interface to abstract away the asynchronous nature of AJAX

- by Anurag

How would I design an API to hide the asynchronous nature of AJAX and HTTP requests, or basically delay it to provide a fluid interface. To show an example from Twitter's new Anywhere API: // get @ded's first 20 statuses, filter only the tweets that // mention photography, and render each into an HTML element T.User.find('ded').timeline().first(20).filter(filterer).each(function(status) { $('div#tweets').append('<p>' + status.text + '</p>'); }); function filterer(status) { return status.text.match(/photography/); } vs this (asynchronous nature of each call is clearly visible) T.User.find('ded', function(user) { user.timeline(function(statuses) { statuses.first(20).filter(filterer).each(function(status) { $('div#tweets').append('<p>' + status.text + '</p>'); }); }); }); It finds the user, gets their tweet timeline, filters only the first 20 tweets, applies a custom filter, and ultimately uses the callback function to process each tweet. I am guessing that a well designed API like this should work like a query builder (think ORMs) where each function call builds the query (HTTP URL in this case), until it hits a looping function such as each/map/etc., the HTTP call is made and the passed in function becomes the callback. An easy development route would be to make each AJAX call synchronous, but that's probably not the best solution. I am interested in figuring out a way to make it asynchronous, and still hide the asynchronous nature of AJAX.

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Designing a fluent Javascript interface to abstract away the asynchronous nature of AJAX

- by Anurag

How would I design an API to hide the asynchronous nature of AJAX and HTTP requests, or basically delay it to provide a fluid interface. To show an example from Twitter's new Anywhere API: // get @ded's first 20 statuses, filter only the tweets that // mention photography, and render each into an HTML element T.User.find('ded').timeline().first(20).filter(filterer).each(function(status) { $('div#tweets').append('<p>' + status.text + '</p>'); }); function filterer(status) { return status.text.match(/photography/); } vs this (asynchronous nature of each call is clearly visible) T.User.find('ded', function(user) { user.timeline(function(statuses) { statuses.first(20).filter(filterer).each(function(status) { $('div#tweets').append('<p>' + status.text + '</p>'); }); }); }); It finds the user, gets their tweet timeline, filters only the first 20 tweets, applies a custom filter, and ultimately uses the callback function to process each tweet. I am guessing that a well designed API like this should work like a query builder (think ORMs) where each function call builds the query (HTTP URL in this case), until it hits a looping function such as each/map/etc., the HTTP call is made and the passed in function becomes the callback. An easy development route would be to make each AJAX call synchronous, but that's probably not the best solution. I am interested in figuring out a way to make it asynchronous, and still hide the asynchronous nature of AJAX.

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Rainy Day Wallpaper Collection for Your iPhone

- by Akemi Iwaya

Rainy days are great for staying indoors to read your favorite new book, taking a nap, or even going outside for a quiet walk. Let the rain fall on your iPhone’s screen with the first in our series of Rainy Day Wallpaper collections. Rainy Day Series 1 Note: Click on the pictures to view and download the full-size versions at their individual homepages. The images shown here are in thumbnail format.

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InstantWild: Identify Animals From Around the World; Help Scientists

- by Jason Fitzpatrick

Web-based/iPhone: InstantWild is an iOS and web application that displays research cameras from around the world; help scientists by turning your eco-voyeurism into positive identification of endangered species. It’s a neat mashup of a fun application and legitimate research. There are hundreds of remote cameras set up around the world, designed to capture photographs of animals (especially endangered ones) in their native habitats. When you visit InstantWild (or load the app on your iPhone) you’re treated to pictures from all around the world. In the course of browsing those photos from around the world you can help out by tagging the animals in the photos to assist zoologists and other scientists in their research. Hit up the link below to check out the web-based version and even grab a copy for your phone. InstantWild [via Wired] Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Tablet: the How-To Geek Review HTG Explains: How Hackers Take Over Web Sites with SQL Injection / DDoS Use Your Android Phone to Comparison Shop: 4 Scanner Apps Reviewed

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technologies beside scaling web applications in a distributed nature

- by wik

Hello, I am interested in theory to scale web applications in a distributed nature, i.e. when there is some platform/stack can be extended by others applications running on different servers, etc. I am researching this field and feels the lack of the right keywords :) Interesting concepts found so far: opensocial through API, like shopify does (shopify it's a hosted ecommerce solution) semantic web not quite sure about this one Am I on the right way or am I lost anything? :) Thanks.

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Do hash functions exist in nature?

- by Klerk

Given that there are quite a few bioinformaticians around these days, wondering if any of you have seen examples of hash functions (or mapping mechanisms) occuring in nature? And if so how does they work?

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what the true nature of @ in Transct-SQL

- by Richard77

Hello, I reading some old ScottGu's blogs on Linq2SQL. Now I'm doing the SPROC part. I'd like to know what's the exact meaning of @variable. See this from ScottGu's Blog ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.GetCustomersDetails ( @customerID nchar(5), @companyName nvarchar(40) output ) AS SELECT @companyName = CompanyName FROM Customers WHERE CustomerID = @customerID SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE CustomerID = @customerID ORDER BY OrderID I'm kind of lost as, so far, I've though of anything preceded by a '@' as a placeholder for user input. But, in the example above, it looks like '@companyName' is used as a regular variable like in C# for instance (SELECT @companyName = ...). But, @companyName is not known yet. So, what the true nature a something preceded by a '@' like above? a vriable? a simple placeholder to accommodate user entered value? Thanks for helping

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Perl: Greedy nature refuses to work

- by faezshingeri

I am trying to replace a string with another string, but the greedy nature doesn't seem to be working for me. Below is my code where "PERFORM GET-APLCY" is identified and replaced properly, but string "PERFORM GET-APLCY-SOI-CVG-WVR" and many other such strings are being replaced by the the replacement string for "PERFORM GET-APLCY". s/PERFORM $func[$i]\.?/# PERFORM $func[$i]\.\n $hash{$func[$i]}/g; where the full stop is optional during string match and replacement. Please help me understand what the issue could be. Thanks in advance, Faez

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Nature of Lock is child table while deletion(sql server)

- by Mubashar Ahmad

Dear Devs From couple of days i am thinking of a following scenario Consider I have 2 tables with parent child relationship of kind one-to-many. On removal of parent row i have to delete the rows in child those are related to parents. simple right? i have to make a transaction scope to do above operation i can do this as following; (its psuedo code but i am doing this in c# code using odbc connection and database is sql server) begin transaction(read committed) Read all child where child.fk = p1 foreach(child) delete child where child.pk = cx delete parent where parent.pk = p1 commit trans OR begin transaction(read committed) delete all child where child.fk = p1 delete parent where parent.pk = p1 commit trans Now there are couple of questions in my mind Which one of above is better to use specially considering a scenario of real time system where thousands of other operations(select/update/delete/insert) are being performed within a span of seconds. does it ensure that no new child with child.fk = p1 will be added until transaction completes? If yes for 2nd question then how it ensures? do it take the table level locks or what. Is there any kind of Index locking supported by sql server if yes what it does and how it can be used. Regards Mubashar

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JUnit Test method with randomized nature

- by Peter

Hey, I'm working on a small project for myself at the moment and I'm using it as an opportunity to get acquainted with unit testing and maintaining proper documentation. I have a Deck class with represents a deck of cards (it's very simple and, to be honest, I can be sure that it works without a unit test, but like I said I'm getting used to using unit tests) and it has a shuffle() method which changes the order of the cards in the deck. The implementation is very simple and will certainly work: public void shuffle() { Collections.shuffle(this.cards); } But, how could I implement a unit test for this method. My first thought was to check if the top card of the deck was different after calling shuffle() but there is of course the possibility that it would be the same. My second thought was to check if the entire order of cards has changed, but again they could possibly be in the same order. So, how could I write a test that ensures this method works in all cases? And, in general, how can you unit test methods for which the outcome depends on some randomness? Cheers, Pete

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Un million d'identifiants uniques d'appareils Apple dans la nature, piratés d'un laptop du FBI par un groupe de hackers

Un million d'identifiants uniques d'appareils Apple dans la nature Piratés d'un laptop du FBI par un groupe de hackers La rumeur circulait déjà, mais des données postées sur le service Pastebin viennent la confirmer. Un million d'identifiants uniques (UDIDs) d'appareils iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod) sont dans la nature. [IMG]http://idelways.developpez.com/news/images/FBI-Apple-security-breach.jpg[/IMG] L'acte a été prémédité par un groupe de hackers nommé Antisec. Le fichier de la liste en question comporte plus de 12 millions d'enregistrements de dispositifs, incluant des UDIDs Apple, des noms d'utilisateurs, des jetons de notifications push, et dans certains...

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Google a supprimé le volant sur son prototype de voiture autonome à cause de la nature paresseuse de l'être humain

La nature paresseuse de l'être humain à l'origine du nouveau prototype de voiture autonome Google Dépourvue de commandes de conduites, le conducteur se transforme en un simple passagerAprès avoir récemment présenté son nouveau prototype de voiture autonome, Google a présenté ses spécificités et a expliqué la nouvelle approche qui sera utilisée par ses voitures autonomes.Pour rappel, le nouveau prototype de Google est une voiture semblable à une Fiat500 capable de transporter deux personnes à une...

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Please help! Every Post link links to the most recent post Wordpress

- by kwek-kwek

I got the site up on time, with one blog post up. Later I added another one and tested it. Big problem! Any link that used to take you to the old post (ie: side-bar "Recent Posts" links) now takes you to the newest one. I tested it by adding a third post, and got the same result. This is a custom wordpress theme and I have a, page.php <?php get_header(); ?> <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <div id="BodyWrap">  <div id="mainCont"> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php if (is_page(array('home'))) { ;?> <div id="rotateBanner"> <div id="slide-holder"> <div id="slide-runner"> <img id="slide-img-1" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial2.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-5" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial5.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-2" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial1.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-6" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial6.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-3" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial3.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-7" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial7.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-4" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial4.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-8" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial8.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <div id="slide-controls"> <p id="slide-client" class="text" style="display:none;"><span></span></p> <p id="slide-desc" class="text" style="display:none;"></p> <p id="slide-nav" style="display:none;"></p> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> if(!window.slider) var slider={};slider.data=[{"id":"slide-img-1","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-5","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-2","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-6","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-3","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-7","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-4","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-8","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"}]; </script> </div> </div> <?php } ?> <?php if (is_page(array('accueil'))) { ;?> <div id="rotateBanner"> <div id="slide-holder"> <div id="slide-runner"> <img id="slide-img-1" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial1-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-5" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial5-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-2" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial2-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-6" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial6-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-3" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial3-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-7" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial7-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-4" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial4-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <img id="slide-img-8" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/banner/testimonial8-fr.jpg" class="slide" alt="" /> <div id="slide-controls"> <p id="slide-client" class="text" style="display:none;"><span></span></p> <p id="slide-desc" class="text" style="display:none;"></p> <p id="slide-nav" style="display:none;"></p> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> if(!window.slider) var slider={};slider.data=[{"id":"slide-img-1","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-5","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-2","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-6","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-3","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-7","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-4","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-8","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"}]; </script> </div> </div> <?php } ?> <?php if (is_page(array('contact-us'))) { ;?> <div id="rotateBanner"> <?php custom_field_image() ?> </div> <?php } ?> <div id="mainCopy"> <div id="content"> <h2> <?php if (is_page('home','accueil')) : ?> <?php else : ?> <?php single_post_title(); ?> <?php endif; ?></h2> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page »</p>'); ?> <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?> </div> </div> <?php if (is_page(array('home','accueil'))) { ;?> <div id="rightCol2"> <div id="Fworks"> <h2>Featured work</h2> <li><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/portage-thumb.jpg" width="234" height="92" border="0" alt="" /></li> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>our-work/foundation-on-antivirals"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/fav-thumb.jpg" width="234" height="92" border="0" alt="" /></a></li> <li><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/danslejardin-thumb.jpg" width="234" height="92" border="0" alt="" /></li> </div> <div id="NewEvents"> <?php if ( (strtolower(ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE) == 'en') ) {echo("<h2>News & Events</h2");} ?> <?php if ( (strtolower(ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE) == 'fr')) echo("<h2>Nouvelles</h2") ?> <div id="NewsListings"> <ul> <?php //dbem_get_events_list("limit=5&scope=al&order=DESC"); ?> <?php include('events.php');?> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <?php } ?> </div> </div> <?php endwhile; endif; ?> <?php get_footer(); ?> single.php <?php /** * @package WordPress * @subpackage Default_Theme */ get_header(); ?> <div id="BodyWrap">  <div id="mainCont"> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php if (is_page(array('home','contact-us'))) { ;?> <div id="rotateBanner"> <?php custom_field_image() ?> </div> <?php } ?> <div id="mainCopy"> <div id="content" class="widecolumn" role="main"> <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>  <div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2> <div class="entry"> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?> <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?> <?php the_tags( '<p>Tags: ', ', ', '</p>'); ?>  </div> </div> <?php comments_template(); ?> <?php endwhile; else: ?> <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p> <?php endif; ?> </div> </div> </div> </div> <?php get_footer(); ?> index.php <?php get_header(); ?>  <div id="BodyWrap">  <div id="mainCont"> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <div id="mainCopy"> <div id="content"> <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <div id="BGHeadTitle"><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2></div> <?php the_content(); ?> <p><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> at <?php the_time('g:i a'); ?> | <?php the_category(', '); ?> | <?php comments_number('No comment', '1 comment', '% comments'); ?></p> <?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?> <?php endwhile; else: ?> <h2>Woops...</h2> <p>Sorry, no posts we're found.</p> <?php endif; ?> <p align="center"><?php posts_nav_link(); ?></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <?php get_footer(); ?> my recent post code : <ul> <?php query_posts('cat=3,4,5&posts_per_page=5&order=ASC&orderby=date'); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post()?> <li> <span class="date"><?php the_time('M j') ?></span> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> </li> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php rewind_posts(); ?> </ul> I am really stuck the site went live and when I was working on the testserver I only noticed it.view the site here »

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Have you ever derived a programming solution from nature?

- by Ryu

When you step back and look at ... the nature of animals, insects, plants and the problems they have organically solved perhaps even the nature and balance of the universe Have you ever been able to solve a problem by deriving an approach from nature? I've heard of Ant Colony Algorithms being able to optimize supply chain amongst other things. Also Fractal's being the "geometry of nature" have been applied to a wide range of problems. Now that spring is here again and the world is coming back to life I'm wondering if anybody has some experiences they can share. Thanks PS I would recommend watching the "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" Nova episode on fractals.

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Google, Facebook et Yahoo testeront l'IPv6 en grandeur nature lors de la Journée Mondiale du protocole en juin 2011

Mise à jour du 12.11.2010 par Katleen La transition de l'IPv4 à l'IPv6 pourrait rendre l'Internet instable pour une période pouvant atteindre plusieurs années, d'après Vint Cerf Vint Cerf, un pionnier en informatique que certains considèrent comme le père du Net s'est exprimé cette semaine concernant le changement de protocole des URLs. Ce changement, nécéssaire pour que le web puisse poursuivre son expansion, l'inquiète. Il en veut également aux entreprises, qui "ne voient pas assez loin" et qui n'ont pas prévu la migration plus tôt. En effet, il va falloir passer de l'IPv4 (qui sera vraisemblablement saturé en janvier 2012) à l'IPv6. Et la transition p...

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Where can I ask web design questions of a more amateur nature?

- by Warren van Rooyen

I don't want to bother pro web designers with simple questions as I see most of the questions here are quite technical. An example would be, 'I have a template I've downloaded. The folder contains a css folder and PHP files. How would I bring this into Dreamweaver?' It's unfortunately in a space between what I'd be able to find on Google and asking here without feeling like a hinderance for those who don't want to answer such simple questions. Thanks, Warren.

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