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• Unable to ssh out anywhere - ssh_exchange_identification

  - by Chowlett

  I have a setup where I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 as a VirtualBox guest under a Windows 7 host, behind a restrictive corporate firewall. I have set up NAT from the host port 22 to Ubuntu's port 22; IT inform me that they have opened port 22 outbound for the host machine's IP address. I have run ssh-keygen -t rsa, and am trying to test the setup by connecting to github and another known ssh server. In both cases the connect is refused with ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. Full -vvv log is below. Is this possibly still due to the corporate firewall? If so, what else might I need to request from them? Any other ideas what might be wrong and how to fix it? ~$ ssh -Tvvv git@github.com OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-7ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to github.com [207.97.227.239] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug3: Incorrect RSA1 identifier debug3: Could not load "/home/chris/.ssh/id_rsa" as a RSA1 public key debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'Proc-Type:' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'DEK-Info:' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug3: key_read: missing whitespace debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END' debug3: key_read: missing keytype debug1: identity file /home/chris/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: Checking blacklist file /usr/share/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048 debug1: Checking blacklist file /etc/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048 debug1: identity file /home/chris/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/chris/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/chris/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/chris/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/chris/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Edit: Requested diagnostics: ~$ ls -la ~/.ssh total 16 drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 2012-03-30 13:12 . drwxr-xr-x 29 chris chris 4096 2012-03-30 13:25 .. -rw------- 1 chris chris 1766 2012-03-30 13:12 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 409 2012-03-30 13:12 id_rsa.pub

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• I can't install using Wubi due to permission denied error

  - by Taksh Sharma

  I can't install ubuntu 11.10 inside my windows 7. It shows permission denied while installation. It gave a log file having the following data: 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: # Running tasklist... 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running select_target_dir... 03-29 20:19 INFO WindowsBackend: Installing into D:\ubuntu 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished select_target_dir 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running create_dir_structure... 03-29 20:19 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir D:\ubuntu 03-29 20:19 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir D:\ubuntu\disks 03-29 20:19 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir D:\ubuntu\install 03-29 20:19 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir D:\ubuntu\install\boot 03-29 20:19 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir D:\ubuntu\disks\boot 03-29 20:19 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir D:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub 03-29 20:19 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir D:\ubuntu\install\boot\grub 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished create_dir_structure 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running uncompress_target_dir... 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished uncompress_target_dir 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running create_uninstaller... 03-29 20:19 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying uninstaller E:\wubi.exe -> D:\ubuntu\uninstall-wubi.exe 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi UninstallString D:\ubuntu\uninstall-wubi.exe 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi InstallationDir D:\ubuntu 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi DisplayName Ubuntu 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi DisplayIcon D:\ubuntu\Ubuntu.ico 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi DisplayVersion 11.10-rev241 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi Publisher Ubuntu 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi URLInfoAbout http://www.ubuntu.com 03-29 20:19 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi HelpLink http://www.ubuntu.com/support 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished create_uninstaller 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running copy_installation_files... 03-29 20:19 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pylB911.tmp\data\custom-installation -> D:\ubuntu\install\custom-installation 03-29 20:19 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pylB911.tmp\winboot -> D:\ubuntu\winboot 03-29 20:19 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pylB911.tmp\data\images\Ubuntu.ico -> D:\ubuntu\Ubuntu.ico 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished copy_installation_files 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running get_iso... 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: New task copy_file 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ### Running copy_file... 03-29 20:23 ERROR TaskList: [Errno 13] Permission denied Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\utils.py", line 202, in copy_file IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied 03-29 20:23 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist 03-29 20:23 DEBUG TaskList: New task check_iso 03-29 20:23 ERROR root: [Errno 13] Permission denied Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 58, in run File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 130, in select_task File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 205, in run_cd_menu File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 120, in select_task File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 158, in run_installer File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\utils.py", line 202, in copy_file IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied 03-29 20:23 ERROR TaskList: 'WindowsBackend' object has no attribute 'iso_path' Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 579, in get_iso File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 565, in use_iso AttributeError: 'WindowsBackend' object has no attribute 'iso_path' 03-29 20:23 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist 03-29 20:23 DEBUG TaskList: # Finished tasklist 03-29 20:29 INFO root: === wubi 11.10 rev241 === 03-29 20:29 DEBUG root: Logfile is c:\users\home\appdata\local\temp\wubi-11.10-rev241.log 03-29 20:29 DEBUG root: sys.argv = ['main.pyo', '--exefile="E:\\wubi.exe"'] 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: data_dir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\data 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: 7z=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\bin\7z.exe 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: startup_folder=C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Fetching basic info... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: original_exe=E:\wubi.exe 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: platform=win32 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: osname=nt 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: language=en_IN 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: encoding=cp1252 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: arch=amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Parsing isolist=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\data\isolist.ini 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Fetching host info... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: registry_key=Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows version=vista 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_version2=Windows 7 Home Basic 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_sp=None 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_build=7601 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: gmt=5 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: country=IN 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: timezone=Asia/Calcutta 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_username=Home 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_full_name=Home 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_directory=C:\Users\Home 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_language_code=1033 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_language=English 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: processor_name=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: bootloader=vista 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: system_drive=Drive(C: hd 61135.1523438 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(C: hd 61135.1523438 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(D: hd 12742.5507813 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(E: cd 0.0 mb free cdfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(F: cd 0.0 mb free ) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(G: hd 93.22265625 mb free fat32) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(Q: hd 0.0 mb free ) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: uninstaller_path=D:\ubuntu\uninstall-wubi.exe 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_target_dir=D:\ubuntu 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_distro_name=Ubuntu 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_id=67699721 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_layout=us 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_variant= 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: python locale=('en_IN', 'cp1252') 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: locale=en_IN 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: total_memory_mb=3893.859375 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching ISOs on USB devices 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching for local CDs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether E:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: parsing info from str=Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: parsed info={'name': 'Ubuntu', 'subversion': 'Release', 'version': '11.10', 'build': '20111012', 'codename': 'Oneiric Ocelot', 'arch': 'i386'} 03-29 20:29 INFO Distro: Found a valid CD for Ubuntu: E:\ 03-29 20:29 INFO root: Running the CD menu... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsFrontend: __init__... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsFrontend: on_init... 03-29 20:29 INFO WinuiPage: appname=wubi, localedir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\translations, languages=['en_IN', 'en'] 03-29 20:29 INFO WinuiPage: appname=wubi, localedir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\translations, languages=['en_IN', 'en'] 03-29 20:29 INFO root: CD menu finished 03-29 20:29 INFO root: Already installed, running the uninstaller... 03-29 20:29 INFO root: Running the uninstaller... 03-29 20:29 INFO CommonBackend: This is the uninstaller running 03-29 20:29 INFO WinuiPage: appname=wubi, localedir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\translations, languages=['en_IN', 'en'] 03-29 20:29 INFO root: Received settings 03-29 20:29 INFO WinuiPage: appname=wubi, localedir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\translations, languages=['en_IN', 'en'] 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: # Running tasklist... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running Remove bootloader entry... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Could not find bcd id 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_bootini C: 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_configsys Drive(C: hd 61135.1523438 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_bootini D: 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_configsys Drive(D: hd 12742.5507813 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_bootini G: 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_configsys Drive(G: hd 93.22265625 mb free fat32) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_bootini Q: 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: undo_configsys Drive(Q: hd 0.0 mb free ) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished Remove bootloader entry 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running Remove target dir... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Deleting D:\ubuntu 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished Remove target dir 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running Remove registry key... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished Remove registry key 03-29 20:29 DEBUG TaskList: # Finished tasklist 03-29 20:29 INFO root: Almost finished uninstalling 03-29 20:29 INFO root: Finished uninstallation 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Fetching basic info... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: original_exe=E:\wubi.exe 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: platform=win32 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: osname=nt 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: arch=amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Parsing isolist=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\data\isolist.ini 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Xubuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Ubuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Mythbuntu-amd64 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Adding distro Kubuntu-i386 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Fetching host info... 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: registry_key=Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows version=vista 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_version2=Windows 7 Home Basic 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_sp=None 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_build=7601 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: gmt=5 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: country=IN 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: timezone=Asia/Calcutta 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_username=Home 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_full_name=Home 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: user_directory=C:\Users\Home 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_language_code=1033 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: windows_language=English 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: processor_name=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: bootloader=vista 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: system_drive=Drive(C: hd 61134.8632813 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(C: hd 61134.8632813 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(D: hd 12953.140625 mb free ntfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(E: cd 0.0 mb free cdfs) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(F: cd 0.0 mb free ) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(G: hd 93.22265625 mb free fat32) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: drive=Drive(Q: hd 0.0 mb free ) 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: uninstaller_path=None 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_target_dir=None 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: previous_distro_name=None 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_id=67699721 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_layout=us 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: keyboard_variant= 03-29 20:29 DEBUG WindowsBackend: total_memory_mb=3893.859375 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching ISOs on USB devices 03-29 20:29 DEBUG CommonBackend: Searching for local CDs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Kubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Xubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether D:\ is a valid Mythbuntu CD 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: does not contain D:\casper\filesystem.squashfs 03-29 20:29 DEBUG Distro: checking whether E:\ is a valid Ubuntu CD 03-29 20:29 INFO Distro: Found a valid CD for Ubuntu: E:\ 03-29 20:29 INFO root: Running the installer... 03-29 20:29 INFO WinuiPage: appname=wubi, localedir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\translations, languages=['en_IN', 'en'] 03-29 20:29 INFO WinuiPage: appname=wubi, localedir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\translations, languages=['en_IN', 'en'] 03-29 20:30 DEBUG WinuiInstallationPage: target_drive=C:, installation_size=8000MB, distro_name=Ubuntu, language=en_US, locale=en_US.UTF-8, username=taksh 03-29 20:30 INFO root: Received settings 03-29 20:30 INFO WinuiPage: appname=wubi, localedir=C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\translations, languages=['en_US', 'en'] 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: # Running tasklist... 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running select_target_dir... 03-29 20:30 INFO WindowsBackend: Installing into C:\ubuntu 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished select_target_dir 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running create_dir_structure... 03-29 20:30 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir C:\ubuntu 03-29 20:30 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir C:\ubuntu\disks 03-29 20:30 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir C:\ubuntu\install 03-29 20:30 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir C:\ubuntu\install\boot 03-29 20:30 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir C:\ubuntu\disks\boot 03-29 20:30 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir C:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub 03-29 20:30 DEBUG CommonBackend: Creating dir C:\ubuntu\install\boot\grub 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished create_dir_structure 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running uncompress_target_dir... 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished uncompress_target_dir 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running create_uninstaller... 03-29 20:30 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying uninstaller E:\wubi.exe -> C:\ubuntu\uninstall-wubi.exe 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi UninstallString C:\ubuntu\uninstall-wubi.exe 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi InstallationDir C:\ubuntu 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi DisplayName Ubuntu 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi DisplayIcon C:\ubuntu\Ubuntu.ico 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi DisplayVersion 11.10-rev241 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi Publisher Ubuntu 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi URLInfoAbout http://www.ubuntu.com 03-29 20:30 DEBUG registry: Setting registry key -2147483646 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wubi HelpLink http://www.ubuntu.com/support 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished create_uninstaller 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running copy_installation_files... 03-29 20:30 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\data\custom-installation -> C:\ubuntu\install\custom-installation 03-29 20:30 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\winboot -> C:\ubuntu\winboot 03-29 20:30 DEBUG WindowsBackend: Copying C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\pyl3487.tmp\data\images\Ubuntu.ico -> C:\ubuntu\Ubuntu.ico 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished copy_installation_files 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running get_iso... 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: New task copy_file 03-29 20:30 DEBUG TaskList: ### Running copy_file... 03-29 20:34 ERROR TaskList: [Errno 13] Permission denied Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\utils.py", line 202, in copy_file IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied 03-29 20:34 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist 03-29 20:34 DEBUG TaskList: New task check_iso 03-29 20:34 ERROR root: [Errno 13] Permission denied Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 58, in run File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 130, in select_task File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 205, in run_cd_menu File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 120, in select_task File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 158, in run_installer File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\utils.py", line 202, in copy_file IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied 03-29 20:34 ERROR TaskList: 'WindowsBackend' object has no attribute 'iso_path' Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 579, in get_iso File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 565, in use_iso AttributeError: 'WindowsBackend' object has no attribute 'iso_path' 03-29 20:34 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist 03-29 20:34 DEBUG TaskList: # Finished tasklist I have no idea what's the problem is. I'm a kind of newbie. I'm using win7 64bit, and installing as an administrator. Please help me out!

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• Google Search Parameter Question

  - by Brian

  I've been trying to determine different parameters used by Google in their search queries. In particular, the usg parameter is what is giving me troubles. Here is an example value given for it, which is from an actual Google query: usg=0_zDqudnCN52ATGjAl3tignXNtBo4%3D Does anyone know what it could be for / recognize it? I've done a bit of digging, but haven't found any confirmation as to what it could be. Here is the link that I took a look at: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3892573.htm

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• Wine is no longer able to initialize OpenGL

  - by nebukadnezzar

  Since a while, wine is no longer able to initialize OpenGL on my 64bit Linux. This is by no means a unique problem to me- Lots of people with nvidia cards running 64bit linux seem to have this problem with wine on oneiric: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=66856&sid=9d6e5ad628ee6fb6e5ef04577275daed http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Wine-OpenGl-Problem https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137696 And while some launchpad bug reports say one should use this workaround: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 wine <app> It unfortunately does not solve the problem at all for me; That is, if i'd run CS:S, the game will run just fine for a while, but will abort after some time, including a range of GLSL-related errors. Here the startup errors from simply running steam: + wine steam.exe fixme:process:GetLogicalProcessorInformation ((nil),0x33e488): stub [.. snip ...] fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x1009a, 3, 0x33d384, 4) stub fixme:dwmapi:DwmSetWindowAttribute (0x1009a, 4, 0x33d374, 4) stub err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! [... this error is being reported a few dozen times, so snip again ...] err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! err:wgl:is_extension_supported No OpenGL extensions found, check if your OpenGL setup is correct! fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x47cdba8, overlapped 0x45dba80): stub fixme:winsock:WSALookupServiceBeginW (0x47cdbc8 0x00000ff0 0x47cdbc4) Stub! [... snip ...] Here are the errors reported while running, and after running (because the log is huge-ish, it's pasted elsewhere): http://paste.ubuntu.com/901925/ Now, 32bit OpenGL works just fine; The 32bit executables of Nexuiz, for example, work just fine. That being said, I'm suspecting that this is a problem of wine itself. I've already manually built the git version of wine, to no avail. So what's going on? Is something broken? How do I check (correctly) whether something is broken? How do I solve this?

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• Partitioning Webcast Details - 17/03/2010

  - by Alex Blyth

  Hi AllHere are the details for Wednesday's (17th March 2010) webcast on Partitioning:Webcast is at http://strtc.oracle.com (IE6, 7 & 8 supported only)Conference ID for the webcast is 6168728There is no conference keyPlease use your real name in the name field (just makes it easier for us to help you out if we can't answer your questions on the call)Audio details:NZ Toll Free - 0800888157 orAU Toll Free - 1800420354Meeting ID: 7914841Meeting Passcode: 17032010Talk to you all WednesdayAlex

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• Easily use google maps, openstreet maps etc offline.

  - by samkea

  I did it and i am going to explain step by step. The explanatination may appear long but its simple if you follow. Note: All the softwares i have used are the latest and i have packaged them and provided them in the link below. I use Nokia N96 1) RootSign smartComGPS and install it on your phone(i havent provided the signer so that u wuld do some little work. i used Secman' rootsign). 2) Install Universal Maps Downloader, SmartCom OGF2 converter and OziExplorer 3.95.4s on my PC. a) UMD is used to download map tiles from any map source like googlemaps,opensourcemaps etc... and also combine the tiles into an image file like png,jpg,bmp etc... b) SmartCom OGF2 converter is used to convert the image file into a format usable on your mobile phone. c) OziExplorer will help you to calibrate the usable map file so that it can be used with GPS on your mobile phone without the use of internet. 3) Go to google maps or where u pick your maps and pan to the area of your interest. Zoom the map to at least 15 or 16 zoom level where you can see your area clearly and the streets. 4) copy this script in a notepad file and save it on your desktop: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().ge tCenter())); 5) Open the universal maps downloader. You will notice that you are required to add the: left longitude, right longitude,top latitude, bottom latitude. 6) On your map in google maps, doubleclick on the your prefered to most middle point. you will notice that the map will center in that area. 7) copy the script and paste it in the address bar then press enter. You will notice that a dialog with your (top latitude) and longitude respectively pops up. 8) copy the top latitude ONLY and paste it in the corresponding textbox in the UMD. 9) repeat steps 6-7 for the botton latitude. 10)repeat steps 6-7 for left longitude and right longitude too, but u have to copy the longitudes here. (***BTW record these points in the text file as they may be needed later in calibration) 11) Give the zoom level to the same zoom level that you prefered in google maps. 12) Dont forget to choose a path to save your files and under options set the proxy connection settings in UMD if you are using so. 13) Click on start and bingo! there you have your image tiles and a file with an extension .umd will be saved in the same folder. 14) On the UMD, go to tools, click on MapViewer and choose the .umd file. you will now see your map in one piece....and you will smile! 15) Still go to tools and click on map combiner. A dialog will popup for you to choose the .umd file and to enter the IMAGE file name. u can use another extension for the image file like png, jpg etc...i usually use png. 16) Combine.....bingo! there u go! u have an IMAGE file for your map. *I SUGGEST THAT CREATE A .BMP FILE and A .PNG file* 17) Close UMD and open SmartCom OGF2 converter. 18) Choose your .png image and create an ogf2 file. 19) Connect your phone to your PC in Mass Memory mode and transfer the file to the smartComGPS\Maps folder. 20) Now disconnect your phone and load smartComGPS. it will load the map and propt you to add a calibration point. Go ahead and add one calibration point with dummy coordinates. You will notice that it will add another file with extension .map in the smartComGPS\Maps folder. 21) Connect yiur ohone and copy that file and paste it in your working folder on your PC. Delete that .map file from the phone too because you are going to edit it from your PC and put it back. 22) Now Open the OziExplorer, go to file-->Load and Calibrate Map Image. 23) Choose the .bmp image and bingo! it will load with your map in the same zoom level. 24) Now you are going to calibrate. Use the MapView window and take the small box locater to all the 4 cornners of the map. You will notice that the map in the back ground moves to that area too. 25)On the right side, select the Point1 tab. Now you are in calibration mode. Now move the red box in mapview in the left upper corner to calibrate point1. 26) out of mapview go to the the left upper corner of the background map and choose poit (0,0) and your 1st calibration point. You will notice that these X,Y cordinated will be reflected in the Point1 image cordinates. 27) now go back to the text file where you saved your coordibates and enter the top latitude and the left longitude in the corresponding places. 28) Repeat steps 25-27 for point2,point3,point4 and click on save. Thats it, you have calibrated your image and you are about to finish. 29) Go to save and a dilaog which prompts you to save a .map file will poop up. Do save the map file in your working folder. 30) Right click that .map file and edit the filename in the .map file to remove the pc's directory structure. Eg. Change C\OziExplorer\data\Kampala.bmp to Kampala.ogf2. 31) Save the .map file in the smartComGPS\Maps folder on your phone. 32) now open smartComGPS on your phone and bingo! there is your map with GPS capability and in the same zoom level. 33) In smartComGPS options, choose connect and simulate. By now you should be smiling. Whoa! Hope i was of help. i case you get a problem, please inform me Below is the link to the software. regards. http://rapidshare.com/files/230296037/Utilities_Used.rar.html Ok, the Rapidshare files i posted are gone, so you will have to download as described in the solution. If you need more help, go here: http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/sitemap/t-160491.html Some months later, someone else gave almost the same kind of solution here. http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/sitemap/t-180123.html Note: the solutions were mean't to help view maps on Symbian phones, but i think now they ca even do for Windows Phones, iphones and others so read, extract what you want and use it. Hope it helps. Sam Kea

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• A Guided Tour of Complexity

  - by JoshReuben

  I just re-read Complexity – A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell , protégé of Douglas Hofstadter ( author of “Gödel, Escher, Bach”) http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitchell/dp/0199798109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339744329&sr=8-1 here are some notes and links:   Evolved from Cybernetics, General Systems Theory, Synergetics some interesting transdisciplinary fields to investigate: Chaos Theory - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory – small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible. System Dynamics / Cybernetics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Dynamics – study of how feedback changes system behavior Network Theory - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory – leverage Graph Theory to analyze symmetric  / asymmetric relations between discrete objects Algebraic Topology - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_topology – leverage abstract algebra to analyze topological spaces There are limits to deterministic systems & to computation. Chaos Theory definitely applies to training an ANN (artificial neural network) – different weights will emerge depending upon the random selection of the training set. In recursive Non-Linear systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system – output is not directly inferable from input. E.g. a Logistic map: Xt+1 = R Xt(1-Xt) Different types of bifurcations, attractor states and oscillations may occur – e.g. a Lorenz Attractor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system Feigenbaum Constants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feigenbaum_constants express ratios in a bifurcation diagram for a non-linear map – the convergent limit of R (the rate of period-doubling bifurcations) is 4.6692016 Maxwell’s Demon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon - the Second Law of Thermodynamics has only a statistical certainty – the universe (and thus information) tends towards entropy. While any computation can theoretically be done without expending energy, with finite memory, the act of erasing memory is permanent and increases entropy. Life & thought is a counter-example to the universe’s tendency towards entropy. Leo Szilard and later Claude Shannon came up with the Information Theory of Entropy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) whereby Shannon entropy quantifies the expected value of a message’s information in bits in order to determine channel capacity and leverage Coding Theory (compression analysis). Ludwig Boltzmann came up with Statistical Mechanics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics – whereby our Newtonian perception of continuous reality is a probabilistic and statistical aggregate of many discrete quantum microstates. This is relevant for Quantum Information Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information and the Physics of Information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_information. Hilbert’s Problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_problems pondered whether mathematics is complete, consistent, and decidable (the Decision Problem – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem – is there always an algorithm that can determine whether a statement is true).  Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems  proved that mathematics cannot be both complete and consistent (e.g. “This statement is not provable”). Turing through the use of Turing Machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine symbol processors that can prove mathematical statements) and Universal Turing Machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine Turing Machines that can emulate other any Turing Machine via accepting programs as well as data as input symbols) that computation is limited by demonstrating the Halting Problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem (is is not possible to know when a program will complete – you cannot build an infinite loop detector). You may be used to thinking of 1 / 2 / 3 dimensional systems, but Fractal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal systems are defined by self-similarity & have non-integer Hausdorff Dimensions !!!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension – the fractal dimension quantifies the number of copies of a self similar object at each level of detail – eg Koch Snowflake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake Definitions of complexity: size, Shannon entropy, Algorithmic Information Content (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory - size of shortest program that can generate a description of an object) Logical depth (amount of info processed), thermodynamic depth (resources required). Complexity is statistical and fractal. John Von Neumann’s other machine was the Self-Reproducing Automaton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine  . Cellular Automata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton are alternative form of Universal Turing machine to traditional Von Neumann machines where grid cells are locally synchronized with their neighbors according to a rule. Conway’s Game of Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life demonstrates various emergent constructs such as “Glider Guns” and “Spaceships”. Cellular Automatons are not practical because logical ops require a large number of cells – wasteful & inefficient. There are no compilers or general program languages available for Cellular Automatons (as far as I am aware). Random Boolean Networks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_network are extensions of cellular automata where nodes are connected at random (not to spatial neighbors) and each node has its own rule –> they demonstrate the emergence of complex  & self organized behavior. Stephen Wolfram’s (creator of Mathematica, so give him the benefit of the doubt) New Kind of Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science proposes the universe may be a discrete Finite State Automata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine whereby reality emerges from simple rules. I am 2/3 through this book. It is feasible that the universe is quantum discrete at the plank scale and that it computes itself – Digital Physics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics – a simulated reality? Anyway, all behavior is supposedly derived from simple algorithmic rules & falls into 4 patterns: uniform , nested / cyclical, random (Rule 30 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30) & mixed (Rule 110 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 localized structures – it is this that is interesting). interaction between colliding propagating signal inputs is then information processing. Wolfram proposes the Principle of Computational Equivalence - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrincipleofComputationalEquivalence.html - all processes that are not obviously simple can be viewed as computations of equivalent sophistication. Meaning in information may emerge from analogy & conceptual slippages – see the CopyCat program: http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/courses/concepts/copycat.pdf Scale Free Networks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network have a distribution governed by a Power Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law - much more common than Normal Distribution). They are characterized by hubs (resilience to random deletion of nodes), heterogeneity of degree values, self similarity, & small world structure. They grow via preferential attachment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment – tipping points triggered by positive feedback loops. 2 theories of cascading system failures in complex systems are Self-Organized Criticality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality and Highly Optimized Tolerance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_optimized_tolerance. Computational Mechanics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_mechanics – use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. This book is a great intuition pump, but does not cover the more mathematical subject of Computational Complexity Theory – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory I am currently reading this book on this subject: http://www.amazon.com/Computational-Complexity-Christos-H-Papadimitriou/dp/0201530821/ref=pd_sim_b_1   stay tuned for that review!

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• Microsoft Templates included in jQuery 1.5!

  - by Stephen Walther

  When I joined the ASP.NET team as the Program Manager for Ajax, the ASP.NET team was working on releasing a new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library. This new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library had several really innovative and unique features such as support for client templates, client data-binding, script dependency management, and globalization. However, we kept hearing the message that our customers wanted to use jQuery when building ASP.NET applications. Therefore, about ten months ago, we decided to pursue a risky strategy. Scott Guthrie sent me to Cambridge to meet with John Resig – the creator of jQuery and leader of the jQuery project – to find out whether Microsoft and jQuery could work together. We wanted to find out whether the jQuery project would be open to allowing Microsoft to contribute the innovative features that we were developing for the Microsoft Ajax Library -- such as client templates and client data-binding -- to the jQuery library. Fortunately, the Cambridge meeting with Resig went well. John Resig was very open to accepting contributions to the jQuery library. Over the next few months, we worked out a process for Microsoft to contribute new features to the open-source jQuery project. Resig and Guthrie appeared on stage at the MIX10 conference to announce that Microsoft would be contributing features to jQuery. It has been a long journey, but I am happy to report success. Today, Microsoft and the jQuery project have announced that three plugins developed by developers on the ASP.NET team – the jQuery Templates, jQuery Data Link, and jQuery Globalization plugins – have been accepted as official jQuery plugins. In addition, the jQuery Templates plugin will be integrated into jQuery 1.5 which is the next major release of jQuery. You can learn more about the plugins by watching the following Web Camps TV episode hosted by James Senior with Stephen Walther: Web Camps TV #5 - Microsoft Commits Code to jQuery! You can read Scott Guthrie’s blog announcement here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/10/04/jquery-templates-data-link-and-globalization-accepted-as-official-jquery-plugins.aspx You can read the jQuery team’s announcement here: http://blog.jquery.com/2010/10/04/new-official-jquery-plugins-provide-templating-data-linking-and-globalization/ I wrote the original proposal for the jQuery Templates plugin. Dave Reed and Boris Moore were the ASP.NET developers responsible for actually writing the plugin (with lots of input from the jQuery team and the jQuery community). Boris has written a great set of tutorials on the Templates plugin. The first tutorial in his series is located here: http://www.borismoore.com/2010/09/introducing-jquery-templates-1-first.html I want to thank John Resig, Richard Worth, Scott Gonzalez, Rey Bango, Jorn Zaefferer, Karl Swedberg and all of the other members of the jQuery team for working with the ASP.NET team and accepting our contributions to the jQuery project.

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• Building services with the .NET framework Cont’d

  - by Allan Rwakatungu

  In my previous blog I wrote an introductory post on services and how you can build services using the .NET frameworks Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) In this post I will show how to develop a real world application using WCF The problem During the last meeting we realized developers in Uganda are not so cool – they don’t use twitter so may not get the latest news and updates from the technology world. We also noticed they mostly use kabiriti phones (jokes). With their kabiriti phones they are unable to access the twitter web client or alternative twitter mobile clients like tweetdeck , twirl or tweetie. However, the kabiriti phones support SMS (Yeeeeeeei). So what we going to do to make these developers cool and keep them updated is by enabling them to receive tweets via SMS. We shall also enable them to develop their own applications that can extend this functionality Analysis Thanks to services and open API’s solving our problem is going to be easy.  1. To get tweets we can use the twitter service for FREE 2. To send SMS we shall use www.clickatell.com/ as they can send SMS to any country in the world. Besides we could not find any local service that offers API's for sending SMS :(. 3. To enable developers to integrate with our application so that they can extend it and build even cooler applications we use WCF. In addittion , because connectivity might be an issue we decided to use WCF because if has a inbuilt queing features. We also choose WCF because this is a post about .NET and WCF :). The Code Accessing the tweets To consume twitters REST API we shall use the WCF REST starter kit. Like it name indicates , the REST starter kit is a set of .NET framework classes that enable developers to create and access REST style services ( like the twitter service). Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Http; using System.Net; using System.Xml.Linq;   namespace UG.Demo {     public class TwitterService     {         public IList<TwitterStatus> SomeMethodName()         {             //Connect to the twitter service (HttpClient is part of the REST startkit classes)             HttpClient cl = new HttpClient("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends_timeline.xml");             //Supply your basic authentication credentials             cl.TransportSettings.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("ourusername", "ourpassword");             //issue an http             HttpResponseMessage resp = cl.Get();             //ensure we got reponse 200             resp.EnsureStatusIsSuccessful();             //use XLinq to parse the REST XML             var statuses = from r in resp.Content.ReadAsXElement().Descendants("status")                            select new TwitterStatus                            {                                User = r.Element("user").Element("screen_name").Value,                                Status = r.Element("text").Value                            };             return statuses.ToList();         }     }     public class TwitterStatus     {         public string User { get; set; }         public string Status { get; set; }     } }  Sending SMS Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} public class SMSService     {         public void Send(string phone, string message)         {                         HttpClient cl1 = new HttpClient();              //the clickatell XML format for sending SMS             string xml = String.Format("<clickAPI><sendMsg><api_id>3239621</api_id><user>ourusername</user><password>ourpassword</password><to>{0}</to><text>{1}</text></sendMsg></clickAPI>",phone,message);             //Post form data             HttpUrlEncodedForm form = new HttpUrlEncodedForm();             form.Add("data", xml);             System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;             string uri = @"http://api.clickatell.com/xml/xml";             HttpResponseMessage resp = cl1.Post(uri, form.CreateHttpContent());             resp.EnsureStatusIsSuccessful();         }     }

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• AppFabric Caching Feedback

  - by Michael Stephenson

  We are running a survey to collect feedback around scenarios where people were experimenting with velocity on windows 2003 in the CTP but are now in a position where the beta requires windows 2008. We would like to understand how important this scenario is precieved to be. If you are in the Connected Systems Community and would like to provide feedback please complete the following survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N3VKZWN

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• Where have I been? Speaking a lot, actually…

  - by drsql

  A few weeks back (Feb 27) I spoke at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta ( http://rmtechtrifecta.pbworks.com/ ), where I gave the SQL Track keynote, and then did my Database Design session.  Great time and I had a blast giving a keynote. It was especially fun just doing a lightweight session just encouraging folks to do design. Last week, I spoke virtually for the Minnesota PASS group, giving the same presentation, plus 10% and including my patent pending Lego audience (The Minifiggers) and audience...(read more)

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• SQL SERVER – 4 Tips for ETL Software IDE Developers

  - by pinaldave

  In a previous blog, I introduced the notion of Semantic Types. To an end-user, a seamlessly integrated semantic typing engine significantly increases the ease of use of an ETL IDE (integrated development environment, or developer studio). This led me to think about other ease-of-use issues I have encountered while building ETL applications. When I get stumped while programming, I find myself asking the variations on these questions: “How do I…?” “Now what?” “Why isn’t this working?” “Why do I have to redo the work I just did?” It seems to me that a good ETL IDE will anticipate these questions and seek to answer them before they are even asked. So here are my tips to help software vendors build developer IDEs that actually make development easier. How do I…? While developing an ETL application, have you ever asked yourself: “How do I set up the connection to my SQL Server database?”,“How do I import my table definitions from Access?”, etc. An easy answer might be “read the manual” but sometimes product manuals are not robust or easily accessible. So, integrating robust how-to instructions directly into your ETLstudio would help users get the information they need at the time they need it. Now what? IDEs in general know where you last clicked or performed an action using an input device such as a keyboard; so they should be able to reasonably predict the design context you are in and suggest the next steps accordingly. Context-sensitive suggestions based on the state of the user’s work will help users move forward in ETL application development. Why isn’t this working? Or why do I have to wait till I compile to be told about a critical design issue? If an ETL IDE is smart enough to signal to users what in their design structures is left to be completed or has been completed incorrectly, then the developer can spend much less time in the designàcompileàerror-correct loop. Just-in-time validation helps users detect and correct programming errors earlier in the ETL development life cycle. Why do I have to redo the work I just did? In ETL development, schemas, transformation rules, connectivity objects, etc., can be reused in various situations. Using mouse-clicks to build and manage libraries of reusable design objects implies that the application development effort should decrease over time and as the library acquires more objects. I met a great company at SQL Pass that is trying to address many of these usability issues. Check them out at www.expressor-software.com. What other ease-of-use suggestions do you have for ETL software vendors? Please post your valuable comments. ?Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Best Practices, Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology Tagged: ETL

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• Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2010 -- #817

  - by Dave Campbell

  In this Issue: Bart Czernicki, Tim Greenfield, Andrea Boschin(-2-), AfricanGeek, Fredrik Normén, Ian Griffiths, Christian Schormann, Pete Brown, Jeff Handley, Brad Abrams, and Tim Heuer. Shoutout: At the beginning of MIX10, Brad Abrams reported Silverlight 4 and RIA Services Release Candidate Available NOW From SilverlightCream.com: Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7 Bart Czernicki has a very cool BingMaps and WP7 tutorial up... you're going to want to bookmark this one for sure! Code included and external links... thanks Bart! Silverlight Rx DataClient within MVVM Tim Greenfield has a great post up about Rx and MVVM with Silverlight 3. Lots of good insight into Rx and interesting code bits. SilverVNC - a VNC Viewer with Silverlight 4.0 RC Andrea Boschin digs into Silverlight 4 RC and it's full-trust on sockets and builds an implementation of RFB protocol... give it a try and give Andrea some feedback. Chromeless Window for OOB applications in Silverlight 4.0 RC Andrea Boschin also has a post up on investigating the OOB no-chrome features in SL4RC. Windows Phone 7 and WCF AfricanGeek has his latest video tutorial up and it's on WCF and WP7... I've got a feeling we're all going to have to get our arms around this. Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preveiw to the RC version Fredrik Normén details his steps in transitioning to the RC version of RIA Services. Silverlight Business Apps: Module 8.5 - The Value of MEF with Silverlight Ian Griffiths has a video tutorial up at Channel 9 on MEF and Silverlight, posted by John Papa Introducing Blend 4 – For Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone Christian Schormann has an early MIX10 post up about te new features in Expression Blend with regard to Silverlight, WPF, and WP7. Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application Pete Brown has his first post up on building a WP7 app with the MIX10 bits. Lookups in DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services Jeff Handley elaborates on a post by someone else about using lookup data in the DataGrid and DataForm with RIA Services Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Starting a New Project with the Business Application Template Brad Abrams is starting a series highlighting the key features of Silverlight 4 and RIA with the new releases. He has a post up Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Index, including links and source. Then in this first post of the series, he introduces the Business Application Template. Custom Window Chrome and Events Watch a tutorial video by Tim Heuer on creating custom chrome for OOB apps. Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SilverlightNews | Twitter WynApse | WynApse.com | Tagged Posts | SilverlightCream Join me @ SilverlightCream | Phoenix Silverlight User Group Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

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• SQLAuthority News – Win MS Office License – Last 2 days

  - by pinaldave

  Just a note for everybody who is from India and want to win FREE Office License, participate in very easy contest here. SQLAuthority News – Virtual Launch Event for Office 2010 – Contest – Win MS Office License Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology Tagged: Contest, Office2010

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• First time using Java Web Start in Ubuntu - Fatal Launch Exception

  - by MountainX

  I've been using Ubuntu for a while and Java Web Start applications have never "just worked" in the current or any prior version, so I ignored them until now. However, now I have a need to get them working in Firefox. When I am on a page like this: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/demos-nojavascript-137100.html I want to be able to click on the demos as suggested and have them run. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 and/or Linux Mint 12 (64 bit) with OpenJDK 6, OpenJDK 7 and Sun Java 6. My default is currently: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java $ whereis javaws javaws: /usr/bin/javaws /etc/alternatives/javaws - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/javaws Here's the error I get when I try to run a Java Web Start application: net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: Could not initialize application. at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplication(Launcher.java:776) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:552) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:887) Caused by: net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: A fatal error occurred while trying to verify jars. at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(JNLPClassLoader.java:448) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.<init>(JNLPClassLoader.java:176) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:295) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplication(Launcher.java:767) ... 2 more Caused by: net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: A fatal error occurred while trying to verify jars. at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(JNLPClassLoader.java:448) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.<init>(JNLPClassLoader.java:176) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:295) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplication(Launcher.java:767) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:552) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:887) Here's another example: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/events/keylistener.html net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Read Error: Could not read or parse the JNLP file. at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.fromUrl(Launcher.java:491) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:283) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.run(Boot.java:199) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.run(Boot.java:51) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.main(Boot.java:165) Caused by: java.io.IOException: port out of range:-2147483648 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.openURL(JNLPFile.java:255) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.<init>(JNLPFile.java:185) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.<init>(JNLPFile.java:162) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.<init>(JNLPFile.java:148) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.fromUrl(Launcher.java:477) ... 5 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: port out of range:-2147483648 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.openURL(JNLPFile.java:255) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.<init>(JNLPFile.java:185) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.<init>(JNLPFile.java:162) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.JNLPFile.<init>(JNLPFile.java:148) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.fromUrl(Launcher.java:477) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:283) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.run(Boot.java:199) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.run(Boot.java:51) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot.main(Boot.java:165)

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• CRMIT Solution´s CRM++ Asterisk Telephony Connector Achieves Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Sales Cloud

  - by Richard Lefebvre

  To achieve Oracle Validated Integration, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of the customers. Based on a Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) framework the CRM++ Asterisk Telephony Connector integrates the Asterisk telephony solutions with Oracle® Sales Cloud. "The CRM++ Asterisk Telephony Connector for Oracle® Sales Cloud showcases CRMIT Solutions focus and commitment to extend the Customer Experience (CX) expertise to our existing and potential customers," said Vinod Reddy, Founder & CEO, CRMIT Solutions. "Oracle® Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical review and test process," said Kevin O’Brien, senior director, ISV and SaaS Strategy, Oracle®. "Achieving Oracle® Validated Integration through Oracle® PartnerNetwork gives our customers confidence that the CRM++ Asterisk Telephony Connector for Oracle® Sales Cloud has been validated and that the products work together as designed. This helps reduce deployment risk and improves the user experience for our joint customers." CRM++ is a suite of native Customer Experience solutions for Oracle® CRM On Demand, Oracle® Sales Cloud and Oracle® RightNow Cloud Service. With over 3000+ users the CRM++ framework helps extend the Customer Experience (CX) and the power of Customer Relations Management features including Email WorkBench, Self Service Portal, Mobile CRM, Social CRM and Computer Telephony Integration.. About CRMIT Solutions CRMIT Solutions is a pioneer in delivering SaaS-based customer experience (CX) consulting and solutions. With more than 200 certified customer relationship management (CRM) consultants and more than 175 successful CRM deployments globally, CRMIT Solutions offers a range of CRM++ applications for accelerated deployments including various rapid implementation and migration utilities for Oracle® Sales Cloud, Oracle® CRM On Demand, Oracle® Eloqua, Oracle® Social Relationship Management and Oracle® RightNow Cloud Service. About Oracle Validated Integration Oracle Validated Integration, available through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), gives customers confidence that the integration of complementary partner software products with Oracle Applications and specific Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions have been validated, and the products work together as designed. This can help customers reduce risk, improve system implementation cycles, and provide for smoother upgrades and simpler maintenance. Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical process to review partner integrations. Partners who have successfully completed the program are authorized to use the “Oracle Validated Integration” logo. For more information, please visit Oracle.com at http://www.oracle.com/us/partnerships/solutions/index.html.

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• On Her Majesty's Secret Source Code: .NET Reflector 7 Early Access Builds Now Available

  - by Bart Read

  Dodgy Bond references aside, I'm extremely happy to be able to tell you that we've just released our first .NET Reflector 7 Early Access build. We're going to make these available over the coming weeks via the main .NET Reflector download page at: http://reflector.red-gate.com/Download.aspx Please have a play and tell us what you think in the forum we've set up. Also, please let us know if you run into any problems in the same place. The new version so far comes with numerous decompilation improvements including (after 5 years!) support for iterator blocks - i.e., the yield statement first seen in .NET 2.0. We've also done a lot of work to solidify the support for .NET 4.0. Clive's written about the work he's done to support iterator blocks in much more detail here, along with the odd problem he's encountered when dealing with compiler generated code: http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/clivet/96199.aspx. On the UI front we've started what will ultimately be a rewrite of the entire front-end, albeit broken into stages over two or three major releases. The most obvious addition at the moment is tabbed browsing, which you can see in Figure 1. Figure 1. .NET Reflector's new tabbed decompilation feature. Use CTRL+Click on any item in the assembly browser tree, or any link in the source code view, to open it in a new tab. This isn't by any means finished. I'll be tying up loose ends for the next few weeks, with a major focus on performance and resource usage. .NET Reflector has historically been a largely single-threaded application which has been fine up until now but, as you might expect, the addition of browser-style tabbing has pushed this approach somewhat beyond its limit. You can see this if you refresh the assemblies list by hitting F5. This shows up another problem: we really need to make Reflector remember everything you had open before you refreshed the list, rather than just the last item you viewed - I discovered that it's always done the latter, but it used to hide all panes apart from the treeview after a Refresh, including the decompiler/disassembler window. Ultimately I've got plans to add the whole VS/Chrome/Firefox style ability to drag a tab into the middle of nowhere to spawn a new window, but I need to be mindful of the add-ins, amongst other things, so it's possible that might slip to a 7.5 or 8.0 release. You'll also notice that .NET Reflector 7 now needs .NET 3.5 or later to run. We made this jump because we wanted to offer ourselves a much better chance of adding some really cool functionality to support newer technologies, such as Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. We've also taken the opportunity to start using WPF for UI development, which has frankly been a godsend. The learning curve is practically vertical but, I kid you not, it's just a far better world. Really. Stop using WinForms. Now. Why are you still using it? I had to go back and work on an old WinForms dialog for an hour or two yesterday and it really made me wince. The point is we'll be able to move the UI in some exciting new directions that will make Reflector easier to use whilst continuing to develop its functionality without (and this is key) cluttering the interface. The 3.5 language enhancements should also enable us to be much more productive over the longer term. I know most of you have .NET Fx 3.5 or 4.0 already but, if you do need to install a new version, I'd recommend you jump straight to 4.0 because, for one thing, it's faster, and if you're starting afresh there's really no reason not to. Despite the Fx version jump the Visual Studio add-in should still work fine in Visual Studio 2005, and obviously will continue to work in Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. If you do run into problems, again, please let us know here. As before, we continue to support every edition of Visual Studio exception the Express Editions. Speaking of Visual Studio, we've also been improving the add-in. You can now open and explore decompiled code for any referenced assembly in any project in your solution. Just right-click on the reference, then click Decompile and Explore on the context menu. Reflector will pop up a progress box whilst it decompiles your assembly (Figure 2) - you can move this out of the way whilst you carry on working. Figure 2. Decompilation progress. This isn't modal so you can just move it out of the way and carry on working. Once it's done you can explore your assembly in the Reflector treeview (Figure 3), also accessible via the .NET Reflector Explore Decompiled Assemblies main menu item. Double-click on any item to open decompiled source in the Visual Studio source code view. Use right-click and Go To Definition on the source view context menu to navigate through the code. Figure 3. Using the .NET Reflector treeview within Visual Studio. Double-click on any item to open decompiled source in the source code view. There are loads of other changes and fixes that have gone in, often under the hood, which I don't have room to talk about here, and plenty more to come over the next few weeks. I'll try to keep you abreast of new functionality and changes as they go in. There are a couple of smaller things worth mentioning now though. Firstly, we've reorganised the menus and toolbar in Reflector itself to more closely mirror what you might be used to in other applications. Secondly, we've tried to make some of the functionality more discoverable. For example, you can now switch decompilation target framework version directly from the toolbar - and the default is now .NET 4.0. I think that about covers it for the moment. As I said, please use the new version, and send us your feedback. Here's that download URL again: http://reflector.red-gate.com/Download.aspx. Until next time! Technorati Tags: .net reflector,7,early access,new version,decompilation,tabbing,visual studio,software development,.net,c#,vb

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• Closest to “Mathematica Graphics[]" drawing environment for Python

  - by 500

  Being only familiar with Mathematica and its Graphics, I have now to learn to draw Graphics using Python for a server. Mostly conditional combination of simple shape. What would be a package for Python that make drawing Graphics as close as possible as the Mathematica Graphics environment ? For Example, I would need to do such thing as in : http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1010/2d-gaussian-distribution-of-squares-coordinates#comment2475_1010

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• Best-selling Author on Servlets and JSP, Marty Hall, to Keynote at GIDS 2010

  Hey Guys,Author of More Servlets and JSP, Marty Hall is coming to Bangalore this April to speak on Choosing an Ajax/JavaScript Toolkit: A Comparison of the Most Popular JavaScript Libraries, Pure Java Ajax: An Overview of GWT 2.0, Integrated Ajax Support in JSF 2.0 and Ajax Support in the Prototype JavaScript Library. You can get more information on developersummit dot com...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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• Web.Config is Cached

  - by SGWellens

  There was a question from a student over on the Asp.Net forums about improving site performance. The concern was that every time an app setting was read from the Web.Config file, the disk would be accessed. With many app settings and many users, it was believed performance would suffer. Their intent was to create a class to hold all the settings, instantiate it and fill it from the Web.Config file on startup. Then, all the settings would be in RAM. I knew this was not correct and didn't want to just say so without any corroboration, so I did some searching. Surprisingly, this is a common misconception. I found other code postings that cached the app settings from Web.Config. Many people even thanked the posters for the code. In a later post, the student said their text book recommended caching the Web.Config file. OK, here's the deal. The Web.Config file is already cached. You do not need to re-cache it. From this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478432.aspx It is important to realize that the entire <appSettings> section is read, parsed, and cached the first time we retrieve a setting value. From that point forward, all requests for setting values come from an in-memory cache, so access is quite fast and doesn't incur any subsequent overhead for accessing the file or parsing the XML. The reason the misconception is prevalent may be because it's hard to search for Web.Config and cache without getting a lot of hits on how to setup caching in the Web.Config file. So here's a string for search engines to index on: "Is the Web.Config file Cached?" A follow up question was, are the connection strings cached? Yes. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178683.aspx At run time, ASP.NET uses the Web.Config files to hierarchically compute a unique collection of configuration settings for each incoming URL request. These settings are calculated only once and then cached on the server. And, as everyone should know, if you modify the Web.Config file, the web application will restart. I hope this helps people to NOT write code! Steve WellensCodeProject

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• Web.Config is Cached

  - by SGWellens

  There was a question from a student over on the Asp.Net forums about improving site performance. The concern was that every time an app setting was read from the Web.Config file, the disk would be accessed. With many app settings and many users, it was believed performance would suffer. Their intent was to create a class to hold all the settings, instantiate it and fill it from the Web.Config file on startup. Then, all the settings would be in RAM. I knew this was not correct and didn't want to just say so without any corroboration, so I did some searching. Surprisingly, this is a common misconception. I found other code postings that cached the app settings from Web.Config. Many people even thanked the posters for the code. In a later post, the student said their text book recommended caching the Web.Config file. OK, here's the deal. The Web.Config file is already cached. You do not need to re-cache it. From this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa478432.aspx It is important to realize that the entire <appSettings> section is read, parsed, and cached the first time we retrieve a setting value. From that point forward, all requests for setting values come from an in-memory cache, so access is quite fast and doesn't incur any subsequent overhead for accessing the file or parsing the XML. The reason the misconception is prevalent may be because it's hard to search for Web.Config and cache without getting a lot of hits on how to setup caching in the Web.Config file. So here's a string for search engines to index on: "Is the Web.Config file Cached?" A follow up question was, are the connection strings cached? Yes. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178683.aspx At run time, ASP.NET uses the Web.Config files to hierarchically compute a unique collection of configuration settings for each incoming URL request. These settings are calculated only once and then cached on the server. And, as everyone should know, if you modify the Web.Config file, the web application will restart. I hope this helps people to NOT write code!   Steve WellensCodeProject

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• Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2010 -- #827

  - by Dave Campbell

  In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Hassan, Viktor Larsson, Fons Sonnemans, Jim McCurdy, Scott Marlowe, Mike Taulty, Brad Abrams, Jesse Liberty, Scott Barnes, Christopher Bennage, and John Papa and Ward Bell. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer posted a survey: What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight?... have you responded yet? Don't want to miss this discussion: Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer - Perspectives on Design Bookmark this... Jesse Liberty has moved his site: Silverlight Geek I stand with Tim Heuer on this: Congratulations to latest 2nd quarter Silverlight MVPs From SilverlightCream.com: Wizards. Prototype of sketching Wizard for WPF - 1 Max Paulousky is creating a SketchFlow WPF wizard in Expression Blend... looks like good Expression Blend and SketchFlow no matter what the target is Windows Phone 7 Navigation Hassan has another WP7 Video up, and this one is on Navigation and passing data from page to page. Silverlight 4 PathListBox Viktor Larsson is blogging about the PathListBox, and definitely had a good time doing so.. lots of fun examples. CountDown Clock in Silverlight 4 Fons Sonnemans has reworked his Sivlerlight 3 FlipClock to be this Silverlight 4 CountDown Clock utilizing the Viewbox control to make it scalable. Generic class for deep clone of Silverlight and CLR objects Jim McCurdy has a Silverlight 3 and 4-tested CloneObject class that he's using for creating a deep copy of an object and all it's properties... think drag/drop or undo/redo. Animating the Fill Color of a Silverlight Ellipse Scott Marlowe has a tutorial up that animates a pass/fail indicator with a smooth transition from a red to a green state... all with code. Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject Mike Taulty has a great tutorial up on Blend4 and binding... he's got a somewhat contrived example going, but it certainly looks good to me :) Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization Next up in Brad Abrams' series is Authentication and Personalization. RIA Services makes this easy to do... let Brad show you! An Annotated Line of Business Application Jesse Liberty is walking through the design and delivery of his HyperVideo project with this mini tutorial. Want to understand the thought process behind the LOB app, check this out. How to hack Expression Blend Seems like there was just some discussion about some of this today and here Scott Barnes posts this hack job for Expression Blend... pretty cool actually :) d:DesignInstance in Blend 4 Christopher Bennage has a follow-on post about using d:DesignInstance in Blend 4, and this is a very nice tutorial on the subject Silverlight TV 19: Hidden Gems from MIX10, UFC's Multi-Touch App John Papa and Ward Bell front and center for Silverlight TV number 19... and check out those threads! Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SilverlightNews | Twitter WynApse | WynApse.com | Tagged Posts | SilverlightCream Join me @ SilverlightCream | Phoenix Silverlight User Group Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

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• Adding Volcanos and Options - Earthquake Locator, part 2

  - by Bobby Diaz

  Since volcanos are often associated with earthquakes, and vice versa, I decided to show recent volcanic activity on the Earthquake Locator map.  I am pulling the data from a website created for a joint project between the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and the US Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program, found here.  They provide a Weekly Volcanic Activity Report as an RSS feed.   I started implementing this new functionality by creating a new Volcano entity in the domain model and adding the following to the EarthquakeService class (I also factored out the common reading/parsing helper methods to a separate FeedReader class that can be used by multiple domain service classes):           private static readonly string VolcanoFeedUrl =             ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["VolcanoFeedUrl"];           /// <summary>         /// Gets the volcano data for the previous week.         /// </summary>         /// <returns>A queryable collection of <see cref="Volcano"/> objects.</returns>         public IQueryable<Volcano> GetVolcanos()         {             var feed = FeedReader.Load(VolcanoFeedUrl);             var list = new List<Volcano>();               if ( feed != null )             {                 foreach ( var item in feed.Items )                 {                     var quake = CreateVolcano(item);                     if ( quake != null )                     {                         list.Add(quake);                     }                 }             }               return list.AsQueryable();         }           /// <summary>         /// Creates a <see cref="Volcano"/> object for each item in the RSS feed.         /// </summary>         /// <param name="item">The RSS item.</param>         /// <returns></returns>         private Volcano CreateVolcano(SyndicationItem item)         {             Volcano volcano = null;             string title = item.Title.Text;             string desc = item.Summary.Text;             double? latitude = null;             double? longitude = null;               FeedReader.GetGeoRssPoint(item, out latitude, out longitude);               if ( !String.IsNullOrEmpty(title) )             {                 title = title.Substring(0, title.IndexOf('-'));             }             if ( !String.IsNullOrEmpty(desc) )             {                 desc = String.Join("\n\n", desc                         .Replace("<p>", "")                         .Split(                             new string[] { "</p>" },                             StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)                         .Select(s => s.Trim())                         .ToArray())                         .Trim();             }               if ( latitude != null && longitude != null )             {                 volcano = new Volcano()                 {                     Id = item.Id,                     Title = title,                     Description = desc,                     Url = item.Links.Select(l => l.Uri.OriginalString).FirstOrDefault(),                     Latitude = latitude.GetValueOrDefault(),                     Longitude = longitude.GetValueOrDefault()                 };             }               return volcano;         } I then added the corresponding LoadVolcanos() method and Volcanos collection to the EarthquakeViewModel class in much the same way I did with the Earthquakes in my previous article in this series. Now that I am starting to add more information to the map, I wanted to give the user some options as to what is displayed and allowing them to choose what gets turned off.  I have updated the MainPage.xaml to look like this:   <UserControl x:Class="EarthquakeLocator.MainPage"     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"     xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"     xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"     xmlns:basic="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls"     xmlns:bing="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Maps.MapControl;assembly=Microsoft.Maps.MapControl"     xmlns:vm="clr-namespace:EarthquakeLocator.ViewModel"     mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="640" d:DesignHeight="480" >     <UserControl.Resources>         <DataTemplate x:Key="EarthquakeTemplate">             <Ellipse Fill="Red" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1"                      Width="{Binding Size}" Height="{Binding Size}"                      bing:MapLayer.Position="{Binding Location}"                      bing:MapLayer.PositionOrigin="Center">                 <ToolTipService.ToolTip>                     <StackPanel>                         <TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}" FontSize="14" FontWeight="Bold" />                         <TextBlock Text="{Binding UtcTime}" />                         <TextBlock Text="{Binding LocalTime}" />                         <TextBlock Text="{Binding DepthDesc}" />                     </StackPanel>                 </ToolTipService.ToolTip>             </Ellipse>         </DataTemplate>           <DataTemplate x:Key="VolcanoTemplate">             <Polygon Fill="Gold" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1" Points="0,10 5,0 10,10"                      bing:MapLayer.Position="{Binding Location}"                      bing:MapLayer.PositionOrigin="Center"                      MouseLeftButtonUp="Volcano_MouseLeftButtonUp">                 <ToolTipService.ToolTip>                     <StackPanel>                         <TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}" FontSize="14" FontWeight="Bold" />                         <TextBlock Text="Click icon for more information..." />                     </StackPanel>                 </ToolTipService.ToolTip>             </Polygon>         </DataTemplate>     </UserControl.Resources>       <UserControl.DataContext>         <vm:EarthquakeViewModel AutoLoadData="True" />     </UserControl.DataContext>       <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">           <bing:Map x:Name="map" CredentialsProvider="--Your-Bing-Maps-Key--"                   Center="{Binding MapCenter, Mode=TwoWay}"                   ZoomLevel="{Binding ZoomLevel, Mode=TwoWay}">               <bing:MapItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Earthquakes}"                                   ItemTemplate="{StaticResource EarthquakeTemplate}" />               <bing:MapItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Volcanos}"                                   ItemTemplate="{StaticResource VolcanoTemplate}" />         </bing:Map>           <basic:TabControl x:Name="tabs" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" MaxHeight="25" Opacity="0.7">             <basic:TabItem Margin="90,0,-90,0" MouseLeftButtonUp="TabItem_MouseLeftButtonUp">                 <basic:TabItem.Header>                     <TextBlock x:Name="txtHeader" Text="Options"                                FontSize="13" FontWeight="Bold" />                 </basic:TabItem.Header>                   <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">                     <TextBlock Text="Earthquakes:" FontWeight="Bold" Margin="3" />                     <StackPanel Margin="3">                         <CheckBox Content=" &lt; 4.0"                                   IsChecked="{Binding ShowLt4, Mode=TwoWay}" />                         <CheckBox Content="4.0 - 4.9"                                   IsChecked="{Binding Show4s, Mode=TwoWay}" />                         <CheckBox Content="5.0 - 5.9"                                   IsChecked="{Binding Show5s, Mode=TwoWay}" />                     </StackPanel>                       <StackPanel Margin="10,3,3,3">                         <CheckBox Content="6.0 - 6.9"                                   IsChecked="{Binding Show6s, Mode=TwoWay}" />                         <CheckBox Content="7.0 - 7.9"                                   IsChecked="{Binding Show7s, Mode=TwoWay}" />                         <CheckBox Content="8.0 +"                                   IsChecked="{Binding ShowGe8, Mode=TwoWay}" />                     </StackPanel>                       <TextBlock Text="Other:" FontWeight="Bold" Margin="50,3,3,3" />                     <StackPanel Margin="3">                         <CheckBox Content="Volcanos"                                   IsChecked="{Binding ShowVolcanos, Mode=TwoWay}" />                     </StackPanel>                 </StackPanel>               </basic:TabItem>         </basic:TabControl>       </Grid> </UserControl> Notice that I added a VolcanoTemplate that uses a triangle-shaped Polygon to represent the Volcano locations, and I also added a second <bing:MapItemsControl /> tag to the map to bind to the Volcanos collection.  The TabControl found below the map houses the options panel that will present the user with several checkboxes so they can filter the different points based on type and other properties (i.e. Magnitude).  Initially, the TabItem is collapsed to reduce it's footprint, but the screen shot below shows the options panel expanded to reveal the available settings:     I have updated the Source Code and Live Demo to include these new features.   Happy Mapping!

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• Spaghetti Code Podcast with Jeff Brand

  - by Chris Williams

  Last week I spent some time hanging out with Jeff Brand on his Spaghetti Code Podcast talking about Windows Phone 7, XNA, Gaming and whatever else came to mind. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/2544ajc

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• ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1

  - by Ken Cox [MVP]

  Want to have a say in what goes into the ASP.NET bits of service pack 1 for VS 2010? Well, spend a few minutes filling out the online survey posted by the ASP.NET team: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MLCDPN7 If your most urgent fix doesn’t make it into service pack 1, it might be because you didn’t speak up and provide details at the right time – like now!   Ken...(read more)

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