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• Corsair Hackers Reboot

  It wasn't easy for me to attend but it was absolutely worth to go. The Linux User Group of Mauritius (LUGM) organised another get-together for any open source enthusiast here on the island. Strangely named "Corsair Hackers Reboot" but it stands for a positive cause: "Corsair Hackers Reboot Event A collaborative activity involving LUGM, UoM Computer Club, Fortune Way Shopping Mall and several geeks from around the island, striving to put FOSS into homes & offices. The public is invited to discover and explore Free Software & Open Source." And it was a good opportunity for me and the kids to visit the east coast of Mauritius, too. Perfect timing It couldn't have been better... Why? Well, for two important reasons (in terms of IT): End of support for Microsoft Windows XP - 08.04.2014 Release of Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support - 17.04.2014 Quite funnily, those two IT dates weren't the initial reasons and only during the weeks of preparations we put those together. And therefore it was even more positive to promote the use of Linux and open source software in general to a broader audience. Getting there ... Thanks to the new motor way M3 and all the additional road work which has been completed recently it was very simple to get across the island in a very quick and relaxed manner. Compared to my trips in the early days of living in Mauritius (and riding on a scooter) it was very smooth and within less than an hour we hit Centrale de Flacq. Well, being in the city doesn't necessarily mean that one has arrived at the destination. But thanks to modern technology I had a quick look on Google Maps, and we finally managed to get a parking behind the huge bus terminal in Flacq. From there it was just a short walk to Fortune Way. The children were trying to count the number of buses... Well, lots and lots of buses - really impressive actually. What was presented? There were different areas set up. Right at the entrance one's attention was directly drawn towards the elevated hacker's stage. Similar to rock stars performing their gig there was bunch of computers, laptops and networking equipment in order to cater the right working conditions for coding/programming challenge(s) on the one hand and for the pen-testing or system hacking competition on the other hand. Personally, I was very impresses that actually Nitin took care of the pen-testing competition. He hardly started one year back with Linux in general, and Kali Linux specifically. Seeing his personal development from absolute newbie to a decent Linux system administrator within such a short period of time, is really impressive. His passion to open source software made him a living. Next, clock-wise seen, was the Kid's Corner with face-painting as the main attraction. Additionally, there were numerous paper print outs to colour. Plus a decent workstation with the educational suite GCompris. Of course, my little ones were into that. They already know GCompris since a while as they are allowed to use it on an IGEL thin client terminal here at home. To simplify my life, I set up GCompris as full-screen guest session on the server, and they can pass the login screen without any further obstacles. And because it's a thin client hooked up to a XDMCP remote session I don't have to worry about the hardware on their desk, too. The next section was the main attraction of the event: BYOD - Bring Your Own Device Well, compared to the usual context of BYOD the corsairs had a completely different intention. Here, you could bring your own laptop and a team of knowledgeable experts - read: geeks and so on - offered to fully convert your system on any Linux distribution of your choice. And even though I came later, I was told that the USB pen drives had been in permanent use. From being prepared via dd command over launching LiveCD session to finally installing a fresh Linux system on bare metal. Most interestingly, I did a similar job already a couple of months ago, while upgrading an existing Windows XP system to Xubuntu 13.10. So far, the female owner is very happy and enjoys her system almost every evening to go shopping online, checking mails, and reading latest news from the Anime world. Back to the Hackers event, Ish told me that they managed approximately 20 conversion during the day. Furthermore, Ajay and others gladly assisted some visitors with some tricky issues and by the end of the day you can call is a success. While I was around, there was a elderly male visitor that got a full-fledged system conversion to a Linux system running completely in French language. A little bit more to the centre it was Yasir's turn to demonstrate his Arduino hardware that he hooked up with an experimental electrical circuit board connected to an LCD matrix display. That's the real spirit of hacking, and he showed some minor adjustments on the fly while demo'ing the system. Also, very interesting there was a thermal sensor around. Personally, I think that platforms like the Arduino as well as the Raspberry Pi have a great potential at a very affordable price in order to bring a better understanding of electronics as well as computer programming to a broader audience. It would be great to see more of those experiments during future activities. And last but not least there were a small number of vendors. Amongst them was Emtel - once again as sponsor of the general internet connectivity - and another hardware supplier from Riche Terre shopping mall. They had a good collection of Android related gimmicks, like a autonomous web cam that can convert any TV with HDMI connector into an online video chat system given WiFi. It's actually kind of awesome to have a Skype or Google hangout video session on the big screen rather than on the laptop. Some pictures of the event LUGM: Great conversations on Linux, open source and free software during the Corsair Hackers Reboot LUGM: Educational workstation running GCompris suite attracted the youngest attendees of the day. Of course, face painting had to be done prior to hacking... LUGM: Nadim demoing some Linux specifics to interested visitors. Everyone was pretty busy during the whole day LUGM: The hacking competition, here pen-testing a wireless connection and access point between multiple machines LUGM: Well prepared workstations to be able to 'upgrade' visitors' machines to any Linux operating system Final thoughts Gratefully, during the preparations of the event I was invited to leave some comments or suggestions, and the team of the LUGM did a great job. The outdoor banner was a eye-catcher, the various flyers and posters for the event were clearly written and as far as I understood from the quick chats I had with Ish, Nadim, Nitin, Ajay, and of course others all were very happy about the event execution. Great job, LUGM! And I'm already looking forward to the next Corsair Hackers Reboot event ... Crossing fingers: Very soon and hopefully this year again :) Update: In the media The event had been announced in local media, too. L'Express: Salon informatique: Hacking Challenge à Flacq

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• When is a Seek not a Seek?

  - by Paul White

  The following script creates a single-column clustered table containing the integers from 1 to 1,000 inclusive. IF OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#Test', N'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #Test ; GO CREATE TABLE #Test ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ); ; INSERT #Test (id) SELECT V.number FROM master.dbo.spt_values AS V WHERE V.[type] = N'P' AND V.number BETWEEN 1 AND 1000 ; Let’s say we need to find the rows with values from 100 to 170, excluding any values that divide exactly by 10.  One way to write that query would be: SELECT T.id FROM #Test AS T WHERE T.id IN ( 101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109, 111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119, 121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129, 131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139, 141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149, 151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159, 161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169 ) ; That query produces a pretty efficient-looking query plan: Knowing that the source column is defined as an INTEGER, we could also express the query this way: SELECT T.id FROM #Test AS T WHERE T.id >= 101 AND T.id <= 169 AND T.id % 10 > 0 ; We get a similar-looking plan: If you look closely, you might notice that the line connecting the two icons is a little thinner than before.  The first query is estimated to produce 61.9167 rows – very close to the 63 rows we know the query will return.  The second query presents a tougher challenge for SQL Server because it doesn’t know how to predict the selectivity of the modulo expression (T.id % 10 > 0).  Without that last line, the second query is estimated to produce 68.1667 rows – a slight overestimate.  Adding the opaque modulo expression results in SQL Server guessing at the selectivity.  As you may know, the selectivity guess for a greater-than operation is 30%, so the final estimate is 30% of 68.1667, which comes to 20.45 rows. The second difference is that the Clustered Index Seek is costed at 99% of the estimated total for the statement.  For some reason, the final SELECT operator is assigned a small cost of 0.0000484 units; I have absolutely no idea why this is so, or what it models.  Nevertheless, we can compare the total cost for both queries: the first one comes in at 0.0033501 units, and the second at 0.0034054.  The important point is that the second query is costed very slightly higher than the first, even though it is expected to produce many fewer rows (20.45 versus 61.9167). If you run the two queries, they produce exactly the same results, and both complete so quickly that it is impossible to measure CPU usage for a single execution.  We can, however, compare the I/O statistics for a single run by running the queries with STATISTICS IO ON: Table '#Test'. Scan count 63, logical reads 126, physical reads 0. Table '#Test'. Scan count 01, logical reads 002, physical reads 0. The query with the IN list uses 126 logical reads (and has a ‘scan count’ of 63), while the second query form completes with just 2 logical reads (and a ‘scan count’ of 1).  It is no coincidence that 126 = 63 * 2, by the way.  It is almost as if the first query is doing 63 seeks, compared to one for the second query. In fact, that is exactly what it is doing.  There is no indication of this in the graphical plan, or the tool-tip that appears when you hover your mouse over the Clustered Index Seek icon.  To see the 63 seek operations, you have click on the Seek icon and look in the Properties window (press F4, or right-click and choose from the menu): The Seek Predicates list shows a total of 63 seek operations – one for each of the values from the IN list contained in the first query.  I have expanded the first seek node to show the details; it is seeking down the clustered index to find the entry with the value 101.  Each of the other 62 nodes expands similarly, and the same information is contained (even more verbosely) in the XML form of the plan. Each of the 63 seek operations starts at the root of the clustered index B-tree and navigates down to the leaf page that contains the sought key value.  Our table is just large enough to need a separate root page, so each seek incurs 2 logical reads (one for the root, and one for the leaf).  We can see the index depth using the INDEXPROPERTY function, or by using the a DMV: SELECT S.index_type_desc, S.index_depth FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ( DB_ID(N'tempdb'), OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#Test', N'U'), 1, 1, DEFAULT ) AS S ; Let’s look now at the Properties window when the Clustered Index Seek from the second query is selected: There is just one seek operation, which starts at the root of the index and navigates the B-tree looking for the first key that matches the Start range condition (id >= 101).  It then continues to read records at the leaf level of the index (following links between leaf-level pages if necessary) until it finds a row that does not meet the End range condition (id <= 169).  Every row that meets the seek range condition is also tested against the Residual Predicate highlighted above (id % 10 > 0), and is only returned if it matches that as well. You will not be surprised that the single seek (with a range scan and residual predicate) is much more efficient than 63 singleton seeks.  It is not 63 times more efficient (as the logical reads comparison would suggest), but it is around three times faster.  Let’s run both query forms 10,000 times and measure the elapsed time: DECLARE @i INTEGER, @n INTEGER = 10000, @s DATETIME = GETDATE() ; SET NOCOUNT ON; SET STATISTICS XML OFF; ; WHILE @n > 0 BEGIN SELECT @i = T.id FROM #Test AS T WHERE T.id IN ( 101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109, 111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119, 121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129, 131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139, 141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149, 151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159, 161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169 ) ; SET @n -= 1; END ; PRINT DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, @s, GETDATE()) ; GO DECLARE @i INTEGER, @n INTEGER = 10000, @s DATETIME = GETDATE() ; SET NOCOUNT ON ; WHILE @n > 0 BEGIN SELECT @i = T.id FROM #Test AS T WHERE T.id >= 101 AND T.id <= 169 AND T.id % 10 > 0 ; SET @n -= 1; END ; PRINT DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, @s, GETDATE()) ; On my laptop, running SQL Server 2008 build 4272 (SP2 CU2), the IN form of the query takes around 830ms and the range query about 300ms.  The main point of this post is not performance, however – it is meant as an introduction to the next few parts in this mini-series that will continue to explore scans and seeks in detail. When is a seek not a seek?  When it is 63 seeks © Paul White 2011 email: [email protected] twitter: @SQL_kiwi

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• Looking into the JQuery Overlays Plugin

  - by nikolaosk

  I have been using JQuery for a couple of years now and it has helped me to solve many problems on the client side of web development.  You can find all my posts about JQuery in this link. In this post I will be providing you with a hands-on example on the JQuery Overlays Plugin.If you want you can have a look at this post, where I describe the JQuery Cycle Plugin.You can find another post of mine talking about the JQuery Carousel Lite Plugin here. Another post of mine regarding the JQuery Image Zoom Plugin can be found here.I will be writing more posts regarding the most commonly used JQuery Plugins. With the JQuery Overlays Plugin we can provide the user (overlay) with more information about an image when the user hovers over the image. I have been using extensively this plugin in my websites. In this hands-on example I will be using Expression Web 4.0.This application is not a free application. You can use any HTML editor you like. You can use Visual Studio 2012 Express edition. You can download it here.  You can download this plugin from this link. I launch Expression Web 4.0 and then I type the following HTML markup (I am using HTML 5) <html lang="en"> <head>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="ImageOverlay.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.ImageOverlay.min.js"></script>         <script type="text/javascript">        $(function () {            $("#Liverpool").ImageOverlay();        });    </script>   </head><body>    <ul id="Liverpool" class="image-overlay">        <li>            <a href="www.liverpoolfc.com">                <img alt="Liverpool" src="championsofeurope.jpg" />                <div class="caption">                    <h3>Liverpool Football club</h3>                    <p>The greatest club in the world</p>                </div>            </a>        </li>    </ul></body></html> This is a very simple markup. I have added references to the JQuery library (current version is 1.8.3) and the JQuery Overlays Plugin. Then I add 1 image in the element with "id=Liverpool". There is a caption class as well, where I place the text I want to show when the mouse hovers over the image. The caption class and the Liverpool id element are styled in the ImageOverlay.css file that can also be downloaded with the plugin.You can style the various elements of the html markup in the .css file. The Javascript code that makes it all happen follows.   <script type="text/javascript">        $(function () {            $("#Liverpool").ImageOverlay();        });    </script>        I am just calling the ImageOverlay function for the Liverpool ID element.The contents of ImageOverlay.css file follow .image-overlay { list-style: none; text-align: left; }.image-overlay li { display: inline; }.image-overlay a:link, .image-overlay a:visited, .image-overlay a:hover, .image-overlay a:active { text-decoration: none; }.image-overlay a:link img, .image-overlay a:visited img, .image-overlay a:hover img, .image-overlay a:active img { border: none; }.image-overlay a{    margin: 9px;    float: left;    background: #fff;    border: solid 2px;    overflow: hidden;    position: relative;}.image-overlay img{    position: absolute;    top: 0;    left: 0;    border: 0;}.image-overlay .caption{    float: left;    position: absolute;    background-color: #000;    width: 100%;    cursor: pointer;    /* The way to change overlay opacity is the follow properties. Opacity is a tricky issue due to        longtime IE abuse of it, so opacity is not offically supported - use at your own risk.         To play it safe, disable overlay opacity in IE. */    /* For Firefox/Opera/Safari/Chrome */    opacity: .8;    /* For IE 5-7 */    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80);    /* For IE 8 */    -MS-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80)";}.image-overlay .caption h1, .image-overlay .caption h2, .image-overlay .caption h3,.image-overlay .caption h4, .image-overlay .caption h5, .image-overlay .caption h6{    margin: 10px 0 10px 2px;    font-size: 26px;    font-weight: bold;    padding: 0 0 0 5px;    color:#92171a;}.image-overlay p{    text-indent: 0;    margin: 10px;    font-size: 1.2em;} It couldn't be any simpler than that. I view my simple page in Internet Explorer 10 and it works as expected. I have tested this simple solution in all major browsers and it works fine.Have a look at the picture below. You can test it yourself and see the results in your favorite browser. Hope it helps!!!

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• Exception Handling And Other Contentious Political Topics

  - by Justin Jones

  So about three years ago, around the time of my last blog post, I promised a friend I would write this post. Keeping promises is a good thing, and this is my first step towards easing back into regular blogging. I fully expect him to return from Pennsylvania to buy me a beer over this. However, it’s been an… ahem… eventful three years or so, and blogging, unfortunately, got pushed to the back burner on my priority list, along with a few other career minded activities. Now that the personal drama of the past three years is more or less resolved, it’s time to put a few things back on the front burner. What I consider to be proper exception handling practices is relatively well known these days. There are plenty of blog posts out there already on this topic which more or less echo my opinions on this topic. I’ll try to include a few links at the bottom of the post. Several years ago I had an argument with a co-worker who posited that exceptions should be caught at every level and logged. This might seem like sanity on the surface, but the resulting error log looked something like this: Error: System.SomeException Followed by small stack trace. Error: System.SomeException Followed by slightly bigger stack trace. Error: System.SomeException Followed by slightly bigger stack trace. Error: System.SomeException Followed by slightly bigger stack trace. Error: System.SomeException Followed by slightly bigger stack trace. Error: System.SomeException Followed by slightly bigger stack trace. Error: System.SomeException Followed by slightly bigger stack trace. Error: System.SomeException Followed by slightly bigger stack trace.   These were all the same exception. The problem with this approach is that the error log, if you run any kind of analytics on in, becomes skewed depending on how far up the stack trace your exception was thrown. To mitigate this problem, we came up with the concept of the “PreLoggedException”. Basically, we would log the exception at the very top level and subsequently throw the exception back up the stack encapsulated in this pre-logged type, which our logging system knew to ignore. Now the error log looked like this: Error: System.SomeException Followed by small stack trace. Much cleaner, right? Well, there’s still a problem. When your exception happens in production and you go about trying to figure out what happened, you’ve lost more or less all context for where and how this exception was thrown, because all you really know is what method it was thrown in, but really nothing about who was calling the method or why. What gives you this clue is the entire stack trace, which we’re losing here. I believe that was further mitigated by having the logging system pull a system stack trace and add it to the log entry, but what you’re actually getting is the stack for how you got to the logging code. You’re still losing context about the actual error. Not to mention you’re executing a whole slew of catch blocks which are sloooooooowwwww……… In other words, we started with a bad idea and kept band-aiding it until it didn’t suck quite so bad. When I argued for not catching exceptions at every level but rather catching them following a certain set of rules, my co-worker warned me “do yourself a favor, never express that view in any future interviews.” I suppose this is my ultimate dismissal of that advice, but I’m not too worried. My approach for exception handling follows three basic rules: Only catch an exception if 1. You can do something about it. 2. You can add useful information to it. 3. You’re at an application boundary. Here’s what that means: 1. Only catch an exception if you can do something about it. We’ll start with a trivial example of a login system that uses a file. Please, never actually do this in production code, it’s just concocted example. So if our code goes to open a file and the file isn’t there, we get a FileNotFound exception. If the calling code doesn’t know what to do with this, it should bubble up. However, if we know how to create the file from scratch we can create the file and continue on our merry way. When you run into situations like this though, What should really run through your head is “How can I avoid handling an exception at all?” In this case, it’s a trivial matter to simply check for the existence of the file before trying to open it. If we detect that the file isn’t there, we can accomplish the same thing without having to handle in in a catch block. 2. Only catch an exception if you can do something about it. Continuing with the poorly thought out file based login system we contrived in part 1, if the code calls a Login(…) method and the FileNotFound exception is thrown higher up the stack, the code that calls Login must account for a FileNotFound exception. This is kind of counterintuitive because the calling code should not need to know the internals of the Login method, and the data file is an implementation detail. What makes more sense, assuming that we didn’t implement any of the good advice from step 1, is for Login to catch the FileNotFound exception and wrap it in a new exception. For argument’s sake we’ll say LoginSystemFailureException. (Sorry, couldn’t think of anything better at the moment.) This gives us two stack traces, preserving the original stack trace in the inner exception, and also is much more informative to the calling code. 3. Only catch an exception if you’re at an application boundary. At some point we have to catch all the exceptions, even the ones we don’t know what to do with. WinForms, ASP.Net, and most other UI technologies have some kind of built in mechanism for catching unhandled exceptions without fatally terminating the application. It’s still a good idea to somehow gracefully exit the application in this case if possible though, because you can no longer be sure what state your application is in, but nothing annoys a user more than an application just exploding. These unhandled exceptions need to be logged, and this is a good place to catch them. Ideally you never want this option to be exercised, but code as though it will be. When you log these exceptions, give them a “Fatal” status (e.g. Log4Net) and make sure these bugs get handled in your next release. That’s it in a nutshell. If you do it right each exception will only get logged once and with the largest stack trace possible which will make those 2am emergency severity 1 debugging sessions much shorter and less frustrating. Here’s a few people who also have interesting things to say on this topic:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2008/09/10/vexing-exceptions.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9538/Exception-Handling-Best-Practices-in-NET I know there’s more but I can’t find them at the moment.

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• Looking into the JQuery Cycle Plugin

  - by nikolaosk

  I have been using JQuery for a couple of years now and it has helped me to solve many problems on the client. You can find all my posts about JQuery in this link. In this post I will be providing you with a hands-on example on the JQuery Cycle Plugin.I have been using extensively this plugin in my websites.You can rotate a series of images using various transitions with this plugin.It is a slideshow type of experience. I will be writing more posts regarding the most commonly used JQuery Plugins.  In this hands-on example I will be using Expression Web 4.0.This application is not a free application. You can use any HTML editor you like.You can use Visual Studio 2012 Express edition. You can download it here.  You can download this plugin from this link I launch Expression Web 4.0 and then I type the following HTML markup (I am using HTML 5) <!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en">  <head>    <title>Liverpool Legends</title>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >            <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.8.3.min.js"> </script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.cycle.all.js"></script>              <script type="text/javascript">        $(function() {            $('#main').cycle({ fx: 'fade'});        });    </script>       </head>  <body>    <header>        <h1>Liverpool Legends</h1>    </header>        <div id="main">                   <img src="championsofeurope.jpg" alt="Champions of Europe">                        <img src="steven_gerrard.jpg" alt="Steven Gerrard">                        <img src="ynwa.jpg" alt="You will never walk alone">                       </div>            <footer>        <p>All Rights Reserved</p>      </footer>     </body>  </html> This is a very simple markup. I have added three photos (make sure you use your own when trying this example)I have added references to the JQuery library (current version is 1.8.3) and the JQuery Cycle Plugin. Then I have added 3 images in the main div element.The Javascript code that makes it all happen follows.  <script type="text/javascript">        $(function() {            $('#main').cycle({ fx: 'fade'});        });    </script>  It couldn't be any simpler than that. I view my simple in Internet Explorer 10 and it works as expected. I have this series of images transitioning one after the other using the "fade" effect. I have tested this simple solution in all major browsers and it works fine.We can have a different transition effect by changing the JS code. Have a look at the code below       <script type="text/javascript">        $(function() {            $('#main').cycle({                     fx: 'cover',        speed: 500,        timeout: 2000                        });        });    </script>   We set the speed to 500 milliseconds, that is the speed we want to have for the ‘cover’ transition.The timeout is set to two seconds which is the time the photo will show until the next transition will take place.We can customise this plugin further but this is a short introduction to the plugin.Hope it helps!!!

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• Recursion in the form of a Recursive Func&lt;T, T&gt;

  - by ToStringTheory

  I gotta admit, I am kind of surprised that I didn’t realize I could do this sooner.  I recently had a problem which required a recursive function call to come up with the answer.  After some time messing around with a recursive method, and creating an API that I was not happy with, I was able to create an API that I enjoy, and seems intuitive. Introduction To bring it to a simple example, consider the summation to n: A mathematically identical formula is: In a .NET function, this can be represented by a function: Func<int, int> summation = x => x*(x+1)/2 Calling summation with an input integer will yield the summation to that number: var sum10 = summation(4); //sum10 would be equal to 10 But what if I wanted to get a second level summation…  First some to n, and then use that argument as the input to the same function, to find the second level summation: So as an easy example, calculate the summation to 3, which yields 6.  Then calculate the summation to 6 which yields 21. Represented as a mathematical formula - So what if I wanted to represent this as .NET functions.  I can always do: //using the summation formula from above var sum3 = summation(3); //sets sum3 to 6 var sum3_2 = summation(sum3); //sets sum3 to 21 I could always create a while loop to perform the calculations too: Func<int, int> summation = x => x*(x+1)/2; //for the interests of a smaller example, using shorthand int sumResultTo = 3; int level = 2; while(level-- > 0) { sumResultTo = summation(sumResultTo); } //sumResultTo is equal to 21 now. Or express it as a for-loop, method calls, etc…  I really didn’t like any of the options that I tried.  Then it dawned on me – since I was using a Func<T, T> anyways, why not use the Func’s output from one call as the input as another directly. Some Code So, I decided that I wanted a recursion class.  Something that I would be generic and reusable in case I ever wanted to do something like this again. It is limited to only the Func<T1, T2> level of Func, and T1 must be the same as T2. The first thing in this class is a private field for the function: private readonly Func<T, T> _functionToRecurse; So, I since I want the function to be unchangeable, I have defined it as readonly.  Therefore my constructor looks like: public Recursion(Func<T, T> functionToRecurse) { if (functionToRecurse == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("functionToRecurse", "The function to recurse can not be null"); } _functionToRecurse = functionToRecurse; } Simple enough.  If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments, and I will be sure to answer them. Next, I want enough. If be able to get the result of a function dependent on how many levels of recursion: private Func<T, T> GetXLevel(int level) { if (level < 1) { throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("level", level, "The level of recursion must be greater than 0"); } if (level == 1) return _functionToRecurse; return _GetXLevel(level - 1, _functionToRecurse); } So, if you pass in 1 for the level, you get just the Func<T,T> back.  If you say that you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole, it calls a method which accepts the level it is at, and the function which it needs to use to recurse further: private Func<T, T> _GetXLevel(int level, Func<T, T> prevFunc) { if (level == 1) return y => prevFunc(_functionToRecurse(y)); return _GetXLevel(level - 1, y => prevFunc(_functionToRecurse(y))); } That is really all that is needed for this class. If I exposed the GetXLevel function publicly, I could use that to get the function for a level, and pass in the argument..  But I wanted something better.  So, I used the ‘this’ array operator for the class: public Func<T,T> this[int level] { get { if (level < 1) { throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("level", level, "The level of recursion must be greater than 0"); } return this.GetXLevel(level); } } So, using the same example above of finding the second recursion of the summation of 3: var summator = new Recursion<int>(x => (x * (x + 1)) / 2); var sum_3_level2 = summator[2](3); //yields 21 You can even find just store the delegate to the second level summation, and use it multiple times: var summator = new Recursion<int>(x => (x * (x + 1)) / 2); var sum_level2 = summator[2]; var sum_3_level2 = sum_level2(3); //yields 21 var sum_4_level2 = sum_level2(4); //yields 55 var sum_5_level2 = sum_level2(5); //yields 120 Full Code Don’t think I was just going to hold off on the full file together and make you do the hard work…  Copy this into a new class file: public class Recursion<T> { private readonly Func<T, T> _functionToRecurse; public Recursion(Func<T, T> functionToRecurse) { if (functionToRecurse == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("functionToRecurse", "The function to recurse can not be null"); } _functionToRecurse = functionToRecurse; } public Func<T,T> this[int level] { get { if (level < 1) { throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("level", level, "The level of recursion must be greater than 0"); } return this.GetXLevel(level); } } private Func<T, T> GetXLevel(int level) { if (level < 1) { throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("level", level, "The level of recursion must be greater than 0"); } if (level == 1) return _functionToRecurse; return _GetXLevel(level - 1, _functionToRecurse); } private Func<T, T> _GetXLevel(int level, Func<T, T> prevFunc) { if (level == 1) return y => prevFunc(_functionToRecurse(y)); return _GetXLevel(level - 1, y => prevFunc(_functionToRecurse(y))); } } Conclusion The great thing about this class, is that it can be used with any function with same input/output parameters.  I strived to find an implementation that I found clean and useful, and I finally settled on this.  If you have feedback – good or bad, I would love to hear it!

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• We've completed the first iteration

  - by CliveT

  There are a lot of features in C# that are implemented by the compiler and not by the underlying platform. One such feature is a lambda expression. Since local variables cannot be accessed once the current method activation finishes, the compiler has to go out of its way to generate a new class which acts as a home for any variable whose lifetime needs to be extended past the activation of the procedure. Take the following example:     Random generator = new Random();     Func func = () = generator.Next(10); In this case, the compiler generates a new class called c_DisplayClass1 which is marked with the CompilerGenerated attribute. [CompilerGenerated] private sealed class c__DisplayClass1 {     // Fields     public Random generator;     // Methods     public int b__0()     {         return this.generator.Next(10);     } } Two quick comments on this: (i)    A display was the means that compilers for languages like Algol recorded the various lexical contours of the nested procedure activations on the stack. I imagine that this is what has led to the name. (ii)    It is a shame that the same attribute is used to mark all compiler generated classes as it makes it hard to figure out what they are being used for. Indeed, you could imagine optimisations that the runtime could perform if it knew that classes corresponded to certain high level concepts. We can see that the local variable generator has been turned into a field in the class, and the body of the lambda expression has been turned into a method of the new class. The code that builds the Func object simply constructs an instance of this class and initialises the fields to their initial values.     c__DisplayClass1 class2 = new c__DisplayClass1();     class2.generator = new Random();     Func func = new Func(class2.b__0); Reflector already contains code to spot this pattern of code and reproduce the form containing the lambda expression, so this is example is correctly decompiled. The use of compiler generated code is even more spectacular in the case of iterators. C# introduced the idea of a method that could automatically store its state between calls, so that it can pick up where it left off. The code can express the logical flow with yield return and yield break denoting places where the method should return a particular value and be prepared to resume.         {             yield return 1;             yield return 2;             yield return 3;         } Of course, there was already a .NET pattern for expressing the idea of returning a sequence of values with the computation proceeding lazily (in the sense that the work for the next value is executed on demand). This is expressed by the IEnumerable interface with its Current property for fetching the current value and the MoveNext method for forcing the computation of the next value. The sequence is terminated when this method returns false. The C# compiler links these two ideas together so that an IEnumerator returning method using the yield keyword causes the compiler to produce the implementation of an Iterator. Take the following piece of code.         IEnumerable GetItems()         {             yield return 1;             yield return 2;             yield return 3;         } The compiler implements this by defining a new class that implements a state machine. This has an integer state that records which yield point we should go to if we are resumed. It also has a field that records the Current value of the enumerator and a field for recording the thread. This latter value is used for optimising the creation of iterator instances. [CompilerGenerated] private sealed class d__0 : IEnumerable, IEnumerable, IEnumerator, IEnumerator, IDisposable {     // Fields     private int 1__state;     private int 2__current;     public Program 4__this;     private int l__initialThreadId; The body gets converted into the code to construct and initialize this new class. private IEnumerable GetItems() {     d__0 d__ = new d__0(-2);     d__.4__this = this;     return d__; } When the class is constructed we set the state, which was passed through as -2 and the current thread. public d__0(int 1__state) {     this.1__state = 1__state;     this.l__initialThreadId = Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId; } The state needs to be set to 0 to represent a valid enumerator and this is done in the GetEnumerator method which optimises for the usual case where the returned enumerator is only used once. IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() {     if ((Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId == this.l__initialThreadId)               && (this.1__state == -2))     {         this.1__state = 0;         return this;     } The state machine itself is implemented inside the MoveNext method. private bool MoveNext() {     switch (this.1__state)     {         case 0:             this.1__state = -1;             this.2__current = 1;             this.1__state = 1;             return true;         case 1:             this.1__state = -1;             this.2__current = 2;             this.1__state = 2;             return true;         case 2:             this.1__state = -1;             this.2__current = 3;             this.1__state = 3;             return true;         case 3:             this.1__state = -1;             break;     }     return false; } At each stage, the current value of the state is used to determine how far we got, and then we generate the next value which we return after recording the next state. Finally we return false from the MoveNext to signify the end of the sequence. Of course, that example was really simple. The original method body didn't have any local variables. Any local variables need to live between the calls to MoveNext and so they need to be transformed into fields in much the same way that we did in the case of the lambda expression. More complicated MoveNext methods are required to deal with resources that need to be disposed when the iterator finishes, and sometimes the compiler uses a temporary variable to hold the return value. Why all of this explanation? We've implemented the de-compilation of iterators in the current EAP version of Reflector (7). This contrasts with previous version where all you could do was look at the MoveNext method and try to figure out the control flow. There's a fair amount of things we have to do. We have to spot the use of a CompilerGenerated class which implements the Enumerator pattern. We need to go to the class and figure out the fields corresponding to the local variables. We then need to go to the MoveNext method and try to break it into the various possible states and spot the state transitions. We can then take these pieces and put them back together into an object model that uses yield return to show the transition points. After that Reflector can carry on optimising using its usual optimisations. The pattern matching is currently a little too sensitive to changes in the code generation, and we only do a limited analysis of the MoveNext method to determine use of the compiler generated fields. In some ways, it is a pity that iterators are compiled away and there is no metadata that reflects the original intent. Without it, we are always going to dependent on our knowledge of the compiler's implementation. For example, we have noticed that the Async CTP changes the way that iterators are code generated, so we'll have to do some more work to support that. However, with that warning in place, we seem to do a reasonable job of decompiling the iterators that are built into the framework. Hopefully, the EAP will give us a chance to find examples where we don't spot the pattern correctly or regenerate the wrong code, and we can improve things. Please give it a go, and report any problems.

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• FOUR questions to ask if you are implementing DATABASE-AS-A-SERVICE

  - by Sudip Datta

  During my ongoing tenure at Oracle, I have met all types of DBAs. Happy DBAs, unhappy DBAs, proud DBAs, risk-loving DBAs, cautious DBAs. These days, as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) becomes more mainstream, I find some complacent DBAs who are basking in their achievement of having implemented DBaaS. Some others, however, are not that happy. They grudgingly complain that they did not have much of a say in the implementation, they simply had to follow what their cloud architects (mostly infrastructure admins) offered them. In most cases it would be a database wrapped inside a VM that would be labeled as “Database as a Service”. In other cases, it would be existing brute-force automation simply exposed in a portal. As much as I think that there is more to DBaaS than those approaches and often get tempted to propose Enterprise Manager 12c, I try to be objective. Neither do I want to dampen the spirit of the happy ones, nor do I want to stoke the pain of the unhappy ones. As I mentioned in my previous post, I don’t deny vanilla automation could be useful. I like virtualization too for what it has helped us accomplish in terms of resource management, but we need to scrutinize its merit on a case-by-case basis and apply it meaningfully. For DBAs who either claim to have implemented DBaaS or are planning to do so, I simply want to provide four key questions to ponder about: 1. Does it make life easier for your end users? Database-as-a-Service can have several types of end users. Junior DBAs, QA Engineers, Developers- each having their own skillset. The objective of DBaaS is to make their life simple, so that they can focus on their core responsibilities without having to worry about additional stuff. For example, if you are a Developer using Oracle Application Express (APEX), you want to deal with schema, objects and PL/SQL code and not with datafiles or listener configuration. If you are a QA Engineer needing database copies for functional testing, you do not want to deal with underlying operating system patching and compliance issues. The question to ask, therefore, is, whether DBaaS makes life easier for those users. It is often convenient to give them VM shells to deal with a la Amazon EC2 IaaS, but is that what they really want? Is it a productive use of a developer's time if he needs to apply RPM errata to his Linux operating system. Asking him to keep the underlying operating system current is like making a guest responsible for a restaurant's decor. 2. Does it make life easier for your administrators? Cloud, in general, is supposed to free administrators from attending to mundane tasks like provisioning services for every single end user request. It is supposed to enable a readily consumable platform and enforce standardization in the process. For example, if a Service Catalog exposes DBaaS of specific database versions and configurations, it, by its very nature, enforces certain discipline and standardization within the IT environment. What if, instead of specific database configurations, cloud allowed each end user to create databases of their liking resulting in hundreds of version and patch levels and thousands of individual databases. Therefore the right question to ask is whether the unwanted consequence of DBaaS is OS and database sprawl. And if so, who is responsible for tracking them, backing them up, administering them? Studies have shown that these administrative overheads increase exponentially with new targets, and it could result in a management nightmare. That leads us to our next question. 3. Does it satisfy your Security Officers and Compliance Auditors? Compliance Auditors need to know who did what and when. They also want the cloud platform to be secure, so that end users have little freedom in tampering with it. Dealing with VM sprawl is not the easiest of challenges, let alone dealing with them as they keep getting reconfigured and moved around. This leads to the proverbial needle in the haystack problem, and all it needs is one needle to cause a serious compliance issue in the enterprise. Bottomline is, flexibility and agility should not come at the expense of compliance and it is very important to get the balance right. Can we have security and isolation without creating compliance challenges? Instead of a ‘one size fits all approach’ i.e. OS level isolation, can we think smartly about database isolation or schema based isolation? This is where the appropriate resource modeling needs to be applied. The usual systems management vendors out there with heterogeneous common-denominator approach have compromised on these semantics. If you follow Enterprise Manager’s DBaaS solution, you will see that we have considered different models, not precluding virtualization, for different customer use cases. The judgment to use virtual assemblies versus databases on physical RAC versus Schema-as-a-Service in a single database, should be governed by the need of the applications and not by putting compliance considerations in the backburner. 4. Does it satisfy your CIO? Finally, does it satisfy your higher ups? As the sponsor of cloud initiative, the CIO is expected to lead an IT transformation project, not merely a run-of-the-mill IT operations. Simply virtualizing server resources and delivering them through self-service is a good start, but hardly transformational. CIOs may appreciate the instant benefit from server consolidation, but studies have revealed that the ROI from consolidation would flatten out at 20-25%. The question would be: what next? As we go higher up in the stack, the need to virtualize, segregate and optimize shifts to those layers that are more palpable to the business users. As Sushil Kumar noted in his blog post, " the most important thing to note here is the enterprise private cloud is not just an IT project, rather it is a business initiative to create an IT setup that is more aligned with the needs of today's dynamic and highly competitive business environment." Business users could not care less about infrastructure consolidation or virtualization - they care about business agility and service level assurance. Last but not the least, lot of CIOs get miffed if we ask them to throw away their existing hardware investments for implementing DBaaS. In Oracle, we always emphasize on freedom of choosing a platform; hence Enterprise Manager’s DBaaS solution is platform neutral. It can work on any Operating System (that the agent is certified on) Oracle’s hardware as well as 3rd party hardware. As a parting note, I urge you to remember these 4 questions. Remember that your satisfaction as an implementer lies in the satisfaction of others.

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• where is this function getting its values from

  - by user295189

  I have the JS file below that I am working on and I have a need to know this specific function pg.getRecord_Response = function(){ } within the file. I need to know where are the values are coming from in this function for example arguments[0].responseText? I am new to javascript so any help will be much appreciated. Thanks var pg = new Object(); var da = document.body.all; // ===== - EXPRESS BUILD [REQUEST] - ===== // pg.expressBuild_Request = function(){ var n = new Object(); n.patientID = request.patientID; n.encounterID = request.encounterID; n.flowSheetID = request.flowSheetID; n.encounterPlan = request.encounterPlan; n.action = "/location/diagnosis/dsp_expressBuild.php"; n.target = popWinCenterScreen("/common/html/empty.htm", 619, 757, ""); myLocationDB.PostRequest(n); } // ===== - EXPRESS BUILD [RESPONSE] - ===== // pg.expressBuild_Response = function(){ pg.records.showHiddenRecords = 0; pg.loadRecords_Request(arguments.length ? arguments[0] : 0); } // ===== - GET RECORD [REQUEST] - ===== // pg.getRecord_Request = function(){ if(pg.records.lastSelected){ pg.workin(true); pg.record.recordID = pg.records.lastSelected.i; var n = new Object(); n.noheaders = 1; n.recordID = pg.record.recordID; myLocationDB.Ajax.Post("/location/diagnosis/get_record.php", n, pg.getRecord_Response); } else { pg.buttons.btnOpen.disable(true); } } // ===== - GET RECORD [RESPONSE] - ===== // pg.getRecord_Response = function(){ //alert(arguments[0].responseText); if(arguments.length && arguments[0].responseText){ alert(arguments[0].responseText); // Refresh PQRI grid when encounter context if(request.encounterID && window.parent.frames['main']){ window.parent.frames['main'].pg.loadQualityMeasureRequest(); } var rec = arguments[0].responseText.split(pg.delim + pg.delim); if(rec.length == 20){ // validate record values rec[0] = parseInt(rec[0]); rec[3] = parseInt(rec[3]); rec[5] = parseInt(rec[5]); rec[6] = parseInt(rec[6]); rec[7] = parseInt(rec[7]); rec[8] = parseInt(rec[8]); rec[9] = parseInt(rec[9]); rec[10] = parseInt(rec[10]); rec[11] = parseInt(rec[11]); rec[12] = parseInt(rec[12]); rec[15] = parseInt(rec[15]); // set record state pg.recordState = { recordID: pg.record.recordID, codeID: rec[0], description: rec[2], assessmentTypeID: rec[3], type: rec[4], onsetDateYear: rec[5], onsetDateMonth: rec[6], onsetDateDay: rec[7], onsetDateIsApproximate: rec[8], resolveDateYear: rec[9], resolveDateMonth: rec[10], resolveDateDay: rec[11], resolveDateIsApproximate: rec[12], commentsCount: rec[15], comments: rec[16] } // set record view pg.record.code.codeID = pg.recordState.codeID; pg.record.code.value = rec[1]; pg.record.description.value = rec[2]; for(var i=0; i<pg.record.type.options.length; i++){ if(pg.record.type.options[i].value == rec[4]){ pg.record.type.selectedIndex = i; break; } } for(var i=0; i<pg.record.assessmentType.options.length; i++){ if(pg.record.assessmentType.options[i].value == rec[3]){ pg.record.assessmentType.selectedIndex = i; break; } } if(rec[5]){ if(rec[6] && rec[7]){ pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.onsetDate.value = rec[6] + "/" + rec[7] + "/" + rec[5]; pg.record.onsetDate.format(); } else { pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 1; pg.record.onsetDateMonth.selectedIndex = rec[6]; for(var i=0; i<pg.record.onsetDateYear.options.length; i++){ if(pg.record.onsetDateYear.options[i].value == rec[5]){ pg.record.onsetDateYear.selectedIndex = i; break; } } if(rec[8]) pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.checked = true; } } else { pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 2; } if(rec[9]){ if(rec[10] && rec[11]){ pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.resolveDate.value = rec[10] + "/" + rec[11] + "/" + rec[9]; pg.record.resolveDate.format(); } else { pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 1; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.selectedIndex = rec[10]; for(var i=0; i<pg.record.resolveDateYear.options[i].length; i++){ if(pg.record.resolveDateYear.options.value == rec[9]){ pg.record.resolveDateYear.selectedIndex = i; break; } } if(rec[12]) pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.checked = true; } } else { pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 2; } pg.record.lblCommentCount.innerHTML = rec[15]; pg.record.comments.value = rec[16]; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.innerHTML = "* Last updated by " + rec[13] + " on " + rec[14]; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.title = "Updated by: " + rec[13] + "\nUpdated on: " + rec[14]; pg.record.linkedNotes.setData(rec[18]); pg.record.linkedOrders.setData(rec[19]); pg.record.updates.setData(rec[17]); return; } } alert("An error occured while attempting to retrieve\ndetails for record #" + pg.record.recordID + ".\n\nPlease contact support if this problem persists.\nWe apologize for the inconvenience."); pg.hideRecordView(); } // ===== - HIDE COMMENTS VIEW - ===== // pg.hideCommentsView = function(){ pg.recordComments.style.left = ""; pg.recordComments.disabled = true; pg.recordComments.comments.value = ""; pg.record.disabled = false; pg.record.style.zIndex = 5500; } // ===== - HIDE code SEARCH - ===== // pg.hidecodeSearch = function(){ pg.codeSearch.style.left = ""; pg.codeSearch.disabled = true; pg.record.disabled = false; pg.record.style.zIndex = 5500; } // ===== - HIDE RECORD - ===== // pg.hideRecord = function(){ if(arguments.length){ pg.loadRecords_Request(); } else if(pg.records.lastSelected){ var n = new Object(); n.recordTypeID = 11; n.patientID = request.patientID; n.recordID = pg.records.lastSelected.i; n.action = "/location/hideRecord/dsp_hideRecord.php"; n.target = popWinCenterScreen("/common/html/empty.htm", 164, 476); myLocationDB.PostRequest(n); } } // ===== - HIDE RECORD VIEW - ===== // pg.hideRecordView = function(){ pg.record.style.left = ""; pg.record.disabled = true; // reset record grids pg.record.updates.state = "NO_RECORDS"; pg.record.linkedNotes.state = "NO_RECORDS"; pg.record.linkedOrders.state = "NO_RECORDS"; // reset linked record tabs pg.record.tabs[0].click(); pg.record.tabs[1].disable(true); pg.record.tabs[2].disable(true); pg.record.tabs[1].all[1].innerHTML = "Notes"; pg.record.tabs[2].all[1].innerHTML = "Orders"; // reset record state pg.recordState = null; // reset record view pg.record.recordID = 0; pg.record.code.value = ""; pg.record.code.codeID = 0; pg.record.description.value = ""; pg.record.type.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.assessmentType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.onsetDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.checked = false; pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 0; pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.checked = false; pg.record.lblCommentCount.innerHTML = 0; pg.record.comments.value = ""; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.innerHTML = ""; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.title = ""; pg.record.updateComment = ""; pg.recordComments.comments.value = ""; pg.record.active = false; pg.codeSearch.newRecord = true; pg.blocker.className = ""; pg.workin(false); } // ===== - HIDE UPDATE VIEW - ===== // pg.hideUpdateView = function(){ pg.recordUpdate.style.left = ""; pg.recordUpdate.disabled = true; pg.recordUpdate.type.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.onsetDate.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.description.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.resolveDate.value = ""; pg.recordUpdate.assessmentType.value = ""; pg.record.disabled = false; pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setState(); pg.record.style.zIndex = 5500; } // ===== - INIT - ===== // pg.init = function(){ var tab = 1; pg.delim = String.fromCharCode(127); pg.subDelim = String.fromCharCode(1); pg.blocker = da.blocker; pg.hourglass = da.hourglass; pg.pageContent = da.pageContent; pg.blocker.shim = da.blocker_shim; pg.activeTip = da.activeTip; pg.activeTip.anchor = null; pg.activeTip.shim = da.activeTip_shim; // PAGE TITLE pg.pageTitle = da.pageTitle; // TOTAL RECORDS pg.totalRecords = da.totalRecords[0]; // START RECORD pg.startRecord = da.startRecord[0]; pg.startRecord.onchange = function(){ pg.records.startRecord = this.value; pg.loadRecords_Request(); } // RECORD PANEL pg.recordPanel = myLocationDB.RecordPanel(pg.pageContent.all.recordPanel); for(var i=0; i<pg.recordPanel.buttons.length; i++){ if(pg.recordPanel.buttons[i].orderBy){ pg.recordPanel.buttons[i].onclick = pg.sortRecords; } } // RECORDS GRIDVIEW pg.records = pg.recordPanel.all.grid; alert(pg.recordPanel.all.grid); pg.records.sortOrder = "DESC"; pg.records.lastExpanded = null; pg.records.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.record_click); pg.records.orderBy = pg.recordPanel.buttons[0].orderBy; pg.records.attachEvent("onrowmouseout", pg.record_mouseOut); pg.records.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.getRecord_Request); pg.records.attachEvent("onrowmouseover", pg.record_mouseOver); pg.records.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.loadRecords_Response); // BUTTON - TOGGLE HIDDEN RECORDS pg.btnHiddenRecords = myLocationDB.Custom.ImageButton(3, 751, 19, 19, "/common/images/hide.gif", 1, 1, "", "", da.pageContent); pg.btnHiddenRecords.setTitle("Show hidden records"); pg.btnHiddenRecords.onclick = pg.toggleHiddenRecords; pg.btnHiddenRecords.setState = function(){ this.disable(!pg.records.totalHiddenRecords); } // code SEARCH SUBWIN pg.codeSearch = da.subWin_codeSearch; pg.codeSearch.newRecord = true; pg.codeSearch.searchType = "code"; pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites = true; pg.codeSearch.onkeydown = function(){ if(window.event && window.event.keyCode && window.event.keyCode == 113){ if(pg.codeSearch.searchType == "DESCRIPTION"){ pg.codeSearch.searchType = "code"; pg.codeSearch.lblSearchType.innerHTML = "ICD-9 Code"; } else { pg.codeSearch.searchType = "DESCRIPTION"; pg.codeSearch.lblSearchType.innerHTML = "Description"; } pg.searchcodes_Request(); } } // SEARCH TYPE pg.codeSearch.lblSearchType = pg.codeSearch.all.lblSearchType; // SEARCH STRING pg.codeSearch.searchString = pg.codeSearch.all.searchString; pg.codeSearch.searchString.tabIndex = 1; pg.codeSearch.searchString.onfocus = function(){ this.select(); } pg.codeSearch.searchString.onblur = function(){ this.value = this.value.trim(); } pg.codeSearch.searchString.onkeydown = function(){ if(window.event && window.event.keyCode && window.event.keyCode == 13){ pg.searchcodes_Request(); } } // -- "SEARCH" pg.codeSearch.btnSearch = pg.codeSearch.all.btnSearch; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.tabIndex = 2; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.disable = myLocationDB.Disable; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.onclick = pg.searchcodes_Request; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.baseTitle = "Search diagnosis codes"; pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.setState = function(){ pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.disable(pg.codeSearch.searchString.value.trim().length < 2); } pg.codeSearch.searchString.onkeyup = pg.codeSearch.btnSearch.setState; // START RECORD / TOTAL RECORDS pg.codeSearch.startRecord = pg.codeSearch.all.startRecord; pg.codeSearch.totalRecords = pg.codeSearch.all.totalRecords; pg.codeSearch.startRecord.onchange = function(){ pg.codeSearch.records.startRecord = this.value; pg.searchcodes_Request(); } // RECORD PANEL pg.codeSearch.recordPanel = myLocationDB.RecordPanel(pg.codeSearch.all.recordPanel); pg.codeSearch.recordPanel.buttons[0].onclick = pg.sortcodeResults; pg.codeSearch.recordPanel.buttons[1].onclick = pg.sortcodeResults; // DATA GRIDVIEW pg.codeSearch.records = pg.codeSearch.all.grid; pg.codeSearch.records.orderBy = "code"; pg.codeSearch.records.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.updatecode); pg.codeSearch.records.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.searchcodes_Response); // BUTTON - "CANCEL" pg.codeSearch.btnCancel = pg.codeSearch.all.btnCancel; pg.codeSearch.btnCancel.tabIndex = 4; pg.codeSearch.btnCancel.onclick = pg.hidecodeSearch; pg.codeSearch.btnCancel.title = "Close this search area"; // SEARCH FAVORITES / ALL pg.codeSearch.optSearch = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.codeSearch.all.optSearch); pg.codeSearch.optSearch[0].onclick = function(){ if(pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites){ pg.codeSearch.searchString.focus(); } else { pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites = true; pg.searchcodes_Request(); } } pg.codeSearch.optSearch[1].onclick = function(){ if(pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites){ pg.codeSearch.searchFavorites = false; pg.searchcodes_Request(); } else { pg.codeSearch.searchString.focus(); } } // -- "USE SELECTED" pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected = pg.codeSearch.all.btnUseSelected; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.tabIndex = 3; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.onclick = pg.updatecode; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.disable = myLocationDB.Disable; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.baseTitle = "Use the selected diagnosis code"; pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.setState = function(){ pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.disable(!pg.codeSearch.records.lastSelected); } pg.codeSearch.records.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.codeSearch.btnUseSelected.setState); // RECORD STATE pg.recordState = null; // RECORD SUBWIN pg.record = da.subWin_record; pg.record.recordID = 0; pg.record.active = false; pg.record.updateComment = ""; // -- TABS pg.record.tabs = myLocationDB.TabCollection( pg.record.all.tab, function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[0].all[0].checked){ pg.record.btnOpen.style.display = "none"; pg.record.chkSelectAll.hitArea.style.display = "none"; pg.record.btnSave.style.display = "block"; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.style.display = "block"; pg.record.pnlRecord_shim.style.display = "none"; } else { pg.record.pnlRecord_shim.style.display = "block"; pg.record.btnSave.style.display = "none"; pg.record.lblUpdatedBy.style.display = "none"; pg.record.btnOpen.setState(); pg.record.btnOpen.style.display = "block"; if(pg.record.tabs[2].all[0].checked){ pg.record.chkSelectAll.hitArea.style.display = "none"; //pg.record.btnViewLabs.setState(); //pg.record.btnViewLabs.style.display = "block"; } else { pg.record.chkSelectAll.setState(); pg.record.chkSelectAll.hitArea.style.display = "block"; //pg.record.btnViewLabs.style.display = "none"; } } } ); pg.record.tabs[1].disable(true); pg.record.tabs[2].disable(true); pg.record.pnlRecord_shim = pg.record.all.pnlRecord_shim; pg.record.code = pg.record.all.code; pg.record.code.codeID = 0; pg.record.code.tabIndex = -1; // -- CHANGE code pg.record.btnChangecode = myLocationDB.Custom.ImageButton(6, 107, 22, 22, "/common/images/edit.gif", 2, 2, "", "", pg.record.all.pnlRecord); pg.record.btnChangecode.tabIndex = 1; pg.record.btnChangecode.onclick = pg.showcodeSearch; pg.record.btnChangecode.title = "Change the diagnosis code for this problem"; pg.record.description = pg.record.all.description; pg.record.description.tabIndex = 2; pg.record.type = pg.record.all.type; pg.record.type.tabIndex = 3; pg.record.assessmentType = pg.record.all.assessmentType; pg.record.assessmentType.tabIndex = 9; // ONSET DATE pg.record.onsetDateType = pg.record.all.onsetDateType; pg.record.onsetDateType.tabIndex = 4; pg.record.onsetDateType.onchange = pg.record.onsetDateType.setState = function(){ switch(this.selectedIndex){ case 1: // PARTIAL pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(false); pg.record.onsetDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateMonth.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.onsetDateYear.style.visibility = "visible"; break; case 2: // UNKNOWN pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.onsetDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.style.visibility = "visible"; break; default: // "WHOLE" pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.onsetDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.onsetDate.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "visible"; break; } } pg.record.onsetDate = myLocationDB.Custom.DateInput(30, 364, 80, pg.record.all.pnlRecord, 1, 1, 0, params.todayDate, 1); pg.record.onsetDate.tabIndex = 5; pg.record.onsetDate.style.textAlign = "LEFT"; pg.record.onsetDate.calendar.style.zIndex = 6000; pg.record.onsetDate.datePicker.style.left = "448px"; pg.record.onsetDate.setDateRange(params.birthDate, params.todayDate); pg.record.onsetDateYear = pg.record.all.onsetDateYear; pg.record.onsetDateYear.tabIndex = 6; pg.record.onsetDateMonth = pg.record.all.onsetDateMonth pg.record.onsetDateMonth.tabIndex = 7; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown = pg.record.all.onsetDateUnknown; pg.record.onsetDateUnknown.tabIndex = 8; pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.record.all.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate); pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.setTitle("Onset date is approximate"); pg.record.chkOnsetDateIsApproximate.disable(true); // RESOLVE DATE pg.record.lblResolveDate = pg.record.all.lblResolveDate; pg.record.resolveDateType = pg.record.all.resolveDateType; pg.record.resolveDateType.tabIndex = 10; pg.record.resolveDateType.lastSelectedIndex = 0; pg.record.resolveDateType.setState = function(){ switch(this.selectedIndex){ case 1: // PARTIAL pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(false); pg.record.resolveDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.resolveDateYear.style.visibility = "visible"; break; case 2: // UNKNOWN pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.resolveDate.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.style.visibility = "visible"; break; default: // "WHOLE" pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.resolveDateMonth.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateYear.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.style.visibility = "hidden"; pg.record.resolveDate.style.visibility = "visible"; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.visibility = "visible"; break; } } pg.record.resolveDateType.onchange = function(){ this.lastSelectedIndex = this.selectedIndex; this.setState(); } pg.record.resolveDate = myLocationDB.Custom.DateInput(55, 364, 80, pg.record.all.pnlRecord, 1, 1, 0, params.todayDate, 1); pg.record.resolveDate.tabIndex = 11; pg.record.resolveDate.style.textAlign = "LEFT"; pg.record.resolveDate.calendar.style.zIndex = 6000; pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.style.left = "448px"; pg.record.resolveDate.setDateRange(params.birthDate, params.todayDate); pg.record.resolveDate.setState = function(){ if(pg.record.assessmentType.value == 15){ pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(pg.record.resolveDateType.value != "PARTIAL"); pg.record.resolveDate.disabled = false; pg.record.lblResolveDate.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = pg.record.resolveDateType.lastSelectedIndex; pg.record.resolveDateType.setState(); pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.disable(false); pg.record.resolveDateType.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateYear.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.disabled = false; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.disabled = false; } else { pg.record.resolveDate.datePicker.disable(true); pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); pg.record.resolveDateType.selectedIndex = 2; pg.record.resolveDateType.setState(); pg.record.resolveDate.disabled = true; pg.record.lblResolveDate.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateType.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateYear.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateMonth.disabled = true; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.disabled = true; } } pg.record.assessmentType.onchange = pg.record.resolveDate.setState; pg.record.resolveDateYear = pg.record.all.resolveDateYear; pg.record.resolveDateYear.tabIndex = 11; pg.record.resolveDateMonth = pg.record.all.resolveDateMonth pg.record.resolveDateMonth.tabIndex = 12; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown = pg.record.all.resolveDateUnknown; pg.record.resolveDateUnknown.tabIndex = 13; pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.record.all.chkResolveDateIsApproximate); pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.setTitle("Resolve date is approximate"); pg.record.chkResolveDateIsApproximate.disable(true); // -- UPDATES pg.record.updates = pg.record.all.pnlUpdates.all.grid; pg.record.lblUpdateCount = pg.record.all.lblUpdateCount; pg.record.updates.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.showRecordView); pg.record.updates.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.showUpdateView); // -- "VIEW SELECTED" pg.record.btnViewUpdate = myLocationDB.PanelButton(pg.record.all.btnViewUpdate); pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setTitle("View details for the selected problem update"); pg.record.btnViewUpdate.onclick = pg.showUpdateView; pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setState = function(){ pg.record.btnViewUpdate.disable(!pg.record.updates.lastSelected); } pg.record.updates.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.record.btnViewUpdate.setState); // -- COMMENTS pg.record.comments = pg.record.all.comments; pg.record.pnlComments = pg.record.all.pnlComments; pg.record.lblCommentCount = pg.record.all.lblCommentCount; // -- UPDATE COMMENTS pg.record.btnUpdateComments = myLocationDB.PanelButton(pg.record.all.btnUpdateComments); pg.record.btnUpdateComments.onclick = pg.showCommentView; pg.record.btnUpdateComments.title = "Update this record's comments"; // -- LINKED NOTES pg.record.linkedNotes = pg.record.all.linkedNotes.all.grid; pg.record.linkedNotes.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.linkedRecordClick); pg.record.linkedNotes.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.openLinkedNote); pg.record.linkedNotes.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.setLinkedNotes_Count); // -- LINKED ORDERS pg.record.linkedOrders = pg.record.all.linkedOrders.all.grid; pg.record.linkedOrders.attachEvent("onrowclick", pg.linkedRecordClick); pg.record.linkedOrders.attachEvent("onrowdblclick", pg.openLinkedOrder); pg.record.linkedOrders.attachEvent("onstateready", pg.setLinkedOrders_Count); // -- "CLOSE" pg.record.btnClose = pg.record.all.btnClose; pg.record.btnClose.tabIndex = 15; pg.record.btnClose.onclick = pg.hideRecordView; pg.record.btnClose.title = "Close this record panel"; // -- LAST UPDATED BY pg.record.lblUpdatedBy = pg.record.all.lblUpdatedBy; // -- "SELECT ALL" pg.record.chkSelectAll = myLocationDB.InputButton(pg.record.all.chkSelectAll); pg.record.chkSelectAll.onclick = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ if(pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked){ pg.record.linkedNotes.selectAll(); } else { pg.record.linkedNotes.deselectAll(); } } else { if(pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked){ pg.record.linkedOrders.selectAll(); } else { pg.record.linkedOrders.deselectAll(); } } pg.record.btnOpen.setState(); //pg.record.btnViewLabs.setState(); } pg.record.chkSelectAll.setState = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked = pg.record.linkedNotes.selectedRows.length == pg.record.linkedNotes.rows.length; } else { pg.record.chkSelectAll.checked = pg.record.linkedOrders.selectedRows.length == pg.record.linkedOrders.rows.length; } } // -- "OPEN SELECTED" pg.record.btnOpen = pg.record.all.btnOpenSelected; pg.record.btnOpen.tabIndex = 14; pg.record.btnOpen.disable = myLocationDB.Disable; pg.record.btnOpen.title = "Open the selected record"; pg.record.btnOpen.onclick = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ pg.openLinkedNote(); } else if(pg.record.tabs[2].all[0].checked){ pg.openLinkedOrder(); } else { pg.record.btnOpen.disable(true); } } pg.record.btnOpen.setState = function(){ if(pg.record.tabs[1].all[0].checked){ pg.record.btnOpen.disable(!pg.record.linkedNotes.lastSelected); } else if(pg.record.tabs[2].all[0].checked){ pg.record.btnOpen.disable(pg.record.linkedOrders.selectedRows.length != 1); } else { pg.record.btnOpen.disable(true); } } // -- "SAVE" pg.record.btnSave = pg.record.all.btnSave; pg.record.btnSave.tabIndex = 14; pg.record.btnSave.onclick = pg.updateRecord_Request; pg.record.btnSave.title = "Save changes to this record"; // RECORD UPDATE SUBWIN pg.recordUpdate = da.subWin_update; pg.recordUpdate.lblUpdatedBy = pg.recordUpdate.all.lblUpdatedBy; pg.recordUpdate.lblUpdateDTS = pg.recordUpdate.all.lblUpdateDTS; pg.recordUpdate.type = pg.recordUpdate.all.type; pg.recordUpdate.onsetDate = pg.recordUpdate.all.onsetDate; pg.recordUpdate.description = pg.recordUpdate.all.description; pg.recordUpdate.resolveDate = pg.recordUpdate.all.resolveDate; pg.recordUpdate.assessmentType = pg.recordUpdate.all.assessmentType; // -- "CLOSE" pg.recordUpdate.btnClose = pg.recordUpdate.all.btnClose; pg.recordUpdate.btnClose.tabIndex = 1; pg.recordUpdate.btnClose.onclick = pg.hideUpdateView; pg.recordUpdate.btnClose.title = "Close this sub-window"; // COMMENTS SUBWIN pg.recordComments = da.subWin_comments; pg.recordComments.comments = pg.recordComments.all.updateComments; pg.recordComments.comment

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• Can't connect to STunnel when it's running as a service

  - by John Francis

  I've got STunnel configured to proxy non SSL POP3 requests to GMail on port 111. This is working fine when STunnel is running as a desktop app, but when I run the STunnel service, I can't connect to port 111 on the machine (using Outlook Express for example). The Stunnel log file shows the port binding is succeeding, but it never sees a connection. There's something preventing the connection to that port when STunnel is running as a service? Here's stunnel.conf cert = stunnel.pem ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode client = yes ; Service-level configuration [gmail] accept = 127.0.0.1:111 connect = pop.gmail.com:995 stunnel.log from service 2010.10.07 12:14:22 LOG5[80444:72984]: Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf 2010.10.07 12:14:22 LOG7[80444:72984]: Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: PRNG seeded successfully 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Certificate: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Certificate loaded 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Key file: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Private key loaded 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: SSL context initialized for service gmail 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: Configuration successful 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: FD=156 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Option SO_REUSEADDR set on accept socket 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Service gmail bound to 0.0.0.0:111 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Service gmail opened FD=156 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: stunnel 4.34 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 stunnel.log from desktop (working) process 2010.10.07 12:10:31 LOG5[80824:81200]: Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf 2010.10.07 12:10:31 LOG7[80824:81200]: Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: PRNG seeded successfully 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Certificate: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Certificate loaded 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Key file: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Private key loaded 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: SSL context initialized for service gmail 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG5[80824:81200]: Configuration successful 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG5[80824:81200]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: FD=156 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Option SO_REUSEADDR set on accept socket 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Service gmail bound to 0.0.0.0:111 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Service gmail opened FD=156 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:81200]: stunnel 4.34 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:81200]: Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:81844]: Service gmail accepted FD=188 from 127.0.0.1:24813 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:81844]: Creating a new thread 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:81844]: New thread created 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Service gmail started 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: FD=188 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on local socket 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:25144]: Service gmail accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:24813 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: FD=212 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG6[80824:25144]: connect_blocking: connecting 209.85.227.109:995 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: connect_blocking: s_poll_wait 209.85.227.109:995: waiting 10 seconds 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:25144]: connect_blocking: connected 209.85.227.109:995 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:25144]: Service gmail connected remote server from 192.168.1.9:24814 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Remote FD=212 initialized 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on remote socket 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server done A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client key exchange A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 1 items in the session cache 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 1 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 1 client connects that finished 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 client renegotiations requested 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 server connects that finished 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 server renegotiations requested 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 session cache hits 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 external session cache hits 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 session cache misses 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 session cache timeouts 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG6[80824:25144]: SSL connected: new session negotiated 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG6[80824:25144]: Negotiated ciphers: RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL socket closed on SSL_read 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG7[80824:25144]: Sending socket write shutdown 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG5[80824:25144]: Connection closed: 53 bytes sent to SSL, 118 bytes sent to socket 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG7[80824:25144]: Service gmail finished (0 left)

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• How does one get rid of fishy behavior in Windows?

  - by Tom Wijsman

  After I had boot my computer this morning there suddenly flooded water from the top of the screen, after which some fishes dropped into it. Now I can barely see what I am doing because the water distorts the view. Sometimes the fish follow the cursor so I need to move it away or wait for the fish to mind their own business. This makes it very annoying to use my system. What have I tried? Reboot the system. This caused the water to deplete from the desktop. Upon reboot, the screen was refilled with water and fishes. Attach another monitor. Same problem, fills that monitor as well and gives me extra fish. Clicking the fish. Makes them turn direction. Right clicking the fish. Changes color of the fish, not really useful. I'm locked out of changing the background or screen saver settings. Hence, I had to post the lady below... Safe mode doesn't save me from the fishes. It does give me another background there, but I can't screenshot easily. Other user accounts experience this as well. The Guest account seems to experience more fish than the other accounts. Using HijackThis, OTL Timekeeper List, Syninternal Autoruns, RootKitRevealer, ShellExView and similar tools I can't seem to find any entries that could be it, the Sysinternals tools show everything as verified. I'm suspecting this to be a driver problem. Randomly removing drivers doesn't seem to alleviate the problem. When removing the Graphics Drivers, it makes my screen black. While that could be considered the solution, it's not what I want. Changing the time / date settings does also not seem to affect the fishes. Changing the time a few years in the future, I would have expected the fishes to be dead. But, the same fishes are still there... They simply won't die! Tried to get used to them. They are really bothering me, looks like they require food. I don't know how to give them food, but apparently they get it elsewhere during reboot... Tried to disable my mouse pointer and use the keyboard. This works, they now swim around more randomly. They do put their attention to huge changes on the screen, so I need to type slow. Or otherwise I can't see what I'm tying exactly. Hold my laptop upside down. This seems to affect the water and fishes, but the water stays in the screen. They seem super resistant against water sickness and confusion though... What does the problem look like? What do I need? A way to get rid of these fishes on my screen forever, they are really annoying me a lot and I'm about to crack the screen to see if that makes them escape. Do you have any idea why this problem is occurring? What are my considerations? Buying an USB fish tank could make the fish leave the screen, I am uncertain though whether the fish could leave the screen through the USB cable. Using the FISh (programming language) which seems to provide EXPRESSIVE POWER and EFFICIENT EXECUTION, I can however not find any examples on how to remove fish. What are my Specifications? I'm using a Sony Vaio Fishy laptop. Sony VAIO VGN-Fishy, VAIO. Processor: 1337 MHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, T5432, 1 MB, Intel PM965 Express, 667 MHz. Memory: 1024 MB, DDR2-SDRAM, 667 MHz, 2 x 1024 MB, 4 GB. Disk Drive: 50 GB, Serial ATA, 5400 RPM. Storage Media: Memory Stick™, Memory Stick PRO™. Display: 15.4 ", 1280 x 800 pixels, LCD. Video: GeForce 8400M GT, 128 MB. Optical Drive: DVD±R/RW DL, 24 x, 24 x, 24 x, 6 x, 4 x, 6 x, 4 x, 5 x, 5 x, 8 x, 8 x, 8 x, 8 x, 6 x, 6 x, 24 x, 24 x, 24 x, 16 x. Camera: 1.3 MP, 30 fps. Networking: 2.0+EDR. Keyboard: Touchpad, AZERTY. Operating System/Software: Windows Vista Home Premium. Security: Kensington. Weight & Dimensions: 98.8 oz (2800 g), 14 " (355.8 mm), 10 " (254.4 mm), 0.98 " (24.9 mm). Other features: 100 BASE-TX/10 BASE-T, 802.11a/b/g/n/Draft n, V92/V.90, fishes. Plz! Help me...

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• CD/DVD burn error in ImgBurn and Nero

  - by bobby

  I am getting the errors shown below when I try to burn a CD/DVD on my DVD writer. I am seeing this error for every CD/DVD I try to burn. I am not able to write any CDs or DVDs using ImgBurn. The burn log below is a failed burn in Nero. What could be causing this error? Nero Burning ROM bobby 4C85-200E-4005-0004-0000-7660-0800-35X3-0000-407M-MX37-**** (*) Windows XP 6.1 IA32 WinAspi: - NT-SPTI used Nero Version: 7.11.3. Internal Version: 7, 11, 3, (Nero Express) Recorder: <HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N> Version: UL01 - HA 1 TA 1 - 7.11.3.0 Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1 Drive buffer : 2048kB Bus Type : default CD-ROM: <ATAPI-CD ROM-DRIVE-52MAX > Version: 52PP - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.11.3.0 Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1 === Scsi-Device-Map === === CDRom-Device-Map === ATAPI-CD ROM-DRIVE-52MAX F: CdRom0 HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N G: CdRom1 ======================= AutoRun : 1 Excluded drive IDs: WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte BUFE : 0 Physical memory : 958MB (981560kB) Free physical memory: 309MB (317024kB) Memory in use : 67 % Uncached PFiles: 0x0 Use Inquiry : 1 Global Bus Type: default (0) Check supported media : Disabled (0) 11.6.2010 CD Image 10:43:02 AM #1 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 450 LockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL 10:43:02 AM #2 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3186 HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N Buffer underrun protection activated 10:43:02 AM #3 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3500 Turn on Disc-At-Once, using CD-R/RW media 10:43:02 AM #4 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 307 Last possible write address on media: 359848 ( 79:59.73) Last address to be written: 318783 ( 70:52.33) 10:43:02 AM #5 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 319 Write in overburning mode: NO (enabled: CD) 10:43:02 AM #6 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2988 Recorder: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM G SA-H12N; CDR co de: 00 97 27 18; O SJ entry from: Pla smon Data systems Ltd. ATIP Data: Special Info [hex] 1: D0 00 A0, 2: 61 1B 12 (LI 97:27.18), 3: 4F 3B 4A ( LO 79:59.74) Additional Info [hex] 1: 00 00 00 (invalid), 2: 00 00 00 (invalid), 3: 00 0 0 00 (invalid) 10:43:02 AM #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 493 >>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<< ========================================= 10:43:02 AM #8 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 785 Nero Report 1 Nero Burning ROM Setup items (after recorder preparation) 0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 (2 - CD-ROM Mode 1, Joliet) 2 indices, index0 (150) not provided original disc pos #0 + 318784 (318784) = #318784/70:50.34 not relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/not required -> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 318784 blocks [G: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N] -------------------------------------------------------------- 10:43:02 AM #9 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 986 Prepare [G: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO DAO infos: ========== MCN: "" TOCType: 0x00; Se ssion Clo sed, disc fixated Tracks 1 to 1: Idx 0 Idx 1 Next T rk 1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 307200 6531768 32, ISRC "" DAO layout: =========== ___Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_____Size_|______NWA_|_RecDep__________ -150 | lead-in | 0 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00 -150 | 1 | 0 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00 0 | 1 | 1 | 0x41 | 318784 | 318784 | 0x00 318784 | lead-out | 1 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00 10:43:02 AM #10 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 240 SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME 10:43:02 AM #11 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4286 Caching options: cache CDRom or Network-Yes, small files-Yes (<64KB) 10:43:02 AM #12 Phase 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1767 Caching of files started 10:43:02 AM #13 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4405 Cache writing successful. 10:43:02 AM #14 Phase 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1767 Caching of files completed 10:43:02 AM #15 Phase 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1767 Burn process started at 48x (7,200 KB/s) 10:43:02 AM #16 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2733 Verifying disc position of item 0 (not relocatable, no disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0 10:43:02 AM #17 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 17806 StartDAO : CD-Text - Off 10:43:02 AM #18 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 22488 Set BUFE: Buffer underrun protection -> ON 10:43:03 AM #19 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 18034 CueData, Len=32 41 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 41 01 00 10 00 00 00 00 41 01 01 10 00 00 02 00 41 aa 01 14 00 46 34 22 10:43:03 AM #20 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 268 Pipe memory size 83836800 10:43:16 AM #21 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 1405 10:43:16.806 - G: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N : Queue again later 10:43:42 AM #22 SPTI -1502 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 181 CdRom1: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1502) Sense Key: 0x04 (KEY_HARDWARE_ERROR) Nero Report 2 Nero Burning ROM Sense Code: 0x08 Sense Qual: 0x03 CDB Data: 0x2A 00 00 00 4D 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 Sense Area: 0x70 00 04 00 00 00 00 10 53 29 A1 80 08 03 Buffer x0c7d9a40: Len x10000 0xDC 87 EB 41 6E AC 61 5A 07 B2 DB 78 B5 D4 D9 24 0x8D BC 51 38 46 56 0F EE 16 15 5C 5B E3 B0 10 16 0x14 B1 C3 6E 30 2B C4 78 15 AB D5 92 09 B7 81 23 10:43:42 AM #23 CDR -1502 File Writer.cpp, Line 306 DMA-driver error, CRC error G: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H12N 10:43:55 AM #24 Phase 38 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1767 Burn process failed at 48x (7,200 KB/s) 10:43:55 AM #25 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 287 SPTIDismountVolume - completed successfully for FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME 10:44:01 AM #26 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 11412 DriveLocker: UnLockVolume completed 10:44:01 AM #27 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 450 UnLockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL Existing drivers: Registry Keys: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon Nero Report 3

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• Can't connect to STunnel when it's running as a service

  - by John Francis

  I've got STunnel configured to proxy non SSL POP3 requests to GMail on port 111. This is working fine when STunnel is running as a desktop app, but when I run the STunnel service, I can't connect to port 111 on the machine (using Outlook Express for example). The Stunnel log file shows the port binding is succeeding, but it never sees a connection. There's something preventing the connection to that port when STunnel is running as a service? Here's stunnel.conf cert = stunnel.pem ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = 7 output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode client = yes ; Service-level configuration [gmail] accept = 127.0.0.1:111 connect = pop.gmail.com:995 stunnel.log from service 2010.10.07 12:14:22 LOG5[80444:72984]: Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf 2010.10.07 12:14:22 LOG7[80444:72984]: Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: PRNG seeded successfully 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Certificate: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Certificate loaded 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Key file: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Private key loaded 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: SSL context initialized for service gmail 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: Configuration successful 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: FD=156 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Option SO_REUSEADDR set on accept socket 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Service gmail bound to 0.0.0.0:111 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG7[80444:72984]: Service gmail opened FD=156 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: stunnel 4.34 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010 2010.10.07 12:14:23 LOG5[80444:72984]: Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 stunnel.log from desktop (working) process 2010.10.07 12:10:31 LOG5[80824:81200]: Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf 2010.10.07 12:10:31 LOG7[80824:81200]: Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to C:/.rnd 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: PRNG seeded successfully 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Certificate: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Certificate loaded 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Key file: stunnel.pem 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Private key loaded 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: SSL context initialized for service gmail 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG5[80824:81200]: Configuration successful 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG5[80824:81200]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: FD=156 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Option SO_REUSEADDR set on accept socket 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Service gmail bound to 0.0.0.0:111 2010.10.07 12:10:32 LOG7[80824:81200]: Service gmail opened FD=156 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:81200]: stunnel 4.34 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:81200]: Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:81844]: Service gmail accepted FD=188 from 127.0.0.1:24813 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:81844]: Creating a new thread 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:81844]: New thread created 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Service gmail started 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: FD=188 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on local socket 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:25144]: Service gmail accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:24813 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: FD=212 in non-blocking mode 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG6[80824:25144]: connect_blocking: connecting 209.85.227.109:995 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: connect_blocking: s_poll_wait 209.85.227.109:995: waiting 10 seconds 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:25144]: connect_blocking: connected 209.85.227.109:995 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG5[80824:25144]: Service gmail connected remote server from 192.168.1.9:24814 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Remote FD=212 initialized 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on remote socket 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): before/connect initialization 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read server done A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client key exchange A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 1 items in the session cache 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 1 client connects (SSL_connect()) 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 1 client connects that finished 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 client renegotiations requested 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 server connects (SSL_accept()) 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 server connects that finished 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 server renegotiations requested 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 session cache hits 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 external session cache hits 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 session cache misses 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG7[80824:25144]: 0 session cache timeouts 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG6[80824:25144]: SSL connected: new session negotiated 2010.10.07 12:10:33 LOG6[80824:25144]: Negotiated ciphers: RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG7[80824:25144]: SSL socket closed on SSL_read 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG7[80824:25144]: Sending socket write shutdown 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG5[80824:25144]: Connection closed: 53 bytes sent to SSL, 118 bytes sent to socket 2010.10.07 12:10:34 LOG7[80824:25144]: Service gmail finished (0 left)

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• Gateway setting is empty

  - by Dodi Jones

  This laptop hasn't been used in almost a year. It connected to the internet just fine last time used. Now it can't get on line. ipconfig:The Gateway setting for this computer is empty. Make sure your access point is working properly. Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Dodi>IPCONFIG /ALL Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : 8A287A4ADEF0487 Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : LAN-Express AS IEEE 802.11g miniPCI Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-A4-72-37-E1 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-01-4A-EF-A8-7D How do I fix this?

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• How to run node.js app on port 80? Are processes blocking my port?

  - by Lucas

  I believe the port 80 on my remote instance is blocked, and I am trying to run a node.js app using port 80. I have experimented with ports 3000 and 3002, and both ports are working fine, but I get an error when running on port 80. I suspect port 80 is blocked from my output of netstat -an below, but how can I find the process id's of the addresses that are blocking port 80 below? [lucas@ecoinstance]~/node/nodetest1$ netstat -an Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27017 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3002 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27017 127.0.0.1:51108 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:51106 127.0.0.1:27017 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27017 127.0.0.1:51106 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:51107 127.0.0.1:27017 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.240.241.116:3002 174.61.171.61:36583 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27017 127.0.0.1:51109 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.240.241.116:42423 169.254.169.254:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:51108 127.0.0.1:27017 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 532 10.240.241.116:22 174.61.171.61:56824 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27017 127.0.0.1:51107 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.240.241.116:42412 169.254.169.254:80 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:51109 127.0.0.1:27017 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:51105 127.0.0.1:27017 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 10.240.241.116:42422 169.254.169.254:80 TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27017 127.0.0.1:51105 ESTABLISHED tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:49948 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 10.240.241.116:123 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:123 0.0.0.0:* udp6 0 0 :::12151 :::* udp6 0 0 :::123 :::* Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 405680 /tmp/ssh-KdkxJfFLpKTC/agent.22 813 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 408230 /tmp/ssh-ofUeNNEwAqtP/agent.22 243 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 416227 /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock unix 2 [ ACC ] SEQPACKET LISTENING 3692 /run/udev/control unix 7 [ ] DGRAM 5286 /dev/log unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 5318 /var/run/acpid.socket unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 16170 /tmp//tmux-1000/default unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 414450 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socke And here is the log when trying to run on port 80 with node.js: [lucas@ecoinstance]~/node/nodetest1$ npm start > [email protected] start /home/lucas/node/nodetest1 > node ./bin/www events.js:72 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^ Error: listen EACCES at errnoException (net.js:904:11) at Server._listen2 (net.js:1023:19) at listen (net.js:1064:10) at Server.listen (net.js:1138:5) at Function.app.listen (/home/lucas/node/nodetest1/node_modules/express/lib/applicati on.js:532:24) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/lucas/node/nodetest1/bin/www:7:18) at Module._compile (module.js:456:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) npm ERR! [email protected] start: `node ./bin/www` npm ERR! Exit status 8 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the nodetest1 package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node ./bin/www npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls nodetest1 npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! System Linux 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64 npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start" npm ERR! cwd /home/lucas/node/nodetest1 npm ERR! node -v v0.10.28 npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /home/lucas/node/nodetest1/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 And sudo netstat -lnp does not return any matching port 80's: [lucas@ecoinstance]~/node/nodetest1$ sudo netstat -lnp [48/648] Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Progr am name tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27017 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 29160/mon god tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1976/sshd tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 1976/sshd udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:49948 0.0.0.0:* 1604/dhcl ient udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:* 1604/dhcl ient udp 0 0 10.240.241.116:123 0.0.0.0:* 2076/ntpd udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:123 0.0.0.0:* 2076/ntpd udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:123 0.0.0.0:* 2076/ntpd udp6 0 0 :::12151 :::* 1604/dhcl ient udp6 0 0 :::123 :::* 2076/ntpd Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node PID/Program name Path unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 405680 22814/ssh-agent /tmp/ssh-K dkxJfFLpKTC/agent.22813 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 408230 24049/ssh-agent /tmp/ssh-o fUeNNEwAqtP/agent.22243 unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 416227 29160/mongod /tmp/mongo db-27017.sock unix 2 [ ACC ] SEQPACKET LISTENING 3692 284/udevd /run/udev/ control unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 5318 1798/acpid /var/run/a cpid.socket unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 16170 5177/tmux /tmp//tmux -1000/default unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 414450 28213/dbus-daemon /var/run/d bus/system_bus_socket unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 404225 22324/1 /tmp/ssh-9 TlDmu4bjl/agent.22324

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• Portable scripting language for a multi-server admin?

  - by Aaron

  Please Note: Portable as in portableapps.com, not the traditional definition. Originally posted on stackoverflow.com, asking here at another user's suggestion. I'm a DBA and sysadmin, mostly for Windows machines running SQL Server. I'm looking for a programming/scripting language for Windows that doesn't require Admin access or an installer, needing no install process other than expanding it into a folder. My intent is to have a language for automation on which I can standardize. Up to this point, I've been using a combination of batch files and Unix shell, using sh.exe from UnxUtils but it's far from a perfect solution. I've evaluated a handful of options, all of them have at least one serious shortcoming or another. I have a strong preference for something open source or dual license, but I'm more interested in finding the right tool than anything else. Not interested that anything that relies on Cygwin or Java, but at this point I'd be fine with something that needs .NET. Requirements: Manageable footprint (1-100 files, under 30 MB installed) Run on Windows XP and Server (2003+) No installer (exe, msi) Works with external pipes, processes, and files Support for MS SQL Server or ODBC connections Bonus Points: Open Source FFI for calling functions in native DLLs GUI support (native or gtk, wx, fltk, etc) Linux, AIX, and/or OS X support Dynamic, object oriented and/or functional, interpreted or bytecode compiled; interactive development Able to package or compile scripts into executables So far I've tried: Ruby: 148 MB on disk, 23000 files Portable Python: 54 MB on disk, 2800 files Strawberry Perl: 123 MB on disk, 3600 files REBOL: Great, except closed source and no MSSQL or ODBC in free version Squeak Smalltalk: Great, except poor support for scripting ---- cut: points of clarification ---- Why all the limitations? I realize some of my criteria seem arbitrarily confining. It's primarily a product my environment. I work as a SQL Server DBA and backup Unix admin at a division of a large company. In addition to near a hundred boxes running some version or another of SQL Server on Windows, I also support the SQL Server Express Edition installs on over a thousand machines in the field. Because of our security policies, I don't login rights on every machine. Often enough, an issue comes up and I'm given local Admin for some period of time. Often enough, it's some box I've never touched and don't have my own environment setup yet. I may have temporary admin rights on the box, but I'm not the admin for the machine- I'm just the DBA. I've no interest in stepping on the toes of the Windows admins, nor do I want to take over any of their duties. If I bring up "installing" something, suddenly it becomes a matter of interest for Production Control and the Windows admins; if I'm copying up a script, no one minds. The distinction may not mean much to the readers, but if someone gets the wrong idea I've suddenly got a long wait and significant overhead before I can get the tool installed and get the problem solved. That's why I want something that can be copied and run in the manner of a portable app. What about the small footprint? My company has three divisions, each in a different geographical location, and one of them is a new acquisition. We have different production control/security policies in each division. I support our MSSQL databases in all three divisions. The field machines are spread around the US, sometimes connecting to the VPN over very slow links. Installing Ruby \using psexec has taken a long time over these connections. In these instances, the bigger time waster seems to be archives with thousands and thousands of files rather than their sheer size. You could say I'm spoiled by Unix, where the admins usually have at least some modern scripting language installed; I'd use PowerShell, but I don't know it well and more importantly it isn't everywhere I need to work. It's a regular occurrence that I need to write, deploy and execute some script on short notice on some machine I've never on which logged in. Since having Ruby or something similar installed on every machine I'll ever need to touch is effectively impossible because of the approvals, time and and Windows admin labor needed I makes more sense find a solution that allows me to work on my own terms.

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• How to find source of 301/302 redirect loop? Heroku GoDaddy Zerigo

  - by user179288

  this should be a relatively simple problem but I'm having trouble.I hope this is the right forum to post on as I've seen people get booted off stack-overflow for this sort of thing. I've setup a web app on heroku (cedar stack) at my-web-app.herokuapp.com and I'm trying to direct my-domain.com and www.my-domain.com to it. As per instructions on the heroku documentation, I've set my-domain.com to redirect (forwarding) to www.my-domain.com and then set a C-Name from www.my-domain.com to my-web-app.herokuapp.com. But the C-Name doesn't seem to be working right and is sending back to my-domain.com, causing a loop and I can't work out why. I first configured these setting at GoDaddy.com where I registered the domain but then tried to avoid the problem by using Heroku's Zerigo DNS add-on, setting the nameservers on GoDaddy to the ones given for Zerigo. However the problem remains. Here is the output from dig for my-domain.com ("drop-circles.com"): ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> any drop-circles.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 671 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 5 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;drop-circles.com. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: drop-circles.com. 433 IN NS b.ns.zerigo.net. drop-circles.com. 433 IN NS d.ns.zerigo.net. drop-circles.com. 433 IN NS e.ns.zerigo.net. drop-circles.com. 433 IN NS a.ns.zerigo.net. drop-circles.com. 433 IN NS c.ns.zerigo.net. drop-circles.com. 433 IN SOA a.ns.zerigo.net. hostmaster.zerigo.com. 1372250760 10800 3600 604800 900 drop-circles.com. 433 IN A 64.27.57.29 drop-circles.com. 433 IN A 64.27.57.24 ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: d.ns.zerigo.net. 68935 IN A 174.36.24.250 e.ns.zerigo.net. 69015 IN A 72.26.219.150 a.ns.zerigo.net. 72602 IN A 64.27.57.11 c.ns.zerigo.net. 69204 IN A 109.74.192.232 b.ns.zerigo.net. 70549 IN A 174.37.229.229 ;; Query time: 15 msec ;; SERVER: 194.168.4.100#53(194.168.4.100) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 26 14:29:07 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 293 Here is the output from dig for www.my-domain.com ("www.drop-circles.com"): ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> any www.drop-circles.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1608 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.drop-circles.com. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.drop-circles.com. 407 IN CNAME drop-circles-website.herokuapp.com. ;; Query time: 19 msec ;; SERVER: 194.168.4.100#53(194.168.4.100) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 26 14:29:15 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 83 And from Fiddler if I use the inspector when I try either address I get a series of requests, with the my-domain.com ("drop-circles.com") looking like this: Request: GET http://drop-circles.com/ HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */* Accept-Language: en-gb User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; Edition IBIS; Trident/5.0) Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: Keep-Alive Host: drop-circles.com Response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Server: nginx/0.8.54 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:26:55 GMT Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 Connection: keep-alive Status: 302 Found Location: http://www.drop-circles.com/ Content-Length: 113 <html><body>Redirecting to <a href="http://www.drop-circles.com/">http://www.drop-circles.com/</a></body></html> And the www.my-domain.com ("www.drop-circles.com") looking like this: Request: GET http://www.drop-circles.com/ HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */* Accept-Language: en-gb User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; Edition IBIS; Trident/5.0) Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: Keep-Alive Host: www.drop-circles.com Response: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Content-Type: text/html Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:26:56 GMT Location: http://drop-circles.com/ Vary: Accept X-Powered-By: Express Content-Length: 104 Connection: keep-alive <p>Moved Permanently. Redirecting to <a href="http://drop-circles.com/">http://drop-circles.com/</a></p> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. If it is not at all obvious from these readouts what it might be could someone at least tell me which company GoDaddy, Zerigo or Heroku should I go to for support since I don't really know enough to be able to say where the problem lies. Thank you.

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• overriding ctype<wchar_t>

  - by Potatoswatter

  I'm writing a lambda calculus interpreter for fun and practice. I got iostreams to properly tokenize identifiers by adding a ctype facet which defines punctuation as whitespace: struct token_ctype : ctype<char> { mask t[ table_size ]; token_ctype() : ctype<char>( t ) { for ( size_t tx = 0; tx < table_size; ++ tx ) { t[tx] = isalnum( tx )? alnum : space; } } }; (classic_table() would probably be cleaner but that doesn't work on OS X!) And then swap the facet in when I hit an identifier: locale token_loc( in.getloc(), new token_ctype ); … locale const &oldloc = in.imbue( token_loc ); in.unget() >> token; in.imbue( oldloc ); There seems to be surprisingly little lambda calculus code on the Web. Most of what I've found so far is full of unicode ? characters. So I thought to try adding Unicode support. But ctype<wchar_t> works completely differently from ctype<char>. There is no master table; there are four methods do_is x2, do_scan_is, and do_scan_not. So I did this: struct token_ctype : ctype< wchar_t > { typedef ctype<wchar_t> base; bool do_is( mask m, char_type c ) const { return base::do_is(m,c) || (m&space) && ( base::do_is(punct,c) || c == L'?' ); } const char_type* do_is (const char_type* lo, const char_type* hi, mask* vec) const { base::do_is(lo,hi,vec); for ( mask *vp = vec; lo != hi; ++ vp, ++ lo ) { if ( *vp & punct || *lo == L'?' ) *vp |= space; } return hi; } const char_type *do_scan_is (mask m, const char_type* lo, const char_type* hi) const { if ( m & space ) m |= punct; hi = do_scan_is(m,lo,hi); if ( m & space ) hi = find( lo, hi, L'?' ); return hi; } const char_type *do_scan_not (mask m, const char_type* lo, const char_type* hi) const { if ( m & space ) { m |= punct; while ( * ( lo = base::do_scan_not(m,lo,hi) ) == L'?' && lo != hi ) ++ lo; return lo; } return base::do_scan_not(m,lo,hi); } }; (Apologies for the flat formatting; the preview converted the tabs differently.) The code is WAY less elegant. I does better express the notion that only punctuation is additional whitespace, but that would've been fine in the original had I had classic_table. Is there a simpler way to do this? Do I really need all those overloads? (Testing showed do_scan_not is extraneous here, but I'm thinking more broadly.) Am I abusing facets in the first place? Is the above even correct? Would it be better style to implement less logic?

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• Does anyone have database, programming language/framework suggestions for a GUI point of sale system

  - by Jason Down

  Our company has a point of sale system with many extras, such as ordering and receiving functionality, sales and order history etc. Our main issue is that the system was not designed properly from the ground up, so it takes too long to make fixes and handle requests from our customers. Also, the current technology we are using (Progress database, Progress 4GL for the language) incurs quite a bit of licensing expenses on our customers due to mutli-user license fees for database connections etc. After a lot of discussion it is looking like we will probably start over from scratch (while maintaining the current product at least for the time being). We are looking for a couple of things: Create the system with a nice GUI front end (it is currently CHUI and the application was not built in a way that allows us to redesign the front end... no layering or separation of business logic and gui...shudder). Create the system with the ability to modularize different functionality so the product doesn't have to include all features. This would keep the cost down for our current customers that want basic functionality and a lower price tag. The bells and whistles would be available for those that would want them. Use proper design patterns to make the product easy to add or change any part at any time (i.e. change the database or change the front end without needing to rewrite the application or most of it). This is a problem today because the Progress 4GL code is directly compiled against the database. Small changes in the database requires lots of code recompiling. Our new system will be Linux based, with a possibility of a client application providing functionality from one or more windows boxes. So what I'm looking for is any suggestions on which database and/or framework or programming language(s) someone might recommend for this sort of product. Anyone that has experience in this field might be able to point us in the right direction or even have some ideas of what to avoid. We have considered .NET and SQL Express (we don't need an enterprise level DB), but that would limit us to windows (as far as I know anyway). I have heard of Mono for writing .NET code in a Linux environment, but I don't know much about it yet. We've also considered a Java and MySql based implementation. To summarize we are looking to do the following: Keep licensing costs down on the technology we will use to develop the product (Oracle, yikes! MySQL, nice.) Deliver a solution that is easily maintainable and supportable. A solution that has a component capable of running on "old" hardware through a CHUI front end. (some of our customers have 40+ terminals which would be a ton of cash in order to convert over to a PC). Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks [UPDATE] I should note that we are currently performing a total cost analysis. This question is intended to give us a couple of "educated" options to look into to include in or analysis. Anyone who could share experiences/suggestions about client/server setups would be appreciated (not just those who have experience with point of sale systems... that would just be a bonus).

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• .NET Exception error, what does this error means?

  - by gsvirdi

  I've tried to develop a simple winform utility which is using xml file as its database. I've used VS 2008 express edition, C#. When this utility tries to write into the xml file then this error is displayed on other computer. I've tried to provide System.Xml.dll & System.Xml.Linq.dll in the same folder on the other computer but no use. What does it means? Any solution? See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Void System.Xml.XmlReaderSettings.set_MaxCharactersFromEntities(Int64)'. at System.Xml.Linq.XNode.GetXmlReaderSettings(LoadOptions o) at System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Load(String uri, LoadOptions options) at System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Load(String uri) at Issues.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- Issues Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/sumsnl.LTSLFBD/Desktop/Process%20Improvement/Issues%20Register/Issues.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Xml Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Configuration Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll ---------------------------------------- 4u_pgrmq Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: <configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box.

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• Technology to communicate with someone with expressive aphasia?

  - by rascher

  A family member had a stroke a few years back and now has expressive aphasia. She understands what is said to her, is cognitive of what is going on, but cannot express herself. She is able to respond to yes/no questions (do you want to go shopping? are you looking for your earrings?) She is not, however, able to read (English is not her native language and she hasn't read Hindi for decades.) I am the technologist in the family, and I intend to come up with something to help us communicate. The idea is to have some sort of picture book where she can point to what she wants. My first question: does some sort of assistive technology for people with expressive aphasia already exist? These can be hardware or software devices? If not, then such a software doesn't seem difficult to write. My initial thought is to have an interface with pictures - maybe separated by category (food, shopping) - where she can point to an individual picture to indicate what she needs. We could easily add more items with such a software, and we could have an interface where she (or we) could "flip pages". Which suggests that the best solution would use a touch screen rather than a mouse. It would be really difficult to train her to aim a mouse or find keys on a keyboard. We're thinking of maybe getting a tablet and writing some basic software. But tablets computers are expensive and fragile - I'm not sure if it would be able to stand spills or being knocked about in a nursing home. So my next question: what kind of tablet-like devices are out there which I can program on? I don't know anything about hardware, but if there is something then we could special-order it. What would be safe and durable for such a project? We could do something on an iPod or cell phone, but I feel like that interface would be too small. Finally, does anyone here have experience with this kind of assistive technology? Things I might not anticipate when designing such a system? edit I've added a (pretty hefty!) bounty. I'd kinda like to open this question up to any suggestions, comments, and experiences that people might have. This is a pretty real and important project, so while we will (are working on) a solution, any insights would be particularly helpful. Right now the plan is to mount a screen in her room. We'll either teach her to use a trackball or use a touch-screen panel, after seeing what she is able to use with a simple prototype. Then software akin to an old "hypercard" deck: ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- -------------- | | | Clothes | | Food | ... | | -------------- -------------- | | | | Pic of item 1 Pic of item 2 Pic of item 3 | | | | | | | | | | Pic of item 4 Pic of item 5 Pic of item 6 | | | | | | | | | | <-Back Next-> | ---------------------------------------------------------------- commentcommentcomment!

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• Paging, sorting and filtering in a stored procedure (SQL Server)

  - by Fruitbat

  I was looking at different ways of writing a stored procedure to return a "page" of data. This was for use with the asp ObjectDataSource, but it could be considered a more general problem. The requirement is to return a subset of the data based on the usual paging paremeters, startPageIndex and maximumRows, but also a sortBy parameter to allow the data to be sorted. Also there are some parameters passed in to filter the data on various conditions. One common way to do this seems to be something like this: [Method 1] ;WITH stuff AS ( SELECT CASE WHEN @SortBy = 'Name' THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Name) WHEN @SortBy = 'Name DESC' THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Name DESC) WHEN @SortBy = ... ELSE ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY whatever) END AS Row, ., ., ., FROM Table1 INNER JOIN Table2 ... LEFT JOIN Table3 ... WHERE ... (lots of things to check) ) SELECT * FROM stuff WHERE (Row > @startRowIndex) AND (Row <= @startRowIndex + @maximumRows OR @maximumRows <= 0) ORDER BY Row One problem with this is that it doesn't give the total count and generally we need another stored procedure for that. This second stored procedure has to replicate the parameter list and the complex WHERE clause. Not nice. One solution is to append an extra column to the final select list, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM stuff) AS TotalRows. This gives us the total but repeats it for every row in the result set, which is not ideal. [Method 2] An interesting alternative is given here (http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/032206-1.aspx) using dynamic SQL. He reckons that the performance is better because the CASE statement in the first solution drags things down. Fair enough, and this solution makes it easy to get the totalRows and slap it into an output parameter. But I hate coding dynamic SQL. All that 'bit of SQL ' + STR(@parm1) +' bit more SQL' gubbins. [Method 3] The only way I can find to get what I want, without repeating code which would have to be synchronised, and keeping things reasonably readable is to go back to the "old way" of using a table variable: DECLARE @stuff TABLE (Row INT, ...) INSERT INTO @stuff SELECT CASE WHEN @SortBy = 'Name' THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Name) WHEN @SortBy = 'Name DESC' THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Name DESC) WHEN @SortBy = ... ELSE ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY whatever) END AS Row, ., ., ., FROM Table1 INNER JOIN Table2 ... LEFT JOIN Table3 ... WHERE ... (lots of things to check) SELECT * FROM stuff WHERE (Row > @startRowIndex) AND (Row <= @startRowIndex + @maximumRows OR @maximumRows <= 0) ORDER BY Row (Or a similar method using an IDENTITY column on the table variable). Here I can just add a SELECT COUNT on the table variable to get the totalRows and put it into an output parameter. I did some tests and with a fairly simple version of the query (no sortBy and no filter), method 1 seems to come up on top (almost twice as quick as the other 2). Then I decided to test probably I needed the complexity and I needed the SQL to be in stored procedures. With this I get method 1 taking nearly twice as long as the other 2 methods. Which seems strange. Is there any good reason why I shouldn't spurn CTEs and stick with method 3? UPDATE - 15 March 2012 I tried adapting Method 1 to dump the page from the CTE into a temporary table so that I could extract the TotalRows and then select just the relevant columns for the resultset. This seemed to add significantly to the time (more than I expected). I should add that I'm running this on a laptop with SQL Server Express 2008 (all that I have available) but still the comparison should be valid. I looked again at the dynamic SQL method. It turns out I wasn't really doing it properly (just concatenating strings together). I set it up as in the documentation for sp_executesql (with a parameter description string and parameter list) and it's much more readable. Also this method runs fastest in my environment. Why that should be still baffles me, but I guess the answer is hinted at in Hogan's comment.

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• Illegal cross thread operation exception, unable to handle it

  - by yeah1000

  Hello, i am using visual C# express 2008. I SOMETIMES get the illegal cross thread operation in my invoke method when i try to run my project. It use the same invoke method in many places but its only at the beginning of another thread that i get the error. I check the InvokeRequired property, invoke the same method and in the 'else' condition and create a temporary variable and assign it the text of my control. But on that line, in the 'else' statement, inside the Invoking method i sometimes get the exception. What could be the cause? How to get rid of it? It does not occur often, but it is still a bug... Code: // Delegate: private delegate void ChangeTextDelegate(string text); // Method: public static void ChangeText(string text) { if (richtextbox1.InvokeRequired) { richtextbox1.Invoke(new ChangeTextDelegate(ChangeText), new object[] { text }); } else { int startIndex; startIndex = richtextbox1.TextLength; // <- Exception points here. // ... } } Stack trace: System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled Message="Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'SomeClass' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on." Source="System.Windows.Forms" StackTrace: at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_InternalHandle() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmWindowPosChanged(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc(IntPtr wndProc, IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DefWndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.DefWndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCreate(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IntCreateWindowEx(Int32 dwExStyle, String lpszClassName, String lpszWindowName, Int32 style, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, HandleRef hWndParent, HandleRef hMenu, HandleRef hInst, Object pvParam) at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CreateWindowEx(Int32 dwExStyle, String lpszClassName, String lpszWindowName, Int32 style, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, HandleRef hWndParent, HandleRef hMenu, HandleRef hInst, Object pvParam) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.CreateHandle(CreateParams cp) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle() at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.CreateHandle() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle() at System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox.get_TextLength() at SomeNamespace.SomeClass.Changetext(String text, Color color) in C:\...\SomeClass.cs:line 827 at SomeNamespace.SomeClass.SomeThreadFun() in C:\...\SomeClass.cs:line 112 at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart() InnerException: TY

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• asp.net listbox

  - by lodun

  Why this code don't work,when i want run this code vwd 2008 express show me this error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Line 73: kom.Parameters.Add("@subcategories", SqlDbType.Text).Value = s_categoreis.SelectedItem.ToString(); This is my ascx file: <asp:ListBox ID="categories" runat="server" Height="380px" CssClass="kat" AutoPostBack="true" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" DataTextField="Categories" DataValueField="ID" onselectedindexchanged="kategorije_SelectedIndexChanged"></asp:ListBox> <asp:Button ID="Button1" CssClass="my" runat="server" Text="click" onclick="Button1_Click" /> <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server"> <ContentTemplate> <asp:ListBox ID="s_categoreis" CssClass="pod" Height="150px" Enabled="true" runat="server"></asp:ListBox></ContentTemplate> <Triggers> <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="categories" EventName="SelectedIndexChanged" /> </Triggers> </asp:UpdatePanel> <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:estudent_piooConnectionString %>" SelectCommand="SELECT [ID], [Categories] FROM [categories]"> </asp:SqlDataSource> and this is my ascx.cs: SqlConnection veza; SqlCommand kom = new SqlCommand(); SqlParameter par1 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par2 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par3 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par4 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par5 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par6 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par7 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par8 = new SqlParameter(); SqlParameter par9 = new SqlParameter(); protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { Listapod_kategorije(1); } protected void kategorije_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { Listapod_kategorije(Convert.ToInt32(kategorije.SelectedValue)); } private void Listapod_kategorije(int broj) { SqlDataSource ds = new SqlDataSource(); ds.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["estudent_piooConnectionString"].ConnectionString; ds.SelectCommand = "Select * from pod_kategorije where kat_id=" + broj; pod_kategorije.DataSource = ds; pod_kategorije.DataTextField = "pkategorija"; pod_kategorije.DataValueField = "ID"; pod_kategorije.DataBind(); } protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Guid jk = new Guid(); object datum = DateTime.Now; veza = new SqlConnection(@"server=85.94.76.170\PADME; database=estudent_pioo;uid=pioo;pwd=1234567"); Random broj = new Random(); int b_kor = broj.Next(1, 1000); kom.Parameters.Add("@text", SqlDbType.Text).Value = str; kom.Parameters.Add("@user", SqlDbType.UniqueIdentifier).Value = jk; kom.Parameters.Add("@date", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = datum; kom.Parameters.Add("@visits", SqlDbType.Int).Value = 0; kom.Parameters.Add("@answers", SqlDbType.Int).Value = 0; kom.Parameters.Add("@username", SqlDbType.Text).Value = "unknown_" + b_kor.ToString(); ; kom.Parameters.Add("@categories", SqlDbType.Text).Value = categories.SelectedItem.ToString(); kom.Parameters.Add("@sub_categories", SqlDbType.Text).Value = s_categoreis.SelectedItem.ToString(); veza.Open(); kom.ExecuteNonQuery(); veza.Close(); Response.Redirect("default.aspx");

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• Unable to connect SQL Server instance from Visual Studio 2008 Version 9.0

  - by salvationishere

  I am getting the below error from VS on an 32-bit XP Professional server even though I set Tools-Options-Database Tools-Data Connections to "SIDEKICK", which is the name of my computer. In other words SIDEKICK should default to the full SQLSERVER. In other words, I want VS to use SQLSERVER instead of SQLSERVER EXPRESS. And I can clearly see my database both from VS in the Server Explorer and also in SSMS 2008. Furthermore, I can view the tables of this database in Server Explorer from VS. I do not get any build errors. And it looks like all of the naming is consistent in my web.config file. I am developing my website according to a Microsoft tutorial, so I should not be getting an error. Yet I get the following exception when I run this code below: CreateAccounts.aspx.cs file protected void CreateAccountButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { MembershipCreateStatus createStatus; //This line below is where the exception occurs MembershipUser newUser = Membership.CreateUser(Username.Text, Password.Text, Email.Text, passwordQuestion, SecurityAnswer.Text, true, out createStatus); And here is what the exception looks like: System.Web.HttpException was unhandled by user code Message="Unable to connect to SQL Server database." Source="System.Web" ErrorCode=-2147467259 StackTrace: at System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.CreateMdfFile(String fullFileName, String dataDir, String connectionString) at System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.EnsureSqlExpressDBFile(String connectionString) at System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.GetConnection(String connectionString, Boolean revertImpersonation) at System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider.CreateUser(String username, String password, String email, String passwordQuestion, String passwordAnswer, Boolean isApproved, Object providerUserKey, MembershipCreateStatus& status) at System.Web.Security.Membership.CreateUser(String username, String password, String email, String passwordQuestion, String passwordAnswer, Boolean isApproved, Object providerUserKey, MembershipCreateStatus& status) at System.Web.Security.Membership.CreateUser(String username, String password, String email, String passwordQuestion, String passwordAnswer, Boolean isApproved, MembershipCreateStatus& status) at Membership_CreatingUserAccounts.CreateAccountButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\WebSites\WebSite2\Membership\CreatingUserAccounts.aspx.cs:line 24 at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) InnerException: System.Web.HttpException Message="Unable to connect to SQL Server database." Source="System.Web" ErrorCode=-2147467259 StackTrace: at System.Web.Management.SqlServices.GetSqlConnection(String server, String user, String password, Boolean trusted, String connectionString) at System.Web.Management.SqlServices.SetupApplicationServices(String server, String user, String password, Boolean trusted, String connectionString, String database, String dbFileName, SqlFeatures features, Boolean install) at System.Web.Management.SqlServices.Install(String database, String dbFileName, String connectionString) at System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.CreateMdfFile(String fullFileName, String dataDir, String connectionString) InnerException: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException Message="The user instance login flag is not supported on this version of SQL Server. The connection will be closed." Source=".Net SqlClient Data Provider" ErrorCode=-2146232060 Class=14 LineNumber=65536 Number=18493 Procedure="" Server="." State=1 StackTrace: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.CompleteLogin(Boolean enlistOK) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, SqlConnection owningObject) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(String host, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Int64 timerStart) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() at System.Web.Management.SqlServices.GetSqlConnection(String server, String user, String password, Boolean trusted, String connectionString) InnerException: The web.config connection string looks like: <connectionStrings> <add name="SecurityTutorialsConnectionString" connectionString="data source=.;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|SecurityTutorialsDatabase3.mdf;User Instance=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/> </connectionStrings> <system.web> <membership defaultProvider="SecurityTutorialsSqlMembershipProvider"> <providers> <add name="SecurityTutorialsSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="SecurityTutorialsConnectionString" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="SecurityTutorials" requiresUniqueEmail="true" passwordFormat="Hashed" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="7" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1" passwordAttemptWindow="10" passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""/> </providers> </membership>

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