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  • Resizing 2 partitions (NTFS and ReiserFS3)

    - by steven
    When creating a Win7 and Gentoo setup I miss allocated the space needed for Windows and Linux. I have a 320 gb drive and created a 40gb partition on Win7 and used the rest of the space on Linux. Now I need about 70gbs on the NTFS partition. Are there any tools that will shrink the ReiserFS3 partition? (It is using about 80gbs and has the reset free), while growing the NTFS partition? If I have to clone, does the tool copy freespace inside the image? I would prefer this not happen as that I'm sort on backup space. [I can handle a 100-150gb of images, but I can't copy the entire HD]

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  • Keyboard shortcut to cycle through programs (rather than just the alt-tab switch)?

    - by Steven Lu
    This question applies to both Windows and Mac OS X because I intend to use my mouse (Logitech G700) with both of them. The idea is I want one of my configurations to use two of my buttons to switch applications. However binding them to Alt/Cmd+Tab and Shift+Alt/Cmd+Tab is not good because the former functions as a toggle, and the latter cycles (in an unpredictable order). What I want is to move through my open applications in a circular buffer order. Do either of these OS's provide any keyboard shortcut that accomplishes this? I could live with just Alt/Cmd+Tab set to one button, but it limits me to being able to switch between only two programs.

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  • Amazon S3 - Storage Class and Server Side Encryption

    - by Steven
    Ahhh! I am using Amazon S3 for some low price storage to clear down out SAN. I created the bucket and created a root folder. I set the storage class to standard and server side encryption AES. I started a copy job to move the files, some files copied over and i checked the files: Reduced Redundancy Encryption set to none WTF? So i deleted all files and folders. I manuallyed created the folder structure and again set the storage class and encryption level. I coped some files and bamm, still showing (at a file level as Reduced and no encryption). So my question is this, is it really raid'd and encrypted just not showing it properly (as the root folder is, how can the file not be??) or (b) am i being a huge tool and missing something?

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  • How to migrate deploy RESTful WCF Web Service from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0

    - by Chris Lee
    Hi all, I have a WCF Restful Web Service. It works find under VS and IIS 6.0. Now I want to move it to another work station with IIS 7.0 on it. I tried to copy all the deploy file from IIS 6 to IIS 7, but it cannot be accessed by other client, except for the request from it's own machine. I don't know what's wrong and I tried to enable the anonymous access. Please help me. Thanks.

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  • UpdatePanel, JavaScript postback and changing querystring at same time in SharePoint Search Page

    - by Lee Dale
    Hi Guys, Been tearing my hear out with this one. Let me see if I can explain: I have a SharePoint results page on which I have a Search Results Core WebPart. Now I want to change the parameter in the querystring when I postback the page so that the WebPart returns different results for each parameter e.g. the querystring will be interactivemap.aspx?k=Country:Romania this will filter the results for Romania. First issue is I want to do this with javascript so I call: document.getElementById('aspnetForm').action = "interactivemap.aspx?k=Country:" + country; Nothing special here but the reason I need to call from Javascript is there is also a flash applet on this page from which the Javascript calls originate. When the javascript calls are made the page needs to PostBack but not reload the flash applet. I turned to ASP.Net AJAX for this so I wrapped the search results webpart in an update panel. Now if I use a button within the UpdatePanel to postback the UpdatePanel behaves as expected and does a partial render of the search results webpart not reloading the flash applet. Problem comes because I need postback the page from javscript. I called __doPostBack() as I have used this successully in the past. It works on it's own but fails when I first call the above Javascript before the __doPostBack() (I also tried calling click() on a hidden button) the code for the page is at the bottom. I think the problem comes with the scriptmanager not allowing a partial render when the form post action has changed. My questions are. A) Is there some other way to change the search results webpart parameter without using the querystring. or B) Is there a way around changing the querystring when doing an AJAX postback and getting a partial render. <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderFullContent" runat="server"> function update(country) { //__doPostBack('ContentUpdatePanel', ''); //document.getElementById('aspnetForm').action = "interactivemap.aspx?k=ArticleCountry:" + country; document.getElementById('ctl00_PlaceHolderFullContent_UpdateButton').click(); } Romania <div class="firstDataTitle"> <div class="datatabletitleOuterWrapper"> <div class="datatabletitle"> <span>Content</span></div> </div> <div class="datatableWrapper"> <div class="dataHolderWrapper"> <div class="datatable"> <div> <div class="searchMain"> <div class="searchZoneMain"> <asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" id="ContentUpdatePanel" UpdateMode="Conditional"> <ContentTemplate> <WebPartPages:webpartzone runat="server" AllowPersonalization="false" title="<%$Resources:sps,LayoutPageZone_BottomZone%>" id="BottomZone" orientation="Vertical" QuickAdd-GroupNames="Search" QuickAdd-ShowListsAndLibraries="false"><ZoneTemplate></ZoneTemplate></WebPartPages:webpartzone> <asp:Button id="UpdateButton" name="UpdateButton" runat="server" Text="Update"/> </ContentTemplate> </asp:UpdatePanel> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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  • Launching waiting for xdebug session 57%

    - by Lee Timms
    Problem: In short, I am getting the "Launching waiting for xdebug session 57%" problem. I am running Eclipse Gallileo Build id: 20100218-1602 on Windows 7 Ultimate I am running php 5.3.8 The Zend Extension Build and PHP Extension Build are both - API220090626,TS,VC9 Solutions Tried: I have verified that port 9000 is available for use, I have even tried other ports as a double check that ports was not the issue. That includes setting the ports in both the php.ini file and in the Eclipse development environment. I have set the php.ini file as follows (I have also tried numerous other configurations - none worked): zend_extension = "c:/wamp/bin/php/php_xdebug-2.1.3-5.3-vc9.dll" [xdebug] xdebug.remote_enable=on xdebug.remote_host="localhost" xdebug.remote_port=9000 xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp" I am at a loss, can anyone help?

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  • Do SEO-friendly URLs really affect a page's ranking?

    - by Lee Harold
    SEO-friendly URLs are all the rage these days. But do they actually have a meaningful impact on a page's ranking in Google and other search engines? If so, why? If not, why not? (Note that I would absolutely agree that SEO-friendly URLs are nicer to use for human beings. My question is whether they actually make a difference to the ranking algorithms.) Update: As it turns out, the Google post that endorphine points to here has caused tremendous confusion in the SEO community. For a sampling of the discussion, see here, here, and here. Part of the problem is that the Google post is addressing the worst case where URL rewriting is done poorly and so you'd be better off sticking with a dynamic URL rather than a mangled static "SEO-friendly" URL. There's no question dynamic URLs can be crawled by Google and can achieve high rankings. Maybe it would be easier to reframe the question more concretely: given 2 otherwise equivalent pages, which will rank higher for the search "do seo friendly urls really affect page ranking"? A) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505793/do-seo-friendly-urls-really-affect-a-pages-ranking or B) http://stackoverflow.com?question=505793 (a fake URL for comparison only)

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  • "The specified view is invalid" in call to LimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart in SharePoint 2010

    - by Lee Richardson
    This code used to work in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 in FeatureReceiver.FeatureActivated: using (SPLimitedWebPartManager limitedWebPartManager = Site.GetLimitedWebPartManager("default.aspx", PersonalizationScope.Shared)) { ListViewWebPart listViewWebPart = new ListViewWebPart { Title = title, ListName = list.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper(), ViewGuid = view.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper() }; limitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart(listViewWebPart, zone, position); } I'm trying to convert to SharePoint 2010 and it now fails with: System.ArgumentException: The specified view is invalid. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPViewCollection.get_Item(Guid guid) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart.EnsureListAndView(Boolean requireFullBlownViewSchema) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart.get_AppropriateBaseViewId() at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternal(SPSupersetWebPart superset, Boolean throwIfLocked) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPLimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPartInternal(WebPart webPart, String zoneId, Int32 zoneIndex, Boolean throwIfLocked) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SPLimitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart(WebPart webPart, String zoneId, Int32 zoneIndex) Interestingly enough when I run it from a unit test it works, it only fails in FeatureActivated. When I debug with Reflector it is failing on this line: this.view = this.list.LightweightViews[new Guid(this.ViewGuid)]; list.LightweightViews only returns one view, the default view, even though list.Views returns all of them. I have no idea what LightweightViews is supposed to mean and I'm running out of ideas. Anyone else got any?

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  • C#: Multiline TextBox with TextBox.WordWrap Displaying Long Base64 String

    - by Peter Lee
    Hi, Happy New Year! I have a textbox to display a very long Base64 string. The TextBox.Multline = true and TextBox.WordWrap = true. The issue is caused by the auto-word-boundary detection of the TextBox itself. The Base64 string has '+' as one of the 64 characters for Base64 encoding. Therefore, the TextBox will wrap it up at the '+' character, which is not what I want (because the use might think there is a newline character around the '+' character). I just want my Base64 string displayed in Mulitline-mode in TextBox, but no word boundary detection, that is, if the TextBox.Width can only contain 80 characters, then each line should have exact 80 characters except the last line. I'm not sure if I made myself clear. Thanks. Peter

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  • jQuery hiding a div on click outside

    - by Lee
    Hi All I would like to build a simple menu for each list element clicked on but hide this div once you click outside it. Here is some simple code which hopefully will make sense. $('.drillFolder').click(function(){ var id = $(this).attr('data-folder'); $(".drillDownFolder ul li > a").attr('data-id', id); $(".drillDownFolder").show(); }); $("body").click(function(e){ if(e.target.className !== "drillDownFolder") { $(".drillDownFolder").hide(); } }); //The hidden div <div class="drillDownFolder" style="display:none"> <ul> <li><a href="#" data-id="">Show Image</a></li> <li><a href="#" data-id="">Edit Image</a></li> </ul> </div> I know whats wrong as the menu is show via the .drillFolder links the body click is then hiding it straight away. How can I avoid this. Thank you if you can advise

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  • iphone Rendering 3-D Object rendering

    - by Yoon Lee
    Hello, I'm a beginner 3-D Quartz thing but knows how to create application. I was looking over sample of GLGravity Source code given by apple today, I was wondering teapot.h file contains all contents of array file such as indices, vertices. Do you guys think this code has been provided by human or, program? if it so, any auto generate program exist written in c based? (cause teapot.h seemed to me obvious native c code) thanks.

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  • MVVM && IOC && Sub-ViewModels

    - by Lee Treveil
    I have a ViewModel, it takes two parameters in the constructor that are of the same type: public class CustomerComparerViewModel { public CustomerComparerViewModel(CustomerViewModel customerViewModel1, CustomerViewModel customerViewModel2) { } } public class CustomerViewModel { public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } } If I wasn't using IOC I could just new up the viewmodel and pass the sub-viewmodels in. I could package the two viewmodels into one class and pass that into the constructor but if I had another viewmodel that only needed one CustomerViewModel I would need to pass in something that the viewmodel does not need. How do I go about dealing with this using IOC? I'm using Ninject btw. Thanks

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  • Video Editing Software Recommendation

    - by Lee
    I want to get some recommendations for Video Editing software. I need the software to do the following: Encode to multiple formats, .avi, .wma, DVD format, etc. Most of all we need to encode a file to .flv format. Ability to burn the file to DVD. Ability to perform video editing on the file. Easy-to-use. Specially, for the beginning video editor.

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  • Content Management System Where the Content needs to reside

    - by lee
    Hi, We are developing a Online Ordering Website and we are planning to be completely flexible in the sense Layout can be changed, Color, Font , and in a page a component(div) can be added. In this case whether we need to store all our View Code for example <div id="MenuContent"> <div> <h4> Your Order</h4> <hr /> <%if (Model != null) { %> <table width="100%"> <thead> <tr> <th> Item </th> <th> Quantity </th> <th> Price </th> <th> Remove </th> <th> Total </th> </tr> </thead> ...... in the database or we can just store the div id and based on that load a view which is avalaible in the file system. Any Pointers is greatly appreciated.

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  • PHP5 vs ASP.NET

    - by Lee
    Hi guys, I am required to write a report contrasting PHP5 and ASP.NET after building an application in both languages. I've been looking for papers and resources to reference and quote on the subject but i am running a little short. I was wondering if anyone directions as where i could find such papers / resources. Thanks in advance.

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  • SWIG: Python list to uint32_t *?

    - by Lee Crabtree
    I'm trying to work with a Python module that was generated by SWIG. There's a C++ class defined that works like this (simplified): namespace Foo { class Thing { public: Thing(); ~Thing(); bool DoSomething(uint32_t x, uint32_t y, uint32_t z, uint32_t *buffer); }; }; When I try to call it from Python, I get an error about the last argument needing to be of type 'uint32_t*'. Normal Python integers work just fine for the other arguments, so I can't understand why a list of ints wouldn't work for the buffer. Any suggestions?

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  • Python beautifulsoup trying to remove html tags 'span'

    - by Michelle Jun Lee
    I am trying to remove [<span class="street-address"> 510 E Airline Way </span>] and I have used this clean function to remove the one that is in between < > def clean(val): if type(val) is not StringType: val = str(val) val = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '',val) val = re.sub("\s+" , " ", val) return val.strip() and it produces [ 510 E Airline Way ]` i am trying to add within "clean" function to remove the char '[' and ']' and basically i just want to get the "510 E Airline Way". anyone has any clue what can i add to clean function? thank you

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  • How to use htaccess to rewrite url to html anchor tag (#)

    - by Lee L
    Hi - I have a situation where I want to take the following URL: /1/john and have it redirect using Apache's htaccess file to go to /page.php?id=1&name=john#john so that it goes to an html anchor with the name of john. I've found a lot of reference to escaping special characters, and to adding the [NE] flag so that the redirect ignores the # sign, but these don't work. For example, adding [NE,R] means that the URL just appears in the browser address as the original: http://mysite.com/page.php?id=1&name=john#john. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • JPA entities -- org.hibernate.TypeMismatchException

    - by shane lee
    Environment: JDK 1.6, JEE5 Hibernate Core 3.3.1.GA, Hibernate Annotations 3.4.0.GA DB:Informix Used reverse engineering to create my persistence entities from db schema [NB:This is a schema in work i cannot change] Getting exception when selecting list of basic_auth_accounts org.hibernate.TypeMismatchException: Provided id of the wrong type for class ebusiness.weblogic.model.UserAccounts. Expected: class ebusiness.weblogic.model.UserAccountsId, got class ebusiness.weblogic.model.BasicAuthAccountsId Both basic_auth_accounts and user_accounts have composite primary keys and one-to-one relationships. Any clues what to do here? This is pretty important that i get this to work. Cannot find any substantial solution on the net, some say to create an ID class which hibernate has done, and some say not to have a one-to-one relationship. Please help me!! /** * BasicAuthAccounts generated by hbm2java */ @Entity @Table(name = "basic_auth_accounts", schema = "ebusdevt", catalog = "ebusiness_dev", uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = { "realm_type_id", "realm_qualifier", "account_name" })) public class BasicAuthAccounts implements java.io.Serializable { private BasicAuthAccountsId id; private UserAccounts userAccounts; private String accountName; private String hashedPassword; private boolean passwdChangeReqd; private String hashMethodId; private int failedAttemptNo; private Date failedAttemptDate; private Date lastAccess; public BasicAuthAccounts() { } public BasicAuthAccounts(UserAccounts userAccounts, String accountName, String hashedPassword, boolean passwdChangeReqd, String hashMethodId, int failedAttemptNo) { this.userAccounts = userAccounts; this.accountName = accountName; this.hashedPassword = hashedPassword; this.passwdChangeReqd = passwdChangeReqd; this.hashMethodId = hashMethodId; this.failedAttemptNo = failedAttemptNo; } public BasicAuthAccounts(UserAccounts userAccounts, String accountName, String hashedPassword, boolean passwdChangeReqd, String hashMethodId, int failedAttemptNo, Date failedAttemptDate, Date lastAccess) { this.userAccounts = userAccounts; this.accountName = accountName; this.hashedPassword = hashedPassword; this.passwdChangeReqd = passwdChangeReqd; this.hashMethodId = hashMethodId; this.failedAttemptNo = failedAttemptNo; this.failedAttemptDate = failedAttemptDate; this.lastAccess = lastAccess; } @EmbeddedId @AttributeOverrides( { @AttributeOverride(name = "realmTypeId", column = @Column(name = "realm_type_id", nullable = false, length = 32)), @AttributeOverride(name = "realmQualifier", column = @Column(name = "realm_qualifier", nullable = false, length = 32)), @AttributeOverride(name = "accountId", column = @Column(name = "account_id", nullable = false)) }) public BasicAuthAccountsId getId() { return this.id; } public void setId(BasicAuthAccountsId id) { this.id = id; } @OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn @NotNull public UserAccounts getUserAccounts() { return this.userAccounts; } public void setUserAccounts(UserAccounts userAccounts) { this.userAccounts = userAccounts; } /** * BasicAuthAccountsId generated by hbm2java */ @Embeddable public class BasicAuthAccountsId implements java.io.Serializable { private String realmTypeId; private String realmQualifier; private long accountId; public BasicAuthAccountsId() { } public BasicAuthAccountsId(String realmTypeId, String realmQualifier, long accountId) { this.realmTypeId = realmTypeId; this.realmQualifier = realmQualifier; this.accountId = accountId; } /** * UserAccounts generated by hbm2java */ @Entity @Table(name = "user_accounts", schema = "ebusdevt", catalog = "ebusiness_dev") public class UserAccounts implements java.io.Serializable { private UserAccountsId id; private Realms realms; private UserDetails userDetails; private Integer accessLevel; private String status; private boolean isEdge; private String role; private boolean chargesAccess; private Date createdTimestamp; private Date lastStatusChangeTimestamp; private BasicAuthAccounts basicAuthAccounts; private Set<Sessions> sessionses = new HashSet<Sessions>(0); private Set<AccountGroups> accountGroupses = new HashSet<AccountGroups>(0); private Set<UserPrivileges> userPrivilegeses = new HashSet<UserPrivileges>(0); public UserAccounts() { } public UserAccounts(UserAccountsId id, Realms realms, UserDetails userDetails, String status, boolean isEdge, boolean chargesAccess) { this.id = id; this.realms = realms; this.userDetails = userDetails; this.status = status; this.isEdge = isEdge; this.chargesAccess = chargesAccess; } @EmbeddedId @AttributeOverrides( { @AttributeOverride(name = "realmTypeId", column = @Column(name = "realm_type_id", nullable = false, length = 32)), @AttributeOverride(name = "realmQualifier", column = @Column(name = "realm_qualifier", nullable = false, length = 32)), @AttributeOverride(name = "accountId", column = @Column(name = "account_id", nullable = false)) }) @NotNull public UserAccountsId getId() { return this.id; } public void setId(UserAccountsId id) { this.id = id; } @OneToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "userAccounts") public BasicAuthAccounts getBasicAuthAccounts() { return this.basicAuthAccounts; } public void setBasicAuthAccounts(BasicAuthAccounts basicAuthAccounts) { this.basicAuthAccounts = basicAuthAccounts; } /** * UserAccountsId generated by hbm2java */ @Embeddable public class UserAccountsId implements java.io.Serializable { private String realmTypeId; private String realmQualifier; private long accountId; public UserAccountsId() { } public UserAccountsId(String realmTypeId, String realmQualifier, long accountId) { this.realmTypeId = realmTypeId; this.realmQualifier = realmQualifier; this.accountId = accountId; } @Column(name = "realm_type_id", nullable = false, length = 32) @NotNull @Length(max = 32) public String getRealmTypeId() { return this.realmTypeId; } public void setRealmTypeId(String realmTypeId) { this.realmTypeId = realmTypeId; } @Column(name = "realm_qualifier", nullable = false, length = 32) @NotNull @Length(max = 32) public String getRealmQualifier() { return this.realmQualifier; } public void setRealmQualifier(String realmQualifier) { this.realmQualifier = realmQualifier; } @Column(name = "account_id", nullable = false) public long getAccountId() { return this.accountId; } public void setAccountId(long accountId) { this.accountId = accountId; } Main Code for classes are:

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  • Display Special Characters (Korean Letters) in RichTextBox

    - by Peter Lee
    Hi, My question might be a little bit confusing, but I think it's still worth of paying some attention. Basically I'm designing a program to display all printable Unicode characters in a RichTextBox. I'm using VC# 2010 Express Edition. However, the RichTextBox has a critical problem: some special characters cannot be displayed correctly. For example, some Korean Characters (??????????????????????????????), can be displayed correctly in Microsoft Word. After I copy to the RichTextBox, the characters cannot be displayed correctly. However, when I copy back to Microsoft Word, it can be displayed correctly. Therefore, it's a display problem (the characters themselves are correct). I guess it might be a font problem. Some related property info: RichTextBox.Font.GdiChaSet RichTextBox.Font How can I solve it? So that all printable Unicode characters can be displayed correctly (using different fonts for different CharSets are acceptable). Actually, I need further assistance about removing all formatting when pasting rtbxFileContent.Paste(DataFormats.GetFormat(DataFormats.Text)); // DataFormats.UnicodeText I still need to have all printable characters to be displayed correctly, but without any formatting (except font). Thanks. Hope I made myself understood.

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  • How to set up Mercurial with ssl/security

    - by Sam Lee
    I've been following the hginit.com tutorial on how to use mercurial. Everything is going fine except it uses push_ssl=False. This does not work for my situation because I want pushes (and pulls if possible) to be secure. All the tutorials I've been able to find also use push_ssl=False. Can anyone give me pointers on how to set up ssl/security for Mercurial? Thanks.

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  • Java error: Bad version number in .class file error when trying to run Cassandra on OS X

    - by Sam Lee
    I am trying to get Cassandra to work on OS X. When I run bin/cassandra, I get the following error: ~/apache-cassandra-incubating-0.4.1-src > bin/cassandra -f Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8888 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:675) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:316) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:280) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:374) From what I could determine by searching, this error is related to incompatible versions of Java. However, as far as I can tell, I have the latest version of Java: ~/apache-cassandra-incubating-0.4.1-src > java -version java version "1.6.0_13" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03-211) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.3-b02-83, mixed mode) ~/apache-cassandra-incubating-0.4.1-src > javac -version javac 1.6.0_13 ~/Downloads/apache-cassandra-incubating-0.4.1-src > echo $JAVA_HOME /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

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  • Where to Store the Protection Trial Info for Software Protection Purpose

    - by Peter Lee
    It might be duplicate with other questions, but I swear that I googled a lot and search at StackOverflow.com a lot, and I cannot find the answer to my question: In a C#.Net application, where to store the protection trial info, such as Expiration Date, Number of Used Times? I understand that, all kinds of Software Protection strategies can be cracked by a sophiscated hacker (because they can almost always get around the expiration checking step). But what I'm now going to do is just to protect it in a reasonable manner that a "common"/"advanced" user cannot screw it up. OK, in order to proof that I have googled and searched a lot at StackOverflow.com, I'm listing all the possible strategies I got: 1. Registry Entry First, some users might not have the access to even read the Registry table. Second, if we put the Protection Trial Info in a Registry Entry, the user can always find it out where it is by comparing the differences before and after the software installation. They can just simply change it. OK, you might say that we should encrypt the Protection Trial Info, yes we can do that. But what if the user just change their system date before installing? OK, you might say that we should also put a last-used date, if something is wrong, the last-used date could work as a protection guide. But what if the user just uninstall the software and delete all Registry Entries related to this software, and then reinstall the software? I have no idea on how to deal with this. Please help. A Plain File First, there are some places to put the plain file: 2.a) a simple XML file under software installation path 2.b) configuration file Again, the user can just uninstall the software and remove these plain file(s), and reinstall the software. - The Software Itself If we put the protection trial info (Expiration Date, we cannot put Number of Used Times) in the software itself, it is still susceptible to the cases I mentioned above. Furthermore, it's not even cool to do so. - A Trial Product-Key It works like a licensing process, that is, we put the Trial info into an RSA-signed string. However, it requires too many steps for a user to have a try of using the software (they might lose patience): 4.a) The user downloads the software; 4.b) The user sends an email to request a Trial Product-Key by providing user name (or email) or hardware info; 4.c) The server receives the request, RSA-signs it and send back to the user; 4.d) The user can now use it under the condition of (Expiration Date & Number of Used Times). Now, the server has a record of the user's username or hardware info, so the user will be rejected to request a second trial. Is it legal to collection hardware info? In a word, the user has to do one more extra step (request a Trial Product Key) just for having a try of using the software, which is not cool (thinking myself as a user). NOTE: This question is not about the Licensing, instead, it's about where to store the TRIAL info. After the trial expires, the user should ask for a license (CD-Key/Product-Key). I'm going to use RSA signature (bound to User Hardware)

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