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  • Getting my IP off the hotmail blacklist

    - by Kai
    I got a new server with a new IP address. Apparently this IP is listed in the hotmail blacklists so that I can't send mails to hotmail users out of my webapplication. postfix/smtp[24706]: 8F31C9404B: to=<[email protected]>, relay=mx3.hotmail.com[65.55.37.88]:25, delay=0.66, delays=0.01/0/0.48/0.16, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host mx3.hotmail.com[65.55.37.88] said: 550 SC-001 Unfortunately, messages from 78.47.228.xxx weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) My hoster will not help me get that address removed from the blacklist. So I tried to find a way to do it on my own, but I can't find a way to ask Microsoft to remove my IP from that list. Has anyone managed to remove a falsely listed address? And if yes: how?

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  • how to authenticate once for multiple servers, using only apache configs?

    - by Wang
    My problem is, I have a number of prepackaged web apps (a print system, a wiki, a bug tracker, an email archive, etc.) running on different Mac OS X Leopard (soon to be SL) servers that each need to authenticate users from the internet at large. Right now every server presents an Apache basic authentication prompt, which takes a shared login, but it's apparently enough of an inconvenience to log in repeatedly that people are sending email without checking the wiki or bug tracker or archive. In the case of the bug tracker, a user [might need to log in twice---once for apache if he hasn't used any other protected service on that server, once for the bug tracker itself so it can distinguish different people. Since the only common component to all these apps is Apache 2 itself, does it have any way of authenticating a user once, in some way that will be respected by other servers and various web apps? Looked at http://serverfault.com/questions/32421/how-is-session-stickiness-achieved-across-multiple-web-servers but it sounds like the answer is assuming that I get to write my own web app. Looked at Ian Bicking's blog but it's four years old and recommends something available only for apache 1.3, not apache 2. Sorry not to hyperlink the second site---apparently I need 10 reputation points. Edit: Shibboleth does what I need, but I should have specified that I'm looking for a really dumb, really simple solution for in-house services that need to handle all of a dozen users, probably not more than three at a time.

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  • how to disable local logins to a mac snow leopard machine?

    - by Wang
    I have a maintenance script that needs to run uninterrupted, so I'd like some way to disable local user logins. Right now, the solution is to send SIGSTP to the loginwindow process, which is suboptimal for several reasons. The most important of them is that the observed behavior is a login prompt that appears to accept the user's credentials but then hangs on a blank desktop before the menu bar or dock or desktop icons appear. This has led to users "fixing" the problem by rebooting the machine. Is there a better way to disable local logins? We currently use iHook, so if there's any way to abort a login from within the login hook, that would integrate nicely with our current setup. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't seem to have documented exactly what would cause Mac OS to abort the login.

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  • Wget - if / else download condition?

    - by Kai
    I want wget to prefer a certain filetype over another, if the files have the same basename. For example: if foo.ogg available, don't download foo.mp3 the way i use wget so far to crawl/automatically download (if anyone is interested): wget -Dfoo.com -I /folder/ -r -l 1 -nc -A.ogg,.mp3 -i http://www.foo.com/folder/ but this, of course, gets me .mp3 AND .ogg files. It often also gets me image files like .png which i didn't want in the first place, and discards them afterwards. Any Ideas? (Syntax-Explanation: -D: download only from this Domain -I: download only from this subfolder of Domain -r: recursive (follow links and directory structure) -l 1: follow only 1 link deep -nc: no clobber = download only if file doesn't exist -A: accept/download only all *.ogg and *.mp3 (discard necessary html-files) -i: download-url/starting point)

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  • Load Balancer sftp persistence when a server goes offline

    - by Cobra Kai Dojo
    Let's say we have the following scenario: We have two identical *nix servers using a shared filesystem. We connect through SFTP (not FTPS) to one of them to upload a file to the shared filesystem, the server goes offline and we get redirected to the second system which is still available. My question is, would there be any connection persistence or the user will have to relogin? I guess a relogin would be needed because the ssh sessions are not shared between the two systems... Thanks in advance :)

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  • Installed over 4G RAM on 32-bit OS? [closed]

    - by kai
    Possible Duplicate: 32-bit Windows Server address > 4GB RAM - How? I know that for 32-bit OS, the addressable memory space for each process is "4G" (maybe just 3G in user space...). If I have a 8G RAM, is it correct that all of the processes can still utilize (shared) these 8G memory but each of them are limited to a maximum 4G? Or the whole system only can see and utilize 4G out of 8G and thus having 8G RAM on a 32-bit OS is the same as having 4G RAM on it?

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  • how to make a very large radmind image, faster

    - by Wang
    Making the new Snow Leopard radmind image* for my lab involves manipulating over 50GB of applications, including passing them over the network. Each try takes four hours or more, and if it fails there's no apparent way to pick up again from partway through. Instead I have to delete all the data (a minutes-long operation) and start over. Furthermore, one successful upload just means now I get to test whether the image works; if it doesn't, I can look forward to repeating the upload as many times as I need to troubleshoot. How can I do this faster and/or smarter?

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  • Can't run command with sudo, even with the full path, I got an error

    - by Keating Wang
    the command starling is /home/keating/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/starling when run starling, get the error Permission denied when run rvmsudo starling, works well when run sudo starling, get the error sudo: starling: command not found when run sudo /home/keating/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/starling, get the error: /home/keating/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in to_specs': Could not find starling (>= 0) amongst [minitest-1.6.0, rake-0.8.7, rdoc-2.5.8] (Gem::LoadError) from /home/keating/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:into_spec' from /home/keating/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1229:in gem' from /home/keating/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/starling:18:in' I really want to run the command with sudo, because the error above is the same as running rvmsudo service starling start(I had set starling as a service of the os)

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  • After closing the ssh terminal, the thin server is down

    - by Keating Wang
    I have a rails project run on the thin server(1.3.1) on a ubuntu server. I ssh to the server and start thin with command 'thin start -C config/thin.yml', following the thin.yml, port: 3000 log: log/thin.log timeout: 30 chdir: /home/byht/56platform/dev/tracker environment: production servers: 1 daemonize: true After thin starts successfully, I visit the project and it works well. Then, I close the terminal, I can also visit the pages that have been visited, but when I visit the pages that not been visited before closing ssh terminal, a "500" error appears on the page. I didn't find the error messages in the log file. I have tried start thin with nohup and sudo, but they are useless. I sign in the ubuntu server locally, then the problem disappears. But I need sign in the server to stat thin with ssh when I'm home.

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  • Mac OS X 10.5/6, authenticate against by NIS or LDAP when both servers have your username

    - by Wang
    We have an organization-wide LDAP server and a department-only NIS server. Many users have accounts with the same name on both servers. Is there any way to get Leopard/Snow Leopard machines to query one server, and then the other, and let the user log in if his username/password combination matches at least one record? I can get either NIS authentication or LDAP authentication. I can even enable both, with LDAP set as higher priority, and authenticate using the name and password listed on the LDAP server. However, in the last case, if I set the LDAP domain as higher-priority in Directory Utility's search path and then provide the username/password pair listed in the NIS record, then my login is rejected even though the NIS server would accept it. Is there any way to make the OS check the rest of the search path after it finds the username?

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  • New SBS 2011 installation (not migration) in an existing 2008 R2 domain

    - by Tong Wang
    My current network setup has two servers: a Windows 2008 R2 with TMG 2010 as edge firewall (TMG server), a second 2008 R2 with DC, DNS and Hyper-V roles (DCDNS server). I was trying to install SBS 2011 as a child partition on DCDNS, first I installed SBS 2011 in English and did the migration successfully. However, later on, I found that I can't change the display language in SBS 2011 once it's installed (but the clients require a different language), so I had to re-install the SBS in a different language. It is during the re-installation that the problem came up: the migration can't be completed with some error message stating "can't access the source server". I re-ran the migration preparation tool, but it didn't make any difference. I wonder if it's because the source server can only be "migrated" once. Since I only need to setup a handful of users and computers, so I decided to do a new install of SBS and picked a different domain name. But I can't get the SBS to connect to LAN: it can't ping other servers, neither can other servers ping the SBS server. I've tried to stop the DC/DNS services on DCDNS and restart SBS, but with no difference. Anyone has idea how to fix this problem?

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  • handle 50-100 million rectangle in AutoCAD

    - by Wang
    I have huge problem when I try to get large array. For example, I have something like 10000x10000 or 5000x5000 rectangles. It is almost impossible to do anything because the screen just got frozen up. It is impossible to contain so many objects in one array. So I had 100x100 rectangle array as xref then array the xref again. It ate up about 12GB RAM. I guess this is the problem. Can anyone give me any suggestions can achieve the same structure but without freezing the computer?

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  • DIsable my nv video card driver in linux

    - by Dahaka Wang
    I'm trying to passthrough my nv video card to my domU, but I could not bind my video card to the pciback driver I only have one video card with the pci number 0000:03:00.0, so I used the following command echo -n "0000:03:00.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/nouveau/bind to unbind the nouveau driver from my video card. The screen went black because I have forcefully removed the video driver, therefore I ssh'd into the computer to run further commands I ran: echo -n "0000:03:00.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/bind to try to bind it to my pciback driver, but I got: bash: echo: write error: No such device I found out that this was the message shown when trying to bind a PCI device which is already bound. Therefore, I think that something was still using my video card Can anyone help me out? Thanks a lot!

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  • After exiting, the home folder cannot be visited?

    - by Keating Wang
    I ssh to a ubuntu sever, start a web project(Rails), then I can visit this project. I close the the ssh terminal, then the project says can not find files(view pages,css files and so on). I put the project in the home folder(/home/byht). why? When closing the ssh terminal, the user's folder can not be visited ? You know, when I put the project in another folder(/usr/local), everything goes well.

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  • Is there a Math.atan2 substitute for j2ME? Blackberry development

    - by Kai
    I have a wide variety of locations stored in my persistent object that contain latitudes and longitudes in double(43.7389, 7.42577) format. I need to be able to grab the user's latitude and longitude and select all items within, say 1 mile. Walking distance. I have done this in PHP so I snagged my PHP code and transferred it to Java, where everything plugged in fine until I figured out J2ME doesn't support atan2(double, double). So, after some searching, I find a small snippet of code that is supposed to be a substitute for atan2. Here is the code: public double atan2(double y, double x) { double coeff_1 = Math.PI / 4d; double coeff_2 = 3d * coeff_1; double abs_y = Math.abs(y)+ 1e-10f; double r, angle; if (x >= 0d) { r = (x - abs_y) / (x + abs_y); angle = coeff_1; } else { r = (x + abs_y) / (abs_y - x); angle = coeff_2; } angle += (0.1963f * r * r - 0.9817f) * r; return y < 0.0f ? -angle : angle; } I am getting odd results from this. My min and max latitude and longitudes are coming back as incredibly low numbers that can't possibly be right. Like 0.003785746 when I am expecting something closer to the original lat and long values (43.7389, 7.42577). Since I am no master of advanced math, I don't really know what to look for here. Perhaps someone else may have an answer. Here is my complete code: package store_finder; import java.util.Vector; import javax.microedition.location.Criteria; import javax.microedition.location.Location; import javax.microedition.location.LocationException; import javax.microedition.location.LocationListener; import javax.microedition.location.LocationProvider; import javax.microedition.location.QualifiedCoordinates; import net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.Invoke; import net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.MapsArguments; import net.rim.device.api.system.Bitmap; import net.rim.device.api.system.Display; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Color; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Field; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Graphics; import net.rim.device.api.ui.Manager; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.BitmapField; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.RichTextField; import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.SeparatorField; import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.HorizontalFieldManager; import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.MainScreen; import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.VerticalFieldManager; public class nearBy extends MainScreen { private HorizontalFieldManager _top; private VerticalFieldManager _middle; private int horizontalOffset; private final static long animationTime = 300; private long animationStart = 0; private double latitude = 43.7389; private double longitude = 7.42577; private int _interval = -1; private double max_lat; private double min_lat; private double max_lon; private double min_lon; private double latitude_in_degrees; private double longitude_in_degrees; public nearBy() { super(); horizontalOffset = Display.getWidth(); _top = new HorizontalFieldManager(Manager.USE_ALL_WIDTH | Field.FIELD_HCENTER) { public void paint(Graphics gr) { Bitmap bg = Bitmap.getBitmapResource("bg.png"); gr.drawBitmap(0, 0, Display.getWidth(), Display.getHeight(), bg, 0, 0); subpaint(gr); } }; _middle = new VerticalFieldManager() { public void paint(Graphics graphics) { graphics.setBackgroundColor(0xFFFFFF); graphics.setColor(Color.BLACK); graphics.clear(); super.paint(graphics); } protected void sublayout(int maxWidth, int maxHeight) { int displayWidth = Display.getWidth(); int displayHeight = Display.getHeight(); super.sublayout( displayWidth, displayHeight); setExtent( displayWidth, displayHeight); } }; add(_top); add(_middle); Bitmap lol = Bitmap.getBitmapResource("logo.png"); BitmapField lolfield = new BitmapField(lol); _top.add(lolfield); Criteria cr= new Criteria(); cr.setCostAllowed(true); cr.setPreferredResponseTime(60); cr.setHorizontalAccuracy(5000); cr.setVerticalAccuracy(5000); cr.setAltitudeRequired(true); cr.isSpeedAndCourseRequired(); cr.isAddressInfoRequired(); try{ LocationProvider lp = LocationProvider.getInstance(cr); if( lp!=null ){ lp.setLocationListener(new LocationListenerImpl(), _interval, 1, 1); } } catch(LocationException le) { add(new RichTextField("Location exception "+le)); } //_middle.add(new RichTextField("this is a map " + Double.toString(latitude) + " " + Double.toString(longitude))); int lat = (int) (latitude * 100000); int lon = (int) (longitude * 100000); String document = "<location-document>" + "<location lon='" + lon + "' lat='" + lat + "' label='You are here' description='You' zoom='0' />" + "<location lon='742733' lat='4373930' label='Hotel de Paris' description='Hotel de Paris' address='Palace du Casino' postalCode='98000' phone='37798063000' zoom='0' />" + "</location-document>"; // Invoke.invokeApplication(Invoke.APP_TYPE_MAPS, new MapsArguments( MapsArguments.ARG_LOCATION_DOCUMENT, document)); _middle.add(new SeparatorField()); surroundingVenues(); _middle.add(new RichTextField("max lat: " + max_lat)); _middle.add(new RichTextField("min lat: " + min_lat)); _middle.add(new RichTextField("max lon: " + max_lon)); _middle.add(new RichTextField("min lon: " + min_lon)); } private void surroundingVenues() { double point_1_latitude_in_degrees = latitude; double point_1_longitude_in_degrees= longitude; // diagonal distance + error margin double distance_in_miles = (5 * 1.90359441) + 10; getCords (point_1_latitude_in_degrees, point_1_longitude_in_degrees, distance_in_miles, 45); double lat_limit_1 = latitude_in_degrees; double lon_limit_1 = longitude_in_degrees; getCords (point_1_latitude_in_degrees, point_1_longitude_in_degrees, distance_in_miles, 135); double lat_limit_2 = latitude_in_degrees; double lon_limit_2 = longitude_in_degrees; getCords (point_1_latitude_in_degrees, point_1_longitude_in_degrees, distance_in_miles, -135); double lat_limit_3 = latitude_in_degrees; double lon_limit_3 = longitude_in_degrees; getCords (point_1_latitude_in_degrees, point_1_longitude_in_degrees, distance_in_miles, -45); double lat_limit_4 = latitude_in_degrees; double lon_limit_4 = longitude_in_degrees; double mx1 = Math.max(lat_limit_1, lat_limit_2); double mx2 = Math.max(lat_limit_3, lat_limit_4); max_lat = Math.max(mx1, mx2); double mm1 = Math.min(lat_limit_1, lat_limit_2); double mm2 = Math.min(lat_limit_3, lat_limit_4); min_lat = Math.max(mm1, mm2); double mlon1 = Math.max(lon_limit_1, lon_limit_2); double mlon2 = Math.max(lon_limit_3, lon_limit_4); max_lon = Math.max(mlon1, mlon2); double minl1 = Math.min(lon_limit_1, lon_limit_2); double minl2 = Math.min(lon_limit_3, lon_limit_4); min_lon = Math.max(minl1, minl2); //$qry = "SELECT DISTINCT zip.zipcode, zip.latitude, zip.longitude, sg_stores.* FROM zip JOIN store_finder AS sg_stores ON sg_stores.zip=zip.zipcode WHERE zip.latitude<=$lat_limit_max AND zip.latitude>=$lat_limit_min AND zip.longitude<=$lon_limit_max AND zip.longitude>=$lon_limit_min"; } private void getCords(double point_1_latitude, double point_1_longitude, double distance, int degs) { double m_EquatorialRadiusInMeters = 6366564.86; double m_Flattening=0; double distance_in_meters = distance * 1609.344 ; double direction_in_radians = Math.toRadians( degs ); double eps = 0.000000000000005; double r = 1.0 - m_Flattening; double point_1_latitude_in_radians = Math.toRadians( point_1_latitude ); double point_1_longitude_in_radians = Math.toRadians( point_1_longitude ); double tangent_u = (r * Math.sin( point_1_latitude_in_radians ) ) / Math.cos( point_1_latitude_in_radians ); double sine_of_direction = Math.sin( direction_in_radians ); double cosine_of_direction = Math.cos( direction_in_radians ); double heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians = 0.0; if ( cosine_of_direction != 0.0 ) { heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians = atan2( tangent_u, cosine_of_direction ) * 2.0; } double cu = 1.0 / Math.sqrt( ( tangent_u * tangent_u ) + 1.0 ); double su = tangent_u * cu; double sa = cu * sine_of_direction; double c2a = ( (-sa) * sa ) + 1.0; double x= Math.sqrt( ( ( ( 1.0 /r /r ) - 1.0 ) * c2a ) + 1.0 ) + 1.0; x= (x- 2.0 ) / x; double c= 1.0 - x; c= ( ( (x * x) / 4.0 ) + 1.0 ) / c; double d= ( ( 0.375 * (x * x) ) -1.0 ) * x; tangent_u = distance_in_meters /r / m_EquatorialRadiusInMeters /c; double y= tangent_u; boolean exit_loop = false; double cosine_of_y = 0.0; double cz = 0.0; double e = 0.0; double term_1 = 0.0; double term_2 = 0.0; double term_3 = 0.0; double sine_of_y = 0.0; while( exit_loop != true ) { sine_of_y = Math.sin(y); cosine_of_y = Math.cos(y); cz = Math.cos( heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians + y); e = (cz * cz * 2.0 ) - 1.0; c = y; x = e * cosine_of_y; y = (e + e) - 1.0; term_1 = ( sine_of_y * sine_of_y * 4.0 ) - 3.0; term_2 = ( ( term_1 * y * cz * d) / 6.0 ) + x; term_3 = ( ( term_2 * d) / 4.0 ) -cz; y= ( term_3 * sine_of_y * d) + tangent_u; if ( Math.abs(y - c) > eps ) { exit_loop = false; } else { exit_loop = true; } } heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians = ( cu * cosine_of_y * cosine_of_direction ) - ( su * sine_of_y ); c = r * Math.sqrt( ( sa * sa ) + ( heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians * heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians ) ); d = ( su * cosine_of_y ) + ( cu * sine_of_y * cosine_of_direction ); double point_2_latitude_in_radians = atan2(d, c); c = ( cu * cosine_of_y ) - ( su * sine_of_y * cosine_of_direction ); x = atan2( sine_of_y * sine_of_direction, c); c = ( ( ( ( ( -3.0 * c2a ) + 4.0 ) * m_Flattening ) + 4.0 ) * c2a * m_Flattening ) / 16.0; d = ( ( ( (e * cosine_of_y * c) + cz ) * sine_of_y * c) + y) * sa; double point_2_longitude_in_radians = ( point_1_longitude_in_radians + x) - ( ( 1.0 - c) * d * m_Flattening ); heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians = atan2( sa, heading_from_point_2_to_point_1_in_radians ) + Math.PI; latitude_in_degrees = Math.toRadians( point_2_latitude_in_radians ); longitude_in_degrees = Math.toRadians( point_2_longitude_in_radians ); } public double atan2(double y, double x) { double coeff_1 = Math.PI / 4d; double coeff_2 = 3d * coeff_1; double abs_y = Math.abs(y)+ 1e-10f; double r, angle; if (x >= 0d) { r = (x - abs_y) / (x + abs_y); angle = coeff_1; } else { r = (x + abs_y) / (abs_y - x); angle = coeff_2; } angle += (0.1963f * r * r - 0.9817f) * r; return y < 0.0f ? -angle : angle; } private Vector fetchVenues(double max_lat, double min_lat, double max_lon, double min_lon) { return new Vector(); } private class LocationListenerImpl implements LocationListener { public void locationUpdated(LocationProvider provider, Location location) { if(location.isValid()) { nearBy.this.longitude = location.getQualifiedCoordinates().getLongitude(); nearBy.this.latitude = location.getQualifiedCoordinates().getLatitude(); //double altitude = location.getQualifiedCoordinates().getAltitude(); //float speed = location.getSpeed(); } } public void providerStateChanged(LocationProvider provider, int newState) { // MUST implement this. Should probably do something useful with it as well. } } } please excuse the mess. I have the user lat long hard coded since I do not have GPS functional yet. You can see the SQL query commented out to know how I plan on using the min and max lat and long values. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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  • Changing or accessing a control in a Silverlight Data Form Edit Template

    - by Aim Kai
    I came across an interesting issue today when playing around with the Silverlight Data Form control. I wanted to change the visibility of a particular control inside the bound edit template.. see xaml below. <df:DataForm x:Name="NoteFormEdit" ItemsSource="{Binding Mode=OneWay}" AutoGenerateFields="True" AutoEdit="True" AutoCommit="False" CommitButtonContent="Save" CancelButtonContent="Cancel" CommandButtonsVisibility="Commit" LabelPosition="Top" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" EditEnded="NoteForm_EditEnded"> <df:DataForm.EditTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel> <df:DataField> <TextBox Text="{Binding Title, Mode=TwoWay}"/> </df:DataField> <df:DataField> <TextBox Text="{Binding Description, Mode=TwoWay}" AcceptsReturn="True" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Height="" TextWrapping="Wrap" SizeChanged="TextBox_SizeChanged"/> </df:DataField> <df:DataField> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Username}" x:Name="tbUsername"/> </df:DataField> <df:DataField> <TextBlock Text="{Binding DateCreated, Converter={StaticResource DateConverter}}" x:Name="tbDateCreated"/> </df:DataField> </StackPanel> </DataTemplate> </df:DataForm.EditTemplate> </df:DataForm> I wanted to depending on how the container of this data form was accessed to disable or hide the last two data fields. I did a work around which had two data forms but this is a bit excessive! Does anyone know how to access these controls inside the edit template?

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  • Runge-Kutta (RK4) integration for game physics

    - by Kai
    Gaffer on Games has a great article about using RK4 integration for better game physics. The implementation is straightforward but the math behind it confuses me. I understand derivatives and integrals on a conceptual level but I haven't manipulated equations in a long time. Here's the brunt of Gaffer's implementation: void integrate(State &state, float t, float dt) { Derivative a = evaluate(state, t, 0.0f, Derivative()); Derivative b = evaluate(state, t+dt*0.5f, dt*0.5f, a); Derivative c = evaluate(state, t+dt*0.5f, dt*0.5f, b); Derivative d = evaluate(state, t+dt, dt, c); const float dxdt = 1.0f/6.0f * (a.dx + 2.0f*(b.dx + c.dx) + d.dx); const float dvdt = 1.0f/6.0f * (a.dv + 2.0f*(b.dv + c.dv) + d.dv) state.x = state.x + dxdt * dt; state.v = state.v + dvdt * dt; } Can anybody explain in simple terms how RK4 works? Specifically, why are we averaging the derivatives at 0.0f, 0.5f, 0.5f, and 1.0f? How is averaging derivatives up to the 4th order different from doing a simple euler integration with a smaller timestep? After reading the accepted answer below, and several other articles, I have a grasp on how RK4 works. To answer my own questions: Can anybody explain in simple terms how RK4 works? RK4 takes advantage of the fact that we can get a much better approximation of a function if we use its higher-order derivatives rather than just the first or second derivative. That's why the Taylor series converges much faster than Euler approximations. (take a look at the animation on the right side of that page) Specifically, why are we averaging the derivatives at 0.0f, 0.5f, 0.5f, and 1.0f? The Runge-Kutta method is an approximation of a function that samples derivatives of several points within a timestep, unlike the Taylor series which only samples derivatives of a single point. After sampling these derivatives we need to know how to weigh each sample to get the closest approximation possible. An easy way to do this is to pick constants that coincide with the Taylor series, which is how the constants of a Runge-Kutta equation are determined. This article made it clearer for me: http://web.mit.edu/10.001/Web/Course%5FNotes/Differential%5FEquations%5FNotes/node5.html. Notice how (15) is the Taylor series expansion while (17) is the Runge-Kutta derivation. How is averaging derivatives up to the 4th order different from doing a simple euler integration with a smaller timestep? Mathematically it converges much faster than doing many Euler approximations. Of course, with enough Euler approximations we can gain equal accuracy to RK4, but the computational power needed doesn't justify using Euler.

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  • Date formatting using data annotations for a dataform in Silverlight

    - by Aim Kai
    This is probably got a simple answer to it, but I am having problems just formatting the date for a dataform field.. <df:DataForm x:Name="Form1" ItemsSource="{Binding Mode=OneWay}" AutoGenerateFields="True" AutoEdit="True" AutoCommit="False" CommitButtonContent="Save" CancelButtonContent="Cancel" CommandButtonsVisibility="Commit" LabelPosition="Top" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" EditEnded="NoteForm_EditEnded"> <df:DataForm.EditTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel> <df:DataField> <TextBox Text="{Binding Title, Mode=TwoWay}"/> </df:DataField> <df:DataField> <TextBox Text="{Binding Description, Mode=TwoWay}" AcceptsReturn="True" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Height="" TextWrapping="Wrap" SizeChanged="TextBox_SizeChanged"/> </df:DataField> <df:DataField> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Username}"/> </df:DataField> <df:DataField> <TextBlock Text="{Binding DateCreated}"/> </df:DataField> </StackPanel> </DataTemplate> </df:DataForm.EditTemplate> </df:DataForm> I have bound this to a note class which has the annotation for field DateCreated: /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the date created of the noteannotation /// </summary> [Display(Name="Date Created")] [Editable(false)] [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:u}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)] public DateTime DateCreated { get; set; } Whatever I set the dataformatstring it comes back as: eg 4/6/2010 10:02:15 AM I want this formatted as yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss I have tried the custom format above {0:yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss} but it remains the same output. The same happens for {0:u} or {0:s}. Any help would be gratefully received. :)

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  • idioms for returning multiple values in shell scripting

    - by Wang
    Are there any idioms for returning multiple values from a bash function within a script? http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/assortedtips.html describes how to echo multiple values and process the results (e.g., example 35-17), but that gets tricky if some of the returned values are strings with spaces in. A more structured way to return would be to assign to global variables, like foo () { FOO_RV1="bob" FOO_RV2="bill" } foo echo "foo returned ${FOO_RV1} and ${FOO_RV2}" I realize that if I need re-entrancy in a shell script I'm probably doing it wrong, but I still feel very uncomfortable throwing global variables around just to hold return values. Is there a better way? I would prefer portability, but it's probably not a real limitation if I have to specify #!/bin/bash.

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  • The web publishing extension is not installed which is required to publish

    - by Chong Wang
    I was tring to deploy an ASP.NET Web Application to a Windows Azure Web Site by following the tutorial through this link: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/tutorials/get-started/ After download the public profile, which is a ".PublishSettings" file, I go back to Visual Studio and right-click the project in Solution Explorer and select Publish from the context menu as the tutorial said. However, a warning box jumped up and it showed me that "The Web Publishing extension is not installed which is required to publish. You can install it from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=208120." I already installed "Windows Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2012)" and I also tried to uninstall this and install again, but the same problem is still there. Anyone knows how to solve this? I am really appreciated.

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  • Java Errors with jRuby on Rails on Google App Engine

    - by John Wang
    I followed all of the instructions so far from: http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/wiki/RunningRails and http://gist.github.com/268192 Currently, I'm just trying to get to hello world. I'm getting these errors when I just run the dev_appserver.rb 238:hello-world jwang392$ dev_appserver.rb . => Booting DevAppServer => Press Ctrl-C to shutdown server => Generating configuration files 2010-04-08 09:16:51.961 java[411:1707] [Java CocoaComponent compatibility mode]: Enabled 2010-04-08 09:16:51.964 java[411:1707] [Java CocoaComponent compatibility mode]: Setting timeout for SWT to 0.100000 Apr 8, 2010 7:17:05 PM com.google.appengine.tools.development.ApiProxyLocalImpl log SEVERE: [1270754225387000] javax.servlet.ServletContext log: Warning: error application could not be initialized org.jruby.rack.RackInitializationException: no such file to load -- time from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25:in `boot!' from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:10 from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1:in `load' from <script>:1 at org.jruby.rack.DefaultRackApplicationFactory $4.init(DefaultRackApplicationFactory.java:169) at org.jruby.rack.DefaultRackApplicationFactory.newErrorApplication(DefaultRac kApplicationFactory.java: 118) at org.jruby.rack.DefaultRackApplicationFactory.init(DefaultRackApplicationFac tory.java: 37) at org.jruby.rack.SharedRackApplicationFactory.init(SharedRackApplicationFacto ry.java: 26) at org.jruby.rack.RackServletContextListener.contextInitialized(RackServletCon textListener.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java: 530) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:135) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java: 1218) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java: 500) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java: 448) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 117) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 117) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:217) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.JettyContainerService.startContainer (JettyContainerService.java: 188) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.AbstractContainerService.startup(Abs tractContainerService.java: 147) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerImpl.start(DevAppServerI mpl.java: 219) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain $StartAction.apply(DevAppServerMain.java:162) at com.google.appengine.tools.util.Parser $ParseResult.applyArgs(Parser.java:48) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.<init>(DevAppServer Main.java: 113) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.main(DevAppServerMa in.java: 89) Caused by: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: no such file to load -- time at (unknown).new(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25) at Kernel.require(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25) at JRuby::Rack::Booter.boot!(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/ lib/jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:10) at (unknown).(unknown)(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/ jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1) at (unknown).(unknown)(file:/Users/jwang392/Dhello-world/WEB-INF/lib/ jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1) at Kernel.load(<script>:1) at (unknown).(unknown)(:1) Apr 8, 2010 7:17:05 PM com.google.appengine.tools.development.ApiProxyLocalImpl log SEVERE: [1270754225913000] javax.servlet.ServletContext log: unable to create shared application instance org.jruby.rack.RackInitializationException: no such file to load -- time from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25:in `boot!' from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:10 from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1:in `load' from <script>:1 at org.jruby.rack.DefaultRackApplicationFactory $4.init(DefaultRackApplicationFactory.java:169) at org.jruby.rack.DefaultRackApplicationFactory.getApplication(DefaultRackAppl icationFactory.java: 51) at org.jruby.rack.SharedRackApplicationFactory.init(SharedRackApplicationFacto ry.java: 27) at org.jruby.rack.RackServletContextListener.contextInitialized(RackServletCon textListener.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java: 530) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:135) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java: 1218) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java: 500) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java: 448) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 117) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 117) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:217) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.JettyContainerService.startContainer (JettyContainerService.java: 188) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.AbstractContainerService.startup(Abs tractContainerService.java: 147) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerImpl.start(DevAppServerI mpl.java: 219) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain $StartAction.apply(DevAppServerMain.java:162) at com.google.appengine.tools.util.Parser $ParseResult.applyArgs(Parser.java:48) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.<init>(DevAppServer Main.java: 113) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.main(DevAppServerMa in.java: 89) Caused by: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: no such file to load -- time at (unknown).new(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25) at Kernel.require(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25) at JRuby::Rack::Booter.boot!(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/ lib/jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:10) at (unknown).(unknown)(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/ jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1) at (unknown).(unknown)(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/ jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1) at Kernel.load(<script>:1) at (unknown).(unknown)(:1) Apr 8, 2010 7:17:05 PM com.google.appengine.tools.development.ApiProxyLocalImpl log SEVERE: [1270754225915000] javax.servlet.ServletContext log: Error: application initialization failed org.jruby.rack.RackInitializationException: unable to create shared application instance at org.jruby.rack.SharedRackApplicationFactory.init(SharedRackApplicationFacto ry.java: 39) at org.jruby.rack.RackServletContextListener.contextInitialized(RackServletCon textListener.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java: 530) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:135) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java: 1218) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java: 500) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java: 448) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 117) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java: 117) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:217) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java: 40) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.JettyContainerService.startContainer (JettyContainerService.java: 188) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.AbstractContainerService.startup(Abs tractContainerService.java: 147) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerImpl.start(DevAppServerI mpl.java: 219) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain $StartAction.apply(DevAppServerMain.java:162) at com.google.appengine.tools.util.Parser $ParseResult.applyArgs(Parser.java:48) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.<init>(DevAppServer Main.java: 113) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.main(DevAppServerMa in.java: 89) Caused by: org.jruby.rack.RackInitializationException: no such file to load -- time from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25:in `boot!' from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:10 from file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1:in `load' from <script>:1 at org.jruby.rack.DefaultRackApplicationFactory $4.init(DefaultRackApplicationFactory.java:169) at org.jruby.rack.DefaultRackApplicationFactory.getApplication(DefaultRackAppl icationFactory.java: 51) at org.jruby.rack.SharedRackApplicationFactory.init(SharedRackApplicationFacto ry.java: 27) ... 19 more Caused by: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: no such file to load -- time at (unknown).new(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25) at Kernel.require(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/jruby- rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/booter.rb:25) at JRuby::Rack::Booter.boot!(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/ lib/jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:10) at (unknown).(unknown)(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/ jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1) at (unknown).(unknown)(file:/Users/jwang392/hello-world/WEB-INF/lib/ jruby-rack-0.9.6.jar!/jruby/rack/boot/rack.rb:1) at Kernel.load(<script>:1) at (unknown).(unknown)(:1) The server is running at http://localhost:8080/ I'm at a loss at what step I may have missed. I checked my ruby version (1.8.7) and rails version (2.3.5), gem version (1.3.6) and google-appengine-0.0.10.1 ran: sudo gem install google-appengine curl -O http://appengine-jruby.googlecode.com/hg/demos/rails2/rails2_appengine.rb ruby rails2_appengine.rb sudo gem install rails_dm_datastore sudo gem install activerecord-nulldb-adapter put this in my config.ru file: run lambda { |env| Rack::Response.new('Hello World!').finish } and finally ran $ dev_appserver.rb .

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