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  • "Device Not Ready" when attempting to connecting an old (DOS) hard drive to windows 7

    - by Christopher Vigliotti
    I have an old Western Digital Caviar 2540 hard drive that I am attempting to connect to a Windows 7 machine by using a Bytecc BT-300 USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Adapter. I'm connecting things in the right order (power, then sata, then usb) and the jumper settings on the drive are at present set to slave, but am still having an issue. I am recieving a message that the drive is not initialized. When I go into Computer Management I can see the drive (as "Disk 5, Unknown, Not Initialized"), but when I attempt to initialize it or right-click and select "Offline" It tells me that "the device is not ready". Is there something that I can to to get around this, connect the drive and copy the data that I need off of this drive? Is there a third party tool available that I can use?

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  • Android: How to periodically send location to a server

    - by Mark
    Hi, I am running a Web service that allows users to record their trips (kind of like Google's MyTracks) as part of a larger app. The thing is that it is easy to pass data, including coords and other items, to the server when a user starts a trip or ends it. Being a newbie, I am not sure how to set up a background service that sends the location updates once every (pre-determined) period (min 3 minutes, max 1 hr) until the user flags the end of the trip, or until a preset amount of time elapses. Once the trip is started from the phone, the server responds with a polling period for the phone to use as the interval between updates. This part works, in that I can display the response on the phone, and my server registers the user's action. Similarly, the trip is closed server-side upon the close trip request. However, when I tried starting a periodic tracking method from inside the StartTrack Activity, using requestLocationUpdates(String provider, long minTime, float minDistance, LocationListener listener) where minTime is the poll period from the server, it just did not work, and I'm not getting any errors. So it means I'm clueless at this point, never having used Android before. I have seen many posts here on using background services with handlers, pending intents, and other things to do similar stuff, but I really don't understand how to do it. I would like the user to do other stuff on the phone while the updates are going on, so if you guys could point me to a tutorial that shows how to actually write background services (maybe these run as separate classes?) or other ways of doing this, that would be great. Thanks!

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  • DELL Vostro 1520 bios crashed during update. now not giving even startup display

    - by Baahu
    my dell vostro 1520 crashed while i was installing drivers of windows 7 64bit. when i tried to update the bios it suddenly hanged. it remained in that state for a long time and was not getting off even by pressing and holding the power button. i removed the battery and after again installing the battery laptop is not giving any display of startup and all the caps lock lights are blinking. what the problem is this. i am worry about my laptop. please tell me the solution

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  • Is there a software like AutoCAD, but only 2D, not 3D?

    - by Saeed Neamati
    I love AutuCAD. It's powerful, easy to use, and fits engineering mind. It rocks when you want to draw 2D diagrams and shapes and one the cool features I like about it, is its snapping power. You draw a simple rectangle, then you can very easily create a circumscribe circle around it. However, new version of it are becoming really heavy (in size) and need high tech hardware, because of its powerful 3D capabilities, and rendering engines coming with it. I only want the 2D part of AutoCAD. Is there any software out there, which resembles AutoCAD (like having a console, where you can type L and get the line tool, or having snapping capability, etc.), but is small in size? In other words, what software can be named as AutoCAD 2D alternative?

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  • mysqld stopped working..can't restart...need help?

    - by grant tailor
    i was just checking somethings and noticed mysqld is not running in parallels power panel control panel...but my websites on the server were all working fine, which use mysql databases...so really strange So i tried to restart mysqld but got errors and can't restart and now all my websites are all offline now saying error connecting to database. logged in as root and tried /etc/init.d/mysqld start and got this error ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit without updating file What do i do next? What do i do? Please help!

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  • Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK in eclipse

    - by user3014909
    I have an unexpe`ted problem with my Android project. I have a real android device with ice_cream sandwich installed. My app was working fine during the development but after I added a class to the project, I got an error: Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK The problem is that everything is good in the manifest file. The minSdkversion is 8. Here is my manifest file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="zabolotnii.pavel.timer" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="18 " /> <application android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/AppTheme" > <activity android:name="zabolotnii.pavel.timer.TimerActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> </manifest> I don't know, if there is any need to attach the new class ,but I didn't any changes to other code that should led to this error: package zabolotnii.pavel.timer; import android.app.AlertDialog; import android.content.Context; import android.content.DialogInterface; import android.graphics.Paint; import android.graphics.Point; import android.graphics.Rect; import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable; import android.os.Environment; import android.util.DisplayMetrics; import android.util.TypedValue; import android.view.*; import android.widget.*; import java.io.File; import java.io.FilenameFilter; import java.util.*; public class OpenFileDialog extends AlertDialog.Builder { private String currentPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath(); private List<File> files = new ArrayList<File>(); private TextView title; private ListView listView; private FilenameFilter filenameFilter; private int selectedIndex = -1; private OpenDialogListener listener; private Drawable folderIcon; private Drawable fileIcon; private String accessDeniedMessage; public interface OpenDialogListener { public void OnSelectedFile(String fileName); } private class FileAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<File> { public FileAdapter(Context context, List<File> files) { super(context, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, files); } @Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { TextView view = (TextView) super.getView(position, convertView, parent); File file = getItem(position); if (view != null) { view.setText(file.getName()); if (file.isDirectory()) { setDrawable(view, folderIcon); } else { setDrawable(view, fileIcon); if (selectedIndex == position) view.setBackgroundColor(getContext().getResources().getColor(android.R.color.holo_blue_dark)); else view.setBackgroundColor(getContext().getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent)); } } return view; } private void setDrawable(TextView view, Drawable drawable) { if (view != null) { if (drawable != null) { drawable.setBounds(0, 0, 60, 60); view.setCompoundDrawables(drawable, null, null, null); } else { view.setCompoundDrawables(null, null, null, null); } } } } public OpenFileDialog(Context context) { super(context); title = createTitle(context); changeTitle(); LinearLayout linearLayout = createMainLayout(context); linearLayout.addView(createBackItem(context)); listView = createListView(context); linearLayout.addView(listView); setCustomTitle(title) .setView(linearLayout) .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { if (selectedIndex > -1 && listener != null) { listener.OnSelectedFile(listView.getItemAtPosition(selectedIndex).toString()); } } }) .setNegativeButton(android.R.string.cancel, null); } @Override public AlertDialog show() { files.addAll(getFiles(currentPath)); listView.setAdapter(new FileAdapter(getContext(), files)); return super.show(); } public OpenFileDialog setFilter(final String filter) { filenameFilter = new FilenameFilter() { @Override public boolean accept(File file, String fileName) { File tempFile = new File(String.format("%s/%s", file.getPath(), fileName)); if (tempFile.isFile()) return tempFile.getName().matches(filter); return true; } }; return this; } public OpenFileDialog setOpenDialogListener(OpenDialogListener listener) { this.listener = listener; return this; } public OpenFileDialog setFolderIcon(Drawable drawable) { this.folderIcon = drawable; return this; } public OpenFileDialog setFileIcon(Drawable drawable) { this.fileIcon = drawable; return this; } public OpenFileDialog setAccessDeniedMessage(String message) { this.accessDeniedMessage = message; return this; } private static Display getDefaultDisplay(Context context) { return ((WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay(); } private static Point getScreenSize(Context context) { Point screeSize = new Point(); getDefaultDisplay(context).getSize(screeSize); return screeSize; } private static int getLinearLayoutMinHeight(Context context) { return getScreenSize(context).y; } private LinearLayout createMainLayout(Context context) { LinearLayout linearLayout = new LinearLayout(context); linearLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL); linearLayout.setMinimumHeight(getLinearLayoutMinHeight(context)); return linearLayout; } private int getItemHeight(Context context) { TypedValue value = new TypedValue(); DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics(); context.getTheme().resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.listPreferredItemHeightSmall, value, true); getDefaultDisplay(context).getMetrics(metrics); return (int) TypedValue.complexToDimension(value.data, metrics); } private TextView createTextView(Context context, int style) { TextView textView = new TextView(context); textView.setTextAppearance(context, style); int itemHeight = getItemHeight(context); textView.setLayoutParams(new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, itemHeight)); textView.setMinHeight(itemHeight); textView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL); textView.setPadding(15, 0, 0, 0); return textView; } private TextView createTitle(Context context) { TextView textView = createTextView(context, android.R.style.TextAppearance_DeviceDefault_DialogWindowTitle); return textView; } private TextView createBackItem(Context context) { TextView textView = createTextView(context, android.R.style.TextAppearance_DeviceDefault_Small); Drawable drawable = getContext().getResources().getDrawable(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_directions); drawable.setBounds(0, 0, 60, 60); textView.setCompoundDrawables(drawable, null, null, null); textView.setLayoutParams(new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); textView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View view) { File file = new File(currentPath); File parentDirectory = file.getParentFile(); if (parentDirectory != null) { currentPath = parentDirectory.getPath(); RebuildFiles(((FileAdapter) listView.getAdapter())); } } }); return textView; } public int getTextWidth(String text, Paint paint) { Rect bounds = new Rect(); paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds); return bounds.left + bounds.width() + 80; } private void changeTitle() { String titleText = currentPath; int screenWidth = getScreenSize(getContext()).x; int maxWidth = (int) (screenWidth * 0.99); if (getTextWidth(titleText, title.getPaint()) > maxWidth) { while (getTextWidth("..." + titleText, title.getPaint()) > maxWidth) { int start = titleText.indexOf("/", 2); if (start > 0) titleText = titleText.substring(start); else titleText = titleText.substring(2); } title.setText("..." + titleText); } else { title.setText(titleText); } } private List<File> getFiles(String directoryPath) { File directory = new File(directoryPath); List<File> fileList = Arrays.asList(directory.listFiles(filenameFilter)); Collections.sort(fileList, new Comparator<File>() { @Override public int compare(File file, File file2) { if (file.isDirectory() && file2.isFile()) return -1; else if (file.isFile() && file2.isDirectory()) return 1; else return file.getPath().compareTo(file2.getPath()); } }); return fileList; } private void RebuildFiles(ArrayAdapter<File> adapter) { try { List<File> fileList = getFiles(currentPath); files.clear(); selectedIndex = -1; files.addAll(fileList); adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); changeTitle(); } catch (NullPointerException e) { String message = getContext().getResources().getString(android.R.string.unknownName); if (!accessDeniedMessage.equals("")) message = accessDeniedMessage; Toast.makeText(getContext(), message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } } private ListView createListView(Context context) { ListView listView = new ListView(context); listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() { @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int index, long l) { final ArrayAdapter<File> adapter = (FileAdapter) adapterView.getAdapter(); File file = adapter.getItem(index); if (file.isDirectory()) { currentPath = file.getPath(); RebuildFiles(adapter); } else { if (index != selectedIndex) selectedIndex = index; else selectedIndex = -1; adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); } } }); return listView; } }

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  • PC reboots regularly

    - by Bob
    Windows XP RAID 5 drives Intel Dual Core processor 2 GB Ram I am running a processor temperature monitor. It does not appear to be overheating. I do not have virus. The PC freezes and reboots. I do not think it is software related, because it will reboot if it is doing nothing. Could it be the power supply? Might i need to replace it? How do I diagnose this? Is this the kind of question that is appropriate here? I am not sure.

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  • Computer refuses to POST

    - by TheX
    Computer refuses to POST. What it will do is the fan spins up, and the lights come on on the motherboard, but other then that it just sits there and laughs in my face! Here is what I have done... I have tried 2 different video cards, both known to work, 4 different sticks of RAM in all four ram slots, 2 processors (known to work), and 2 power supplies (known to work). The only constant is the motherboard... The Motherboard is a Asus m3a3-mvp deluxe. Anyone have any other ideas? Also, I have bread boarded it to make sure there where no shorts (taken everything out of the case and tried again).

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  • Can the onborad LAN cause computer shutdown

    - by user1146320
    I have P4 processor with nvidia card. Now if i don't connect to internet then my computer stays on for as much i can like 4-5 days. But if i plug in the ethernet wire. Do some surfing and leave computer as it is. Then computer fails. I mean The display on screen gets off Looks like something stopping the power supply to Harddisk. But motherboard stays on , FAN is still running , i can eject CD drive as well. But no display on monitor. I have to turn off and then turn on again. I tried formatting windows XP but again same problem

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  • How do I get these permissions working right so Apache can work with the files?

    - by cosmicbdog
    I am having a go at setting up my own Apache and can't seem to get my head around the permissions. Lets say I grab a file from somewhere off the web and it has permission of 600. I then upload this file via ftp to a user directory, which is also an apache virtual site, and so this file retains this permission of 600. This means that the user can read this file, but Apache can't: it will be forbidden. What is the most simple solution so that apache can read + write whatever files end up in the users directory? Can apache be granted some sort of root power over files in a directory?

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  • Best practice for managing changes to 3rd party open source libraries?

    - by Jeff Knecht
    On a recent project, I had to modify an open source library to address a functional deficiency. I followed the SVN best practice of creating a "vendor source" repository and made my changes there. I also submitted the patch to the mailing list of that project. Unfortunately, the project only has a couple of maintainers and they are very slow to commit updates. At some point, I expect the library to be updated, and I expect that my project will want to use the upgraded library. But now I have a potential problem... I don't know whether my patch will have been applied to this future release of the 3rd party library. I also don't know whether my patch will even still be compatible with the internal implementation of the upgraded components. And in all likelihood, someone else will be maintaining my project by that point. Should I name the library in a special way so it is clear that we made special modifications (eg. commons-lang-2.x-for-my-project.jar)? Should I just document the patch and reference the SVN location and a link to the mailing list item in a README? No option that I can think of seems to be fool-proof in an upgrade scenario. What is the best practice for this?

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  • Windows 2003 to log on no matter how it turned off

    - by Arya
    I have a windows server 2003, which I use Teamviewer to connect to. When there is a power failure, and the computer restarts, it will not load Teamviewer. It gets stuck on a screen which asks why the computer was turned off. There is no keyboard or mouse connected to the server and I need Teamviewer to open every time. I don't want the screen asking why it was turned off to show up ever. I turned off Shutdown Event Tracker by doing the following: Open gpedit.msc Computer Configuration Administrative Templates System click Display Shutdown Event Tracker and then selected the disable radio button. Is this enough to prevent that screen to show up again? or is there anything else I need to change?

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  • Dangers of the pyton eval() statement

    - by LukeP
    I am creating a game. Specifically it is a pokemon battle simulator. I have an sqlite database of moves in which a row looks something like: name | type | Power | Accuracy | PP | Description However, there are some special moves. For said special moves, their damage (and other attributes not shown above, like status effects) may be dependant on certian factors. Rather than create a huge if/else in one of my classes covering the formulas for every one of these moves. I'd rather include another column in the DB that contains a formula in string form, like 'self.health/2'(simplified example). I could then just plug that into eval. I always see people saying to stay away from eval, but from what I can tell, this would be considered an acceptable use, as the dangers of eval only come into play when accepting user input. Am I correct in this assumption, or is there somthing i'm not seeing.

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  • Win Server 2008 R2 - Mapped shared folder hanging?

    - by M-Tech
    I have recently built a windows 2008 server R2 machine. This is purely for file server purposes and is very much a basic build. All windows updates installed and part of domain. I have setup a shared folder on the C:Drive and added permissions for domain users as co-owners. The client machines run XP SP3 and are part of the domain also. We have a few servers running the same setups on a few of our sites but this one is particular crashes users machines (explorer.exe hangs for at least a few mins) when attempting to access the shared folder. I have turned off the option on the network card for power save aswell still no change. Any help with this is very much appreciated and i look forward to hearing from you ;)

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  • Setting up VMWare ESXi 5 with a single physical NIC

    - by deed02392
    I have a cheap but powerful dedicated server I am leasing with OVH, because they were recently having a promotion. I would like to try and manage all this power by playing with VMs using ESXi. However I am only provided with a single NIC. I had thought this would be easy to get around since, at home I have a single NIC which is my broadband modem, and yet a simple NAT gateway device happily provides internet access to all my devices. I am struggling to implement this on ESXi, though. Can anyone advise on how I could go about having ESXi and multiple VMs working with just one NIC? Here's my current setup: I believe all I need is to be able to configure NAT from the NIC to all the VMs etc.. How would I set up and administer this kind of infrastructure?

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  • Error 5A - Internal CPU Error

    - by Mitch
    So I built myself a pc for the first time. The machine has been running properly, and without issue, since March of this year. Today after an hour or so of gaming the machine shutdown without warning. Any attempts to reboot have been unsuccessful. I have managed to get it to post, twice, but it doesn't get as far as the OS before it shuts off again. I pulled the second video card so I could see the error code LED and it appears to be showing 5A which matches to "Internal CPU Error". Am I looking at a failed CPU or is this a symptom of another issue? Any feedback you can provide is most appreciated. Here's my parts list: CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid Motherboard: Asus X79 Deluxe ATX LGA2011 Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Video card (x2): EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Power supply: Corsair 1000W ATX12V / EPS12V

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  • In Java, is there a gain in using interfaces for complex models?

    - by Gnoupi
    The title is hardly understandable, but I'm not sure how to summarize that another way. Any edit to clarify is welcome. I have been told, and recommended to use interfaces to improve performances, even in a case which doesn't especially call for the regular "interface" role. In this case, the objects are big models (in a MVC meaning), with many methods and fields. The "good use" that has been recommended to me is to create an interface, with its unique implementation. There won't be any other class implementing this interface, for sure. I have been told that this is better to do so, because it "exposes less" (or something close) to the other classes which will use methods from this class, as these objects are referring to the object from its interface (all public method from the implementation being reproduced in the interface). This seems quite strange to me, as it seems like a C++ use to me (with header files). There I see the point, but in Java? Is there really a point in making an interface for such unique implementation? I would really appreciate some clarifications on the topic, so I could justify not following such kind of behavior, and the hassle it creates from duplicating all declarations.

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  • When using Direct3D, how much math is being done on the CPU?

    - by zirgen
    Context: I'm just starting out. I'm not even touching the Direct3D 11 API, and instead looking at understanding the pipeline, etc. From looking at documentation and information floating around the web, it seems like some calculations are being handled by the application. That, is, instead of simply presenting matrices to multiply to the GPU, the calculations are being done by a math library that operates on the CPU. I don't have any particular resources to point to, although I guess I can point to the XNA Math Library or the samples shipped in the February DX SDK. When you see code like mViewProj = mView * mProj;, that projection is being calculated on the CPU. Or am I wrong? If you were writing a program, where you can have 10 cubes on the screen, where you can move or rotate cubes, as well as viewpoint, what calculations would you do on the CPU? I think I would store the geometry for the a single cube, and then transform matrices representing the actual instances. And then it seems I would use the XNA math library, or another of my choosing, to transform each cube in model space. Then get the coordinates in world space. Then push the information to the GPU. That's quite a bit of calculation on the CPU. Am I wrong? Am I reaching conclusions based on too little information and understanding? What terms should I Google for, if the answer is STFW? Or if I am right, why aren't these calculations being pushed to the GPU as well?

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  • JPA returning null for deleted items from a set

    - by Jon
    This may be related to my question from a few days ago, but I'm not even sure how to explain this part. (It's an entirely different parent-child relationship.) In my interface, I have a set of attributes (Attribute) and valid values (ValidValue) for each one in a one-to-many relationship. In the Spring MVC frontend, I have a page for an administrator to edit these values. Once it's submitted, if any of these fields (as <input> tags) are blank, I remove the ValidValue object like so: Set<ValidValue> existingValues = new HashSet<ValidValue>(attribute.getValidValues()); Set<ValidValue> finalValues = new HashSet<ValidValue>(); for(ValidValue validValue : attribute.getValidValues()) { if(!validValue.getValue().isEmpty()) { finalValues.add(validValue); } } existingValues.removeAll(finalValues); for(ValidValue removedValue : existingValues) { getApplicationDataService().removeValidValue(removedValue); } attribute.setValidValues(finalValues); getApplicationDataService().modifyAttribute(attribute); The problem is that while the database is updated appropriately, the next time I query for the Attribute objects, they're returned with an extra entry in their ValidValue set -- a null, and thus, the next time I iterate through the values to display, it shows an extra blank value in the middle. I've confirmed that this happens at the point of a merge or find, at the point of "Execute query ReadObjectQuery(entity.Attribute). Here's the code I'm using to modify the database (in the ApplicationDataService): public void modifyAttribute(Attribute attribute) { getJpaTemplate().merge(attribute); } public void removeValidValue(ValidValue removedValue) { ValidValue merged = getJpaTemplate().merge(removedValue); getJpaTemplate().remove(merged); } Here are the relevant parts of the entity classes: Entity @Table(name = "attribute") public class Attribute { @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "attribute") private Set<ValidValue> validValues = new HashSet<ValidValue>(0); } @Entity @Table(name = "valid_value") public class ValidValue { @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) @JoinColumn(name = "attr_id", nullable = false) private Attribute attribute; }

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  • Are there any NOSQL-compatible CMS projects?

    - by Michael
    This question is partially related to an older question (Any CMS is Google App Engine compatible?) , but is slightly more general. It seems that in most CMS systems, the most fragile failure point is the database. Traditional database implementations scale poorly and will never be able to handle unforeseen spikes of traffic. Since Google App Engine was designed to help even small businesses overcome that problem, I had the same question that was asked earlier this year with less than satisfactory answers. But more generally, where are the CMS projects that support NOSQL databases? Looking over Wikipedia's list of CMS platforms, I see without much effort that only traditional RDBMS are supported by every single vendor on the list. I would have expected to see at least one or two projects handling CouchDB or similar engines. I understand the complexities of implementing a NOSQL solution to a problem that is typically solved using the relations cleanly expressed in any RDBMS, but there seems to be a rather wide market gap. Since databases are, today, easily outsourced to Google, Amazon, and others which use NOSQL models, I am amazed that there are not more projects actively pursuing this path. Am I simply not aware? Can someone please point me to projects that have real momentum that are developing on this path? I'm looking for two things: a CMS that has as its backbone a NOSQL database enabling easy database outsourcing (hosted MySQL clusters and similar solutions are not what I'm looking for) a project that is built to run on either a PaaS architecture like Google App Engine or an IaaS architecture like Amazon EC2 Any pointers in that direction would be most welcome.

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  • Benefits of a RAID BBU in addition to a double UPS + PS system

    - by Wikser
    Today I roughly measured the benefits of enabling write-back on the RAID controller on a server at work. It got no RAID battery-backup-unit (BBU) so the write-cache is currently disabled. As the server is not used to capacity (by far), the results in most test were spectacular, e.g.: Database CRUD: before 35s, after 4s Saving a 1MB Excel file: before: 20s (!), after: 0.5s Of course having a BBU is always recommended, but what are the main benefits of installing a BBU to a system, which got redundant power supplies and is attached to UPSs? Does this depend on the type of the system (database, file, terminal)? What is a realistic fail scenario which could be prevented by a BBU? Thanks in advance!

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  • Recover Bios HP DV9700T windows 7 64

    - by petebob796
    I downloaded the latest DV9700t bios (.59) and ran the update tool in windows 7 64. This seemed to go ok and did the usual system will shutdown in 10 seconds dialog. Updon the reboot nothing happens I get no BIOS screen or anything so I think the bios update went wrong. Which I am annoyed about I have never known a bios update to fail before and lots of people on the internet seem to have had the same problem with the same model. There is a way to recover apparently using crisdisk utility and creating a bootable usb key then holding win+b at power on, unfortunately the utility to make the disk doesn't seem to work in 64 bit versions of windows, the only type I have easy access to. Anyone know a way to create the boot disk in 64?

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  • query sql database for specific value in vb.net

    - by user2952298
    I am trying to convert VBA code to vb.net, im having trouble trying to search the database for a specific value around an if statement. any suggestions would be greatly appriciated. thedatabase is called confirmation, type is the column and email is the value im looking for. could datasets work? Function SendEmails() As Boolean Dim objOutlook As Outlook.Application Dim objOutlookMsg As Outlook.MailItem Dim objOutlookRecip As Outlook.Recipient Dim objOutlookAttach As Outlook.Attachment Dim intResponse As Integer Dim confirmation As New ADODB.Recordset Dim details As New ADODB.Recordset On Error GoTo Err_Execute Dim MyConnObj As New ADODB.Connection Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection() MyConnObj.Open( _ "Provider = sqloledb;" & _ "Server=myserver;" & _ "Database=Email_Text;" & _ "User Id=bla;" & _ "Password=bla;") confirmation.Open("Confirmation_list", MyConnObj) details.Open("MessagesToSend", MyConnObj) If details.EOF = False Then confirmation.MoveFirst() Do While Not confirmation.EOF If confirmation![Type] = "Email" Then ' Create the Outlook session. objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") ' Create the message. End IF

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  • How to draw shadows that don't suck?

    - by mystify
    A CAShapeLayer uses a CGPathRef to draw it's stuff. So I have a star path, and I want a smooth drop shadow with a radius of about 15 units. Probably there is some nice functionality in some new iPhone OS versions, but I need to do it myself for a old aged version of 3.0 (which most people still use). I tried to do some REALLY nasty stuff: I created a for-loop and sequentially created like 15 of those paths, transform-scaling them step by step to become bigger. Then assigning them to a new created CAShapeLayer and decreasing it's alpha a little bit on every iteration. Not only that this scaling is mathematically incorrect and sucks (it should happen relative to the outline!), the shadow is not rounded and looks really ugly. That's why nice soft shadows have a radius. The tips of a star shouldn't appear totally sharp after a shadow size of 15 units. They should be soft like cream. But in my ugly solution they're just as s harp as the star itself, since all I do is scale the star 15 times and decrease it's alpha 15 times. Ugly. I wonder how the big guys do it? If you had an arbitrary path, and that path must throw a shadow, how does the algorithm to do that work? Probably the path would have to be expanded like 30 times, point-by-point relative to the tangent of the outline away from the filled part, and just by 0.5 units to have a nice blending. Before I re-invent the wheel, maybe someone has a handy example or link?

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  • windows 8 on macbook locks after 2 mins despite high performance settings

    - by Mark
    I am running my Macbook Prop as a Windows 8 machine using bootcamp and for some reason, when I leave the keyboard/mouse alone for 2 mins it locks the PC (i.e. goes to the lock screen). I have (of course) checked the power settings and I can assure you that it is not set to these settings. I did notice that when I added my work's Mail Account the computer asked me to accept some group policy settings, which I did, so I suspect that this is a group policy setting, but I cannot find it. Can someone help? P.S. I have searched these forums first, and this is different to the PC going to sleep once locked, this is locking while logged in after 2 mins. Thanks.

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