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• Mobile BI Comes of Age

  - by rich.clayton(at)oracle.com

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In my opinion, Apple's iOS has changed everything in Mobile BI.  Yes Blackberry, Android and Symbian and all the rest have their place in the market but I believe that increasingly consumers (not IT departments) influence BI decision making processes.  Consumers are choosing the iPhone and the iPad. The number of iPads I see in business meetings now is staggering.  Some use it for email and note taking and others are starting to use corporate applications.  The possibilities for Mobile BI are countless and I would expect to see iPads enterprise-wide over the next few years.   These new devices will provide just-in-time access to critical business information.  Front-line managers interacting with customers, suppliers, patients or citizens will have information literally at their fingertips. I've experimented with several mobile BI tools.  They look cool but like their Executive Information System (EIS) predecessors of the 1990's these tools lack a backbone and a plausible integration strategy.  EIS was a viral technology in the early 1990's.  Executives from every industry and job function were showcasing their dashboards to fellow co-workers and colleagues at the country club.  Just like the iPad, every senior manager wanted one.  EIS wasn't a device however, it was a software application.   EIS quickly faded into the software sunset as it lacked integration with corporate information systems.  BI servers  replaced EIS because the technology focused on the heavy data lifting of integrating, normalizing, aggregating and managing large, complex data volumes.  The devices are here to stay. The cute stand-alone mobile BI tools, not so much. If all you're looking to do is put Excel files on your iPad, there are plenty of free tools on the market.  You'll look cool at your next management meeting but after a few weeks, the cool factor will fade away and you'll be wondering how you will ever maintain it.  If however you want secure, consistent, reliable information on your iPad, you need an integration strategy and a way to model the data.  BI Server technologies like the Oracle BI Foundation is a market leading approach to tackle that issue. I liken the BI mobility frenzy to buying classic cars.  Classic Cars have two buying groups - teenagers and middle-age folks looking to tinker.  Teenagers look at the pin-stripes and the paint job while middle-agers (like me)  kick the tires a bit and look under the hood to check out the quality and reliability of the engine.  Mobile BI tools sure look sexy but don't go very far without an engine and a transmission or an integration strategy. The strategic question in Mobile BI is can these startups build a motor and transmission faster than Oracle can re-paint the car?  Oracle has a great engine and a transmission that connects to all enterprise information assets.  We're working on the new paint job and are excited about the possibilities.  Just as vertical integration worked in the automotive business, it too works in the technology industry.

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• 5 Best Practices - Laying the Foundation for WebCenter Projects

  - by Kellsey Ruppel

  Today’s guest post comes from Oracle WebCenter expert John Brunswick. John specializes in enterprise portal and content management solutions and actively contributes to the enterprise software business community and has authored a series of articles about optimal business involvement in portal, business process management and SOA development, examining ways of helping organizations move away from monolithic application development. We’re happy to have John join us today! Maximizing success with Oracle WebCenter portal requires a strategic understanding of Oracle WebCenter capabilities.  The following best practices enable the creation of portal solutions with minimal resource overhead, while offering the greatest flexibility for progressive elaboration. They are inherently project agnostic, enabling a strong foundation for future growth and an expedient return on your investment in the platform.  If you are able to embrace even only a few of these practices, you will materially improve your deployment capability with WebCenter. 1. Segment Duties Around 3Cs - Content, Collaboration and Contextual Data "Agility" is one of the most common business benefits touted by modern web platforms.  It sounds good - who doesn't want to be Agile, right?  How exactly IT organizations go about supplying agility to their business counterparts often lacks definition - hamstrung by ambiguity. Ultimately, businesses want to benefit from reduced development time to deliver a solution to a particular constituent, which is augmented by as much self-service as possible to develop and manage the solution directly. All done in the absence of direct IT involvement. With Oracle WebCenter's depth in the areas of content management, pallet of native collaborative services, enterprise mashup capability and delegated administration, it is very possible to execute on this business vision at a technical level. To realize the benefits of the platform depth we can think of Oracle WebCenter's segmentation of duties along the lines of the 3 Cs - Content, Collaboration and Contextual Data.  All three of which can have their foundations developed by IT, then provisioned to the business on a per role basis. Content – Oracle WebCenter benefits from an extremely mature content repository.  Work flow, audit, notification, office integration and conversion capabilities for documents (HTML & PDF) make this a haven for business users to take control of content within external and internal portals, custom applications and web sites.  When deploying WebCenter portal take time to think of areas in which IT can provide the "harness" for content to reside, then allow the business to manage any content items within the site, using the content foundation to ensure compliance with business rules and process.  This frees IT to work on more mission critical challenges and allows the business to respond in short order to emerging market needs. Collaboration – Native collaborative services and WebCenter spaces are a perfect match for business users who are looking to enable document sharing, discussions and social networking.  The ability to deploy the services is granular and on the basis of roles scoped to given areas of the system - much like the first C “content”.  This enables business analysts to design the roles required and IT to provision with peace of mind that users leveraging the collaborative services are only able to do so in explicitly designated areas of a site. Bottom line - business will not need to wait for IT, but cannot go outside of the scope that has been defined based on their roles. Contextual Data – Collaborative capabilities are most powerful when included within the context of business data.  The ability to supply business users with decision shaping data that they can include in various parts of a portal or portals, just as they would with content items, is one of the most powerful aspects of Oracle WebCenter.  Imagine a discussion about new store selection for a retail chain that re-purposes existing information from business intelligence services about various potential locations and or custom backend systems - presenting it directly in the context of the discussion.  If there are some data sources that are preexisting in your enterprise take a look at how they can be made into discrete offerings within the portal, then scoped to given business user roles for inclusion within collaborative activities. 2. Think Generically, Execute Specifically Constructs.  Anyone who has spent much time around me knows that I am obsessed with this word.  Why? Because Constructs offer immense power - more than APIs, Web Services or other technical capability. Constructs offer organizations the ability to leverage a platform's native characteristics to offer substantial business functionality - without writing code.  This concept becomes more powerful with the additional understanding of the concepts from the platform that an organization learns over time.  Let's take a look at an example of where an Oracle WebCenter construct can substantially reduce the time to get a subscription-based site out the door and into the hands of the end consumer. Imagine a site that allows members to subscribe to specific disciplines to access information and application data around that various discipline.  A space is a collection of secured pages within Oracle WebCenter.  Spaces are not only secured, but also default content stored within it to be scoped automatically to that space. Taking this a step further, Oracle WebCenter’s Activity Stream surfaces events, discussions and other activities that are scoped to the given user on the basis of their space affiliations.  In order to have a portal that would allow users to "subscribe" to information around various disciplines - spaces could be used out of the box to achieve this capability and without using any APIs or low level technical work to achieve this. 3. Make Governance Work for You Imagine driving down the street without the painted lines on the road.  The rules of the road are so ingrained in our minds, we often do not think about the process, but seemingly mundane lane markers are critical enablers. Lane markers allow us to travel at speeds that would be impossible if not for the agreed upon direction of flow. Additionally and more importantly, it allows people to act autonomously - going where they please at any given time. The return on the investment for mobility is high enough for people to buy into globally agreed up governance processes. In Oracle WebCenter we can use similar enablers to lane markers.  Our goal should be to enable the flow of information and provide end users with the ability to arrive at business solutions as needed, not on the basis of cumbersome processes that cannot meet the business needs in a timely fashion. How do we do this? Just as with "Segmentation of Duties" Oracle WebCenter technologies offer the opportunity to compartmentalize various business initiatives from each other within the system due to constructs and security that are available to use within the platform. For instance, when a WebCenter space is created, any content added within that space by default will be secured to that particular space and inherits meta data that is associated with a folder created for the space. Oracle WebCenter content uses meta data to support a broad range of rich ECM functionality and can automatically impart retention, workflow and other policies automatically on the basis of what has been defaulted for that space. Depending on your business needs, this paradigm will also extend to sub sections of a space, offering some interesting possibilities to enable automated management around content. An example may be press releases within a particular area of an extranet that require a five year retention period and need to the reviewed by marketing and legal before release.  The underlying content system will transparently take care of this process on the basis of the above rules, enabling peace of mind over unstructured data - which could otherwise become overwhelming. 4. Make Your First Project Your Second Imagine if Michael Phelps was competing in a swimming championship, but told right before his race that he had to use a brand new stroke.  There is no doubt that Michael is an outstanding swimmer, but chances are that he would like to have some time to get acquainted with the new stroke. New technologies should not be treated any differently.  Before jumping into the deep end it helps to take time to get to know the new approach - even though you may have been swimming thousands of times before. To quickly get a handle on Oracle WebCenter capabilities it can be helpful to deploy a sandbox for the team to use to share project documents, discussions and announcements in an effort to help the actual deployment get under way, while increasing everyone’s knowledge of the platform and its functionality that may be helpful down the road. Oracle Technology Network has made a pre-configured virtual machine available for download that can be a great starting point for this exercise. 5. Get to Know the Community If you are reading this blog post you have most certainly faced a software decision or challenge that was solved on the basis of a small piece of missing critical information - which took substantial research to discover.  Chances were also good that somewhere, someone had already come across this information and would have been excited to share it. There is no denying the power of passionate, connected users, sharing key tips around technology.  The Oracle WebCenter brand has a rich heritage that includes industry-leading technology and practitioners.  With the new Oracle WebCenter brand, opportunities to connect with these experts has become easier. Oracle WebCenter Blog Oracle Social Enterprise LinkedIn WebCenter Group Oracle WebCenter Twitter Oracle WebCenter Facebook Oracle User Groups Additionally, there are various Oracle WebCenter related blogs by an excellent grouping of services partners.

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• RIF PRD: Presentation syntax issues

  - by Charles Young

  Over Christmas I got to play a bit with the W3C RIF PRD and came across a few issues which I thought I would record for posterity. Specifically, I was working on a grammar for the presentation syntax using a GLR grammar parser tool (I was using the current CTP of ‘M’ (MGrammer) and Intellipad – I do so hope the MS guys don’t kill off M and Intellipad now they have dropped the other parts of SQL Server Modelling). I realise that the presentation syntax is non-normative and that any issues with it do not therefore compromise the standard. However, presentation syntax is useful in its own right, and it would be great to iron out any issues in a future revision of the standard. The main issues are actually not to do with the grammar at all, but rather with the ‘running example’ in the RIF PRD recommendation. I started with the code provided in Example 9.1. There are several discrepancies when compared with the EBNF rules documented in the standard. Broadly the problems can be categorised as follows: ·      Parenthesis mismatch – the wrong number of parentheses are used in various places. For example, in GoldRule, the RHS of the rule (the ‘Then’) is nested in the LHS (‘the If’). In NewCustomerAndWidgetRule, the RHS is orphaned from the LHS. Together with additional incorrect parenthesis, this leads to orphanage of UnknownStatusRule from the entire Document. ·      Invalid use of parenthesis in ‘Forall’ constructs. Parenthesis should not be used to enclose formulae. Removal of the invalid parenthesis gave me a feeling of inconsistency when comparing formulae in Forall to formulae in If. The use of parenthesis is not actually inconsistent in these two context, but in an If construct it ‘feels’ as if you are enclosing formulae in parenthesis in a LISP-like fashion. In reality, the parenthesis is simply being used to group subordinate syntax elements. The fact that an If construct can contain only a single formula as an immediate child adds to this feeling of inconsistency. ·      Invalid representation of compact URIs (CURIEs) in the context of Frame productions. In several places the URIs are not qualified with a namespace prefix (‘ex1:’). This conflicts with the definition of CURIEs in the RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 document. Here are the productions: CURIE          ::= PNAME_LN                  | PNAME_NS PNAME_LN       ::= PNAME_NS PN_LOCAL PNAME_NS       ::= PN_PREFIX? ':' PN_LOCAL       ::= ( PN_CHARS_U | [0-9] ) ((PN_CHARS|'.')* PN_CHARS)? PN_CHARS       ::= PN_CHARS_U                  | '-' | [0-9] | #x00B7                  | [#x0300-#x036F] | [#x203F-#x2040] PN_CHARS_U     ::= PN_CHARS_BASE                  | '_' PN_CHARS_BASE ::= [A-Z] | [a-z] | [#x00C0-#x00D6] | [#x00D8-#x00F6]                  | [#x00F8-#x02FF] | [#x0370-#x037D] | [#x037F-#x1FFF]                  | [#x200C-#x200D] | [#x2070-#x218F] | [#x2C00-#x2FEF]                  | [#x3001-#xD7FF] | [#xF900-#xFDCF] | [#xFDF0-#xFFFD]                  | [#x10000-#xEFFFF] PN_PREFIX      ::= PN_CHARS_BASE ((PN_CHARS|'.')* PN_CHARS)? The more I look at CURIEs, the more my head hurts! The RIF specification allows prefixes and colons without local names, which surprised me. However, the CURIE Syntax 1.0 working group note specifically states that this form is supported…and then promptly provides a syntactic definition that seems to preclude it! However, on (much) deeper inspection, it appears that ‘ex1:’ (for example) is allowed, but would really represent a ‘fragment’ of the ‘reference’, rather than a prefix! Ouch! This is so completely ambiguous that it surely calls into question the whole CURIE specification.   In any case, RIF does not allow local names without a prefix. ·      Missing ‘External’ specifiers for built-in functions and predicates.  The EBNF specification enforces this for terms within frames, but does not appear to enforce (what I believe is) the correct use of External on built-in predicates. In any case, the running example only specifies ‘External’ once on the predicate in UnknownStatusRule. External() is required in several other places. ·      The List used on the LHS of UnknownStatusRule is comma-delimited. This is not supported by the EBNF definition. Similarly, the argument list of pred:list-contains is illegally comma-delimited. ·      Unnecessary use of conjunction around a single formula in DiscountRule. This is strictly legal in the EBNF, but redundant.   All the above issues concern the presentation syntax used in the running example. There are a few minor issues with the grammar itself. Note that Michael Kiefer stated in his paper “Rule Interchange Format: The Framework” that: “The presentation syntax of RIF … is an abstract syntax and, as such, it omits certain details that might be important for unambiguous parsing.” ·      The grammar cannot differentiate unambiguously between strategies and priorities on groups. A processor is forced to resolve this by detecting the use of IRIs and integers. This could easily be fixed in the grammar.   ·      The grammar cannot unambiguously parse the ‘->’ operator in frames. Specifically, ‘-’ characters are allowed in PN_LOCAL names and hence a parser cannot determine if ‘status->’ is (‘status’ ‘->’) or (‘status-’ ‘>’).   One way to fix this is to amend the PN_LOCAL production as follows: PN_LOCAL ::= ( PN_CHARS_U | [0-9] ) ((PN_CHARS|'.')* ((PN_CHARS)-('-')))? However, unilaterally changing the definition of this production, which is defined in the SPARQL Query Language for RDF specification, makes me uncomfortable. ·      I assume that the presentation syntax is case-sensitive. I couldn’t find this stated anywhere in the documentation, but function/predicate names do appear to be documented as being case-sensitive. ·      The EBNF does not specify whitespace handling. A couple of productions (RULE and ACTION_BLOCK) are crafted to enforce the use of whitespace. This is not necessary. It seems inconsistent with the rest of the specification and can cause parsing issues. In addition, the Const production exhibits whitespaces issues. The intention may have been to disallow the use of whitespace around ‘^^’, but any direct implementation of the EBNF will probably allow whitespace between ‘^^’ and the SYMSPACE. Of course, I am being a little nit-picking about all this. On the whole, the EBNF translated very smoothly and directly to ‘M’ (MGrammar) and proved to be fairly complete. I have encountered far worse issues when translating other EBNF specifications into usable grammars.   I can’t imagine there would be any difficulty in implementing the same grammar in Antlr, COCO/R, gppg, XText, Bison, etc. A general observation, which repeats a point made above, is that the use of parenthesis in the presentation syntax can feel inconsistent and un-intuitive.   It isn’t actually inconsistent, but I think the presentation syntax could be improved by adopting braces, rather than parenthesis, to delimit subordinate syntax elements in a similar way to so many programming languages. The familiarity of braces would communicate the structure of the syntax more clearly to people like me.  If braces were adopted, parentheses could be retained around ‘var (frame | ‘new()’) constructs in action blocks. This use of parenthesis feels very LISP-like, and I think that this is my issue. It’s as if the presentation syntax represents the deformed love-child of LISP and C. In some places (specifically, action blocks), parenthesis is used in a LISP-like fashion. In other places it is used like braces in C. I find this quite confusing. Here is a corrected version of the running example (Example 9.1) in compliant presentation syntax: Document(    Prefix( ex1 <http://example.com/2009/prd2> )    (* ex1:CheckoutRuleset *)  Group rif:forwardChaining (     (* ex1:GoldRule *)    Group 10 (      Forall ?customer such that And(?customer # ex1:Customer                                     ?customer[ex1:status->"Silver"])        (Forall ?shoppingCart such that ?customer[ex1:shoppingCart->?shoppingCart]           (If Exists ?value (And(?shoppingCart[ex1:value->?value]                                  External(pred:numeric-greater-than-or-equal(?value 2000))))            Then Do(Modify(?customer[ex1:status->"Gold"])))))      (* ex1:DiscountRule *)    Group (      Forall ?customer such that ?customer # ex1:Customer        (If Or( ?customer[ex1:status->"Silver"]                ?customer[ex1:status->"Gold"])         Then Do ((?s ?customer[ex1:shoppingCart-> ?s])                  (?v ?s[ex1:value->?v])                  Modify(?s [ex1:value->External(func:numeric-multiply (?v 0.95))]))))      (* ex1:NewCustomerAndWidgetRule *)    Group (      Forall ?customer such that And(?customer # ex1:Customer                                     ?customer[ex1:status->"New"] )        (If Exists ?shoppingCart ?item                   (And(?customer[ex1:shoppingCart->?shoppingCart]                        ?shoppingCart[ex1:containsItem->?item]                        ?item # ex1:Widget ) )         Then Do( (?s ?customer[ex1:shoppingCart->?s])                  (?val ?s[ex1:value->?val])                  (?voucher ?customer[ex1:voucher->?voucher])                  Retract(?customer[ex1:voucher->?voucher])                  Retract(?voucher)                  Modify(?s[ex1:value->External(func:numeric-multiply(?val 0.90))]))))      (* ex1:UnknownStatusRule *)    Group (      Forall ?customer such that ?customer # ex1:Customer        (If Not(Exists ?status                       (And(?customer[ex1:status->?status]                            External(pred:list-contains(List("New" "Bronze" "Silver" "Gold") ?status)) )))         Then Do( Execute(act:print(External(func:concat("New customer: " ?customer))))                  Assert(?customer[ex1:status->"New"]))))  ) )   I hope that helps someone out there :-)

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• PASS: Election Changes for 2011

  - by Bill Graziano

  Last year after the election, the PASS Board created an Election Review Committee.  This group was charged with reviewing our election procedures and making suggestions to improve the process.  You can read about the formation of the group and review some of the intermediate work on the site – especially in the forums. I was one of the members of the group along with Joe Webb (Chair), Lori Edwards, Brian Kelley, Wendy Pastrick, Andy Warren and Allen White.  This group worked from October to April on our election process.  Along the way we: Interviewed interested parties including former NomCom members, Board candidates and anyone else that came forward. Held a session at the Summit to allow interested parties to discuss the issues Had numerous conference calls and worked through the various topics I can’t thank these people enough for the work they did.  They invested a tremendous number of hours thinking, talking and writing about our elections.  I’m proud to say I was a member of this group and thoroughly enjoyed working with everyone (even if I did finally get tired of all the calls.) The ERC delivered their recommendations to the PASS Board prior to our May Board meeting.  We reviewed those and made a few modifications.  I took their recommendations and rewrote them as procedures while incorporating those changes.  Their original recommendations as well as our final document are posted at the ERC documents page.  Please take a second and read them BEFORE we start the elections.  If you have any questions please post them in the forums on the ERC site. (My final document includes a change log at the end that I decided to leave in.  If you want to know which areas to pay special attention to that’s a good start.) Many of those recommendations were already posted in the forums or in the blogs of individual ERC members.  Hopefully nothing in the ERC document is too surprising. In this post I’m going to walk through some of the key changes and talk about what I remember from both ERC and Board discussions.  I’ll pay a little extra attention to things the Board changed from the ERC.  I’d also encourage any of the Board or ERC members to blog their thoughts on this. The Nominating Committee will continue to exist.  Personally, I was curious to see what the non-Board ERC members would think about the NomCom.  There was broad agreement that a group to vet candidates had value to the organization. The NomCom will be composed of five members.  Two will be Board members and three will be from the membership at large.  The only requirement for the three community members is that you’ve volunteered in some way (and volunteering is defined very broadly).  We expect potential at-large NomCom members to participate in a forum on the PASS site to answer questions from the other PASS members. We’re going to hold an election to determine the three community members.  It will be closer to voting for Summit sessions than voting for Board members.  That means there won’t be multiple dedicated emails.  If you’re at all paying attention it will be easy to participate.  Personally I wanted it easy for those that cared to participate but not overwhelm those that didn’t care.  I think this strikes a good balance. There’s also a clause that in order to be considered a winner in this NomCom election, you must receive 10 votes.  This is something I suggested.  I have no idea how popular the NomCom election is going to be.  I just wanted a fallback that if no one participated and some random person got in with one or two votes.  Any open slots will be filled by the NomCom chair (usually the PASS Immediate Past President).  My assumption is that they would probably take the next highest vote getters unless they were throwing flames in the forums or clearly unqualified.  As a final check, the Board still approves the final NomCom. The NomCom is going to rank candidates instead of rating them.  This has interesting implications.  This was championed by another ERC member and I’m hoping they write something about it.  This will really force the NomCom to make decisions between candidates.  You can’t just rate everyone a 3 and be done with it.  It may also make candidates appear further apart than they actually are.  I’m looking forward talking with the NomCom after this election and getting their feedback on this. The PASS Board added an option to remove a candidate with a unanimous vote of the NomCom.  This was primarily put in place to handle people that lied on their application or had a criminal background or some other unusual situation and we figured it out. We list an explicit goal of three candidate per open slot. We also wanted an easy way to find the NomCom candidate rankings from the ballot.  Hopefully this will satisfy those that want a broad candidate pool and those that want the NomCom to identify the most qualified candidates. The primary spokesperson for the NomCom is the committee chair.  After the issues around the election last year we didn’t have a good communication plan in place.  We should have and that was a failure on the part of the Board.  If there is criticism of the election this year I hope that falls squarely on the Board.  The community members of the NomCom shouldn’t be fielding complaints over the election process.  That said, the NomCom is ranking candidates and we are forcing them to rank some lower than others.  I’m sure you’ll each find someone that you think should have been ranked differently.  I also want to highlight one other change to the process that we started last year and isn’t included in these documents.  I think the candidate forums on the PASS site were tremendously helpful last year in helping people to find out more about candidates.  That gives our members a way to ask hard questions of the candidates and publicly see their answers. This year we have two important groups to fill.  The first is the NomCom.  We need three people from our membership to step up and fill this role.  It won’t be easy.  You will have to make subjective rankings of your fellow community members.  Your actions will be important in deciding who the future leaders of PASS will be.  There’s a 50/50 chance that one of the people you interview will be the President of PASS someday.  This is not a responsibility to be taken lightly. The second is the slate of candidates.  If you’ve ever thought about running for the Board this is the year.  We’ve never had nine candidates on the ballot before.  Your chance of making it through the NomCom are higher than in any previous year.  Unfortunately the more of you that run, the more of you that will lose in the election.  And hopefully that competition will mean more community involvement and better Board members for PASS. Is this the end of changes to the election process?  It isn’t.  Every year that I’ve been on the Board the election process has changed.  Some years there have been small changes and some years there have been large changes.  After this election we’ll look at how the process worked and decide what steps to take – just like we do every year.

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• Experiences with learning Chinese

  - by Greg Low

  I've had a few friends asking me about learning Chinese and what I've found works and doesn't work. I was answering a question on a mailing list today and I thought I should post this info where it might be useful to many. The question that was initially asked was whether Rosetta Stone was useful but I've provided much more info on learning the language here. I’ve used Rosetta Stone with Chinese but it’s really hard to know whether to recommend it or not. Rosetta Stone works the same way in all languages. They show you photos and then let you both see and hear the target language and get you to work out what they’re talking about. The thinking is that that’s how children learn. However, at first, I found it very frustrating. I’d be staring at photos trying to work out what they were really trying to get at. Sometimes it’s far from obvious. I could not have survived without Google Translate open at the same time. The other weird thing is that the photos are from a mixture of countries. While that’s good in a way, it also means that they are endlessly showing pictures of something that would never happen in the target language and culture. For any language, constant interaction with a speaker of the target language is needed. Rosetta Stone has a “Studio” option. That’s the best part of the program. In my case, it lets me connect around twice a week to a live online class from Beijing. Classes usually have the teacher plus two to four students. You get some Studio access with the initial packages but need to purchase it for ongoing use. I find it very inexpensive. It seems to work out to about $70 (AUD/USD) for six months. That’s a real bargain. The other downside to Rosetta Stone is that they tend to teach very formal language, but as with other languages, that’s not how the locals speak. It might have been correct at one point but no-one actually says that. As an example, Rosetta Stone teach Gonggòng qìche (pronounced roughly like “gong gong chee chure” for bus. Most of my friends from areas like Taiwan would just say Gongche. Google Translate says Zongxiàn (pronounced somewhat like “dzong sheean”) instead. Mind you, the Rosetta Stone option isn't really as bad as "omnibus"; it's more like saying "public bus". If you say the option they provide, people would understand you. I also listen to ChinesePod in the car. They also have SpanishPod. Each podcast is about five minutes of spoken conversation. It is very good for providing current language. Another resource I use is local Meetup groups. Most cities have these and for a variety of languages. It’s way less structured (just standard conversation) but good for getting interaction. The obvious challenge for Asian languages is reading/writing. The input editors for Chinese that are part of Windows are excellent. Many of my Chinese friends speak fluently but cannot read or write. I was determined to learn to do both. For writing, I’m talking about on a computer, not with a pen. (Mind you, I can barely write English with a pen nowadays). When using Rosetta Stone, you can choose to have the Chinese words displayed in pinyin (Wo xihuan xuéxí zhongguó) or in Chinese characters (???????) or both. This year, I’ve been forcing myself to just use the Chinese characters. I use a pinyin input editor in Windows though, as it’s very fast.  (The character recognition input in the iPad is also amazing). Notice from the example that I provided above that the pronunciation of the pinyin isn’t that obvious to us at first either.  Since changing to only using characters, I find I can now read many more Chinese characters fluently. It’s a major challenge though. I can read about 300 now and yet you need around 2,500 to be able to read a newspaper fairly well. Tones are a major issue for some Asian languages. Mandarin has four tones (plus a neutral tone) and there is a major difference in meaning between two words that are spelled the same in pinyin but with different tones. For example, Ma (3rd tone?) is a horse, Ma (1st tone?) is like “mom”, and ma (neutral tone?) is a question mark and so on. Clearly you don’t want to mix these up. As in English, they also have words that do sound the same but mean different things in different contexts. What’s interesting is that even though we see two words that differ only by tone as very similar, to a native speaker, if you say the right words with the wrong tone, you might as well have said a completely different word. My wife’s dialect of Chinese has eight tones. It’s much worse. The reason I’m so keen to learn to read/write Chinese is that even though the different dialects are pronounced so differently that speakers of one dialect often cannot understand another dialect, the writing is generally the same. The only difference is that many years ago, the Chinese government created a simplified set of characters for some of the most commonly used ones. Older Chinese and most Cantonese speakers often struggle with the simplified characters. This is the simplified form of “three apples”: ????   This is the traditional form of the same words: ????  Note that two of the characters are the same but the middle two are quite different. For most languages, the best thing is to watch current movies in the target language but to watch them with the target language as subtitles, not your native language. You want to know what they actually said, not what it roughly means (which is what the English subtitle would give you). The difficulty with Asian languages like Chinese is that you have the added challenge of understanding the subtitles when they are written in the target language. I wish there were Mandarin Chinese movies with pinyin subtitles. For learning to read characters, I also recommend HanCard on the iPad. It is targeted at the HSK language proficiency levels. (I’m intending to take the first HSK exam as soon as I’m ready). Hope that info helps someone get started.  

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• It was a figure of speech!

  - by Ratman21

  Yesterday I posted the following as attention getter / advertisement (as well as my feelings). In the groups, (I am in) on the social networking site, LinkedIn and boy did I get responses.    I am fighting mad about (a figure of speech, really) not having a job! Look just because I am over 55 and have gray hair. It does not mean, my brain is dead or I can no longer trouble shoot a router or circuit or LAN issue. Or that I can do “IT” work at all. And I could prove this if; some one would give me at job. Come on try me for 90 days at min. wage. I know you will end up keeping me (hope fully at normal pay) around. Is any one hearing me…come on take up the challenge!     This was the responses I got.   I hear you. We just need to retrain and get our skills up to speed is all. That is what I am doing. I have not given up. Just got to stay on top of the game. Experience is on our side if we have the credentials and we are reasonable about our salaries this should not be an issue.   Already on it, going back to school and have got three certifications (CompTIA A+, Security+ and Network+. I am now studying for my CISCO CCNA certification. As to my salary, I am willing to work at very reasonable rate.   You need to re-brand yourself like a product, market and sell yourself. You need to smarten up, look and feel a million dollars, re-energize yourself, regain your confidents. Either start your own business, or re-write your CV so it stands out from the rest, get the template off the internet. Contact every recruitment agent in your town, state, country and overseas, and on the web. Apply to every job you think you could do, you may not get it but you will make a contact for your network, which may lead to a job at the end of the tunnel. Get in touch with everyone you know from past jobs. Do charity work. I maintain the IT Network, stage electrical and the Telecom equipment in my church,   Again already on it. I have email the world is seems with my resume and cover letters. So far, I have rewritten or had it rewrote, my resume and cover letters; over seven times so far. Re-energize? I never lost my energy level or my self-confidents in my work (now if could get some HR personal to see the same). I also volunteer at my church, I created and maintain the church web sit.   I share your frustration. Sucks being over 50 and looking for work. Please don't sell yourself short at min wage because the employer will think that’s your worth. Keep trying!!   I never stop trying and min wage is only for 90 days. If some one takes up the challenge. Some post asked if I am keeping up technology.   Do you keep up with the latest technology and can speak the language fluidly?   Yep to that and as to speaking it also a yep! I am a geek you know. I heard from others over the 50 year mark and younger too.   I'm with you! I keep getting told that I don't have enough experience because I just recently completed a Masters level course in Microsoft SQL Server, which gave me a project-intensive equivalent of between 2 and 3 years of experience. On top of that training, I have 19 years as an applications programmer and database administrator. I can normalize rings around experienced DBAs and churn out effective code with the best of them. But my 19 years is worthless as far as most recruiters and HR people are concerned because it is not the specific experience for which they're looking. HR AND RECRUITERS TAKE NOTE: Experience, whatever the language, translates across platforms and technology! By the way, I'm also over 55 and still have "got it"!   I never lost it and I also can work rings round younger techs.   I'm 52 and female and seem to be having the same issues. I have over 10 years experience in tech support (with a BS in CIS) and can't get hired either.   Ow, I only have an AS in computer science along with my certifications.   Keep the faith, I have been unemployed since August of 2008. I agree with you...I am willing to return to the beginning of my retail career and work myself back through the ranks, if someone will look past the grey and realize the knowledge I would bring to the table.   I also would like some one to look past the gray.   Interesting approach, volunteering to work for minimum wage for 90 days. I'm in the same situation as you, being 55 & balding w/white hair, so I know where you're coming from. I've been out of work now for a year. I'm in Michigan, where the unemployment rate is estimated to be 15% (the worst in the nation) & even though I've got 30+ years of IT experience ranging from mainframe to PC desktop support, it's difficult to even get a face-to-face interview. I had one prospective employer tell me flat out that I "didn't have the energy required for this position". Mostly I never get any feedback. All I can say is good luck & try to remain optimistic.   He said WHAT! Yes remaining optimistic is key. Along with faith in God. Then there was this (for lack of better word) jerk.   Give it up already. You were too old to work in high tech 10 years ago. Scratch that, 20 years ago! Try selling hot dogs in front of Fry's Electronics. At least you would get a chance to eat lunch with your previous colleagues....   You know funny thing on this person is that I checked out his profile. He is older than I am.

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• TGIF: Engagement Wrap-up

  - by Michael Snow

  We've had a very busy week here at Oracle and as we build up to Oracle OpenWorld starting in less than 10 days - it doesn't look like things will be slowing down. Engagement is definitely in the air this week. Our friend, John Mancini published a great article entitled: "The World of Engagement" on his Digital Landfill blog yesterday and we hosted a great webcast with R "Ray" Wang from Constellation Research yesterday on the "9 C's of Engagement". 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} I wanted to wrap-up the week with some key takeaways from our webcast yesterday with Ray Wang. If you missed the webcast yesterday, fear not - it is now available  On-Demand. We'll leave you this week with lots of questions about how to navigate these churning waters of engagement. Stay tuned to the Oracle WebCenter Social Business Thought Leaders Webcast Series as we fuel this dialogue. 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} Company Culture Does company support a culture of putting customer satisfaction ahead of profits? Does culture promote creativity and cross functional employee collaboration? Does culture accept different views of multi-generational workforce? Does culture promote employee training and skills development Does culture support upward mobility and long term retention? Does culture support work-life balance? Does the culture provide rewards for employee for outstanding customer support? Channels What are the current primary channels for customer communications? What do you think will be the primary channels in two years? Is company developing support model for emerging channels? Do all channels consistently deliver the same level of customer support? Do you know the cost per transaction across all channels? Do you engage customers proactively across multiple channels? Do all channels have access to the same customer information? Community Does company extend customer support into virtual communities of interest? Does company facilitate educating users through its virtual communities? Does company mine its customer’s experience into useful data? Does company increase the value for customers through using data to deliver new products and services? Does company support two way interactions with its customers through communities of interest? Does company actively support social CRM, online communities and social media markets? Credibility Does company market its trustworthiness through external certificates such as business licenses, BBB certificates or other validations? Does company promote trust through customer testimonials and case studies on ethical business practices? Does company promote truthful market campaigns Does company make it easy for customers to complain? Does company build its reputation for standing behind its products with guarantees for satisfaction? Does company protect its customer data with high security measures> Content What sources do you use to create customer content? Does company mine social media and blogs for customer content? How does your company sort, store and retain its customer content? How frequently does content get updated? What external sources do you use for customer content? How many responses are typically received from a knowledge management system inquiry? Does your company use customer content to design and develop new product and services? Context Does your company market to customers in clusters or individually? Does your company customize its messages and personalize them to specific needs of each individual customer? Does your company store customer data based on their past behaviors, purchases, sentiment analysis and current activities? Does your company manage customer context according to channels used? For example identify personal use channels versus business channels? What is your frequency of collecting customer activities across various touch points? How is your customer data stored and analyzed? Is contextual data used for future customer outreach? Cadence Which channels does your company measure-web site visits, phone calls, IVR, store visits, face to face, social media? Does company make effective use of cross channel marketing to promote more frequent customer engagement? Does your company rate the patterns relevant for your product or service and monitor usage against this pattern? Does your company measure the frequency of both online and offline channels? Does your company apply metrics to the frequency of customer engagements with product or services revenues? Does your company consolidate data for customer engagement across various channels for a complete view of its customer? Catalyst Does company offer coupon discounts? Does company have a customer loyalty program or a VIP membership program? Does company mine customer data to target specific groups of buyers? Do internal employees serve as ambassadors for customer programs? Does company drive loyalty through social media loyalty programs? Does company build rewards based on using loyalty data? Does company offer an employee incentive program to drive customer loyalty?

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• Scheduling thread tiles with C++ AMP

  - by Daniel Moth

  This post assumes you are totally comfortable with, what some of us call, the simple model of C++ AMP, i.e. you could write your own matrix multiplication. We are now ready to explore the tiled model, which builds on top of the non-tiled one. Tiling the extent We know that when we pass a grid (which is just an extent under the covers) to the parallel_for_each call, it determines the number of threads to schedule and their index values (including dimensionality). For the single-, two-, and three- dimensional cases you can go a step further and subdivide the threads into what we call tiles of threads (others may call them thread groups). So here is a single-dimensional example: extent<1> e(20); // 20 units in a single dimension with indices from 0-19 grid<1> g(e);      // same as extent tiled_grid<4> tg = g.tile<4>(); …on the 3rd line we subdivided the single-dimensional space into 5 single-dimensional tiles each having 4 elements, and we captured that result in a concurrency::tiled_grid (a new class in amp.h). Let's move on swiftly to another example, in pictures, this time 2-dimensional: So we start on the left with a grid of a 2-dimensional extent which has 8*6=48 threads. We then have two different examples of tiling. In the first case, in the middle, we subdivide the 48 threads into tiles where each has 4*3=12 threads, hence we have 2*2=4 tiles. In the second example, on the right, we subdivide the original input into tiles where each has 2*2=4 threads, hence we have 4*3=12 tiles. Notice how you can play with the tile size and achieve different number of tiles. The numbers you pick must be such that the original total number of threads (in our example 48), remains the same, and every tile must have the same size. Of course, you still have no clue why you would do that, but stick with me. First, we should see how we can use this tiled_grid, since the parallel_for_each function that we know expects a grid. Tiled parallel_for_each and tiled_index It turns out that we have additional overloads of parallel_for_each that accept a tiled_grid instead of a grid. However, those overloads, also expect that the lambda you pass in accepts a concurrency::tiled_index (new in amp.h), not an index<N>. So how is a tiled_index different to an index? A tiled_index object, can have only 1 or 2 or 3 dimensions (matching exactly the tiled_grid), and consists of 4 index objects that are accessible via properties: global, local, tile_origin, and tile. The global index is the same as the index we know and love: the global thread ID. The local index is the local thread ID within the tile. The tile_origin index returns the global index of the thread that is at position 0,0 of this tile, and the tile index is the position of the tile in relation to the overall grid. Confused? Here is an example accompanied by a picture that hopefully clarifies things: array_view<int, 2> data(8, 6, p_my_data); parallel_for_each(data.grid.tile<2,2>(), [=] (tiled_index<2,2> t_idx) restrict(direct3d) { /* todo */ }); Given the code above and the picture on the right, what are the values of each of the 4 index objects that the t_idx variables exposes, when the lambda is executed by T (highlighted in the picture on the right)? If you can't work it out yourselves, the solution follows: t_idx.global       = index<2> (6,3) t_idx.local          = index<2> (0,1) t_idx.tile_origin = index<2> (6,2) t_idx.tile             = index<2> (3,1) Don't move on until you are comfortable with this… the picture really helps, so use it. Tiled Matrix Multiplication Example – part 1 Let's paste here the C++ AMP matrix multiplication example, bolding the lines we are going to change (can you guess what the changes will be?) 01: void MatrixMultiplyTiled_Part1(vector<float>& vC, const vector<float>& vA, const vector<float>& vB, int M, int N, int W) 02: { 03: 04: array_view<const float,2> a(M, W, vA); 05: array_view<const float,2> b(W, N, vB); 06: array_view<writeonly<float>,2> c(M, N, vC); 07: parallel_for_each(c.grid, 08: [=](index<2> idx) restrict(direct3d) { 09: 10: int row = idx[0]; int col = idx[1]; 11: float sum = 0.0f; 12: for(int i = 0; i < W; i++) 13: sum += a(row, i) * b(i, col); 14: c[idx] = sum; 15: }); 16: } To turn this into a tiled example, first we need to decide our tile size. Let's say we want each tile to be 16*16 (which assumes that we'll have at least 256 threads to process, and that c.grid.extent.size() is divisible by 256, and moreover that c.grid.extent[0] and c.grid.extent[1] are divisible by 16). So we insert at line 03 the tile size (which must be a compile time constant). 03: static const int TS = 16; ...then we need to tile the grid to have tiles where each one has 16*16 threads, so we change line 07 to be as follows 07: parallel_for_each(c.grid.tile<TS,TS>(), ...that means that our index now has to be a tiled_index with the same characteristics as the tiled_grid, so we change line 08 08: [=](tiled_index<TS, TS> t_idx) restrict(direct3d) { ...which means, without changing our core algorithm, we need to be using the global index that the tiled_index gives us access to, so we insert line 09 as follows 09: index<2> idx = t_idx.global; ...and now this code just works and it is tiled! Closing thoughts on part 1 The process we followed just shows the mechanical transformation that can take place from the simple model to the tiled model (think of this as step 1). In fact, when we wrote the matrix multiplication example originally, the compiler was doing this mechanical transformation under the covers for us (and it has additional smarts to deal with the cases where the total number of threads scheduled cannot be divisible by the tile size). The point is that the thread scheduling is always tiled, even when you use the non-tiled model. But with this mechanical transformation, we haven't gained anything… Hint: our goal with explicitly using the tiled model is to gain even more performance. In the next post, we'll evolve this further (beyond what the compiler can automatically do for us, in this first release), so you can see the full usage of the tiled model and its benefits… Comments about this post by Daniel Moth welcome at the original blog.

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• Beyond Cloud Technology, Enabling A More Agile and Responsive Organization

  - by sxkumar

  This is the second part of the blog “Clouds, Clouds Everywhere But not a Drop of Rain”. In the first part,  I was sharing with you how a broad-based transformation makes cloud more than a technology initiative, I will describe in this section how it requires people (organizational) and process changes as well, and these changes are as critical as is the choice of right tools and technology. People: Most IT organizations have a fairly complex organizational structure. There are different groups, managing different pieces of the puzzle, and yet, they don't always work together. Provisioning a new application therefore may require a request to float endlessly through system administrators, DBAs and middleware admin worlds – resulting in long delays and constant finger pointing.  Cloud users expect end-to-end automation - which requires these silos to be greatly simplified, if not completely eliminated.  Most customers I talk to acknowledge this problem but are quick to admit that such a transformation is hard. As hard as it may be, I am afraid that the status quo is no longer an option. Sticking to an organizational structure that was created ages back will not only impede cloud adoption,  it also risks making the IT skills increasingly irrelevant in a world that is rapidly moving towards converged applications and infrastructure.   Process: Most IT organizations today operate with a mindset that they must fully "control" access to any and all types of IT services. This in turn leads to people clinging on to outdated manual approval processes .  While requiring approvals for scarce resources makes sense, insisting that every single request must be manually approved defeats the very purpose of cloud. Not only this causes delays, thereby at least partially negating the agility benefits, it also results in gross inefficiency. In a cloud environment, self-service access should be governed by policies, quotas that the administrators can define upfront . For a cloud initiative to be successful, IT organizations MUST be ready to empower users by giving them real control rather than insisting on brokering every single interaction between users and the cloud resources. Technology: From a technology perspective, cloud is about consolidation, standardization and automation. A consolidated and standardized infrastructure helps increase utilization and reduces cost. Additionally, it  enables a much higher degree of automation - thereby providing users the required agility while minimizing operational costs.  Obviously, automation is the key to cloud. Unfortunately it hasn’t received as much attention within enterprises as it should have.  Many organizations are just now waking up to the criticality of automation and it still often gets relegated to back burner in favor of other "high priority" projects. However, it is important to understand that without the right type and level of automation, cloud will remain a distant dream for most enterprises. This in turn makes the choice of the cloud management software extremely critical.  For a cloud management software to be effective in an enterprise environment, it must meet the following qualifications: Broad and Deep Solution It should offer a broad and deep solution to enable the kind of broad-based transformation we are talking about.  Its footprint must cover physical and virtual systems, as well as infrastructure, database and application tiers. Too many enterprises choose to equate cloud with virtualization. While virtualization is a critical component of a cloud solution, it is just a component and not the whole solution. Similarly, too many people tend to equate cloud with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). While it is perfectly reasonable to treat IaaS as a starting point, it is important to realize that it is just the first stepping stone - and on its own it can only provide limited business benefits. It is actually the higher level services, such as (application) platform and business applications, that will bring about a more meaningful transformation to your enterprise. Run and Manage Efficiently Your Mission Critical Applications It should not only be able to run your mission critical applications, it should do so better than before.  For enterprises, applications and data are the critical business assets  As such, if you are building a cloud platform that cannot run your ERP application, it isn't truly a "enterprise cloud".  Also, be wary of  vendors who try to sell you the idea that your applications must be written in a certain way to be able to run on the cloud. That is nothing but a bogus, self-serving argument. For the cloud to be meaningful to enterprises, it should adopt to your applications - and not the other way around.  Automated, Integrated Set of Cloud Management Capabilities At the root of many of the problems plaguing enterprise IT today is complexity. A complex maze of tools and technology, coupled with archaic  processes, results in an environment which is inflexible, inefficient and simply too hard to manage. Management tool consolidation, therefore, is key to the success of your cloud as tool proliferation adds to complexity, encourages compartmentalization and defeats the very purpose that you are building the cloud for. Decision makers ought to be extra cautious about vendors trying to sell them a "suite" of disparate and loosely integrated products as a cloud solution.  An effective enterprise cloud management solution needs to provide a tightly integrated set of capabilities for all aspects of cloud lifecycle management. A simple question to ask: will your environment be more or less complex after you implement your cloud? More often than not, the answer will surprise you.  At Oracle, we have understood these challenges and have been working hard to create cloud solutions that are relevant and meaningful for enterprises.  And we have been doing it for much longer than you may think. Oracle was one of the very first enterprise software companies to make our products available on the Amazon Cloud. As far back as in 2007, we created new cloud solutions such as Cloud Database Backup that are helping customers like Amazon save millions every year.  Our cloud solution portfolio is also the broadest and most deep in the industry  - covering public, private, hybrid, Infrastructure, platform and applications clouds. It is no coincidence therefore that the Oracle Cloud today offers the most comprehensive set of public cloud services in the industry.  And to a large part, this has been made possible thanks to our years on investment in creating cloud enabling technologies. I will dedicated the third and final part of the blog “Clouds, Clouds Everywhere But not a Drop of Rain” to Oracle Cloud Technologies Building Blocks and how they mapped into our vision of Enterprise Cloud. Stay Tuned.

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• Apache segfault glibc segfault

  - by tester

  I keep getting (about every 5-6 hours) this segfault in apache: [Tue Jun 26 12:43:10 2012] [notice] child pid 26810 exit signal Aborted (6) *** glibc detected *** /usr/sbin/apache2: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb68c2628 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x6ff22)[0xb75aef22] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x70bc2)[0xb75afbc2] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0xb75b2cad] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(destroy_zend_class+0x228)[0xb5d40518] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(zend_hash_clean+0x77)[0xb5d58957] /usr/lib/php5/220100525+lfs/apc.so(apc_interned_strings_shutdown+0x32)[0xb64930b2] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(+0x318ff0)[0xb5d56ff0] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(zend_hash_graceful_reverse_destroy+0x27)[0xb5d58a67] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(zend_destroy_modules+0x3c)[0xb5d506cc] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(+0x30c743)[0xb5d4a743] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(php_module_shutdown+0x42)[0xb5ce5172] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(php_module_shutdown_wrapper+0x17)[0xb5ce5257] /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so(+0x3bebe1)[0xb5dfcbe1] /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0(+0x19846)[0xb76f2846] /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0(apr_pool_destroy+0x52)[0xb76f19ec] /usr/sbin/apache2(+0x4ccee)[0xb77eccee] ======= Memory map: ======== b2e18000-b2e2c000 rw-s 00000000 00:04 8841030 /dev/zero (deleted) b2e2c000-b2eaa000 rw-s 00000000 00:04 8841029 /dev/zero (deleted) b2eaa000-b2eab000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 b2eab000-b36ab000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b5900000-b5921000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b5921000-b5a00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 b5a3e000-b60bd000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 44137 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so b60bd000-b611e000 r--p 0067f000 ca:00 44137 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so b611e000-b6123000 rw-p 006e0000 ca:00 44137 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so b6123000-b6142000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6142000-b6147000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 24570 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_dns-2.13.so b6147000-b6148000 r--p 00004000 ca:00 24570 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_dns-2.13.so b6148000-b6149000 rw-p 00005000 ca:00 24570 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_dns-2.13.so b6149000-b6175000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6175000-b6180000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 24572 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.13.so b6180000-b6181000 r--p 0000a000 ca:00 24572 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.13.so b6181000-b6182000 rw-p 0000b000 ca:00 24572 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.13.so b6182000-b618c000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 24576 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.13.so b618c000-b618d000 r--p 00009000 ca:00 24576 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.13.so b618d000-b618e000 rw-p 0000a000 ca:00 24576 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.13.so b618e000-b6196000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 24562 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.13.so b6196000-b6197000 r--p 00007000 ca:00 24562 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.13.so b6197000-b6198000 rw-p 00008000 ca:00 24562 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.13.so b6198000-b6270000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6270000-b6274000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6468000-b6474000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6475000-b6479000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6479000-b649a000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 65670 /usr/lib/php5/220100525+lfs/apc.so b649a000-b649b000 r--p 00021000 ca:00 65670 /usr/lib/php5/220100525+lfs/apc.so b649b000-b649c000 rw-p 00022000 ca:00 65670 /usr/lib/php5/220100525+lfs/apc.so b649c000-b64a1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64a1000-b64a6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64a7000-b64aa000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64aa000-b64af000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64b0000-b64b3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64bf000-b64c4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64c4000-b64c9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64c9000-b64cc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64cd000-b64cf000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b64ea000-b64fd000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 24598 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv-2.13.so b64fd000-b64fe000 r--p 00012000 ca:00 24598 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv-2.13.so b64fe000-b64ff000 rw-p 00013000 ca:00 24598 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv-2.13.so b64ff000-b6501000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b650e000-b652a000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22450 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 b652a000-b652b000 r--p 0001b000 ca:00 22450 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 b652b000-b652c000 rw-p 0001c000 ca:00 22450 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 b652c000-b6534000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b65dd000-b65df000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b67ad000-b67c2000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22063 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.13.so b67c2000-b67c3000 r--p 00015000 ca:00 22063 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.13.so b67c3000-b67c4000 rw-p 00016000 ca:00 22063 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.13.so b67c4000-b67c6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b67c6000-b67ee000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 21904 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm-2.13.so b67ee000-b67ef000 r--p 00028000 ca:00 21904 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm-2.13.so b67ef000-b67f0000 rw-p 00029000 ca:00 21904 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm-2.13.so b67f0000-b67f7000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 24600 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so b67f7000-b67f8000 r--p 00006000 ca:00 24600 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so b67f8000-b67f9000 rw-p 00007000 ca:00 24600 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so b6886000-b69af000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b69af000-b6b3c000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 23592 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 b6b3c000-b6b4a000 r--p 0018d000 ca:00 23592 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 b6b4a000-b6b50000 rw-p 0019b000 ca:00 23592 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 b6b50000-b6b53000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6b53000-b6b9b000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 23621 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 b6b9b000-b6b9d000 r--p 00047000 ca:00 23621 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 b6b9d000-b6ba0000 rw-p 00049000 ca:00 23621 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 b6ba0000-b6c7e000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 9878 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16 b6c7e000-b6c7f000 ---p 000de000 ca:00 9878 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16 b6c7f000-b6c83000 r--p 000de000 ca:00 9878 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16 b6c83000-b6c84000 rw-p 000e2000 ca:00 9878 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16 b6c84000-b6c8b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6c93000-b6cd4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6cd4000-b6ce0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6cea000-b6cef000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45178 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_status.so b6cef000-b6cf0000 r--p 00004000 ca:00 45178 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_status.so b6cf0000-b6cf1000 rw-p 00005000 ca:00 45178 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_status.so b6cf1000-b6d19000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45175 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_ssl.so b6d19000-b6d1a000 ---p 00028000 ca:00 45175 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_ssl.so b6d1a000-b6d1b000 r--p 00028000 ca:00 45175 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_ssl.so b6d1b000-b6d1c000 rw-p 00029000 ca:00 45175 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_ssl.so b6d1c000-b6d1e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6d1e000-b6d20000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45166 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_setenvif.so b6d20000-b6d21000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 45166 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_setenvif.so b6d21000-b6d22000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 45166 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_setenvif.so b6d22000-b6d30000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45195 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so b6d30000-b6d31000 r--p 0000e000 ca:00 45195 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so b6d31000-b6d32000 rw-p 0000f000 ca:00 45195 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so b6d32000-b6d45000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45168 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so b6d45000-b6d46000 r--p 00012000 ca:00 45168 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so b6d46000-b6d47000 rw-p 00013000 ca:00 45168 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so b6d47000-b6d4e000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 9904 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0.1 b6d4e000-b6d4f000 r--p 00006000 ca:00 9904 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0.1 b6d4f000-b6d50000 rw-p 00007000 ca:00 9904 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0.1 b6d50000-b6e97000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 3416 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.8 b6e97000-b6e9b000 r--p 00147000 ca:00 3416 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.8 b6e9b000-b6e9c000 rw-p 0014b000 ca:00 3416 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.8 b6e9c000-b6e9d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b6e9d000-b6ec4000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 12282 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3.1 b6ec4000-b6ec5000 r--p 00026000 ca:00 12282 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3.1 b6ec5000-b6ec6000 rw-p 00027000 ca:00 12282 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3.1 b6ec6000-b6f88000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 13335 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3.3 b6f88000-b6f8e000 r--p 000c1000 ca:00 13335 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3.3 b6f8e000-b6f8f000 rw-p 000c7000 ca:00 13335 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3.3 b6f8f000-b6fca000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 9854 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 b6fca000-b6fcb000 ---p 0003b000 ca:00 9854 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 b6fcb000-b6fcc000 r--p 0003b000 ca:00 9854 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 b6fcc000-b6fcd000 rw-p 0003c000 ca:00 9854 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2 b6fcd000-b6fdc000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 21797 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.4 b6fdc000-b6fdd000 r--p 0000e000 ca:00 21797 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.4 b6fdd000-b6fde000 rw-p 0000f000 ca:00 21797 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.4 b6fde000-b702a000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 2505 /usr/lib/libqdbm.so.14.13.0 b702a000-b702b000 r--p 0004c000 ca:00 2505 /usr/lib/libqdbm.so.14.13.0 b702b000-b702c000 rw-p 0004d000 ca:00 2505 /usr/lib/libqdbm.so.14.13.0 b702c000-b71aa000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 10201 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdb-4.8.so b71aa000-b71ac000 r--p 0017d000 ca:00 10201 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdb-4.8.so b71ac000-b71ad000 rw-p 0017f000 ca:00 10201 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdb-4.8.so b71ad000-b71f7000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 23521 /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 b71f7000-b71f8000 r--p 0004a000 ca:00 23521 /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 b71f8000-b71fb000 rw-p 0004b000 ca:00 23521 /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 b71fb000-b7359000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 835379 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 b7359000-b735a000 ---p 0015e000 ca:00 835379 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 b735a000-b7362000 r--p 0015e000 ca:00 835379 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 b7362000-b7371000 rw-p 00166000 ca:00 835379 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 b7371000-b7374000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7374000-b73ba000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 2503 /usr/lib/libonig.so.2.0.0 b73ba000-b73bd000 rw-p 00045000 ca:00 2503 /usr/lib/libonig.so.2.0.0 b73be000-b73c0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b73c0000-b73c7000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45171 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so b73c7000-b73c8000 r--p 00006000 ca:00 45171 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so b73c8000-b73c9000 rw-p 00007000 ca:00 45171 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so b73c9000-b73dc000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22461 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.3.4 b73dc000-b73dd000 r--p 00012000 ca:00 22461 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.3.4 b73dd000-b73de000 rw-p 00013000 ca:00 22461 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.3.4 b73de000-b73e3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b73e3000-b73ea000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45188 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_negotiation.so b73ea000-b73eb000 r--p 00006000 ca:00 45188 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_negotiation.so b73eb000-b73ec000 rw-p 00007000 ca:00 45188 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_negotiation.so b73ec000-b73f1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b73f2000-b73f5000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45149 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_reqtimeout.so b73f5000-b73f6000 r--p 00002000 ca:00 45149 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_reqtimeout.so b73f6000-b73f7000 rw-p 00003000 ca:00 45149 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_reqtimeout.so b73f7000-b73fc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b73fc000-b73fe000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b73fe000-b7400000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22437 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1.3 b7400000-b7401000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 22437 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1.3 b7401000-b7402000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 22437 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1.3 b7402000-b7407000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7407000-b7409000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22344 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2.1 b7409000-b740a000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 22344 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2.1 b740a000-b740b000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 22344 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2.1 b740b000-b7410000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7411000-b7413000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7413000-b7416000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7416000-b7418000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7418000-b741c000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45176 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_mime.so b741c000-b741d000 r--p 00003000 ca:00 45176 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_mime.so b741d000-b741e000 rw-p 00004000 ca:00 45176 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_mime.so b741e000-b7422000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45162 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_headers.so b7422000-b7423000 r--p 00003000 ca:00 45162 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_headers.so b7423000-b7424000 rw-p 00004000 ca:00 45162 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_headers.so b7424000-b7426000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45161 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_expires.so b7426000-b7427000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 45161 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_expires.so b7427000-b7428000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 45161 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_expires.so b7428000-b742a000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45189 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dir.so b742a000-b742b000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 45189 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dir.so b742b000-b742c000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 45189 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dir.so b742c000-b742e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b742f000-b7430000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45158 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_env.so b7430000-b7431000 r--p 00000000 ca:00 45158 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_env.so b7431000-b7432000 rw-p 00001000 ca:00 45158 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_env.so b7432000-b7437000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7437000-b743c000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45155 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so b743c000-b743d000 r--p 00004000 ca:00 45155 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so b743d000-b743e000 rw-p 00005000 ca:00 45155 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so b743e000-b7443000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7443000-b7448000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45184 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_cgi.so b7448000-b7449000 r--p 00004000 ca:00 45184 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_cgi.so b7449000-b744a000 rw-p 00005000 ca:00 45184 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_cgi.so b744a000-b744f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b744f000-b7457000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45179 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_autoindex.so b7457000-b7458000 r--p 00007000 ca:00 45179 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_autoindex.so b7458000-b7459000 rw-p 00008000 ca:00 45179 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_autoindex.so b7459000-b745e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b745e000-b745f000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45136 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_user.so b745f000-b7460000 r--p 00000000 ca:00 45136 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_user.so b7460000-b7461000 rw-p 00001000 ca:00 45136 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_user.so b7461000-b7466000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7466000-b7468000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45134 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_host.so b7468000-b7469000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 45134 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_host.so b7469000-b746a000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 45134 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_host.so b746a000-b746f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b746f000-b7471000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45135 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so b7471000-b7472000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 45135 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so b7472000-b7473000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 45135 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so b7473000-b7478000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7478000-b7479000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45140 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_default.so b7479000-b747a000 r--p 00000000 ca:00 45140 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_default.so b747a000-b747b000 rw-p 00001000 ca:00 45140 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_default.so b747b000-b7480000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7480000-b7481000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 44436 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authn_file.so b7481000-b7482000 ---p 00001000 ca:00 44436 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authn_file.so b7482000-b7483000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 44436 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authn_file.so b7483000-b7484000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 44436 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authn_file.so b7484000-b7489000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7489000-b748b000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45141 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_basic.so b748b000-b748c000 r--p 00001000 ca:00 45141 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_basic.so b748c000-b748d000 rw-p 00002000 ca:00 45141 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_basic.so b748d000-b7492000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7492000-b7495000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 45194 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_alias.so b7495000-b7496000 r--p 00002000 ca:00 45194 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_alias.so b7496000-b7497000 rw-p 00003000 ca:00 45194 /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_alias.so b7497000-b74d8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b74d8000-b74db000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 21902 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so b74db000-b74dc000 r--p 00002000 ca:00 21902 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so b74dc000-b74dd000 rw-p 00003000 ca:00 21902 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl-2.13.so b74dd000-b74de000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b74de000-b74e2000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22401 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 b74e2000-b74e3000 r--p 00003000 ca:00 22401 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 b74e3000-b74e4000 rw-p 00004000 ca:00 22401 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 b74e4000-b750a000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22420 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.5.2 b750a000-b750b000 ---p 00026000 ca:00 22420 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.5.2 b750b000-b750d000 r--p 00026000 ca:00 22420 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.5.2 b750d000-b750e000 rw-p 00028000 ca:00 22420 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.5.2 b750e000-b7516000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 21889 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypt-2.13.so b7516000-b7517000 r--p 00007000 ca:00 21889 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypt-2.13.so b7517000-b7518000 rw-p 00008000 ca:00 21889 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypt-2.13.so b7518000-b753f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b753f000-b76b7000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 21864 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so b76b7000-b76b9000 r--p 00178000 ca:00 21864 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so b76b9000-b76ba000 rw-p 0017a000 ca:00 21864 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so b76ba000-b76bd000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b76bd000-b76d4000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 24594 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so b76d4000-b76d5000 r--p 00016000 ca:00 24594 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so b76d5000-b76d6000 rw-p 00017000 ca:00 24594 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so b76d6000-b76d9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b76d9000-b770c000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 6233 /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0.4.5 b770c000-b770d000 r--p 00032000 ca:00 6233 /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0.4.5 b770d000-b770e000 rw-p 00033000 ca:00 6233 /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0.4.5 b770e000-b772f000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 6236 /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0.3.12 b772f000-b7730000 r--p 00020000 ca:00 6236 /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0.3.12 b7730000-b7731000 rw-p 00021000 ca:00 6236 /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0.3.12 b7731000-b776e000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 22336 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1 b776e000-b776f000 r--p 0003c000 ca:00 22336 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1 b776f000-b7770000 rw-p 0003d000 ca:00 22336 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1 b7770000-b7780000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7780000-b779e000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 21844 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so b779e000-b779f000 r--p 0001d000 ca:00 21844 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so b779f000-b77a0000 rw-p 0001e000 ca:00 21844 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so b77a0000-b7803000 r-xp 00000000 ca:00 44432 /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2 b7803000-b7805000 r--p 00063000 ca:00 44432 /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2 b7805000-b7807000 rw-p 00065000 ca:00 44432 /usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2 b7807000-b780a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7a17000-b7a55000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] b7a55000-b7b9f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] b7b9f000-b7c1a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] bf9a1000-bf9c2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] f57fe000-f57ff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] [Tue Jun 26 13:15:10 2012] [notice] child pid 26840 exit signal Aborted (6) Sometimes it recovers, but sometimes it kills the server. It's unclear to me what glibc is doing to crash.. can anyone decipher what's crashing in this error log?

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• What is consuming memory?

  - by Milan Babuškov

  Feel free to change the question title. I have a VPS with standard LAMP stack and a busy website. Operating system is CentOS 5.5. Virtualization is done with VMWare. My server gets real slow about every 6 hours. Logging into it I see that 1.6GB of RAM is consumed. However, listing the active processes does not explain the problem. Can anyone make any sense of this? "free" shows this: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2059456 2049280 10176 0 14780 380968 -/+ buffers/cache: 1653532 405924 Swap: 2096472 96 2096376 While this is output of "ps": [root@vmi29 /]# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 10348 688 ? Rs Jun05 0:01 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Jun05 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [migration/1] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Jun05 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [migration/2] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Jun05 0:00 [ksoftirqd/2] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [migration/3] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Jun05 0:00 [ksoftirqd/3] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:06 [events/0] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [events/1] root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [events/2] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [events/3] root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [khelper] root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kthread] root 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kblockd/1] root 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kblockd/2] root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kblockd/3] root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kacpid] root 204 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [cqueue/0] root 205 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [cqueue/1] root 206 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [cqueue/2] root 207 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [cqueue/3] root 210 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [khubd] root 212 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kseriod] root 302 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun05 0:00 [khungtaskd] root 303 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun05 0:00 [pdflush] root 304 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun05 0:01 [pdflush] root 305 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:05 [kswapd0] root 306 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [aio/0] root 307 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [aio/1] root 308 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [aio/2] root 309 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [aio/3] root 515 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [mpt_poll_0] root 583 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [mpt/0] root 584 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 590 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [ata/0] root 591 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [ata/1] root 592 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [ata/2] root 593 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [ata/3] root 594 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [ata_aux] root 610 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kstriped] root 631 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:05 [kjournald] root 656 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kauditd] root 689 0.0 0.0 13364 928 ? S<s Jun05 0:00 /sbin/udevd -d root 2123 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kmpathd/0] root 2124 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kmpathd/1] root 2126 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kmpathd/2] root 2127 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kmpathd/3] root 2128 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kmpath_handlerd] root 2203 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun05 0:00 [kjournald] root 2613 0.0 0.0 5908 648 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 syslogd -m 0 root 2617 0.0 0.0 3804 424 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 klogd -x root 2707 0.0 0.0 10760 372 ? Ss Jun05 0:02 irqbalance apache 2910 0.5 0.6 213964 12912 ? S 00:22 0:07 /usr/sbin/httpd dbus 3011 0.0 0.0 21256 904 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 dbus-daemon --system root 3025 0.0 0.0 3800 576 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid 68 3038 0.0 0.2 31152 4336 ? Ss Jun05 0:01 hald root 3039 0.0 0.0 21692 1176 ? S Jun05 0:00 hald-runner 68 3046 0.0 0.0 12324 856 ? S Jun05 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.s 68 3052 0.0 0.0 12324 856 ? S Jun05 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0 root 3105 0.0 0.0 62624 1212 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 3264 0.0 0.0 74820 1156 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 crond root 3292 0.0 0.0 18416 472 ? S Jun05 0:00 /usr/sbin/smartd -q never root 3300 0.0 0.0 3792 480 tty2 Ss+ Jun05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 3301 0.0 0.0 3792 480 tty3 Ss+ Jun05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 3302 0.0 0.0 3792 484 tty4 Ss+ Jun05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 3304 0.0 0.0 3792 480 tty5 Ss+ Jun05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 3306 0.0 0.0 3792 480 tty6 Ss+ Jun05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 apache 5158 0.4 0.5 211896 11848 ? S 00:28 0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 5519 0.4 0.5 211896 11992 ? S 00:29 0:03 /usr/sbin/httpd root 5649 0.0 0.0 63848 1184 pts/0 S Jun05 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --soc mysql 5696 2.1 1.9 411060 40392 pts/0 Rl Jun05 2:01 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql apache 5943 0.4 0.5 211896 12000 ? S 00:30 0:03 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 5976 0.6 0.5 211896 11792 ? S 00:30 0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6073 0.4 0.5 211896 11208 ? S 00:31 0:03 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6122 0.4 0.5 211896 11848 ? S 00:31 0:03 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6128 0.3 0.5 211896 11940 ? S 00:31 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6159 0.5 0.5 211896 11872 ? S 00:31 0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6636 0.4 0.6 213960 13444 ? S 00:32 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6787 0.3 0.5 211884 11308 ? S 00:33 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6796 0.4 0.5 211884 12024 ? S 00:33 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6801 0.3 0.5 211896 11920 ? S 00:33 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6804 0.4 0.5 211884 11848 ? S 00:33 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6825 0.4 0.5 211896 11972 ? S 00:33 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6866 0.3 0.5 210860 11044 ? S 00:33 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6870 0.2 0.5 211896 11108 ? S 00:33 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6872 0.3 0.5 211896 11900 ? S 00:33 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6993 0.3 0.5 211896 11836 ? S 00:33 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 6994 0.3 0.5 211896 11792 ? S 00:33 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7136 0.2 0.5 211896 11432 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7143 0.2 0.5 210860 11052 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7145 0.2 0.5 211896 11136 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7266 0.2 0.6 213952 12748 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7299 0.2 0.5 211884 11276 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7311 0.2 0.5 211884 11300 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7313 0.3 0.5 211884 11876 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7345 0.2 0.5 210872 11100 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7349 0.2 0.5 210860 11008 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7350 0.2 0.5 211896 11832 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7351 0.1 0.5 211884 11072 ? S 00:34 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7352 0.2 0.5 210872 11096 ? S 00:34 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7449 0.1 0.5 210860 11020 ? S 00:35 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd root 7490 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun05 3:11 [vmmemctl] root 7597 0.0 0.0 72656 1260 ? Ss Jun05 0:06 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-guestd --background /va apache 7720 0.1 0.5 210860 10748 ? S 00:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7726 0.1 0.4 209836 9304 ? R 00:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7727 0.1 0.5 210860 10916 ? S 00:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7731 0.1 0.5 210860 10780 ? S 00:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7732 0.3 0.5 210860 10916 ? S 00:36 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7733 0.1 0.5 210872 11000 ? S 00:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7735 0.1 0.5 211884 11048 ? S 00:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7761 0.1 0.5 210860 10552 ? S 00:36 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7776 0.1 0.4 209836 8648 ? R 00:37 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7790 0.2 0.3 208812 7724 ? R 00:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7800 0.2 0.3 208812 8088 ? R 00:40 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd root 7801 0.0 0.0 3792 484 tty1 Ss+ 00:41 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 apache 7820 0.2 0.3 208812 7552 ? R 00:41 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7834 0.2 0.3 207788 6756 ? R 00:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7864 0.2 0.2 207788 6148 ? R 00:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7872 0.3 0.2 207788 5856 ? R 00:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 7874 2.5 0.3 207788 6336 ? R 00:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd root 7875 0.3 0.0 63844 1056 ? S 00:43 0:00 sh -c lsb_release -sd 2>/dev/null root 7879 1.6 0.0 65604 964 pts/0 R+ 00:43 0:00 ps aux root 16316 0.0 0.1 90128 3272 ? Ss Jun05 0:00 sshd: milanb [priv] milanb 16358 0.0 0.0 90128 1752 ? S Jun05 0:00 sshd: milanb@pts/0 milanb 16360 0.0 0.0 66076 1480 pts/0 Ss Jun05 0:00 -bash root 16875 0.0 0.0 101068 1324 pts/0 S Jun05 0:00 su - root 16877 0.0 0.0 66184 1692 pts/0 S Jun05 0:00 -bash root 24373 0.0 0.3 206764 7348 ? Rs Jun05 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd

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• MSBuild (.NET 4.0) access problems

  - by JMP

  I'm using Cruise Control .NET as my build server (Windows 2008 Server). Yesterday I upgraded my ASP.NET MVC project from VS 2008/.NET 3.5 to VS 2010/.NET 4.0. The only change I made to my ccnet.config's MSBuild task was the location of MSBuild.exe. Ever since I made that change, the build has been broken with the error: MSB4019 - The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. This file does, in fact, exist in the location specified (I solved a problem similar to this when setting up the build server for VS2008/.NET 3.5 by copying the files from my dev environment to my build environment). So I RDP'ed into the build machine and opened a command prompt, used MSBUILD to attempt to build my project. MSBUILD returns the error: MSB3021 - Unable to copy file "obj\debug....dll". Access to the path 'bin....dll' is denied. Since I'm running MSBUILD from the command prompt, logged in with an account that has administrative privileges, I'm assuming that MSBUILD is running with the same privileges that I have. Next, I tried to copy the file that MSBUILD was attempting to copy. In this case, I get the UAC dialog that makes me click the [Continue] button to complete the copy. I'd like to avoid installing Visual Studio 2010 on my build machine, can anyone suggest other fixes I might try?

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• .Net Windows Service Throws EventType clr20r3 system.data.sqlclient.sql error

  - by William Edmondson

  I have a .Net/c# 2.0 windows service. The entry point is wrapped in a try catch block yet when I look at the server's application event log I seem a number of "EventType clr20r3" errors that are causing the service to die unexpectedly. The catch block has a "catch (Exception ex)". Each sql commands is of the type "CommandType.StoredProcedure" and are executed with SqlDataReader's. These sproc calls function correctly 99% of time and have all been thoroughly unit tested, profiled, and QA'd. I additionally wrapped these calls in try catch blocks just to be sure and am still experiencing these unhandled exceptions. This only in our production environment and cannot be duplicated in our dev or staging environments (even under heavy load). Why would my error handling not catch this particular error? Is there anyway to capture more detail as to the root cause of the problem? Here is an example of the event log: EventType clr20r3, P1 RDC.OrderProcessorService, P2 1.0.0.0, P3 4ae6a0d0, P4 system.data, P5 2.0.0.0, P6 4889deaf, P7 2490, P8 2c, P9 system.data.sqlclient.sql, P10 NIL. Additionally The Order Processor service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

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• sort django queryset by latest instance of a subset of related model

  - by rsp

  I have an Order model and order_event model. Each order_event has a foreignkey to order. so from an order instance i can get: myorder.order_event_set. I want to get a list of all orders but i want them to be sorted by the date of the last event. A statement like this works to sort by the latest event date: queryset = Order.objects.all().annotate(latest_event_date=Max('order_event__event_datetime')).order_by('latest_event_date') However, what I really need is a list of all orders sorted by latest date of A SUBSET OF EVENTS. For example my events are categorized into "scheduling", "processing", etc. So I should be able to get a list of all orders sorted by the latest scheduling event. This django doc (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/aggregation/#filter-and-exclude) shows how I can get the latest schedule event using a filter but this excludes orders without a scheduling event. I thought I could combine the filtered queryset with a queryset that includes back those orders that are missing a scheduling event...but I'm not quite sure how to do this. I saw answers related to using python list but it would be much more useful to have a proper django queryset (ie for a view with pagination, etc.)

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• Common Access Card (CAC) Authentication Using Java

  - by Paul

  I'm bascially looking for someplace to start learning how to interface with a government CAC card using java. Ultimately, my goal is to find out how to use CAC card authentication (by PIN number) to authorize access to a website hosted using a Tomcat/J2EE server. But I'll need somewhere to start. So I figure I'd start by writing a small java program to simply read the CAC card information from the CAC card which is inserted into a card reader on my keyboard (DELL keyboard with CAC reader above the numeric keypad). By searching google, I found the cacard java project (https://cacard.dev.java.net/) which was replaced by the OpenSSO project. But I can't seem to find sample code of how to use it to connect to a card, read from a card, etc. Does anyone know where I can find some sample code so that I can start learning how to interact with a CAC card using java? Thanks EDIT: After researching more, I was thinking, would I be able to just set clientAuth="true" in the connector element in the server.xml file? http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html clientAuth: Set this value to true if you want Tomcat to require all SSL clients to present a client Certificate in order to use this socket.

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• c++ generate a good random seed for psudo random number generators

  - by posop

  I am trying to generate a good random seed for a psudo-random number generator. I thought I'd get the expert's opinions. let me know if this is a bad way of doing it or if there are much better ways. #include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> #include <fstream> #include <ctime> unsigned int good_seed() { unsigned int random_seed, random_seed_a, random_seed_b; std::ifstream file ("/dev/random", std::ios::binary); if (file.is_open()) { char * memblock; int size = sizeof(int); memblock = new char [size]; file.read (memblock, size); file.close(); random_seed_a = int(memblock); delete[] memblock; }// end if else { random_seed_a = 0; } random_seed_b = std::time(0); random_seed = random_seed_a xor random_seed_b; return random_seed; } // end good_seed()

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• System.Net.WebClient doesn't work with Windows Authentication

  - by Peter Hahndorf

  I am trying to use System.Net.WebClient in a WinForms application to upload a file to an IIS6 server which has Windows Authentication as it only 'Authentication' method. WebClient myWebClient = new WebClient(); myWebClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(@"boxname\peter", "mypassword"); byte[] responseArray = myWebClient.UploadFile("http://localhost/upload.aspx", fileName); I get a 'The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized', actually it is a 401.2 Both client and IIS are on the same Windows Server 2003 Dev machine. When I try to open the page in Firefox and enter the same correct credentials as in the code, the page comes up. However when using IE8, I get the same 401.2 error. Tried Chrome and Opera and they both work. I have 'Enable Integrated Windows Authentication' enabled in the IE Internet options. The Security Event Log has a Failure Audit: Logon Failure: Reason: An error occurred during logon User Name: peter Domain: boxname Logon Type: 3 Logon Process: ÈùÄ Authentication Package: NTLM Workstation Name: boxname Status code: 0xC000006D Substatus code: 0x0 Caller User Name: - Caller Domain: - Caller Logon ID: - Caller Process ID: - Transited Services: - Source Network Address: 127.0.0.1 Source Port: 1476 I used Process Monitor and Fiddler to investigate but to no avail. Why would this work for 3rd party browsers but not with IE or System.Net.WebClient?

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• Uploadify & Integrated Windows Authentication

  - by vdh_ant

  Hi guys I'm running into an issue with Uploadify and I hope someone can help. I have put Uploadify into my app and all works fine in dev (using the VS web server). All worked fine and checked until I deployed the app into my test environment which uses Integrated Windows Authentication. When I actually go to upload the file, the browser brings up a login prompt. At this point, even if you type in the correct username and password, the request seems not to complete and even if you tell the browser to remember the password it still brings up the login prompt. When this started to occur, I decided to spin up Fiddler and see what was going on. But guess what, when ever Fiddler is running the issue doesn't occur. Unfortunately I can't make running Fiddler a reuqierment for running the app. Hence does anyone have any ideas. I know there are some issues with Uploadify/flash when using forms authentication but I didn't think they carried across to Integrated Windows Authentication. Cheers Anthony

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• Localize WiX installer which uses the Firewall extension

  - by tronda

  I've got a WiX installer project which uses MSBuild to generate the MSI file. The WXS file includes the WiX firewall extension: xmlns:fire="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/FirewallExtension" I've defined two cultures in the MSBuild file with the following definition: <PropertyGroup> ... <Cultures>en-us;no-no</Cultures> </PropertyGroup> I've also added the translated resources: <ItemGroup> <EmbeddedResource Include="lang\Firewall_no-no.wxl" /> <EmbeddedResource Include="lang\WixUI_no-no.wxl" /> </ItemGroup> These represents translation to Norwegian for the Firewall extension and the WixUI extension. When I run the build it succeeds with the en-us part, but the no-no part fails with the following error messages: C:\delivery\Dev\wix30_public\src\ext\FirewallExtension\wixlib\FirewallExtension.wxs(19): error LGHT0102: The localization variable !(loc.WixSchedFirewallExceptionsInstall) is unknown. Please ensure the variable is defined. .... Couple of issues: I don't know where the C:\delivery directory comes from. I don't have such a directory. The localization variables referenced in the error message have been translated in the Firewall_no-no.wxl file. When I run MSBuild with more detailed information I see the following output right before the error message: Task "Light" Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\Light.exe -cultures:no-no -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\WixUIExtension.dll" -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows I nstaller XML v3\bin\WixUtilExtension.dll" -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\WixFirewallExtension.dll" -loc lang\Firewall_no-no.wxl -loc lang\WixUI_no-no.wxl -out F:\Projects\MyProd\MyProj\Installer\bin\Debug\no-no\MyInstaller.msi -pdbout F:\Projects\MyProd\MyProj\Installer\bin\Debug\no-no\MyInstaller.wixpdb obj\Debug\MyProj.wixobj As the details show, the MSBuild task results in having two -loc parameters to the Light executable. Not sure if that would be the reason for this problem. Any ideas on how to solve this?

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• VS 2010 VSTO Add in for EXCEL 2007 Won't load

  - by Erick

  Hi everyone, We have an application that is built with Excel as the front end using the Office object model. We were using a C++ shim to load it as a COM add in for Excel 2003, but I've updated it to use the latest VSTO for Excel 2007. I've also been using VS 2010 for the latest version. The problem is that everything works great on my dev machine in debugger mode as well as just launching Excel 2007, but I cannot get it to run on any other machine (my current target machine is Win7, development is XP). I've created a ClickOnce deployment of the Addin, and I can see it in the list of COM Addins, but when I check on it to load it nothing happens. I re-open the Addins manager and it is un-checked. I've also tried setting in in the registry, but as soon as I run it, it sets the registry back to do not load. I've tried everything I can think of and searched all over the web but no dice. Any help would be appreciated!

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• NSString variable out of scope in sub-class (iPhone/Obj-C)

  - by Rich

  I am following along with an example in a book with the code exactly as it is in the example code as well as from the book, and I'm getting an error at runtime. I'll try to describe the life cycle of this variable as good as I can. I have a controller class with a nested array that is populated with string literals (NSArray of NSArrays, the nested NSArrays initialized with arrayWithObjects: where the objects are all string literals - @"some string"). I access these strings with a helper method added via a category on NSArray (to pull strings out of a nested array). My controller gets a reference to this string and assigns it to a NSString property on a child controller using dot notation. The code looks like this (nestedObjectAtIndexPath is my helper method): NSString *rowKey = [rowKeys nestedObjectAtIndexPath:indexPath]; controller.keypath = rowKey; keypath is a synthesized nonatomic, retain property defined in a based class. When I hit a breakpoint in the controller at the above code, the NSString's value is as expected. When I hit the next breakpoint inside the child controller, the object id of the keypath property is the same as before, but instead of showing me the value of the NSString, XCode says that the variable is "out of scope" which is also the error I see in the console. This also happens in another sub-class of the same parent. I tried googling, and I saw slightly similar cases where people were suggesting this had to do with retain counts. I was under the impression that by using dot notation on a synthesized property, my class would be using an "auto generated accessor" that would be increasing my retain count for me so that I wouldn't have this problem. Could there be any implications because I'm accessing it in a sub-class and the prop is defined in the parent? I don't see anything in the book's errata about this, but the book is relatively new (Apress - More iPhone 3 Dev). I also have double checked that my code matches the example 100 times.

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• Scrollbar problem with jquery ui dialog in Chrome and Safari

  - by alexis.kennedy

  I'm using the jquery ui dialog with modal=true. In Chrome and Safari, this disables scrolling via the scroll bar and cursor keys (scrolling with the mouse wheel and page up/down still works). This is a problem if the dialog is too tall to fit on one page - users on a laptop get frustrated. Someone raised this three months ago on the jquery bug tracker - http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/4671 - it doesn't look like fixing it is a priority. :) So does anyone (i) have a fix for this? (ii) have a suggested workaround that would give a decent usability experience? I'm experimenting with mouseover / scrollto on bits of the form, but it's not a great solution :( EDIT: props to Rowan Beentje (who's not on SO afaict) for finding a solution to this. jQueryUI prevents scrolling by capturing the mouseup / mousedown events. So this: $("dialogId").dialog({ open: function(event, ui) { window.setTimeout(function() { jQuery(document) .unbind('mousedown.dialog-overlay') .unbind('mouseup.dialog-overlay') ; }, 100); }, modal: true}); seems to fix it. Use at own risk, I don't know what other unmodal behaviour unbinding this stuff might allow.

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• ASP.NET / Active Directory - Supporting auto login for domain users

  - by Krisc

  I am developing a simple ASP.NET website that will run on the intranet on a WS2008(IIS7) box and respond to users running XP/IE8. Everything is domain connected and I am trying to automatically login the users much like SharePoint does. On my dev machine (XP), when running the site through VS, everything works. I can pickup on the user perfectly. I am using the following settings: <authentication mode="Windows"/> <identity impersonate="true"/> <anonymousIdentification enabled="false"/> <authorization> <allow users="*"/> <deny users="?"/> </authorization> However, when I publish to the WS2008 box, it doesn't work. Clearly I am missing a setting in IIS7 to support this. I have the following set for Authentication on the site: Anon Auth - Enabled ASP.NET Impersonation - Enabled Basic Auth - Disabled Forms Auth - Disabled Windows Auth - Disabled What am I missing? Thanks

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• Ivar definitions show 'long' type encoding as 'long long' type encoding

  - by Frank C.

  I've found what I think may be a bug with Ivar and Objective-C runtime. I'm using XCode 3.2.1 and associated libraries, developing a 64 bit app on X86_64 (MacBook Pro). Where I would expect the type encoding for the following "longVal" to be 'l', the Ivar encoding is showing a 'q' (which is a 'long long'). Anyone else seeing this? Simplified code and output follows: Code: #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import <objc/runtime.h> @interface Bug : NSObject { long longVal; long long longerVal; } @property (nonatomic,assign) long longVal; @property (nonatomic,assign) long long longerVal; @end @implementation Bug @synthesize longVal,longerVal; @end int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) { NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; unsigned int ivarCount=0; Ivar *ivars= class_copyIvarList([Bug class], &ivarCount); for(unsigned int x=0;x<ivarCount;x++) { NSLog(@"Name [%@] encoding [%@]", [NSString stringWithCString:ivar_getName(ivars[x]) encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], [NSString stringWithCString:ivar_getTypeEncoding(ivars[x]) encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]); } [pool drain]; return 0; } And here is output from debug console: This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin".tty /dev/ttys000 Loading program into debugger… sharedlibrary apply-load-rules all Program loaded. run [Switching to process 6048] Running… 2010-03-17 22:16:29.138 ivarbug[6048:a0f] Name [longVal] encoding [q] 2010-03-17 22:16:29.146 ivarbug[6048:a0f] Name [longerVal] encoding [q] (gdb) continue Not a pretty picture! -- Frank

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• Handling async ASMX web service exceptions

  - by Andy

  Hi, I've developed silverlight client with makes async web services calls to a asmx web service. The problem is, I want to handle exceptions, so far as to be able to tell in the client application whether there was an exception in the webservice (and therefore will be logged local to the webservice) or whether there was a communication problem (i.e. the endpoint for the webservice was wrong). In testing both types of exceptions in my project I get the same generic exception: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound. This exception is amazingly useless when an exception occured in the webservice as it clearly has been found. Is the presence of this generic error to do with security (not being allowed to see true errors)? It can't be the fact that I don't have debug strings as I'm running on a dev PC. Either way, my question is, what's the best way to handle async errors in a commercial silverlight application? Any links or ideas are most welcome! :) Thanks a lot! Andy.

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