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SQL SERVER – Plan Cache and Data Cache in Memory

- by pinaldave

I get following question almost all the time when I go for consultations or training. I often end up providing the scripts to my clients and attendees. Instead of writing new blog post, today in this single blog post, I am going to cover both the script and going to link to original blog posts where I have mentioned about this blog post. Plan Cache in Memory USE AdventureWorks GO SELECT [text], cp.size_in_bytes, plan_handle FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans AS cp CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(plan_handle) WHERE cp.cacheobjtype = N'Compiled Plan' ORDER BY cp.size_in_bytes DESC GO Further explanation of this script is over here: SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script Data Cache in Memory USE AdventureWorks GO SELECT COUNT(*) AS cached_pages_count, name AS BaseTableName, IndexName, IndexTypeDesc FROM sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors AS bd INNER JOIN ( SELECT s_obj.name, s_obj.index_id, s_obj.allocation_unit_id, s_obj.OBJECT_ID, i.name IndexName, i.type_desc IndexTypeDesc FROM ( SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) AS name, index_id ,allocation_unit_id, OBJECT_ID FROM sys.allocation_units AS au INNER JOIN sys.partitions AS p ON au.container_id = p.hobt_id AND (au.TYPE = 1 OR au.TYPE = 3) UNION ALL SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) AS name, index_id, allocation_unit_id, OBJECT_ID FROM sys.allocation_units AS au INNER JOIN sys.partitions AS p ON au.container_id = p.partition_id AND au.TYPE = 2 ) AS s_obj LEFT JOIN sys.indexes i ON i.index_id = s_obj.index_id AND i.OBJECT_ID = s_obj.OBJECT_ID ) AS obj ON bd.allocation_unit_id = obj.allocation_unit_id WHERE database_id = DB_ID() GROUP BY name, index_id, IndexName, IndexTypeDesc ORDER BY cached_pages_count DESC; GO Further explanation of this script is over here: SQL SERVER – Get Query Plan Along with Query Text and Execution Count Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL Tagged: SQL Memory

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Unity – Part 5: Injecting Values

- by Ricardo Peres

Introduction This is the fifth post on Unity. You can find the introductory post here, the second post, on dependency injection here, a third one on Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) here and the latest so far, on writing custom extensions, here. This time we will talk about injecting simple values. An Inversion of Control (IoC) / Dependency Injector (DI) container like Unity can be used for things other than injecting complex class dependencies. It can also be used for setting property values or method/constructor parameters whenever a class is built. The main difference is that these values do not have a lifetime manager associated with them and do not come from the regular IoC registration store. Unlike, for instance, MEF, Unity won’t let you register as a dependency a string or an integer, so you have to take a different approach, which I will describe in this post. Scenario Let’s imagine we have a base interface that describes a logger – the same as in previous examples: 1: public interface ILogger 2: { 3: void Log(String message); 4: } And a concrete implementation that writes to a file: 1: public class FileLogger : ILogger 2: { 3: public String Filename 4: { 5: get; 6: set; 7: } 8: 9: #region ILogger Members 10: 11: public void Log(String message) 12: { 13: using (Stream file = File.OpenWrite(this.Filename)) 14: { 15: Byte[] data = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(message); 16: 17: file.Write(data, 0, data.Length); 18: } 19: } 20: 21: #endregion 22: } And let’s say we want the Filename property to come from the application settings (appSettings) section on the Web/App.config file. As usual with Unity, there is an extensibility point that allows us to automatically do this, both with code configuration or statically on the configuration file. Extending Injection We start by implementing a class that will retrieve a value from the appSettings by inheriting from ValueElement: 1: sealed class AppSettingsParameterValueElement : ValueElement, IDependencyResolverPolicy 2: { 3: #region Private methods 4: private Object CreateInstance(Type parameterType) 5: { 6: Object configurationValue = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[this.AppSettingsKey]; 7: 8: if (parameterType != typeof(String)) 9: { 10: TypeConverter typeConverter = this.GetTypeConverter(parameterType); 11: 12: configurationValue = typeConverter.ConvertFromInvariantString(configurationValue as String); 13: } 14: 15: return (configurationValue); 16: } 17: #endregion 18: 19: #region Private methods 20: private TypeConverter GetTypeConverter(Type parameterType) 21: { 22: if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(this.TypeConverterTypeName) == false) 23: { 24: return (Activator.CreateInstance(TypeResolver.ResolveType(this.TypeConverterTypeName)) as TypeConverter); 25: } 26: else 27: { 28: return (TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(parameterType)); 29: } 30: } 31: #endregion 32: 33: #region Public override methods 34: public override InjectionParameterValue GetInjectionParameterValue(IUnityContainer container, Type parameterType) 35: { 36: Object value = this.CreateInstance(parameterType); 37: return (new InjectionParameter(parameterType, value)); 38: } 39: #endregion 40: 41: #region IDependencyResolverPolicy Members 42: 43: public Object Resolve(IBuilderContext context) 44: { 45: Type parameterType = null; 46: 47: if (context.CurrentOperation is ResolvingPropertyValueOperation) 48: { 49: ResolvingPropertyValueOperation op = (context.CurrentOperation as ResolvingPropertyValueOperation); 50: PropertyInfo prop = op.TypeBeingConstructed.GetProperty(op.PropertyName); 51: parameterType = prop.PropertyType; 52: } 53: else if (context.CurrentOperation is ConstructorArgumentResolveOperation) 54: { 55: ConstructorArgumentResolveOperation op = (context.CurrentOperation as ConstructorArgumentResolveOperation); 56: String args = op.ConstructorSignature.Split('(')[1].Split(')')[0]; 57: Type[] types = args.Split(',').Select(a => Type.GetType(a.Split(' ')[0])).ToArray(); 58: ConstructorInfo ctor = op.TypeBeingConstructed.GetConstructor(types); 59: parameterType = ctor.GetParameters().Where(p => p.Name == op.ParameterName).Single().ParameterType; 60: } 61: else if (context.CurrentOperation is MethodArgumentResolveOperation) 62: { 63: MethodArgumentResolveOperation op = (context.CurrentOperation as MethodArgumentResolveOperation); 64: String methodName = op.MethodSignature.Split('(')[0].Split(' ')[1]; 65: String args = op.MethodSignature.Split('(')[1].Split(')')[0]; 66: Type[] types = args.Split(',').Select(a => Type.GetType(a.Split(' ')[0])).ToArray(); 67: MethodInfo method = op.TypeBeingConstructed.GetMethod(methodName, types); 68: parameterType = method.GetParameters().Where(p => p.Name == op.ParameterName).Single().ParameterType; 69: } 70: 71: return (this.CreateInstance(parameterType)); 72: } 73: 74: #endregion 75: 76: #region Public properties 77: [ConfigurationProperty("appSettingsKey", IsRequired = true)] 78: public String AppSettingsKey 79: { 80: get 81: { 82: return ((String)base["appSettingsKey"]); 83: } 84: 85: set 86: { 87: base["appSettingsKey"] = value; 88: } 89: } 90: #endregion 91: } As you can see from the implementation of the IDependencyResolverPolicy.Resolve method, this will work in three different scenarios: When it is applied to a property; When it is applied to a constructor parameter; When it is applied to an initialization method. The implementation will even try to convert the value to its declared destination, for example, if the destination property is an Int32, it will try to convert the appSettings stored string to an Int32. Injection By Configuration If we want to configure injection by configuration, we need to implement a custom section extension by inheriting from SectionExtension, and registering our custom element with the name “appSettings”: 1: sealed class AppSettingsParameterInjectionElementExtension : SectionExtension 2: { 3: public override void AddExtensions(SectionExtensionContext context) 4: { 5: context.AddElement<AppSettingsParameterValueElement>("appSettings"); 6: } 7: } And on the configuration file, for setting a property, we use it like this: 1: <appSettings> 2: <add key="LoggerFilename" value="Log.txt"/> 3: </appSettings> 4: <unity xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/practices/2010/unity"> 5: <container> 6: <register type="MyNamespace.ILogger, MyAssembly" mapTo="MyNamespace.ConsoleLogger, MyAssembly"/> 7: <register type="MyNamespace.ILogger, MyAssembly" mapTo="MyNamespace.FileLogger, MyAssembly" name="File"> 8: <lifetime type="singleton"/> 9: <property name="Filename"> 10: <appSettings appSettingsKey="LoggerFilename"/> 11: </property> 12: </register> 13: </container> 14: </unity> If we would like to inject the value as a constructor parameter, it would be instead: 1: <unity xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/practices/2010/unity"> 2: <sectionExtension type="MyNamespace.AppSettingsParameterInjectionElementExtension, MyAssembly" /> 3: <container> 4: <register type="MyNamespace.ILogger, MyAssembly" mapTo="MyNamespace.ConsoleLogger, MyAssembly"/> 5: <register type="MyNamespace.ILogger, MyAssembly" mapTo="MyNamespace.FileLogger, MyAssembly" name="File"> 6: <lifetime type="singleton"/> 7: <constructor> 8: <param name="filename" type="System.String"> 9: <appSettings appSettingsKey="LoggerFilename"/> 10: </param> 11: </constructor> 12: </register> 13: </container> 14: </unity> Notice the appSettings section, where we add a LoggerFilename entry, which is the same as the one referred by our AppSettingsParameterInjectionElementExtension extension. For more advanced behavior, you can add a TypeConverterName attribute to the appSettings declaration, where you can pass an assembly qualified name of a class that inherits from TypeConverter. This class will be responsible for converting the appSettings value to a destination type. Injection By Attribute If we would like to use attributes instead, we need to create a custom attribute by inheriting from DependencyResolutionAttribute: 1: [Serializable] 2: [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Parameter | AttributeTargets.Property, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)] 3: public sealed class AppSettingsDependencyResolutionAttribute : DependencyResolutionAttribute 4: { 5: public AppSettingsDependencyResolutionAttribute(String appSettingsKey) 6: { 7: this.AppSettingsKey = appSettingsKey; 8: } 9: 10: public String TypeConverterTypeName 11: { 12: get; 13: set; 14: } 15: 16: public String AppSettingsKey 17: { 18: get; 19: private set; 20: } 21: 22: public override IDependencyResolverPolicy CreateResolver(Type typeToResolve) 23: { 24: return (new AppSettingsParameterValueElement() { AppSettingsKey = this.AppSettingsKey, TypeConverterTypeName = this.TypeConverterTypeName }); 25: } 26: } As for file configuration, there is a mandatory property for setting the appSettings key and an optional TypeConverterName for setting the name of a TypeConverter. Both the custom attribute and the custom section return an instance of the injector AppSettingsParameterValueElement that we implemented in the first place. Now, the attribute needs to be placed before the injected class’ Filename property: 1: public class FileLogger : ILogger 2: { 3: [AppSettingsDependencyResolution("LoggerFilename")] 4: public String Filename 5: { 6: get; 7: set; 8: } 9: 10: #region ILogger Members 11: 12: public void Log(String message) 13: { 14: using (Stream file = File.OpenWrite(this.Filename)) 15: { 16: Byte[] data = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(message); 17: 18: file.Write(data, 0, data.Length); 19: } 20: } 21: 22: #endregion 23: } Or, if we wanted to use constructor injection: 1: public class FileLogger : ILogger 2: { 3: public String Filename 4: { 5: get; 6: set; 7: } 8: 9: public FileLogger([AppSettingsDependencyResolution("LoggerFilename")] String filename) 10: { 11: this.Filename = filename; 12: } 13: 14: #region ILogger Members 15: 16: public void Log(String message) 17: { 18: using (Stream file = File.OpenWrite(this.Filename)) 19: { 20: Byte[] data = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(message); 21: 22: file.Write(data, 0, data.Length); 23: } 24: } 25: 26: #endregion 27: } Usage Just do: 1: ILogger logger = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ILogger>("File"); And off you go! A simple way do avoid hardcoded values in component registrations. Of course, this same concept can be applied to registry keys, environment values, XML attributes, etc, etc, just change the implementation of the AppSettingsParameterValueElement class. Next stop: custom lifetime managers.

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WPF Login Verification Using Active Directory

- by psheriff

Back in October of 2009 I created a WPF login screen (Figure 1) that just showed how to create the layout for a login screen. That one sample is probably the most downloaded sample we have. So in this blog post, I thought I would update that screen and also hook it up to show how to authenticate your user against Active Directory. Figure 1: Original WPF Login Screen I have updated not only the code behind for this login screen, but also the look and feel as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2: An Updated WPF Login Screen The UI To create the UI for this login screen you can refer to my October of 2009 blog post to see how to create the borderless window. You can then look at the sample code to see how I created the linear gradient brush for the background. There are just a few differences in this screen compared to the old version. First, I changed the key image and instead of using words for the Cancel and Login buttons, I used some icons. Secondly I added a text box to hold the Domain name that you wish to authenticate against. This text box is automatically filled in if you are connected to a network. In the Window_Loaded event procedure of the winLogin window you can retrieve the user’s domain name from the Environment.UserDomainName property. For example: txtDomain.Text = Environment.UserDomainName The ADHelper Class Instead of coding the call to authenticate the user directly in the login screen I created an ADHelper class. This will make it easier if you want to add additional AD calls in the future. The ADHelper class contains just one method at this time called AuthenticateUser. This method authenticates a user name and password against the specified domain. The login screen will gather the credentials from the user such as their user name and password, and also the domain name to authenticate against. To use this ADHelper class you will need to add a reference to the System.DirectoryServices.dll in .NET. The AuthenticateUser Method In order to authenticate a user against your Active Directory you will need to supply a valid LDAP path string to the constructor of the DirectoryEntry class. The LDAP path string will be in the format LDAP://DomainName. You will also pass in the user name and password to the constructor of the DirectoryEntry class as well. With a DirectoryEntry object populated with this LDAP path string, the user name and password you will now pass this object to the constructor of a DirectorySearcher object. You then perform the FindOne method on the DirectorySearcher object. If the DirectorySearcher object returns a SearchResult then the credentials supplied are valid. If the credentials are not valid on the Active Directory then an exception is thrown. C#public bool AuthenticateUser(string domainName, string userName, string password){ bool ret = false; try { DirectoryEntry de = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + domainName, userName, password); DirectorySearcher dsearch = new DirectorySearcher(de); SearchResult results = null; results = dsearch.FindOne(); ret = true; } catch { ret = false; } return ret;} Visual Basic Public Function AuthenticateUser(ByVal domainName As String, _ ByVal userName As String, ByVal password As String) As Boolean Dim ret As Boolean = False Try Dim de As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" & domainName, _ userName, password) Dim dsearch As New DirectorySearcher(de) Dim results As SearchResult = Nothing results = dsearch.FindOne() ret = True Catch ret = False End Try Return retEnd Function In the Click event procedure under the Login button you will find the following code that will validate the credentials that the user types into the login window. C#private void btnLogin_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e){ ADHelper ad = new ADHelper(); if(ad.AuthenticateUser(txtDomain.Text, txtUserName.Text, txtPassword.Password)) DialogResult = true; else MessageBox.Show("Unable to Authenticate Using the Supplied Credentials");} Visual BasicPrivate Sub btnLogin_Click(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As RoutedEventArgs) Dim ad As New ADHelper() If ad.AuthenticateUser(txtDomain.Text, txtUserName.Text, _ txtPassword.Password) Then DialogResult = True Else MessageBox.Show("Unable to Authenticate Using the Supplied Credentials") End IfEnd Sub Displaying the Login Screen At some point when your application launches, you will need to display your login screen modally. Below is the code that you would call to display the login form (named winLogin in my sample application). This code is called from the main application form, and thus the owner of the login screen is set to “this”. You then call the ShowDialog method on the login screen to have this form displayed modally. After the user clicks on one of the two buttons you need to check to see what the DialogResult property was set to. The DialogResult property is a nullable type and thus you first need to check to see if the value has been set. C# private void DisplayLoginScreen(){ winLogin win = new winLogin(); win.Owner = this; win.ShowDialog(); if (win.DialogResult.HasValue && win.DialogResult.Value) MessageBox.Show("User Logged In"); else this.Close();} Visual Basic Private Sub DisplayLoginScreen() Dim win As New winLogin() win.Owner = Me win.ShowDialog() If win.DialogResult.HasValue And win.DialogResult.Value Then MessageBox.Show("User Logged In") Else Me.Close() End IfEnd Sub Summary Creating a nice looking login screen is fairly simple to do in WPF. Using the Active Directory services from a WPF application should make your desktop programming task easier as you do not need to create your own user authentication system. I hope this article gave you some ideas on how to create a login screen in WPF. NOTE: You can download the complete sample code for this blog entry at my website: http://www.pdsa.com/downloads. Click on Tips & Tricks, then select 'WPF Login Verification Using Active Directory' from the drop down list. Good Luck with your Coding,Paul Sheriff ** SPECIAL OFFER FOR MY BLOG READERS **We frequently offer a FREE gift for readers of my blog. Visit http://www.pdsa.com/Event/Blog for your FREE gift!

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Mixing Objective-C and C++: Game Loop Parts

- by Peteyslatts

I'm trying to write all of my game in C++ except for drawing and game loop timing. Those parts are going to be in Objective-C for iOS. Right now, I have ViewController handling the update cycle, but I want to create a GameModel class that ViewController could update. I want GameModel to be in C++. I know how to integrate these two classes. My problem is how to have these two parts interact with the drawing and image loading. GameModel will keep track of a list of children of type GameObject. These GameObjects update every frame, and then need to pass position and visibility data to whatever class or method will handle drawing. I feel like I'm answering my own question now (talking it out helps) but would it be a good idea to put all of the visible game objects into an array at the end of the update method, return it, and use that to update graphics inside ViewController?

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ASP.NET Web API and Simple Value Parameters from POSTed data

- by Rick Strahl

In testing out various features of Web API I've found a few oddities in the way that the serialization is handled. These are probably not super common but they may throw you for a loop. Here's what I found. Simple Parameters from Xml or JSON Content Web API makes it very easy to create action methods that accept parameters that are automatically parsed from XML or JSON request bodies. For example, you can send a JavaScript JSON object to the server and Web API happily deserializes it for you. This works just fine:public string ReturnAlbumInfo(Album album) { return album.AlbumName + " (" + album.YearReleased.ToString() + ")"; } However, if you have methods that accept simple parameter types like strings, dates, number etc., those methods don't receive their parameters from XML or JSON body by default and you may end up with failures. Take the following two very simple methods:public string ReturnString(string message) { return message; } public HttpResponseMessage ReturnDateTime(DateTime time) { return Request.CreateResponse<DateTime>(HttpStatusCode.OK, time); } The first one accepts a string and if called with a JSON string from the client like this:var client = new HttpClient(); var result = client.PostAsJsonAsync<string>(http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString, "Hello World").Result; which results in a trace like this: POST http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8Host: rasxpsContent-Length: 13Expect: 100-continueConnection: Keep-Alive "Hello World" produces… wait for it: null. Sending a date in the same fashion:var client = new HttpClient(); var result = client.PostAsJsonAsync<DateTime>(http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnDateTime, new DateTime(2012, 1, 1)).Result; results in this trace: POST http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnDateTime HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8Host: rasxpsContent-Length: 30Expect: 100-continueConnection: Keep-Alive "\/Date(1325412000000-1000)\/" (yes still the ugly MS AJAX date, yuk! This will supposedly change by RTM with Json.net used for client serialization) produces an error response: The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'time' of non-nullable type 'System.DateTime' for method 'System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage ReturnDateTime(System.DateTime)' in 'AspNetWebApi.Controllers.AlbumApiController'. An optional parameter must be a reference type, a nullable type, or be declared as an optional parameter. Basically any simple parameters are not parsed properly resulting in null being sent to the method. For the string the call doesn't fail, but for the non-nullable date it produces an error because the method can't handle a null value. This behavior is a bit unexpected to say the least, but there's a simple solution to make this work using an explicit [FromBody] attribute:public string ReturnString([FromBody] string message) andpublic HttpResponseMessage ReturnDateTime([FromBody] DateTime time) which explicitly instructs Web API to read the value from the body. UrlEncoded Form Variable Parsing Another similar issue I ran into is with POST Form Variable binding. Web API can retrieve parameters from the QueryString and Route Values but it doesn't explicitly map parameters from POST values either. Taking our same ReturnString function from earlier and posting a message POST variable like this:var formVars = new Dictionary<string,string>(); formVars.Add("message", "Some Value"); var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(formVars); var client = new HttpClient(); var result = client.PostAsync(http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString, content).Result; which produces this trace: POST http://rasxps/AspNetWebApi/albums/rpc/ReturnString HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedHost: rasxpsContent-Length: 18Expect: 100-continue message=Some+Value When calling ReturnString:public string ReturnString(string message) { return message; } unfortunately it does not map the message value to the message parameter. This sort of mapping unfortunately is not available in Web API. Web API does support binding to form variables but only as part of model binding, which binds object properties to the POST variables. Sending the same message as in the previous example you can use the following code to pick up POST variable data:public string ReturnMessageModel(MessageModel model) { return model.Message; } public class MessageModel { public string Message { get; set; }} Note that the model is bound and the message form variable is mapped to the Message property as would other variables to properties if there were more. This works but it's not very dynamic. There's no real easy way to retrieve form variables (or query string values for that matter) in Web API's Request object as far as I can discern. Well only if you consider this easy:public string ReturnString() { var formData = Request.Content.ReadAsAsync<FormDataCollection>().Result; return formData.Get("message"); } Oddly FormDataCollection does not allow for indexers to work so you have to use the .Get() method which is rather odd. If you're running under IIS/Cassini you can always resort to the old and trusty HttpContext access for request data:public string ReturnString() { return HttpContext.Current.Request.Form["message"]; } which works fine and is easier. It's kind of a bummer that HttpRequestMessage doesn't expose some sort of raw Request object that has access to dynamic data - given that it's meant to serve as a generic REST/HTTP API that seems like a crucial missing piece. I don't see any way to read query string values either. To me personally HttpContext works, since I don't see myself using self-hosted code much.© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2012Posted in Web Api Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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Using Table-Valued Parameters With SQL Server Reporting Services

- by Jesse

In my last post I talked about using table-valued parameters to pass a list of integer values to a stored procedure without resorting to using comma-delimited strings and parsing out each value into a TABLE variable. In this post I’ll extend the “Customer Transaction Summary” report example to see how we might leverage this same stored procedure from within an SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report. I’ve worked with SSRS off and on for the past several years and have generally found it to be a very useful tool for building nice-looking reports for end users quickly and easily. That said, I’ve been frustrated by SSRS from time to time when seemingly simple things are difficult to accomplish or simply not supported at all. I thought that using table-valued parameters from within a SSRS report would be simple, but unfortunately I was wrong. Customer Transaction Summary Example Let’s take the “Customer Transaction Summary” report example from the last post and try to plug that same stored procedure into an SSRS report. Our report will have three parameters: Start Date – beginning of the date range for which the report will summarize customer transactions End Date – end of the date range for which the report will summarize customer transactions Customer Ids – One or more customer Ids representing the customers that will be included in the report The simplest way to get started with this report will be to create a new dataset and point it at our Customer Transaction Summary report stored procedure (note that I’m using SSRS 2012 in the screenshots below, but there should be little to no difference with SSRS 2008): When you initially create this dataset the SSRS designer will try to invoke the stored procedure to determine what the parameters and output fields are for you automatically. As part of this process the following dialog pops-up: Obviously I can’t use this dialog to specify a value for the ‘@customerIds’ parameter since it is of the IntegerListTableType user-defined type that we created in the last post. Unfortunately this really throws the SSRS designer for a loop, and regardless of what combination of Data Type, Pass Null Value, or Parameter Value I used here, I kept getting this error dialog with the message, "Operand type clash: nvarchar is incompatible with IntegerListTableType". This error message makes some sense considering that the nvarchar type is indeed incompatible with the IntegerListTableType, but there’s little clue given as to how to remedy the situation. I don’t know for sure, but I think that behind-the-scenes the SSRS designer is trying to give the @customerIds parameter an nvarchar-typed SqlParameter which is causing the issue. When I first saw this error I figured that this might just be a limitation of the dataset designer and that I’d be able to work around the issue by manually defining the parameters. I know that there are some special steps that need to be taken when invoking a stored procedure with a table-valued parameter from ADO .NET, so I figured that I might be able to use some custom code embedded in the report to create a SqlParameter instance with the needed properties and value to make this work, but the “Operand type clash" error message persisted. The Text Query Approach Just because we’re using a stored procedure to create the dataset for this report doesn’t mean that we can’t use the ‘Text’ Query Type option and construct an EXEC statement that will invoke the stored procedure. In order for this to work properly the EXEC statement will also need to declare and populate an IntegerListTableType variable to pass into the stored procedure. Before I go any further I want to make one point clear: this is a really ugly hack and it makes me cringe to do it. Simply put, I strongly feel that it should not be this difficult to use a table-valued parameter with SSRS. With that said, let’s take a look at what we’ll have to do to make this work. Manually Define Parameters First, we’ll need to manually define the parameters for report by right-clicking on the ‘Parameters’ folder in the ‘Report Data’ window. We’ll need to define the ‘@startDate’ and ‘@endDate’ as simple date parameters. We’ll also create a parameter called ‘@customerIds’ that will be a mutli-valued Integer parameter: In the ‘Available Values’ tab we’ll point this parameter at a simple dataset that just returns the CustomerId and CustomerName of each row in the Customers table of the database or manually define a handful of Customer Id values to make available when the report runs. Once we have these parameters properly defined we can take another crack at creating the dataset that will invoke the ‘rpt_CustomerTransactionSummary’ stored procedure. This time we’ll choose the ‘Text’ query type option and put the following into the ‘Query’ text area: 1: exec('declare @customerIdList IntegerListTableType ' + @customerIdInserts + 2: ' EXEC rpt_CustomerTransactionSummary 3: @startDate=''' + @startDate + ''', 4: @endDate='''+ @endDate + ''', 5: @customerIds=@customerIdList') By using the ‘Text’ query type we can enter any arbitrary SQL that we we want to and then use parameters and string concatenation to inject pieces of that query at run time. It can be a bit tricky to parse this out at first glance, but from the SSRS designer’s point of view this query defines three parameters: @customerIdInserts – This will be a Text parameter that we use to define INSERT statements that will populate the @customerIdList variable that is being declared in the SQL. This parameter won’t actually ever get passed into the stored procedure. I’ll go into how this will work in a bit. @startDate – This is a simple date parameter that will get passed through directly into the @startDate parameter of the stored procedure on line 3. @endDate – This is another simple data parameter that will get passed through into the @endDate parameter of the stored procedure on line 4. At this point the dataset designer will be able to correctly parse the query and should even be able to detect the fields that the stored procedure will return without needing to specify any values for query when prompted to. Once the dataset has been correctly defined we’ll have a @customerIdInserts parameter listed in the ‘Parameters’ tab of the dataset designer. We need to define an expression for this parameter that will take the values selected by the user for the ‘@customerIds’ parameter that we defined earlier and convert them into INSERT statements that will populate the @customerIdList variable that we defined in our Text query. In order to do this we’ll need to add some custom code to our report using the ‘Report Properties’ dialog: Any custom code defined in the Report Properties dialog gets embedded into the .rdl of the report itself and (unfortunately) must be written in VB .NET. Note that you can also add references to custom .NET assemblies (which could be written in any language), but that’s outside the scope of this post so we’ll stick with the “quick and dirty” VB .NET approach for now. Here’s the VB .NET code (note that any embedded code that you add here must be defined in a static/shared function, though you can define as many functions as you want): 1: Public Shared Function BuildIntegerListInserts(ByVal variableName As String, ByVal paramValues As Object()) As String 2: Dim insertStatements As New System.Text.StringBuilder() 3: For Each paramValue As Object In paramValues 4: insertStatements.AppendLine(String.Format("INSERT {0} VALUES ({1})", variableName, paramValue)) 5: Next 6: Return insertStatements.ToString() 7: End Function This method takes a variable name and an array of objects. We use an array of objects here because that is how SSRS will pass us the values that were selected by the user at run-time. The method uses a StringBuilder to construct INSERT statements that will insert each value from the object array into the provided variable name. Once this method has been defined in the custom code for the report we can go back into the dataset designer’s Parameters tab and update the expression for the ‘@customerIdInserts’ parameter by clicking on the button with the “function” symbol that appears to the right of the parameter value. We’ll set the expression to: 1: =Code.BuildIntegerListInserts("@customerIdList ", Parameters!customerIds.Value) In order to invoke our custom code method we simply need to invoke “Code.<method name>” and pass in any needed parameters. The first parameter needs to match the name of the IntegerListTableType variable that we used in the EXEC statement of our query. The second parameter will come from the Value property of the ‘@customerIds’ parameter (this evaluates to an object array at run time). Finally, we’ll need to edit the properties of the ‘@customerIdInserts’ parameter on the report to mark it as a nullable internal parameter so that users aren’t prompted to provide a value for it when running the report. Limitations And Final Thoughts When I first started looking into the text query approach described above I wondered if there might be an upper limit to the size of the string that can be used to run a report. Obviously, the size of the actual query could increase pretty dramatically if you have a parameter that has a lot of potential values or you need to support several different table-valued parameters in the same query. I tested the example Customer Transaction Summary report with 1000 selected customers without any issue, but your mileage may vary depending on how much data you might need to pass into your query. If you think that the text query hack is a lot of work just to use a table-valued parameter, I agree! I think that it should be a lot easier than this to use a table-valued parameter from within SSRS, but so far I haven’t found a better way. It might be possible to create some custom .NET code that could build the EXEC statement for a given set of parameters automatically, but exploring that will have to wait for another post. For now, unless there’s a really compelling reason or requirement to use table-valued parameters from SSRS reports I would probably stick with the tried and true “join-multi-valued-parameter-to-CSV-and-split-in-the-query” approach for using mutli-valued parameters in a stored procedure.

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Ubuntu on the Sony Vaio VPCY 21S1E

- by tiax

My girlfriend got a new Subnotebook for Christmas (Sony Vayo VPCY21S1E), which comes with an "Intel HD graphics" vga adaptor. When I try to boot the Ubuntu installer from USB, the screen goes blank after a short while, before I even see the Ubuntu logo. However, when I select "nomodeset" in the boot options, I can boot it to the CLI login prompt. When I start X, though, that only works in VESA mode (I've read Intel eventually got rid of Usermode Mode Setting and only offers KMS now, which I've disabled to get it to boot). What can I do to enable a) higher resolution than 1024x768 in VESA b) hardware acceleration for compiz, video playback, etc?

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Design Pattern for Social Game Mission Mechanics

- by Furkan ÇALISKAN

When we want to design a mission sub-system like in the The Ville or Sims Social, what kind of design pattern / idea would fit the best? There may be relation between missions (first do this then this etc...) or not. What do you think sims social or the ville or any other social games is using for this? I'm looking for a best-practise method to contruct a mission framework for tha game. How the well-known game firms do this stuff for their large scale social facebook games? Giving missions to the players and wait players to complete them. when they finished the missions, providing a method to catch this mission complete events considering large user database by not using server-side not so much to prevent high-traffic / resource consumption. how should i design the database and server-client communication to achive this design condidering this trade-off.

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Mars Mania and the Google Maps APIs!

Mars Mania and the Google Maps APIs! Interested in learning how to use the Google Maps API and WebGL to create a dynamic terrain lighting map of the surface of Mars? Or how about using the Street View API and a bit of ImageMagick to view the high resolution panoramic images from the Curiosity Rover? Since Curiosity's touchdown, Brendan Kenny and Paul Saxman have been infected with a bit of Mars Mania. Stop by this week's Google Maps Developers Office Hours to see how they've been seeking therapy through productive programming. From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 1146 28 ratings Time: 34:15 More in Science & Technology

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Using Tree(Map,Set) in Collections

To add objects to a Tree(Map, Set), implement the Comparable.compareTo method.

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Using Tree(Map,Set) in Collections

To add objects to a Tree(Map, Set), implement the Comparable.compareTo method.

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Refactor This (Ugly Code)!

- by Alois Kraus

Ayende has put on his blog some ugly code to refactor. First and foremost it is nearly impossible to reason about other peoples code without knowing the driving forces behind the current code. It is certainly possible to make it much cleaner when potential sources of errors cannot happen in the first place due to good design. I can see what the intention of the code is but I do not know about every brittle detail if I am allowed to reorder things here and there to simplify things. So I decided to make it much simpler by identifying the different responsibilities of the methods and encapsulate it in different classes. The code we need to refactor seems to deal with a handler after a message has been sent to a message queue. The handler does complete the current transaction if there is any and does handle any errors happening there. If during the the completion of the transaction errors occur the transaction is at least disposed. We can enter the handler already in a faulty state where we try to deliver the complete event in any case and signal a failure event and try to resend the message again to the queue if it was not inside a transaction. All is decorated with many try/catch blocks, duplicated code and some state variables to route the program flow. It is hard to understand and difficult to reason about. In other words: This code is a mess and could be written by me if I was under pressure. Here comes to code we want to refactor: private void HandleMessageCompletion( Message message, TransactionScope tx, OpenedQueue messageQueue, Exception exception, Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> messageCompleted, Action<CurrentMessageInformation> beforeTransactionCommit) { var txDisposed = false; if (exception == null) { try { if (tx != null) { if (beforeTransactionCommit != null) beforeTransactionCommit(currentMessageInformation); tx.Complete(); tx.Dispose(); txDisposed = true; } try { if (messageCompleted != null) messageCompleted(currentMessageInformation, exception); } catch (Exception e) { Trace.TraceError("An error occured when raising the MessageCompleted event, the error will NOT affect the message processing"+ e); } return; } catch (Exception e) { Trace.TraceWarning("Failed to complete transaction, moving to error mode"+ e); exception = e; } } try { if (txDisposed == false && tx != null) { Trace.TraceWarning("Disposing transaction in error mode"); tx.Dispose(); } } catch (Exception e) { Trace.TraceWarning("Failed to dispose of transaction in error mode."+ e); } if (message == null) return; try { if (messageCompleted != null) messageCompleted(currentMessageInformation, exception); } catch (Exception e) { Trace.TraceError("An error occured when raising the MessageCompleted event, the error will NOT affect the message processing"+ e); } try { var copy = MessageProcessingFailure; if (copy != null) copy(currentMessageInformation, exception); } catch (Exception moduleException) { Trace.TraceError("Module failed to process message failure: " + exception.Message+ moduleException); } if (messageQueue.IsTransactional == false)// put the item back in the queue { messageQueue.Send(message); } } You can see quite some processing and handling going on there. Yes this looks like real world code one did put together to make things work and he does not trust his callbacks. I guess these are event handlers which are optional and the delegates were extracted from an event to call them back later when necessary. Lets see what the author of this code did intend: private void HandleMessageCompletion( TransactionHandler transactionHandler, MessageCompletionHandler handler, CurrentMessageInformation messageInfo, ErrorCollector errors ) { // commit current pending transaction transactionHandler.CallHandlerAndCommit(messageInfo, errors); // We have an error for a null message do not send completion event if (messageInfo.CurrentMessage == null) return; // Send completion event in any case regardless of errors handler.OnMessageCompleted(messageInfo, errors); // put message back if queue is not transactional transactionHandler.ResendMessageOnError(messageInfo.CurrentMessage, errors); } I did not bother to write the intention here again since the code should be pretty self explaining by now. I have used comments to explain the still nontrivial procedure step by step revealing the real intention about all this complex program flow. The original complexity of the problem domain does not go away but by applying the techniques of SRP (Single Responsibility Principle) and some functional style but we can abstract the necessary complexity away in useful abstractions which make it much easier to reason about it. Since most of the method seems to deal with errors I thought it was a good idea to encapsulate the error state of our current message in an ErrorCollector object which stores all exceptions in a list along with a description what the error all was about in the exception itself. We can log it later or not depending on the log level or whatever. It is really just a simple list that encapsulates the current error state. class ErrorCollector { List<Exception> _Errors = new List<Exception>(); public void Add(Exception ex, string description) { ex.Data["Description"] = description; _Errors.Add(ex); } public Exception Last { get { return _Errors.LastOrDefault(); } } public bool HasError { get { return _Errors.Count > 0; } } } Since the error state is global we have two choices to store a reference in the other helper objects (TransactionHandler and MessageCompletionHandler)or pass it to the method calls when necessary. I did chose the latter one because a second argument does not hurt and makes it easier to reason about the overall state while the helper objects remain stateless and immutable which makes the helper objects much easier to understand and as a bonus thread safe as well. This does not mean that the stored member variables are stateless or thread safe as well but at least our helper classes are it. Most of the complexity is located the transaction handling I consider as a separate responsibility that I delegate to the TransactionHandler which does nothing if there is no transaction or Call the Before Commit Handler Commit Transaction Dispose Transaction if commit did throw In fact it has a second responsibility to resend the message if the transaction did fail. I did see a good fit there since it deals with transaction failures. class TransactionHandler { TransactionScope _Tx; Action<CurrentMessageInformation> _BeforeCommit; OpenedQueue _MessageQueue; public TransactionHandler(TransactionScope tx, Action<CurrentMessageInformation> beforeCommit, OpenedQueue messageQueue) { _Tx = tx; _BeforeCommit = beforeCommit; _MessageQueue = messageQueue; } public void CallHandlerAndCommit(CurrentMessageInformation currentMessageInfo, ErrorCollector errors) { if (_Tx != null && !errors.HasError) { try { if (_BeforeCommit != null) { _BeforeCommit(currentMessageInfo); } _Tx.Complete(); _Tx.Dispose(); } catch (Exception ex) { errors.Add(ex, "Failed to complete transaction, moving to error mode"); Trace.TraceWarning("Disposing transaction in error mode"); try { _Tx.Dispose(); } catch (Exception ex2) { errors.Add(ex2, "Failed to dispose of transaction in error mode."); } } } } public void ResendMessageOnError(Message message, ErrorCollector errors) { if (errors.HasError && !_MessageQueue.IsTransactional) { _MessageQueue.Send(message); } } } If we need to change the handling in the future we have a much easier time to reason about our application flow than before. After we did complete our transaction and called our callback we can call the completion handler which is the main purpose of the HandleMessageCompletion method after all. The responsiblity o the MessageCompletionHandler is to call the completion callback and the failure callback when some error has occurred. class MessageCompletionHandler { Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> _MessageCompletedHandler; Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> _MessageProcessingFailure; public MessageCompletionHandler(Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> messageCompletedHandler, Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> messageProcessingFailure) { _MessageCompletedHandler = messageCompletedHandler; _MessageProcessingFailure = messageProcessingFailure; } public void OnMessageCompleted(CurrentMessageInformation currentMessageInfo, ErrorCollector errors) { try { if (_MessageCompletedHandler != null) { _MessageCompletedHandler(currentMessageInfo, errors.Last); } } catch (Exception ex) { errors.Add(ex, "An error occured when raising the MessageCompleted event, the error will NOT affect the message processing"); } if (errors.HasError) { SignalFailedMessage(currentMessageInfo, errors); } } void SignalFailedMessage(CurrentMessageInformation currentMessageInfo, ErrorCollector errors) { try { if (_MessageProcessingFailure != null) _MessageProcessingFailure(currentMessageInfo, errors.Last); } catch (Exception moduleException) { errors.Add(moduleException, "Module failed to process message failure"); } } } If for some reason I did screw up the logic and we need to call the completion handler from our Transaction handler we can simple add to the CallHandlerAndCommit method a third argument to the MessageCompletionHandler and we are fine again. If the logic becomes even more complex and we need to ensure that the completed event is triggered only once we have now one place the completion handler to capture the state. During this refactoring I simple put things together that belong together and came up with useful abstractions. If you look at the original argument list of the HandleMessageCompletion method I have put many things together: Original Arguments New Arguments Encapsulate Message message CurrentMessageInformation messageInfo Message message TransactionScope tx Action<CurrentMessageInformation> beforeTransactionCommit OpenedQueue messageQueue TransactionHandler transactionHandler TransactionScope tx OpenedQueue messageQueue Action<CurrentMessageInformation> beforeTransactionCommit Exception exception, ErrorCollector errors Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> messageCompleted MessageCompletionHandler handler Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> messageCompleted Action<CurrentMessageInformation, Exception> messageProcessingFailure The reason is simple: Put the things that have relationships together and you will find nearly automatically useful abstractions. I hope this makes sense to you. If you see a way to make it even more simple you can show Ayende your improved version as well.

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Is it possible to sync Rhythmbox playlist to Ubuntu One Music or use a m3u file as Ubuntu One playlist?

- by WeiSkiy

I recently started trying Ubuntu One music streaming and now it feels good. However I have a problem here: I used to have several long playlists for myself in Rhythmbox (300-500 songs each playlist, in my favored order), and I really liked to play songs from the playlist instead of shuffling all songs. So, I wonder if I can upload my playlist to Ubuntu One music, or make a same playlist on Ubuntu One Music without dragging songs one by one. Is it possible to do this in Rhythmbox or do it by uploading some m3u playlist file? Or maybe some other method? Please suggest me any method that can "copy" my playlist to Ubuntu One music. Thanks very much!

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VSNewFile: A Visual Studio Addin to More Easily Add New Items to a Project

- by InfinitiesLoop

My first Visual Studio Add-in! Creating add-ins is pretty simple, once you get used to the CommandBar model it is using, which is apparently a general Office suite extensibility mechanism. Anyway, let me first explain my motivation for this. It started out as an academic exercise, as I have always wanted to dip my feet in a little VS extensibility. But I thought of a legitimate need for an add-in, at least in my personal experience, so it took on new life. But I figured I can’t be the only one who has felt this way, so I decided to publish the add-in, and host it on GitHub (VSNewFile on GitHub) hoping to spur contributions. Adding Files the Built-in Way Here’s the problem I wanted to solve. You’re working on a project, and it’s time to add a new file to the project. Whatever it is – a class, script, html page, aspx page, or what-have-you, you go through a menu or keyboard shortcut to get to the “Add New Item” dialog. Typically, you do it by right-clicking the location where you want the file (the project or a folder of it): This brings up a dialog the contains, well, every conceivable type of item you might want to add. It’s all the available item templates, which can result in anywhere from a ton to a veritable sea of choices. To be fair, this dialog has been revamped in Visual Studio 2010, which organizes it a little better than Visual Studio 2008, and adds a search box. It also loads noticeably faster. To me, this dialog is just getting in my way. If I want to add a JavaScript script to my project, I don’t want to have to hunt for the script template item in this dialog. Yes, it is categorized, and yes, it now has a search box. But still, all this UI to swim through when all I need is a new file in the project. I will name it. I will provide the content, I don’t even need a ‘template’. VS kind of realizes this. In the add menu in a class library project, for example, there is a “Add Class…” choice. But all this really does is select that project item from the dialog by default. You still must wait for the dialog, see it, and type in a name for the file. How is that really any different than hitting F2 on an existing item? It isn’t. Adding Files the Hack Way What I often find myself doing, just to avoid going through this dialog, is to copy and paste an existing file, rename it, then “CTRL-A, DEL” the content. In a few short keystrokes I’ve got my new file. Even if the original file wasn’t the right type, it doesn’t matter – I will rename it anyway, including the extension. It works well enough if the place I am adding the file to doesn’t have much in it already. But if there are a lot of files at that level, it sucks, because the new file will have the name “Copy of xyz”, causing it to be moved into the ‘C’ section of the alphabetically sorted items, which might be far, far away from the original file (and so I tend to try and copy a file that starts with ‘C’ *evil grin*). Using ‘Export Template’ To be completely fair I should at least mention this feature. I’m not even sure if this is new in VS 2010 or not (I think so). But it allows you to export a project item or items, including potential project references required by it. Then it becomes a new item in the available ‘installed templates’. No doubt this is useful to help bootstrap new projects. But that still requires you to go through the ‘New Item’ dialog. Adding Files with VSNewFile So hopefully I have sufficiently defined the problem and got a few of you to think, “Yeah, me too!”… What VSNewFile does is let you skip the dialog entirely by adding project items directly to the context menu. But it does a bit more than that, so do read on. For example, to add a new class, you can right-click the location and pick that option. A new .cs file is instantly added to the project, and the new item is selected and put into the ‘rename’ mode immediately. The default items available are shown here. But you can customize them. You can also customize the content of each template. To do so, you create a directory in your documents folder, ‘VSNewFile Templates’. In there, you drop the templates you want to use, but you name them in a particular way. For example, here’s a template that will add a new item named “Add TITLE”. It will add a project item named “SOMEFILE.foo” (or ‘SOMEFILE1.foo’ if that exists, etc). The format of the file name is: <ORDER>_<KEY>_<BASE FILENAME>_<ICON ID>_<TITLE>.<EXTENTION> Where: <ORDER> is a number that lets you determine the order of the items in the menu (relative to each other). <KEY> is a case sensitive identifier different for each template item. More on that later. <BASE FILENAME> is the default name of the file, which doesn’t matter that much, since they will be renaming it anyway. <ICON ID> is a number the dictates the icon used for the menu item. There are a huge number of built-in choices. More on that later. <TITLE> is the string that will appear in the menu. And, the contents of the file are the default content for the item (the ‘template’). The content of the file can contain anything you want, of course. But it also supports two tokens: %NAMESPACE% and %FILENAME%, which will be replaced with the corresponding values. Here is the content of this sample: testing Namespace = %NAMESPACE% Filename = %FILENAME% I kind went back and forth on this. I could have made it so there’d be an XML or JSON file that defines the templates, instead of cramming all this data into the filename itself. I like the simplicity of this better. It makes it easy to customize since you can literally just throw these files around, copy them from someone else, etc, without worrying about merge data into a central description file, in whatever format. Here’s our new item showing up: Practical Use One immediate thing I am using this for is to make it easier to add very commonly used scripts to my web projects. For example, uh, say, jQuery? :) All I need to do is drop jQuery-1.4.2.js and jQuery-1.4.2.min.js into the templates folder, provide the order, title, etc, and then instantly, I can now add jQuery to any project I have without even thinking about “where is jQuery? Can I copy it from that other project?” Using the KEY There are two reasons for the ‘key’ portion of the item. First, it allows you to turn off the built-in, default templates, which are: FILE = Add File (generic, empty file) VB = Add VB Class CS = Add C# Class (includes some basic usings) HTML = Add HTML page (includes basic structure, doctype, etc) JS = Add Script (includes an immediately-invoking function closure) To turn one off, just include a file with the name “_<KEY>”. For example, to turn off all the items except our custom one, you do this: The other reason for the key is that there are new Visual Studio Commands created for each one. This makes it possible to bind a keyboard shortcut to one of them. So you could, for example, have a keyboard combination that adds a new web page to your website, or a new CS class to your class library, etc. Here is our sample item showing up in the keyboard bindings option. Even though the contents of the template directory may change from one launch of Visual Studio to the next, the bindings will remain attached to any item with a particular key, thanks to it taking care not to lose keyboard bindings even though the commands are completely recreated each time. The Icon Face ID Visual Studio uses a Microsoft Office style add-in mechanism, I gather. There are a predetermined set of built-in icons available. You can use your own icons when developing add-ins, of course, but I’m no designer. I just wanted to find appropriate-ish icons for the built-in templates, and allow you to choose from an existing built-in icon for your own. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot out there on the interwebs that helps you figure out what the built-in types are. There’s an MSDN article that describes at length a way to create a program that lists all the icons. But I don’t want to write a program to figure them out! Just show them to me! Sheesh :) Thankfully, someone out there felt the same way, and uses a novel hack to get the icons to show up in an outlook toolbar. He then painstakingly took screenshots of them, one group at a time. It isn’t complete though – there are tens of thousands of icons. But it’s good enough. If anyone has an exhaustive list, please let me, and the rest of the add-in community know. Icon Face ID Reference Installing the Add-in It will work with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. Just unzip the release into your Documents\Visual Studio 20xx\Addins folder. It contains the binary and the Visual Studio “.addin” file. For example, the path to mine is: C:\Users\InfinitiesLoop\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Addins Conclusion So that’s it! I hope you find it as useful as I have. It’s on GitHub, so if you’re into this kind of thing, please do fork it and improve it! Reference: VSNewFile on GitHub VSNewFile release on GitHub Icon Face ID Reference

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ServerAlias override server name?

- by GusDeCooL

I tried to setting up virtual host with apache2 on my ubuntu server. my serverName is not working, it show wrong document, but the server alias is showing right document. How is that happen? Here is my virtual host config: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName bungamata.web.id ServerAlias www.bungamata.web.id DocumentRoot /home/gusdecool/host/bungamata.web.id <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /home/gusdecool/host/bungamata.web.id> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost> if you access http://bungamata.web.id it shows wrong document, but if you open http://www.bungamata.web.id it open the rights document. The right document should have content "testing gan"

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What I like about WIF’s Claims-based Authorization

- by Your DisplayName here!

In “traditional” .NET with its IPrincipal interface and IsInRole method, developers were encouraged to write code like this: public void AddCustomer(Customer customer) { if (Thread.CurrentPrincipal.IsInRole("Sales")) { // add customer } } In code reviews I’ve seen tons of code like this. What I don’t like about this is, that two concerns in your application get tightly coupled: business and security logic. But what happens when the security requirements change – and they will (e.g. members of the sales role and some other people from different roles need to create customers)? Well – since your security logic is sprinkled across your project you need to change the security checks in all relevant places (and make sure you don’t forget one) and you need to re-test, re-stage and re-deploy the complete app. This is clearly not what we want. WIF’s claims-based authorization encourages developers to separate business code and authorization policy evaluation. This is a good thing. So the same security check with WIF’s out-of-the box APIs would look like this: public void AddCustomer(Customer customer) { try { ClaimsPrincipalPermission.CheckAccess("Customer", "Add"); // add customer } catch (SecurityException ex) { // access denied } } You notice the fundamental difference? The security check only describes what the code is doing (represented by a resource/action pair) – and does not state who is allowed to invoke the code. As I mentioned earlier – the who is most probably changing over time – the what most probably not. The call to ClaimsPrincipalPermission hands off to another class called the ClaimsAuthorizationManager. This class handles the evaluation of your security policy and is ideally in a separate assembly to allow updating the security logic independently from the application logic (and vice versa). The claims authorization manager features a method called CheckAccess that retrieves three values (wrapped inside an AuthorizationContext instance) – action (“add”), resource (“customer”) and the principal (including its claims) in question. CheckAccess then evaluates those three values and returns true/false. I really like the separation of concerns part here. Unfortunately there is not much support from Microsoft beyond that point. And without further tooling and abstractions the CheckAccess method quickly becomes *very* complex. But still I think that is the way to go. In the next post I will tell you what I don’t like about it (and how to fix it).

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Redmine install not working and displaying directory contents - Ubuntu 10.04

- by Casey Flynn

I've gone through the steps to set up and install the redmine project tracking web app on my VPS with Apache2 but I'm running into a situation where instead of displaying the redmine app, I just see the directory contents: Does anyone know what could be the problem? I'm not sure what other files might be of use to diagnose what's going on. Thanks! # # Based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob McCool. # # This is the main Apache server configuration file. It contains the # configuration directives that give the server its instructions. # See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ for detailed information about # the directives. # # Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding # what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure # consult the online docs. You have been warned. # # The configuration directives are grouped into three basic sections: # 1. Directives that control the operation of the Apache server process as a # whole (the 'global environment'). # 2. Directives that define the parameters of the 'main' or 'default' server, # which responds to requests that aren't handled by a virtual host. # These directives also provide default values for the settings # of all virtual hosts. # 3. Settings for virtual hosts, which allow Web requests to be sent to # different IP addresses or hostnames and have them handled by the # same Apache server process. # # Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many # of the server's control files begin with "/" (or "drive:/" for Win32), the # server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do *not* begin # with "/", the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so "/var/log/apache2/foo.log" # with ServerRoot set to "" will be interpreted by the # server as "//var/log/apache2/foo.log". # ### Section 1: Global Environment # # The directives in this section affect the overall operation of Apache, # such as the number of concurrent requests it can handle or where it # can find its configuration files. # # # ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's # configuration, error, and log files are kept. # # NOTE! If you intend to place this on an NFS (or otherwise network) # mounted filesystem then please read the LockFile documentation (available # at <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/mpm_common.html#lockfile>); # you will save yourself a lot of trouble. # # Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path. # ServerRoot "/etc/apache2" # # The accept serialization lock file MUST BE STORED ON A LOCAL DISK. # #<IfModule !mpm_winnt.c> #<IfModule !mpm_netware.c> LockFile /var/lock/apache2/accept.lock #</IfModule> #</IfModule> # # PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process # identification number when it starts. # This needs to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars # PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE} # # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out. # Timeout 300 # # KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than # one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate. # KeepAlive On # # MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow # during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount. # We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance. # MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 # # KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the # same client on the same connection. # KeepAliveTimeout 15 ## ## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific) ## # prefork MPM # StartServers: number of server processes to start # MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare # MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare # MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start # MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves <IfModule mpm_prefork_module> StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxClients 150 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> # worker MPM # StartServers: initial number of server processes to start # MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections # MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare # MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process # MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves <IfModule mpm_worker_module> StartServers 2 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadLimit 64 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxClients 150 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> # event MPM # StartServers: initial number of server processes to start # MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections # MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare # MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process # MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves <IfModule mpm_event_module> StartServers 2 MaxClients 150 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadLimit 64 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> # These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars User ${APACHE_RUN_USER} Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP} # # AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory # for additional configuration directives. See also the AllowOverride # directive. # AccessFileName .htaccess # # The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being # viewed by Web clients. # <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy all </Files> # # DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document # if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions. # If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, "text/plain" is # a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications # or images, you may want to use "application/octet-stream" instead to # keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are # text. # DefaultType text/plain # # HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses # e.g., www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off). # The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people # had to knowingly turn this feature on, since enabling it means that # each client request will result in AT LEAST one lookup request to the # nameserver. # HostnameLookups Off # ErrorLog: The location of the error log file. # If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a <VirtualHost> # container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be # logged here. If you *do* define an error logfile for a <VirtualHost> # container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here. # ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # # LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log. # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. # LogLevel warn # Include module configuration: Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.load Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.conf # Include all the user configurations: Include /etc/apache2/httpd.conf # Include ports listing Include /etc/apache2/ports.conf # # The following directives define some format nicknames for use with # a CustomLog directive (see below). # If you are behind a reverse proxy, you might want to change %h into %{X-Forwarded-For}i # LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent # # Define an access log for VirtualHosts that don't define their own logfile CustomLog /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log vhost_combined # Include of directories ignores editors' and dpkg's backup files, # see README.Debian for details. # Include generic snippets of statements Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/ # Include the virtual host configurations: Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ # Enable fastcgi for .fcgi files # (If you're using a distro package for mod_fcgi, something like # this is probably already present) #<IfModule mod_fcgid.c> # AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi # FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi #</IfModule> LoadModule fcgid_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_fcgid.so LoadModule passenger_module /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.7/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.7 PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8 ServerName demo and my vhosts file #No DNS server, default ip address v-host #domain: none #public: /home/casey/public_html/app/ <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost # ScriptAlias /redmine /home/casey/public_html/app/redmine/dispatch.fcgi DirectoryIndex index.html DocumentRoot /home/casey/public_html/app/public <Directory "/home/casey/trac/htdocs"> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/redmine> RailsBaseURI /redmine PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on </Directory> # <Directory /> # Options FollowSymLinks # AllowOverride None # </Directory> # <Directory /var/www/> # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews # AllowOverride None # Order allow,deny # allow from all # </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /home/casey/public_html/app/log/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel debug CustomLog /home/casey/public_html/app/log/access.log combined # Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" # <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> # Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks # AllowOverride None # Order deny,allow # Deny from all # Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 # </Directory> </VirtualHost>

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Code Metrics: Number of IL Instructions

- by DigiMortal

In my previous posting about code metrics I introduced how to measure LoC (Lines of Code) in .NET applications. Now let’s take a step further and let’s take a look how to measure compiled code. This way we can somehow have a picture about what compiler produces. In this posting I will introduce you code metric called number of IL instructions. NB! Number of IL instructions is not something you can use to measure productivity of your team. If you want to get better idea about the context of this metric and LoC then please read my first posting about LoC. What are IL instructions? When code written in some .NET Framework language is compiled then compiler produces assemblies that contain byte code. These assemblies are executed later by Common Language Runtime (CLR) that is code execution engine of .NET Framework. The byte code is called Intermediate Language (IL) – this is more common language than C# and VB.NET by example. You can use ILDasm tool to convert assemblies to IL assembler so you can read them. As IL instructions are building blocks of all .NET Framework binary code these instructions are smaller and highly general – we don’t want very rich low level language because it executes slower than more general language. For every method or property call in some .NET Framework language corresponds set of IL instructions. There is no 1:1 relationship between line in high level language and line in IL assembler. There are more IL instructions than lines in C# code by example. How much instructions there are? I have no common answer because it really depends on your code. Here you can see some metrics from my current community project that is developed on SharePoint Server 2007. As average I have about 7 IL instructions per line of code. This is not metric you should use, it is just illustrative example so you can see the differences between numbers of lines and IL instructions. Why should I measure the number of IL instructions? Just take a look at chart above. Compiler does something that you cannot see – it compiles your code to IL. This is not intuitive process because you usually cannot say what is exactly the end result. You know it at greater plain but you don’t know it exactly. Therefore we can expect some surprises and that’s why we should measure the number of IL instructions. By example, you may find better solution for some method in your source code. It looks nice, it works nice and everything seems to be okay. But on server under load your fix may be way slower than previous code. Although you minimized the number of lines of code it ended up with increasing the number of IL instructions. How to measure the number of IL instructions? My choice is NDepend because Visual Studio is not able to measure this metric. Steps to make are easy. Open your NDepend project or create new and add all your application assemblies to project (you can also add Visual Studio solution to project). Run project analysis and wait until it is done. You can see over-all stats form global summary window. This is the same window I used to read the LoC and the number of IL instructions metrics for my chart. Meanwhile I made some changes to my code (enabled advanced caching for events and event registrations module) and then I ran code analysis again to get results for this section of this posting. NDepend is also able to tell you exactly what parts of code have problematically much IL instructions. The code quality section of CQL Query Explorer shows you how much problems there are with members in analyzed code. If you click on the line Methods too big (NbILInstructions) you can see all the problematic members of classes in CQL Explorer shown in image on right. In my case if have 10 methods that are too big and two of them have horrible number of IL instructions – just take a look at first two methods in this TOP10. Also note the query box. NDepend has easy and SQL-like query language to query code analysis results. You can modify these queries if you like and also you can define your own ones if default set is not enough for you. What is good result? As you can see from query window then the number of IL instructions per member should have maximally 200 IL instructions. Of course, like always, the less instructions you have, the better performing code you have. I don’t mean here little differences but big ones. By example, take a look at my first method in warnings list. The number of IL instructions it has is huge. And believe me – this method looks awful. Conclusion The number of IL instructions is useful metric when optimizing your code. For analyzing code at general level to find out too long methods you can use the number of LoC metric because it is more intuitive for you and you can therefore handle the situation more easily. Also you can use NDepend as code metrics tool because it has a lot of metrics to offer.

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MSCC: Purpose and benefits of Version Control Systems (VCS)

You're working in IT and not using any kind of version control system? Sorry, then you're doing something wrong! RSVP for MSCC meetup of June This month's meetup will be an introduction into the mechanics of version control systems (VCS) like git, Mercurial, TFS, and others in general. VCS are not optional but compulsory in any area of IT. Whether you're developing source code for the next buzz app, writing SQL scripts for your database, or automating your administrative tasks with shell scripts it's better to have a "time machine" in order to keep multiple version, stay organised and leverage the power of differences. git - a modern approach to VCS - Nayar Nayar is going to give us a brief overview of the basic principles of working with git. Which are the necessary steps to get started and which are the usual commands in order to get the most out of git. Visual Studio Online (VSO) - Jochen Are you mainly rooted on the Windows platform and looking for a good alternative to Team Foundation Services (TFS), then VSO might give you hand at achieving this. Similar to git VSO is an open infrastructure but plays very well together with the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Recent and upcoming events in Mauritius Let's have a chat about recent events like WebCup 2014 or Emtel Knowledge Series and have a head start on upcoming events like Code Challenge, and others to come. Networking and general discussions Of course, there will be plenty of time to chat and exchange with other like-minded craftsmen. Bring your topics and discuss various issues with other professionals. Share your experience and use the ability to learn from others. Looking forward to meet soon.

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setup WAN miniport(PPPOE) internet connection

- by Ankit Shah

Hello I'm from Ahmedabad, India. I want to setup my GTPL(i.e. the service provider) PPPOE internet connection in ubuntu 12.04 . please help..... I had tried to configure my internet connection in fedora 16 using the following method which worked fine :-- I've tried to go to Edit Connection then to the DSL tab then ADDenter my username and passwordSave. But this method didn't help in ubuntu 12.04. please help me out immediately....... Thank you in advance.

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ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-06-19

- by Bob Rhubart

Discussion: Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds A conversation about the similarities and differences between public, private, and hybrid clouds; the connection between cows, condos, and cloud computing; and what architects need to know in order to take advantage of cloud computing. (OTN ArchBeat Podcast transcript) InfoQ: Current Trends in Enterprise Mobility Interesting infographics that show current developments and major trends in enterprise mobility. Recap: EMEA User Group Leaders Meeting Latvia May 2012 Tom Scheirsen recaps the recent IOUC event in Riga. Oracle Fusion Middleware Summer Camps in Lisbon: Includes Advanced ADF Training by Oracle Product Management This is how IT people deal with the Summertime Blues. Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Building Social Business | Oracle WebCenter Blog Kellsey Ruppel shares a list of E2.0 conference sessions being presented by members of the Oracle community. Linux 6 Transparent Huge Pages and Hadoop Workloads | Structured Data Greg Rahn documents a problem. BPM Standard Edition to start your BPM project "BPM Standard Edition is an entry level BPM offering designed to help organisations implement their first few processes in order to prove the value of BPM within their own organisation." Troubleshooting ADF Security 11g Login Page Failure | Andrejus Baranovskis Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis takes a deep dive into one of the most common ADF 11g Security issues. It's Alive! - The Oracle OpenWorld Content Catalog It's what you’ve been waiting for—the central repository for information on sessions, demos, labs, user groups, exhibitors, and more. 5 minutes or less: Indexing Attributes in OID | Andre Correa Fusion Middleware A-Team blogger Andre Correa offers help for those who encounter issues when running searches with LDAP filters against OID (Oracle Internet Directory). Condos and Clouds: Thinking about Cloud Computng by Looking at Condominiums | Pat Helland In part two of the OTN ArchBeat Podcast Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds, Oracle Cloud chief architect Mark Nelson mentions an analogy by Pat Helland that compares condos to cloud computing. After some digging I found the October 2011 presentation in which Helland explains that analogy. Thought for the Day "I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." — Dwight Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) Source: Quotes for Software Engineers

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Properly Label Your Dangerous Projects

- by Jason Fitzpatrick

In the pursuit of science, fun, and laser-fueled hijinks, we often undertake projects that really should be labeled more properly. Download this effective label to visually warn “No really, you’ll burn the house down”. Courtesy of Flattr at Thingiverse, you can grab a copy of the “Warning: Will Burn Your House Down” graphic in high resolution image formats suitable for silk screening, laser engraving, or plain old fashioned sign printing. Warning: Will Burn Your House Down [Thingiverse via Make] How To Encrypt Your Cloud-Based Drive with BoxcryptorHTG Explains: Photography with Film-Based CamerasHow to Clean Your Dirty Smartphone (Without Breaking Something)

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Enable Thumbnail Previews for Firefox in Windows 7 Taskbar

- by Asian Angel

Are you tired of waiting for the official activation of Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Firefox? See how easy it is to enable them now with a simple about:config hack. Note: We have briefly covered this before but present it here in a more detailed format. Before For our example we opened all of the websites in the HTG Network in tabs… When hovering over the Firefox Icon in the Taskbar, you only see the one thumbnail. There are two things in particular to notice here: 1.) The Tab Bar for Firefox is displayed with all four tabs visible in the Thumbnail Preview 2.) The “Taskbar Icon” itself is displaying as singular with no “fanned edge” on the right side. Hack the About:Config Settings To get the Thumbnail Previews working you will need to make a modification in the about:config settings. Type about:config in the Address Bar and press Enter. Unless you have previously disabled the warning you will see this message after pressing Enter. Click on the I promise! Button to finish entering the settings. In the Filter Address Bar either type or copy and paste the following about:config entry: browser.taskbar.previews.enable After you enter that in, you should see the entry listing as shown here. At this point there are two methods that you can choose to alter the entry. The first method is to right click on the entry and select Toggle and the second method is to double click on the entry. Both work equally well…choose the method that you like best. Once the about:config entry has been changed, you will need to restart Firefox for it to take effect. After restarting Firefox on our system the Thumbnail Previews were definitely looking very nice. Notice that the Tab Bar is no longer displayed in the Thumbnail Previews. The Taskbar Icon also had a “fanned edge” indicating that multiple tabs were open. Conclusion If you are tired of waiting for Mozilla to officially activate Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Firefox, then you can go ahead and start enjoying them now. For more great Firefox 3.6.x about:config hacks read our article here. Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Vista Style Popup Previews for Firefox TabsDisable IE 8 Thumbnail Previews on Windows 7 TaskbarIncrease the size of Taskbar Preview Thumbnails in Windows 7Workaround for Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Previews Not Showing CorrectlyDisable Thumbnail Previews in Windows 7 or Vista Explorer TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips VMware Workstation 7 Acronis Online Backup DVDFab 6 Revo Uninstaller Pro Cool Looking Skins for Windows Media Player 12 Move the Mouse Pointer With Your Face Movement Using eViacam Boot Windows Faster With Boot Performance Diagnostics Create Ringtones For Your Android Phone With RingDroid Enhance Your Laptop’s Battery Life With These Tips Easily Search Food Recipes With Recipe Chimp

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Garbled text in Screen [closed]

- by Prabin Dahal

The graphical Interface in my system is garbled with some text. At the beginning I thought it was due to java and tomcat that I installed. But after removing java and tomcat, it is still the same. I am using ubuntu server and i have installed xfce desktop environment with oboard softkey I have added my dmesg output to this message. What is the problem here. I am not able to figure it out. Thank you for your help. Prabin [ 0.390936] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 0.391006] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 0.391147] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 0.391580] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 0.400509] PCI: pci_cache_line_size set to 64 bytes [ 0.400669] reserve RAM buffer: 000000000009ec00 - 000000000009ffff [ 0.400681] reserve RAM buffer: 000000007f597000 - 000000007fffffff [ 0.400699] reserve RAM buffer: 000000007f6f0000 - 000000007fffffff [ 0.401135] NetLabel: Initializing [ 0.401155] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 [ 0.401168] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 [ 0.401212] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default [ 0.401466] HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer [ 0.401494] hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0 [ 0.401520] hpet0: 3 comparators, 64-bit 14.318180 MHz counter [ 0.408228] Switching to clocksource hpet [ 0.434341] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled [ 0.434447] pnp: PnP ACPI init [ 0.434531] ACPI: bus type pnp registered [ 0.434784] pnp 00:00: [bus 00-ff] [ 0.434794] pnp 00:00: [io 0x0cf8-0x0cff] [ 0.434804] pnp 00:00: [io 0x0000-0x0cf7 window] [ 0.434813] pnp 00:00: [io 0x0d00-0xffff window] [ 0.434822] pnp 00:00: [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff window] [ 0.434831] pnp 00:00: [mem 0x00000000 window] [ 0.434840] pnp 00:00: [mem 0x80000000-0xffffffff window] [ 0.435018] pnp 00:00: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0a08 PNP0a03 (active) [ 0.435526] pnp 00:01: [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff] [ 0.435537] pnp 00:01: [mem 0x7f700000-0x7f7fffff] [ 0.435545] pnp 00:01: [mem 0x7f800000-0x7fffffff] [ 0.435554] pnp 00:01: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff] [ 0.435727] system 00:01: [mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff] has been reserved [ 0.435754] system 00:01: [mem 0x7f700000-0x7f7fffff] has been reserved [ 0.435775] system 00:01: [mem 0x7f800000-0x7fffffff] has been reserved [ 0.435796] system 00:01: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff] has been reserved [ 0.435818] system 00:01: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.436233] pnp 00:02: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.436245] pnp 00:02: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.436414] system 00:02: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active) [ 0.436512] pnp 00:03: [io 0x0060] [ 0.436521] pnp 00:03: [io 0x0064] [ 0.436548] pnp 00:03: [irq 1] [ 0.436682] pnp 00:03: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0303 PNP030b (active) [ 0.436825] pnp 00:04: [irq 12] [ 0.436958] pnp 00:04: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0f03 PNP0f13 (active) [ 0.437835] pnp 00:05: [io 0x03f8-0x03ff] [ 0.437861] pnp 00:05: [irq 4] [ 0.437870] pnp 00:05: [dma 0 disabled] [ 0.438142] pnp 00:05: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0501 (active) [ 0.439014] pnp 00:06: [io 0x02f8-0x02ff] [ 0.439036] pnp 00:06: [irq 3] [ 0.439045] pnp 00:06: [dma 0 disabled] [ 0.439297] pnp 00:06: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0501 (active) [ 0.439346] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0000-0x000f] [ 0.439355] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0081-0x0083] [ 0.439363] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0087] [ 0.439371] pnp 00:07: [io 0x0089-0x008b] [ 0.439380] pnp 00:07: [io 0x008f] [ 0.439388] pnp 00:07: [io 0x00c0-0x00df] [ 0.439563] system 00:07: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.439617] pnp 00:08: [io 0x0070-0x0077] [ 0.439639] pnp 00:08: [irq 8] [ 0.439751] pnp 00:08: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0b00 (active) [ 0.439788] pnp 00:09: [io 0x0061] [ 0.439893] pnp 00:09: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0800 (active) [ 0.439977] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0010-0x001f] [ 0.439986] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0022-0x003f] [ 0.439994] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0044-0x005f] [ 0.440055] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0063] [ 0.440063] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0065] [ 0.440071] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0067-0x006f] [ 0.440079] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0072-0x007f] [ 0.440086] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0080] [ 0.440094] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0084-0x0086] [ 0.440102] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0088] [ 0.440109] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x008c-0x008e] [ 0.440117] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0090-0x009f] [ 0.440125] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x00a2-0x00bf] [ 0.440133] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x00e0-0x00ef] [ 0.440141] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x04d0-0x04d1] [ 0.440150] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.440160] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0000-0xffffffffffffffff disabled] [ 0.440168] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x03f4] [ 0.440175] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x03f5] [ 0.440183] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0374] [ 0.440190] pnp 00:0a: [io 0x0375] [ 0.440405] system 00:0a: [io 0x04d0-0x04d1] has been reserved [ 0.440432] system 00:0a: [io 0x03f4] has been reserved [ 0.440451] system 00:0a: [io 0x03f5] has been reserved [ 0.440469] system 00:0a: [io 0x0374] has been reserved [ 0.440488] system 00:0a: [io 0x0375] has been reserved [ 0.440508] system 00:0a: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active) [ 0.440550] pnp 00:0b: [io 0x00f0-0x00ff] [ 0.440572] pnp 00:0b: [irq 13] [ 0.440691] pnp 00:0b: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c04 (active) [ 0.440770] pnp 00:0c: [io 0x0810] [ 0.440779] pnp 00:0c: [io 0x0800-0x080f] [ 0.440787] pnp 00:0c: [io 0xffff] [ 0.440947] system 00:0c: [io 0x0810] has been reserved [ 0.440970] system 00:0c: [io 0x0800-0x080f] has been reserved [ 0.440989] system 00:0c: [io 0xffff] has been reserved [ 0.441010] system 00:0c: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active) [ 0.441620] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x0900-0x097f] [ 0.441630] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x09c0-0x09ff] [ 0.441639] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x0400-0x043f] [ 0.441647] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x0480-0x04bf] [ 0.441656] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec85fff] [ 0.441664] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0xfed1c000-0xfed1ffff] [ 0.441673] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff] [ 0.441689] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0x000e0000-0x000effff] [ 0.441697] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0x000f0000-0x000fffff] [ 0.441706] pnp 00:0d: [mem 0xff800000-0xffffffff] [ 0.441911] system 00:0d: [io 0x0900-0x097f] has been reserved [ 0.441935] system 00:0d: [io 0x09c0-0x09ff] has been reserved [ 0.441955] system 00:0d: [io 0x0400-0x043f] has been reserved [ 0.441975] system 00:0d: [io 0x0480-0x04bf] has been reserved [ 0.441997] system 00:0d: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec85fff] could not be reserved [ 0.442019] system 00:0d: [mem 0xfed1c000-0xfed1ffff] has been reserved [ 0.442040] system 00:0d: [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff] could not be reserved [ 0.442061] system 00:0d: [mem 0x000e0000-0x000effff] could not be reserved [ 0.442082] system 00:0d: [mem 0x000f0000-0x000fffff] could not be reserved [ 0.442103] system 00:0d: [mem 0xff800000-0xffffffff] has been reserved [ 0.442126] system 00:0d: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.442308] pnp 00:0e: [mem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff] [ 0.442454] pnp 00:0e: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0103 (active) [ 0.442569] pnp 00:0f: [mem 0x7f6f0000-0x7f6fffff] [ 0.442762] system 00:0f: [mem 0x7f6f0000-0x7f6fffff] has been reserved [ 0.442788] system 00:0f: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active) [ 0.443360] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 16 devices [ 0.443378] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered [ 0.443395] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [ 0.486106] PCI: max bus depth: 3 pci_try_num: 4 [ 0.486189] pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01-01] [ 0.486217] pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge window [io 0xe000-0xefff] [ 0.486241] pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge window [mem 0xd0100000-0xd01fffff] [ 0.486266] pci 0000:00:1c.0: bridge window [mem 0xff700000-0xff7fffff pref] [ 0.486298] pci 0000:03:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 04-04] [ 0.486319] pci 0000:03:01.0: bridge window [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486348] pci 0000:03:01.0: bridge window [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486374] pci 0000:03:01.0: bridge window [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.486406] pci 0000:03:02.0: PCI bridge to [bus 05-05] [ 0.486444] pci 0000:03:03.0: PCI bridge to [bus 06-06] [ 0.486479] pci 0000:02:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 03-06] [ 0.486499] pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge window [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486522] pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486545] pci 0000:02:00.0: bridge window [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.486575] pci 0000:00:1c.1: PCI bridge to [bus 02-06] [ 0.486593] pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge window [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486615] pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge window [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486637] pci 0000:00:1c.1: bridge window [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff pref] [ 0.486710] pci 0000:00:1c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 0.486735] pci 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486774] pci 0000:00:1c.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 0.486796] pci 0000:00:1c.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486817] pci 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486836] pci 0000:03:01.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486858] pci 0000:03:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486880] pci 0000:03:03.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 0.486893] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 4 [io 0x0000-0x0cf7] [ 0.486902] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 5 [io 0x0d00-0xffff] [ 0.486912] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 6 [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff] [ 0.486922] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 7 [mem 0x80000000-0xffffffff] [ 0.486932] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 [io 0xe000-0xefff] [ 0.486941] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 [mem 0xd0100000-0xd01fffff] [ 0.486951] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 [mem 0xff700000-0xff7fffff pref] [ 0.486961] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 0 [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486970] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 1 [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.486980] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 2 [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff pref] [ 0.486989] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 0 [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.486998] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 1 [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.487008] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 2 [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.487018] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 0 [io 0xd000-0xdfff] [ 0.487028] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 1 [mem 0xd0000000-0xd00fffff] [ 0.487038] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 2 [mem 0xff600000-0xff6fffff 64bit pref] [ 0.487177] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.487405] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.488397] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.489792] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.490493] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 0.490525] TCP reno registered [ 0.490551] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [ 0.490590] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [ 0.490898] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.490970] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device [ 0.491052] pci 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 [ 0.491092] pci 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A disabled [ 0.491134] pci 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 [ 0.491174] pci 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B disabled [ 0.491220] pci 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 0.491259] pci 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C disabled [ 0.491307] pci 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 [ 0.864431] Freeing initrd memory: 13820k freed [ 2.088042] pci 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug?) 01010001 [ 2.088207] pci 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT D disabled [ 2.088267] PCI: CLS 64 bytes, default 64 [ 2.089248] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 2.089287] type=2000 audit(1349363630.084:1): initialized [ 2.144783] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages [ 2.144808] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages [ 2.160057] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 [ 2.160232] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 2.161716] fuse init (API version 7.17) [ 2.161995] msgmni has been set to 1713 [ 2.162925] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253) [ 2.163008] io scheduler noop registered [ 2.163023] io scheduler deadline registered [ 2.163048] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 2.163339] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163530] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163706] pcieport 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163873] pcieport 0000:03:01.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.163964] pcieport 0000:03:01.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X [ 2.164193] pcieport 0000:03:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.164272] pcieport 0000:03:02.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X [ 2.164453] pcieport 0000:03:03.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.164531] pcieport 0000:03:03.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X [ 2.164783] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164801] pci 0000:01:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164816] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.0:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded [ 2.164853] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164867] pcieport 0000:02:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164880] pcieport 0000:03:01.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164892] pci 0000:04:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164904] pcieport 0000:03:02.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164917] pcieport 0000:03:03.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt [ 2.164932] pcie_pme 0000:00:1c.1:pcie01: service driver pcie_pme loaded [ 2.164988] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [ 2.165115] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 8110 ss_vid 8086 ss_did 8119 [ 2.165177] pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded [ 2.165199] pciehp 0000:00:1c.1:pcie04: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 8112 ss_vid 8086 ss_did 8119 [ 2.165260] pciehp 0000:00:1c.1:pcie04: service driver pciehp loaded [ 2.165290] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4 [ 2.165488] intel_idle: MWAIT substates: 0x3020220 [ 2.165508] intel_idle: v0.4 model 0x1C [ 2.165513] intel_idle: lapic_timer_reliable_states 0x2 [ 2.165519] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle states deeper than C2 [ 2.165779] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0 [ 2.165855] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] [ 2.165983] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input1 [ 2.166005] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB] [ 2.173811] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0 [ 2.173829] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ00] (48 C) [ 2.174004] thermal LNXTHERM:01: registered as thermal_zone1 [ 2.174018] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (34 C) [ 2.174194] thermal LNXTHERM:02: registered as thermal_zone2 [ 2.174207] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ02] (34 C) [ 2.174378] thermal LNXTHERM:03: registered as thermal_zone3 [ 2.174392] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ03] (34 C) [ 2.174503] ERST: Table is not found! [ 2.174513] GHES: HEST is not enabled! [ 2.174601] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 2.176175] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 2.196702] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 2.292409] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [ 2.528909] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 2.588733] 00:05: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 2.624523] 00:06: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [ 2.640702] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [ 2.645138] brd: module loaded [ 2.647452] loop: module loaded [ 2.648149] pata_acpi 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.649238] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed [ 2.649315] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6 [ 2.649327] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <[email protected]> [ 2.649524] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 [ 2.649824] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver [ 2.649884] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 [ 2.649937] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.649946] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller [ 2.650082] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [ 2.650148] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 [ 2.654045] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 64 is not supported [ 2.654093] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xd02c4000 [ 2.668035] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00 [ 2.668392] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.668413] hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected [ 2.668618] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver [ 2.668666] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver [ 2.668726] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 [ 2.668751] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.668759] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller [ 2.668910] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [ 2.668981] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 20, io base 0x0000f040 [ 2.669335] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.669355] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 2.669508] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 [ 2.669531] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.669538] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller [ 2.669675] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 [ 2.669739] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000f020 [ 2.670099] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.670118] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 2.670271] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 2.670295] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64 [ 2.670302] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller [ 2.670435] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 [ 2.670502] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 22, io base 0x0000f000 [ 2.670869] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.670888] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 2.671186] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual [ 2.671332] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 2.673408] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 2.673437] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 2.673844] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 2.674272] rtc_cmos 00:08: RTC can wake from S4 [ 2.674482] rtc_cmos 00:08: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 [ 2.674529] rtc0: alarms up to one year, y3k, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs [ 2.674691] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [ 2.674903] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.0-ioctl (2011-10-19) initialised: [email protected] [ 2.675024] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [ 2.675037] EISA: Cannot allocate resource for mainboard [ 2.675050] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [ 2.675061] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2 [ 2.675072] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3 [ 2.675083] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4 [ 2.675094] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5 [ 2.675105] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 6 [ 2.675116] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7 [ 2.675127] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8 [ 2.675137] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [ 2.675161] cpufreq-nforce2: No nForce2 chipset. [ 2.675401] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 2.675786] cpuidle: using governor menu [ 2.675797] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 [ 2.676429] TCP cubic registered [ 2.676751] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 2.678031] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 2.678052] Registering the dns_resolver key type [ 2.678107] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [ 2.678515] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [ 2.678543] registered taskstats version 1 [ 2.701145] Magic number: 0:84:234 [ 2.701312] rtc_cmos 00:08: setting system clock to 2012-10-04 15:13:51 UTC (1349363631) [ 2.702280] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found [ 2.702294] EDD information not available. [ 2.702858] Freeing unused kernel memory: 740k freed [ 2.703630] Write protecting the kernel text: 5816k [ 2.703692] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2376k [ 2.703706] NX-protecting the kernel data: 4424k [ 2.751226] udevd[84]: starting version 175 [ 2.980162] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd [ 3.001394] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 3.001474] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 3.001554] r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 3.001654] r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X [ 3.004220] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xf8416000, 00:18:92:03:10:46, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 43 [ 3.004254] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: jumbo features [frames: 6128 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] [ 3.004347] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 3.005085] r8169 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 3.005182] r8169 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 3.005292] r8169 0000:04:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X [ 3.007187] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth1: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xf8418000, 00:18:92:03:10:47, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 44 [ 3.007224] r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth1: jumbo features [frames: 6128 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] [ 3.034417] pata_sch 0000:00:1f.1: version 0.2 [ 3.034518] pata_sch 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 3.036698] scsi0 : pata_sch [ 3.039842] scsi1 : pata_sch [ 3.040913] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf060 irq 14 [ 3.040940] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf068 irq 15 [ 3.131850] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 3.136405] scsi2 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0 [ 3.136642] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 3.136656] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 3.524465] usb 3-1: new low-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd [ 3.968144] usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd [ 4.137903] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access TS TS4GUFM-H 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [ 4.140067] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 4.140590] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 8028160 512-byte logical blocks: (4.11 GB/3.82 GiB) [ 4.141597] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 4.141618] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 4.142974] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present [ 4.143000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4.145837] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present [ 4.145858] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4.147931] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 > [ 4.150972] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present [ 4.151001] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4.151023] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 4.249168] input: HID 046a:004b as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input2 [ 4.249579] generic-usb 0003:046A:004B.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [HID 046a:004b] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input0 [ 4.287805] input: HID 046a:004b as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.1/input/input3 [ 4.289235] generic-usb 0003:046A:004B.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [HID 046a:004b] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input1 [ 4.297604] input: EloTouchSystems,Inc Elo TouchSystems 2216 AccuTouch\xffffffc2\xffffffae\xffffffae USB Touchmonitor Interface as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input4 [ 4.298913] generic-usb 0003:04E7:0050.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Pointer [EloTouchSystems,Inc Elo TouchSystems 2216 AccuTouch\xffffffc2\xffffffae\xffffffae USB Touchmonitor Interface] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0 [ 4.299878] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid [ 4.299925] usbhid: USB HID core driver [ 4.352639] EXT4-fs (sda1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem [ 4.352661] EXT4-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery [ 8.519257] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete [ 8.564389] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 14.280922] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 14.280944] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready [ 14.310368] udevd[308]: starting version 175 [ 14.353873] Adding 1045500k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1045500k [ 14.428718] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 14.521667] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro [ 15.073459] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 15.097073] psb_gfx: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 15.180630] gma500 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 15.180648] gma500 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 15.182117] Stolen memory information [ 15.182127] base in RAM: 0x7f800000 [ 15.182134] size: 7932K, calculated by (GTT RAM base) - (Stolen base), seems wrong [ 15.182143] the correct size should be: 8M(dvmt mode=3) [ 15.234889] Set up 1983 stolen pages starting at 0x7f800000, GTT offset 0K [ 15.235126] [drm] SGX core id = 0x01130000 [ 15.235135] [drm] SGX core rev major = 0x01, minor = 0x02 [ 15.235143] [drm] SGX core rev maintenance = 0x01, designer = 0x00 [ 15.268796] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness [ 15.269888] acpi device:04: registered as cooling_device2 [ 15.270568] acpi device:05: registered as cooling_device3 [ 15.270947] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input5 [ 15.271238] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) [ 15.271424] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010). [ 15.271434] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query. [ 15.374694] type=1400 audit(1349363644.167:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=435 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 15.385518] type=1400 audit(1349363644.179:3): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=435 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 15.386369] type=1400 audit(1349363644.179:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=435 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 15.677514] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down [ 15.694828] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 16.537490] gma500 0000:00:02.0: allocated 800x480 fb [ 16.558066] fbcon: psbfb (fb0) is primary device [ 16.747122] gma500 0000:00:02.0: BL bug: Reg 00000000 save 00000000 [ 16.775550] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x30 [ 16.781804] fb0: psbfb frame buffer device [ 16.781812] drm: registered panic notifier [ 16.870168] [drm] Initialized gma500 1.0.0 2011-06-06 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 [ 16.871166] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 [ 16.871186] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 [ 16.871207] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 16.871284] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 29.338953] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link up [ 29.339471] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [ 31.427223] init: failsafe main process (675) killed by TERM signal [ 31.522411] type=1400 audit(1349363660.316:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=889 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 31.523956] type=1400 audit(1349363660.316:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=889 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 31.524882] type=1400 audit(1349363660.320:7): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=889 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 31.525940] type=1400 audit(1349363660.320:8): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/tcpdump" pid=891 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 34.526445] postgres (1003): /proc/1003/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/1003/oom_score_adj instead. [ 40.144048] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

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.htaccess to deny access to most xml files

- by CEich

I recently had a Joomla site hacked, so I'm trying to harden the site a bit. There's a section in the recommended .htaccess that restricts outside access to the xml files that come with extensions. However, it also keeps my sitemap.xml file from being accessed. How do I allow a certain file whiles keeping the rest? here's the default code: <Files ~ "\.xml$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy all </Files> and my modification that caused a 500 error: <Files ~ "(?!sitemap)\.xml$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy all </Files>

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