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What is 'Ubuntu Unity' (for the Desktop)?

- by Martin

Ok, so there's the buzz of Canonical (wanting to) switch for new Ubuntu version from the GNOME default desktop to their own Unity shell. (I hope that's accurate.) It seems I can not totally fathom what Unity actually is. For looking at its homepage it currently is firmly targeted at netbooks and the somehow different usage model on these. Is it a classical desktop? -- Taskbar? Shortcuts? Is the difference between Ubuntu(GNOME)+Unity more/less pronounced than the difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu? Will "my parents" be able to get the interface if they've been using the classical gnome desktop so far? Edit: I would not like to split this up into more specific questions, as What is Unity? is exactly what the people I set up Ubuntu boxes for will ask me if they hear that the newer Ubuntu version is using that instead of the Desktop -- and it might well happen someone phrases it like that :-) I will certainly not give them the link to the HP as the explanation there does not lay out if it is a desktop or something more or something less: (It does not for me - therefore I'm asking here.) Unity is designed for netbooks and related touch-based devices. It includes [...] that makes it fast and easy to access [...] while removing screen elements that are rarely used in mobile and netbook computing. (emphasis mine) -- the explanation there doesn't even mention the desktop-PC! Unity has a vertical task management panel on the left-hand side and a menu panel at the top of the screen. [...] This sounds like a re-themed normal desktop. Clicking on an icon will give the target application focus if it is already running or launch it if it is not already running. If you click the ... Aha. Sounds like Windows 7. ... icon of an application that already has focus, Unity will activate an Expose-style view of all the open windows associated with that application. No clue what that's supposed to be. So it would really be nice if someone could explain for non desktop-design-terms experts what Unity is.

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Looking for an ultra portable laptop for Ubuntu

- by prule

Hi, I'm in the market for a new laptop, and portability is important since I really only use it when I'm travelling to and from work - primarily for programming. I've been searching high and low for something like this: less than 2kg hopefully Intel i5 (but negotiable) NO dvd drive - just don't need it 4G ram either 7200rpm disk or SSD (ssd preferable) 13 inch screen not too pricey (MacBook Air is about $1700 AUD) available in Australia The Dell Inspiron 13z and Lenovo Edge 13 look close, but I've not found anything that says I'm not going to have a fight with compatibility. The MacBook Air 13 looks like the PERFECT hardware, but I'm afraid it will just be easier to run MacOS than Ubuntu. I want to stay with Ubuntu, but the MacBook Air is only $1700 so I'm in danger of becoming another apple fanboi if I can't find anything competitive. Going through all the sites looking for stuff has been a huge waste of time System 76 doesn't deliver to Australia http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and http://www.linlap.com/ are hard work and not confidence inspiring http://www.vgcomputing.com.au/nsintro.html is hard work again, searching for every laptop they say has excellent compatibility on the web to find out what spec it is http://zareason.com/shop/Strata-Pro-13.html (at $1345 USD) looks interesting, but I've got no idea how much I'll get stung by customs importing Dell Inspiron 13z with i5, 4G, 320 7200rpm disk, ATI Mobility Radeon HD5430 - 1GB, Dell Wireless 1501 802.11b/g/n @ $1200 AUD seems like the only competitor but is it compatible? (Dell support offer no opinion - as far as they are concerned they only have 2 models that are certified for ubuntu) Am I worrying too much about the compatibility? Should I just go with Dell? Or switch to MacOS? (It would be good to have a searchable database that had the full machine specs, and compatibility - I'm thinking about building something... but I don't have much time right now...) Thanks. UPDATE I went with a MacBook Air. The price/weight/power was just right. Everything else was either too pricy (i5) or too heavy, or underpowered (SU7300 1.3GHz). Its a pity, because I didn't really want to leave Ubuntu. I'll still run it on my media center and spare (heavy) laptop.

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OpenWorld: Our (Road) Maps are Looking Good!

- by Tony Berk

Wow, only one (or two) days down at Oracle OpenWorld! Are you on overload yet? I'm still trying to figure out how to be in 3 sessions at the same time... I guess everyone needs to prioritize! There was a lot to see in Monday's sessions, especially some great forward-looking roadmap sessions. In case you aren't here or you decided to go to other sessions, this is my quick summary of what I could capture from a couple of the roadmaps: In the Fusion CRM Strategy and Roadmap session, Anthony Lye provided an overview of the Fusion CRM strategy including the key design principles of 3 E's: Easy, Effective and Efficient. After an overview of how Oracle has deployed Fusion CRM internally to 25,000 users worldwide, Anthony discussed the features coming in the next release, the releases in the next 12 months and beyond. I can't detail too much since you haven't read Oracle's Safe Harbor statement, but check out Fusion Tap and look for new features and added functionality for sales prediction, marketing, social and integration with a number of the key Customer Experience products. In the Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service Vision and Roadmap session, Chris Hamilton presented the focus areas for the RightNow product. As a result of the large increase in development resources after the acquisition, the RightNow CX team is planning a lot of enhancements to the functionality, infrastructure and integrations. As a key piece of the Oracle Customer Experience (CX) strategy, RightNow will be integrated with Oracle Social Network, Oracle Commerce (ATG and Endeca), Oracle Knowledge, Oracle Policy Automation and, of course, further integration with Fusion Sales and Marketing. Look forward to seeing more on the Virtual Assistant, Smart Interaction Hub and Mobility. In addition to the roadmaps, I was looking forward to hearing from Oracle CRM customers. So, I sat in on two great Siebel customer panels: The Maximizing User Adoption Rates for Siebel Sales and Siebel Partner Relationship Management panel consisted of speakers from CSL Behring, McKesson and Intuit. It was great to get an overview of implementations for both B2B and B2C companies. It was great hearing that all of these companies have more than 1,000 sales users (Intuit has 4,000) and how the 360 degree view of the customer in Siebel is helping these customers improve their customers' experience (CX). They are all great examples of centralized implementations which have standardized processes across the globe and across business units. Waste Management, Farmers Insurance and the US Citizenship & Immigration Services presented in the Driving Great Customer Experiences with Siebel Service Applications session. Talk about serving large customer bases! Is it possible that Farmers with only 10 million households is the smallest of these 3? All of them provided great examples of how they are improving the customer experience (CX) including 60-70% improvements in efficiency or reducing the number of applications the customer service reps (CSRs) need to use from 10 to 1 (Waste Management) and context aware call transfers to avoid the caller explaining their issue 3 times (USCIS). So that's my wrap up of only 4 sessions from Monday. In between sessions, I stopped by the Oracle DEMOgrounds and CRM Pavilion to visit with a group of great partners and see the products and partner integrations in action. Don't miss a recap of Mark Hurd's Keynote. I can't believe there were another 40+ sessions covering CRM, Fusion, Cloud, etc. that I missed today! Anyone else see any great sessions?

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Why does the login screen fail to appear?

- by a different ben

My system: Dell Precision T3500 nVidia Quadro NVS 295 Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (3.2.0-32) Essential problem: On boot my system won't get past the splash screen. I can switch to another virtual terminal and log in, I can also ssh from another system -- so it appears that the problem might be with the display manager. How can I diagnose and fix this problem? More info: From a VT I can issue sudo lightdm restart, and this will bring up the login screen and and I can continue from there. So I do have access to my system. Update-manager recently updated a number of packages, including a bunch of x11 and xorg packages, some nVidia drivers, rpcbind, etc etc. My boot log (if that is any guidance) says the following: fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 rpcbind: Cannot open '/run/rpcbind/rpcbind.xdr' file for reading, errno 2 (No such file or directory) rpcbind: Cannot open '/run/rpcbind/portmap.xdr' file for reading, errno 2 (No such file or directory) /dev/sda1: clean, 597650/1525920 files, 3963433/6103296 blocks /dev/sda7: clean, 11/6406144 files, 450097/25608703 blocks /dev/sda5: clean, 158323/1525920 files, 1886918/6103296 blocks /dev/sda8: clean, 250089/107929600 files, 111088810/431689728 blocks Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.sbin.rsyslogd * Starting AppArmor profiles [80G [74G[ OK ] Loading the saved-state of the serial devices... /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A * Starting ClamAV virus database updater freshclam [80G [74G[ OK ] * Starting Name Service Cache Daemon nscd [80G [74G[ OK ] * Starting modem connection manager[74G[ OK ] * Starting K Display Manager[74G[ OK ] * Starting mDNS/DNS-SD daemon[74G[ OK ] * Stopping GNOME Display Manager[74G[ OK ] * Stopping K Display Manager[74G[ OK ] * Starting bluetooth daemon[74G[ OK ] * Starting network connection manager[74G[ OK ] * Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [80G [74G[ OK ] speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher * Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [80G [74G[ OK ] * Starting the Winbind daemon winbind [80G [74G[ OK ] saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned * Starting anac(h)ronistic cron[74G[ OK ] * Stopping anac(h)ronistic cron[74G[ OK ] * Checking battery state... [80G [74G[ OK ] nxsensor is disabled in '/usr/NX/etc/node.cfg' Trying to start NX server: NX 122 Service started. NX 999 Bye. Trying to start NX statistics: NX 723 Cannot start NX statistics: NX 709 NX statistics are disabled for this server. NX 999 Bye. * Stopping System V runlevel compatibility[74G[ OK ] * Starting Mount network filesystems[74G[ OK ] * Stopping Mount network filesystems[74G[ OK ] * Stopping regular background program processing daemon[74G[ OK ] * Starting regular background program processing daemon[74G[ OK ] * Starting anac(h)ronistic cron[74G[ OK ] * Stopping anac(h)ronistic cron[74G[ OK ]

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Need help on a problemset in a programming contest

- by topher

I've attended a local programming contest on my country. The name of the contest is "ACM-ICPC Indonesia National Contest 2013". The contest has ended on 2013-10-13 15:00:00 (GMT +7) and I am still curious about one of the problems. You can find the original version of the problem here. Brief Problem Explanation: There are a set of "jobs" (tasks) that should be performed on several "servers" (computers). Each job should be executed strictly from start time Si to end time Ei Each server can only perform one task at a time. (The complicated thing goes here) It takes some time for a server to switch from one job to another. If a server finishes job Jx, then to start job Jy it will need an intermission time Tx,y after job Jx completes. This is the time required by the server to clean up job Jx and load job Jy. In other word, job Jy can be run after job Jx if and only if Ex + Tx,y = Sy. The problem is to compute the minimum number of servers needed to do all jobs. Example: For example, let there be 3 jobs S(1) = 3 and E(1) = 6 S(2) = 10 and E(2) = 15 S(3) = 16 and E(3) = 20 T(1,2) = 2, T(1,3) = 5 T(2,1) = 0, T(2,3) = 3 T(3,1) = 0, T(3,2) = 0 In this example, we need 2 servers: Server 1: J(1), J(2) Server 2: J(3) Sample Input: Short explanation: The first 3 is the number of test cases, following by number of jobs (the second 3 means that there are 3 jobs for case 1), then followed by Ei and Si, then the T matrix (sized equal with number of jobs). 3 3 3 6 10 15 16 20 0 2 5 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 8 10 4 7 12 15 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 10 4 7 12 15 1 4 0 50 50 50 50 0 50 50 50 50 0 50 50 50 50 0 Sample Output: Case #1: 2 Case #2: 1 Case #3: 4 Personal Comments: The time required can be represented as a graph matrix, so I'm supposing this as a directed acyclic graph problem. Methods I tried so far is brute force and greedy, but got Wrong Answer. (Unfortunately I don't have my code anymore) Could probably solved by dynamic programming too, but I'm not sure. I really have no clear idea on how to solve this problem. So a simple hint or insight will be very helpful to me.

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Subterranean IL: Exception handling 2

- by Simon Cooper

Control flow in and around exception handlers is tightly controlled, due to the various ways the handler blocks can be executed. To start off with, I'll describe what SEH does when an exception is thrown. Handling exceptions When an exception is thrown, the CLR stops program execution at the throw statement and searches up the call stack looking for an appropriate handler; catch clauses are analyzed, and filter blocks are executed (I'll be looking at filter blocks in a later post). Then, when an appropriate catch or filter handler is found, the stack is unwound to that handler, executing successive finally and fault handlers in their own stack contexts along the way, and program execution continues at the start of the catch handler. Because catch, fault, finally and filter blocks can be executed essentially out of the blue by the SEH mechanism, without any reference to preceding instructions, you can't use arbitary branches in and out of exception handler blocks. Instead, you need to use specific instructions for control flow out of handler blocks: leave, endfinally/endfault, and endfilter. Exception handler control flow try blocks You cannot branch into or out of a try block or its handler using normal control flow instructions. The only way of entering a try block is by either falling through from preceding instructions, or by branching to the first instruction in the block. Once you are inside a try block, you can only leave it by throwing an exception or using the leave <label> instruction to jump to somewhere outside the block and its handler. The leave instructions signals the CLR to execute any finally handlers around the block. Most importantly, you cannot fall out of the block, and you cannot use a ret to return from the containing method (unlike in C#); you have to use leave to branch to a ret elsewhere in the method. As a side effect, leave empties the stack. catch blocks The only way of entering a catch block is if it is run by the SEH. At the start of the block execution, the thrown exception will be the only thing on the stack. The only way of leaving a catch block is to use throw, rethrow, or leave, in a similar way to try blocks. However, one thing you can do is use a leave to branch back to an arbitary place in the handler's try block! In other words, you can do this: .try { // ... newobj instance void [mscorlib]System.Exception::.ctor() throw MidTry: // ... leave.s RestOfMethod } catch [mscorlib]System.Exception { // ... leave.s MidTry } RestOfMethod: // ... As far as I know, this mechanism is not exposed in C# or VB. finally/fault blocks The only way of entering a finally or fault block is via the SEH, either as the result of a leave instruction in the corresponding try block, or as part of handling an exception. The only way to leave a finally or fault block is to use endfinally or endfault (both compile to the same binary representation), which continues execution after the finally/fault block, or, if the block was executed as part of handling an exception, signals that the SEH can continue walking the stack. filter blocks I'll be covering filters in a separate blog posts. They're quite different to the others, and have their own special semantics. Phew! Complicated stuff, but it's important to know if you're writing or outputting exception handlers in IL. Dealing with the C# compiler is probably best saved for the next post.

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BizTalk 2009 - The Community ODBC Adapter: Schema Generation

- by Stuart Brierley

Having previously detailed the installation of the Community ODBC Adapter for BizTalk 2009, the next thing I will be looking at is the generation of schemas using this ODBC adapter. Within your BizTalk 2009 project, right click the project and select Add Generated Items. In the resultant window choose Add Adapter Metadata and click Add to open the Add Adapter Wizard. Check that the BizTalk Server and Database names are correct, select the ODBC adapter and click next. You must now set the connection string. To start with choose set, then new DSN (data source name). You now need to define the Data Source you will be connecting to. On the User DSN tab select Add add then driver you want to use. In this case I am going to use the MySQL ODBC Driver. A User DSN will only be visible on the current machine with you as a user. * Although I initially set up a User DSN and this was fine for creating schemas with, I later realised that you actually need a system DSN as the BizTalk host service needs this to be able connect to the database on a receive or send port. You will then be asked to Set up the MySQL ODBC Data Source. In my case this is a local database making use of named pipes, so I had to make sure that I ticked the "Force use of named pipes" check box and removed the "# The Pipe the MySQL Server will use socket=mysql" line from the mysql.ini; with this is place the connection would fail as there is no apparent way to specify the pipe name in the ODBC driver configuration. This will then update the User DSN tab with the new Data Source. Make sure that you select it and press OK. Select it again in the Choose Data Source window and press OK. On the ODBC transport window select next. You will now be presented with the Schema Information window, where you must supply the namespace, type and root element names for your schema. Next choose the type of statement that you will be using to create your schema - in this case I am using a stored procedure. *I later discovered that this option is fine for MySQL stored procedures without input parameters, but failed for MySQL stored procedures with input parameters. (I will be posting on the way to handle input parameters soon) Next you will need to specify the name of the stored procedure. In this case I have a simple stored procedure to return all the data held by my TestTable in MySQL. Select * from TestTable; The table itself has three columns: Name, Sex and Married. Selecting finish should now hopefully create your schemas based on the input and output from your stored procedure. In my case I have: An empty schema for the request; after all I have no parameters for the stored procedure. A response schema comprised of a Table Record with Name, Sex and Married children. Next I will be looking at the use of the ODBC adpater with: Receive ports Send ports

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Working with Analytic Workflow Manager (AWM) - Part 8 Cube Metadata Analysis

- by Mohan Ramanuja

CUBE SIZEselect dbal.owner||'.'||substr(dbal.table_name,4) awname, sum(dbas.bytes)/1024/1024 as mb, dbas.tablespace_name from dba_lobs dbal, dba_segments dbas where dbal.column_name = 'AWLOB' and dbal.segment_name = dbas.segment_name group by dbal.owner, dbal.table_name, dbas.tablespace_name order by dbal.owner, dbal.table_name SESSION RESOURCES select vses.username||':'||vsst.sid username, vstt.name, max(vsst.value) valuefrom v$sesstat vsst, v$statname vstt, v$session vseswhere vstt.statistic# = vsst.statistic# and vsst.sid = vses.sid andVSES.USERNAME LIKE ('ATTRIBDW_OWN') ANDvstt.name in ('session pga memory', 'session pga memory max', 'session uga memory','session uga memory max', 'session cursor cache count', 'session cursor cache hits', 'session stored procedure space', 'opened cursors current', 'opened cursors cumulative') andvses.username is not null group by vsst.sid, vses.username, vstt.name order by vsst.sid, vses.username, vstt.name OLAP PGA USE select 'OLAP Pages Occupying: '|| round((((select sum(nvl(pool_size,1)) from v$aw_calc)) / (select value from v$pgastat where name = 'total PGA inuse')),2)*100||'%' info from dual union select 'Total PGA Inuse Size: '||value/1024||' KB' info from v$pgastat where name = 'total PGA inuse' union select 'Total OLAP Page Size: '|| round(sum(nvl(pool_size,1))/1024,0)||' KB' info from v$aw_calc order by info desc OLAP PGA USAGE PER USER select vs.username, vs.sid, round(pga_used_mem/1024/1024,2)||' MB' pga_used, round(pga_max_mem/1024/1024,2)||' MB' pga_max, round(pool_size/1024/1024,2)||' MB' olap_pp, round(100*(pool_hits-pool_misses)/pool_hits,2) || '%' olap_ratio from v$process vp, v$session vs, v$aw_calc va where session_id=vs.sid and addr = paddr CUBE LOADING SCRIPT REM The 'set define off' statement is needed only if running this script through SQLPlus.REM If you are using another tool to run this script, the line below may be commented out.set define offBEGIN DBMS_CUBE.BUILD( 'VALIDATE ATTRIBDW_OWN.CURRENCY USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNT USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.DATEDIM USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.CUSIP USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNTRETURN', 'CCCCC', -- refresh methodfalse, -- refresh after errors 0, -- parallelismtrue, -- atomic refreshtrue, -- automatic orderfalse); -- add dimensionsEND;/BEGIN DBMS_CUBE.BUILD( ' ATTRIBDW_OWN.CURRENCY USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNT USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.DATEDIM USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.CUSIP USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNTRETURN', 'CCCCC', -- refresh methodfalse, -- refresh after errors 0, -- parallelismtrue, -- atomic refreshtrue, -- automatic orderfalse); -- add dimensionsEND;/ VISUALIZATION OBJECT - AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN" ( "PS#" NUMBER(10,0), "GEN#" NUMBER(10,0), "EXTNUM" NUMBER(8,0), "AWLOB" BLOB, "OBJNAME" VARCHAR2(256 BYTE), "PARTNAME" VARCHAR2(256 BYTE) ) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE ( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "AWLOB" ) STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) PARTITION BY RANGE ( "GEN#" ) SUBPARTITION BY HASH ( "PS#", "EXTNUM" ) SUBPARTITIONS 8 ( PARTITION "PTN1" VALUES LESS THAN (1) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE READS LOGGING NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP661" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP662" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP663" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP664" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP665" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP666" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP667" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP668" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) , PARTITION "PTNN" VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP669" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP670" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP671" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP672" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP673" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP674" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP675" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP676" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) ) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."ATTRIBDW_OWN_I$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN" ( "PS#", "GEN#", "EXTNUM" ) PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 COMPUTE STATISTICS STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000406980C00004$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOCAL (PARTITION "SYS_IL_P711" PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP695" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP696" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP697" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP698" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP699" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP700" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP701" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP702" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) , PARTITION "SYS_IL_P712" PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP703" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP704" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP705" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP706" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP707" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP708" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP709" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP710" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) ) PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE BUILD LOG CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG" ( "BUILD_ID" NUMBER, "SLAVE_NUMBER" NUMBER, "STATUS" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE), "COMMAND" VARCHAR2(25 BYTE), "BUILD_OBJECT" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "BUILD_OBJECT_TYPE" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE), "OUTPUT" CLOB, "AW" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "OWNER" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "PARTITION" VARCHAR2(50 BYTE), "SCHEDULER_JOB" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "TIME" TIMESTAMP (6)WITH TIME ZONE, "BUILD_SCRIPT" CLOB, "BUILD_TYPE" VARCHAR2(22 BYTE), "COMMAND_DEPTH" NUMBER(2,0), "BUILD_SUB_OBJECT" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "REFRESH_METHOD" VARCHAR2(1 BYTE), "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "COMMAND_NUMBER" NUMBER, "IN_BRANCH" NUMBER(1,0), "COMMAND_STATUS_NUMBER" NUMBER, "BUILD_NAME" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE) ) SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "OUTPUT" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) LOB ( "BUILD_SCRIPT" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407294C00013$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407294C00007$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE DIMENSION COMPILE CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE" ( "ID" NUMBER, "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "ERROR#" NUMBER(8,0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "ERROR_MESSAGE" VARCHAR2(2000 BYTE), "DIMENSION" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "DIMENSION_MEMBER" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "MEMBER_ANCESTOR" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "HIERARCHY1" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "HIERARCHY2" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "ERROR_CONTEXT" CLOB ) SEGMENT CREATION DEFERRED PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "ERROR_CONTEXT" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ID"IS 'Current operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS 'Cube build log sequence number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR#"IS 'Error number being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR_MESSAGE"IS 'Error text being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."DIMENSION"IS 'Name of dimension being compiled'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."DIMENSION_MEMBER"IS 'Problem dimension member'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."MEMBER_ANCESTOR"IS 'Problem dimension member''s parent'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."HIERARCHY1"IS 'First hierarchy involved in error'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."HIERARCHY2"IS 'Second hierarchy involved in error'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR_CONTEXT"IS 'Extra information for error'; COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"IS 'Cube dimension compile log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407307C00010$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE OPERATING LOG CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG" ( "INST_ID" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "SID" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "SERIAL#" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "USER#" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "SQL_ID" VARCHAR2(13 BYTE), "JOB" NUMBER, "ID" NUMBER, "PARENT_ID" NUMBER, "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "TIME" TIMESTAMP (6)WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL ENABLE, "LOG_LEVEL" NUMBER(4,0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "DEPTH" NUMBER(4,0), "OPERATION" VARCHAR2(15 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, "SUBOPERATION" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE), "STATUS" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, "NAME" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, "VALUE" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE), "DETAILS" CLOB ) SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "DETAILS" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."INST_ID"IS 'Instance ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SID"IS 'Session ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SERIAL#"IS 'Session serial#'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."USER#"IS 'User ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SQL_ID"IS 'Executing SQL statement ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."JOB"IS 'Identifier of job'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."ID"IS 'Current operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."PARENT_ID"IS 'Parent operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS 'Cube build log sequence number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."TIME"IS 'Time of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."LOG_LEVEL"IS 'Verbosity level of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."DEPTH"IS 'Nesting depth of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."OPERATION"IS 'Current operation'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SUBOPERATION"IS 'Current suboperation'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."STATUS"IS 'Status of current operation'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."NAME"IS 'Name of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."VALUE"IS 'Value of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."DETAILS"IS 'Extra information for record'; COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"IS 'Cube operations log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407301C00018$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE REJECTED RECORDS CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS" ( "ID" NUMBER, "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "ERROR#" NUMBER(8,0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "ERROR_MESSAGE" VARCHAR2(2000 BYTE), "RECORD#" NUMBER(38,0), "SOURCE_ROW" ROWID, "REJECTED_RECORD" CLOB ) SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "REJECTED_RECORD" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ID"IS 'Current operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS 'Cube build log sequence number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ERROR#"IS 'Error number being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ERROR_MESSAGE"IS 'Error text being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."RECORD#"IS 'Rejected record number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."SOURCE_ROW"IS 'Rejected record''s ROWID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."REJECTED_RECORD"IS 'Rejected record copy'; COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"IS 'Cube rejected records log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407304C00007$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ;

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Oracle Linux Hands-on Lab from your Home? Yes You Can Do That!

- by Zeynep Koch

We're taking the very popular OTN Sysadmin Days and going virtual! We have two days to choose from: Americas - Tuesday January 15th, 2013 9:00 a.m – 1:00 p.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. BRT EMEA - Tuesday January 29th, 2013 - 9:00 a.m – 13:00 p.m GMT / 10:00 a.m – 14:00 p,m CET / 12:00 p.m – 16:00 p.m AST / 13:00 p.m – 17:00 p,m MSK / 14:30 p.m – 18:30 p.m IST You'll be able to perform real-world tasks with Oracle Linux and if you have questions you can ask for help from the Oracle experts through chat window. There's one caveat: you'll have to do a little homework ahead of time. Load the virtual images onto your laptop, find the instructions, and make sure everything is working properly. This wiki https://wikis.oracle.com/display/virtualsysadminday/Home explains what you need to do. If you have questions, ask them as comments to the wiki:https://wikis.oracle.com/display/virtualsysadminday/Home. Oracle Linux Track 1. Oracle Linux Technology Overview - In this session we will go over the latest Oracle Linux features including tools for Linux administration such as the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and public yum. We will also show you a demo of Ksplice zero downtime kernel updates, only available to Oracle Linux customers. You will see how easy it is to switch from Red Hat support to Oracle Linux support by using ULN. Last but not least, we’ll introduce the 3 hands-on labs that will follow this session in the Linux track. 2. HOL: Package Management - In this lab session you will use the package management on Oracle Linux using RPM and yum. Some of the tasks that you will experience include listing installed packages, obtaining additional information about packages, searching for packages and installing/updating them as well as verifying package integrity and removing software. We’ll also review Linux services and run levels, how to start and stop them, checking the status of a particular service and enabling a service to be started automatically at system boot. 3. HOL: Storage Management - In this hands-on lab session, you will learn about storage management with LVM2, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, preparing block devices, creating physical and logical volumes, creating file systems on top of logical volumes, and resizing file systems dynamically. You will also practice setting up software RAID devices, configuring encrypted block devices.Btrfs File System - In this hands-on lab session, we will introduce you to Btrfs file system. You will be able to create and mount a Btrfs file system and learn to setup a mirrored/striped file system across multiple block devices. You’ll also learn how to add and remove block devices, and create file system snapshots. Register for this FREE event.

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Problem with boundary collision

- by James Century

The problem: When the player hits the left boundary he stops (this is exactly what I want), when he hits the right boundary. He continues until his rectangle's left boundary meets with the right boundary. Outcome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuJfIWZ_LL0&feature=youtu.be My Code public class Player extends GameObject{ BufferedImageLoader loader; Texture tex = Game.getInstance(); BufferedImage image; Animation playerWalkLeft; private HealthBarManager healthBar; private String username; private int width; private ManaBarManager manaBar; public Player(float x, float y, ObjectID ID) { super(x, y, ID, null); loader = new BufferedImageLoader(); playerWalkLeft = new Animation(5,tex.player[10],tex.player[11],tex.player[12],tex.player[13],tex.player[14],tex.player[15],tex.player[17],tex.player[18]); } public void tick(LinkedList<GameObject> object) { setX(getX()+velX); setY(getY()+velY); playerWalkLeft.runAnimation(); } public void render(Graphics g) { g.setColor(Color.BLACK); FontMetrics fm = g.getFontMetrics(g.getFont()); if(username != null) width = fm.stringWidth(username); if(username != null){ g.drawString(username,(int) x-width/2+15,(int) y); } if(velX != 0){ playerWalkLeft.drawAnimation(g, (int)x, (int)y); }else{ g.drawImage(tex.player[16], (int)x, (int)y, null); } g.setColor(Color.PINK); g.drawRect((int)x,(int)y,33,48); g.drawRect(0,0,(int)Game.getWalkableBounds().getWidth(), (int)Game.getWalkableBounds().getHeight()); } @SuppressWarnings("unused") private Image getCurrentImage() { return image; } public float getX() { return x; } public float getY() { return y; } public void setX(float x) { Rectangle gameBoundry = Game.getWalkableBounds(); if(x >= gameBoundry.getMinX() && x <= gameBoundry.getMaxX()){ this.x = x; } } public void setY(float y) { //IGNORE THE SetY please. this.y = y; } public float getVelX() { return velX; } public void setHealthBar(HealthBarManager healthBar){ this.healthBar = healthBar; } public HealthBarManager getHealthBar(){ return healthBar; } public float getVelY() { return velY; } public void setVelX(float velX) { this.velX = velX; } public void setVelY(float velY) { this.velY = velY; } public ObjectID getID() { return ID; } public void setUsername(String playerName) { this.username = playerName; } public String getUsername(){ return this.username; } public void setManaBar(ManaBarManager manaBar) { this.manaBar = manaBar; } public ManaBarManager getManaBar(){ return manaBar; } public int getLevel(){ return 1; } public boolean isPlayerInsideBoundry(float x, float y){ Rectangle boundry = Game.getWalkableBounds(); if(boundry.contains(x,y)){ return true; } return false; } } What I've tried: - Using a method that checks if the game boundary contains player boundary rectangle. This gave me the same result as what the check statement in my setX did.

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Is the Internet Making us Smarter or Not?

- by BuckWoody

I’ve been reading recently about an exchange among some very bright folks, some who posit that the Internet with its instant-on, sometimes-right, big-statement-wins mentality is making people think in a more shallow way, teaching us to rely on others as experts and diluting our logical thought process. Others state that it broadens our perspective and extends our mental reach. Whenever I see this kind of exchange on two ends of a spectrum, I begin to wonder if both sides might be correct. I can certainly say that I have changed my way of learning, reading, and social interactions because of the Internet. And my tolerance for reading long missives has indeed gone down. I tend to (mentally and literally) “bookmark” things I never seem to have time to get back to. But I also agree that I’ve been exposed to thoughts, ideas and people I never would have encountered any other way. So how to deal with this dichotomy? Well, I’m going to go off and think about it. No, I’m really going to go off for a full week to a cabin I’ve rented in a National Forest in the Midwest. It has no indoor plumbing, phones, Internet connections or anything else – only a bed to sleep in and a place to cook a little. I’m taking one book, some paper, and a guitar with me and that’s it. I plan to spend my days walking, reading a little, playing a little on the guitar, but mostly just thinking. Those of you who know me might find this unusual. I’m an always-on, hyper-caffeinated, overly-busy, connected person. I haven’t taken a vacation in five years, at least for more than two or three days at a time. Even then, I keep us on the move constantly – our vacations aren’t cruises or anything like that. I check e-mail, post and all that. When I’m not on vacation, I live with and leverage lots of technology, and work with those that do the same. This, however, is a really “unplugged” event, and I’m hoping that it will let me unpack the things I’ve been stuffing in my head. I plan to spend a lot of time on a single subject, writing notes, thinking, and writing more notes. So after I post tomorrow's “quote of the day” I’ll be “going dark” for a week. No twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, e-mail, chat, none of my five blogs will get updated, and I’ll have to turn in my two articles for InformIT.com early. I won’t have access to my college class portal, so my students will be without me for a week. I will really be offline. I’ll see you in a week – hopefully a little more educated. See you then. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Is the Internet Making us Smarter or Not?

- by BuckWoody

I’ve been reading recently about an exchange among some very bright folks, some who posit that the Internet with its instant-on, sometimes-right, big-statement-wins mentality is making people think in a more shallow way, teaching us to rely on others as experts and diluting our logical thought process. Others state that it broadens our perspective and extends our mental reach. Whenever I see this kind of exchange on two ends of a spectrum, I begin to wonder if both sides might be correct. I can certainly say that I have changed my way of learning, reading, and social interactions because of the Internet. And my tolerance for reading long missives has indeed gone down. I tend to (mentally and literally) “bookmark” things I never seem to have time to get back to. But I also agree that I’ve been exposed to thoughts, ideas and people I never would have encountered any other way. So how to deal with this dichotomy? Well, I’m going to go off and think about it. No, I’m really going to go off for a full week to a cabin I’ve rented in a National Forest in the Midwest. It has no indoor plumbing, phones, Internet connections or anything else – only a bed to sleep in and a place to cook a little. I’m taking one book, some paper, and a guitar with me and that’s it. I plan to spend my days walking, reading a little, playing a little on the guitar, but mostly just thinking. Those of you who know me might find this unusual. I’m an always-on, hyper-caffeinated, overly-busy, connected person. I haven’t taken a vacation in five years, at least for more than two or three days at a time. Even then, I keep us on the move constantly – our vacations aren’t cruises or anything like that. I check e-mail, post and all that. When I’m not on vacation, I live with and leverage lots of technology, and work with those that do the same. This, however, is a really “unplugged” event, and I’m hoping that it will let me unpack the things I’ve been stuffing in my head. I plan to spend a lot of time on a single subject, writing notes, thinking, and writing more notes. So after I post tomorrow's “quote of the day” I’ll be “going dark” for a week. No twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, e-mail, chat, none of my five blogs will get updated, and I’ll have to turn in my two articles for InformIT.com early. I won’t have access to my college class portal, so my students will be without me for a week. I will really be offline. I’ll see you in a week – hopefully a little more educated. See you then. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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What Counts For a DBA – Depth

- by Louis Davidson

SQL Server offers very simple interfaces to many of its features. Most people could open up SSMS, connect to a server, write a simple query and see the results. Even several of the core DBA tasks are deceptively straightforward. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to perform a basic database backup or run a trace (even using the newfangled Extended Events!). However, appearances can be deceptive, and often times it is really important that a DBA understands not just the basics of how to perform a task, but why we do a task, and how that task works. As an analogy, consider a child walking into a darkened room. Most would know that they need to turn on the light, and how to do it, so they flick the switch. But what happens if light fails to shine forth. Most would immediately tell you that you need to consider changing the light bulb. So you hop in the car and take them to the local home store and instruct them to buy a replacement. Confronted with a 40 foot display of light bulbs, how will they decide which of the hundreds of types of bulbs, of different types, fittings, shapes, colors, power and efficiency ratings, is the right choice? Obviously the main lesson the child is going to learn this day is how to use their cell phone as a flashlight so they don’t have to ask for help the next time. Likewise, when the metaphorical toddlers who use your database server have issues, they will instinctively know something is wrong, and may even have some idea what caused it, but will have no depth of knowledge to figure out the right solution. That is where the DBA comes in and attempts to save the day. However, when one looks beneath the shiny UI, SQL Server has its own “40 foot display of light bulbs”, in the form of the tremendous number of tools and the often-bewildering amount of information they can present to the DBA, to help us find issues. Unfortunately, resorting to guesswork, to trying different “bulbs” over and over, hoping to stumble on the answer. This is where the right depth of knowledge goes a long way. If we need to write a SELECT statement, then knowing the syntax and where to find the data is not enough. Knowledge of indexes and query plans is essential. Without it, we might hit on a query that “works”, but we are basically still a user, not a programmer, because we have no real control over our platform. Is that level of knowledge deep enough? Probably not, since knowledge of the underlying metadata and structures would be very useful in helping us make sense of any query plan. Understanding the structure of an index makes the “key lookup” operator not sound like what you do when someone tapes your car key to the ceiling. So is even this level of understanding deep enough? Do we need to understand the memory architecture used to process the query? It might be a comforting level of knowledge, and will doubtless come in handy at some point, but is not strictly necessary in most cases. Beyond that lies (more or less) full knowledge of SQL language and the intricacies of every step the SQL Server engine takes to process our query. My personal theory is that, as a professional, our knowledge of a given task should extend, at a minimum, one level deeper than is strictly necessary to perform the task. Anything deeper can be left to the ridiculously smart, or obsessive, or both. As an example. tasked with storing an integer value between 0 and 99999999, it’s essential that I know that choosing an Integer over Decimal(8,0) will likely offer performance benefits. It is then useful that I also understand the value of adding a CHECK constraint, to make sure the values are valid to the desired range; and comforting that I know a little about the underlying processors, registers and computer math. Anything further, I leave to the likes of Joe Chang, whose recent blog post on the topic offers depth by the bucketful!

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Property overwrite behaviour

- by jeremyj

I thought it worth sharing about property overwrite behaviour because i found it confusing at first in the hope of preventing some learning pain for the uninitiated with MSBuild :-)The confusion for me came because of the redundancy of using a Condition statement in a _project_ level property to test that a property has not been previously set. What i mean is that the following two statements are always identical in behaviour, regardless if the property has been supplied on the command line - <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup>has the same behaviour regardless of command line override as - <PropertyGroup> <PropA>PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup> i.e. the two above property declarations have the same result whether the property is overridden on the command line or not.To prove this experiment with the following .proj file -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Project ToolsVersion="4.0" > <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Target Name="Target1"> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target> <Target Name="Target2"> <PropertyGroup> <PropA>PropA set in Target2</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target> <Target Name="Target3"> <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set in Target3</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target> <Target Name="Target4"> <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' != '' ">PropA set in Target4</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target></Project>Try invoking it using both of the following invocations and observe its output -1)>msbuild blog.proj /t:Target1;Target2;Target3;Target42)>msbuild blog.proj /t:Target1;Target2;Target3;Target4 "/p:PropA=PropA set on command line"Then try those two invocations with the following three variations of specifying PropA at the project level -1) <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup> 2) <PropertyGroup> <PropA>PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup>3) <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' != '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup>

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Government Mandates and Programming Languages

A recent SEC proposal (which, at over 600 pages, I havent read in any detail) includes the following: We are proposing to require the filing of a computer program (the waterfall computer program, as defined in the proposed rule) of the contractual cash flow provisions of the securities in the form of downloadable source code in Python, a commonly used computer programming language that is open source and interpretive. The computer program would be tagged in XML and required to be filed with the Commission as an exhibit. Under our proposal, the filed source code for the computer program, when downloaded and run (by loading it into an open Python session on the investors computer), would be required to allow the user to programmatically input information from the asset data file that we are proposing to require as described above. We believe that, with the waterfall computer program and the asset data file, investors would be better able to conduct their own evaluations of ABS and may be less likely to be dependent on the opinions of credit rating agencies. With respect to any registration statement on Form SF-1 (Section 239.44) or Form SF-3 (Section 239.45) relating to an offering of an asset-backed security that is required to comply with Item 1113(h) of Regulation AB, the Waterfall Computer Program (as defined in Item 1113(h)(1) of Regulation AB) must be written in the Python programming language and able to be downloaded and run on a local computer properly configured with a Python interpreter. The Waterfall Computer Program should be filed in the manner specified in the EDGAR Filer Manual. I dont see how it can be in investors best interests that the SEC demand a particular programming language be used for software related to investment data. I have a feeling that investors who use computers at all already have software with which they are familiar, and that the vast majority of them are not running an open source scripting language on their machines to do their financial analysis. In fact, I would wager that most of them are using tools like Excel, and if they really need to script anything, its being done with VBA in Excel. Now, Im not proposing that the SEC should require that the data be provided in Excel format with VBA scripts included so everyone can easily access the data (despite the fact that this would actually be pretty useful generally). Rather, I think it is ill-advised for a government agency to make recommendations of this nature, period. If the goal of the recommendation is to ensure that the way things work is codified in a transparent manner, than I can certainly respect that. It seems to me that this could be accomplished without dictating the technology to use. To wit: An Excel document could contain all of the data as well as the formulae necessary, and most likely would not require the end-user to install anything on their machine The SEC could simply create a calculator in the cloud such that any/all investors could use a single canonical web-based (or web service based) tool Millions of Java and .NET developers could write their own implementations You can read more about this issue, including the favorable position on it, on Jayanth Varmas blog. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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Nvidia driver overscan issue second monitor via dvi-d cable

- by benmichael

Ok, I know that I have a bit of a bizarre setup, but here goes. I have an old laptop, HP Pavilion 6000. The graphics card in there is a GeForce 7150M. The monitor connection is an old 18pin. The external monitor I use is a Samsung SyncMaster 2333. Don't ask me why, but this monitor only has a dvi-d connection (yes, i have searched it). So I have the monitor plugged into the laptop. If I use any of the Nvidia propriety drivers and try to set the resolution up to 1920x1080 (the monitor's native resolution), I get a massive overscan issue. Over the years I have tried to get this to work, tinkering with my xorg.conf to death. I have also tried this on every Ubuntu since 10.04, on all the corresponding LUbuntus, and on all the Linux Mints since Lisa. Exact same issue. I have even tried it in WinDoze and it works perfectly there (although I did get the error once, but was unable to reproduce it). Using the Open Source drivers it works perfectly iff I switch off the laptop monitor (this makes no difference with the Nvidia drivers). I would have happily gone on using the Open Source drivers, except that since upgrading to LUbuntu 12.10, the Open Source drivers make my monitor completely hazy and have the same overscan issue until I (through the haze, only because I know where things are) go to the monitor settings, activate the laptop's monitor, then deactivate it, and suddenly it comes right. I have to do this every time. So I have to find a way to fix one of them, so I may as well tackle the propriety drivers, hence this overlong question. Amidst other things, I have tried the nvidia-settings, but because it is connected to an 18pin, it detects the monitor as a vga monitor and does not give me overscan correction options. I have tried custom modlines (although there are always more of those try), I have tried using xrandr, and I have tried all the FlatPanelOptions. What I have not tried is a Gentoo build, as I don't have time any more to do that installation, but up to about three years ago when I ran Gentoo exclusively I did not have this issue. Below is an link to an image with a red highlight around the portion of the screen visible to me, the numbers around it are the number of pixels which are cut off. This does seem to drift a few pixels every now and then. Thanks in advance. Nvidia driver issue image

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DBA Best Practices - A Blog Series: Episode 2 - Password Lists

- by Argenis

Digital World, Digital Locks One of the biggest digital assets that any company has is its secrets. These include passwords, key rings, certificates, and any other digital asset used to protect another asset from tampering or unauthorized access. As a DBA, you are very likely to manage some of these assets for your company - and your employer trusts you with keeping them safe. Probably one of the most important of these assets are passwords. As you well know, the can be used anywhere: for service accounts, credentials, proxies, linked servers, DTS/SSIS packages, symmetrical keys, private keys, etc., etc. Have you given some thought to what you're doing to keep these passwords safe? Are you backing them up somewhere? Who else besides you can access them? Good-Ol’ Post-It Notes Under Your Keyboard If you have a password-protected Excel sheet for your passwords, I have bad news for you: Excel's level of encryption is good for your grandma's budget spreadsheet, not for a list of enterprise passwords. I will try to summarize the main point of this best practice in one sentence: You should keep your passwords on an encrypted, access and version-controlled, backed-up, well-known shared location that every DBA on your team is aware of, and maintain copies of this password "database" on your DBA's workstations. Now I have to break down that statement to you: - Encrypted: what’s the point of saving your passwords on a file that any Windows admin with enough privileges can read? - Access controlled: This one is pretty much self-explanatory. - Version controlled: Passwords change (and I’m really hoping you do change them) and version control would allow you to track what a previous password was if the utility you’ve chosen doesn’t handle that for you. - Backed-up: You want a safe copy of the password list to be kept offline, preferably in long term storage, with relative ease of restoring. - Well-known shared location: This is critical for teams: what good is a password list if only one person in the team knows where it is? I have seen multiple examples of this that work well. They all start with an encrypted database. Certainly you could leverage SQL Server's native encryption solutions like cell encryption for this. I have found such implementations to be impractical, for the most part. Enter The World Of Utilities There are a myriad of open source/free software solutions to help you here. One of my favorites is KeePass, which creates encrypted files that can be saved to a network share, Sharepoint, etc. KeePass has UIs for most operating systems, including Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Other solutions I've used before worth mentioning include PasswordSafe and 1Password, with the latter one being a paid solution – but wildly popular in mobile devices. There are, of course, even more "enterprise-level" solutions available from 3rd party vendors. The truth is that most of the customers that I work with don't need that level of protection of their digital assets, and something like a KeePass database on Sharepoint suits them very well. What are you doing to safeguard your passwords? Leave a comment below, and join the discussion! Cheers, -Argenis

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Application Logging needs work

Application Logging Application logging is the act of logging events that occur within an application much like how a court report documents what happens in court case. Application logs can be useful for several reasons, but the most common use for logs is to recreate steps to find the root cause of applications errors. Other uses can include the detection of Fraud, verification of user activity, or provide audits on user/data interactions. “Logs can contain different kinds of data. The selection of the data used is normally affected by the motivation leading to the logging. “ (OWASP, 2009) OWASP also stats that logging include applicable debugging information like the event date time, responsible process, and a description of the event. “There are many reasons why a logging system is a necessary part of delivering a distributed application. One of the most important is the ability to track exactly how many users are using the application during different time periods.” (Hatton, 2000) Hatton also states that application logging helps system designers determine whether parts of an application aren't being used as designed. He implies that low usage can be used to identify if users like or do not like aspects of a system based on user usage of the application. This enables application designers to extract why users don't like aspects of an application so that changes can be made to increase its usefulness and effectiveness. “Logging memory usage can also assist you in tuning up the internals of your application. If you're experiencing a randomly occurring problem, being able to match activities performed with the memory status at the time may enable you to discover the cause of the problem. It also gives you a good indication of the health of the distributed server machine at the time any activity is performed. “ (Hatton, 2000) Commonly Logged Application Events (Defined by OWASP) Access of Data Creation of Data Modification of Data in any form Administrative Functions Configuration Changes Debugging Information(Application Events) Authorization Attempts Data Deletion Network Communication Authentication Events Errors/Exceptions Application Error Logging The functionality associated with application error logging is actually the combination of proper error handling and applications logging. If we look back at Figure 4 and Figure 5, these code examples allow developers to handle various types of errors that occur within the life cycle of an application’s execution. Application logging can be applied within the Catch section of the TryCatch statement allowing for the errors to be logged when they occur. By placing the logging within the Catch section specific error details can be accessed that help identify the source of the error, the path to the error, what caused the error and definition of the error that occurred. This can then be logged and reviewed at a later date in order recreate the error that was received based data found in the application log. By allowing applications to log errors developers IT staff can use them to recreate errors that are encountered by end-users or other dependent systems.

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SQL Server: Writing CASE expressions properly when NULLs are involved

- by Mladen Prajdic

We’ve all written a CASE expression (yes, it’s an expression and not a statement) or two every now and then. But did you know there are actually 2 formats you can write the CASE expression in? This actually bit me when I was trying to add some new functionality to an old stored procedure. In some rare cases the stored procedure just didn’t work correctly. After a quick look it turned out to be a CASE expression problem when dealing with NULLS. In the first format we make simple “equals to” comparisons to a value: SELECT CASE <value> WHEN <equals this value> THEN <return this> WHEN <equals this value> THEN <return this> -- ... more WHEN's here ELSE <return this> END Second format is much more flexible since it allows for complex conditions. USE THIS ONE! SELECT CASE WHEN <value> <compared to> <value> THEN <return this> WHEN <value> <compared to> <value> THEN <return this> -- ... more WHEN's here ELSE <return this> END Now that we know both formats and you know which to use (the second one if that hasn’t been clear enough) here’s an example how the first format WILL make your evaluation logic WRONG. Run the following code for different values of @i. Just comment out any 2 out of 3 “SELECT @i =” statements. DECLARE @i INTSELECT @i = -1 -- first resultSELECT @i = 55 -- second resultSELECT @i = NULL -- third resultSELECT @i AS OriginalValue, -- first CASE format. DON'T USE THIS! CASE @i WHEN -1 THEN '-1' WHEN NULL THEN 'We have a NULL!' ELSE 'We landed in ELSE' END AS DontUseThisCaseFormatValue, -- second CASE format. USE THIS! CASE WHEN @i = -1 THEN '-1' WHEN @i IS NULL THEN 'We have a NULL!' ELSE 'We landed in ELSE' END AS UseThisCaseFormatValue When the value of @i is –1 everything works as expected, since both formats go into the –1 WHEN branch. When the value of @i is 55 everything again works as expected, since both formats go into the ELSE branch. When the value of @i is NULL the problems become evident. The first format doesn’t go into the WHEN NULL branch because it makes an equality comparison between two NULLs. Because a NULL is an unknown value: NULL = NULL is false. That is why the first format goes into the ELSE Branch but the second format correctly handles the proper IS NULL comparison. Please use the second more explicit format. Your future self will be very grateful to you when he doesn’t have to discover these kinds of bugs.

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How to have an Arduino wait until it receives data over serial?

- by SonicDH

So I've wired up a little robot with a sound shield and some sensors. I'm trying to write a sketch that will let check the sensors. What I'd like for it to do is print out a little menu over serial, wait until the user sends a selection, jump to the function that matches their selection, then (once the function is done) jump back and print the menu again. Here's what I've written, but I'm not a that good of a coder, so it doesn't work. Where am I going wrong? #include <Servo.h> Servo steering; Servo throttle; int pos = 0; int val = 0; void setup(){ Serial.begin(9600); throttle.write(90); steering.write(90); pinMode(A0, INPUT); pinMode(7, INPUT); char ch = 0; } void loop(){ Serial.println("Menu"); Serial.println("--------------------"); Serial.println("1. Motion Readout"); Serial.println("2. Distance Readout"); Serial.println("3. SD Directory Listing"); Serial.println("4. Sound Test"); Serial.println("5. Car Test"); Serial.println("--------------------"); Serial.println("Type the number and press enter"); while(char ch = 0){ ch = Serial.read();} char ch; switch(ch) { case '1': motion(); } ch = 0; } //menu over, lets get to work. void motion(){ Serial.println("Haha, it works!"); } I'm pretty sure a While loop is the right thing to do, but I'm probably implementing it wrong. Can anyone shed some light on this?

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Oracle Could Lead In Cloud Business Apps Within Year

- by Richard Lefebvre

Below is the reprint from an article, writen by By Pete Barlas, Investor's Business Daily, published on Investorscom: Oracle (ORCL) is all but destined to become the largest seller of cloud business-software applications, analysts say, and perhaps within a year. What that means in the long run is much debated, though, as analysts aren't sure whether pricing competition might cut into profit or what other issues might develop in the fast-emerging cloud software field. But the database leader, which is either No. 1 or 2 to SAP (SAP) in business apps overall, simply has the size and scope to overtake current cloud business-app leader, Salesforce.com (CRM), analysts say. Oracle rolled out its first full suite of cloud applications on June 6. Cloud computing lets companies store data and apps on the Internet "cloud" and access it quickly and easily. The applications run the gamut of customer relationship management software to social networking sites for employees, partners and customers. For longtime software giants like Oracle, the cloud is a big switch. They get the great bulk of revenue from companies and other enterprises buying or licensing software that the customers keep on their own computer systems. Vendors also get annual maintenance fees. Analysts estimate Oracle is taking in a mere $1 billion or so a year from cloud-based software sales and services now. But while that's just a sliver of the company's $37 billion in sales last year, it's already about a third of the total sales for Salesforce, which is expected to end this year with some $3 billion in revenue. Operates In 145 Countries Oracle operates in more than 145 countries vs. about 70 for Salesforce. And Oracle has far more apps than Salesforce. Revenue doesn't equate to profit, but it's inevitable that huge Oracle will become the largest seller of cloud applications, says Trip Chowdhry, an analyst for Global Equities Research. "What Oracle has is global presence," he said. "They have two things driving the revenue: breadth of the offering and breadth of the distribution. You put those applications in those sales reps' hands and you get deployments not in just one country but several countries." At the June 6 event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison emphasized that his company could and would beat Salesforce.com in head-to-head battles for customers. Oracle makes software to help companies manage such tasks as customer relationships, recruiting, supply chains, projects, finances and more. That range gives it an edge over all rivals, says Michael Fauscette, an analyst for research firm IDC.

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LibGDX - Textures rendering at wrong position

- by ACluelessGuy

Update 2: Let me further explain my problem since I think that i didn't make it clear enough: The Y-coordinates on the bottom of my screen should be 0. Instead it is the height of my screen. That means the "higher" i touch/click the screen the less my y-coordinate gets. Above that the origin is not inside my screen, atleast not the 0 y-coordinate. Original post: I'm currently developing a tower defence game for fun by using LibGDX. There are places on my map where the player is or is not allowed to put towers on. So I created different ArrayLists holding rectangles representing a tile on my map. (towerPositions) for(int i = 0; i < map.getLayers().getCount(); i++) { curLay = (TiledMapTileLayer) map.getLayers().get(i); //For all Cells of current Layer for(int k = 0; k < curLay.getWidth(); k++) { for(int j = 0; j < curLay.getHeight(); j++) { curCell = curLay.getCell(k, j); //If there is a actual cell if(curCell != null) { tileWidth = curLay.getTileWidth(); tileHeight = curLay.getTileHeight(); xTileKoord = tileWidth*k; yTileKoord = tileHeight*j; switch(curLay.getName()) { //If layer named "TowersAllowed" picked case "TowersAllowed": towerPositions.add(new Rectangle(xTileKoord, yTileKoord, tileWidth, tileHeight)); // ... AND SO ON If the player clicks on a "allowed" field later on he has the opportunity to build a tower of his coice via a menu. Now here is the problem: The towers render, but they render at wrong position. (They appear really random on the map, no certain pattern for me) for(Rectangle curRect : towerPositions) { if(curRect.contains(xCoord, yCoord)) { //Using a certain tower in this example (left the menu out if(gameControl.createTower("towerXY")) { //RenderObject is just a class holding the Texture and x/y coordinates renderList.add(new RenderObject(new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("TowerXY.png")), curRect.x, curRect.y)); } } } Later on i render it: game.batch.begin(); for(int i = 0; i < renderList.size() ; i++) { game.batch.draw(renderList.get(i).myTexture, renderList.get(i).x, renderList.get(i).y); } game.batch.end(); regards

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I am trying to create an windows application watcher? [migrated]

- by Broken_Code

I recently started coding in c #(in may this year) and well I find it best to learn by working with code. this application http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/satisharveti/ActiveApplicationWatcher01252007024921AM/ActiveApplicationWatcher.aspx. I am trying to recreate it however mine will be saving the information into an sql database(new at this as well). I am having some coding problems though as it does not do what I expect it to do. THis is the main code I am using. private void GetTotalTimer() { DateTime now = DateTime.Now; IntPtr hwnd = APIFunc.getforegroundWindow(); Int32 pid = APIFunc.GetWindowProcessID(hwnd); Process p = Process.GetProcessById(pid); appName = p.ProcessName; const int nChars = 256; int handle = 0; StringBuilder Buff = new StringBuilder(nChars); handle = GetForegroundWindow(); appltitle = APIFunc.ActiveApplTitle().Trim().Replace("\0", ""); //if (GetWindowText(handle, Buff, nChars) > 0) //{ // string strbuff = Buff.ToString(); // StrWindow = strbuff; #region insert statement try { if (Conn.State == ConnectionState.Closed) { Conn.Open(); } if (Conn.State == ConnectionState.Open) { SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand("Select top 1 [Window Title] From TimerLogs ORDER BY [Time of Event] DESC", Conn); SqlDataReader reader = com.ExecuteReader(); startTime = DateTime.Now; string time = now.ToString(); if (!reader.HasRows) { reader.Close(); cmd = new SqlCommand("insert into [TimerLogs] values(@time,@appName,@appltitle,@Elapsed_Time,@userName)", Conn); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@time", time); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@appName", appName); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@appltitle", appltitle); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Elapsed_Time", blank.ToString()); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@userName", userName); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); Conn.Close(); } else if(reader.HasRows) { reader.Read(); if (appltitle != reader.ToString()) { reader.Close(); endTime = DateTime.Now; appduration = endTime.Subtract(startTime); cmd = new SqlCommand("insert into [TimerLogs] values (@time,@appName,@appltitle,@Elapsed_Time,@userName)", Conn); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@time", time); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@appName", appName); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@appltitle", appltitle); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Elapsed_Time", appduration.ToString()); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@userName", userName); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); reader.Close(); Conn.Close(); } } } } catch (Exception) { } //} #endregion ActivityTimer.Start(); Processing = "Working"; } Unfortunately this is the result. it is not saving the data as I expect it to. What am i doing wrong I had thought that with the sql reader it would first check for a value and only save if they do not match however it is saving whether there is a match or not.

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Why is everything crashing?

- by Kopkins

I've been using Ubuntu for a while now and I love it, I wouldn't think of using another OS unless I can't fix this issue. The install I'm on is only around a month and a half old. I'm running 12.04 64bit on a 8,1 MBP. Up until around 2 weeks ago everything was running smoothly. Around then applications started crashing and weird things started happening. At first I thought it was just certain applications. The first thing to start giving me trouble was compiz. Occasionally compiz will stop decorating windows and lost many other functionalities. running compiz --replace fixes this, but I don't feel like doing it usually once a day. The other thing with this is that after running compiz --replace, my conky window gets lost somewhere and so I run killall conky && conky -c .conkyrc. But this isn't with just a couple applications, it seems like it is proliferating through my system. Last week fontforge started crashing while doing whatever task. So I ended up unable to finish what I was working on to completeness. Didn't find a fix. Today rhythmbox started crashing. Whenever I try to play anything, Rhythmbox becomes unresponsive and needs to be forced to close. When I try to do certain things with the disk utility, it crashes. I get the Ubuntu has experienced an internal error message much more often than I would like. Frequently applications stop appearing in the launcher. Wine almost never does anymore. After not being active for a little while, thunderbird can only fetch my mail after restarting wireless, sudo rmmod b43 && sudo modprobe b43 Occasionally some of my startup apps don't start. What is my best option here? Could they be bugs? I don't want to submit a ton of vague bug reports. Reinstall? switch OS? Thank you to anyone who responds. Kopkins

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From Co-op to fulltime help with salary negotation [closed]

- by Peter

Hey I'm a coop student that worked at a particular medium size printing company for 8 months. I had a good time it was lax, sometimes insufficiently challenging but none the less I learned a whole lot. I stuck with them for another 5 months (including this month) at the same rate I was paid then, doing testing work, tool development, taking care of emergencies when the lead developers were away, and other smaller projects and now bigger projects and problem handling (bad printer output etc.). I know their website inside out (ecommerce), and I know their printing software inside out and have made many changes to them both without a hitch. I have also done a lot of refactoring of the existing code base which as far as Im concerned, I believe am the only one to do those sorts of restructuring even though there is constant talk about it. I guess the unit testing paid off and lets me see the value in modularity if even a tad more. Never the less I have faith in my skill and the restructuring I did turned out better than I had imagined . Now the problem is that I finish school next month and so I asked for a full time spot the month after. They have been expanding and have hired a new guy a few months after my coop spot, and just now they hired a new guy to deal with the CRM application. The lead developer who wrote all of the software had left 5 months ago so it was up to all of us to learn what he had done over 4 years (including db, networking). So now I'm afraid that if I assert myself for a salary similar to the other guys, which I believe I am certainly on par with, that I would be seen as ingrateful. It's hard to flip a switch and say, hey double my pay, although when I'm working with their bread and butter (printers) and writing new features, refactoring the whole application for extensibility. I love it regardless of pay. I also feel maybe I'm replaceeble, although nobody knows the website better than myself and the lead web dev (not by a long shot), and nobody knows the printer software/drivers better than myself. I just thought they would have brought up a raise earlier on, and now it feels like they don't value my work. I'm also tired of worrying about it. I think my question is, well what do I do next?

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