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• Ubuntu error: no candidate ver

  - by codedude

  Ok...so for some reason by Ubuntu 10.04 partition won't startup anymore. I'm not exactly sure what I did. I have the feeling that I accidentally removed some important packages. However, when I startup in Recovery Mode and select "dpkg: repair broken packages" I get this output: rm: cannot remove /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*': No such file or directory Reading Cache Reading Package lists: Done Reading State Information: Done Reading State Information: Done Reading State Information: Done No candidate ver: libisc44 No candidate ver: readahead No candidate ver: libdirectfb-1.0-0 No candidate ver: upstart-logd No candidate ver: libparted1.8-10 No candidate ver: libflickrnet2.1.5-cil No candidate ver: libicu38 No candidate ver: fast-user-switch-applet No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: libnm-util0 No candidate ver: libwebkit-1.0-1 No candidate ver: libopal3.6.1 No candidate ver: libbind9-40 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-common No candidate ver: upstart-compat-sysv No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: chromium-browser No candidate ver: libisc45 No candidate ver: belocs-locales-bin No candidate ver: libxcb-xlib0 No candidate ver: libpoppler4 No candidate ver: libpulsecore9 No candidate ver: libpulsecore5 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libntfs-3g49 No candidate ver: libisccfg40 No candidate ver: libavahi-core5 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libparted1.8-9 No candidate ver: libmagickwand1 No candidate ver: libwvstreams4.4-base No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: libraw1394-8 No candidate ver: libdatrie0 No candidate ver: libboost-program-options1.35.0 No candidate ver: libgnomekbdui3 No candidate ver: libsgutils1 No candidate ver: libass1 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libindicate1 No candidate ver: libgnomekbd3 No candidate ver: system-services No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: libmagick10 No candidate ver: libcolamd-3.2.0 No candidate ver: desktop-effects-kde No candidate ver: picasa No candidate ver: libgnome-desktop-2-7 No candidate ver: libntfs-3g28 No candidate ver: libxklavier12 No candidate ver: libgpod3 No candidate ver: libmagickcore1 No candidate ver: libffado0 No candidate ver: libzephyr3 No candidate ver: libuniconf4.4 No candidate ver: libmbca0 No candidate ver: liblwres40 No candidate ver: hotkey-setup No candidate ver: libkrb53 No candidate ver: ttf-bitstream-vera No candidate ver: libee12-2 No candidate ver: libopal-2.2 No candidate ver: songbird No candidate ver: plib1.8.4c2 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libpoppler3 No candidate ver: google-chrome-unstable No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: simgear1.0.0 No candidate ver: libpoppler-glib3 No candidate ver: mono-common No candidate ver: libx264-65 No candidate ver: libwvstreams4.4-extras No candidate ver: libdns43 No candidate ver: libnm-glib0 No candidate ver: libpt2.6.1 No candidate ver: libisccc40 No candidate ver: libdns45 No candidate ver: libisc44 No candidate ver: readahead No candidate ver: libdirectfb-1.0-0 No candidate ver: upstart-logd No candidate ver: libparted1.8-10 No candidate ver: libflickrnet2.1.5-cil No candidate ver: libicu38 No candidate ver: fast-user-switch-applet No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: libnm-util0 No candidate ver: libwebkit-1.0-1 No candidate ver: libopal3.6.1 No candidate ver: libbind9-40 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-common No candidate ver: upstart-compat-sysv No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: chromium-browser No candidate ver: libisc45 No candidate ver: belocs-locales-bin No candidate ver: libxcb-xlib0 No candidate ver: libpoppler4 No candidate ver: libpulsecore9 No candidate ver: lipulsecore5 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libntfs-3g49 No candidate ver: libisccfg40 No candidate ver: libavahi-core5 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libparted1.8-9 No candidate ver: libmagickwand1 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: libraw1394-8 No candidate ver: libdatrie0 No candidate ver: libboost-program-options1.35.0 No candidate ver: libgnomekbdui3 No candidate ver: libsgutils1 No candidate ver: libass1 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libindicate1 No candidate ver: libgnomekbd3 No candidate ver: system-services No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: libmagick10 No candidate ver: libcolamd-3.2.0 No candidate ver: desktop-effects-kde No candidate ver: picasa No candidate ver: libgnome-desktop-2-7 No candidate ver: libntfs-3g28 No candidate ver: libxklavier12 No candidate ver: libgpod3 No candidate ver: libmagickcore1 No candidate ver: libffado0 No candidate ver: libzephyr3 No candidate ver: libuniconf4.4 No candidate ver: libmbca0 No candidate ver: liblwres40 No candidate ver: hotkey-setup No candidate ver: libkrb53 No candidate ver: ttf-bitstream-vera No candidate ver: libeel2-2 No candidate ver: libopal-2.2 No candidate ver: songbird No candidate ver: plib1.8.4c2 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libpoppler3 No candidate ver: google-chrome-unstable No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: simgear1.0.0 No candidate ver: libpoppler-glib3 No candidate ver: mono-common No candidate ver: libx264-65 No candidate ver: libwvstreams4.4-extras No candidate ver: libdns43 No candidate ver: libnm-glib0 No candidate ver: libpt2.6.1 No candidate ver: libisccc40 No candidate ver: libdns45 Your system is up-to-date There are no upgrades available for your system. The upgrade will now be canceled. Do you want to start the upgrdae? Continue [yN] Details [d] (Sorry that is so long...) I'm assuming I'm missing each of those packages. However, when I try to install them, for example: sudo apt-get install libisc44 I get some response that this package is missing and/or it may be part of another package. I'm not exactly sure what I should do. I don't want to reinstall ubuntu, since I have it dual booted with Windows Vista and I don't want to risk anything on the Windows partition. What are your thoughts? EDIT: I've posted this on Ubuntu Forums and nobody ever responded so...yah

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• Ubuntu error: no candidate ver

  - by codedude

  Ok...so for some reason by Ubuntu 10.04 partition won't startup anymore. I'm not exactly sure what I did. I have the feeling that I accidentally removed some important packages. However, when I startup in Recovery Mode and select "dpkg: repair broken packages" I get this output: rm: cannot remove /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*': No such file or directory Reading Cache Reading Package lists: Done Reading State Information: Done Reading State Information: Done Reading State Information: Done No candidate ver: libisc44 No candidate ver: readahead No candidate ver: libdirectfb-1.0-0 No candidate ver: upstart-logd No candidate ver: libparted1.8-10 No candidate ver: libflickrnet2.1.5-cil No candidate ver: libicu38 No candidate ver: fast-user-switch-applet No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: libnm-util0 No candidate ver: libwebkit-1.0-1 No candidate ver: libopal3.6.1 No candidate ver: libbind9-40 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-common No candidate ver: upstart-compat-sysv No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: chromium-browser No candidate ver: libisc45 No candidate ver: belocs-locales-bin No candidate ver: libxcb-xlib0 No candidate ver: libpoppler4 No candidate ver: libpulsecore9 No candidate ver: libpulsecore5 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libntfs-3g49 No candidate ver: libisccfg40 No candidate ver: libavahi-core5 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libparted1.8-9 No candidate ver: libmagickwand1 No candidate ver: libwvstreams4.4-base No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: libraw1394-8 No candidate ver: libdatrie0 No candidate ver: libboost-program-options1.35.0 No candidate ver: libgnomekbdui3 No candidate ver: libsgutils1 No candidate ver: libass1 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libindicate1 No candidate ver: libgnomekbd3 No candidate ver: system-services No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: libmagick10 No candidate ver: libcolamd-3.2.0 No candidate ver: desktop-effects-kde No candidate ver: picasa No candidate ver: libgnome-desktop-2-7 No candidate ver: libntfs-3g28 No candidate ver: libxklavier12 No candidate ver: libgpod3 No candidate ver: libmagickcore1 No candidate ver: libffado0 No candidate ver: libzephyr3 No candidate ver: libuniconf4.4 No candidate ver: libmbca0 No candidate ver: liblwres40 No candidate ver: hotkey-setup No candidate ver: libkrb53 No candidate ver: ttf-bitstream-vera No candidate ver: libee12-2 No candidate ver: libopal-2.2 No candidate ver: songbird No candidate ver: plib1.8.4c2 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libpoppler3 No candidate ver: google-chrome-unstable No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: simgear1.0.0 No candidate ver: libpoppler-glib3 No candidate ver: mono-common No candidate ver: libx264-65 No candidate ver: libwvstreams4.4-extras No candidate ver: libdns43 No candidate ver: libnm-glib0 No candidate ver: libpt2.6.1 No candidate ver: libisccc40 No candidate ver: libdns45 No candidate ver: libisc44 No candidate ver: readahead No candidate ver: libdirectfb-1.0-0 No candidate ver: upstart-logd No candidate ver: libparted1.8-10 No candidate ver: libflickrnet2.1.5-cil No candidate ver: libicu38 No candidate ver: fast-user-switch-applet No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: libnm-util0 No candidate ver: libwebkit-1.0-1 No candidate ver: libopal3.6.1 No candidate ver: libbind9-40 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-common No candidate ver: upstart-compat-sysv No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: chromium-browser No candidate ver: libisc45 No candidate ver: belocs-locales-bin No candidate ver: libxcb-xlib0 No candidate ver: libpoppler4 No candidate ver: libpulsecore9 No candidate ver: lipulsecore5 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libntfs-3g49 No candidate ver: libisccfg40 No candidate ver: libavahi-core5 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libparted1.8-9 No candidate ver: libmagickwand1 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: libraw1394-8 No candidate ver: libdatrie0 No candidate ver: libboost-program-options1.35.0 No candidate ver: libgnomekbdui3 No candidate ver: libsgutils1 No candidate ver: libass1 No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic No candidate ver: libindicate1 No candidate ver: libgnomekbd3 No candidate ver: system-services No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic No candidate ver: libmagick10 No candidate ver: libcolamd-3.2.0 No candidate ver: desktop-effects-kde No candidate ver: picasa No candidate ver: libgnome-desktop-2-7 No candidate ver: libntfs-3g28 No candidate ver: libxklavier12 No candidate ver: libgpod3 No candidate ver: libmagickcore1 No candidate ver: libffado0 No candidate ver: libzephyr3 No candidate ver: libuniconf4.4 No candidate ver: libmbca0 No candidate ver: liblwres40 No candidate ver: hotkey-setup No candidate ver: libkrb53 No candidate ver: ttf-bitstream-vera No candidate ver: libeel2-2 No candidate ver: libopal-2.2 No candidate ver: songbird No candidate ver: plib1.8.4c2 No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic No candidate ver: libpoppler3 No candidate ver: google-chrome-unstable No candidate ver: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic No candidate ver: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-14-generic No candidate ver: simgear1.0.0 No candidate ver: libpoppler-glib3 No candidate ver: mono-common No candidate ver: libx264-65 No candidate ver: libwvstreams4.4-extras No candidate ver: libdns43 No candidate ver: libnm-glib0 No candidate ver: libpt2.6.1 No candidate ver: libisccc40 No candidate ver: libdns45 Your system is up-to-date There are no upgrades available for your system. The upgrade will now be canceled. Do you want to start the upgrdae? Continue [yN] Details [d] (Sorry that is so long...) I'm assuming I'm missing each of those packages. However, when I try to install them, for example: sudo apt-get install libisc44 I get some response that this package is missing and/or it may be part of another package. I'm not exactly sure what I should do. I don't want to reinstall ubuntu, since I have it dual booted with Windows Vista and I don't want to risk anything on the Windows partition. What are your thoughts? EDIT: I've posted this on Ubuntu Forums and nobody ever responded so...yah

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• How to upgrade to Windows 8.1 on a machine with a Users folder on a separate drive?

  - by ahsteele

  I tried to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, during the upgrade process I receive the following error: Sorry, it looks like this PC can't run Windows 8.1. This might be because the Users or Program Files folder is being redirected to another partition. Which is accurate in that I have my Users directory on my D: drive and Windows installed on my C: drive. I do this because my C: drive is an SSD drive and D: drive is a spinning rust drive where I keep my data. Is it possible to upgrade to Windows 8.1 from a Windows 8 install with a redirected Users folder? I do not consider a full reinstall of Windows 8 with a non-mapped Users folder and then upgrading that installation to be "upgrading."

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• Native AAA games coming to Ubuntu. Where they will be installed?

  - by user86274

  Many users use SSD disks (and I believe many more in the future) for their OS. 128GB SSD disks are common place nowadays and many users (like me) use their SSD for dual booting (Windows and Ubuntu). Ubuntu installations like this occupies 20-40 GB (/ , /home and swap). Up to now there was no problem. In a few weeks though, triple A games are coming to Ubuntu (i.e. l4d2) that require probably tens of GB for installation. In windows there is no problem, because you can install a game anywhere you want (i.e. I install games in D:/Games/). In Ubuntu, though, programs install files in many places (i.e. /usr/* , /lib, /etc ) so from what I remember, I never had the option to choose where to install a program. So, how will it be possible to install AAA games that require many GBs, when our Ubuntu installations won't have the necessary space? Could a /opt mounted on a mechanical disk (HDD) be the solution? Is it something I am missing?

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• Best practice for combining a Java Applet/ Android interface?

  - by Pearsonartphoto

  I'm working on an online game, which I am seriously considering writing a Java Applet for it. The game is not overly complex on the features. I'm considering at some point having at least 3 versions of the game, which include a Java stand alone, applet, and Android game. I know from Design Patterns that the best way to use differing things like buttons and the like is to use a Bridge interface, where I have a common template for the common buttons. However, I'm having a bit of difficulty understanding what to do about the following. I know that Android programs use an Activity structure, which I am well familiar with, and that Applets extend the Applet interface, which I am not as familiar with. I also know that a stand alone java program uses basically a main() function, which doesn't have much structure. I'm convinced that there should be a way to design a common design pattern between the two, but somehow I'm missing what that is exactly. What can I do to make the different frameworks work with as much common code as possible?

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• Transition from 2D to 3D Game development [closed]

  - by jakebird451

  I have been working in the 2D world for a long time from manual blitting in windows to SDL to Python (pygame, pyopengl) and a bunch in between. Needless to say I have been programming for a while. So a while ago I started to program in OpenGL via C++ on my Mac. I then got a little intricate with my work after a while (3D models with skeleton structure and terrain development). After a long time of tinkering, I stopped due to the heavy work just to yield a low level understanding of how OpenGL works. Still interested in Graphics and Game Development I went on a search for a stable game engine with some features to grow on. Licence Requirement: Anything other than GPL (LGPL will do) OS Requirement: Mac & Windows Shader: GLSL or CG (GLSL preferred due to experience) Models: Any model structure with rigging (bone) support & animation I am looking at http://www.ogre3d.org/ currently and am starting to meddle around with some examples. However I am a little reluctant to spend a lot of time on it only to yield another dead end. So instead of falling down a spiraling black pit, I am posting my question to you guys to lead me in the right direction based on my requirements. How was your experience with the engine you recommend? Is it well documented? Does it have well documented examples? Any library requirements (Boost, libpng, etc)?

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• JavaOne Russia: Great Line Up

  - by Geertjan

  I'm (we're) in New York, a week of vacation. (Growing list of photos can be found here.) A week in Brooklyn, and around, flea markets, book stores, museums, music. One of several highlights will be seeing "Death of a Salesman" with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the main role, tomorrow. However, mentally, at least partly, I'm in Moscow, at JavaOne Moscow, 17 & 18 April. http://www.oracle.com/javaone/ru-en/index.html I'm doing two items there, thankfully on the first day, I always think the sooner the better: Tuesday 12:30 - 13:15 -- Unlocking the Java EE 6 Platform (in the Keynote Hall) Tuesday 16:30 - 18:15 -- Rapid Corporate Desktop Development (in HOL Room) Several speakers I'm looking forward to seeing there include Bert Ertman who will be talking about Spring/Java EE 6 migration, Dalibor Topic talking about Lambda expressions in JDK 8, Arun Gupta with his Java EE 6 HOL (appears to be a partial overlap with my session), and various others. And I hope I will make it to Angela Caicedo's HOL on JavaFX. The whole program, which is available via the link above, indicates that many (dare I say "most"?) of the sessions will be using NetBeans in one way or another. Looks like it will be a great conference.

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• make "sort by" permanent for specific folder

  - by Black Cobra

  I have a folder where I store all my web icons in .png and .ico format. I set view to large icons and sort by to date modified -> descending. When I save new icons in this folder from web, I drag and drop them from browser (chrome) to the folder. The problem is after that the icons in the folder are not sorted by date modified descending any more... So how can I set any file or program or something that will set the sort by to date modified -> descending for that folder only each time I will access (open) the folder? I am using window 7 x64.

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• winkey + arrow key doesn't move windows to 2nd monitor on linux

  - by Berry Tsakala

  in Windows, win+ <-- and win+ --> snap any window to the left/right side of a monitor, and if pressed again, snap the window to the other monitor, in multi-monitor environment. when a window is maximized, it will "restore" the window first, and at the next win+ <-- key the window will snap. this is very easy to use and remember. But on Linux a maximized window is not affected by win+ <-- , and the user must explicitly un-maximize it (win+down. the window is not moved to another monitor a side-snapped window cannot be resized - it behaves like a maximized window. is there another program that behaves like Windows, or I should write one by myself? (i'm using ubuntu/mint)

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• Why is a software development life-cycle so inefficient?

  - by user87166

  Currently the software development lifecycle followed in the IT company I work at is: The "Business" works with a solution manager to build a Business Requirement document The solution manager works with the Program manager to build a Functional Spec The PM works with the engineering lead to develop a release plan and with the engineering team to develop technical specifications If there are any clarifications required, developers contact the PM who contacts the solution manager who contacts the business and all the way back introducing a latency of nearly 24 hours and massive email chains for any clarifications By the time the tech spec is made, nearly 1 month has passed in back and forth Now, 2 weeks go to development while the test writes test cases Code is dropped formally to test, test starts raising bugs. Even if there is 1 root cause for 10 different issues, and its an easily fixed one, developers are not allowed to give fresh code to test for the next 1 week. After 2-3 such drops to test the code is given to the ops team as a "golden drop" ( 2 months passed from the beginning) Ops team will now deploy the code in a staging environment. If it runs stable for a week, it will be promoted to UAT and after 2 weeks of that it will be promoted to prod. If there are any bugs found here, well, applying for a visa requires less paperwork This entire process is followed even if a single SSRS report is to be released. How do other companies process such requirements? I'm wondering why, the business cannot just drop the requirements to developers, developers build and deploy to UAT themselves, expose it to the business who raise functional bugs and after fixing those promote to prod. (even for more complex stuff)

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• Oracle Solutions supporting ICAM deployments

  - by user12604761

  The ICAM architecture has become the predominant security architecture for government organizations.  A growing number of federal, state, and local organizations are in various stages of using Oracle ICAM solutions.  The relevance of ICAM has clearly extended beyond the Federal ICAM mandates to any government program that must enable standards based interoperability like health exchanges and public safety.  The state government endorsed version of ICAM was just released with the NASCIO SICAM Roadmap. ICAM solutions require an integrated security architecture.  The major new release in August of Oracle Identity Management 11gR2 focuses on a platform approach to identity management.  This makes it easier for government organizations to acquire and implement a comprehensive ICAM solution, rather than individual products.  The following analysts reports describe the value of the Oracle Solutions: According to The Aberdeen Group:  “Organizations can save up to 48% deploying a platform of  (identity management) solutions when compared to deploying point solutions” IDC Product Flash, July 2012:  “Oracle may have hit the home run grand slam in identity management recently with the announcement of Oracle Identity Management 11g R2." For additional information on the Oracle ICAM solutions, attend the Webcast on October 10, 2012:  ICAM Framework for Enabling Agile, Service Delivery. Visit the Oracle Secure Government Resource Center for information on enterprise security solutions that help government safeguard information, resources and networks.

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• Use DOS batch to move all files up 1 directory

  - by Harminoff

  I have created a batch file to be executed through the right-click menu in Win7. When I right-click on a folder, I would like the batch file to move all files (excluding folders) up 1 directory. I have this so far: PUSHHD %1 MOVE "%1\*.*" ..\ This seems to work as long as the folder I'm moving files from doesn't have any spaces. When the folder does have spaces, I get an error message: "The syntax of the command is incorrect." So my batch works on a folder titled PULLTEST but not on a folder titled PULL TEST. Again, I don't need it to move folders, just files. And I would like it to work in any directory on any drive. There will be no specific directories that I will be working in. It will be random. Below is the registry file I made if needed for reference. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\PullFiles] @="PullFilesUP" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\PullFiles\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\MyBatchs\\PullFiles.bat\" \"%1\""

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• How to manage several Linux workstation like a cluster?

  - by Richard Zak

  How does one go about managing a lab of Linux workstations? I'd like for users to be able to log in, run their GUI apps (LibreOffice, Firefox, Eclipse, etc), and for the computers to be able to be used as compute nodes (OpenMPI). This part I'm fine with. But how can I centrally deploy a new software package or upgrade an installed package? How can I reload the entire OS on a given node, as if these workstations were part of a super computing cluster? Is there a nice program to help with setting up PXE booting and image management, and remotely managing packages? Ideally such a system would work with Ubuntu. If there isn't a nice package, how could this be set up manually?

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• How should I structure moving from overworld to menu system / combat?

  - by persepolis

  I'm making a text-based "Arena" game where the player is the owner of 5 creatures that battle other teams for loot, experience and glory. The game is very simple, using Python and a curses emulator. I have a static ASCII map of an "overworld" of sorts. My character, represented by a glyph, can move about this static map. There are locations all over the map that the character can visit, that break down into two types: 1) Towns, which are a series of menus that will allow the player to buy equipment for his team, hire new recruits or do other things. 2) Arenas, where the player's team will have a "battle" interface with actions he can perform, messages about the fight, etc. Maybe later, an ASCII representation of the fight but for now, just screens of information with action prompts. My main problem is what kind of design or structure I should use to implement this? Right now, the game goes through a master loop which waits for keyboard input and then moves the player about the screen. My current thinking is this: 1) Upon keyboard input, the Player coordinates are checked against a list of Location objects and if the Player coords match the Location coords then... 2) ??? I'm not sure if I should then call a seperate function to initiate a "menu" or "combat" mode. Or should I create some kind of new GameMode object that contains a method itself for drawing the screen, printing the necessary info? How do I pass my player's team data into this object? My main concern is passing around the program flow into all these objects. Should I be calling straight functions for different parts of my game, and objects to represent "things" within my game? I was reading about the MVC pattern and how this kind of problem might benefit - decouple the GUI from the game logic and user input but I have no idea how this applies to my game.

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• How to quickly start Programs like "regedit.exe" from the Windows 7 search bar using substring match

  - by Palmin

  The search bar in Windows 7 is very convenient to quickly start applications by pressing the Win-key and then entering the name of the application. For applications with a Program Menu entry like Firefox, it is sufficient to type Fire and Firefox will be displayed in the Programs section of the search results. For other applications like regedit.exe, I have to type the full command regedit before the correct choice regedit.exe appears. Is there any way to have regedit.exe appear already when I have just entered a substring? Please note: I have seen Add my applications to Vista’s Start Search, but I don't want to add anything to the Start Menu manually. This question is about if there is some configuration that can be tuned to make the results appear. I have also seen Search behavior of Windows 7 start menu, but my problem is not that the exe appears under Files, regedit.exe correctly appears under Programs, but it should appear already for a substring match.

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• My Tablet PC has a jog dial (typically used for scrolling up and down) but it does not work by defau

  - by techtechmo

  I have an HP Compaq TC4400 and I recently was able to make most of the Tablet PC functions work in Ubuntu 9.10. (The step-by-step guide can be found in my blog.) Unfortunately I have yet to make the jog dial work. This would be particularly useful for scrolling up and down websites and documents when the TC4400 is in slate mode (with no access to the keyboard). I would be much obliged if anybody could tell me: How to find out the input button/key assignment that Ubuntu 9.10 has for jog-up and jog-down; How to assign jog-up to scroll up (D-pad key UP, or PAGE UP) and jog-down to scroll down (D-Pad key DOWN, or PAGE DOWN). I am using xbindkeys to assign different shortcuts to the quick launch buttons, perhaps I could use the same program for the jog dial? I would have done that, except I do not know how to find the proper button/key assignment for xbindkeys to use. Thanks in advance!

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• Disconnected from WiFi, Windows claims otherwise [closed]

  - by Manu

  I'm connected via wifi to my ISP's router/modem. While Windows says that I'm always connected, I keep getting messages from Netgear Genie that I've lost contact to the Internet, and I cannot access webpages until it comes back. There are two other computers in the house, one connected to the router via ethernet, the other via wifi, both seem to have no such problems. I've wondered if Netgear genie itself was the problem, but I am regularly disconnected even if I uninstall it. And I'd rather have it since it accurently tells me if I'm connected or not. Why does windows says I'm online if I can't access any online game, or website ? I've removed the connection, recreated it, I've even copied the settings to a usb key from the computer that has wifi access. Is there a tool that can tell me which program, if any, is disconecting me ?

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• Building own kernel on ubuntu

  - by chris

  Hi, I'm trying to build my own kernel, as I want to write a kernel program which I need to compile into the kernel. So what did I do? Download from kernel.org, extract, do the make menuconfig and configure everything as needed, do a make, do a make modules_install, do a make install and finally do a update-grub. Result: It doesn't boot at all.... Now I had a look here and it describes a different way of compiling a kernel. Could this be the reason whz my way did not work? Or does anyone else have an idea why my kernel doesn't work? ######## Edit Great answer, ty. Oli. But I tried it the old fashioned way, and after one hour of compiling I got this message: install -p -o root -g root -m 644 ./debian/templates.master /usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3/debian/linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins/DEBIAN/templates dpkg-gencontrol -DArchitecture=i386 -isp \ -plinux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins -P/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3/debian/linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins/ dpkg-gencontrol: error: package linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins not in control info make[2]: *** [debian/stamp/binary/linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins] Error 255 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3' make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/binary/pre-linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3' make: *** [kernel-image] Error 2

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• I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code -- what now?

  - by kmote

  I hope this isn't too general of a question; I could really use some seasoned advice. I am newly employed as the sole "SW Engineer" in a fairly small shop of scientists who have spent the last 10-20 years cobbling together a vast code base. (It was written in a virtually obsolete language: G2 -- think Pascal with graphics). The program itself is a physical model of a complex chemical processing plant; the team that wrote it have incredibly deep domain knowledge but little or no formal training in programming fundamentals. They've recently learned some hard lessons about the consequences of non-existant configuration management. Their maintenance efforts are also greatly hampered by the vast accumulation of undocumented "sludge" in the code itself. I will spare you the "politics" of the situation (there's always politics!), but suffice to say, there is not a consensus of opinion about what is needed for the path ahead. They have asked me to begin presenting to the team some of the principles of modern software development. They want me to introduce some of the industry-standard practices and strategies regarding coding conventions, lifecycle management, high-level design patterns, and source control. Frankly, it's a fairly daunting task and I'm not sure where to begin. Initially, I'm inclined to tutor them in some of the central concepts of The Pragmatic Programmer, or Fowler's Refactoring ("Code Smells", etc). I also hope to introduce a number of Agile methodologies. But ultimately, to be effective, I think I'm going to need to hone in on 5-7 core fundamentals; in other words, what are the most important principles or practices that they can realistically start implementing that will give them the most "bang for the buck". So that's my question: What would you include in your list of the most effective strategies to help straighten out the spaghetti (and prevent it in the future)?

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• How does datomic handle "corrections"?

  - by blueberryfields

  tl;dr Rich Hickey describes datomic as a system which implicitly deals with timestamps associated with data storage from my experience, data is often imperfectly stored in systems, and on many occasions needs to retroactively be corrected (ie, often the question of "was a True on Tuesday at 12:00pm?" will have an incorrect answer stored in the database) This seems like a spot where the abstractions behind datomic might break - do they? If they don't, how does the system handle such corrections? Rich Hickey, in several of his talks, justifies the creation of datomic, and explains its benefits. His work, if I understand correctly, is motivated by core the insight that humans, when speaking about data and facts, implicitly associate some of the related context into their work(a date-time). By pushing the work required to manage the implicit date-time component of context into the database, he's created a system which is both much easier to understand, and much easier to program. This turns out to be relevant to most database programmers in practice - his work saves everyone a lot of time managing complex, hard to produce/debug/fix, time queries. However, especially in large databases, data is often damaged/incorrect (maybe it was not input correctly, maybe it eroded over time, etc...). While most database updates are insertions of new facts, and should indeed be treated that way, a non-trivial subset of the work required to manage time-queries has to do with retroactive updates. I have yet to see any documentation which explains how such corrections, or retroactive updates, are handled by datomic; from my experience, they are a non-trivial (and incredibly difficult to deal with) subset of time-related data manipulation that database programmers are faced with. Does datomic gracefully handle such updates? If so, how?

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• ERROR: 6553609 You are not authorized to perform the current operation

  - by Tim

  I'm trying to backup a sub site in my protal using Smigrate. When logged into the server and running the following command: D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\BINsmigrate -w -f C:\CH_Test_04_backup.fwp -u domain\user -pw ** 20 Nov 2009 13:57:06 -0000 Site collection opened 20 Nov 2009 13:57:07 -0000 Authenticating against the web server. 20 Nov 2009 13:57:07 -0000 Already authenticated against the web server. 20 Nov 2009 13:57:07 -0000 ERROR (possibly fatal): ERROR: 6553609 You are not authorized to perform the current operation. 20 Nov 2009 13:57:07 -0000 Site collection closed I get an error (ERROR: 6553609 You are not authorized to perform the current operation) and the sites does not get backed up. I've tried solutions oulined in various KB articles but had no luck with them. Can anyone help? Regards Tim

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• Windows Phone 7 : Dragging and flicking UI controls

  - by TechTwaddle

  Who would want to flick and drag UI controls!? There might not be many use cases but I think some concepts here are worthy of a post. So we will create a simple silverlight application for windows phone 7, containing a canvas element on which we’ll place a button control and an image and then, as the title says, drag and flick the controls. Here’s Mainpage.xaml, <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">   <Grid.RowDefinitions>     <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>     <RowDefinition Height="*"/>   </Grid.RowDefinitions>     <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->   <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">     <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="KINETICS" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>     <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="drag and flick" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>   </StackPanel>     <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->   <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" >     <Canvas x:Name="MainCanvas" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">       <Canvas.Background>         <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0 0" EndPoint="0 1">           <GradientStop Offset="0" Color="Black"/>           <GradientStop Offset="1.5" Color="BlanchedAlmond"/>         </LinearGradientBrush>       </Canvas.Background>     </Canvas>   </Grid> </Grid> the second row in the main grid contains a canvas element, MainCanvas, with its horizontal and vertical alignment set to stretch so that it occupies the entire grid. The canvas background is a linear gradient brush starting with Black and ending with BlanchedAlmond. We’ll add the button and image control to this canvas at run time. Moving to Mainpage.xaml.cs the Mainpage class contains the following members, public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage {     Button FlickButton;     Image FlickImage;       FrameworkElement ElemToMove = null;     double ElemVelX, ElemVelY;       const double SPEED_FACTOR = 60;       DispatcherTimer timer; FlickButton and FlickImage are the controls that we’ll add to the canvas. ElemToMove, ElemVelX and ElemVelY will be used by the timer callback to move the ui control. SPEED_FACTOR is used to scale the velocities of ui controls. Here’s the Mainpage constructor, // Constructor public MainPage() {     InitializeComponent();       AddButtonToCanvas();       AddImageToCanvas();       timer = new DispatcherTimer();     timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(35);     timer.Tick += new EventHandler(OnTimerTick); } We’ll look at those AddButton and AddImage functions in a moment. The constructor initializes a timer which fires every 35 milliseconds, this timer will be started after the flick gesture completes with some inertia. Back to AddButton and AddImage functions, void AddButtonToCanvas() {     LinearGradientBrush brush;     GradientStop stop1, stop2;       Random rand = new Random(DateTime.Now.Millisecond);       FlickButton = new Button();     FlickButton.Content = "";     FlickButton.Width = 100;     FlickButton.Height = 100;       brush = new LinearGradientBrush();     brush.StartPoint = new Point(0, 0);     brush.EndPoint = new Point(0, 1);       stop1 = new GradientStop();     stop1.Offset = 0;     stop1.Color = Colors.White;       stop2 = new GradientStop();     stop2.Offset = 1;     stop2.Color = (Application.Current.Resources["PhoneAccentBrush"] as SolidColorBrush).Color;       brush.GradientStops.Add(stop1);     brush.GradientStops.Add(stop2);       FlickButton.Background = brush;       Canvas.SetTop(FlickButton, rand.Next(0, 400));     Canvas.SetLeft(FlickButton, rand.Next(0, 200));       MainCanvas.Children.Add(FlickButton);       //subscribe to events     FlickButton.ManipulationDelta += new EventHandler<ManipulationDeltaEventArgs>(OnManipulationDelta);     FlickButton.ManipulationCompleted += new EventHandler<ManipulationCompletedEventArgs>(OnManipulationCompleted); } this function is basically glorifying a simple task. After creating the button and setting its height and width, its background is set to a linear gradient brush. The direction of the gradient is from top towards bottom and notice that the second stop color is the PhoneAccentColor, which changes along with the theme of the device. The line,     stop2.Color = (Application.Current.Resources["PhoneAccentBrush"] as SolidColorBrush).Color; does the magic of extracting the PhoneAccentBrush from application’s resources, getting its color and assigning it to the gradient stop. AddImage function is straight forward in comparison, void AddImageToCanvas() {     Random rand = new Random(DateTime.Now.Millisecond);       FlickImage = new Image();     FlickImage.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri("/images/Marble.png", UriKind.Relative));       Canvas.SetTop(FlickImage, rand.Next(0, 400));     Canvas.SetLeft(FlickImage, rand.Next(0, 200));       MainCanvas.Children.Add(FlickImage);       //subscribe to events     FlickImage.ManipulationDelta += new EventHandler<ManipulationDeltaEventArgs>(OnManipulationDelta);     FlickImage.ManipulationCompleted += new EventHandler<ManipulationCompletedEventArgs>(OnManipulationCompleted); } The ManipulationDelta and ManipulationCompleted handlers are same for both the button and the image. OnManipulationDelta() should look familiar, a similar implementation was used in the previous post, void OnManipulationDelta(object sender, ManipulationDeltaEventArgs args) {     FrameworkElement Elem = sender as FrameworkElement;       double Left = Canvas.GetLeft(Elem);     double Top = Canvas.GetTop(Elem);       Left += args.DeltaManipulation.Translation.X;     Top += args.DeltaManipulation.Translation.Y;       //check for bounds     if (Left < 0)     {         Left = 0;     }     else if (Left > (MainCanvas.ActualWidth - Elem.ActualWidth))     {         Left = MainCanvas.ActualWidth - Elem.ActualWidth;     }       if (Top < 0)     {         Top = 0;     }     else if (Top > (MainCanvas.ActualHeight - Elem.ActualHeight))     {         Top = MainCanvas.ActualHeight - Elem.ActualHeight;     }       Canvas.SetLeft(Elem, Left);     Canvas.SetTop(Elem, Top); } all it does is calculate the control’s position, check for bounds and then set the top and left of the control. OnManipulationCompleted() is more interesting because here we need to check if the gesture completed with any inertia and if it did, start the timer and continue to move the ui control until it comes to a halt slowly, void OnManipulationCompleted(object sender, ManipulationCompletedEventArgs args) {     FrameworkElement Elem = sender as FrameworkElement;       if (args.IsInertial)     {         ElemToMove = Elem;           Debug.WriteLine("Linear VelX:{0:0.00}  VelY:{1:0.00}", args.FinalVelocities.LinearVelocity.X,             args.FinalVelocities.LinearVelocity.Y);           ElemVelX = args.FinalVelocities.LinearVelocity.X / SPEED_FACTOR;         ElemVelY = args.FinalVelocities.LinearVelocity.Y / SPEED_FACTOR;           timer.Start();     } } ManipulationCompletedEventArgs contains a member, IsInertial, which is set to true if the manipulation was completed with some inertia. args.FinalVelocities.LinearVelocity.X and .Y will contain the velocities along the X and Y axis. We need to scale down these values so they can be used to increment the ui control’s position sensibly. A reference to the ui control is stored in ElemToMove and the velocities are stored as well, these will be used in the timer callback to access the ui control. And finally, we start the timer. The timer callback function is as follows, void OnTimerTick(object sender, EventArgs e) {     if (null != ElemToMove)     {         double Left, Top;         Left = Canvas.GetLeft(ElemToMove);         Top = Canvas.GetTop(ElemToMove);           Left += ElemVelX;         Top += ElemVelY;           //check for bounds         if (Left < 0)         {             Left = 0;             ElemVelX *= -1;         }         else if (Left > (MainCanvas.ActualWidth - ElemToMove.ActualWidth))         {             Left = MainCanvas.ActualWidth - ElemToMove.ActualWidth;             ElemVelX *= -1;         }           if (Top < 0)         {             Top = 0;             ElemVelY *= -1;         }         else if (Top > (MainCanvas.ActualHeight - ElemToMove.ActualHeight))         {             Top = MainCanvas.ActualHeight - ElemToMove.ActualHeight;             ElemVelY *= -1;         }           Canvas.SetLeft(ElemToMove, Left);         Canvas.SetTop(ElemToMove, Top);           //reduce x,y velocities gradually         ElemVelX *= 0.9;         ElemVelY *= 0.9;           //when velocities become too low, break         if (Math.Abs(ElemVelX) < 1.0 && Math.Abs(ElemVelY) < 1.0)         {             timer.Stop();             ElemToMove = null;         }     } } if ElemToMove is not null, we get the top and left values of the control and increment the values with their X and Y velocities. Check for bounds, and if the control goes out of bounds we reverse its velocity. Towards the end, the velocities are reduced by 10% every time the timer callback is called, and if the velocities reach too low values the timer is stopped and ElemToMove is made null. Here’s a short video of the program, the video is a little dodgy because my display driver refuses to run the animations smoothly. The flicks aren’t always recognised but the program should run well on an actual device (or a pc with better configuration), You can download the source code from here: ButtonDragAndFlick.zip

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• Designs for outputting to a spreadsheet

  - by Austin Moore

  I'm working on a project where we are tasked to gather and output various data to a spreadsheet. We are having tons of problems with the file that holds the code to write the spreadsheet. The cell that the data belongs to is hardcoded, so anytime you need to add anything to the middle of the spreadsheet, you have to increment the location for all the fields after that in the code. There are random blank rows, to add padding between sections, and subsections within the sections, so there's no real pattern that we can replicate. Essentially, anytime we have to add or change anything to the spreadsheet it requires a many long and tedious hours. The code is all in this one large file, hacked together overtime in Perl. I've come up with a few OO solutions, but I'm not too familiar with OO programming in Perl and all my attempts at it haven't been great, so I've shied away from it so far. I've suggested we handle this section of the program with a more OO friendly language, but we can't apparently. I've also suggested that we scrap the entire spreadsheet idea, and just move to a webpage, but we can't do that either. We've been working on this project for a few months, and every time we have to change that file, we all dread it. I'm thinking it's time to start some refactoring. However, I don't even know what could make this file easier to work with. The way the output is formatted makes it so that it has to be somewhat hardcoded. I'm wondering if anyone has insight on any design patterns or techniques they have used to tackle a similar problem. I'm open to any ideas. Perl specific answers are welcome, but I am also interested in language-agnostic solutions.

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• Putting Together a Game Design Team?

  - by Kaia

  I'm attempting to put together a game design team that is willing to help me design/program, test, and somewhat produce the game we make to the public. I need anyone who knows anything about programming/coding, designing, etc. Once we get it up and running and out into the world (over dramatic maybe? haha) I have ideas of generating a profit from it so there is a possibility of payment. My thinking on it (so far) is this: 2D (possibly. I haven't decided if I want it 2D or 3D. It really depends on what is easier) 3rd person. Adventure (I want there to be a point to it, but like a point with no real end) I want there to be a story to it. If you've ever played Dofus, think like that. There is a story to the game, but no real end. I want (if possible) to include mini-games. These could end up becoming a possible way for a player to aquire in-game money, quest items, etc. If anyone is interested in helping me create the story line/script (which we will finsih first, before creating the game) please contact me. I want to get this completed as soon as possible.

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• Maintaining Two Separate Software Versions From the Same Codebase in Version Control

  - by Joseph

  Let's say that I am writing two different versions of the same software/program/app/script and storing them under version control. The first version is a free "Basic" version, while the second is a paid "Premium" version that takes the codebase of the free version and expands upon it with a few extra value-added features. Any new patches, fixes, or features need to find their way into both versions. I am currently considering using master and develop branches for the main codebase (free version) along side master-premium and develop-premium branches for the paid version. When a change is made to the free version and merged to the master branch (after thorough testing on develop of course), it gets copied over to the develop-premium branch via the cherry-pick command for more testing and then merged into master-premium. Is this the best workflow to handle this situation? Are there any potential problems, caveats, or pitfalls to be aware of? Is there a better branching strategy than what I have already come up with? Your feedback is highly appreciated! P.S. This is for a PHP script stored in Git, but the answers should apply to any language or VCS.

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