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How to Reduce the Size of Your WinSXS Folder on Windows 7 or 8

- by Chris Hoffman

The WinSXS folder at C:\Windows\WinSXS is massive and continues to grow the longer you have Windows installed. This folder builds up unnecessary files over time, such as old versions of system components. This folder also contains files for uninstalled, disabled Windows components. Even if you don’t have a Windows component installed, it will be present in your WinSXS folder, taking up space. Why the WinSXS Folder Gets to Big The WinSXS folder contains all Windows system components. In fact, component files elsewhere in Windows are just links to files contained in the WinSXS folder. The WinSXS folder contains every operating system file. When Windows installs updates, it drops the new Windows component in the WinSXS folder and keeps the old component in the WinSXS folder. This means that every Windows Update you install increases the size of your WinSXS folder. This allows you to uninstall operating system updates from the Control Panel, which can be useful in the case of a buggy update — but it’s a feature that’s rarely used. Windows 7 dealt with this by including a feature that allows Windows to clean up old Windows update files after you install a new Windows service pack. The idea was that the system could be cleaned up regularly along with service packs. However, Windows 7 only saw one service pack — Service Pack 1 — released in 2010. Microsoft has no intention of launching another. This means that, for more than three years, Windows update uninstallation files have been building up on Windows 7 systems and couldn’t be easily removed. Clean Up Update Files To fix this problem, Microsoft recently backported a feature from Windows 8 to Windows 7. They did this without much fanfare — it was rolled out in a typical minor operating system update, the kind that don’t generally add new features. To clean up such update files, open the Disk Cleanup wizard (tap the Windows key, type “disk cleanup” into the Start menu, and press Enter). Click the Clean up System Files button, enable the Windows Update Cleanup option and click OK. If you’ve been using your Windows 7 system for a few years, you’ll likely be able to free several gigabytes of space. The next time you reboot after doing this, Windows will take a few minutes to clean up system files before you can log in and use your desktop. If you don’t see this feature in the Disk Cleanup window, you’re likely behind on your updates — install the latest updates from Windows Update. Windows 8 and 8.1 include built-in features that do this automatically. In fact, there’s a StartComponentCleanup scheduled task included with Windows that will automatically run in the background, cleaning up components 30 days after you’ve installed them. This 30-day period gives you time to uninstall an update if it causes problems. If you’d like to manually clean up updates, you can also use the Windows Update Cleanup option in the Disk Usage window, just as you can on Windows 7. (To open it, tap the Windows key, type “disk cleanup” to perform a search, and click the “Free up disk space by removing unnecessary files” shortcut that appears.) Windows 8.1 gives you more options, allowing you to forcibly remove all previous versions of uninstalled components, even ones that haven’t been around for more than 30 days. These commands must be run in an elevated Command Prompt — in other words, start the Command Prompt window as Administrator. For example, the following command will uninstall all previous versions of components without the scheduled task’s 30-day grace period: DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup The following command will remove files needed for uninstallation of service packs. You won’t be able to uninstall any currently installed service packs after running this command: DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /SPSuperseded The following command will remove all old versions of every component. You won’t be able to uninstall any currently installed service packs or updates after this completes: DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase Remove Features on Demand Modern versions of Windows allow you to enable or disable Windows features on demand. You’ll find a list of these features in the Windows Features window you can access from the Control Panel. Even features you don’t have installed — that is, the features you see unchecked in this window — are stored on your hard drive in your WinSXS folder. If you choose to install them, they’ll be made available from your WinSXS folder. This means you won’t have to download anything or provide Windows installation media to install these features. However, these features take up space. While this shouldn’t matter on typical computers, users with extremely low amounts of storage or Windows server administrators who want to slim their Windows installs down to the smallest possible set of system files may want to get these files off their hard drives. For this reason, Windows 8 added a new option that allows you to remove these uninstalled components from the WinSXS folder entirely, freeing up space. If you choose to install the removed components later, Windows will prompt you to download the component files from Microsoft. To do this, open a Command Prompt window as Administrator. Use the following command to see the features available to you: DISM.exe /Online /English /Get-Features /Format:Table You’ll see a table of feature names and their states. To remove a feature from your system, you’d use the following command, replacing NAME with the name of the feature you want to remove. You can get the feature name you need from the table above. DISM.exe /Online /Disable-Feature /featurename:NAME /Remove If you run the /GetFeatures command again, you’ll now see that the feature has a status of “Disabled with Payload Removed” instead of just “Disabled.” That’s how you know it’s not taking up space on your computer’s hard drive. If you’re trying to slim down a Windows system as much as possible, be sure to check out our lists of ways to free up disk space on Windows and reduce the space used by system files.

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/usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID

- by user1495181

using ubuntu with net-snmp snmp work but in sys.log i see a lot of errors about snmpd.conf snmpd.conf: rwcommunity community 10.0.0.1 rwcommunity community 10.0.0.2 agentAddress udp:10.0.0.1:161 view systemonly included .1.3.6.1.2.1.1 view systemonly included .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1 # Default access to basic system info rocommunity public default -V systemonly rouser authOnlyUser sysLocation Sitting on the Dock of the Bay sysContact Me <[email protected]> sysServices 72 proc mountd proc ntalkd 4 proc sendmail 10 1 disk / 10000 disk /var 5% includeAllDisks 10% load 12 10 5 trapsink localhost public iquerySecName internalUser rouser internalUser defaultMonitors yes linkUpDownNotifications yes master agentx errors: Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: prNames Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: prNames Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: prErrMessage Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: prErrMessage Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: trigger OID: prErrorFlag Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown monitor OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: memErrorName Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: memErrorName Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: memSwapErrorMsg Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: memSwapErrorMsg Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: trigger OID: memSwapError Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown monitor OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: extNames Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: extNames Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: extOutput Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: extOutput Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: trigger OID: extResult Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown monitor OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: dskPath Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: dskPath Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: dskErrorMsg Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: dskErrorMsg Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: trigger OID: dskErrorFlag Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown monitor OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: laNames Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: laNames Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: laErrMessage Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: laErrMessage Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: trigger OID: laErrorFlag Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown monitor OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: fileName Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: fileName Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: fileErrorMsg Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: fileErrorMsg Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: trigger OID: fileErrorFlag Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown monitor OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: payload OID: snmperrErrMessage Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Unknown payload OID: snmperrErrMessage Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: Unknown payload OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: trigger OID: snmperrErrorFlag Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: /usr/local/share/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 5: Error: unknown monitor OID Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: Turning on AgentX master support. Sep 12 16:35:00 test snmpd[5485]: net-snmp: 33 error(s) in config file(s)

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apache2 how to trace caller of SIGTERM

- by art vanderlay

I have a dex x64 on a virtualbox win7pro host. My apache2 will stop responding after a page request or other activity such as upload via ftp. The php.cgi becomes non responsive and a restart is required any help tracking down the culprit sending the SIGTERM would be much appreciated. thx Art my apache2.conf has <IfModule mpm_prefork_module> ServerLimit 1024 StartServers 10 MinSpareServers 10 MaxSpareServers 20 MaxClients 1024 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> ` From the apache2 log I have [Wed Jun 20 05:07:01 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Wed Jun 20 05:07:03 2012] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 4369) [Wed Jun 20 05:07:03 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 PHP/5.3.3-7+squeeze13 with Suhosin-Patch mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations and from the accounting output with lastcomm php.cgi www-data __ 0.13 secs Wed Jun 20 04:49 lastcomm root pts/2 0.10 secs Wed Jun 20 04:49 php.cgi www-data __ 0.18 secs Wed Jun 20 04:49 php.cgi www-data __ 0.18 secs Wed Jun 20 04:47 apache2 root pts/1 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 tput root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2ctl root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 S root pts/1 0.77 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 rm root pts/1 0.01 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 install root pts/1 0.01 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 mkdir root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2ctl F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 sleep root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 SF root __ 0.54 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.14 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.07 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.06 secs Wed Jun 20 04:36 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.07 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.11 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.04 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.06 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.08 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.03 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.01 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 grep root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2ctl root pts/1 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 root pts/1 0.24 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2ctl F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2ctl root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 root pts/1 0.22 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2ctl F root pts/1 0.01 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 grep root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 tr root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 pidof S root pts/1 0.11 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 cat root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 grep root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 tr root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 pidof S root pts/1 0.05 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 cat root pts/1 0.01 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2ctl root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 root pts/1 0.34 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2ctl F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 apache2 F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 smbd SF root __ 0.25 secs Wed Jun 20 04:46 php.cgi www-data __ 0.14 secs Wed Jun 20 04:45 php.cgi www-data __ 0.19 secs Wed Jun 20 04:42 cron SF root __ 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:39 sh S root __ 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:39 find root __ 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:39 maxlifetime root __ 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:39 php5 root __ 0.13 secs Wed Jun 20 04:39 which root __ 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:39 exim4 S root __ 0.01 secs Wed Jun 20 04:37 php.cgi www-data __ 0.04 secs Wed Jun 20 04:36 php.cgi www-data __ 0.12 secs Wed Jun 20 04:35 php.cgi www-data __ 0.11 secs Wed Jun 20 04:35 php.cgi www-data __ 0.14 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 lastcomm root pts/2 0.09 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 root pts/1 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 tput root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2ctl root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 S root pts/1 0.54 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 rm root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 install root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 mkdir root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2ctl F root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 sleep root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF root __ 0.80 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 sleep root pts/1 0.00 secs Wed Jun 20 04:34 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.26 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.12 secs Wed Jun 20 03:59 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.13 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.13 secs Wed Jun 20 03:59 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.15 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.18 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.07 secs Wed Jun 20 04:21 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.18 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.17 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.30 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.09 secs Wed Jun 20 03:58 apache2 SF www-data __ 0.02 secs Wed Jun 20 04:13

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Ignoring file 'eugenesan-java-quantal.list.save'

- by Lupus

I have a problem with my newly installed 12.10 86_64 Desktop. This error pops up on console when I try to update apt-get or try to install packages and nodejs just don't work and there is no error on console. Ignoring file 'eugenesan-java-quantal.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension this error started after my update on apt-get sudo apt-get update I'm a newbie on ubuntu. this is the log file : (in Turkish 'Yoksay' = Ignored, 'Baglandi' = Connected, 'getirilmesi basarisiz oldu' = failed to get ) attila@Lupuseum:~$ sudo apt-get update Yoksay http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security InRelease Yoksay http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal InRelease Yoksay http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal InRelease Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security Release.gpg Baglandi http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg Yoksay http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal InRelease Yoksay http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal InRelease Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security Release Baglandi http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal Release Yoksay http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates InRelease Baglandi http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release.gpg Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Sources Yoksay http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports InRelease Baglandi http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Sources Yoksay http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release.gpg Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release.gpg Baglandi http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main amd64 Packages Baglandi http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates Release.gpg Baglandi http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main i386 Packages Yoksay http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports Release.gpg Baglandi http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal Release Baglandi http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main amd64 Packages Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates Release Baglandi http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports Release Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Sources Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Sources Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Sources Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Sources Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main amd64 Packages Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse amd64 Packages Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/main Translation-en Yoksay http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-tr_CY Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted i386 Packages Yoksay http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-tr Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/multiverse Translation-en Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe i386 Packages Yoksay http://extras.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-tr Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/main Translation-en Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/restricted Translation-en Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Translation-tr Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/multiverse Translation-en Baglandi http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Translation-en Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Translation-tr Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/restricted Translation-en Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Translation-tr Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal/universe Translation-en Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/restricted i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/universe i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/multiverse i386 Packages Yoksay http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-tr_CY Yoksay http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-tr Yoksay http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Translation-en Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-updates/main Translation-en Hata http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources 404 Not Found Hata http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main amd64 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http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Translation-tr_CY Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/main Sources Yoksay http://security.ubuntu.com quantal-security/universe Translation-tr Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/restricted Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/multiverse Sources Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/main amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/restricted amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/multiverse amd64 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/main i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/restricted i386 Packages Baglandi http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com quantal-backports/universe i386 Packages 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directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension W: http://ppa.launchpad.net/richarvey/nodejs/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found getirilmesi basarisiz oldu W: http://ppa.launchpad.net/richarvey/nodejs/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found getirilmesi basarisiz oldu W: http://ppa.launchpad.net/richarvey/nodejs/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found getirilmesi basarisiz oldu E: Some index files failed to download. 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What You Need to Know About Windows 8.1

- by Chris Hoffman

Windows 8.1 is available to everyone starting today, October 19. The latest version of Windows improves on Windows 8 in every way. It’s a big upgrade, whether you use the desktop or new touch-optimized interface. The latest version of Windows has been dubbed “an apology” by some — it’s definitely more at home on a desktop PC than Windows 8 was. However, it also offers a more fleshed out and mature tablet experience. How to Get Windows 8.1 For Windows 8 users, Windows 8.1 is completely free. It will be available as a download from the Windows Store — that’s the “Store” app in the Modern, tiled interface. Assuming upgrading to the final version will be just like upgrading to the preview version, you’ll likely see a “Get Windows 8.1″ pop-up that will take you to the Windows Store and guide you through the download process. You’ll also be able to download ISO images of Windows 8.1, so can perform a clean install to upgrade. On any new computer, you can just install Windows 8.1 without going through Windows 8. New computers will start to ship with Windows 8.1 and boxed copies of Windows 8 will be replaced by boxed copies of Windows 8.1. If you’re using Windows 7 or a previous version of Windows, the update won’t be free. Getting Windows 8.1 will cost you the same amount as a full copy of Windows 8 — $120 for the standard version. If you’re an average Windows 7 user, you’re likely better off waiting until you buy a new PC with Windows 8.1 included rather than spend this amount of money to upgrade. Improvements for Desktop Users Some have dubbed Windows 8.1 “an apology” from Microsoft, although you certainly won’t see Microsoft referring to it this way. Either way, Steven Sinofsky, who presided over Windows 8′s development, left the company shortly after Windows 8 was released. Coincidentally, Windows 8.1 contains many features that Steven Sinofsky and Microsoft refused to implement. Windows 8.1 offers the following big improvements for desktop users: Boot to Desktop: You can now log in directly to the desktop, skipping the tiled interface entirely. Disable Top-Left and Top-Right Hot Corners: The app switcher and charms bar won’t appear when you move your mouse to the top-left or top-right corners of the screen if you enable this option. No more intrusions into the desktop. The Start Button Returns: Windows 8.1 brings back an always-present Start button on the desktop taskbar, dramatically improving discoverability for new Windows 8 users and providing a bigger mouse target for remote desktops and virtual machines. Crucially, the Start menu isn’t back — clicking this button will open the full-screen Modern interface. Start menu replacements will continue to function on Windows 8.1, offering more traditional Start menus. Show All Apps By Default: Luckily, you can hide the Start screen and its tiles almost entirely. Windows 8.1 can be configured to show a full-screen list of all your installed apps when you click the Start button, with desktop apps prioritized. The only real difference is that the Start menu is now a full-screen interface. Shut Down or Restart From Start Button: You can now right-click the Start button to access Shut down, Restart, and other power options in just as many clicks as you could on Windows 7. Shared Start Screen and Desktop Backgrounds; Windows 8 limited you to just a few Steven Sinofsky-approved background images for your Start screen, but Windows 8.1 allows you to use your desktop background on the Start screen. This can make the transition between the Start screen and desktop much less jarring. The tiles or shortcuts appear to be floating above the desktop rather than off in their own separate universe. Unified Search: Unified search is back, so you can start typing and search your programs, settings, and files all at once — no more awkwardly clicking between different categories when trying to open a Control Panel screen or search for a file. These all add up to a big improvement when using Windows 8.1 on the desktop. Microsoft is being much more flexible — the Start menu is full screen, but Microsoft has relented on so many other things and you’d never have to see a tile if you didn’t want to. For more information, read our guide to optimizing Windows 8.1 for a desktop PC. These are just the improvements specifically for desktop users. Windows 8.1 includes other useful features for everyone, such as deep SkyDrive integration that allows you to store your files in the cloud without installing any additional sync programs. Improvements for Touch Users If you have a Windows 8 or Windows RT tablet or another touch-based device you use the interface formerly known as Metro on, you’ll see many other noticeable improvements. Windows 8′s new interface was half-baked when it launched, but it’s now much more capable and mature. App Updates: Windows 8′s included apps were extremely limited in many cases. For example, Internet Explorer 10 could only display ten tabs at a time and the Mail app was a barren experience devoid of features. In Windows 8.1, some apps — like Xbox Music — have been redesigned from scratch, Internet Explorer allows you to display a tab bar on-screen all the time, while apps like Mail have accumulated quite a few useful features. The Windows Store app has been entirely redesigned and is less awkward to browse. Snap Improvements: Windows 8′s Snap feature was a toy, allowing you to snap one app to a small sidebar at one side of your screen while another app consumed most of your screen. Windows 8.1 allows you to snap two apps side-by-side, seeing each app’s full interface at once. On larger displays, you can even snap three or four apps at once. Windows 8′s ability to use multiple apps at once on a tablet is compelling and unmatched by iPads and Android tablets. You can also snap two of the same apps side-by-side — to view two web pages at once, for example. More Comprehensive PC Settings: Windows 8.1 offers a more comprehensive PC settings app, allowing you to change most system settings in a touch-optimized interface. You shouldn’t have to use the desktop Control Panel on a tablet anymore — or at least not as often. Touch-Optimized File Browsing: Microsoft’s SkyDrive app allows you to browse files on your local PC, finally offering a built-in, touch-optimized way to manage files without using the desktop. Help & Tips: Windows 8.1 includes a Help+Tips app that will help guide new users through its new interface, something Microsoft stubbornly refused to add during development. There’s still no “Modern” version of Microsoft Office apps (aside from OneNote), so you’ll still have to head to use desktop Office apps on tablets. It’s not perfect, but the Modern interface doesn’t feel anywhere near as immature anymore. Read our in-depth look at the ways Microsoft’s Modern interface, formerly known as Metro, is improved in Windows 8.1 for more information. In summary, Windows 8.1 is what Windows 8 should have been. All of these improvements are on top of the many great desktop features, security improvements, and all-around battery life and performance optimizations that appeared in Windows 8. If you’re still using Windows 7 and are happy with it, there’s probably no reason to race out and buy a copy of Windows 8.1 at the rather high price of $120. But, if you’re using Windows 8, it’s a big upgrade no matter what you’re doing. If you buy a new PC and it comes with Windows 8.1, you’re getting a much more flexible and comfortable experience. If you’re holding off on buying a new computer because you don’t want Windows 8, give Windows 8.1 a try — yes, it’s different, but Microsoft has compromised on the desktop while making a lot of improvements to the new interface. You just might find that Windows 8.1 is now a worthwhile upgrade, even if you only want to use the desktop.

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Cannot start session without errors in phpMyAdmin running Nginx with PHP-FPM

- by Infinity

Whenever I open phpMyAdmin from my VPS I get the following error: Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly. I have researched it, but cant seem to find a solution, I have done the following: Cleared cache and cookies Checked the php.ini (see below) Checked the logs (found nothing relevant) Given the correct permissions. [by sudo chown -R root:nginx /home/humza/pma] I am running Nginx with PHP-FPM, I have php-mysql and all that working fine but I can't get phpMyAdmin to work. I downloaded it off phpMyAdmin's website and extracted it, that's all. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=6n57cW8H - my php.ini sessions bit http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=VaNP2TLi - my whole php.ini None of my logs have anything relevant. My error logs have other PHP errors but not this one and my access logs don't have anything either. I have checked my nginx logs and my PHP-FPM logs. I tried installing phpMyAdmin via yum and got a whole lot of dependency errors. [root@infinity ~]# yum install phpmyadmin Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package phpMyAdmin.noarch 0:2.11.11.3-1.el5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-mcrypt >= 4.1.0 for package: phpMyAdmin --> Processing Dependency: php >= 4.1.0 for package: phpMyAdmin --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 4.1.0 for package: phpMyAdmin --> Running transaction check ---> Package php.i386 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php --> Processing Dependency: php-cli = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php ---> Package php-mbstring.i386 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php-mbstring ---> Package php-mcrypt.i386 0:5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-api = 20041225 for package: php-mcrypt --> Running transaction check ---> Package php.i386 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php ---> Package php-cli.i386 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php-cli ---> Package php-mbstring.i386 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 for package: php-mbstring ---> Package php-mcrypt.i386 0:5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-api = 20041225 for package: php-mcrypt --> Finished Dependency Resolution php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from base has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base) php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from base has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base) php-mbstring-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from base has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-mbstring-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base) php-mcrypt-5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1.i386 from extras has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php-api = 20041225 is needed by package php-mcrypt-5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1.i386 (extras) Error: Missing Dependency: php-api = 20041225 is needed by package php-mcrypt-5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1.i386 (extras) Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base) Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base) Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-mbstring-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (base) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package. [root@infinity ~]# Any ideas?

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Tomcat 7 ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.JarScanner

- by CodesLikeA_Mokey

When I try and start my app I get this error. I have verified that JarScanner exists in the CATALINA_HOME directory so I dont know why it cant find it. Is there anything that could lead to this issue starting my app? I noticed that earlier in the same log i find this: [Loaded org.apache.tomcat.JarScanner from file:/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.30/lib/tomcat-api.jar] Here is the actual error further down: Oct 8, 2012 1:24:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase addChildInternal SEVERE: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/client]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:618) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:650) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1582) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/JarScanner at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:295) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.getJarScanner(StandardContext.java:1025) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processJarsForWebFragments(ContextConfig.java:1911) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1265) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:878) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5173) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) ... 11 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.JarScanner at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) ... 33 more Oct 8, 2012 1:24:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor SEVERE: Error deploying configuration descriptor /software/sirsi/tomcat_sbox7/conf/Catalina/localhost/client.xml java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/client]] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:904) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:618) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:650) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1582) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Oct 8, 2012 1:24:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor /software/sirsi/tomcat_sbox7/conf/Catalina/localhost/custom.xml Oct 8, 2012 1:24:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext setPath WARNING: A context path must either be an empty string or start with a '/'. The path [custom] does not meet these criteria and has been changed to [/custom] Oct 8, 2012 1:24:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule begin WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property. Oct 8, 2012 1:24:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase addChildInternal SEVERE: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/custom]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:618) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:650) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1582) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/util/scan/StandardJarScanner at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.getJarScanner(StandardContext.java:1025) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processJarsForWebFragments(ContextConfig.java:1911) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1265) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:878) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5173) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) ... 11 more Oct 8, 2012 1:24:01 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor SEVERE: Error deploying configuration descriptor /software/sirsi/tomcat_sbox7/conf/Catalina/localhost/custom.xml java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/custom]] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:904) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:618) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:650) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1582) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, February 20, 2010

CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, February 20, 2010New ProjectsBerkeliumDotNet: BerkeliumDotNet is a .NET wrapper for the Berkelium library written in C++/CLI. Berkelium provides off-screen browser rendering via Google's Chromi...BoxBinary Descriptive WebCacheManager Framework: Allows you to take a simple, different, and more effective method of caching items in ASP.NET. The developer defines descriptive categories to deco...CHS Extranet: CHS Extranet Project, working with the RM Community to build the new RM Easylink type applicationDbModeller: Generates one class having properties with the basic C# types aimed to serve as a business object by using reflection from the passed objects insta...Dice.NET: Dice.NET is a simple dice roller for those cases where you just kinda forgot your real dices. It's very simple in setup/use.EBI App with the SQL Server CE and websync: EBI App with the SQL Server CE and SQL Server DEV with Merge Replication(Web Synchronization) ere we are trying to develop an application which yo...Family Tree Analyzer: This project with be a c# project which aims to allow users to import their GEDCOM files and produce various data analysis reports such as a list o...Go! Embedded Device Builder: Go! is a complete software engineering environment for the creation of embedded Linux devices. It enables you to engineer, design, develop, build, ...HiddenWordsReadingPlan: HiddenWordsReadingPlanHtml to OpenXml: A library to convert simple or advanced html to plain OpenXml document.Jeffrey Palermo's shared source: This project contains multiple samples with various snippets and projects from blog posts, user group talks, and conference sessions.Krypton Palette Selectors: A small C# control library that allows for simplified palette selection and management. It makes use of and relies on Component Factory's excellen...OCInject: A DI container on a diet. This is a basic DI container that lives in your project not an external assembly with support for auto generated delegat...Photo Organiser: A small utility to sort photos into a new file structure based on date held in their XMP or EXIF tags (YYYY/MM/DD/hhmmss.jpg). 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Ten - oh, wait, eleven - Eleven things you should know about the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update

- by Jon Galloway

Today, just a little over two months after the big ASP.NET 4.5 / ASP.NET MVC 4 / ASP.NET Web API / Visual Studio 2012 / Web Matrix 2 release, the first preview of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update is out. Here's what you need to know: There are no new framework bits in this release - there's no change or update to ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC or Web Forms features. This means that you can start using it without any updates to your server, upgrade concerns, etc. This update is really an update to the project templates and Visual Studio tooling, conceptually similar to the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update. It's a relatively lightweight install. It's a 41MB download. I've installed it many times and usually takes 5-7 minutes; it's never required a reboot. It adds some new project templates to ASP.NET MVC: Facebook Application and Single Page Application templates. It adds a lot of cool enhancements to ASP.NET Web API. It adds some tooling that makes it easy to take advantage of features like SignalR, Friendly URLs, and Windows Azure Authentication. Most of the new features are installed via NuGet packages. Since ASP.NET is open source, nightly NuGet packages are available, and the roadmap is published, most of this has really been publicly available for a while. The official name of this drop is the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Prerelease. Please do not attempt to say that ten times fast. While the EULA doesn't prohibit it, it WILL legally change your first name to Scott. As with all new releases, you can find out everything you need to know about the Fall Update at http://asp.net/vnext (especially the release notes!) I'm going to be showing all of this off, assisted by special guest code monkey Scott Hanselman, this Friday at BUILD: Bleeding edge ASP.NET: See what is next for MVC, Web API, SignalR and more… (and I've heard it will be livestreamed). Let's look at some of those things in more detail. No new bits ASP.NET 4.5, MVC 4 and Web API have a lot of great core features. I see the goal of this update release as making it easier to put those features to use to solve some useful scenarios by taking advantage of NuGet packages and template code. If you create a new ASP.NET MVC application using one of the new templates, you'll see that it's using the ASP.NET MVC 4 RTM NuGet package (4.0.20710.0): This means you can install and use the Fall Update without any impact on your existing projects and no worries about upgrading or compatibility. New Facebook Application Template ASP.NET MVC 4 (and ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms) included the ability to authenticate your users via OAuth and OpenID, so you could let users log in to your site using a Facebook account. One of the new changes in the Fall Update is a new template that makes it really easy to create full Facebook applications. You could create Facebook application in ASP.NET already, you'd just need to go through a few steps: Search around to find a good Facebook NuGet package, like the Facebook C# SDK (written by my friend Nathan Totten and some other Facebook SDK brainiacs). Read the Facebook developer documentation to figure out how to authenticate and integrate with them. Write some code, debug it and repeat until you got something working. Get started with the application you'd originally wanted to write. What this template does for you: eliminate steps 1-3. Erik Porter, Nathan and some other experts built out the Facebook Application template so it automatically pulls in and configures the Facebook NuGet package and makes it really easy to take advantage of it in an ASP.NET MVC application. One great example is the the way you access a Facebook user's information. Take a look at the following code in a File / New / MVC / Facebook Application site. First, the Home Controller Index action: [FacebookAuthorize(Permissions = "email")] public ActionResult Index(MyAppUser user, FacebookObjectList<MyAppUserFriend> userFriends) { ViewBag.Message = "Modify this template to jump-start your Facebook application using ASP.NET MVC."; ViewBag.User = user; ViewBag.Friends = userFriends.Take(5); return View(); } First, notice that there's a FacebookAuthorize attribute which requires the user is authenticated via Facebook and requires permissions to access their e-mail address. It binds to two things: a custom MyAppUser object and a list of friends. Let's look at the MyAppUser code: using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Facebook.Attributes; using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Facebook.Models; // Add any fields you want to be saved for each user and specify the field name in the JSON coming back from Facebook // https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/ namespace MvcApplication3.Models { public class MyAppUser : FacebookUser { public string Name { get; set; } [FacebookField(FieldName = "picture", JsonField = "picture.data.url")] public string PictureUrl { get; set; } public string Email { get; set; } } } You can add in other custom fields if you want, but you can also just bind to a FacebookUser and it will automatically pull in the available fields. You can even just bind directly to a FacebookUser and check for what's available in debug mode, which makes it really easy to explore. For more information and some walkthroughs on creating Facebook applications, see: Deploying your first Facebook App on Azure using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Template (Yao Huang Lin) Facebook Application Template Tutorial (Erik Porter) Single Page Application template Early releases of ASP.NET MVC 4 included a Single Page Application template, but it was removed for the official release. There was a lot of interest in it, but it was kind of complex, as it handled features for things like data management. The new Single Page Application template that ships with the Fall Update is more lightweight. It uses Knockout.js on the client and ASP.NET Web API on the server, and it includes a sample application that shows how they all work together. I think the real benefit of this application is that it shows a good pattern for using ASP.NET Web API and Knockout.js. For instance, it's easy to end up with a mess of JavaScript when you're building out a client-side application. This template uses three separate JavaScript files (delivered via a Bundle, of course): todoList.js - this is where the main client-side logic lives todoList.dataAccess.js - this defines how the client-side application interacts with the back-end services todoList.bindings.js - this is where you set up events and overrides for the Knockout bindings - for instance, hooking up jQuery validation and defining some client-side events This is a fun one to play with, because you can just create a new Single Page Application and hit F5. Quick, easy install (with one gotcha) One of the cool engineering changes for this release is a big update to the installer to make it more lightweight and efficient. I've been running nightly builds of this for a few weeks to prep for my BUILD demos, and the install has been really quick and easy to use. The install takes about 5 minutes, has never required a reboot for me, and the uninstall is just as simple. There's one gotcha, though. In this preview release, you may hit an issue that will require you to uninstall and re-install the NuGet VSIX package. The problem comes up when you create a new MVC application and see this dialog: The solution, as explained in the release notes, is to uninstall and re-install the NuGet VSIX package: Start Visual Studio 2012 as an Administrator Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates and uninstall NuGet. Close Visual Studio Navigate to the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update installation folder: For Visual Studio 2012: Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Stack\Visual Studio 2012 For Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web: Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Stack\Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web Double click on the NuGet.Tools.vsix to reinstall NuGet This took me under a minute to do, and I was up and running. ASP.NET Web API Update Extravaganza! Uh, the Web API team is out of hand. They added a ton of new stuff: OData support, Tracing, and API Help Page generation. OData support Some people like OData. Some people start twitching when you mention it. If you're in the first group, this is for you. You can add a [Queryable] attribute to an API that returns an IQueryable<Whatever> and you get OData query support from your clients. Then, without any extra changes to your client or server code, your clients can send filters like this: /Suppliers?$filter=Name eq ‘Microsoft’ For more information about OData support in ASP.NET Web API, see Alex James' mega-post about it: OData support in ASP.NET Web API ASP.NET Web API Tracing Tracing makes it really easy to leverage the .NET Tracing system from within your ASP.NET Web API's. If you look at the \App_Start\WebApiConfig.cs file in new ASP.NET Web API project, you'll see a call to TraceConfig.Register(config). That calls into some code in the new \App_Start\TraceConfig.cs file: public static void Register(HttpConfiguration configuration) { if (configuration == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("configuration"); } SystemDiagnosticsTraceWriter traceWriter = new SystemDiagnosticsTraceWriter() { MinimumLevel = TraceLevel.Info, IsVerbose = false }; configuration.Services.Replace(typeof(ITraceWriter), traceWriter); } As you can see, this is using the standard trace system, so you can extend it to any other trace listeners you'd like. To see how it works with the built in diagnostics trace writer, just run the application call some API's, and look at the Visual Studio Output window: iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Request, Method=GET, Url=http://localhost:11147/api/Values, Message='http://localhost:11147/api/Values' iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Message='Values', Operation=DefaultHttpControllerSelector.SelectController iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Message='WebAPI.Controllers.ValuesController', Operation=DefaultHttpControllerActivator.Create iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Message='WebAPI.Controllers.ValuesController', Operation=HttpControllerDescriptor.CreateController iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Message='Selected action 'Get()'', Operation=ApiControllerActionSelector.SelectAction iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Operation=HttpActionBinding.ExecuteBindingAsync iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Operation=QueryableAttribute.ActionExecuting iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Message='Action returned 'System.String[]'', Operation=ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor.ExecuteAsync iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Message='Will use same 'JsonMediaTypeFormatter' formatter', Operation=JsonMediaTypeFormatter.GetPerRequestFormatterInstance iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Message='Selected formatter='JsonMediaTypeFormatter', content-type='application/json; charset=utf-8'', Operation=DefaultContentNegotiator.Negotiate iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Operation=ApiControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionAsync, Status=200 (OK) iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Operation=QueryableAttribute.ActionExecuted, Status=200 (OK) iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Operation=ValuesController.ExecuteAsync, Status=200 (OK) iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Response, Status=200 (OK), Method=GET, Url=http://localhost:11147/api/Values, Message='Content-type='application/json; charset=utf-8', content-length=unknown' iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Operation=JsonMediaTypeFormatter.WriteToStreamAsync iisexpress.exe Information: 0 : Operation=ValuesController.Dispose API Help Page When you create a new ASP.NET Web API project, you'll see an API link in the header: Clicking the API link shows generated help documentation for your ASP.NET Web API controllers: And clicking on any of those APIs shows specific information: What's great is that this information is dynamically generated, so if you add your own new APIs it will automatically show useful and up to date help. This system is also completely extensible, so you can generate documentation in other formats or customize the HTML help as much as you'd like. The Help generation code is all included in an ASP.NET MVC Area: SignalR SignalR is a really slick open source project that was started by some ASP.NET team members in their spare time to add real-time communications capabilities to ASP.NET - and .NET applications in general. It allows you to handle long running communications channels between your server and multiple connected clients using the best communications channel they can both support - websockets if available, falling back all the way to old technologies like long polling if necessary for old browsers. SignalR remains an open source project, but now it's being included in ASP.NET (also open source, hooray!). That means there's real, official ASP.NET engineering work being put into SignalR, and it's even easier to use in an ASP.NET application. Now in any ASP.NET project type, you can right-click / Add / New Item... SignalR Hub or Persistent Connection. And much more... There's quite a bit more. You can find more info at http://asp.net/vnext, and we'll be adding more content as fast as we can. Watch my BUILD talk to see as I demonstrate these and other features in the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update, as well as some other even futurey-er stuff!

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Azure Grid Computing - Worker Roles as HPC Compute Nodes

- by JoshReuben

Overview · With HPC 2008 R2 SP1 You can add Azure worker roles as compute nodes in a local Windows HPC Server cluster. · The subscription for Windows Azure like any other Azure Service - charged for the time that the role instances are available, as well as for the compute and storage services that are used on the nodes. · Win-Win ? - Azure charges the computer hour cost (according to vm size) amortized over a month – so you save on purchasing compute node hardware. Microsoft wins because you need to purchase HPC to have a local head node for managing this compute cluster grid distributed in the cloud. · Blob storage is used to hold input & output files of each job. I can see how Parametric Sweep HPC jobs can be supported (where the same job is run multiple times on each node against different input units), but not MPI.NET (where different HPC Job instances function as coordinated agents and conduct master-slave inter-process communication), unless Azure is somehow tunneling MPI communication through inter-WorkerRole Azure Queues. · this is not the end of the story for Azure Grid Computing. If MS requires you to purchase a local HPC license (and administrate it), what's to stop a 3rd party from doing this and encapsulating exposing HPC WCF Broker Service to you for managing compute nodes? If MS doesn’t provide head node as a service, someone else will! Process · requires creation of a worker node template that specifies a connection to an existing subscription for Windows Azure + an availability policy for the worker nodes. · After worker nodes are added to the cluster, you can start them, which provisions the Windows Azure role instances, and then bring them online to run HPC cluster jobs. · A Windows Azure worker role instance runs a HPC compatible Azure guest operating system which runs on the VMs that host your service. The guest operating system is updated monthly. You can choose to upgrade the guest OS for your service automatically each time an update is released - All role instances defined by your service will run on the guest operating system version that you specify. see Windows Azure Guest OS Releases and SDK Compatibility Matrix (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=190549). · use the hpcpack command to upload file packages and install files to run on the worker nodes. see hpcpack (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=205514). Requirements · assuming you have an azure subscription account and the HPC head node installed and configured. · Install HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP 1 - see Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Notes (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=202812). · Configure the head node to connect to the Internet - connectivity is provided by the connection of the head node to the enterprise network. You may need to configure a proxy client on the head node. Any cluster network topology (1-5) is supported). · Configure the firewall - allow outbound TCP traffic on the following ports: 80, 443, 5901, 5902, 7998, 7999 · Note: HPC Server uses Admin Mode (Elevated Privileges) in Windows Azure to give the service administrator of the subscription the necessary privileges to initialize HPC cluster services on the worker nodes. · Obtain a Windows Azure subscription certificate - the Windows Azure subscription must be configured with a public subscription (API) certificate -a valid X.509 certificate with a key size of at least 2048 bits. Generate a self-sign certificate & upload a .cer file to the Windows Azure Portal Account page > Manage my API Certificates link. see Using the Windows Azure Service Management API (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=205526). · import the certificate with an associated private key on the HPC cluster head node - into the trusted root store of the local computer account. Obtain Windows Azure Connection Information for HPC Server · required for each worker node template · copy from azure portal - Get from: navigation pane > Hosted Services > Storage Accounts & CDN · Subscription ID - a 32-char hex string in the form xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. In Properties pane. · Subscription certificate thumbprint - a 40-char hex string (you need to remove spaces). In Management Certificates > Properties pane. · Service name - the value of <ServiceName> configured in the public URL of the service (http://<ServiceName>.cloudapp.net). In Hosted Services > Properties pane. · Blob Storage account name - the value of <StorageAccountName> configured in the public URL of the account (http://<StorageAccountName>.blob.core.windows.net). In Storage Accounts > Properties pane. Import the Azure Subscription Certificate on the HPC Head Node · enable the services for Windows HPC Server to authenticate properly with the Windows Azure subscription. · use the Certificates MMC snap-in to import the certificate to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store of the local computer account. The certificate must be in PFX format (.pfx or .p12 file) with a private key that is protected by a password. · see Certificates (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=163918). · To open the certificates snapin: Run > mmc. File > Add/Remove Snap-in > certificates > Computer account > Local Computer · To import the certificate via wizard - Certificates > Trusted Root Certification Authorities > Certificates > All Tasks > Import · After the certificate is imported, it appears in the details pane in the Certificates snap-in. You can open the certificate to check its status. Configure a Proxy Client on the HPC Head Node · the following Windows HPC Server services must be able to communicate over the Internet (through the firewall) with the services for Windows Azure: HPCManagement, HPCScheduler, HPCBrokerWorker. · Create a Windows Azure Worker Node Template · Edit HPC node templates in HPC Node Template Editor. · Specify: 1) Windows Azure subscription connection info (unique service name) for adding a set of worker nodes to the cluster + 2)worker node availability policy – rules for deploying / removing worker role instances in Windows Azure o HPC Cluster Manager > Configuration > Navigation Pane > Node Templates > Actions pane > New à Create Node Template Wizard or Edit à Node Template Editor o Choose Node Template Type page - Windows Azure worker node template o Specify Template Name page – template name & description o Provide Connection Information page – Azure Subscription ID (text) & Subscription certificate (browse) o Provide Service Information page - Azure service name + blob storage account name (optionally click Retrieve Connection Information to get list of available from azure – possible LRT). o Configure Azure Availability Policy page - how Windows Azure worker nodes start / stop (online / offline the worker role instance - add / remove) – manual / automatic o for automatic - In the Configure Windows Azure Worker Availability Policy dialog -select days and hours for worker nodes to start / stop. · To validate the Windows Azure connection information, on the template's Connection Information tab > Validate connection information. · You can upload a file package to the storage account that is specified in the template - eg upload application or service files that will run on the worker nodes. see hpcpack (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=205514). Add Azure Worker Nodes to the HPC Cluster · Use the Add Node Wizard – specify: 1) the worker node template, 2) The number of worker nodes (within the quota of role instances in the azure subscription), and 3) The VM size of the worker nodes : ExtraSmall, Small, Medium, Large, or ExtraLarge. · to add worker nodes of different sizes, must run the Add Node Wizard separately for each size. · All worker nodes that are added to the cluster by using a specific worker node template define a set of worker nodes that will be deployed and managed together in Windows Azure when you start the nodes. This includes worker nodes that you add later by using the worker node template and, if you choose, worker nodes of different sizes. You cannot start, stop, or delete individual worker nodes. · To add Windows Azure worker nodes o In HPC Cluster Manager: Node Management > Actions pane > Add Node à Add Node Wizard o Select Deployment Method page - Add Azure Worker nodes o Specify New Nodes page - select a worker node template, specify the number and size of the worker nodes · After you add worker nodes to the cluster, they are in the Not-Deployed state, and they have a health state of Unapproved. Before you can use the worker nodes to run jobs, you must start them and then bring them online. · Worker nodes are numbered consecutively in a naming series that begins with the root name AzureCN – this is non-configurable. Deploying Windows Azure Worker Nodes · To deploy the role instances in Windows Azure - start the worker nodes added to the HPC cluster and bring the nodes online so that they are available to run cluster jobs. This can be configured in the HPC Azure Worker Node Template – Azure Availability Policy - to be automatic or manual. · The Start, Stop, and Delete actions take place on the set of worker nodes that are configured by a specific worker node template. You cannot perform one of these actions on a single worker node in a set. You also cannot perform a single action on two sets of worker nodes (specified by two different worker node templates). · · Starting a set of worker nodes deploys a set of worker role instances in Windows Azure, which can take some time to complete, depending on the number of worker nodes and the performance of Windows Azure. · To start worker nodes manually and bring them online o In HPC Node Management > Navigation Pane > Nodes > List / Heat Map view - select one or more worker nodes. o Actions pane > Start – in the Start Azure Worker Nodes dialog, select a node template. o the state of the worker nodes changes from Not Deployed to track the provisioning progress – worker node Details Pane > Provisioning Log tab. o If there were errors during the provisioning of one or more worker nodes, the state of those nodes is set to Unknown and the node health is set to Unapproved. To determine the reason for the failure, review the provisioning logs for the nodes. o After a worker node starts successfully, the node state changes to Offline. To bring the nodes online, select the nodes that are in the Offline state > Bring Online. · Troubleshooting o check node template. o use telnet to test connectivity: telnet <ServiceName>.cloudapp.net 7999 o check node status - Deployment status information appears in the service account information in the Windows Azure Portal - HPC queries this - see node status information for any failed nodes in HPC Node Management. · When role instances are deployed, file packages that were previously uploaded to the storage account using the hpcpack command are automatically installed. You can also upload file packages to storage after the worker nodes are started, and then manually install them on the worker nodes. see hpcpack (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=205514). · to remove a set of role instances in Windows Azure - stop the nodes by using HPC Cluster Manager (apply the Stop action). This deletes the role instances from the service and changes the state of the worker nodes in the HPC cluster to Not Deployed. · Each time that you start a set of worker nodes, two proxy role instances (size Small) are configured in Windows Azure to facilitate communication between HPC Cluster Manager and the worker nodes. The proxy role instances are not listed in HPC Cluster Manager after the worker nodes are added. However, the instances appear in the Windows Azure Portal. The proxy role instances incur charges in Windows Azure along with the worker node instances, and they count toward the quota of role instances in the subscription.

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, February 27, 2010

CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, February 27, 2010New ProjectsASP.NET MVC ScriptBehind: Dynamic, developer & designer friendly script inclusion, compression and optimization for ASP.NET MVCCSLib.Net: CSLib.Net (Common Solutions Library) is yet another library with commonly used utilities, helpers, extensions and etc.DNN Module - Google Analytic Dashboard: Here is a Google Analytic Dashboard DNN Module which contain following sub modules. * Visitors Overview * World Map Overlay * Traf...dotUML: dotUML is a toolkit that enables developers to create and visualize UML diagrams like sequence, use case or component diagrams. 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Problem with RAID5 (mdadm) - disk detached

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Having these lines in /var/log/syslog Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816036] ata4: EH in SWNCQ mode,QC:qc_active 0x1 sactive 0x1 Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816058] ata4: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x1 defer_bits 0x0 last_issue_tag 0x0 Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816059] dhfis 0x1 dmafis 0x1 sdbfis 0x0 Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816093] ata4: ATA_REG 0x40 ERR_REG 0x0 Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816108] ata4: tag : dhfis dmafis sdbfis sacitve Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816125] ata4: tag 0x0: 1 1 0 1 Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816150] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816178] ata4.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816199] ata4.00: cmd 61/08:00:00:88:e0/00:00:e8:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816200] res 40/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816253] ata4.00: status: { DRDY } Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816272] ata4: hard resetting link Apr 18 16:53:05 Server kernel: [4487878.816274] ata4: nv: skipping hardreset on occupied port Apr 18 16:53:06 Server kernel: [4487879.676029] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Apr 18 16:53:07 Server kernel: [4487880.416749] ata4.00: n_sectors mismatch 3907029168 != 268435455 Apr 18 16:53:07 Server kernel: [4487880.416752] ata4.00: revalidation failed (errno=-19) Apr 18 16:53:07 Server kernel: [4487880.416773] ata4.00: limiting speed to UDMA/133:PIO2 Apr 18 16:53:11 Server kernel: [4487884.676024] ata4: hard resetting link Apr 18 16:53:11 Server kernel: [4487884.676027] ata4: nv: skipping hardreset on occupied port Apr 18 16:53:12 Server kernel: [4487885.144032] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Apr 18 16:53:12 Server kernel: [4487885.240185] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80) Apr 18 16:53:12 Server kernel: [4487885.240190] ata4.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) Apr 18 16:53:12 Server kernel: [4487885.240210] ata4.00: disabled Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487890.144023] ata4: hard resetting link Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.024033] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.033357] ata4.00: ATA-8: WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1, 80.00A80, max UDMA/133 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.033360] ata4.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048347] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048361] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048365] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048369] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048371] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048378] 00 00 00 00 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048382] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Add. Sense: No additional sense information Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048385] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 e8 e0 88 00 00 00 08 00 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048393] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 3907028992 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048420] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048440] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048458] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 3907028992 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048477] md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048482] raid5: Disk failure on sdc, disabling device. Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048483] raid5: Operation continuing on 3 devices. Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048525] ata4: EH complete Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048554] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048576] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048596] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048615] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] READ CAPACITY(16) failed Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048617] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048620] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense not available. Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048624] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048643] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048663] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048681] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] READ CAPACITY failed Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048683] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048685] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Sense not available. Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048689] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048709] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048800] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.048860] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.049028] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Asking for cache data failed Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.049048] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.049071] sdc: detected capacity change from 2000398934016 to 0 Apr 18 16:53:17 Server kernel: [4487891.049080] ata4.00: detaching (SCSI 3:0:0:0) Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.061149] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Stopping disk Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.485492] RAID5 conf printout: Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.485496] --- rd:4 wd:3 Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.485500] disk 0, o:1, dev:sdb Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.485502] disk 1, o:0, dev:sdc Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.485504] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdd Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.485506] disk 3, o:1, dev:sde Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.497014] RAID5 conf printout: Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.497016] --- rd:4 wd:3 Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.497018] disk 0, o:1, dev:sdb Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.497019] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdd Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.497021] disk 3, o:1, dev:sde Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.838719] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD20EARS-00S 80.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.838886] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.838911] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdf] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB) Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.838964] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.838967] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Apr 18 16:53:18 Server kernel: [4487891.838988] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Apr 18 16:53:20 Server kernel: [4487891.839147] sdf: unknown partition table Apr 18 16:53:20 Server kernel: [4487893.130026] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk Right now, i'm unable to do anything on /dev/sdc. Is there any way to try to re-attach it? I don't want to power-down the server unless absolutely necessary System: Debian Stable 2.6.32-5-amd64 mdadm version 3.1.4-1+8efb9d1 cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sdb[0] sdc[4](F) sde[3] sdd[2] 5860543488 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [U_UU] unused devices: <none> mdadm --examine --scan ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=1a7744b5:912ec7af:f82a9565:e3b453b4

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ASP.NET and WIF: Showing custom profile username as User.Identity.Name

- by DigiMortal

I am building ASP.NET MVC application that uses external services to authenticate users. For ASP.NET users are fully authenticated when they are redirected back from external service. In system they are logically authenticated when they have created user profiles. In this posting I will show you how to force ASP.NET MVC controller actions to demand existence of custom user profiles. Using external authentication sources with AppFabric Suppose you want to be user-friendly and you don’t force users to keep in mind another username/password when they visit your site. You can accept logins from different popular sites like Windows Live, Facebook, Yahoo, Google and many more. If user has account in some of these services then he or she can use his or her account to log in to your site. If you have community site then you usually have support for user profiles too. Some of these providers give you some information about users and other don’t. So only thing in common you get from all those providers is some unique ID that identifies user in service uniquely. Image above shows you how new user joins your site. Existing users who already have profile are directed to users homepage after they are authenticated. You can read more about how to solve semi-authorized users problem from my blog posting ASP.NET MVC: Using ProfileRequiredAttribute to restrict access to pages. The other problem is related to usernames that we don’t get from all identity providers. Why is IIdentity.Name sometimes empty? The problem is described more specifically in my blog posting Identifying AppFabric Access Control Service users uniquely. Shortly the problem is that not all providers have claim called http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name. The following diagram illustrates what happens when user got token from AppFabric ACS and was redirected to your site. Now, when user was authenticated using Windows Live ID then we don’t have name claim in token and that’s why User.Identity.Name is empty. Okay, we can force nameidentifier to be used as name (we can do it in web.config file) but we have user profiles and we want username from profile to be shown when username is asked. Modifying name claim Now let’s force IClaimsIdentity to use username from our user profiles. You can read more about my profiles topic from my blog posting ASP.NET MVC: Using ProfileRequiredAttribute to restrict access to pages and you can find some useful extension methods for claims identity from my blog posting Identifying AppFabric Access Control Service users uniquely. Here is what we do to set User.Identity.Name: we will check if user has profile, if user has profile we will check if User.Identity.Name matches the name given by profile, if names does not match then probably identity provider returned some name for user, we will remove name claim and recreate it with correct username, we will add new name claim to claims collection. All this stuff happens in Application_AuthorizeRequest event of our web application. The code is here. protected void Application_AuthorizeRequest() { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(User.Identity.Name)) { var identity = User.Identity; var profile = identity.GetProfile(); if (profile != null) { if (profile.UserName != identity.Name) { identity.RemoveName(); var claim = new Claim("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name", profile.UserName); var claimsIdentity = (IClaimsIdentity)identity; claimsIdentity.Claims.Add(claim); } } } } RemoveName extension method is simple – it looks for name claims of IClaimsIdentity claims collection and removes them. public static void RemoveName(this IIdentity identity) { if (identity == null) return; var claimsIndentity = identity as ClaimsIdentity; if (claimsIndentity == null) return; for (var i = claimsIndentity.Claims.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--) { var claim = claimsIndentity.Claims[i]; if (claim.ClaimType == "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name") claimsIndentity.Claims.RemoveAt(i); } } And we are done. Now User.Identity.Name returns the username from user profile and you can use it to show username of current user everywhere in your site. Conclusion Mixing AppFabric Access Control Service and Windows Identity Foundation with custom authorization logic is not impossible but a little bit tricky. This posting finishes my little series about AppFabric ACS and WIF for this time and hopefully you found some useful tricks, tips, hacks and code pieces you can use in your own applications.

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Windows Azure Root CAs and SSL Client Certificates

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I ran into some problems while trying to make SSL client certificates work for StarterSTS 1.5. In theory you have to do two things (via startup tasks): Unlock the SSL section in IIS Install all the root certificates for the client certs you want to accept I did that. But it still does not work. While inspecting the event log, I stumbled over an schannel error message that I’ve never seen before: “When asking for client authentication, this server sends a list of trusted certificate authorities to the client. The client uses this list to choose a client certificate that is trusted by the server. Currently, this server trusts so many certificate authorities that the list has grown too long. This list has thus been truncated. The administrator of this machine should review the certificate authorities trusted for client authentication and remove those that do not really need to be trusted.” WTF? And indeed standard Azure (web role) VMs trust 275 root CAs (see attached list). Including kinda obscure ones. I don’t really know why MS made this design decision. It seems just wrong (including breaking the SSL client cert functionality). Deleting like 60% of them made SSL client certs from my CA work. So I guess I now have to find an automated way to attach CTLs to my site…joy. Exported list of trusted CA (as of 30th Dec 2010) AC Raíz Certicámara S.A. (4/2/2030 9:42:02 PM) AC RAIZ FNMT-RCM (1/1/2030 12:00:00 AM) A-CERT ADVANCED (10/23/2011 2:14:14 PM) Actalis Authentication CA G1 (6/25/2022 2:06:00 PM) Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique (8/12/2037 9:03:17 AM) Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique (8/12/2037 9:58:14 AM) Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I) (1/7/2031 10:59:59 PM) America Online Root Certification Authority 1 (11/19/2037 8:43:00 PM) America Online Root Certification Authority 2 (9/29/2037 2:08:00 PM) ANCERT Certificados CGN (2/11/2024 5:27:12 PM) ANCERT Certificados Notariales (2/11/2024 3:58:26 PM) ANCERT Corporaciones de Derecho Publico (2/11/2024 5:22:45 PM) A-Trust-nQual-01 (11/30/2014 11:00:00 PM) A-Trust-nQual-03 (8/17/2015 10:00:00 PM) A-Trust-Qual-01 (11/30/2014 11:00:00 PM) A-Trust-Qual-02 (12/2/2014 11:00:00 PM) A-Trust-Qual-03a (4/24/2018 10:00:00 PM) Austria Telekom-Control Kommission (9/24/2005 12:40:00 PM) Austrian Society for Data Protection (2/12/2009 11:30:30 AM) Austrian Society for Data Protection GLOBALTRUST Certification Service (9/18/2036 2:12:35 PM) Autoridad Certificadora Raiz de la Secretaria de Economia (5/9/2025 12:00:00 AM) Autoridad de Certificacion de la Abogacia (6/13/2030 10:00:00 PM) Autoridad de Certificacion Firmaprofesional CIF A62634068 (10/24/2013 10:00:00 PM) Autoridade Certificadora Raiz Brasileira (11/30/2011 11:59:00 PM) Baltimore CyberTrust Root (5/12/2025 11:59:00 PM) BIT AdminCA-CD-T01 (1/25/2016 12:36:19 PM) BIT Admin-Root-CA (11/10/2021 7:51:07 AM) Buypass Class 2 CA 1 (10/13/2016 10:25:09 AM) Buypass Class 3 CA 1 (5/9/2015 2:13:03 PM) CA Disig (3/22/2016 1:39:34 AM) CertEurope (3/27/2037 11:00:00 PM) CERTICAMARA S.A. (2/23/2015 5:10:37 PM) Certicámara S.A. 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Add Free Windows Live Apps to Your Website or Blog

- by Matthew Guay

Would you like to use Hotmail, Office Web Apps, Messenger, and more on your website domain? Here’s how you can add Windows Live to your website for free. Microsoft offers a popular suite of online communications products including Hotmail and Messenger. Although Hotmail hasn’t been as popular in recent years as Gmail, it is getting a refresh this summer that might make it an even better email solution. Additionally, the new Office Web Apps offer great compatibility with Office documents. While Skydrive offers 25Gb of free online file storage for all users, so Windows Live can make a great communications solution for your domain. Note: To signup for Windows Live for your domain, you will need to be able to add info to your WordPress.com blog or change Domain settings manually. Getting Started Open the Windows Live Custom Domains page (Link below) to get started adding Windows Live to your domain. Your free Windows Live account will let you create up to 500 accounts, so it’s great for teams and groups that want to have customized email addresses in addition to those who just want an email account for their website. Enter your domain or subdomain you want to add to Windows Live in the box, and then select whether you want to setup Hotmail with this or now. We want to add email to our domain, so select Set up Windows Live Hotmail for my domain and click Continue. You’ll need to sign in with a Windows Live ID to create the account, or choose to create a new Windows Live account associated with your domain. Sign in with your Windows Live ID…this can be a Hotmail, Live Messenger, XBOX Live, Zune ID, or Microsoft.com account. Or, enter your information to create a new Windows Live ID if you selected the second option. Now, review your settings and make sure everything looks correct. Click the I Accept button to setup your account. Your account is now fully setup, but you’ll need to add or edit DNS information on your site. The steps are slightly different depending if your site is hosted on WordPress.com, on your own server, or hosting service. We’ll show you how to do it on either one. First, though, note the information below this box. You’ll see settings for your Mail setup… Security settings… And Messenger integration. Make note of the settings, especially the circled ones, as we’ll need them in the next step. Integrate Windows Live with Your WordPress Blog If the domain you added to Windows Live is for your WordPress blog, login to your WordPress dashboard in a separate browser window or tab. Click the arrow beside Upgrades, and select Domains from the menu. Click the Edit DNS link beside the domain name you’re adding to Windows Live. In the text box on this page, enter the following, replacing Your_info with your code from the Mail Setup box in your Windows Live Dashboard. Note that this is the blurred section in our screenshots. It should be a numerical code like 1234567890.pamx1.hotmail.com. MX 10 Your_info.pamx1.hotmail.com. TXT v=spf1 include:hotmail.com ~all CNAME Your_info domains.live.com. Click Save DNS records, and your settings are saved to WordPress. Note that this will only integrate email with your WordPress account; you cannot integrate Messenger with a domain hosted on WordPress.com. Finally, return to your Windows Live Settings page and click Refresh. If your settings are correct, you’ll now be ready to use Windows Live on your WordPress.com domain. Integrate Windows Live with Your Own Server If your website is hosted on your own server or hosting account, you’ll need to take a few more steps to add Windows Live to your domain. This is fairly easy, but the steps may be different depending on your hosting company or registrar. With some hosts, you may have to contact support to have them add the MX records for you. Our site’s host uses the popular cPanel for website administration, so here’s how we added the MX Entries through cPanel. Login to your website’s cPanel, and select MX Entry under the Mail section. In the text box on this page, enter the following, replacing Your_info with your code from the Mail Setup box in your Windows Live Dashboard. Note that this is the blurred section in our screenshots. It should be a numerical code like 1234567890.pamx1.hotmail.com. MX 10 Your_info.pamx1.hotmail.com. Now, go back to your cPanel home, and select Advanced DNS Zone Editor under Domains. Here, add a TXT record with the following info: Name: yoursite.com. TTL: 3600 TXT Data: v=spf1 include:hotmail.com ~all Click Add Record and your Mail integration data is all configured. To integrate Messenger with your own domain, you’ll have to add an SRV entry to your DNS settings. cPanel doesn’t have an option for this, so we had to contact our site’s hosting company and they added the entry for us. Copy all of the information in the Messenger box and send it to your domain support, and they should be able to add this for you. Alternately, if you don’t want or need Messenger, then you can simply skip this step. Once all of your settings are in place, return to your Windows Live Settings page and click Refresh. If your settings are correct, you’ll now be ready to use Windows Live on your WordPress.com domain. Create a New Email Account On Your Domain Welcome to your new Windows Live admin page! Now you can add email accounts so you and anyone else you want can access Hotmail and the other Windows Live apps with your domain. Click Add to add an account. Enter an account name, which will be the email address of the account, e.g. [email protected]. Then enter the user’s name and a password for the account. By default this will be a temporary password, and the user will have to change it on first log-in, but if you’re setting up this account for yourself, you can uncheck the box and keep this as your standard password. Now, go to www.mail.live.com, and sign in with your new email address and password. Remember, your email address is your username previously entered followed by @yourdomain.com. To finish setting up the email account, enter your password, secret question and answer, alternate email, and location information. Click I accept to finish setting up your new email account. Enter the characters in the Captcha to confirm you’re a human, and click Continue. Your new Hotmail inbox will now load, and you’ll have a welcome email in your inbox. This works the same as normal Hotmail, except this time, your email address is with your own domain. You can now access any of the Windows Live services from the top-level menu. Here’s an Excel Spreadsheet open in the new Office Web Apps via SkyDrive on our new Windows Live account. If you setup Messenger access previously, you can now sign in to Windows Live Messenger using your new @yourdomain.com account as well. Important Links Accessing your Windows Live accounts is easy. Simply go to any Windows Live site, such as www.hotmail.com or www.skydrive.com, and sign in with your new Windows Live ID from your domain as normal. You don’t need a special address to access your account; it works just like the standard public Hotmail accounts. To administer your Windows Live for your domain, go to https://domains.live.com/ and sign in with the Windows Live ID you used to create the account. Here you can add more users, change settings, and view usage details for the Windows Live accounts on your domain. Conclusion Windows Live is easy to add to your domain, and lets you create up to 500 email address for it. With the upcoming updates to Hotmail and Office Web Apps coming this summer, this can be a nice way to make your domain even more useful. And with 500 email accounts, you can easily let your team take advantage of your unique address as well. If you’d rather use Google’s online applications with your domain, check out our article on how to add free Google apps to your website or blog. 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I Can't Install or Remove Any Application

- by berkay gürsoy

when i try to install or remove an application via either software center or apt-get install they both fail and give some debconf errors below is the log please help.Sorry some of the text is not english. sudo apt-get install aptitude Paket listeleri okunuyor... Bitti Bagimlilik agaci insa ediliyor. Durum bilgisi okunuyor... Bitti Asagidaki ek paketler de yüklenecek: aptitude-common libboost-iostreams1.49.0 libcwidget3 Önerilen paketler: aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc tasksel debtags libcwidget-dev Asagidaki YENI paketler kurulacak: aptitude aptitude-common libboost-iostreams1.49.0 libcwidget3 Yükseltilen: 0, Yeni Kurulan: 4, Kaldirilacak: 0 ve Yükseltilmeyecek: 48. 8 tam olarak kurulmadi veya kaldirilmadi. Indirilmesi gereken dosya boyutu 0 B/2.498 kB Bu islemden sonra 10,4 MB ek disk alani kullanilacak. Devam etmek istiyor musunuz [E/h]? e Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 47, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in -d at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 48, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 49, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. debconf: DbDriver "config": mkdir :Böyle bir dosya ya da dizin yok Selecting previously unselected package aptitude-common. dpkg: uyari: files list file for package 'aspell' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: uyari: files list file for package 'ubuntu-desktop' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: uyari: files list file for package 'vuze' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: uyari: files list file for package 'java-wrappers' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed (Veritabani okunuyor... 198988 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking aptitude-common (from .../aptitude-common_0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libboost-iostreams1.49.0. Unpacking libboost-iostreams1.49.0 (from .../libboost-iostreams1.49.0_1.49.0-3.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libcwidget3. Unpacking libcwidget3 (from .../libcwidget3_0.5.16-3.4ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package aptitude. Unpacking aptitude (from .../aptitude_0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... wicd-daemon (1.7.2.4-2ubuntu1) kuruluyor... Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 47, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in -d at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 48, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 49, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. debconf: DbDriver "config": mkdir :Böyle bir dosya ya da dizin yok dpkg: error processing wicd-daemon (--configure): installed post-installation script alt islemi çikis durumunda hata döndürdü : 1 man-db (2.6.3-1) kuruluyor... Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 47, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in -d at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 48, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 49, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. debconf: DbDriver "config": mkdir :Böyle bir dosya ya da dizin yok dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): installed post-installation script alt islemi çikis durumunda hata döndürdü : 1 dictionaries-common (1.12.10) kuruluyor... Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 44, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in -e at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 46, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 47, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in -d at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 48, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value $directory in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 49, <DEBCONF_CONFIG> chunk 3. debconf: DbDriver "config": mkdir :Böyle bir dosya ya da dizin yok dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure): installed post-installation script alt islemi çikis durumunda hata döndürdü : 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aspell: aspell depends on dictionaries-common (>> 0.40); bununla beraber: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing aspell (--configure): bagimlilik sorunlari - yapilandirilmadan birakiliyor dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aspell-en: aspell-en depends on aspell (>= 0.60.3-2); bununla beraber: Package aspell is not configured yet. aspell-en depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.49.2); bununla beraber: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing aspell-en (--configure): bagimlilik sorunlari - yapilandirilmadan birakiliyor dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hyphen-en-us: hyphen-en-us depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.org-updatedicts; bununla beraber: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. openoffice.org-updatedicts paketi yüklenmedi. Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.org-updatedicts is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing hyphen-en-us (--configure): bagimlilik sorunlari - yapilandirilmadan birakiliyor dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd-gtk: wicd-gtk depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.2.4-2ubuntu1); bununla beraber: Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing wicd-gtk (--configure): bagimlilik sorunlari - yapilandirilmadan birakiliyor dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd: wicd depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.2.4-2ubuntu1); bununla beraber: Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet. wicd depends on wicd-gtk (= 1.7.2.4-2ubuntu1) | wicd-curses (= 1.7.2.4-2ubuntu1) | wicd-cli (= 1.7.2.4-2ubuntu1) | wicd-client; bununla beraber: Package wicd-gtk is not configured yet. wicd-curses paketi yüklenmedi. wicd-cli paketi yüklenmedi. wicd-client paketi yüklenmedi. Package wicd-gtk which provides wicd-client is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing wicd (--configure): bagimlilik sorunlari - yapilandirilmadan birakiliyor aptitude-common (0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1) kuruluyor... libboost-iostreams1.49.0 (1.49.0-3.1ubuntu1) kuruluyor... libcwidget3 (0.5.16-3.4ubuntu1) kuruluyor... aptitude (0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1) kuruluyor... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/aptitude-curses to provide /usr/bin/aptitude (aptitude) in Otomatik Mod Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Islem sirasinda hatalar bulundu: wicd-daemon man-db dictionaries-common aspell aspell-en hyphen-en-us wicd-gtk wicd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Windows XP Domain Logon takes between 40 - 60 minutes

- by Bryan

Windows XP Clients, fully patched, with Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 client Windows 2008 R2 domain Roaming profiles Folder Redirection applied to Documents, AppData & Desktop I've enabled userenv logging, and logged on just after 17:00 last night. The user shell hadn't appeared at 17:45 when I left last night. When I arrived this morning, I checked the log file and found the following. USERENV(3f8.e7c) 17:02:18:296 LogExtSessionStatus: Successfully logged Extension Session data USERENV(654.a30) 17:04:09:468 ImpersonateUser: Failed to impersonate user with 5. USERENV(654.a30) 17:04:09:468 GetUserNameAndDomain Failed to impersonate user USERENV(654.a30) 17:04:09:468 GetUserDNSDomainName: Domain name is NT Authority. No DNS domain name available. USERENV(c8c.cb8) 17:04:09:781 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(cd0.cd4) 17:04:10:781 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(d08.c84) 17:07:09:609 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(cbc.cc0) 17:07:10:625 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\luall.exe USERENV(db0.db4) 17:07:10:781 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(e00.e0c) 17:07:11:062 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(e20.e34) 17:07:11:203 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(e40.e50) 17:07:11:406 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(efc.54c) 17:07:11:656 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(ccc.df0) 17:08:45:687 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(e24.e20) 17:08:45:937 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\luall.exe USERENV(ff0.ff4) 17:08:46:078 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(32c.cd0) 17:08:46:265 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(cc4.3d4) 17:08:46:406 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(434.4d0) 17:08:46:593 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(f2c.ac) 17:08:46:828 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(d60.d7c) 17:09:40:265 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(d94.d98) 17:09:40:531 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(bc4.3c4) 17:10:52:765 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(37c.90c) 17:10:52:984 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\luall.exe USERENV(580.540) 17:10:53:109 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(c18.c30) 17:10:53:312 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(c44.288) 17:10:53:468 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(a34.cf4) 17:10:53:656 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(d3c.d4c) 17:10:53:890 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(970.948) 17:15:09:468 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(150.9dc) 17:15:09:734 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(f90.cec) 17:20:38:718 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(d8c.d70) 17:20:38:984 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(9a0.fa0) 17:26:07:953 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(844.51c) 17:26:08:218 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(d00.9ac) 17:31:19:453 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(ad4.624) 17:31:19:718 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(654.694) 17:31:46:390 ImpersonateUser: Failed to impersonate user with 5. USERENV(654.694) 17:31:46:390 GetUserNameAndDomain Failed to impersonate user USERENV(654.694) 17:31:46:390 GetUserDNSDomainName: Domain name is NT Authority. No DNS domain name available. USERENV(af8.610) 17:36:48:625 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(aa4.dfc) 17:36:48:906 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(2dc.5c8) 17:42:17:812 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(f70.8ac) 17:42:18:078 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(d50.c30) 17:47:47:062 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(c2c.c3c) 17:47:47:328 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(ef0.4cc) 17:53:16:234 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(cd4.c84) 17:53:16:500 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(828.8c4) 17:58:45:484 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(a24.b30) 17:58:45:750 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE I've seen posts suggesting that it may be Windows Desktop Search 3.01 that is causing this, so I've removed that. I've removed the policy, 'Always wait for the network at startup or logon', thinking that might have helped. I'm running out of ideas. Has anyone seen this before?

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Remote Desktop to Your Azure Virtual Machine

- by Shaun

The Windows Azure Team had just published their new development portal this week and the SDK 1.3. Within this new release there are a lot of cool feature available. The one I’m looking forward to is Remote Desktop Access to your running Windows Azure Virtual Machine. Configuration Remote Desktop Access It would be very simple to make the azure service enable the remote desktop access. First of all let’s create a new windows azure project from the Visual Studio. In this example I just created a normal MVC 2 web role without any modifications. Then we right-click the azure project node in the solution explorer window and select “Publish”. Then let’s select the “Deploy your Windows Azure project to Windows Azure” on the top radio button. And then select the credential, deployment service/slot, storage and label as susal. You must have the Management API Certificates uploaded to your Windows Azure account, and install the certification on you machine before in order to use this one-click deployment feature. If you are familiar with this dialog you will notice that there’s a linkage named “Configure Remote Desktop connections”. Here is where you need to make this service enable the remote desktop feature. After clicked this link we will set the configuration of the remote desktop access authorization information. There are 4 steps we need to do to configure our access. Certificates: We need either create or select a certificate file in order to encypt the access cerdenticals. In this example I will use the certificate file for my Management API. Username: The remote desktop user name to access the virtual machine. Password: The password for the access. Expiration: The access cerdentals would be expired after 1 month by default but we can amend here. After that we clicked the OK button to back to the publish dialog. The next step is to back to the new windows azure portal and navigate to the hosted services list. I created a new hosted service and upload the certificate file onto this service. The user name and password access to the azure machine must be encrypted from the local machine, and then send to the windows azure platform, then decrypted on the azure side by the same file. This is why we need to upload the certificate file onto azure. We navigated to the “Hosted Services, Storage Accounts & CDN"” from the left panel and created a new hosted service named “SDK13” and selected the “Certificates” node. Then we clicked the “Add Certificates” button. Then we select the local certificate file and the password to install it into this azure service. The final step would be back to our Visual Studio and in the pulish dialog just click the OK button. The Visual Studio will upload our package and the configuration into our service with the remote desktop settings. Remote Desktop Access to Azure Virtual Machine All things had been done, let’s have a look back on the Windows Azure Development Portal. If I selected the web role that I had just published we can see on the toolbar there’s a section named “Remote Access”. In this section the Enable checkbox had been checked which means this role has the Remote Desktop Access feature enabled. If we want to modify the access cerdentals we can simply click the Configure button. Then we can update the user name, password, certificates and the expiration date. Let’s select the instance node under the web role. In this case I just created one instance for demo. We can see that when we selected the instance node, the Connect button turned enabled. After clicked this button there will be a RDP file downloaded. This is a Remote Desctop configuration file that we can use to access to our azure virtual machine. Let’s download it to our local machine and execute. We input the user name and password we specified when we published our application to azure and then click OK. There might be some certificates warning dislog appeared. This is because the certificates we use to encryption is not signed by a trusted provider. Just select OK in these cases as we know the certificate is safty to us. Finally, the virtual machine of Windows Azure appeared. A Quick Look into the Azure Virtual Machine Let’s just have a very quick look into our virtual machine. There are 3 disks available for us: C, D and E. Disk C: Store the local resource, diagnosis information, etc. Disk D: System disk which contains the OS, IIS, .NET Frameworks, etc. Disk E: Sotre our application code. The IIS which hosting our webiste on Azure. The IP configuration of the azure virtual machine. Summary In this post I covered one of the new feature of the Azure SDK 1.3 – Remote Desktop Access. We can set the access per service and all of the instances of this service could be accessed through the remote desktop tool. With this feature we can deep into the virtual machines of our instances to see the inner information such as the system event, IIS log, system information, etc. But we should pay attention to modify the system settings. 2 reasons from what I know for now: 1. If we have more than one instances against our service we should ensure that all system settings we modifed are applied to all instances/virtual machines. Otherwise, as the machines are under the azure load balance proxy our application process may doesn’t work due to the defferent settings between the instances. 2. When the virtual machine encounted some problem and need to be translated to another physical machine all settings we made would be disappeared. Hope this helps, Shaun All documents and related graphics, codes are provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. Copyright © Shaun Ziyan Xu. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Sunday, April 11, 2010

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You can rotate tweets rotating mouse wheel.silverlight control - stars with rounded corners: first step: These are the first examples.Silverlight MathParser: Silverlight MathParser 1.0: Implementation of mathematical expressions parser to compute and functions.SimpleGeo.NET: SimpleGeo.NET example website project: ConfigurationYou must change these three configuration values in AppSettings.config: Google Maps API key: for the maps on the test site. 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Open Source online shop e-commerce solution.AutoPocopatterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryShweet: SharePoint 2010 Team Messaging built with PexFarseer Physics EngineNB_Store - Free DotNetNuke Ecommerce Catalog ModuleIonics Isapi Rewrite FilterBlogEngine.NETBeanProxy

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ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Providers

- by Ricardo Peres

Introduction This will be the first of a number of posts on ASP.NET extensibility. At this moment I don’t know exactly how many will be and I only know a couple of subjects that I want to talk about, so more will come in the next days. I have the sensation that the providers offered by ASP.NET are not widely know, although everyone uses, for example, sessions, they may not be aware of the extensibility points that Microsoft included. This post won’t go into details of how to configure and extend each of the providers, but will hopefully give some pointers on that direction. Canonical These are the most widely known and used providers, coming from ASP.NET 1, chances are, you have used them already. Good support for invoking client side, either from a .NET application or from JavaScript. Lots of server-side controls use them, such as the Login control for example. Membership The Membership provider is responsible for managing registered users, including creating new ones, authenticating them, changing passwords, etc. ASP.NET comes with two implementations, one that uses a SQL Server database and another that uses the Active Directory. The base class is Membership and new providers are registered on the membership section on the Web.config file, as well as parameters for specifying minimum password lengths, complexities, maximum age, etc. One reason for creating a custom provider would be, for example, storing membership information in a different database engine. 1: <membership defaultProvider="MyProvider"> 2: <providers> 3: <add name="MyProvider" type="MyClass, MyAssembly"/> 4: </providers> 5: </membership> Role The Role provider assigns roles to authenticated users. The base class is Role and there are three out of the box implementations: XML-based, SQL Server and Windows-based. Also registered on Web.config through the roleManager section, where you can also say if your roles should be cached on a cookie. If you want your roles to come from a different place, implement a custom provider. 1: <roleManager defaultProvider="MyProvider"> 2: <providers> 3: <add name="MyProvider" type="MyClass, MyAssembly" /> 4: </providers> 5: </roleManager> Profile The Profile provider allows defining a set of properties that will be tied and made available to authenticated or even anonymous ones, which must be tracked by using anonymous authentication. The base class is Profile and the only included implementation stores these settings in a SQL Server database. Configured through profile section, where you also specify the properties to make available, a custom provider would allow storing these properties in different locations. 1: <profile defaultProvider="MyProvider"> 2: <providers> 3: <add name="MyProvider" type="MyClass, MyAssembly"/> 4: </providers> 5: </profile> Basic OK, I didn’t know what to call these, so Basic is probably as good as a name as anything else. Not supported client-side (doesn’t even make sense). Session The Session provider allows storing data tied to the current “session”, which is normally created when a user first accesses the site, even when it is not yet authenticated, and remains all the way. The base class and only included implementation is SessionStateStoreProviderBase and it is capable of storing data in one of three locations: In the process memory (default, not suitable for web farms or increased reliability); A SQL Server database (best for reliability and clustering); The ASP.NET State Service, which is a Windows Service that is installed with the .NET Framework (ok for clustering). The configuration is made through the sessionState section. By adding a custom Session provider, you can store the data in different locations – think for example of a distributed cache. 1: <sessionState customProvider=”MyProvider”> 2: <providers> 3: <add name=”MyProvider” type=”MyClass, MyAssembly” /> 4: </providers> 5: </sessionState> Resource A not so known provider, allows you to change the origin of localized resource elements. By default, these come from RESX files and are used whenever you use the Resources expression builder or the GetGlobalResourceObject and GetLocalResourceObject methods, but if you implement a custom provider, you can have these elements come from some place else, such as a database. The base class is ResourceProviderFactory and there’s only one internal implementation which uses these RESX files. Configuration is through the globalization section. 1: <globalization resourceProviderFactoryType="MyClass, MyAssembly" /> Health Monitoring Health Monitoring is also probably not so well known, and actually not a good name for it. First, in order to understand what it does, you have to know that ASP.NET fires “events” at specific times and when specific things happen, such as when logging in, an exception is raised. These are not user interface events and you can create your own and fire them, nothing will happen, but the Health Monitoring provider will detect it. You can configure it to do things when certain conditions are met, such as a number of events being fired in a certain amount of time. You define these rules and route them to a specific provider, which must inherit from WebEventProvider. Out of the box implementations include sending mails, logging to a SQL Server database, writing to the Windows Event Log, Windows Management Instrumentation, the IIS 7 Trace infrastructure or the debugger Trace. Its configuration is achieved by the healthMonitoring section and a reason for implementing a custom provider would be, for example, locking down a web application in the event of a significant number of failed login attempts occurring in a small period of time. 1: <healthMonitoring> 2: <providers> 3: <add name="MyProvider" type="MyClass, MyAssembly"/> 4: </providers> 5: </healthMonitoring> Sitemap The Sitemap provider allows defining the site’s navigation structure and associated required permissions for each node, in a tree-like fashion. Usually this is statically defined, and the included provider allows it, by supplying this structure in a Web.sitemap XML file. The base class is SiteMapProvider and you can extend it in order to supply you own source for the site’s structure, which may even be dynamic. Its configuration must be done through the siteMap section. 1: <siteMap defaultProvider="MyProvider"> 2: <providers><add name="MyProvider" type="MyClass, MyAssembly" /> 3: </providers> 4: </siteMap> Web Part Personalization Web Parts are better known by SharePoint users, but since ASP.NET 2.0 they are included in the core Framework. Web Parts are server-side controls that offer certain possibilities of configuration by clients visiting the page where they are located. The infrastructure handles this configuration per user or globally for all users and this provider is responsible for just that. The base class is PersonalizationProvider and the only included implementation stores settings on SQL Server. Add new providers through the personalization section. 1: <webParts> 2: <personalization defaultProvider="MyProvider"> 3: <providers> 4: <add name="MyProvider" type="MyClass, MyAssembly"/> 5: </providers> 6: </personalization> 7: </webParts> Build The Build provider is responsible for compiling whatever files are present on your web folder. There’s a base class, BuildProvider, and, as can be expected, internal implementations for building pages (ASPX), master pages (Master), user web controls (ASCX), handlers (ASHX), themes (Skin), XML Schemas (XSD), web services (ASMX, SVC), resources (RESX), browser capabilities files (Browser) and so on. You would write a build provider if you wanted to generate code from any kind of non-code file so that you have strong typing at development time. Configuration goes on the buildProviders section and it is per extension. 1: <buildProviders> 2: <add extension=".ext" type="MyClass, MyAssembly” /> 3: </buildProviders> New in ASP.NET 4 Not exactly new since they exist since 2010, but in ASP.NET terms, still new. Output Cache The Output Cache for ASPX pages and ASCX user controls is now extensible, through the Output Cache provider, which means you can implement a custom mechanism for storing and retrieving cached data, for example, in a distributed fashion. The base class is OutputCacheProvider and the only implementation is private. Configuration goes on the outputCache section and on each page and web user control you can choose the provider you want to use. 1: <caching> 2: <outputCache defaultProvider="MyProvider"> 3: <providers> 4: <add name="MyProvider" type="MyClass, MyAssembly"/> 5: </providers> 6: </outputCache> 7: </caching> Request Validation A big change introduced in ASP.NET 4 (and refined in 4.5, by the way) is the introduction of extensible request validation, by means of a Request Validation provider. This means we are not limited to either enabling or disabling event validation for all pages or for a specific page, but we now have fine control over each of the elements of the request, including cookies, headers, query string and form values. The base provider class is RequestValidator and the configuration goes on the httpRuntime section. 1: <httpRuntime requestValidationType="MyClass, MyAssembly" /> Browser Capabilities The Browser Capabilities provider is new in ASP.NET 4, although the concept exists from ASP.NET 2. The idea is to map a browser brand and version to its supported capabilities, such as JavaScript version, Flash support, ActiveX support, and so on. Previously, this was all hardcoded in .Browser files located in %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework(64)\vXXXXX\Config\Browsers, but now you can have a class inherit from HttpCapabilitiesProvider and implement your own mechanism. Register in on the browserCaps section. 1: <browserCaps provider="MyClass, MyAssembly" /> Encoder The Encoder provider is responsible for encoding every string that is sent to the browser on a page or header. This includes for example converting special characters for their standard codes and is implemented by the base class HttpEncoder. Another implementation takes care of Anti Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Build your own by inheriting from one of these classes if you want to add some additional processing to these strings. The configuration will go on the httpRuntime section. 1: <httpRuntime encoderType="MyClass, MyAssembly" /> Conclusion That’s about it for ASP.NET providers. It was by no means a thorough description, but I hope I managed to raise your interest on this subject. There are lots of pointers on the Internet, so I only included direct references to the Framework classes and configuration sections. Stay tuned for more extensibility!

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Sync Your Pidgin Profile Across Multiple PCs with Dropbox

- by Matthew Guay

Pidgin is definitely our favorite universal chat client, but adding all of your chat accounts to multiple computers can be frustrating. Here’s how you can easily transfer your Pidgin settings to other computers and keep them in sync using Dropbox. Getting Started Make sure you have both Pidgin and Dropbox installed on any computers you want to sync. To sync Pidgin, you need to: Move your Pidgin profile folder on your first computer to Dropbox Create a symbolic link from the new folder in Dropbox to your old profile location Delete the default pidgin profile on your other computer, and create a symbolic link from your Dropbox Pidgin profile to the default Pidgin profile location This sounds difficult, but it’s actually easy if you follow these steps. Here we already had all of our accounts setup in Pidgin in Windows 7, and then synced this profile with an Ubuntu and a XP computer with fresh Pidgin installs. Our instructions for each OS are based on this, but just swap the sync order if your main Pidgin install is in XP or Ubuntu. Please Note: Please make sure Pidgin isn’t running on your computer while you are making the changes! Sync Your Pidgin Profile from Windows 7 Here is Pidgin with our accounts already setup. Our Pidgin profile has a Gtalk, MSN Messenger, and Facebook Chat account, and lots of log files. Let’s move this profile to Dropbox to keep it synced. Exit Pidgin, and then enter %appdata% in the address bar in Explorer or press Win+R and enter %appdata%. Select the .purple folder, which is your Pidgin profiles and settings folder, and press Ctrl+X to cut it. Browse to your Dropbox folder, and press Ctrl+V to paste the .purple folder there. Now we need to create the symbolic link. Enter “command” in your Start menu search, right-click on the Command Prompt shortcut, and select “Run as administrator”. We can now use the mklink command to create a symbolic link to the .purple folder. In Command Prompt, enter the following and substitute username for your own username. mklink /D “C:\Users\username\Documents\My Dropbox\.purple” “C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\.purple” And that’s it! You can open Pidgin now to make sure it still works as before, with your files being synced with Dropbox. Please Note: These instructions work the same for Windows Vista. Also, if you are syncing settings from another computer to Windows 7, then delete the .purple folder instead of cutting and pasting it, and reverse the order of the file paths when creating the symbolic link. Add your Pidgin Profile to Ubuntu Our Ubuntu computer had a clean install of Pidgin, so we didn’t need any of the information in its settings. If you’ve run Pidgin, even without creating an account, you will need to first remove its settings folder. Open your home folder, and click View, and then “Show Hidden Files” to see your settings folders. Select the .purple folder, and delete it. Now, to create the symbolic link, open Terminal and enter the following, substituting username for your username: ln –s /home/username/Dropbox/.purple /home/username/ Open Pidgin, and you will see all of your accounts that were on your other computer. No usernames or passwords needed; everything is setup and ready to go. Even your status is synced; we had our status set to Away in Windows 7, and it automatically came up the same in Ubuntu. Please Note: If your primary Pidgin account is in Ubuntu, then cut your .purple folder and paste it into your Dropbox folder instead. Then, when creating the symbolic link, reverse the order of the folder paths. Add your Pidgin Profile to Windows XP In XP we also had a clean install of Pidgin. If you’ve run Pidgin, even without creating an account, you will need to first remove its settings folder. Click Start, the Run, and enter %appdata%. Delete your .purple folder. XP does not include a way to create a symbolic link, so we will use the free Junction tool from Sysinternals. Download Junction (link below) and unzip the folder. Open Command Prompt (click Start, select All Programs, then Accessories, and select Command Prompt), and enter cd followed by the path of the folder where you saved Junction. Now, to create the symbolic link, enter the following in Command Prompt, substituting username with your username. junction –d “C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\.purple” “C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Dropbox\.purple” Open Pidgin, and you will see all of your settings just as they were on your other computer. Everything’s ready to go. Please Note: If your primary Pidgin account is in Windows XP, then cut your .purple folder and paste it into your Dropbox folder instead. Then, when creating the symbolic link, reverse the order of the folder paths. Conclusion This is a great way to keep all of your chat and IM accounts available from all of your computers. You can easily access logs from chats you had on your desktop from your laptop, or if you add a chat account on your work computer you can use it seamlessly from your home computer that evening. Now Pidgin is the universal chat client that is always ready whenever and wherever you need it! 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Mozilla Weave can't sync Firefox. What's wrong?

- by Mehper C. Palavuzlar

For the last few days, Mozilla Weave can't sync. Below is the activity log. Any ideas? 2010-05-02 20:47:15 Service.Main WARN Unknown error while downloading metadata record. Aborting sync. 2010-05-02 20:47:15 Service.Main CONFIG Starting backoff, next sync at:Sun May 02 2010 21:16:09 GMT+0300 (GTB Yaz Saati) 2010-05-02 20:47:15 Service.Main DEBUG Exception: aborting sync, remote setup failed No traceback available 2010-05-02 21:16:09 Service.Main DEBUG Idle timer created for sync, will sync after 5 seconds of inactivity. 2010-05-02 21:16:30 Net.Resource DEBUG GET success 200 https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/storage/meta/global 2010-05-02 21:16:30 Service.Main DEBUG Weave Version: 1.2.3 Local Storage: 2 Remote Storage: 2 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Net.Resource DEBUG GET success 200 https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/info/collections 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Clients INFO 0 outgoing items pre-reconciliation 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Clients INFO Records: 0 applied, 0 reconciled, 0 left to fetch 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Clients DEBUG Total (ms): sync 6, processIncoming 3, uploadOutgoing 0, syncStartup 3, syncFinish 0 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Bookmarks INFO 0 outgoing items pre-reconciliation 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Bookmarks INFO Records: 0 applied, 0 reconciled, 0 left to fetch 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Bookmarks DEBUG Total (ms): sync 13, processIncoming 5, uploadOutgoing 0, syncStartup 3, syncFinish 3 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Forms INFO 1 outgoing items pre-reconciliation 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Forms INFO Records: 0 applied, 0 reconciled, 0 left to fetch 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Engine.Forms INFO Uploading all of 1 records 2010-05-02 21:26:50 Collection DEBUG POST Length: 388 2010-05-02 21:27:06 Collection DEBUG POST success 200 https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/storage/forms 2010-05-02 21:27:06 Engine.Forms DEBUG Total (ms): sync 15924, processIncoming 3, uploadOutgoing 15918, syncStartup 3, syncFinish 0, createRecord 1 2010-05-02 21:27:06 Engine.History INFO 55 outgoing items pre-reconciliation 2010-05-02 21:27:06 Engine.History INFO Records: 0 applied, 0 reconciled, 0 left to fetch 2010-05-02 21:27:09 Engine.History INFO Uploading all of 55 records 2010-05-02 21:27:09 Collection DEBUG POST Length: 35337 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Collection DEBUG POST success 200 https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/storage/history 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.History DEBUG Total (ms): sync 25588, processIncoming 4, uploadOutgoing 25580, syncStartup 3, syncFinish 0, createRecord 2540 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Passwords INFO 0 outgoing items pre-reconciliation 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Passwords INFO Records: 0 applied, 0 reconciled, 0 left to fetch 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Passwords DEBUG Total (ms): sync 8, processIncoming 4, uploadOutgoing 0, syncStartup 4, syncFinish 0 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Prefs INFO 0 outgoing items pre-reconciliation 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Prefs INFO Records: 0 applied, 0 reconciled, 0 left to fetch 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Prefs DEBUG Total (ms): sync 8, processIncoming 3, uploadOutgoing 0, syncStartup 4, syncFinish 0 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Tabs INFO 1 outgoing items pre-reconciliation 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Tabs INFO Records: 0 applied, 0 reconciled, 0 left to fetch 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Engine.Tabs INFO Uploading all of 1 records 2010-05-02 21:27:32 Collection DEBUG POST Length: 393 2010-05-02 21:27:54 Collection DEBUG POST success 200 https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/storage/tabs 2010-05-02 21:27:54 Engine.Tabs DEBUG Total (ms): sync 21943, processIncoming 3, uploadOutgoing 21936, syncStartup 3, syncFinish 0, createRecord 8 2010-05-02 21:27:54 Service.Main INFO Sync completed successfully 2010-05-02 22:27:53 Service.Main DEBUG Idle timer created for sync, will sync after 5 seconds of inactivity. 2010-05-02 22:28:14 Net.Resource DEBUG GET success 200 https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/storage/meta/global 2010-05-02 22:28:14 Service.Main DEBUG Weave Version: 1.2.3 Local Storage: 2 Remote Storage: 2 2010-05-02 22:28:16 Net.Resource DEBUG GET fail 503 https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/info/collections 2010-05-02 22:28:16 Service.Main DEBUG Exception: aborting sync, failed to get collections No traceback available 2010-05-02 23:28:15 Service.Main DEBUG Idle timer created for sync, will sync after 5 seconds of inactivity. 2010-05-03 00:26:42 Service.Main DEBUG Exception: Could not acquire lock No traceback available 2010-05-03 00:31:03 RecordMgr DEBUG Failed to import record: App. Quitting JS Stack trace: Res__request(...)@resource.js:208 < Res_get()@resource.js:271 < RecordMgr_import("https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/storage/meta/global")@wbo.js:119 < WeaveSvc__remoteSetup()@service.js:824 < ()@service.js:1187 < WrappedNotify()@util.js:114 < WrappedLock()@util.js:86 < WrappedCatch()@util.js:65 < sync(false)@service.js:1146 < ([object Object])@service.js:414 < notify([object XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper])@util.js:629 2010-05-03 00:31:03 Service.Main DEBUG Weave Version: 1.2.3 Local Storage: 2 Remote Storage: 2010-05-03 00:31:03 Service.Main WARN Unknown error while downloading metadata record. Aborting sync. 2010-05-03 00:31:03 Service.Main DEBUG Exception: aborting sync, remote setup failed No traceback available 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Service.Main INFO Loading Weave 1.2.3 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Engine.Bookmarks DEBUG Engine initialized 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Engine.Forms DEBUG Engine initialized 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Engine.History DEBUG Engine initialized 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Engine.Passwords DEBUG Engine initialized 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Engine.Prefs DEBUG Engine initialized 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Engine.Tabs DEBUG Engine initialized 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Engine.Tabs DEBUG Resetting tabs last sync time 2010-05-03 17:26:25 Service.Main INFO Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; tr; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) 2010-05-03 17:26:26 Service.Main DEBUG Caching URLs under storage user base: https://sj-weave03.services.mozilla.com/1.0/mehper/ 2010-05-03 17:26:30 Service.Main DEBUG Autoconnecting in 3 seconds 2010-05-03 17:26:36 Service.Main INFO Logging in user mehper 2010-05-03 17:45:46 Service.Main DEBUG Exception: Could not acquire lock No traceback available 2010-05-03 17:53:18 Service.Main DEBUG Exception: Could not acquire lock No traceback available

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Sunday, September 30, 2012

CodePlex Daily Summary for Sunday, September 30, 2012Popular ReleasesCAPTCHA Solver: Initial Release: This is the initial Release :) Still very much a WIP.MCEBuddy 2.x: MCEBuddy 2.2.17: Reccomended update to 2.2.16 Changelog for 2.2.17 (32bit and 64bit) 1. Fixed bugs around thread synchronization with new remote model (fixes cause the app to crash or hang) 2. Updated UPnP code base, faster and more reliable now 3. Now you can get audio/video properties for multiple files on main page. Selected multiple files and right click, all selected files properties will be shown. 4. Fix a bug, not able to enter a conversion task name in the GUIAggravation: Version 1.0: This version 1.0 release is pretty stable. You need the Silverlight 4 runtime, developer tools, and Experssion Blend 4 installed.Readable Passphrase Generator: KeePass Plugin 0.7.1: See the KeePass Plugin Step By Step Guide for instructions on how to install the plugin. Changes Built against KeePass 2.20Windows 8 Toolkit - Charts and More: Beta 1.0: The First Compiled Version of my LibraryPDF.NET: PDF.NET.Ver4.5-OpenSourceCode: PDF.NET Ver4.5 ????，????Web??????。 PDF.NET Ver4.5 Open Source Code,include a sample Web application project.D3 Loot Tracker: 1.4: Session name is displayed in the UI. Changes data directory for clickonce deployment so that sessions files are persisted between versions. Added a delete button in the sessions list window. Allow opening of the sessions local folder from the session list widow. Display the session name in the main window Ability to select which diablo process to hook up to when pressing new () function BUT only if multi-process support is selected in the generals settings tab menu. Session picker...CRM 2011 Visual Ribbon Editor: Visual Ribbon Editor 1.1 Beta: Visual Ribbon Editor 1.1 Beta What's New: Fixed scrolling issue in UnHide dialog Added support for connecting via ADFS / IFD Added support for more than one action for a button Added support for empty StringParameter for Javascript functions Fixed bug in rule CrmClientTypeRule when selecting Outlook option Extended Prefix field in New Button dialogVisual Studio Icon Patcher: Version 1.5.2: This version contains no new images from v1.5.1 Contains the following improvements: Better support for detecting the installed languages The extract & inject commands won’t run if Visual Studio is running You may now run in extract or inject mode The p/invoke code was cleaned up based on Code Analysis recommendations When a p/invoke method fails the Win32 error message is now displayed Error messages use red text Status messages use green textZXing.Net: ZXing.Net 0.9.0.0: On the way to a release 1.0 the API should be stable now with this version. sync with rev. 2393 of the java version improved api better Unity support Windows RT binaries Windows CE binaries new Windows Service demo new WPF demo WindowsCE Hotfix: Fixes an error with ISO8859-1 encoding and scannning of QR-Codes. The hotfix is only needed for the WindowsCE platform.C.B.R. : Comic Book Reader: CBR 0.7: Synthesis since 0.6 : ePUB : Complete refactoring Add a new dedicated feed viewer for opds stream PDF conversion : improved with image merge Make all backstage panel scrollable Integrate the new AvalonDock 2 library. Support multi-document. Library explorer and Table of content are now toolboxes Designer for dynamic books is now mvvm and much better New BrowserForControl Customized xps viewer to suppress toolbars and bind it to cbr commands Add quick start manual and button ...menu4web: menu4web 1.0 - free javascript menu for web sites: menu4web 1.0 has been tested with all major browsers: Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera and Safari. Minified m4w.js library is less than 9K. Includes 21 menu examples of different styles. Can be freely distributed under The MIT License (MIT).Rawr: Rawr 5.0.0: This is the Downloadable WPF version of Rawr!For web-based version see http://elitistjerks.com/rawr.php You can find the version notes at: http://rawr.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=VersionNotes Rawr Addon (NOT UPDATED YET FOR MOP)We now have a Rawr Official Addon for in-game exporting and importing of character data hosted on Curse. The Addon does not perform calculations like Rawr, it simply shows your exported Rawr data in wow tooltips and lets you export your character to Rawr (including ba...Coevery - Free CRM: Coevery 1.0.0.26: The zh-CN issue has been solved. We also add a project management module.VidCoder: 1.4.1 Beta: Updated to HandBrake 4971. This should fix some issues with stuck PGS subtitles. Fixed build break which prevented pre-compiled XML serializers from showing up. Fixed problem where a preset would get errantly marked as modified when re-opening the encode settings window or importing a new preset.Snake!: Snake 1.0: Version 1 StablePaging SharePoint ListItems using listitems position: Paginglistitems V1.0: This is a console application which has two methods both on CSOM and SOM to display the listitems in a paged manner.SharePoint Move Discussion Threads: SharePoint Move Discussion Threads ver 0.1: ver 0.1NTCPMSG: V1.1.1.0: increase the performance. Support .net framework 4.0.BlackJumboDog: Ver5.7.2: 2012.09.23 Ver5.7.2 (1)InetTest?? (2)HTTP?????????????????100???????????New Projects2D Sprite Editor: This is a 2d sprite editor. Import your sprite sheet, trace your animations frame and export the coordinates points in a simple txt file, ready to import.caifenweb1: test project.CatchThatException: This is a small logging library We created at developerpath.com to help us log exceptions. It write it to a text file and you can easilay open that txt.FsxWs - WebServices for Microsoft FSX: WebServices for MS Flight Simulator. Get flights data as JSON, KML. !! Still in SetUp phase - be patient !!GetTPB: Some training in downloading and parsing web pages, with multithreading too.JSON-RPC Client Generator (for XBMC): The goal of this project is to provide a .Net client for the XBMC JSONRPC API. The main part is not XBMC dependent and may be used for any JSON-RPC client.matlab-silhouette-pose-wtf: Whatevermfp: this is random codeMVC Grid: MVC Grid ExampleMyWebSocketTry: sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssNetduino Console: Netduino Console is an interface with built in messaging layers that allows you as a developer to dynamically create plugins following a provided interface to iSharePoint ASP.NET Verifier: Project will allow to verify SharePoint 2010 components using ASP.NET web applicationSharepoint Custom Upload: This is a SharePoint solution that allows an administrator to customize the upload page individually for each document library in a site.. It allows you to makeWinWeb Browser Deluxe: WinWeb Browser Deluxe es un navegador web de código abierto basado en Internet Explorer hecho en Visual Basic .NET. Descargalo ya!writethatoutput: This is the official release page for WriteThatOutPut from developerpath.com

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Stream Media and Live TV Across the Internet with Orb

- by DigitalGeekery

Looking for a way to stream your media collection across the Internet? Or perhaps watch and record TV remotely? Today we are going to look at how to do all that and more with Orb. Requirements Windows XP / Vista / 7 or Intel based Mac w/ OS X 10.5 or later. 1 GB RAM or more Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or higher / AMD Athlon 3200+ Broadband connections TV Tuner for streaming and recording live TV (optional) Note: Slower internet connections may result in stuttering during playback. Installation and Setup Download and install Orb on your home computer. (Download link below) You’ll want to take the defaults for the initial portion of the install. When we get to the Orb Account setup portion of the install is when we will have to enter information and make some decisions. Choose your language and click Next. We’ll need to create and user account and password. A valid email address is required as we’ll need to confirm the account later. Click Next. Now you’ll want to choose your media sources. Orb will automatically look for folders that may contain media files. You can add or remove folders click on the (+) or (-) buttons. To remove a folder, click on it once to select it from the list and then click the minus (-) button. To add a folder, click the plus (+) button and browse for the folder. You can add local folders as well as shared folders from networked computers and USB attached storage. Note: Both the host computer running Orb and the networked computer will need to be running to access shared network folders remotely. When you’ve selected all your media files, click Next. Orb will proceed to index your media files… When the indexing is complete, click Next. Orb TV Setup Note: Streaming Live TV to Macs is not currently supported. If you have a TV tuner card connected to your PC, you can opt to configure Orb to stream live or recorded TV. Click Next to configure TV. Or, choose Skip if you don’t wish to configure Orb for TV. If you have a Digital tuner card, type in your Zip Code and click Get List to pull your channel listings. Select a TV provider from the list and click Next. If not, click Skip. You can select or deselect any channels by checking or un-checking the box to each channel. Select Auto Scan to let Orb find more channels or disable the ones with no reception. Click Next when finished. Next choose an analog provider, if necessary, and click Next. Select “Yes” or “No” for a set top box and click Next. Just as we did with the Digital tuner, select or deselect any channels by checking or un-checking the box to each channel. Select Auto Scan to let Orb find more channels or disable the ones with no reception. Click Next when finished. Now we’re finished with the setup. Click Close. Accessing your Media Remotely Media files are accessed through a web-based interface. Before we go any further, however, we’ll need to confirm our username and password. Check your inbox for an email from Orb Networks. Click the enclosed confirmation link. You’ll be prompted to enter the username and password you selected in your browser then click Next. Your account will be confirmed. Now, we’re ready to enjoy our media remotely. To get started, point your browser to the MyCast website from your remote computer. (See link below) Enter your credentials and click Log In. Once logged in, you’ll be presented with the MyCast Home screen. By default you’ll see a handful of “channels” such as a TV program guide, random audio and photos, video favorites, and weather. You can add, remove, or customize channels. To add additional channels, click on Add Channels at the top right… …and select from the dropdown list. To access your full media libraries, click Open Application at the top left and select from one of the options. Live and Recorded TV If you have a TV tuner card you configured for Orb, you’ll see your program guide on the TV / Webcams screen. To watch or record a show, click on the program listing to bring up a detail box. Then click the red button to record, or the green button to play. When recording a show, you’ll see a pulsating red icon at the top right of the listing in the program guide. If you want to watch Live TV, you may be prompted to choose your media player, depending on your browser and settings. Playback should begin shortly. Note for Windows Media Center Users If you try to stream live TV in Orb while Windows Media Center is running on your PC, you’ll get an error message. Click the Stop MediaCenter button and then try again. Audio On the Audio screen, you’ll find your music files indexed by genre, artist, and album. You can play a selection by clicking once and then clicking the green play button, or by simply double-clicking. Playback will begin in the default media player for the streaming format. Video Video works essentially the same as audio. Click on a selection and press the green play button, or double-click on the video title. Video playback will begin in the default media player for the streaming format. Streaming Formats You can change the default streaming format in the control panel settings. To access the Control Panel, click on Open Applications and select Control Panel. You can also click Settings at the top right. Select General from the drop down list and then click on the Streaming Formats tab. You are provided four options. Flash, Windows Media, .SDP, and .PLS. Creating Playlists To create playlists, drag and drop your media title to the playlist work area on the right, or click Add to playlist on the top menu. Click Save when finished. Sharing your Media Orb allows you to share media playlists across the Internet with friends and family. There are a few ways to accomplish this. We’ll start by click the Share button at the bottom of the playlist work area after you’ve compiled your playlist. You’ll be prompted to choose a method by which to share your playlist. You’ll have the option to share your playlist publicly or privately. You can share publically through links, blogs, or on your Orb public profile. By choosing the Public Profile option, Orb will automatically create a profile page for you with a URL like http://public.orb.com/username that anyone can easily access on the Internet. The private sharing option allows you to invite friends by email and requires recipients to register with Orb. You can also give your playlist a custom name, or accept the auto-generated title. Click OK when finished. Users who visit your public profile will be able to view and stream any of your shared playlists to their computer or supported device. Portable Media Devices and Smartphones Orb can stream media to many portable devices and 3G phones. Streaming audio is supported on the iPhone and iPod Touch through the Safari browser. However, video and live TV streaming requires the Orb Live iPhone App. Orb Live is available in the App store for $9.99. To stream media to your portable device, go to the MyCast website in your mobile browser and login. Browse for your media or playlist. Make a selection and play the media. Playback will begin. We found streaming music to both the Droid and the iPhone to work quite nicely. Video playback on the Droid, however, left a bit to be desired. The video looked good, but the audio tended to be out of sync. System Tray Control Panel By default Orb runs in the system tray on start up. To access the System Tray Control Panel, right-click on the Orb icon in the system tray and select Control Panel. Login with your Orb username and password and click OK. From here you can add or remove media sources, add manage accounts, change your password, and more. If you’d rather not run Orb on Startup, click the General icon. Unselect the checkbox next to Start Orb when the system starts. Conclusion It may seem like a lot of steps, but getting Orb up and running isn’t terribly difficult. Orb is available for both Windows and Intel based Macs. It also supports streaming to many Game Consoles such as the Wii, PS3, and XBox 360. If you are running Windows 7 on multiple computers, you may want to check out our write-up on how to stream music and video over the Internet with Windows Media Player 12. 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Queued Loadtest to remove Concurrency issues using Shared Data Service in OpenScript

- by stefan.thieme(at)oracle.com

Queued Processing to remove Concurrency issues in Loadtest ScriptsSome scripts act on information returned by the server, e.g. act on first item in the returned list of pending tasks/actions. This may lead to concurrency issues if the virtual users simulated in a load test scenario are not synchronized in some way.As the load test cases should be carried out in a comparable and straight forward manner simply cancel a transaction in case a collision occurs is clearly not an option. In case you increase the number of virtual users this approach would lead to a high number of requests for the early steps in your transaction (e.g. login, retrieve list of action points, assign an action point to the virtual user) but later steps would be rarely visited successfully or at all, depending on the application logic.A way to tackle this problem is to enqueue the virtual users in a Shared Data Service queue. Only the first virtual user in this queue will be allowed to carry out the critical steps (retrieve list of action points, assign an action point to the virtual user) in your transaction at any one time.Once a virtual user has passed the critical path it will dequeue himself from the head of the queue and continue with his actions. This does theoretically allow virtual users to run in parallel all steps of the transaction which are not part of the critical path.In practice it has been seen this is rarely the case, though it does not allow adding more than N users to perform a transaction without causing delays due to virtual users waiting in the queue. N being the time of the total transaction divided by the sum of the time of all critical steps in this transaction.While this problem can be circumvented by allowing multiple queues to act on individual segments of the list of actions, e.g. per country filter, ends with 0..9 filter, etc.This would require additional handling of these additional queues of slots for the virtual users at the head of the queue in order to maintain the mutually exclusive access to the first element in the list returned by the server at any one time of the load test. Such an improved handling of multiple queues and/or multiple slots is above the subject of this paper.Shared Data Services Pre-RequisitesStart WebLogic Server to host Shared Data ServicesYou will have to make sure that your WebLogic server is installed and started. Shared Data Services may not work if you installed only the minimal installation package for OpenScript. If however you installed the default package including OLT and OTM, you may follow the instructions below to start and verify WebLogic installation.To start the WebLogic Server deployed underneath of Oracle Load Testing and/or Oracle Test Manager you can go to your Start menu, Oracle Application Testing Suite and select the Restart Oracle Application Testing Suite Application Service entry from the Tools submenu.To verify the service has been started you can run the Microsoft Management Console for Services by Selecting Run from the Start Menu and entering services.msc. Look for the entry that reads Oracle Application Testing Suite Application Service, once it has changed it status from Starting to Started you can proceed to verify the login. Please note that this may take several minutes, I would say up to 10 minutes depending on the strength of your CPU horse-power.Verify WebLogic Server user credentialsYou will have to make sure that your WebLogic Server is installed and started. Next open the Oracle WebLogic Server Adminstration Console on http://localhost:8088/console.It may take a while until the application is deployed and started. It may display the following until the Administration Console has been deployed on the fly.Afterwards you can login using the username oats and the password that you selected during install time for your Application Testing Suite administrative purposes.This will bring up the Home page of you WebLogic Server. You have actually verified that you are able to login with these credentials already. However if you want to check the details, navigate to Security Realms, myrealm, Users and Groups tab.Here you could add users to your WebLogic Server which could be used in the later steps. Details on the Groups required for such a custom user to work are exceeding this quick overview and have to be selected with the WebLogic Server Adminstration Guide in mind.Shared Data Services pre-requisites for Load testingOpenScript Preferences have to be set to enable Encryption and provide a default Shared Data Service Connection for Playback.These are pre-requisites you want to use for load testing with Shared Data Services.Please note that the usage of the Connection Parameters (individual directive in the script) for Shared Data Services did not playback reliably in the current version 9.20.0370 of Oracle Load Testing (OLT) and encryption of credentials still seemed to be mandatory as well.General Encryption settingsSelect OpenScript Preferences from the View menu and navigate to the General, Encryption entry in the tree on the left. Select the Encrypt script data option from the list and enter the same password that you used for securing your WebLogic Server Administration Console.Enable global shared data access credentialsSelect OpenScript Preferences from the View menu and navigate to the Playback, Shared Data entry in the tree on the left. Enable the global shared data access credentials and enter the Address, User name and Password determined for your WebLogic Server to host Shared Data Services.Please note, that you may want to replace the localhost in Address with the hosts realname in case you plan to run load tests with Loadtest Agents running on remote systems.Queued Processing of TransactionsEnable Shared Data Services Module in Script PropertiesThe Shared Data Services Module has to be enabled for each Script that wants to employ the Shared Data Service Queue functionality in OpenScript. It can be enabled under the Script menu selecting Script Properties. On the Script Properties Dialog select the Modules section and check Shared Data to enable Shared Data Service Module for your script. Checking the Shared Data Services option will effectively add a line to your script code that adds the sharedData ScriptService to your script class of IteratingVUserScript.@ScriptService oracle.oats.scripting.modules.sharedData.api.SharedDataService sharedData;Record your scriptRecord your script as usual and then add the following things for Queue handling in the Initialize code block, before the first step and after the last step of your critical path and in the Finalize code block.The java code to be added at individual locations is explained in the following sections in full detail.Create a Shared Data Queue in InitializeTo create a Shared Data Queue go to the Java view of your script and enter the following statements to the initialize() code block.info("Create queueA with life time of 120 minutes");sharedData.createQueue("queueA", 120);This will create an instantiation of the Shared Data Queue object named queueA which is maintained for upto 120 minutes.If you want to use the code for multiple scripts, make sure to use a different queue name for each one here and in the subsequent steps. You may even consider to use a dynamic queueName based on filters of your result list being concurrently accessed.Prepare a unique id for each IterationIn order to keep track of individual virtual users in our queue we need to create a unique identifier from the virtual user id and the used username right after retrieving the next record from our databank file.getDatabank("Usernames").getNextDatabankRecord();getVariables().set("usernameValue1","VU_{{@vuid}}_{{@iterationnum}}_{{db.Usernames.Username}}_{{@timestamp}}_{{@random(10000)}}");String usernameValue = getVariables().get("usernameValue1");info("Now running virtual user " + usernameValue);As you can see from the above code block, we have set the OpenScript variable usernameValue1 to VU_{{@vuid}}_{{@iterationnum}}_{{db.Usernames.Username}}_{{@timestamp}}_{{@random(10000)}} which is a concatenation of the virtual user id and the iterationnumber for general uniqueness; as well as the username from our databank, the timestamp and a random number for making it further unique and ease spotting of errors.Not all of these fields are actually required to make it really unique, but adding the queue name may also be considered to help troubleshoot multiple queues.The value is then retrieved with the getVariables.get() method call and assigned to the usernameValue String used throughout the script.Please note that moving the getDatabank("Usernames").getNextDatabankRecord(); call to the initialize block was later considered to remove concurrency of multiple virtual users running with the same userid and therefor accessing the same "My Inbox" in step 6. This will effectively give each virtual user a userid from the databank file. Make sure you have enough userids to remove this second hurdle.Enqueue and attend Queue before Critical PathTo maintain the right order of virtual users being allowed into the critical path of the transaction the following pseudo step has to be added in front of the first critical step. In the case of this example this is right in front of the step where we retrieve the list of actions from which we select the first to be assigned to us.beginStep("[0] Waiting in the Queue", 0);{info("Enqueued virtual user " + usernameValue + " at the end of queueA");sharedData.offerLast("queueA", usernameValue);info("Wait until the user is the first in queueA");String queueValue1 = null;do {// we wait for at least 0.7 seconds before we check the head of the// queue. This is the time it takes one user to move through the// critical path, i.e. pass steps [5] Enter country and [6] Assign// to meThread.sleep(700);queueValue1 = (String) sharedData.peekFirst("queueA");info("The first user in queueA is currently: '" + queueValue1 + "' " + queueValue1.getClass() + " length " + queueValue1.length() );info("The current user is '"+ usernameValue + "' " + usernameValue.getClass() + " length " + usernameValue.length() + ": indexOf " + usernameValue.indexOf(queueValue1) + " equals " + usernameValue.equals(queueValue1) );} while ( queueValue1.indexOf(usernameValue) < 0 );info("Now the user is the first in queueA");}endStep();This will enqueue the username to the tail of our Queue. It will will wait for at least 700 milliseconds, the time it takes for one user to exit the critical path and then compare the head of our queue with it's username. This last step will be repeated while the two are not equal (indexOf less than zero). If they are equal the indexOf will yield a value of zero or larger and we will perform the critical steps.Dequeue after Critical PathAfter the virtual user has left the critical path and complete its last step the following code block needs to dequeue the virtual user. In the case of our example this is right after the action has been actually assigned to the virtual user. This will allow the next virtual user to retrieve the list of actions still available and in turn let him make his selection/assignment.info("Get and remove the current user from the head of queueA");String pollValue1 = (String) sharedData.pollFirst("queueA");The current user is removed from the head of the queue. The next one will now be able to match his username against the head of the queue.Clear and Destroy Queue for FinishWhen the script has completed, it should clear and destroy the queue. This code block can be put in the finish block of your script and/or in a separate script in order to clear and remove the queue in case you have spotted an error or want to reset the queue for some reason.info("Clear queueA");sharedData.clearQueue("queueA");info("Destroy queueA");sharedData.destroyQueue("queueA");The users waiting in queueA are cleared and the queue is destroyed. If you have scripts still executing they will be caught in a loop.I found it better to maintain a separate Reset Queue script which contained only the following code in the initialize() block. I use to call this script to make sure the queue is cleared in between multiple Loadtest runs. This script could also even be added as the first in a larger scenario, which would execute it only once at very start of the Loadtest and make sure the queues do not contain any stale entries.info("Create queueA with life time of 120 minutes");sharedData.createQueue("queueA", 120);info("Clear queueA");sharedData.clearQueue("queueA");This will create a Shared Data Queue instance of queueA and clear all entries from this queue.Monitoring QueueWhile creating the scripts it was useful to monitor the contents, i.e. the current first user in the Queue. The following code block will make sure the Shared Data Queue is accessible in the initialize() block.info("Create queueA with life time of 120 minutes");sharedData.createQueue("queueA", 120);In the run() block the following code will continuously monitor the first element of the Queue and write an informational message with the current username Value to the Result window.info("Monitor the first users in queueA");String queueValue1 = null;do {queueValue1 = (String) sharedData.peekFirst("queueA");if (queueValue1 != null)info("The first user in queueA is currently: '" + queueValue1 + "' " + queueValue1.getClass() + " length " + queueValue1.length() );} while ( true );This script can be run from OpenScript parallel to a loadtest performed by the Oracle Load Test.However it is not recommend to run this in a production loadtest as the performance impact is unknown. Accessing the Queue's head with the peekFirst() method has been reported with about 2 seconds response time by both OpenScript and OTL. It is advised to log a Service Request to see if this could be lowered in future releases of Application Testing Suite, as the pollFirst() and even offerLast() writing to the tail of the Queue usually returned after an average 0.1 seconds.Debugging QueueWhile debugging the scripts the following was useful to remove single entries from its head, i.e. the current first user in the Queue. The following code block will make sure the Shared Data Queue is accessible in the initialize() block.info("Create queueA with life time of 120 minutes");sharedData.createQueue("queueA", 120);In the run() block the following code will remove the first element of the Queue and write an informational message with the current username Value to the Result window.info("Get and remove the current user from the head of queueA");String pollValue1 = (String) sharedData.pollFirst("queueA");info("The first user in queueA was currently: '" + pollValue1 + "' " + pollValue1.getClass() + " length " + pollValue1.length() );ReferencesOracle Functional Testing OpenScript User's Guide Version 9.20 [E15488-05]Chapter 17 Using the Shared Data Modulehttp://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/apptesting/oats-docs-9.21.0030.zipOracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help 11g Release 1 (10.3.4) [E13952-04]Administration Console Online Help - Manage users and groupshttp://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/apirefs.1111/e13952/taskhelp/security/ManageUsersAndGroups.htm

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