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  • Javascript Image object without instantiating

    - by user276027
    This question is about javascript performance. Consider 3 examples for illustration: function loadImgA() { new Image().src="http://example.com/image.gif" } function loadImgA1() { Image().src="http://example.com/image.gif" } function loadImgB() { var testImg = new Image(); testImg.src="http://example.com/image.gif" } Now the point is I don't really need to manipulate the the image object after it was created, hence loadImgA(). The question is, what happens if nothing is assigned to the return value of the new Image() constructor - in that case I can actually skip the 'new' keyword as in loadImgA1()? Does the object then live outside the function or somehow affects memory usage? Other implications, differences? I reckon not, as no real instance was actually created? To put this into perspective, I only need to get the http request for image through. No preloading or other advanced image manipulation. What would be the preferred method from the above?

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  • SQL SERVER – Subquery or Join – Various Options – SQL Server Engine knows the Best

    - by pinaldave
    This is followup post of my earlier article SQL SERVER – Convert IN to EXISTS – Performance Talk, after reading all the comments I have received I felt that I could write more on the same subject to clear few things out. First let us run following four queries, all of them are giving exactly same resultset. USE AdventureWorks GO -- use of = SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee E WHERE E.EmployeeID = ( SELECT EA.EmployeeID FROM HumanResources.EmployeeAddress EA WHERE EA.EmployeeID = E.EmployeeID) GO -- use of in SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee E WHERE E.EmployeeID IN ( SELECT EA.EmployeeID FROM HumanResources.EmployeeAddress EA WHERE EA.EmployeeID = E.EmployeeID) GO -- use of exists SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee E WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT EA.EmployeeID FROM HumanResources.EmployeeAddress EA WHERE EA.EmployeeID = E.EmployeeID) GO -- Use of Join SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee E INNER JOIN HumanResources.EmployeeAddress EA ON E.EmployeeID = EA.EmployeeID GO Let us compare the execution plan of the queries listed above. Click on image to see larger image. It is quite clear from the execution plan that in case of IN, EXISTS and JOIN SQL Server Engines is smart enough to figure out what is the best optimal plan of Merge Join for the same query and execute the same. However, in the case of use of Equal (=) Operator, SQL Server is forced to use Nested Loop and test each result of the inner query and compare to outer query, leading to cut the performance. Please note that here I no mean suggesting that Nested Loop is bad or Merge Join is better. This can very well vary on your machine and amount of resources available on your computer. When I see Equal (=) operator used in query like above, I usually recommend to see if user can use IN or EXISTS or JOIN. As I said, this can very much vary on different system. What is your take in above query? I believe SQL Server Engines is usually pretty smart to figure out what is ideal execution plan and use it. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Joins, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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  • SQL SERVER – Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications

    - by pinaldave
    Earlier I wrote SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL Server: One Step at a Time – SQL Server Magazine. That was the first article on the series of my real world experience of Performance Tuning experience. I have written second part the same series over here. Read second part over here: Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications. In this second part I talk about two types of my clients. 1) Those who want instant results 2) Those who want the right results It is really fun to work with both the clients. I talk about various configuration options which I look at when I try to give very early opinion about SQL Server Performance. There are various eight configurations, I give quick look and start talking about performance. Head over to original article over here: Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications. Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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  • SQL SERVER – Wait Stats – Wait Types – Wait Queues – Day 0 of 28

    - by pinaldave
    This blog post will have running account of the all the blog post I will be doing in this month related to SQL Server Wait Types and Wait Queues. SQL SERVER – Introduction to Wait Stats and Wait Types – Wait Type – Day 1 of 28 SQL SERVER – Signal Wait Time Introduction with Simple Example – Wait Type – Day 2 of 28 SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_wait_stats Explanation – Wait Type – Day 3 of 28 SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28 SQL SERVER – Capturing Wait Types and Wait Stats Information at Interval – Wait Type – Day 5 of 28 SQL SERVER – CXPACKET – Parallelism – Usual Solution – Wait Type – Day 6 of 28 SQL SERVER – CXPACKET – Parallelism – Advanced Solution – Wait Type – Day 7 of 28 SQL SERVER – SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD – Wait Type – Day 8 of 28 SQL SERVER – PAGEIOLATCH_DT, PAGEIOLATCH_EX, PAGEIOLATCH_KP, PAGEIOLATCH_SH, PAGEIOLATCH_UP – Wait Type – Day 9 of 28 SQL SERVER – IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 10 of 28 SQL SERVER – ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 11 of 28 SQL SERVER – PAGELATCH_DT, PAGELATCH_EX, PAGELATCH_KP, PAGELATCH_SH, PAGELATCH_UP – Wait Type – Day 12 of 28 SQL SERVER – FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT – Full Text – Wait Type – Day 13 of 28 SQL SERVER – BACKUPIO, BACKUPBUFFER – Wait Type – Day 14 of 28 SQL SERVER – LCK_M_XXX – Wait Type – Day 15 of 28 Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Wait Stats, SQL Wait Types, T SQL, Technology

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  • Fast Fashion Freshness

    - by David Dorf
    Fashion retailers such as H&M, Zara, and Wet Seal have perfected the fast fashion retailing model. The concept requires no replenishment in order to maintain assortment freshness and to create a sense of urgency for the consumer to purchase now. However, maintaining assortment freshness results in high product turnover, making markdown optimization a necessity. Wet Seal, for instance, needed to move from ad-hoc markdowns and dealing with surplus inventory to handling markdowns methodically across 8,000 SKUs with only 12-15 week lifecycle (from DC receipt to exit). By optimizing and automating markdowns, Wet Seal is reaching their goal of assortment freshness, which in turn increases sales. If you're interested in learning more, register for a free webinar occurring on May 13th featuring Join Daniel Ryu, Vice President of Planning and Allocation at Wet Seal. He'll be discussing how the fast fashion retailer maintains their goal of assortment freshness.

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  • SQL SERVER – Convert IN to EXISTS – Performance Talk

    - by pinaldave
    In recent training one of the attendee asked if I can show simple method to convert IN clause to EXISTS clause. Here is the simple example. USE AdventureWorks GO -- use of = SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee E WHERE E.EmployeeID = ( SELECT EA.EmployeeID FROM HumanResources.EmployeeAddress EA WHERE EA.EmployeeID = E.EmployeeID) GO -- use of exists SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee E WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT EA.EmployeeID FROM HumanResources.EmployeeAddress EA WHERE EA.EmployeeID = E.EmployeeID) GO It is NOT necessary that every time when IN is replaced by EXISTS it gives better performance. However, in our case listed above it does for sure give better performance. Click on below image to see the execution plan. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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  • How can I resize pixel art in Pyglet without making it blurry?

    - by Renold
    I have a tileset of 8x8 pixel images, and I want to resize them in my game so they'd be double that (16x16 pixels, e.g. turning each pixel into a 2x2 block.) What I'm trying to achieve is a Minecraft-like effect, where you have small pixel images scale to larger blockier pixels. In Pyglet, the sprite's scale property blurs the pixels. Is there some other way? Update: So I changed my code, but I'm still having the same issue (nothing changed.) Of course, the GL commands are kind of mysterious to me: gl.glEnable(gl.GL_TEXTURE_2D) image = resource.image('tileset.png') texture = image.get_texture() gl.glBindTexture(gl.GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture.id) gl.glTexParameteri(gl.GL_TEXTURE_2D, gl.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, gl.GL_NEAREST) texture.width = 16 # resize from 8x8 to 16x16 texture.height = 16 image.blit(100, 30) # draw Is there something else I should try?

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  • JIT compiler for C, C++, and the likes

    - by Ebrahim
    Is there any just-in-time compiler out there for compiled languages, such as C and C++? (The first names that come to mind are Clang and LLVM! But I don't think they currently support it.) Explanation: I think the software could benefit from runtime profiling feedback and aggressively optimized recompilation of hotspots at runtime, even for compiled-to-machine languages like C and C++. Profile-guided optimization does a similar job, but with the difference a JIT would be more flexible in different environments. In PGO you run your binary prior to releasing it. After you released it, it would use no environment/input feedbacks collected at runtime. So if the input pattern is changed, it is probe to performance penalty. But JIT works well even in that conditions. However I think it is controversial wether the JIT compiling performance benefit outweights its own overhead. Edit: Grammar

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  • Single click handler for all buttons in Javascript? Is it a pattern? Whats the benefit?

    - by Hasan Khan
    I have been told that when there are multiple buttons on the page for same purpose but targeting different item e.g. delete item on a grid of items, they say it is recommended to just register for click handler only on the top most element like 'body' and check what was clicked instead of hooking up click with every delete button. Whats the benefit of this? Creating more handlers causes problems? Is it an optimization of some sort? Is it a pattern? Does it have anything to do with performance? Where can I read more about it?

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  • Benefit of using Data URI to embed images within HTML document and its cross-browser compatibility

    - by Manoj Agarwal
    I want to embed an image using Data URI within HTML document so that we don't need image as a separate attachment, we get just one HTML file that contains the actual image. What are its advantages and disadvantages? Does IE10 supports it? Is it useful to have such an implementation? I am working on an application, where we have html documents that link towards images stored in some location. If I use tiny online editor, as images are saved somewhere in the server, while editing the document, i can provide a link towards that image, but can't preview the final document with images from within tiny editor. If I chose to download the file locally, then i will need to download the images from server side. It looks a bit overkill, so I thought if Data URI could be used in such a situation.

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  • CSS Style Element if it does not contain another specific type of Element [migrated]

    - by Chris S
    My CSS includes the following: #mainbody a[href ^='http'] { background:transparent url('/images/icons/external.svg') no-repeat top right; padding-right: 12px; } This places an "external" icon next to links that start with "http" (all internal site links are relative). Works perfectly except if I link an Image, it also get this icon. For example: <a href='http://example.com'><img src='whatever.jpg'/></a> would also get the "external" icon next to the image. I can live with this if necessary, but would like to eliminate it. This must be implement in CSS (no JS); must not require any special IDs, Classes, styling in the html for the image or anchor around the image. Is this possible?

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  • Vectorization of matlab code for faster execution

    - by user3237134
    My code works in the following manner: 1.First, it obtains several images from the training set 2.After loading these images, we find the normalized faces,mean face and perform several calculation. 3.Next, we ask for the name of an image we want to recognize 4.We then project the input image into the eigenspace, and based on the difference from the eigenfaces we make a decision. 5.Depending on eigen weight vector for each input image we make clusters using kmeans command. Source code i tried: clear all close all clc % number of images on your training set. M=1200; %Chosen std and mean. %It can be any number that it is close to the std and mean of most of the images. um=60; ustd=32; %read and show images(bmp); S=[]; %img matrix for i=1:M str=strcat(int2str(i),'.jpg'); %concatenates two strings that form the name of the image eval('img=imread(str);'); [irow icol d]=size(img); % get the number of rows (N1) and columns (N2) temp=reshape(permute(img,[2,1,3]),[irow*icol,d]); %creates a (N1*N2)x1 matrix S=[S temp]; %X is a N1*N2xM matrix after finishing the sequence %this is our S end %Here we change the mean and std of all images. We normalize all images. %This is done to reduce the error due to lighting conditions. for i=1:size(S,2) temp=double(S(:,i)); m=mean(temp); st=std(temp); S(:,i)=(temp-m)*ustd/st+um; end %show normalized images for i=1:M str=strcat(int2str(i),'.jpg'); img=reshape(S(:,i),icol,irow); img=img'; end %mean image; m=mean(S,2); %obtains the mean of each row instead of each column tmimg=uint8(m); %converts to unsigned 8-bit integer. Values range from 0 to 255 img=reshape(tmimg,icol,irow); %takes the N1*N2x1 vector and creates a N2xN1 matrix img=img'; %creates a N1xN2 matrix by transposing the image. % Change image for manipulation dbx=[]; % A matrix for i=1:M temp=double(S(:,i)); dbx=[dbx temp]; end %Covariance matrix C=A'A, L=AA' A=dbx'; L=A*A'; % vv are the eigenvector for L % dd are the eigenvalue for both L=dbx'*dbx and C=dbx*dbx'; [vv dd]=eig(L); % Sort and eliminate those whose eigenvalue is zero v=[]; d=[]; for i=1:size(vv,2) if(dd(i,i)>1e-4) v=[v vv(:,i)]; d=[d dd(i,i)]; end end %sort, will return an ascending sequence [B index]=sort(d); ind=zeros(size(index)); dtemp=zeros(size(index)); vtemp=zeros(size(v)); len=length(index); for i=1:len dtemp(i)=B(len+1-i); ind(i)=len+1-index(i); vtemp(:,ind(i))=v(:,i); end d=dtemp; v=vtemp; %Normalization of eigenvectors for i=1:size(v,2) %access each column kk=v(:,i); temp=sqrt(sum(kk.^2)); v(:,i)=v(:,i)./temp; end %Eigenvectors of C matrix u=[]; for i=1:size(v,2) temp=sqrt(d(i)); u=[u (dbx*v(:,i))./temp]; end %Normalization of eigenvectors for i=1:size(u,2) kk=u(:,i); temp=sqrt(sum(kk.^2)); u(:,i)=u(:,i)./temp; end % show eigenfaces; for i=1:size(u,2) img=reshape(u(:,i),icol,irow); img=img'; img=histeq(img,255); end % Find the weight of each face in the training set. omega = []; for h=1:size(dbx,2) WW=[]; for i=1:size(u,2) t = u(:,i)'; WeightOfImage = dot(t,dbx(:,h)'); WW = [WW; WeightOfImage]; end omega = [omega WW]; end % Acquire new image % Note: the input image must have a bmp or jpg extension. % It should have the same size as the ones in your training set. % It should be placed on your desktop ed_min=[]; srcFiles = dir('G:\newdatabase\*.jpg'); % the folder in which ur images exists for b = 1 : length(srcFiles) filename = strcat('G:\newdatabase\',srcFiles(b).name); Imgdata = imread(filename); InputImage=Imgdata; InImage=reshape(permute((double(InputImage)),[2,1,3]),[irow*icol,1]); temp=InImage; me=mean(temp); st=std(temp); temp=(temp-me)*ustd/st+um; NormImage = temp; Difference = temp-m; p = []; aa=size(u,2); for i = 1:aa pare = dot(NormImage,u(:,i)); p = [p; pare]; end InImWeight = []; for i=1:size(u,2) t = u(:,i)'; WeightOfInputImage = dot(t,Difference'); InImWeight = [InImWeight; WeightOfInputImage]; end noe=numel(InImWeight); % Find Euclidean distance e=[]; for i=1:size(omega,2) q = omega(:,i); DiffWeight = InImWeight-q; mag = norm(DiffWeight); e = [e mag]; end ed_min=[ed_min MinimumValue]; theta=6.0e+03; %disp(e) z(b,:)=InImWeight; end IDX = kmeans(z,5); clustercount=accumarray(IDX, ones(size(IDX))); disp(clustercount); Running time for 50 images:Elapsed time is 103.947573 seconds. QUESTIONS: 1.It is working fine for M=50(i.e Training set contains 50 images) but not for M=1200(i.e Training set contains 1200 images).It is not showing any error.There is no output.I waited for 10 min still there is no output. I think it is going infinite loop.What is the problem?Where i was wrong?

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  • When to start thinking about scalability?

    - by Rits
    I'm having a funny but also terrible problem. I'm about to launch a new (iPhone) app. It's a turn-based multiplayer game running on my own custom backend. But I'm afraid to launch. For some reason, I think it might become something big and that its popularity will kill my poor lonely single server + MySQL database. On one hand I'm thinking that if it's growing, I'd better be prepared and have a scalable infrastructure already in place. On the other hand I just feel like getting it out into the world and see what happens. I often read stuff like "premature optimization is the root of all evil" or people saying that you should just build your killer game now, with the tools at hand, and worry about other stuff like scalability later. I'd love to hear some opinions on this from experts or people with experience with this. Thanks!

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  • Dynamically load images inside jar

    - by Rahat Ahmed
    I'm using Slick2d for a game, and while it runs fine in Eclipse, i'm trying to figure out how to make it work when exported to a runnable .jar. I have it set up to where I load every image located in the res/ directory. Here's the code /** * Loads all .png images located in source folders. * @throws SlickException */ public static void init() throws SlickException { loadedImages = new HashMap<>(); try { URI uri = new URI(ResourceLoader.getResource("res").toString()); File[] files = new File(uri).listFiles(new FilenameFilter(){ @Override public boolean accept(File dir, String name) { if(name.endsWith(".png")) return true; return false; } }); System.out.println("Naming filenames now."); for(File f:files) { System.out.println(f.getName()); FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f); Image image = new Image(fis, f.getName(), false); loadedImages.put(f.getName(), image); } } catch (URISyntaxException | FileNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("UNABLE TO LOAD IMAGES FROM RES FOLDER!"); e.printStackTrace(); } font = new AngelCodeFont("res/bitmapfont.fnt",Art.get("bitmapfont.png")); } Now the obvious problem is the line URI uri = new URI(ResourceLoader.getResource("res").toString()); If I pack the res folder into the .jar there will not be a res folder on the filesystem. How can I iterate through all the images in the compiled .jar itself, or what is a better system to automatically load all images?

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  • Optimising news fetching

    - by aceBox
    I have a web scraper for scraping news from different sources in wp7. My current appraoch for doing this is: load newspapers information from xml file. go to the specified sections and fetch the urls of the news items. go to each url and fetch headline, image, publisher. display using a MVVM architecture of windows phone. The whole thing takes place asynchronously...meaning as soon as url from a section of a newspaper is fetched it is added to the queue, and the second stage consisting of fetching headline, image etc starts... and as soon this is fetched even for one article, it is displayed. Later on as more articles are fetched, they are added on to the list. For the fetching purpose I am using a SmartThreadPool(http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7933/Smart-Thread-Pool) for windows phone. My problem is that...even for fetching around 80 items (in total) from 9 publications, it is taking more than a minute. How can i speed up the procedure? Note: I have a two stage approach because many times the images are not available with headlines, and are only found in the article.

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  • What is Rails way to save images?

    - by user
    I develop on iOS, and I'm switching from a PHP backend to Ruby on Rails. The interchange format is JSON. A quick Google search for 'save images in Rails' has nearly every result talking about saving image data as blobs to the database. I might be mistaken, but I'm under the impression that saving image data in a database is a huge waste of time and space (as opposed to saving a link to the file location ('/img/subcat/4656.png'). In PHP, it's pretty standard to receive the data, generate a filename, then save that file to disk, and then update the database with the image's location on disk. Is this the same for Rails, or is there some built-in ActiveRecord image functionality I'm not aware of?

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  • Clipboard: Copy image, get path back when pasting in file input.

    - by disown
    Hi All. First question here on superuser. I sometimes get ad-hoc bug reports from customers, which I need to transfer to our online bug tracker. Works fine for text, but pictures are tedious. I'm looking for a solution to copy-paste images from documents (like excel sheets) in a way that if you paste an image to a file input (or text input) on a html page, the file will automatically be written to disk (tmp dir), and the path written to the file input field. This question is related to Directly paste clipboard image into gmail message, but I would like to ask if there is a solution using a local program only. I'm interested in solutions for all OS's.

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  • How do I mount a HFS+ dd image in OSX?

    - by Paul McMillan
    I had an HFS+ formatted drive that was going bad and wouldn't mount at all on OSX. I created an image using ddrescue on linux, and was able to save most of it. I can mount the drive and see the data just fine in linux using this: mount -o loop -t hfsplus dd_image /Volumes/mountpoint This doesn't work on my OSX system since hfsplus isn't a valid filesystem type. If I try: mount -t hfs image mountpoint It complains that it needs a block device. What's the fix here?

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  • Prevent Outlook 2010 Insert Picture resizing image

    - by Rup
    When I "Insert Picture" a JPEG in Outlook 2010 it automatically resizes the image and, I think, recompresses it too. I realise this would be useful for photographs or for people who try to email 1MB BMPs but I would like to email around an image at the original pixel size without recompression. Is there a way to turn this off, or better still choose settings for each image insert? I found this page in the Office help. It's for Word, PowerPoint and Excel not Outlook but points you at File, Options, Advanced, Image Settings. There's no equivalent section in Outlook. I know Outlook uses Word as its editor so I've looked at Word's settings but there isn't an 'original size' here: there's only 'turn off image recompression' and pick target DPI from 96, 150, 220. I guess Office is finding a DPI value in the JPEG file and scaling it up or down to match this setting. I can't find an equivalent option in Outlook's options menu but there's so many settings and pop-up dialogs I may have missed something. Picture Format, Reset image size resets the image to the rescaled version, not the original. I can't see a way to edit a pixel value into size values in the image properties after insert. Thanks! I realise I can probably achieve this by editing the image metadata in PhotoShop elements or similar but there ought to be a way without editing the file? This is new behaviour in Outlook 2010; 2007 didn't do this.

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  • How do I make an encrypted disk image on Debian?

    - by Blacklight Shining
    I'm basically looking for an equivalent to OS X's encrypted sparsebundles. The solution should have support for file ACLs and should not force me to specify a size in the beginning (the image should only take up as much space as it needs) or require root access to mount and unmount. Ideally, I should be able to set two different passwords (both for the same data), but that's not too important. (I do have root access to the machine and so can install packages and such, but I would rather not have to sudo just to mount an image.)

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  • How can I mount an image from an external HDD to a partition within the host system?

    - by HardwareMuch
    I'm currently using Acronis True Image Home 2010 and I have created an image of my Windows 7 OS. I copied it to my external HDD and I repartitioned my other PC's HDD. The primary partition houses the Windows Xp system which also has Acronis installed. The new partition is logical. Whenever I try to go through the steps on "Clone Disk" the program would not let me select a destination drive if I choose the external HDD as the source. I also did not know that it you can only select disks instead of partitions as a source or destination. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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  • Linux RHEL : Making disk image efficiently

    - by TheProfoundGeek
    I have a linux box having RHEL. Its disk (hda1) is having free space of about 25GB. I have an another disk (hda2) which is of 250GB having another RHEL instance, it's partitioned for 200GB. Data on the disk occupies about 21GB of data. The image of hda2 needs to be taken and restored on other disk of same specs. What is the best way to make image file of the hda2? Ideally the images size should be around 25GBs as the actual data on the disk is just 21GB. I am aware about the following two methods. Method 1 : Raw Image dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/path/to/image dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/hda3 Question 1 : Will the above method make a gigantic image of 250GBs? Is it efficient? Method 2 : Compressed Image. dd if=/dev/hda2 | gzip > /path/to/image.gz gzip -dc /path/to/image.gz | dd of=/dev/hda2 Question 2 : I tried the method 2, its taking too long. What are the pit falls of this methods? Which of the above method id efficient and why? Is there any other Linux utility which can do the job? Third party tools are no no.

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  • Intent and OnActivityResult causing Activity to get restart Actuomatically : Require to solve this issues

    - by Parth Dani
    i am having 20 imageview and i am having 20 button for them when i click any 1 button it gives me option to select image from gallery or camera when i select any option for example galley it will take me to the gallery and let me select image from their and let me display those images on my imageview for respective button now the problem is sometimes when i do the whole above process my activity is getting restart actuomatically and all the image which were first selected get vanished from their imageview For Refernce my code is as follow: @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.new_upload); // **************Code to get Road worthy number and VIN number value in // Shared Preference starts here************************ SharedPreferences myPrefs1 = this.getSharedPreferences("myPrefs", MODE_WORLD_READABLE); roadworthynumber = myPrefs1.getString(MY_ROADWORTHY, "Road Worthy Number"); vinnumber = myPrefs1.getString(MY_VIN, "VIN Number"); // **************Code to get Road worthy number and VIN number value in // Shared Preference ends here************************ // **************Code to create Directory AUSRWC starts // here************************ if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { cacheDir = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + File.separator + "AUSRWC" + File.separator); cacheDir.mkdirs(); } // **************Code to Create Directory AUSRWC ends // here************************ // *****************Assigning Button variable their Id declare in XML // file starts here***************** new_select1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select1); new_select2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select2); new_select3 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select3); new_select4 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select4); new_select5 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select5); new_select6 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select6); new_select7 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select7); new_select8 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select8); new_select9 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select9); new_select10 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select10); new_select11 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select11); new_select12 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select12); new_select13 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select13); new_select14 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select14); new_select15 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select15); new_select16 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select16); new_select17 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select17); new_select18 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select18); new_select19 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select19); new_select20 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.new_select20); // *****************Assigning Button variable their Id declare in XML // file ends here***************** // *****************Assigning Image variable their Id declare in XML // file starts here***************** new_selectimage1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage1); new_selectimage2 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage2); new_selectimage3 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage3); new_selectimage4 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage4); new_selectimage5 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage5); new_selectimage6 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage6); new_selectimage7 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage7); new_selectimage8 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage8); new_selectimage9 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage9); new_selectimage10 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage10); new_selectimage11 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage11); new_selectimage12 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage12); new_selectimage13 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage13); new_selectimage14 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage14); new_selectimage15 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage15); new_selectimage16 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage16); new_selectimage17 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage17); new_selectimage18 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage18); new_selectimage19 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage19); new_selectimage20 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.new_selectImage20); // ****Assigning Image variable their Id declare in XML file ends // here***************** // **************Creating Dialog to give option to user to new_select // image from gallery or from camera starts here**************** final String[] items = new String[] { "From Camera", "From Gallery" }; ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, items); AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); builder.setTitle("select Image"); builder.setAdapter(adapter, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int item) { if (item == 0) { if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState() .equals(android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { Intent intent = new Intent( MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE); File file = new File(Environment .getExternalStorageDirectory(), "/AUSRWC/picture" + ".jpg"); mImageCaptureUri = Uri.fromFile(file); try { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Click Image", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); intent.putExtra( android.provider.MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, mImageCaptureUri); intent.putExtra("return-data", true); startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_FROM_CAMERA); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } dialog.cancel(); } else { Intent intent = new Intent(); Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Select Image", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); intent.setType("image/*"); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT); startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Complete action using"), PICK_FROM_FILE); } } }); dialog = builder.create(); // **************Creating Dialog to give option to user to new_select // image from gallery or from camera ends here**************** final Animation animAlpha = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.anim_alpha); // Animation Code for displaying Button // Clicked. // ********************Image 1 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 1; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 1 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 2 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 2; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 2 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 3 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select3.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 3; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 3 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 4 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select4.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 4; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 4 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 5 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select5.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 5; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 5 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 6 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select6.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 6; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 6 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 7 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select7.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 7; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 7 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 8 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select8.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 8; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 8 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 9 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select9.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 9; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 9 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 10 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select10.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 10; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 10 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 11 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select11.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 11; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 11 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 12 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select12.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 12; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 12 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 13 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select13.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 13; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 13 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 14 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select14.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 14; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 14 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 15 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select15.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 15; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 15 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 16 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select16.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 16; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 16 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 17 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select17.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 17; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 17 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 18 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select18.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 18; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 18 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 19 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select19.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 19; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 19 button code ends // here******************************* // ********************Image 20 button code starts // here******************************* if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals( android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) { new_select20.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { v.startAnimation(animAlpha); buttonpressed = 20; dialog.show(); } }); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Please insert SdCard First", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } // ********************Image 20 button code ends // here******************************* } // *************************When Back Button is Pressed code begins // here************************************* @Override public void onBackPressed() { Toast.makeText(new_upload.this, "Sorry You are not allowed to go back", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); return; } // *************************When Back Button is Pressed code ends // here************************************* // ***********************To get Path of new_selected Image code starts // here************************************ public String getRealPathFromURI(Uri contentUri) { String[] proj = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA }; Cursor cursor = managedQuery(contentUri, proj, null, null, null); if (cursor == null) return null; int column_index = cursor .getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA); cursor.moveToFirst(); return cursor.getString(column_index); } // ***********************To get Path of new_selected Image code ends // here************************************ // **********************Picture obtained from the camera or from gallery // code starts here************** @Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { //path = ""; Log.e("","requestCode="+requestCode); switch (requestCode){ case PICK_FROM_FILE: if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) { mImageCaptureUri = data.getData(); path = getRealPathFromURI(mImageCaptureUri); // from Gallery Log.e("", "Imagepath from gallery=" + path); if (path == null) path = mImageCaptureUri.getPath(); // from File Manager if (path != null) { dialog1 = ProgressDialog.show(new_upload.this, "", "Processing Please wait...", true); new ImageDisplayTask().execute(); } } break; case PICK_FROM_CAMERA: if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) { try { path = mImageCaptureUri.getPath(); Log.e("", "Imagepath from Camera =" + path); // bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } if (path != null) { dialog1 = ProgressDialog.show(new_upload.this, "", "Processing Please wait...", true); //new ImageDisplayTask1().execute(); new ImageDisplayTask().execute(); } } break; default: } } // ********************Picture obtained from the camera or from gallery code // ends here********************************************* // ******************Image Display on Button when new_selected from gallery // Ashynch Code starts here******************************** class ImageDisplayTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> { @Override protected String doInBackground(Void... unsued) { Bitmap src = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path); Bitmap dest = Bitmap.createBitmap(src.getWidth(), src.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); //Bitmap dest = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(src, src.getWidth(),src.getHeight(), true); SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"); String dateTime = sdf.format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()); // reading local `` String timestamp = dateTime + " " + roadworthynumber; SimpleDateFormat sdf1 = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"); String dateTime1 = sdf1.format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()); Imagename = dateTime1.toString().trim().replaceAll(":", "") .replaceAll("-", "").replaceAll(" ", "") + roadworthynumber + ".jpg"; Canvas cs = new Canvas(dest); Paint tPaint = new Paint(); tPaint.setTextSize(100); tPaint.setTypeface(Typeface.SERIF); tPaint.setColor(Color.RED); tPaint.setStyle(Style.FILL); cs.drawBitmap(src, 0f, 0f, null); float height = tPaint.measureText("yY"); cs.drawText(timestamp, 5f, src.getHeight() - height + 5f, tPaint); try { dest.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 70, new FileOutputStream(new File(cacheDir, Imagename))); dest.recycle(); src.recycle(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } return null; } @Override protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... unsued) { } @Override protected void onPostExecute(String serverresponse) { String error = "noerror"; Display currentDisplay = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay(); int dw = currentDisplay.getWidth(); int dh = currentDisplay.getHeight() - 100; Log.e("", "width= " + dw + " Height= " + dh); try { BitmapFactory.Options bmpFactoryOptions = new BitmapFactory.Options(); bmpFactoryOptions.inJustDecodeBounds = true; Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile( Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/AUSRWC/" + Imagename, bmpFactoryOptions); int heightRatio = (int) Math.ceil(bmpFactoryOptions.outHeight / (float) dh); int widthRatio = (int) Math.ceil(bmpFactoryOptions.outWidth / (float) dw); if (heightRatio > 1 && widthRatio > 1) { if (heightRatio > widthRatio) { bmpFactoryOptions.inSampleSize = heightRatio; } else { bmpFactoryOptions.inSampleSize = widthRatio; } } bmpFactoryOptions.inJustDecodeBounds = false; bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile( Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/AUSRWC/" + Imagename, bmpFactoryOptions); if (buttonpressed == 1) { new_selectimage1.setImageBitmap(bmp); //Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 2) { new_selectimage2.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 3) { new_selectimage3.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 4) { new_selectimage4.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 5) { new_selectimage5.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 6) { new_selectimage6.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 7) { new_selectimage7.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 8) { new_selectimage8.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 9) { new_selectimage9.setImageBitmap(bmp);//Image set on ImageView } else if (buttonpressed == 10) { new_selectimage10.setImageBitmap(bmp); 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  • Rip and Convert DVD’s to an ISO Image

    - by Mysticgeek
    If you own a lot of DVD’s, you might want to convert them to an ISO image for backup and easily playing them on your media center. Today we take a look at ripping your discs using DVDFab, then using ImgBurn to create an ISO image of the ripped DVD files. Rip DVD with DVDFab6 DVDFab will remove copy protection and rip the DVD files for free. Other components in the suite require you to purchase a license after the 30 day trial, but you’ll still be able to rip DVD’s after the trial. Install DVDFab by accepting the defaults (link below)…a system restart is required to complete the install process. The first time you run it, a welcome screen is displayed. If you don’t want to see it again check the box Do not show again, then Start DVDFab.  Pop the DVD in your drive and click Next. Now select your region and check Do not show again, then OK. It will then open the DVD and begin to scan it. Under DVD to DVD you can select either Full Disc or Main Movie depending on what you want to rip. If you want to burn the DVD to a disc after it’s created select the Full Disc option. Now click the Start button to begin the ripping process. After the ripping process has completed, you’ll get a message telling you it’s waiting for you to put in a blank DVD. Since we aren’t burning the disc, just cancel the message. Click Finish and close out of DVDFab or just minimize it if you’re going to keep using it to rip another DVD. By default the temporary directory is in My Documents \ DVDFab \ Temp…however you can change it in settings. If you go to the Temp directory you’ll see the DVD files listed there… Convert Files to ISO with ImgBurn Now that we have the files ripped from the DVD, we need to convert them to an ISO image using ImgBurn (link below). Open it up and from the main menu click on Create image file from files/folders. Click on the folder icon to browse to the location of the ripped DVD files. Browse to the DVDFab temp directory and the VIDEO_TS folder for the source and click Ok. Then choose a destination directory, give the ISO a name, and click Save. In this case we ripped the Unbreakable DVD, so named it that.   So now in ImgBurn you have the source being the ripped DVD files, and the destination for the ISO…then click the Build button. If you don’t create a volume label, ImgBurn is kind enough to create on for you. If everything looks correct, click Ok. Now wait while ImgBurn goes through the process of converting the ripped DVD files to an ISO image. The process has successfully completed. The ISO image of the DVD will be in the output directory you selected earlier. Now you can burn the ISO image to a blank DVD or store it on an external hard drive for safe keeping. When you’re done, you’ll probably want to go into the temp DVDFab folder and delete the VOB and other files in the Video_TS folder as they will take up a lot of space on your hard drive.   Conclusion Although this method requires two programs to make an ISO out of a DVD, it’s extremely quick. When burning DVD’s of various lengths, it took less than 30 minutes to get the final ISO. Now, you’ll have your DVD movies backed up in case something were to happen to the discs and are no longer playable. If you use Windows Media Center to watch your movies, check out our article on how to automatically mount and view ISO files in Windows 7 Media Center. With DVDFab, you get a 30 day fully functional trial for all of its features. You’ll still be able rip DVD’s even after the 30 day trial has ended. The more we’ve been using DVDFab, the more impressed we are with its capabilities, so after the 30 day trial you should consider purchasing a license. We will have a full review of the of it to share with you soon.  Download DVDFab Download ImgBurn Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips How To Rip DVDs with VLCCalculate with Qalculate on LinuxConvert a Row to a Column in Excel the Easy WayEnjoy Quick & Easy Unit Conversion with Convert for WindowsConvert Older Excel Documents to Excel 2007 Format TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 PCmover Professional Beware Hover Kitties Test Drive Mobile Phones Online With TryPhone Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day, 3/23/10 New Stinger from McAfee Helps Remove ‘FakeAlert’ Threats Google Apps Marketplace: Tools & Services For Google Apps Users Get News Quick and Precise With Newser

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  • How do I prevent my form from freezing when it is loading an image from the web at the click of a button?

    - by Vimal Basdeo
    I want to display an image from the web to a panel in another Jframe at the click of a button but whenever I click the button first the image loads and during this time the current form potentially freezes and once the image has loaded the form is displayed with the image.. How can I avoid the situation where my form freezes since it is very irritating My codes :: My current class private void btn_TrackbusActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) { try { sendMessage("Query,map,$,start,211,Arsenal,!"); System.out.println(receiveMessage()); } catch (UnknownHostException ex) { Logger.getLogger(client_Trackbus.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(client_Trackbus.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } catch (Exception ex) { Logger.getLogger(client_Trackbus.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } client_trackedbus nextform=new client_trackedbus(planform,connection,packet_receive,packet_send); this.setVisible(false); this.dispose(); nextform.setVisible(true); // TODO add your handling code here: } My next class that displays the image public class client_trackedbus extends javax.swing.JFrame { client_planform planform=null; DatagramSocket connection=null; DatagramPacket packet_receive=null; DatagramPacket packet_send=null; JLabel label=null; /** Creates new form client_trackedbus */ public client_trackedbus(client_planform planform,DatagramSocket connection,DatagramPacket packet_receive,DatagramPacket packet_send) { initComponents(); this.planform=planform; this.connection=connection; this.packet_receive=packet_receive; this.packet_send=packet_send; try { displayMap("http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/images/image-2.jpg", jPanel1, new JLabel()); } catch (MalformedURLException ex) { Logger.getLogger(client_trackedbus.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } private void displayMap(String url,JPanel panel,JLabel label) throws MalformedURLException{ URL imageurl=new URL(url); Image image=(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(imageurl)); ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(image); label.setIcon(icon); panel.add(label); // System.out.println(panel.getSize().width); this.getContentPane().add(panel); } /** This method is called from within the constructor to * initialize the form. * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is * always regenerated by the Form Editor. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code"> private void initComponents() { jPanel1 = new javax.swing.JPanel(); jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel(); btn_Exit = new javax.swing.JButton(); btn_Plan = new javax.swing.JButton(); setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setTitle("Public Transport Journey Planner"); javax.swing.GroupLayout jPanel1Layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(jPanel1); jPanel1.setLayout(jPanel1Layout); jPanel1Layout.setHorizontalGroup( jPanel1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addGap(0, 368, Short.MAX_VALUE) ); jPanel1Layout.setVerticalGroup( jPanel1Layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addGap(0, 172, Short.MAX_VALUE) ); jLabel1.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Arial", 1, 18)); jLabel1.setText("Your tracked bus"); btn_Exit.setText("Exit"); btn_Exit.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) { btn_ExitActionPerformed(evt); } }); btn_Plan.setText("Plan journey"); btn_Plan.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) { btn_PlanActionPerformed(evt); } }); javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane()); getContentPane().setLayout(layout); layout.setHorizontalGroup( layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addGap(104, 104, 104) .addComponent(jLabel1)) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addContainerGap() .addComponent(jPanel1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addGap(65, 65, 65) .addComponent(btn_Plan) .addGap(65, 65, 65) .addComponent(btn_Exit, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 87, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))) .addContainerGap(20, Short.MAX_VALUE)) ); layout.setVerticalGroup( layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING) .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup() .addGap(35, 35, 35) .addComponent(jLabel1) .addGap(18, 18, 18) .addComponent(jPanel1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE) .addGap(18, 18, 18) .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE) .addComponent(btn_Exit) .addComponent(btn_Plan)) .addContainerGap(12, Short.MAX_VALUE)) ); pack(); }// </editor-fold> private void btn_ExitActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: Exitform(); } private void btn_PlanActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) { // TODO add your handling code here: this.setVisible(false); this.dispose(); this.planform.setVisible(true); } private void Exitform(){ this.setVisible(false); this.dispose(); } /** * @param args the command line arguments */ public static void main(String args[]) { java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { // new client_trackedbus().setVisible(true); } }); } // Variables declaration - do not modify private javax.swing.JButton btn_Exit; private javax.swing.JButton btn_Plan; private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1; private javax.swing.JPanel jPanel1; // End of variables declaration }

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