Challenging subject

dear friends,
im thinking to do like this, plese help me with your ideas. we have a application desigined in forms 4.5 and oracle 8i, in the network at down stairs the accountant fills the pettycash voucher, some where in the network the fincial manager has to approve this, but the FM is always online with lotus notus mailing system, he keeps our forms application as minimized on the task bar.
can we make it in such a way like yahoo messenger the minimized aplication can changes its color when the accoutnant fills and saves the pettycashvoucher, the FM has to get that immidiatly with small alert? will it be possible with win_api library? im novice with forms. thanks in advance.
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To tell the truth, I know little about Advanced Queueing. But wouldn't it also be possible to write an insert trigger on the voucher table that looks to see if the financial manager is logged in and sends a message using DBMS_PIPE? I don't know much about DBMS_PIPE either. But if you could do that, the Forms App on the receiving end could use the timer to check for messages on the pipe, and then execute the select to retrieve all the vouchers that haven't been approved.
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Challenge 195

Some nice work on the griffin this week:
ALEX B: Great cloning as usual -- love the 'sox' on the griffins in #1.
ANNE T: I like the oriental feel the the rectangular framing in the branches gives #1. Is that the cutout filter in #2?
Great snow job in #3.
BEN M: The fluid gold look is outstanding.
BILL Z: Alas, poor wienerdog -- nice work on the fence.
CHARLES Y: Good work on the colorization.
ELLEN H: Love the way you used the leaves as background and emphasized the eyes.
JODI C: The harvest moon backdrop is great.
KIMIOO: Great use of the forest scene, nice application of the veined marble surface and wonderful light beams.
LAURA B: Nice insertion of the griffin behind the tree -- evil eyes, too!
MALCOLM D: Wow! Love the use of the wing feathers to make petals -- great image.
MARILYN L: The jeweled necklace really caps the revamped statue -- I like the way you used the wings as background texture as well.
PAT C: Nice work on the spirit mist -- what did you use for your background?
PAULINE W: Nice work on the flames and skull, but the ghost is just great -- any hints on how you did that?
RED S: I count four challenge subject in amongst the rocks -- any more hiding? Displacement maps, perhaps?
RITA G: I like the 3-D effect you achieved with the jack-o'-lantern -- nice work with the shadows.
ROBIN L: An impressive set of images -- did you scan in the bottom of a glass vase to get the root patterns? Nice work on the clouds and lightning in #1.
TAB A: Love the spiders and the niche setting.
TOM M: Wonderful patterns -- what did you use to create the gem-like coruscations on the griffin?
WARD G: Pink with birdies! I love the irony. Great job on the jack-o'-lantern carving in #2. The starfish in #3 is nicely done.
WENDY W: Have to love the light fractured skulls -- neat concept. Now for #3 we need a little song from the Aldridge Sisters to go with that bubble machine, ah one and ah two...
Bob Warren
http://www.rewarren.com/challenge/chl195.htm
RANDOM GALLERY:
http://www.rewarren.com/challenge/random.html

Hey Bob.
"coruscation", I like that!
From the bottom up;
1. Original layer.
2. Layer with that curves setting to make it look silver.
3. Duplicated it, applied gold colored gradient map, difference mode.
4. Inserted a photo of some rusted metal, then the displace filter, hard light mode.
5. Duplicated that and changed to soft light.
Blended with layer masks.
Flattened.
Highlighted some areas with a white, color dodge brush, 10% opacity.
250kb version here.

Action Dance Shot

I have a Canon SLR 70D and Tamron SP AF70-200mm F/2.8 - trying to take fast action dance shots
What settings would you put your camera on. Photos in a gym and unable to use flash. Dance is hip hop, lyrical and pom routines so a lot of movement.
picture is just not very crisp - will post a 2nd photo on another board
Used FStop f2.8, exposure time 1/1600 sec, ISO 3200, focal length 42 mm, exposure bias -1.3 step

I shoot light challenges subjects all the time. I am the "Arts Photographer" for our local school district.
My equipment of choice is my 1D Mk IV with my 24-70mm f2.8 L and my 70-200mm f2.8 L.
Most of the advice is good, not all of it but most, especially Tim Campbell. I will add and tell you how I do it.
First set you camera back to factory default. Do not use a EC, set it to zero. This will only confuse you. Do not use Auto ISO either. How is the 70D at ISO 1600? That is where I set my 1D Mk IV and it is very good there.
I always shoot RAW and never in jpg. This change alone will gain you a ton of adjustment ability you don't have if you are using jpg. You will need post software but this is the very best way to shoot. You have a fine camera and a top of the mark lens so why put blinders on them by shooting jpg?
Next choose your spot carefully. Where you are makes a big difference in your success. Sometimes high on the bleachers is best and sometimes on the floor is best.
You do need to find a SS that will stop action. I find 1/250 will do a good job on most movements by dancers even football palyers. Not always so you need to be aware as this may need to go up to 1/500. I doubt you will ever need 1/1000 or higher.
You can use Tv set to 1/250 and give it a try. You don't need the dancers to do this. Go early and do some tests. Possibly there is a sibling that can stand in for you!
I hope some of the tips we have given you help. But I can not stress how much and important shooting RAW is. With todays cameras and software there is no reason to use jpg. And also, maybe the most important is preparation for the shoot. Go early, choose your placement and test exposures.
The camera and lens you have will get you good shots, if you do your part. Let me know how it goes.
EOS 1Ds Mk III, EOS 1D Mk IV, EF 50mm f1.2 L, EF 24-70mm f2.8 L,
EF 85mm f1.2 L II USM, EF 70-200mm f2.8 L IS II,
Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 EX APO, Photoshop CS6, ACR 9, Lightroom 6

Combining subject areas: a dimensional challenge

Hi Folks,
I have 2 subject areas: patient occupation and product usage.
Patient occupation: 2 dimensions: department and time. 1 measure: # of patients
Product usage: 3 dimensions: department, time and product. 1 measure: # of products
I want an analysis that shows usage of product per patient. (# of products divided by # of patients)
So I combine those 2 subject areas in my analysis.
I put department, month and product and both measures as columns.
The problem I have is that # of patients is not displayed, which is somehow logical because it is not stored at product level.
Removing the product column gives me good aggregated results, but the information is needed at product.
In other words: how can I achieve that the # of patients measure is displayed as same value across all products for 1 particular department and 1 particular month?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hans

Hi,
Please refer to the following link. Folllow the design discusees in the article.
Multiple Fact Reporting on (Non-)Conforming dimensions | Oracle BI By Bakboord
Thanks
Venkat
OBIEEDeveloper

Recorded sound with mic too far from subject in a larger room. Small echo challenge solvable?

I recorded my actor speaking from a mic that was a little bit too far and in a room that gave a small slightly noticeable echo. Is there anything I can do in Audition CS6 to reduce this "large room" ambiance and give my audio a more professional sound?
Adobe Audition CS6
thank you,
Robert

Nothing in Audition, no. You could try Zynaptiq's UNVEIL, but as with all of these tools, the results vary from a slight improvement to completely useless. Because the components of the reverberation are essentially of the same frequencies that you want to keep, anything you do at all, regardless of how complex the algorithm, is going to compromise the original signal. They don't even work very well on genuine reverb, where the original stimulus has stopped. I tried UNVEIL on a nice clean 5 second reverb, and ended up with... a five second reverb. There are rumours that it works better on less reverb - but you'll have to try it and see. It appears to contain a subtle masking system of some description, although on the website the description of what it does, like all so-called 'technical descriptions', is only really intended to mislead you.

Challenge #246

Folks made some beautiful music with these performers.
ALEX B: I like the variety of your images this week -- the fireworks
and the foreground crowd in #3 are especially neat.
BARBARA W: Very nice black and white version in #1 and a cool 'collage'
effect in #2.
BEN M: Using the two spots from the original was, well, original!
BILL Z: Mufti-directional wind filters? Neat effect.
CHUCK F: I like the starburst spots and the sepia tone -- is that the
Lost in Space robot working the third guitar? Danger, Will Robinson!
LISA B: The musicians in a bottle are a hoot!
MALCOLM D: Nice rear screen video effect that gets around the color
problems by exploiting them -- cool.
MARIA EB: The jellyfish are just the right touch for the water
reflection.
MARK R: Look out! Those guitars/banjos/mandolins are multiplying. Love
the Barna tribute image!
RALPH H: Using the silhouettes is a great idea and the tropical setting
is great -- cue 'Browneyed Girl'...
RED S: Those musicians travel with an interesting crowd!
RITA G: Nice animated guitars.
SHARI M: Nice use of the silhouettes -- the notes are a nice touch.
TOM M: Love the woodburning effect.
Bob Warren
http://www.rewarren.com/challenge/index.htm
RANDOM GALLERY:
http://www.rewarren.com/challenge/random.html

Thanks for commenting Bob,
I liked the highlight behind the guys in #1, and the name you gave them
in #2. :-)
Thanks for the parody Mark Reif, but you missed the point of removing
the subject and recreating the background by removing the spot lights
and the other accessories.
Alex B.,

SQL challenge

Alright, I hate doing this, but I need some help...
Given is the following data in table 1:
ID
1
2
3
4
Now, ID 1 is connected with ID2, and ID3 is connected with ID4. This result is made by the following table, which shows the relationship cathesian style:
ID1 ID2 Connected
1 2 Y
1 3 N
1 4 N
2 3 N
2 4 N
3 4 Y
The challenge: I need a query to show the result of the output groups. In this case: 2 groups: 1 and 2 vs 3 and 4. The query needs to be build so that if we would have an ID 5 and 6 that don't have any connection, be taken into two new seperate groups...
I don't think the "CONNECT BY" statement would do the trick here, since all numbers are connected, not just the linked ones. It's just that the "Y" or "N" indicates their relationship...
Hope you guys can push me in the right direction... I've tried a lot :)
O by the way: it would be nice to solve this with SQL and not PLSQL because of performance issues.

What are "normalized cartesian relations"?
Laurent solution may be correct if the OP data are transitively closed. If it is not, then you need to build transitively closed relation first, and the only way to accomplish that is leveraging "connect by" query.
For mathematically inclined, here is the essence of the problem: Given a binary relation R(x,y), first, build an equivalence relation out of it. Then identify each equivalence class with a distinct number. This subject is covered in chapter 6 of my book (http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0977671542). Here is an extract:
======================================================
With proper graph terminology the question can be formulated in just one line:
Find a number of connected components in a graph.
(The problem in the book counts the connected components, rather than identifies them).
Connected component of a graph is a set of nodes reachable from each other. A node is reachable from another node if there is an undirected path between them.
Figure 6.4: A graph with two connected components.
Reachability is an equivalence relation: it’s reflective, symmetric, and transitive. Given a graph, we formally obtain reachability relation by closing the Edges relation to become reflective, symmetric and, transitive (fig. 6.5).
Figure 6.5: Reachability as an equivalence relation: graph from fig. 6.4 symmetrically and transitively closed.
Returning back to the problem of finding the number of connected components, let’s assume that we already calculated the reachability relation EquivalentNodes somehow. Then, we just select a smallest node from each component. Informally,
Select node(s) such that there is no node with smaller label reachable from it. Count them.
Formally:
select count(distinct tail) from EquivalentNodes e
where not exists (
select * from EquivalentNodes ee
where ee.head<e.tail and e.tail=ee.tail
--------------------Soapbox----------------------
Equivalence Relation and Group By (cont)
In one of the chapter 1 sidebars we have attributed the incredible efficiency of the group by operator to its proximity to one of the most fundamental mathematical constructions – the equivalence relation. There are two ways to define an equivalence relation. The first one is leveraging the existing equality operator on a domain of values. The second way is defining an equivalence relation explicitly, as a set of pairs. The standard group by operator is not able to understand an equivalence relation defined explicitly – this is the essence of the problem, which we just solved.
Being able to query the number of connected components earned us an unexpected bonus: we can redefine a connected graph as a graph that has a single connected component. Next, a connected graph with N nodes and N-1 edges must be a tree. Thus, counting nodes and edges together with transitive closure is another opportunity to enforce tree constraint.
Now that we established some important graph closure properties, we can move on to transitive closure implementations. Unfortunately, our story has to branch here, since database vendors approached hierarchical query differently.
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Vadim Tropashko

Can anyone make this classical report? it's challenge

Date...
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                    Contact Per.               Contact No.               Contact Per.               Contact No.
                    Qut. No.               Quot Date               Qut. No.               Quot Date
                    RFQ NO.               RFQ DATE               RFQ NO.               RFQ DATE
                    Basic Rate      Discount in Value     Basic Amount after Discount     Effective Amount     Delivery Date     L1 Status     Basic Rate      Discount in Value     Basic Amount after Discount     Effective Amount     Delivery Date     L1 Status
1     TMT BAR 10MM     10     Kg     100.00     10.00     900.00     1088.88     10.08.2008          100.00     10%     900.00     1088.76     10.10.08
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Item Tex Field                    3 yr W/G, Test Certi. Req."
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Hi,
This is very irrelevant subject and you are not suppose to challenge us.
Please read the rules of engagement and follow them.
Moderator would lock this thread
We are not the guys to do your task like free lancers and if you think that this is not the place..
This forums are for technical help. Not for task assigning or distribution of tasks...
Good luck
Narin

Challenge ***50$ Dukes award***

Hello all, after working on a big bug in my app, I've decided to createa challenge with an important award to decide people to work on this.
All my teachers, have worked on it too but were unable to help me.
The rules are simple, the first one who discover and give me the code to debug my app wins fifty dukes.
Here is the code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
public class JChat {
static Compil cmp;
public JChat() {
 cmp = new Compil();
public Compil getChat(){
 return cmp;
public static void main(String[] args) {
 JFrame frame = new JFrame("Redirect Output");
 frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 JButton jbut = new JButton("LireString()");
 jbut.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
 System.out.println(cmp.lireString());
 frame.getContentPane().add(new JChat().getChat());
 frame.getContentPane().add(jbut, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
 frame.setSize(100, 75);
 frame.setVisible(true);
 System.out.println(cmp.lireString());
//Le JtextField pour la saisie �ventuelle de texte par l'utilisateur
private static JTextField jtf = new JTextField();
private static boolean saisie;
private static String lect;
 * Title: CCOSC Editeur
 * Description: Editeur de code source pour le projet CCOSC
 * Copyright: AirChtit Copyright (c) 2005
 * @author Bertrand BESNARD
 * @version 1.0
 * Classe permettant l'affichage des messages de compilation
class Compil
 extends JPanel {
 * Constructeur Compil
 * Cr�e l'affichage des messages de compilation et signale que le service est lanc�
 public Compil() {
 super();
 setLayout(new BorderLayout());
 //On cr�e le JTextField
 jtf.setEditable(false);
 add(jtf, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
 jtf.addKeyListener(
 new KeyListener() {
 /**N�cessaire pour implementer l'interface keyListener
 * g�re les raccourics clavier
 * @param ke KeyEvent
 public void keyPressed(KeyEvent ke) {
 if (ke.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER) {
 synchronized (jtf) {
 saisie = true;
 jtf.notify();
 /**N�cessaire pour implementer l'interface keyListener
 * @param ke KeyEvent
 public void keyReleased(KeyEvent ke) {}
 /**N�cessaire pour implementer l'interface keyListener
 * @param ke KeyEvent
 public void keyTyped(KeyEvent ke) {}
 * Permet de lire les chaines de caract�res, on r�cup�re
 * le r�sultat de cette m�thode pour les autres lire()
 * @return String
 public String lireString() {
 jtf.setEditable(true);
 jtf.setBackground(Color.CYAN);
 saisie = false;
 synchronized (jtf) {
 while (true) {
 try {
 jtf.wait();
 break;
 catch (Exception e) {}
 lect = jtf.getText();
 jtf.setText("");
 jtf.setEditable(false);
 jtf.setBackground(Color.lightGray);
 return lect;
}I'm really sorry for the french comments, maybe will i post another version withenglish comments.
The problem is, the call System.out.println(cmp.lireString()); works fine until i do it after an event is thrown, just try it and you'll see.
I'm waiting for an answer with explication or a help that could make me debug this.
Thanks in advance and good luck.

Hello all, after working on a big bug in my app, I've
decided to create a challenge with an important award
to decide people to work on this.
The rules are simple, the first one who discover and
give me the code to debug my app wins fifty dukes.I wish I could remember the last thread where someone posted a "challenge".
I could help you, walk you through, and assist you develop the solution, but it's precisely this kind of "bait" that inspires me to not help at all. You should read this, instead:
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Eric Steven Raymond
Thyrsus Enterprises
<[email protected]>
Rick Moen
<[email protected]>
Copyright � 2001 Eric S. Raymond
Revision History
Revision 3.1 28 Oct 2004 esr
Document 'Google is your friend!'
Revision 3.0 2 Feb 2004 esr
Major addition of stuff about proper etiquette on Web forums.
Table of Contents
Translations
Disclaimer
Introduction
Before You Ask
When You Ask
Choose your forum carefully
Web and IRC forums directed towards newbies often give the quickest response
As a second step, use project mailing lists
Use meaningful, specific subject headers
Make it easy to reply
Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language
Send questions in formats that are easy to understand
Be precise and informative about your problem
Volume is not precision
Don't claim that you have found a bug
Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework
Describe the problem's symptoms, not your guesses
Describe your problem's symptoms in chronological order
Describe the goal, not the step
Don't ask people to reply by private email
Be explicit about the question you have
Don't post homework questions
Prune pointless queries
Don't flag your question as Urgent, even if it is for you
Courtesy never hurts, and sometimes helps
Follow up with a brief note on the solution
How To Interpret Answers
RTFM and STFW: How To Tell You've Seriously Screwed Up
If you don't understand...
Dealing with rudeness
On Not Reacting Like A Loser
Questions Not To Ask
Good and Bad Questions
If You Can't Get An Answer
How To Answer Questions in a Helpful Way
Related Resources
Acknowledgements
Translations
Translations: Chinese Czech Danish Estonian French German Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Polish Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish. If you want to copy, mirror, translate, or excerpt this document, please see my copying policy.
Disclaimer
Many project websites link to this document in their sections on how to get help. That's fine, it's the use we intended � but if you are a webmaster creating such a link for your project page, please display prominently near the link notice that we are not a help desk for your project!
We have learned the hard way that without such a notice, we will repeatedly be pestered by idiots who think that our having published this document makes it our job to solve all the world's technical problems.
If you are reading this document because you need help, and you walk away with the impression you can get it directly from the authors, you are one of the idiots in question. Don't ask us questions. We'll just ignore you. We are here to show you how to get help from people who actually know about the software or hardware you are dealing with, but 99% of the time that will not be us. Unless you know for certain that one of the authors is an expert on what you are dealing with, leave us alone and everybody will be happier.
Introduction
In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way that is likely to get you a satisfactory answer.
Now that use of open source has become widespread, you can often get answers from other, more experienced users, rather than hackers. This is a Good Thing; users tend to be just a little bit more tolerant of the kind of failures newbies often have. Still, treating experienced users like hackers in the ways we recommend here will generally be the most effective way to get useful answers out of them, too.
The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here. If you give us an interesting question to chew on we'll be grateful to you; good questions are a stimulus and a gift. Good questions help us develop our understanding, and often reveal problems we might not have noticed or thought about otherwise. Among hackers, �Good question!� is a strong and sincere compliment.
Despite this, hackers have a reputation for meeting simple questions with what looks like hostility or arrogance. It sometimes looks like we're reflexively rude to newbies and the ignorant. But this isn't really true.
What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks � they take without giving back, they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this �losers� (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it �lusers�).
We realize that there are many people who just want to use the software we write, and have no interest in learning technical details. For most people, a computer is merely a tool, a means to an end; they have more important things to do and lives to live. We acknowledge that, and don't expect everyone to take an interest in the technical matters that fascinate us. Nevertheless, our style of answering questions is tuned for people who do take such an interest and are willing to be active participants in problem-solving. That's not going to change. Nor should it; if it did, we would become less effective at the things we do best.
We're (largely) volunteers. We take time out of busy lives to answer questions, and at times we're overwhelmed with them. So we filter ruthlessly. In particular, we throw away questions from people who appear to be losers in order to spend our question-answering time more efficiently, on winners.
If you find this attitude obnoxious, condescending, or arrogant, check your assumptions. We're not asking you to genuflect to us � in fact, most of us would love nothing more than to deal with you as an equal and welcome you into our culture, if you put in the effort required to make that possible. But it's simply not efficient for us to try to help people who are not willing to help themselves. It's OK to be ignorant; it's not OK to play stupid.
So, while it isn't necessary to already be technically competent to get attention from us, it is necessary to demonstrate the kind of attitude that leads to competence � alert, thoughtful, observant, willing to be an active partner in developing a solution. If you can't live with this sort of discrimination, we suggest you pay somebody for a commercial support contract instead of asking hackers to personally donate help to you.
If you decide to come to us for help, you don't want to be one of the losers. You don't want to seem like one, either. The best way to get a rapid and responsive answer is to ask it like a person with smarts, confidence, and clues who just happens to need help on one particular problem.
(Improvements to this guide are welcome. You can mail suggestions to [email protected]. Note however that this document is not intended to be a general guide to netiquette, and I will generally reject suggestions that are not specifically related to eliciting useful answers in a technical forum.)
Before You Ask
Before asking a technical question by email, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following:
1.
Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
2.
Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
3.
Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.
4.
Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
5.
Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.
6.
If you are a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code.
When you ask your question, display the fact that you have done these things first; this will help establish that you're not being a lazy sponge and wasting people's time. Better yet, display what you have learned from doing these things. We like answering questions for people who have demonstrated that they can learn from the answers.
Use tactics like doing a Google search on the text of whatever error message you get (and search Google groups as well as web pages). This might well take you straight to fix documentation or a mailing list thread that will answer your question. Even if it doesn't, saying �I googled on the following phrase but didn't get anything that looked useful� is a good thing to be able to put in email or news postings requesting help.
Prepare your question. Think it through. Hasty-sounding questions get hasty answers, or none at all. The more you do to demonstrate that you have put thought and effort into solving your problem before asking for help, the more likely you are to actually get help.
Beware of asking the wrong question. If you ask one that is based on faulty assumptions, J. Random Hacker is quite likely to reply with a uselessly literal answer while thinking �Stupid question...�, and hoping that the experience of getting what you asked for rather than what you needed will teach you a lesson.
Never assume you are entitled to an answer. You are not; you aren't, after all, paying for the service. You will earn an answer, if you earn it, by asking a question that is substantial, interesting, and thought-provoking � one that implicitly contributes to the experience of the community rather than merely passively demanding knowledge from others.
On the other hand, making it clear that you are able and willing to help in the process of developing the solution is a very good start. �Would someone provide a pointer?�, �What is my example missing?� and �What site should I have checked?� are more likely to get answered than �Please post the exact procedure I should use.� because you're making it clear that you're truly willing to complete the process if someone can simply point you in the right direction.
When You Ask
Choose your forum carefully
Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. You are likely to be ignored, or written off as a loser, if you:
post your question to a forum where it is off topic
post a very elementary question to a forum where advanced technical questions are expected, or vice-versa
cross-post to too many different newsgroups
post a personal email to somebody who is neither an acquaintance of yours nor personally responsible for solving your problem
Hackers blow off questions that are inappropriately targeted in order to try to protect their communications channels from being drowned in irrelevance. You don't want this to happen to you.
The first step, therefore, is to find the right forum. Again, Google and other web-searching methods are your friend. Use them to find the project web page most closely associated with the hardware or software that is giving you difficulties. Usually it will have links to a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list, and to project mailing lists and their archives. These mailing lists are the final places to go for help, if your own efforts (including reading those FAQs you found) do not find you a solution. The project page may also describe a bug-reporting procedure, or have a link to one; if so, follow it.
Shooting off an email to a person or forum which you are not familiar with is risky at best. For example, do not assume that the author of an informative web page wants to be your free consultant. Do not make optimistic guesses about whether your question will be welcome � if you are unsure, send it elsewhere, or refrain from sending it at all.
When selecting a Web forum, newsgroup or mailing list, don't trust the name by itself too far; look for a FAQ or charter to verify that your question is on-topic. Read some of the back traffic before posting so you'll get a feel for how things are done there. In fact, it's a very good idea to do a keyword search for words relating to your problem on the newsgroup or mailing list archives before you post. It may find you an answer, and if not it will help you formulate a better question.
Don't shotgun-blast all the available help channels at once, that's like yelling and irritates people. Step through them.
Know what your topic is! One of the classic mistakes is asking questions about the Unix or Windows programming interface in a forum devoted to a language or library or tool that is portable across both. If you don't understand why this is a blunder, you'd be best off not asking any questions at all until you get it.
In general, questions to a well-selected public forum are more likely to get useful answers than equivalent questions to a private one. There are multiple reasons for this. One is simply the size of the pool of potential respondents. Another is the size of the audience; hackers would rather answer questions that educate a lot of people than questions which only serve a few.
Understandably, skilled hackers and authors of popular software are already receiving more than their fair share of mistargeted messages. By adding to the flood, you could in extreme cases even be the straw which breaks the camel's back � quite a few times, contributors to popular projects have withdrawn their support because the collateral damage in the form of useless email traffic to their personal accounts became unbearable.
Web and IRC forums directed towards newbies often give the quickest response
Your local user group, or your Linux distribution, may advertise a Web forum or IRC channel where newbies can get help. (In non-English-speaking countries newbie forums are still more likely to be mailing lists.) These are good first places, to ask, especially if you think you may have tripped over a relatively simple or common problem. An advertised IRC channel is an open invitation to ask questions there and often get answers in real time.
In fact, if you got the program that is giving you problems from a distro (as common today), it may be better to ask in the distro forum/list before trying the program's project forum/list. The project's hackers may just say, �use our build�.
Before posting to any Web forum, check if it has a Search feature. And if it does, try a couple of keyword searches for something like your problem; it just might help. If you did a general Web search before (as you should have), search the forum anyway; your web-wide search engine might not have all of this forum indexed recently.
There is an increasing tendency for projects to do user support over a Web forum or IRC channel, with email more reserved for development traffic. So look for those channels first when seeking project-specific help.
As a second step, use project mailing lists
When a project has a development mailing list, write to the mailing list, not to individual developers, even if you believe that you know who can answer your question best. Check the documentation of the project and its homepage for the address of a project mailing list, and use it. There are several good reasons for this policy:
Any question that's good enough to be asked of one developer will also be of value to the whole group. Contrariwise, if you suspect that your question is too dumb for a mailing list, it's not an excuse to harass individual developers.
Asking questions on the list distributes load between developers. The individual developer (especially if he's the project leader) may be too busy to answer your questions.
Most mailing lists are archived and the archives are indexed by search engines. Somebody could find your question and the answer on the web instead of asking it again in the list.
If certain questions are seen to be asked often, the developers can use that information to improve the documentation or the software itself to be less confusing. But if those questions are asked in private, nobody has the complete picture of what questions are asked most often.
If a project has both a �user� and a �developer� (or �hacker�) mailing list or Web forum, and you are not hacking on the code, ask in the �user� list/forum. Do not assume that you will be welcome on the developer list, where they are likely to experience your question as noise disrupting their developer traffic.
However, if you are sure your question is non-trivial, and you get no answer in the �user� list/forum for several days, try the �developer� one. You would be well advised to lurk there for a few days before posting to learn the local folkways (actually this is good advice on any private or semi-private list).
If you cannot find a project's mailing list address, but only see the address of the maintainer of the project, go ahead and write to the maintainer. But even in that case, don't assume that the mailing list doesn't exist. State in your e-mail that you tried and could not find the appropriate mailing list. Also mention that you don't object to having your message forwarded to other people. (Many people believe that private e-mail should remain private, even if there is nothing secret in it. By allowing your message to be forwarded you give your correspondent a choice about how to handle your e-mail.)
Use meaningful, specific subject headers
On mailing lists, newsgroups or Web forums, the subject header is your golden opportunity to attract qualified experts' attention in around 50 characters or fewer. Don't waste it on babble like �Please help me� (let alone �PLEASE HELP ME!!!!�; messages with subjects like that get discarded by reflex). Don't try to impress us with the depth of your anguish; use the space for a super-concise problem description instead.
A good convention for subject headers, used by many tech support organizations, is �object - deviation�. The �object� part specifies what thing or group of things is having a problem, and the �deviation� part describes the deviation from expected behavior.
Stupid:
HELP! Video doesn't work properly on my laptop!
Smart:
XFree86 4.1 misshapen mouse cursor, Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset
Smarter:
XFree86 4.1 mouse cursor on Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset - is misshapen
The process of writing an �object-deviation� description will help you organize your thinking about the problem in more detail. What is affected? Just the mouse cursor or other graphics too? Is this specific to XFree86? To version 4.1? Is this specific to Fooware video chipsets? To model MV1005? A hacker who sees the result can immediately understand what it is that you are having a problem with and the problem you are having, at a glance.
More generally, imagine looking at the index of an archive of questions, with just the subject lines showing. Make your subject line reflect your question well enough that the next guy searching the archive with a question similar to yours will be able to follow the thread to an answer rather than posting the question again.
If you ask a question in a reply, be sure to change the subject line to indicate that you are asking a question. A Subject line that looks like �Re: test� or �Re: new bug� is less likely to attract useful amounts of attention. Also, pare quotes of previous messages to the minimum consistent with cluing in new readers.
Do not simply hit reply to a list message in order to start an entirely new thread. This will limit your audience. Some mail readers, like mutt, allow the user to sort by thread and then hide messages in a thread by folding the thread. Folks who do that will never see your message.
Changing the subject is not sufficient. Mutt, and probably other mail readers, looks at other information in the email's headers to assign it to a thread, not the subject line. Instead start an entirely new email.
On Web forums the rules of good practice are slightly different, because messages are usually much more tightly bound to specfic discussion threads and often invisible outside those threads. Changing the subject when asking a question in reply is not essential (not all forums even allow separate subject lines on replies, and nearly nobody reads them when they do). But asking a question in a reply is a dubious practice in itself, because it will only be seen by those who are watching this thread. So, unless you are sure you want to ask the people currently active in the thread, start a new one.
Make it easy to reply
Finishing your query with �Please send your reply to... � makes it quite unlikely you will get an answer. If you can't be bothered to take even the few seconds required to set up a correct Reply-To header in your mail agent, we can't be bothered to take even a few seconds to think about your problem. If your mail program doesn't permit this, get a better mail program. If your operating system doesn't support any mail programs that permit this, get a better operating system.
In Web forums, asking for a reply by email is outright rude, unless you believe the information may be sensitive (and somebody will, for some unknown reason, let you but not the whole forum know it). If you want to get an email when somebody replies in the thread, request that the Web forum send it; this feature is supported almost everywhere under options like �watch this thread�, �send email on answers�, etc.)
Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language
We've found by experience that people who are careless and sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy at thinking and coding (often enough to bet on, anyway). Answering questions for careless and sloppy thinkers is not rewarding; we'd rather spend our time elsewhere.
So expressing your question clearly and well is important. If you can't be bothered to do that, we can't be bothered to pay attention. Spend the extra effort to polish your language. It doesn't have to be stiff or formal � in fact, hacker culture values informal, slangy and humorous language used with precision. But it has to be precise; there has to be some indication that you're thinking and paying attention.
Spell, punctuate, and capitalize correctly. Don't confuse �its� with �it's�, �loose� with �lose�, or �discrete� with �discreet�. Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS, this is read as shouting and considered rude. (All-smalls is only slightly less annoying, as it's difficult to read. Alan Cox can get away with it, but you can't.)
More generally, if you write like a semi-literate boob you will very likely be ignored. Writing like a l33t script kiddie hax0r is the absolute kiss of death and guarantees you will receive nothing but stony silence (or, at best, a heaping helping of scorn and sarcasm) in return.
If you are asking questions in a forum that does not use your native language, you will get a limited amount of slack for spelling and grammar errors � but no extra slack at all for laziness (and yes, we can usually spot that difference). Also, unless you know what your respondent's languages are, write in English. Busy hackers tend to simply flush questions in languages they don't understand, and English is the working language of the Internet. By writing in English you minimize your chances that your question will be discarded unread.
Send questions in formats that are easy to understand
If you make your question artificially hard to read, it is more likely to be passed over in favor of one that isn't. So:
Send plain text mail, not HTML. (It's not hard to turn off HTML.)
MIME attachments are usually OK, but only if they are real content (such as an attached source file or patch), and not merely boilerplate generated by your mail client (such as another copy of your message).
Don't send mail in which entire paragraphs are single multiply-wrapped lines. (This makes it too difficult to reply to just part of the message.) Assume that your respondents will be reading mail on 80-character-wide text displays and set your line wrap accordingly, to something less than 80.
However, do not wrap data (such as log file dumps or session transcripts) at any fixed column width. Data should be included as-is, so respondents can have confidence that they are seeing what you saw.
Don't send MIME Quoted-Printable encoding to an English-language forum. This encoding can be necessary when you're posting in a language ASCII doesn't cover, but a lot of mail agents don't support it. When they break, all those =20 glyphs scattered through the text are ugly and distracting.
Never, ever expect hackers to be able to read closed proprietary document formats like Microsoft Word or Excel. Most hackers react to these about as well as you would to having a pile of steaming pig manure dumped on your doorstep. Even when they can cope, they resent having to do so.
If you're sending mail from a Windows machine, turn off Microsoft's stupid �Smart Quotes� feature. This is so you'll avoid sprinkling garbage characters through your mail.
In Web forums, do not abuse �smiley� and �html� features (when they are present). A smiley or two is usually OK, but colored fancy text tends to make people think you are lame. Seriously overusing smileys and color and fonts will make you come off like a giggly teenage girl, which is not generally a good idea unless you are more interested in sex than answers.
If you're using a graphical-user-interface mail client, (such as Netscape Messenger, MS Outlook, or their ilk) beware that it may violate these rules when used with its default settings. Most such clients have a menu-based �View Source� command. Use this on something in your sent-mail folder to check that you are sending plain text without unnecessary attached crud.
Be precise and informative about your problem
Describe the symptoms of your problem or bug carefully and clearly.
Describe the environment in which it occurs (machine, OS, application, whatever). Provide your vendor's distribution and release level (e.g.: �Fedora Core 2�, �Slackware 9.1�, etc.).
Describe the research you did to try and understand the problem before you asked the question.
Describe the diagnostic steps you took to try and pin down the problem yourself before you asked the question.
Describe any recent changes in your computer or software configuration that might be relevant.
Do the best you can to anticipate the questions a hacker will ask, and to answer them in advance in your request for help.
Simon Tatham has written an excellent essay entitled How to Report Bugs Effectively. I strongly recommend that you read it.
Volume is not precision
You need to be precise and informative. This end is not served by simply dumping huge volumes of code or data into a help request. If you have a large, complicated test case that is breaking a program, try to trim it and make it as small as possible.
This is useful for at least three reasons. One: being seen to invest effort in simplifying the question makes it more likely that you'll get an answer, Two: simplifying the question makes it more likely you'll get a useful answer. Three: In the process of refining your bug report, you may develop a fix or workaround yourself.
Don't claim that you have found a bug
When you are having problems with a piece of software, don't claim you have found a bug unless you are very, very sure of your ground. Hint: unless you can provide a source-code patch that fixes the problem, or a regression test against a previous version that demonstrates incorrect behavior, you are probably not sure enough. This applies to web pages and documentation, too; if you have found a documentation �bug�, you should supply replacement text and which pages it should go on.
Remember, there are a lot of other users that are not experiencing your problem. Otherwise you would have learned about it while reading the documentation and searching the Web (you did do that before complaining, didn't you?). This means that very probably it is you who are doing something wrong, not the software.
The people who wrote the software work very hard to make it work as well as possible. If you claim you have found a bug, you'll be implying that they did something wrong, and you will almost always offend them � even when you are correct. It's especially undiplomatic to yell �bug� in the Subject line.
When asking your question, it is best to write as though you assume you are doing something wrong, even if you are privately pretty sure you have found an actual bug. If there really is a bug, you will hear about it in the answer. Play it so the maintainers will want to apologize to you if the bug is real, rather than so that you will owe them an apology if you have messed up.
Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework
Some people who get that they shouldn't behave rudely or arrogantly, demanding an answer, retreat to the opposite extreme of grovelling. �I know I'm just a pathetic newbie loser, but...�. This is distracting and unhelpful. It's especially annoying when it's coupled with vagueness about the actual problem.
Don't waste your time, or ours, on crude primate politics. Instead, present the background facts and your question as clearly as you can. That is a better way to position yourself than by grovelling.
Sometimes Web forums have separate places for newbie questions. If you feel you do have a newbie question, just go there. But don't grovel there either

Cheap Camera Challenge with- a Barbie Camera

For those of you not familiar with the Cheap Camera Challenge, DigitalRev is a site that basically educates photographers. One idea that they try to communicate is that it is not about the equipment, it is about the photographer and their ability to create art from any tool they are given.
They have put toy cameras in the hands of great photographers with amazing results.
This time they handed a competant professional filmmaker a Barbie Camera with a 240p resolution, and told him he had to create a short film. It turned out a little silly and slightly adult themed, but some of the shots are really amazing. Stick around to the end of the video.
You might find this video worth your time.
For more about Philip Bloom, click here.

Years ago the use of cheap film cameras was popular for the same reasons they are used today as expressed in above post.
I guess you could say that the original Kodak Brownie cameras were an inexpensive way for lots of normal people to shoot stuff like vacation pictures and it was easy to do by following the instructions that came with the film and camera.
For a while the " Diana" camera was a popular challenge to artists and even became a fad for a while. The professional photographers would use the cheap Diana camera ( cost about 10 cents ) which was plastic with a plastic lens and was very easy to operate. It had a button you pushed and a leaf would kinda fly through the gate behind the plastic lens ( there was one spring like wire that operated the shutter ).
With film there is often a sheet of paper that comes in the box and it has info on it about how to use the film and process it and stuff like that. There are ( or at least there used to be ) pictures to show people how to expose the film.
Like there was a picture of
1) the sun
2) the sun with cloud
3) a cloud
4) rain
Something like that...
And THEN below each picture was a number ...like F 11, F 8, F 5.6, F 4 ....so basically you looked at the picture and then at the world around you...and matched them.
So if it was sunny out you set your camera lens to F 11.
Pretty simple....yipee !
So that was the " basics " of camera operation... Now the other thing that was real BASIC was the choice of what to shoot...and how to frame it. Nothing fancy about the Diana camera.. you basically looked through the platic viewfinder and pointed at something you thought was pretty and pressed the little plastic button. Then you had to advance the film or else you would stay there forever and just keep getting multiple exposures !!!! OMG.
I personally used my Diana camera so much that several bad things happened eventually. For one thing the plastic lens fell off and landed in the dirt one day. So I had to use elmo's glue and stick it back onto the camera. That worked out fine.
Then light started leaking into the body through the seams of the plastic door where you load film. So I had to put black paper tape around the seams after loading the film ( which was 120 size ). That worked out fine too.
To get more " professional " in my experiments with the cheapo camera I started to use a secret method of exposing and developing the film , in order to get a specific " look " in the final prints. I could do this cause I had my own darkroom and enlarger and all that stuff at the time.
This is black and white now...
Here's the secret. You overexpose one stop. That means that if you see a sun shining in the real world, and you see F 11 under the picture of the sun on your film info sheet... you open up one stop to F 8.
This is fun because a person starts to actually THINK about things instead of just using camera features on fancy cameras.
For example, a person learns that from F 11 to F 8 is twice the amount of light. From F 8 to F 5.6 is twice the amount of light too.
With shutter speeds the relationship becomes clear between F stops and shutter speeds. For example going from 1/250 to 1/125 is twice the amount of time. Now here's where thinking in your head really gets cool...with cheapo camera. Let's say a correct exposure is F 8 at 1/60
Cause now a person can see that when letting in half the amount of light ( from F 8 to F 11 ) you can change the shutter to 1/30 and you still have the correct exposure ! The difference is now the DOF from the changed F stop. So the plot thickens as a cheapo camera teaches us these things if they aren't known already.
The Diana camera made things easier than all that stuff anyway. It only had ONE shutter speed ( I think it was 1/60 , I forget ). So there was no choice about playing with F stops and shutter speeds.
However ( back to my secret overexposure method now ) there is a way to under develop film to accomodate overexposed film... and the chemical used ( developer ) in the case of black and white, has nice paper info sheets telling you all kinds of stuff about the developer, developer times and temperatures and basically tells you so much stuff a normal human would have no interest in at all. It turns out that you can under develop film so that the overexposed film comes out pretty nice. My secret developer was " Rodinol " which is made in some foreign country.
It gives you really grainy negative but sharp images and whites kinda " glow " a little bit... it is really pretty ! Not " soft " as you might think...you sorta have to SEE the print to know what I mean.
All of this stuff has been introduced here in earlier threads and although we are now in the world of digital it is easy to translate the lessons learned on Diana platic still camera ( film ) to the current digital world of still cameras. It can also be applied to motion pictures if a person keeps in mind that the film motion picture camera is based on a 180 degree shutter...
That means at 24 FPS your shutter speed is 1/48th sec. That is what some people refer to as " the film look ". Changing F stop and iso and shutter speeds are all related and some of having a good understanding of those things is by using cheapo equipment and doing the thinking on your own. Also, the same basics apply regarding the framing of shots and choice of subject matter.
This image below is from the Diana camera. I was in a pond when I took that pic, and I used my secret exposure / rodinol method. I was not bit by a snapping turtle , thank gawd. The Diana camera was not water proof but I bet you $100.00 it would have floated if I dropped it in that pond.
That's the other good thing about cheapo cameras. They are disposable !

ERMS : Auto Acknowledgement Mail , Subject and Mail Body is empty

Hi Guys ,
We have set up an auto acknowledgement mail scenario . Acknowledgement mail is triggered , but the subject line and mail content are empty.
We are using email forms here .
If anyone has faced the same challenge , please let me know .
Thanks
Vinayak

Hello,
Hard to say. Mail forms are language dependant. Did you check that your mail form is maintained in the language used to generate the email (it is based on the user generating the email I believe) ?
Best regards,
Sylvain

Challenge #174

We have a very wonderful museum in Toronto called "The ROM", rhymes
with Tom. Since I was a very young boy I "Hung Out" there. While
doing tis I really developed a soft spot for Chinese art. Then Anne
Twitchell send me this image so if you can be at the ROM please take a
try with this Dragon.
P.S. If you ever do get to Toronto do treat yourself to a visit to the
ROM. For those that can't make it here is a link
http://www.rom.on.ca/index.php
http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/Challenges.html
Present
and
Past
Challenges will remain Until tomorrow at 7:00 pm the then
the Present will be Past and new images will be posted.
* Important notice to all the new people in this forum. This is not a
close shop you are all invited to submit an image. If you don't think you
are good enough this is your first mistake, I think most have found that
working on the Challenge has improved their personal level. So young and
old, hot shots and cool dudes now is you time to post.
Grant
Home Pages: http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/index.html
Challenge Pages: http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/Challenges.html
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while
discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and
better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
Alexander Osborn (1888 - 1966)

Alex ... You have done some great colour changes in No 1 and that gold in No 2 is so impressive but my favourite just has to be No 3. What a neat idea !!
Anne ... Oh No 1 did make me smile. Nice work on it and I love the font ... which one is it?. No 2 makes a great image and I would really like to know how you made those columns. The colours in No 3 are just so good but the flames just finish it off ... very nice.
Ben ... Ah St George slays the dragon !! ... nice theme and very well done. Spooky theme in No 2 ... you really have some good colours in there and excellent work on the reflection.
Bill ... Oh that is clever ... good use of the image and how did you get that effect :)
Bob ... They look good enough to eat :) ... Nice idea and great text !!
Dave ... A very ethereal look to your image ... very effective.
Ellen ... Oh nice work on the blending and great lighting effects :)
Jeffrey ... Your entry really is effective. Nice work on it !!
Kimi ... Oh that look like something out of a fairytale ... its so pretty. Very nicely done !!
Malcolm ... Now that is unusual. It almost looks as though it has been embossed into metal. It is really good ... how did you do it??
Marilyn ... Oh I do like that ... such soft and gentle colours and beautifully done.
Melissa ... Really like the way you have turned the dragon into a carousel horse. Its an unusual idea but it works very well. ... Good fun idea in No 2!!
Red ... Oh now that is amusing ... really like what you have done and nice work on the whole thing!!
Rita ... How did you do that ... its really effective and that reflected glow is a great touch. When I click on No 2 for the first few moments I wondered what it was ... and then the flames came. Oh very nice !!
Robin ... Oh that background and frame just go so well with the dragon ... the frame looks as if it is made from molten lava just how did you do it ??
Robyn ... Wow that is such a beautiful effect .. how did you do the diamonds?? ... they are great !! No 2 is excellent, clever idea and really good work on it :) Great lighting effects in No 3 and what good shadows ... very nice effect.
Tab ... Wonderful fire breathing dragon. The image is just packed full of movement and colour !!
Terry ... What beautiful colours you have in the image ... its a nice take on the image.
Tom ... Great stylized effect and perfectly suits the subject. Extremely well done.
Ward ... Really good gold effect and I love the addition of the eye and those little black feet ... very nice touches. No 2 is very different its a good idea and you have made a great job of doing it !
Wendy

Armor Gaming Challenge 4

(full contest info here:
[URL]http://www.armorgames.com/contest4.html[/URL]
http://www.armorgames.com/contest4.html
I'm checking in to tell you about a great opportunity: the
fourth awesome Armor Gaming Challenge. The first three were a huge
success with over 150 games submitted , this is real, and it is
your chance to win a lot of money off flash
You are being invited to participate in the Armor Gaming
Challenge 4, a fresh cool new Flash contest.
The (AGC3) Armor Gaming Challenge 4 is a great flash contest
and your chance to win money off your flash skills brought to you
by Armor Games .com .
What is it about?
The AGC4 contest is both theme free and themeful : )
You are able to create ANY sort of game you'd like and still
win thousands of dollars, but if you feel like creating a game with
a cool theme, there are bonuses for that too.
In this contest your goal is to create a game
So what do I have to do?
Create a flash game in that spirit by the contest under
it’s rules due date September 31st 2006. Include the Armor
Games logo linking to ArmorGames.com somewhere visible on that
submission, this is subject to our rules so please read the contest
rules before submitting
If in doubt, e-mail us your game and we will tell you if it
meets the contest requirements (to
[URL=mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/URL]'
or '[URL=mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/URL]')
Mail us your name and a link to your submission, and
you’re in.
(contest rules here:
[URL]http://www.armorgames.com/contest4.html[/URL])
Is there a submission limit?
Not at all, submit as many entries as you want, that will
increase your chances of winning! You may win as many prizes as
you’d like.
Why should I take part in this contest?
Well, three major reasons:
1) Win Awesome Prizes!:
Grand Prize valued $3,799.00
17-Inch: 2.16Ghz * 2
Mac Book Pro (Dual Boot to Windows)
1GB DDR2 SDRAM, 120 Gig Harddrive
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics
8x Double-Layer Super Drive
plus.........................($1000 Cash)
2nd Place valued $2,999.00
15.4-Inch 2Ghz * 2
Mac Book Pro (Duel Boot to Windows)
1GB DDR2 SDRAM, 100 Gig Harddrive
ATIM Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics
4x Super Drive
Plus.........................($500 in Cash)
3rd Place valued $2,249.00
15.4-Inch 1.83Ghz * 2
Mac Book Pro (Duel Boot to Windows)
512GB DDR2 SDRAM, 100 Gig Harddrive
ATIM Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics
4x Super Drive
Plus.........................($250 in Cash)
4th Place valued $1,900.00 :
Samsung 32' Wide LCD HDTV
plus Xbox360
5th Place valued $1080.00 :
Sony PSP + 6 Games (Your Choice)
Nintendo DS + 6 Games (Your Choice)
Apple iPod 4 Gig Nano
There are more! Enough prizes for everyone
And that's not all folks! the AGC4 is FILLED with
awards too! so even if you don't get a grand prize, you can still
win over $1000!
2) Get well known in the flashing business:
Not once or twice people participating in contests hook up
and get to know many
important personals in the flashing business. Your game will
also be featured on
Armor Games .com (as well as hundreds of game websites if
you'd like) for no charge. Furthermore you will enjoy the full
support
of Armor Games’s dedicated staff and personals. It is
quite common that people who enter the contests get awesome deals
by Armor Games and other sponsors.
3) For plain fun! Armor Games naturally will not sell your
game. Making flashes
is a fun thing to do!
Don’t try to fool me! What do you get out of this?
For one thing we get our site famous. We are hosting this
contest in order to enlarge Armor Games on the flash site map. For
another we give you flashers encouragement to
produce quality flash which is something we want to see more
of. Last but not least we are looking for more Armor Games expert
flasher for the staff . These contests are running for quite some
time now, they have built themselves quite a reputation and are
well known now as reliable.
Another reason we’re doing this is because we want to
contribute to the flash industry back
flash developers DESERVE to get paid for their hard
work.
Are you really going to give out all this money for flashes?
Yes.
Mail me any further questions to:
[URL=mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/URL] or
[URL=mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/URL]
. We'll reply within 24 hours, promise , we are not some faceless
site, we really care about you, these are private accounts.

Tricky...
My guess is B.
The ACE Appliance does not support 250 virtual devices, that looks more like the ACE module for Cat6K
Thanks,
Johan
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Sharpness of Moving Subjects Indoors

So I was a wedding photographer for years and shot square format using lots of different techniques both indoors and outdoors. The subject rarely moves unless dancing. So there was lots that can be done.   Now, I shoot a Mark4 and a Mark3 but mostly of my children during their life’s events. Yes I shoot at work (not my primary role but rather an ancillary duty), but typically outdoors where ample light is not a problem.
When shooting my kids at their karate tournaments, it is typically in a gymnasium. Yes there are some windows and lots of metal halide lights. But when trying to freeze the type of a katana during karate forms demonstration, one must crank up the shutter speed.   Like 640 plus. This just kills the ability to use a non grainy ISO. typically at 12,800iso at F3.2 just to keep the exposure in the ball park.
And of course it never fails some mom posts a pic with an iPhone that is tack sharp and I need to hear why are my photos grainy.   Granted the iPhone was not freezing the action to the same degree, but it is pretty damned good.
I guess my question, without using a flash, any recommended settings that will offer good results at freezing the action with keeping the ISO out of the grain.

mgrabow wrote:
Sorry 1D MK4 and 1D MK3.   I typically ise a 16-35mm 1:2.8L   I have an 85 1.2L but because of how the events are layes out I need the flexebility of a wide angle zoom when close. If I am in the stands I can use a prime but the 85mm requires too much croping in afterwards and makes the problem worse.   My bugger zoom is a 4.5-5.6L so that forces me to push the ISO higer. Cant really change my position as I am not the house photographer and I am limitted where I can stand.
16-35mm is sorta wide to get many types of sports shots... though it's better on an APS-H camera like yours when you can get as close as in your example. Plus f2.8 is the max aperture it or practically any other zoom provides. At least it's got USM focus, which is fast in most cases. (Don't know what your bigger f4.5-5.6L zoom is, but I would guess it's the 70-300L that has USM and is also fast focusing, though the aperture somewhat limits it to "good light" conditions).
85/1.2L is a wonderful portraiture lens. But even though it's USM, it is not the fastest focusing or most ideal for sports/action. With such an extremely large aperture lens capable of rendering razor thin depth of field, a "long throw" focus mechanism is used to emphasize accuracy, at some cost to speed. This is not typical of USM lenses. They are usually the fastest focusing. For example, the EF 85/1.8 USM is noticeably faster focusing than the 85/1.2L. 85/1.2L II is faster than the original, but still not as fast as the f1.8 lens (which is also a lot smaller and lighter). EF 28/1.8, EF 50/1.4, EF 85/1.8, EF 100/2, EF 135/2L are all very fast focusing USM lenses. So are the EF 70-200/2.8 and 70-200/4 lenses, though they are one or two or even three stops "slower".
Looking at your shot, I don't see that foucs is likely to be your concern, but see another likely problem... the type of lighting being used. I'm guessing it's either flourescent, sodium vapor or mercury vapor. All these types of lighting are quite challenging for most cameras, because the lamps actually cycle on and off at a high rate (120 times per second in the US, 100 hz in some other parts of the world). This "fools" the camera meter and often the white balance as well. Another reason to shoot RAW, to have more latitude to correct missed exposure or white balance. The relatively recently introduced Canon 7DII has a new feature that's said to be able to compensate for this lighting effect. I haven't used it (yet), but if it works reasonably well it might be a real game changer for those of us who get stuck shooting in these types of lighting conditions often.
You should further research and experiment with noise reduction. I've had the good fortune to get some guidance from someone who did a lot of testing with 7D (original) like my cameras, and has provided a lot of info on high ISO work with them. It's a combination of using extra + Exposure Compensation, using a Noiseware plug-in with Photoshop. and with particularly high ISOs even applying different noise reduction in each of the color channels.
At least you can be certain you're getting much better shots than the folks with camera phones, in the background of your sample shot!

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This is one of Most challenging issue coming back last 3 projects kindly explore or any body know this businees scenario guide me
i am doing GR 103 movement once its ok that material should go for inventarized all materials are subjected to batch management how we will incorporate batch in 103 GR if it is possible
Take the changce guide me how to do
Edited by: Lakshmiananda prasad on Feb 24, 2012 1:54 PM
Edited by: Lakshmiananda prasad on Feb 24, 2012 1:54 PM

Hi,
Request you to kindly elaborate the problem to resolve it.
meanwhile: go through the following threads:
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=12903549&messageID=4900481
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=12903549&messageID=4737977
Regards,
KrishnaM
Edited by: Krishna. Madduri on Feb 27, 2012 6:59 PM

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