Discussion software

What discussion software is being used for this forum and is it an Oracle product?

Hiya Brian!
Yes, it is outlined in the Terms, but here's the skinny on it:
-Each question has a "solved my issue" and a couple of "this is somewhat helpful" votes.
-When a user posts a question, they (and only they) have the ability to rate the responses.
-Once the question has been answered, the poster has the ability to mark it that way.
-In the topics list, there are now icons to let folks know if a question is answered or not. This will help folks to find questions that still need responses.
-A "helpful" response gets 5 points.
-A "solved" response gets 10 points.
The system was designed to encourage folks to answer questions. It was also designed to keep people from "hate voting" or giving votes to posts that had no technical merit. IT's a bit different, but when it was tested the last month or so, it got a whole bunch of positive response.
Hope this was helpful.
...oh, and the other stuff: The mods have mentioned in the Level 4 area that the transition was not as easy as it first appeared. LEt me assure you, in the beta (once some really big bugs got worked out) it ran a whole lot smoother than this. I expect it will be rolling along smoothly quite soon.

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Can I use the Apple Discussion software?

I have my own web server and I was looking for some good forum software. I usually use phpBB. However, I started dreaming of forum software that would be great and remembered how much I like the Apple Discussions forums.
I am sure the answer is no, but it does not hurt to ask. Does Apple have any plans to make their forums software available for other people to use?
If this is not the proper forum for this topic, I apologize. It did not seem to fit anywhere else.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Dreaming of a MacBook Pro

I agree. I am never sure when to mark something as a question because it may be quick or it may be a hard one and trying to decide who gets credit for what comments seems like a lot more work than I am looking for usually.
You had a definite Question. I do not see the confusion in marking it as such
clearly you did, it certainly was not a statement. Others do the work to help.
Deciding whom to reward and w/ what I think should be part of your work in return.
Question
n 1: an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present" [syn: inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation] [ant: answer] 2: the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets" [syn: head] 3: a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations" [syn: interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence] 4: uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise" [syn: doubt, dubiousness, doubtfulness] 5: a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question" [syn: motion] 6: an informal reference to a marriage proposal; "he was ready to pop the question"
Answer
n 1: a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics" [syn: reply, response] 2: a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, result, resolution, solvent] 3: the speech act of replying to a question [ant: question] 4: the principle pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
Source: Acronym Finder, © 1988-2004 Mountain Data Systems
Source: On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB
Power PC G4 (3.3) ♥ iMac Flat Panel 10.3.9 & 15 Alum.PowerBook Tiger Mac OS X (10.4.5)

The new discussion software is the worst

Every time I click on anything I get "cannot load page" errors. I have to hit the reload button and hope that it will load. really stinx. Maybe it's just that there's a lot of traffic right now after the switch, but I can't imagine that the site is that much busier, and it doesn't seem like that's the problem anyway.
I used to love coming here and getting info on my mini and osx and all, but I can't imagine I'll remain a regular user if it continues to be such a struggle to get logged in, to see my posts, to post, to go to a discussion board, etc.

Hiya Brian!
Yes, it is outlined in the Terms, but here's the skinny on it:
-Each question has a "solved my issue" and a couple of "this is somewhat helpful" votes.
-When a user posts a question, they (and only they) have the ability to rate the responses.
-Once the question has been answered, the poster has the ability to mark it that way.
-In the topics list, there are now icons to let folks know if a question is answered or not. This will help folks to find questions that still need responses.
-A "helpful" response gets 5 points.
-A "solved" response gets 10 points.
The system was designed to encourage folks to answer questions. It was also designed to keep people from "hate voting" or giving votes to posts that had no technical merit. IT's a bit different, but when it was tested the last month or so, it got a whole bunch of positive response.
Hope this was helpful.
...oh, and the other stuff: The mods have mentioned in the Level 4 area that the transition was not as easy as it first appeared. LEt me assure you, in the beta (once some really big bugs got worked out) it ran a whole lot smoother than this. I expect it will be rolling along smoothly quite soon.

Java software architecture - discussion forum

Hello,
I am looking for a forum where you can discuss software architecture topics. There are so many questions and controversal discussions in this field. I did not really find a forum for that in particular.
A few days ago I posted a question in the RMI-forum (by the way: with no answers so far) where I wanted to know how to distribute data from one source to many receivers (on the same JVM and also on different JVMs). The receiver should be able to select the data they need (so it not always the same data which is send to the different listeners.
My idea/suggestion was, to create this interface for example
public interface DataReceiver extends Remote {
public boolean isRemoteObject() throws RemoteException�
public void transmitData(MyData data);
}With that interface I am able to use RMI to access Objects on other JVMs as well as Object on the same JVM which are only implementing this interface.
Now I implement an ArrayList with DataReceiver-Objects and if data changes I can call the transmitData(..)-method of all these objects.
Is this a good way to do this, or are there better solutions. I am open to any help here.
I think this is not only a RMI-topic, because maybe a JMS-solution would be maybe a better solution. And why use RMI at all? Maybe a network/socket solution is faster.
By the way: Does anyone have experience in building a trading system (for algorithmic trading) ?
thanks
tk

Hello duffymo...
duffymo wrote:
1) Speed
If I use the RMI/interface-solution you can directly use the methods of the interface without having some layer in between if you are in the same JVM. This should be faster as JVM. I have no idea what the situation is like if the receiver is not on the same JVM. How fast is the RMI/interface-solution? How fast is the JMS-solution?RMI? Same JVM? No you're not - each remote client runs in its own JVM. What are you talking about? If they'er all in the same JVM, there's no need for RMI. That's just JavaBeans and events.o.k....from the start....some clients are on the same machine AND some are on different ones. Speed is essential here, especially for the clients on the same machine (components of the server itself). In using this interface you could manage clients no matter whether they are local objects or remote objects. The object that have to notify the clients even do not have to know whether the clients are on the same JVM or the data is forwarded via RMI (or sockets).
If the objects are local the "notification" is just a method call (therefore very fast) and if they are remote you have a pure RMI remote object call. Which also should be faster than JMS.
JMS, by definition, is asynchronous. The publisher sends off the message and doesn't wait for any response. It also doesn't worry about who responds, because it's up to subscribers to indicate their wish to receive the message.yes, so there is a lack of control, what I said. There many tasks where you need this, but there also many tasks where you cannot use MOM.
I have no idea why you're so worried about speed in that case....because this is the requirement !!!! I mentioned it several times. We are talking here about milliseconds. Each detour of the data flow or every data-copying (within the memory or even worse to a database/HDD) takes valuable time.
2) Control
the RMI/interface-solution provides more control. How can you say "more control" when you admit that you don't know JMS?You can get the idea of MOM (i.e. JMS) very fast I think. And I dealt with the topic for some time. I am working in the computer science for 17 years now, believe me, I am able to learn.
I�ve explored the acknowledge-methods of JMS and they all are very slow. You can not use this in a system where speed matters. And you get no direct feedback. (If receiver A and B subscribed to some data, how to find out that both got the data? The sender do not know its receivers and this is one source of the lack of control)
And: If you send the data via a method call, you can get a return value and exceptions. You are free to do (almost) eveything you want. Do you really want to say, that with JMS you have this kind of control?
The sender knows all the clients and can check, whether they have really received the message or not. Maybe even provide some feedback. Can you provide this with JMS?The whole idea behind publish/subscribe is that the publisher doesn't have to know.
JMS can be set up to guarantee delivery.Yes....BUT: I want to find the best solution to a GIVEN problem.
I think here speed is really what matters. And that is the main reason against using JMS. Therefore I think I do not have to deal with JMS any more. The idea of JMS is nice, and I will use surely use it in the future for some other projects, but here - I think - I cannot use it.
and something to "guarantee delivery" ... this is not always a good thing. In some cases the receiver do not want to receive "old data". It depends on the task to accomplish.
3) Messages
in the RMI-Interface-solution I can send almost all kind of objects to the client (serializable). As I can see you can also send java-objects via JMS, but it seems to be more complicated (messages have to match a standard (header, properties, body)...).Read more about JMS. Ditto for it if you send an ObjectMessage.???
And I said.....?????
I think the RMI/interface-solution is not easy. For example you have to use threads (incl. thread-pool) to send all the messages almost at the same time. On the other hand I think it is not too difficult and maybe worth the effort.RMI isn't easy, and it's brittle. Change the interface and all the clients change.yes, I agree. I faced a lot of problems with RMI. But then provide some alternatives. JMS seems to be too slow (and I do not have the time for coding an interface on the socket basis).
I think it is difficult and not worth the effort. JMO, of course.
JMS is done for you. You don't have to maintain that code.except the performance problem
The most important points are here reliability and speed. JMS is more reliable than anything you'll ever write, and it's fast enough."fast enough" .... how can you decide. I can tell you, it is not fast enough.
and reliable: yes I would prefer JMS here. really! I have to admit while reading the specs I began to like JMS. really. There are some chat-functions to implement. This should be very ease with JMS.
I think going down an RMI road for this would be foolish. I wouldn't do it.Maybe there are some other solutions. I will keep looking. And I will check the frameworks stefan.schulz mentioned.
I am very sorry, but I think this is a justified question. And this comment is not very nice at all. There are so many different areas in the Java-World, and no one can be expert in every field. I think this is what all the forums are about. Share knowledge and help others. It's not intended to be mean or demeaning. I don't know if you're aware that excellent commercial trading systems exist, written by people that wouldn't have to ask about RMI or JMS to do it. The fact that you have to ask suggests to me that you aren't one of those experts. If you're doing this as a learning exercise, I'd say go for it. Do it both ways in that case and learn for yourself. Just be realistic about the end goal: it won't be a system that will be used in production anywhere.I am in the financial business for almost 8 years now. And there are many different areas and roles. You have no idea what the systems are like, that I usually design (and they are very, very successful). I think your comments are rather unrefined. And maybe you should think about beeing a little bit more open-minded. You cannot prejudge everything.
Software development is very complex because of all the tools and methods in this field. Knowing when to use a tool/framework/method... is as important as knowing when NOT to use a tool/framework/method/...Yes, and knowing your limitations is also very important.what is the purpose of this last sentence?!
I really want to know!
You are the one, who wrote
JMS is more reliable than anything you'll ever write, and it's fast enough.Without knowing anything about the system (that is not true: I mentioned several times that speed is very important).
Without knowing anything about me...
I really appreciate your contribution here (it really helps), but I stick to it: it is not very nice to goof on someone.
regards
tk

Intra-Discussions URLs = intermittently awry? ("little gray squares")

Hi, Friends!
This may be a very naïve question — or it may have been answered 10x over. I've had no success finding a solution after searching herein, so I'm asking for help...
Intermittently, "intra-Discussions links" — "text URLs" I've written as links to other posts — just don't work. Other times, the same formatting works fine. I haven't been able to predict, and QA/QC gets tiresome.
Can someone help me understand? Is it simply a vestige of transition, or server hiccups, or my lack of savvy, or... ? I'm still learning html, so perhaps the use of both/either XYXYXYX&#XYXYXYX and XYXYXYX#XYXYXYX in post identifiers — seemingly interchangeably — is what has me confused...?
I'm having trouble describing this succinctly. Please bear with me...
Trying to explain:
(1) Method One. I prefer this approach for linking to a post that I think is apropos:
I access the URL for a given post (often not the original post in the thread). One way to do this — kindly authored by ali brown — involves editing a "Reply" link to the post you want to reference. I usually use a simple search, requiring that bit of time, but avoiding any errors that might arise from editing. Either way, the resulting format looks like this:
<a href="http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1902768#1902768"> Bluetooth
Troubleshooting Checklist</a>" or " 1902768&#1902768<font color="000000" "
Externally, this link works fine — and it usually does internally, too. (It works now, too — <i>after</i> I edited it until my eyes crossed.)
<font color="000066">But sometimes, that method goes wacky. I'll have trouble posting an edited post, or discover that the link is dysfunctional while I'm checking through a post for accuracy. Going back to the Editor, I'll discover that — in these cases — the second post ID (in the above case, the 1902768 after the #) has been replaced by two solid gray squares. No amount of retrying, retyping, pasting-in to be sure of accuracy, etc. fixes the problem. The only alternative I've come up with is to manually delete the squares — ending up with a link to the original post of the thread.
But that doesn't accomplish what was intended, because then a reader has to scan the entire thread to locate the specific post. When that happens, I substitute...
(1) Method Two. When I "have to live with" this snafu, I'll go back to a format modeled after the "old" Discussions. For this example, this would be:
<a href="http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1902768"> [ "Bluetooth
Troubleshooting Checklist," Dean Pahl, Mar 11, 2006 10:33 pm ]</a>
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Dean
Edit: Egad! The problem happened again as I was editing and correcting this post! (Even though it'd been working fairly well lately...) In fact, it resulted in cutting off 1/2 of the post untll I went back and edited — a few times, as it turned out...

Thanks grandly, Niel!
So, to confirm my understanding — simply editing out the ampersand (if it appears in the string) will resolve the difficulty?
If I may, a few follow-up questions...
(a) I'd thought this more "random"... tried testing by entering a URL into Safari's address box both including the "&#" and then deleting the "&." Both worked. Perhaps something in the Discussions' software intermittently conflicted with this — or perhaps consistently, and my observatioins were imperfect? I'm pretty familiar with the use of html "character entities" — is that equivalent terminology to what you've called "declaring a Unicode glyph?"
(b) An example for clarity —> Let's say I jump to the Using Apple Discussions »» Feedback About Discussions main page, and search for < Niel "Re: Intra-Discussions URLs = intermittently awry? ("little gray squares")" >. Then, following the link back to your post above, I can copy its URL and paste it into an html link within another message. Unfortunately, what's returned ends with "jspa?messageID=1950955&#1950955" — i.e., the character string that may be misinterpreted and cause the misbehavior.
I'm going to test this out now, using both formats...
Edited to add: Interesting... Both formats worked fine to link back to your post — from within this message and from the same link in a TextEdit file. However, when I returned to the Discussions' Editor, the entire string following the first "1950955" morphed into two gray squares. I suppose these are squares just like what happens with an improper key "mapping" — returning to the mis-identification of an html character entity. It may be that what I'd perceived as "random" was related to whether I used the Editor. So it seems I've proved your assertion in full, and found a correlation about how.
Was the "?" part of the string added because it was derived from a search?
My curiosity essentially stems from wanting to simplify posting and learn more about how & why. Perhaps you could recommend a reference that might help? Before posting originally, I checked a few tutorials such as W3 Schools' — but couldn't find what you've so cogently explained...
Thanks again!
Dean

How do we know who apple people are on discussions?

I'd like to know how we can recognise apple staff on the discussions, thanks for all your help.

On the old discussion software, they had distinctive avatars and identifiers under the avatars. They could have adopted distinctive avatars with the new forum software but they didn't. The reason that they didn't, I assume, is because the new software allows secondary icons to identify users. Every level had its own icon, the Hosts had their own icon, and Apple employees had theirs. This identification system was temporarily disabled along with the rest of the levels and reputations because of the performance hit that was being caused. It may come back if they can fix the performance problems.
Until then, Hosts and Apple employees have been using text signatures, such as "Apple Discussions Host" to identify themselves. There may be Apple employees who have not gotten the word about the text signatures.
BTW, to see what I mean by the identification icons, look at how Jive has implemented this feature on their own support forums. On this forum page, look to the right in the box labeled "Legend".

Discussions "Account" Replies Are Missing

Some time ago I had around 300 posts on the Discussion board, but a few month back it seemed to reset back to zero, then after I had a few posts again, it seemed to reset again. How does this happen? My email address on .Mac has not changed and my .Mac account has not lasped and I've been a member for almost as long as .Mac has been active.
I notice that there are posters on here that have several thousand posts at the time that mine reset, theirs did not. What gives? I'm not excited about one-upmanship, "I have more points/posts than you," but it is odd and I'd like to know why.
JoeL

Hi JoeL!
If you view your User Profile, you will see that you are a Level 2, with 275 Points, 358 Total Posts, and 46 Total Posts Online.
When the Discussions software changed in Nov of 2005, many older posts were eliminated.
ali b

Discussion "sign in error"

When I try to sign in to the discussions, I get an error message that I cannot sign in but it does, in fact, sign me in. This started before 10.4.10 but after 10.4.9. I've tried to type the information in rather than let the keychain do it but it makes no difference. On my notebook, I use the same information and it signs me in fine. Any ideas? It's not a problem since it signs me in but it's annoying.
MacPro 3.0, Macbook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi GRS,
This is known problem right now with the Discussions software. You might want to have a look over in the Feedback About Discussions forum for alot more info.
hope that helps some,
littleshoulders [:-)

Game from Nokia software - Certificate not found

Hello, I wonder if anybody could advise me on this. I have purchased a Freecell game from Nokia software online shop (registered to NOkia club before) and received the service message to my Nokia6111. I connected to WAP, but when I tried to download it, there was a message: Certificate not found on SIM card, neither in the phone. I contacted support of that page and they advised to change the settings which I have seen already in these discussions - software download all and online certificate off.However, this should be done in Application manager, but Nokia 6111 doesnt seem to have this in menu. I went through all the possible setting, but did not find anything similar about software download...The lady from customer support seems to be finished with me and I threw away 4 euros. I know it is not that much, but just for the principle...company as Nokia...
If anybody could advise, I would be really thankful.

You should have an option to manually enter the qualifying product's serial number.

Safari balky only on Apple Discussions

I use Safari almost exclusively and generally it works fine. It seems to me that recently I am having to reload many of my hits on Discussions which just spin (or don't even spin) and don't load. Anyone else having this problem?
ds

yes - lots of us.
there was a reply to a question from me on this board saying it was an apple discussions software problem & would hopefully be fixed soon. Apple are certainly aware of the problem.
I have found that logging out to browse here makes it much faster, & have fallen into the bad habit of double clicking every link - which does seem effective ( not if opening in a new tab, of course).
worst is questions/answers not being sent - refresh doesn't work for those & I often have to copy my reply - go back - hit reply once more - paste - & try again.

Problem - Discussion auto-linkify breaks IPv6 addresses

Discussions auto-linkify feature seems to break when specifying a URL with an IPv6 address.
Safari (and most web browsers) use square brackets when specifying an IPv6 address in the URL. The discussions software seems to see this and then break the link into two separate (useless) links.
Example- http://[2001:4860:0:2001::68]
In the example, I have added brackets around the address, but Discussions strips the address). There appears to be no way to actually get a link to an IPv6 address[0].
[0]- Of course, everyone should be doing DNS and in a perfect world, we'd never see IP addresses, I'm just being pedantic.

Unfortunately, the href formatting strips the brackets too. Typing this:
<a href="http://[2001:4860:0:2001::68]">This should link to Google's IPv6 IP</a>
but gets mangled to this:
This should link to Google's IPv6 IP
Looks like Discussions strips all pairs of square brackets (possibly because it thinks it's a BBCode command). Using the HTML codes for the brackets in the href doesn't seem to fix it either.
TinyURL works with IPv6 IPs, but oddly I think you've lead me to find a bug with Safari. Safari doesn't seem to be able to parse the location HTML header if it directs to an IPv6 address:
Going to the following link in Safari (v4):
http://tinyurl.com/bc8x9a
will give the error +Safari can’t open the page “http://tinyurl.com/bc8x9a” because Safari can’t find the server “tinyurl.com”.+
But if you go to Tiny URL's preview site:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bc8x9a
It will show as a legitimate site and you can click the link from there and it works.

HT5312 I DO remember them but Apple chose to put them in Japanese and I can not change the language on Manage my Apple ID so I do not know if I made an error ,it threw me off , it was the wrong question Where did you fly to on your first Aiplane trip ? th

I DO remember them but Apple chose to put them in Japanese and I can not change the language on Manage my Apple ID so I do not know if I made an error ,it threw me off , it was the wrong question Where did you fly to on your first Aiplane trip ? then I was unable to enter until 8 hours then called Apple Japan 4 times each time threy asked me would you like to speak with an English speaker,I said yes then they told me sorry today is Sunday no English speakers ,but they refused to speak Japanese, then I called 5th time and a kind guy could speak English we were on 1and 1/2 hours he got me to log in but the reset key chain could not be completed still pending.
He said do not mess with that ! then I got a text from somewhere to reset 4 pins suddenly it was very strange I said to him that I got this pin this morning but it said you can use maximum 3 hours it had a UK number and I told him I do not like this and will not enter the code he said do not do it if it is from the UK and then I said to him ok you did a lot to help but we can not go any further ! and we cut of I went back to my computer to re do the ID but I found everything a mess so I call and a stupid sounding Japanese women with a squeaky voice came on I was calm at first and they want your phone number your IMEI number your iPhone serial number date of birth Address email address it takes 10 munutes to check then they ask what are you caling about so I try to explain my keychain is broken or problems with language security questions and can not change my pasword because the security question have failed me so it is ONE BIG HEADACHE AND I START I GET STRESSED she says Do want an ENGLISH speaker ,I say yes ,that guy i talked to earlier but I never got his name and first time I ever talked to him but they said he is not here so I said ok and then she said today is sunday so call back in the morning ,I said ,well ok in Japanese but they make you feel stupid because they do not want to speak Jap@anese with none natives and they are to busy,And they feel that I should not bother them ,then I say that Apple Japan is trying to refuse Apple foreign customers and then she wants to hang up and ask me to visit the shop ,but they are the same I have a very bad time with Apple Japan since they do not discuss software problems or security with customer meaning if you have a problem they ask you to come on a time 20 minutes max so they do hardware test and say you phone is fine then I say no I can not reset my ID they say you must call call centre so I am going around in circles ,When I call English it is usually Australia so if my problem is in Japan surely if do not want me to talk to them in Japanese and they ask me to call Australia but every time my call charge is expensive after asking them is this free because I have Apple care they say yes but when the call goes to Australia 0120 277 535 it might change to paid call so I call then I have to ask is this charging they say we can not give you that information ! so what can I do I have have been at the computer and phone all day on my day off work and in tre week I am so busy and can not use my phone I can not work without it ,this new technology for you ,they can not cope with the fact that the customer have problems yet they do not want to deal with us because they can not solve it and so it shows them to be useless they like to walk around in their cool tee shirts and retro shop but when it comes to functionality we are unwelcome they got the money so do not return because apple is perfect that nothing should go wrong .
But it does somehow my English security answers do not work on a Japanese Question especialy if I did not choose that question I set up the multiple choice In English and wrote the answers in English or Roman and set them langauge preferences in English, do you really think you can correctly write english name or word in Japanese they write a police patrol car pato caa パトカア　they do not have r and l .So it is my choice to make my security easy for me and as difficult for others to hack.But they also have patororoo choo meaning ' now patrolling ' so why they have pato caa patrol car and patoro patrol and have thousands of Chinese words kanji they can find patrol.
I am getting off the topic but I am at a loss to fix this problem when they hold the keys and i have all the info to verify my ID.

You have to enter the Apple ID and password. You are running into the Activation Lock
iCloud: Find My iPhone Activation Lock in iOS 7
Is there a way to find my Apple ID Name if I can't remember it?
Yes. Visit My Apple ID and click Find your Apple ID. See Finding your Apple ID if you'd like more information.
How do I change or recover a forgotten Apple ID Password?
If you've forgotten your Apple ID Password or want to change it, go to My Apple ID and follow the instructions. SeeChanging your Apple ID password if you'd like more information.

How to put a dvd on icloud

How can I get my Led Zeppelin DVD on icloud (my ipad)?

You don't. If your DVD is a commercial DVD, it's most likely encrypted. Breaking that encryption, a necessary first step in copying it, is illegal in the U.S. Therefore, the Terms of Use of this forum prohibits us discussing software or methods for copying a DVD. Sorry.

Display files/directories of a remote system (RIO) on a host machine (PC)

Hello,
Please assume that we are discussing software built on the standard "Labview FPGA Control on Compact RIO" sample project. The host is a standard PC running LV14 Fall edition, the remote system is an sbRIO-9636 having an SD card and a USB HDD attached. The objective is process control. The process being controlled is not relevant to the question.
This question is about implementing the following functionality: the user operates a host machine running a Labview user interface vi (UI Main.vi) locally on the host machine. Part of this vi must offer the user a built in dialogue (some express vi or another) or custom dialogue (a bespoke vi displayed on demand). The dialogue must display the directories and files of the remote system which runs RT Main.vi and it must allow the user to select a single XML file on the remote system (which contains some generic configuration information). The name of the file will then be passed to the remote system and the remote system will act to open it and populate some configuration variables.
I am sure that a widely used solution exists for this problem but I've not found the right words to type into my favourite search engine yet to produce the result. I propose the following:
1) User clicks a "select config file" button on UI Main.vi
2) The UI Main.vi event loop enqueues a message on the UI Main message queue based on the value change event caused by the button press
3) The UI Main.vi message loop enqueues a separate message on to the "UI Command Stream" network stream
4) The RT Main.vi, RT Loop - UI Commands.vi subvi receives the message from the stream and enqueues it on the RT Main.vi message queue
5) The RT Main.vi message loop performs some functions to read the disk structures, directories and file names from the RT system
6) The file and directory name data in (5) is converted to a variant and is passed along with a suitable message into the RT Writer network stream
7) The UI Main.vi periodically reads the RT Writer network stream (it's in the "monitoring loop") and enqueues the received message (from 6) into the UI message queue
8) The UI Main message queue populated the UI Main front panel with the data
9) The user selects the directory and file they desire and clicks an "ok" button
10) The ok button click causes the event loop of UI main to enqueue a message in UI Main.vi's message queue due to the value change on the ok button
11) The UI Message loop enqueues a message on to the "UI Command Stream" network stream with the selected fully qualified file name of the selected file as the data (stored as variant)
12) The RT Main.vi, RT Loop - UI Commands.vi subvi receives the message from the stream and enqueues it on the RT Main.vi message queue
13) The RT Main.vi message loop opens the XML file and populated the appropriate variables with the configuration options therein.
The user should be able to cancel the dialogue and avoid using a configuration file but I have not delt with that here.
Now for the questions:
1) Is this a logical approach?
2) Are there any suggestions for a better way?
3) Any links to some pre-written code that will allow me to impliment all or part of this with minimum effort (I'm thinking here of the dialogue box bit rather than the network streams and events bit as those structures are extant and have lots of bespoke code already in them)?
Thanks,
James
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for your input. You're right I have used network streams.
I implimented more or less what I said in my original post. It works. My main objective was to keep all the config stuff, and data for the particular target on the target's SDCard. On reflection that did make my life much harder than keeping stuff on the host.
It is more (quite a lot more) involved to keep the config files on the target and send directory info etc. back to the host on demand. If I was to do this again I would probably keep the config files on the host machine and keep them in Dropbox or a Google drive so that if I had more than one host to work from (Work PC, Home PC and Laptop...) I would have all my files with little effort. Still I didn't konw that when I started.
Thanks,
James

Suggestion for a minor change...

Hello!
The "My Subscriptions" page of the Apple Discussions Website states,"Your Email Address
All subscription updates will be emailed to your email address: ________. If this is incorrect, please update your email address on the settings page. to change one's email address, we go to the my settings page." (There's direct link to My Settings page.)
However, My Settings page is not where an email address can be changed. One person after another gets stuck here, because the link is official site information. Frustrated, the same question regarding where one can change an email address or if that's even possible is posted over and over again.
While I may be missing something here, I would like to suggest a very simple solution: change the information on the My Subscriptions page and create a correct link to https://myinfo.apple.com ...not to the My Settings page.
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Good that "this information [has been] sent upward"...
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