Learning the Duke Star system?

I'm sorry that javaci did not get the Duke Stars. Write in this thread so that I can make up for it, javaci!

The reason for this is, that I made a mistake in an old thread (below). Please write in here, javaci. Be a sport and let me correct my mistake - drop a note in here, please...
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5277893&tstart=0

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Old Members what is 10 Duke Stars available

Hi to all...
I just want you to know i'm so excited for being new in here, and share my knowledge with the others in something that locked my devotion to for years.. JAVA...
but i didn't know what does it mean 10 Duke Stars available or 3 or...
at the top of some topics..and how do i get it...
p.s if there are any more rules or things i should know can you just tell me guys ...
Thanks and wish the best knowledge for all
Q.Najjar(^_^);

prometheuzz i've read that one, but this thing i was
telling you about i couldn't get ..
like who gives it to you and according to what...and
when is it given to you..
got my question ???From the How it Works tab of the link I already posted:
Duke Stars are typically offered on a forum thread when the original author of the thread wants to encourage active participation and solicit timely answers to their questions. Not every forum posting or thread will offer the opportunity to earn Duke Stars.
When a user starts a new thread, he has the option to offer up to 10 Duke Stars to respondents. Forums users earn Duke Stars for their own account by responding to threads that offer Duke Stars as rewards. The thread author determines which response merits the reward, and has full discretion over which respondent is awarded the Duke Stars. The thread author can split the Duke Stars amongst the posters whose answers he found most helpful, but cannot award himself.

The system doesn't recognize or capitalize the word (I) or the first word of every sentence. Another really annoying thing about the integrated mail on your Mac computers is the fact that the system learns the word as you type it more and more instead of

The system doesn’t recognize or capitalize the word (I) or the first word of every sentence. Another really annoying thing about the integrated mail on your Mac computers is the fact that the system learns the word as you type it more and more instead of highlighting it as incorrectly is this is a word that’s being misspelled. Can Apple fix this bug to make it user friendly as if you were using Office or a Word Document?

You hit the target CT.
It’s only fair that if Apple is going to integrate Mail into Mac PCs, it would be nice if the system does it for you like Office or perhaps Outlook. I just don’t to use Outlook although I have it installed and ready to use, but instead use Mail which comes with Mac OS already.
I hope to make some sense here.

I tray to reinstall i tunes in my pc after having error 7, but wyle in the instalation this mesage appear said service apple mobile device failed to star. verefy that you have suficient privileges to star system services.

i tray to reinstall i tunes in my pc after having error 7, but wyle in the instalation this mesage appear said service apple mobile device failed to star. verefy that you have suficient privileges to star system services.

Let's try a standalone Apple Mobile Device Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of why it's not installing under normal conditions.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi to do a standalone AMDS install.
(If it offers you the choice to remove or repair, choose "Remove", and if the uninstall goes through successfully, see if you can reinstall by doubleclicking the AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi again.)
Does it install (or uninstall and then reinstall) properly for you? If so, does an iTunes install go through properly now?
If instead you get an error message during the install (or uninstall), let us know what it says. (Precise text, please.)

HT5024 It states that it takes 24hrs for changes to come into effect. However, what does it mean that it may retains my review in the system indefinitely, so if I rate it 1 star by accident, and changed it to rate 5 stars, the 1 star rating is not removed

It states that it takes 24hrs for changes to come into effect. However, what does it mean that it may retain my review in the system indefinitely? So if I rate it 1 star by accident, and changed it to rate 5 stars, the 1 star rating is not removed?

Hi,
One of my ex-colleagues has installed a NI-DAQ 6.5 in our system. [And I do not see any other naitional instruments card in the CPU of the computer, may be he removed it] I deleted the account and all his files in the system. When I am trying to install version8.0, its not getting installed and giving me a message that I should uninstall the previous version by going to Add/Remove programs in the control panel.
I tried doing that, but the "Change/Remove" button does not seem to work...[There is no response and so unable to install the new version...]
Any idea how can this problem be solved?
It is a windowsXP operating system with SP2 installed on a machine with P4 processor.
Thanks

Duke Stars Not Working ?

Is Duke Stars not working for anyone else? I havn't been able to use them for almost 2 weeks. I get a server error page every time I try to click on a link to do something with Duke Stars (add them to a topic, remove them from a topic, reward someone who posted). I have tried using the forums feedback to get help from sun, but now its been almost 2 weeks and all I have heard back is an email saying "I will pass this message along". Strange that getting a hold of someone from Sun for forum issues is so inconvenient and unreliable. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Here is the message on the Server Error page that I am getting:
Server Error
This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log.

jverd wrote:
AsSiDuL0Us wrote:
They are useful because nobody replied to my question the other day and I think if I had been able to assign Duke Stars that somebody would have.No.
People here do not chose whether to reply based on dukes. If somebody does, he probably doesn't know enough to be helpful anyway.
Really, they are totally useless.
Sun doesn't seem to read or respond their feedbackThat's correct. The administration of this site sucks. Always has.Seriously - honestly ... I believe you if you say that you don't care for the silly duke stars, but I think the majority of folks here do care. I might be wrong, but it's just simple human nature ... and since most of us are guys to boot, yeah, we really care - people like getting plaques, trophies, medals - you name it ... for us it's degrees, certificates and even silly stars ... it's what we are.
What matters isn't if we care, but how we act in spite of it and to what degree we actively pursue them ... or anything else for that matter - does it cause us to loose site of more important things? ... do we loose focus on the main thing ... helping others and trying to learn ourselves?
My 2-cents.
~Bill

Duke stars

Just found out what duke stars are. It is a good idea.
Is it a commonly used system or noboby cares about it?
Cause I think we should :)
Thanks

this is what i have now sorry wanted to try something out first
import javax.swing.*;
public class quiz
public static void main (String[] p)
   char choice;
   switch (choice) {
case 'B' :
     int[][] scores = new int[6][4];
     ass(scores);
     String temp= JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Which quiz");
     int qn= Integer.parseInt(temp);
     int max = fmax(scores, qn);
     search(scores, max, qn);
     break;
   case 'A'
     String[] names = new String[6];
     for(int i=0; i<names.length; i++)
     names[i] = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter name "+(i+1));
     bsort(names);
     for(int i=0; i><names.length; i++)
     System.out.println(names);
break;
System.exit(0);
public static void bsort(String[] a)
for(int j=a.length; j>=2; j--)
for(int k=0; k<j-1; k++)
if(a[k].compareTo(a[k+1])>0)
swap(a, k, k+1);
public static void swap(String[] a, int pos1, int pos2)
String temp = a[pos1];
a[pos1] = a[pos2];
a[pos2] = temp;
public static void ass(int[][] a)
for(int i=0; i<a.length; i++)
for (int j=0; j<a[i].length;j++)
a[i][j]=(int)(Math.random()*101);
public static int fmax(int[][] a, int qn)
int max=0;
for(int i=0; i<a.length; i++)
if(max<a[i][qn])
max = a[i][qn];
return max;
public static void search(int[][] a, int key, int qn)
for(int i=0; i<a.length; i++)
if(a[i][qn]==key)
System.out.println("Student "+i+" has maximum for quiz" +qn);
and now i get two errors
1 being String[] names= new String[6]; arrow points at first S in string
2 being for(int i=0; i)(names.length; i++) at the semicolon by length

My Duke Stars

Can any of you press "My Duke Stars" without getting
Server Error
This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log.Ever since the last disaster of an upgrade I get this system error. For a time I sent Sun Feedback every day but got fed up with it.

sabre150 wrote:
But here's a tip that might help you. I notice that the logout often is broken like this and when that happens I go to a different page and then try it and it works.
So for example it won't work when looking at the index of category view pages but will work from a forum view page.
I have just tried the link from all pages I can find that have the link and ALL produce the system error. I shall just have to wait until the 2017 upgrade.Sorry dude. I was hopeful.

Photos/Fotos: One of the most important selection features the is "Star" rating. How on earth can you stop supporting this feature ???

One of the most important selection features the is "Star" rating.
How on earth can Apple stop supporting this feature ???
My iPhoto lib contains >100´000 photos. All of them are rated with stars. Dependent on the rating I distribute the photos on >20 apple devices in our family.
Many friends of mine do the same.
It´s time for a severe request to Apple to take over that feature from iPhoto to Photos. They should start to learn, that people that liked their previously released software have spent hundreds of hours to adapt their data with that software to their needs. I´m using Mac´s since 1984. Might be that I start thinking about using different systems if they continue to through away my efforts from the past...
If you dislike Apples latest moves and like this feature too you need to provide feedback to them on the following web page: www.apple.com/feedback
Horst

Remember that star ratings are not part of standard metadata.

Is it so difficult for Sun to sort search result and duke stars ?

In the years that I have been visiting these forums I have frequently (well every year at least) asked Sun to sort the search results by reverse date. In the last few months I have asked Sun to sort the new format of the results of "My Duke Stars". Is is so difficult to add a 'order by' clause to the SQL or am I missing something?

DrClap wrote:
It would be nice if they could do that, and I asked them too several months ago. It would also be nice if they told you how many points you got for an answer (not how many points were originally attached to the thread) and the date and time you got them (not the original date and time of the thread). But those changes might take more than just an ORDER BY clause. (Or they might be implemented by just choosing the right columns from joined tables, who knows?)They seem to have all the functionality already there, it's just spread out across two pages when it should be all on one.
http://forum.java.sun.com/myrewards.jspa
http://forum.java.sun.com/dukesummary.jspa
And has anyone ever come up with a sane explanation of all these numbers?
Balance: 474
Rewarded: 474
Awarded:   40
Duke Stars earned by program:   534
Total Duke Stars earned to date 534
Duke Stars spent to date    -60
Available Balance   474

When I double-click the gold star to bookmark a site and click "Choose", none of my current folders appear in the drop-down under Bookmarks Menu.

Running 3.6.12 on Windows XP in my brand-new HP 6000 Pro, and when I double-click the gold star to bookmark a site, 5 of my 80-odd folders appear in the drop-down under Bookmarks Menu. But then, when I click "Choose", no list of current bookmarks appears, so I have to bookmark every time under "Unsorted", then drag each bookmark to its correct folder. What am I doing wrong? I use Firefox on my other 2 systems, and every folder appears on the drop-down, just like it should.

I don't use Xmarks, so I don't know whether that is a factor here...
If you use Ctrl+d on a bookmarked page, does the Edit Bookmark dialog appear?
Firefox doesn't have a convenient way to determine the location of a bookmark. One workaround is to use the extension [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/show-parent-folder/ Show Parent Folder] to add a column in the Library dialog showing the location of a bookmark. Then when you use the search function or Recently Bookmarked query, you should be able to discover the location.
The extension shows just the folder name by default. If that isn't unique enough, you can change a setting for the extension so it shows the full path down to that folder. To set this, open the Add-ons page, Extensions category, and use the Options button for Show Parent Folder.

And "My Duke Stars" is now unusable

Before it just showed you what threads had earned you stars in the last month. Now it shows you all threads that have ever earned you stars... only not in date sequence. Want to know recent threads that you got stars for? Using your browser to search for "2007" sort of works.

DrClap wrote:
Before it just showed you what threads had earned you stars in the last month. Now it shows you all threads that have ever earned you stars... only not in date sequence. Want to know recent threads that you got stars for? Using your browser to search for "2007" sort of works.Can you see your duke stars?
"Server Error
This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log."

Zerofree: Shrinking ARCH guest VMDK--'remount the root file-system'?

Hi!
[using ZEROFREE]
Getting great results with and extra ARCH install running as a VMDK in Workstation.
REALLY need tips on shrinking the VMDK. obviously have deleted unneeded files
and now rather urgently need to learn what's eluding me so far.
1) zerofree is install IN the virtual machine (VMDK)workstation running on windows 8.
2) Here's the instructions for zerofree:
filesystem has to be unmounted or mounted read-only for zerofree to
work. It will exit with an error message if the filesystem is mounted
writable.
To remount the root file-system readonly, you can first
switch to single user runlevel (telinit 1) then use mount -o remount,ro
filesystem.
As it a VMDK and it's running would the only/best option be to: "remount the root file-system readonly" ??
OR, could i add the VMDK to another running arch system that I do have and NOT mount the VMachine thereby
allowing zero free to run even better on that?
Are both method JUST as efficive at shrinking? My guess would be the remount root file-system as read only
would NOT be as efficient at shrinking.
I could really use a brief walk-through on this as all attempts have failed so far.
I boot the ARCH virtual machine and do what may I ask?
Last edited by tweed (2012-06-05 07:43:41)

How did you use/test unison? In my case, unison, of course, is used in the cpio image, where there are no cache files, because unison has not been run yet in the initcpio image, before it had a chance to be used during boot time, to generate them; and during start up is when it is used; when it creates the archives. ...a circular dependency. Yet, files changed by the user would still need to be traversed to detect changes. So, I think that even providing pre-made cache files would not guarantee that they would be valid at start up, for all configurations of installation. -- I think, though, that these cache files could be copied/saved from the initcpio image to the root (disk and RAM), after they have been created, and used next time by copying them in the initcpio image during each start up. I think $HOME would need to be set.
Unison was not using any cache previously anyway. I was aware of that, but I wanted to prove it by deleting any cache files remaining.
Unison, actually, was slower (4 minutes) the first time it ran in the VM, compared to the physical hardware (3:10s). I have not measured the time for its subsequent runs, but It seemed that it was faster after the first run. The VM was hosted on a newer machine than what I have used so far: the VM host has an i3-3227U at 1.9 GHz CPU with 2 cores/4 threads and 8 GB of RAM (4 GB ware dedicated to the VM); my hardware has a Pentium B940 at 2 GHz CPU with 2 cores/2 threads and 4 GB of RAM.
I could see that, in the VM, rsync and cp were copying faster than on my hardware; they were scrolling quicker.
Grub, initially complains that there is no image, and shows a "Press any key to continue" message; if you continue, the kernel panics.
I'll try using "poll_device()". What arguments does it need? More than just the device; also the number of seconds to wait?
Last edited by AGT (2014-05-20 16:49:35)

Questions concerning the Macintosh Operating System (very technical)

I've recently learned all about how Windows based machines do various things such as memory management, processor management, disk scheduling algorithms, concurrent/parallel processing and performance evaluation/simulation.
I'm interested in learning more about the Macintosh OS handles these various aspects, in comparison to what I've learned about the Windows based machines. Could anyone enlighten me, or point me to a link that would do so?
Appreciated!!

In addition to the previous posts, I would add the following links:
See the ADC link Differences between OSX and BSD UNIX for some specifics on the diffs between OSX and BSD.
Darwin uses the Mach kernel .
I would also recommend the books "The Design and Implementation of the Free BSD System" by Marshall McKusick and George Neville-Neil and "Programming under Mach" by Boykin, Kirschen, Langerman and LoVerso for general background info on FreeBSD and Mach, respectively.
You may also find useful info at several Apple emailing lists devoted specifically to the Darwin kernel and Darwin development .
Good Luck!
Ed

Character information at the candidate window in the pinyin input system.

While learning writing chinese characters with the pinyin input system at an apple store, I found that at the candidate window, already selected a character, the window showed the pinyin with the tone number, the code, the radical and the components of the character. I have OS X Lion 10.7.1 and Pages ´09 4.1 (923) and can not activate that helpful function. I already went back to the store without results. Does somebody can help me to activate this function? Is it a version related characteristic?. Thanks

PS Sorry, I gave you the instructions for 10.6. In 10.7, you have to select Find Input Code in the "flag" under the Pinyin flag.

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