O.T. Food For Thought

Not something I would have thought any forum members are guilty of,but it does make you wonder how many adults of the future will know what they looked like when they were little :
'In the U.K., the information security company Symantec commissioned a poll of 2,227 consumers that revealed 89% of them own a digital camera or cameraphone but about one-third of digicam owners don't back up their digital images. Not even with printsa large majority (70%) of digicam owners print 25% or less of their images and fully 30% said that they did not print out ANY hard copies. So, presumably many photographers are depending on their digicam memory cards or their PC's hard drive for storage, but memory cards can get lost or broken and ALL hard drives eventually fail.'

Malcolm, Hi; I'm one that does not print much. I have a couple of external hard drives and I copy every thing on at least two sources. Most of my digital images and digital video gets put on CD, DVdisk or internet to share.
Now that I'm getting into PSE I have been thinking about print again. When I do print I use Shutterfly or other on-line services. I have a good printer and a LCD monitor so I have been thinking about getting software to calibrate this monitor or using one of my old CRT monitors, since I have been reading about the difference in what you see on a LCD monitor and your print output. So far The prints I have made at home look good after I nudge up sliders on my printer preferences
Some of the images I have been editing are looking good and I may not be satisfied with this method or on-line services any longer. Mickey

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Accessibility for the visually Impaired - food for thought

Experts,
Some food for thought:
From a technical perspective, all I can imagine of as a solution to deliver accessible applications to visually impaired users of SAP, is an orchestrated screen design and cursor flow with complete keyboard navigability and minimum or zero click sensitivity.
Have TTS/speech driven navigation or other alternatives been introduced in SAP already? If yes, what are the steps to be performed to harness the same in a typical SAP ERP Installation. Please enlighten me.
Also, if you think this post is in the wrong forum, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
NW

Hi,
Pls check below link.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/EN/af/94c0417546cd17e10000000a155106/content.htm
Anil

Logic Crashing, food for thought...

I posted this in another thread, but thought it might be worth posting separately.
First, keeping in mind that crashes probably happen to Logic users all around the world running different versions on different computers with varying amounts of plugs, 3rd party apps, etc., and that not every Logic user is a member of an online forum... OK, having said that...
Based on my casual observations reading through this most recent rash of crash complaints, I noticed that many of these posters are running the latest OS, 10.4.9. And I recently had an experience in another studio where, after installing Logic on a 10.4.9 computer that Logic crashed incessently.
Anyway. So, my food for thought: has anyone found that they're crashing more often since updating to 10.4.9?

MBP (core duo 1.83) all updates, no problems. Just ran some of the scenarios that others are reporting - it's as stable as ever.
The only thing I've run across lately is Logic on the MBP not picking up my config from AMS. I have a G4 MDD in my studio, and I'm setting up to be able to switch systems with 1 usb and 1 firewire cable. The midi system is rather complex (40+ ports), and I spent my time working on my laptop.... then found Logic just ignores it. Works fine on the MDD - also running 10.4.9.
but no crashes on either system... knock on wood.
MBP 1.83 & MDD 1G DP Mac OS X (10.4.8) Logic Pro 7.2.3, Motu 828MkII+828, Firebox LC&XT, Tranzport, Unitor8+(3x)AMT-8's

Export puzzle--food for thought.

Hi,
I used to use FCE 2 on Panther and made a movie and used the export feature to make a DVD. I used "Export to QuickTime Movie" and made the thing self contained.
After lots of time and upgrades (FCEHD 3.5.1, OS X Leopard, a new hard drive, etc,) I was having trouble with playing those old timelines. The rendered part were red indicating that they needed done even though I hadn't changed anything, so I figured I would render them fresh. I deleted my render files to save some space and just did it again. No problem.
But now some of my old QT exports won't play, saying they are looking for these old rendered files. Weird, since I thought they could stand alone. Whatever, I'll just export them again, right? Here's the twist: the new exports are way bigger than the old ones. For example, a 90 second clip was 16.6 MB on FCE2, it is now 326.9 MB on FCEHD3.5.1 Does this have something to do with the HD part in the upgrade? Why is this new stuff so big?
Perhaps I exported the old QT files using something else and compressed it, but I doubt it since the directions clearly state to do that and let iDVD compress it for me. And the info on the files look identical otherwise (codec, dimensions, open with FCE, etc). I'm guessing its just the difference between FCE2 and FCEHD3.5.1 exports. Am I right?
Thanks,
Ed

You're probably right, although I could have sworn I made them self contained. But the signs seem to point to them being referrential. I guess I was wondering if i was possible that the new versions of FCE made things bigger by virtue of being "HD" and such.
Thanks,

Just Food for Thought

I think when my contract expires on 01/26/2013 that I will not renew my contract with VZW. I'll still remain with VZW, I'll pay the full-retail price for whatever glitzy device is all the rage. I figure, $800 FRP, without the threat of an ETF is well worth the peace of mind. I still pay the full price for the phone, just not upfront.

Verizon Bases the cost of the cell phone off of how much time your contract is, because part of the monthly bill actually goes to reimburse Verizon for the astronomical price of cell phones. Take the HTC Thunderbolt for instance with a 2 year contract they are going for $250 but the Full retail cost of the phone is about $650, if Verizon gets the guarantee from you that you will pay your bill for 2 years then they will sell you the phone at that cost because they will eventually get their money back. That is the whole reason for having contracts in the first place, So that average people can afford nice phones. Even the simplest phone in the line up like the Samsung Haven the full retail cost of that phone is like $175 and that is just a simple flip phone that doesn't Even have a camera. Who would pay that much for a phone? So in a sense you don't save any money by purchasing your phone at full retail because part of your bill will still go toward paying back a cell phone that you don't have a contract on. The only way you would save money is if you bought your phones from eBay or some 3rd party source, and then Verizon offer you an incentive and discount your plan for not purchasing phone through them. Since that isn't happening anytime soon, just sign the contract!

Food for thought : Closing I/O streams ....

hi all,
my intention is to release all the I/O streams after i have finished their use .to do it i call the .Close()
method in a finally block .
my question is : how is calling .Close() on an I/O stream different from, assigning a null to it .
i.e. :
objIOStream.Close();// in finally
objIOStream = null; // in finally
will the gc behave differently in these two cases ?
what is the logical diffrence in the two approaches ?
can i be sure that my streams would be closed/resources freed by using even the second approach ?
thanks in advance,
Ravi

It's not quite the same thing.
Closing the stream may cause it to set its internal stream to null but that doesn't mean that the outer stream becomes available for garbage collection.
For example, in the following, outerStream doesn't gets garbage collected although it does get closed. When close is called, the FileInputStream that it wraps is closed and, according to your last post, the reference to it set to null - the FileInputStream should then be eligible for garbage collection. However, my Test class still maintains a reference to the BufferedInputStream thus preventing it from being garbage collected even though it can no longer do anything useful with it.
public class Test
private InputStream outerStream;
public Test() throws Exception
    try
      outerStream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("C:/blah.txt"));
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}Explicitly setting objects to null in order to get them garbage collected is usually unnecessary, however. In the example above outerStream should have been declared locally in the constructor - it will then be eligible for garbage collection when it falls out of scope.
Hope this helps.

Food for thought: results differ when source compiled in JBuilder and Java

Hi,
I was working with JBuilder and i found that One of the JavaSource files which had a class attribute as final and was assigned somewhere later in a method, was getting compiled by JBuilder (as a member of a project), but the same class file while compiling with javac was giving compilation error.
Also the size of the other class files on which i was working, generated by JBuilder and javac (Both are JDK 1.3) were different. How can there be a difference while compiling.
If anybody can tell the reason.. i will be enlightened.
Regards,
Guru

Your settings in JBuilder for how it compiles is probably set to compile with debugging allowed (command line -g), which will account for the size.
As for your first problem, I can't help you. The only thing I can think of is that either JBuilder actually did not (re)compile that particular file or it's actually using a different compiler (e.g. jikes) that allows that kind of construct.

Food for thought

I just checked the reconditioned Macs that Apple is selling on line and noticed most of the reconditioned fairly new Macs are selling with Snow Leopard as the operating system. Lion is only coming on computers with i5 and i7 processors. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Very interesting!

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac?mco=OTY2ODw
I typed this because my browser wouldn't copy and paste for some reason. If it doesn't work simply go to the apple store on their web site (NOT the APP STORE, the store link on the apple web site) and look in the left lower column and you'll see a section for reconditioned Macs, iPads, iPhones, etc. I bought a reconditioned Macbook 3 years ago for $300 off new price and it works awesome to this day. In the future when looking for Mac products i'll ALWAYS buy reconditioned if what i want is available.

Food for thought: integrating SOAP in WLS6

Looking at the multitude of questions regarding SOAP and WLS 6, I think
the time has come to make some kind of HOWTO on integrating SOAP
(especially apache's rpcrouter) in WLS 6.
Like many others, I also have a strong need to make my EJB's available
through SOAP in the very near future. My customers directly call EJB's.
When they make Java apps, that's fairly straightforward and fast, but I
also have clients requiring specific languages and runtime environments.
What would I do when I want to make my EJB's directly available through
SOAP?
My guess is to:
- install rpcrouter as a normal servlet in WLS;
- write thin wrapper over the EJB's ("Provider Classes" in apache's
rpcrouter admin);
- define DeploymentDescriptors for these EJB-wrappers.
The above is managable, but what about argument and return-type classes?
These are all home-brewed and fairly complex (extending many classes and
implemented many interfaces).
The client at the other side needs class declarations and
implementations if it is ever to pass one as an argument to a SOAP
function call.
In case of a Java client, I might give it these classes at forehand. In
case of, say, a C-sharp app, this ain't an option.
Another, even more fundamental problem is that of the interface -
implementation abstraction: my EJB return-types and arguments are all
interfaces. So the clients automatically use RMI to obtain an
implementation at runtime. What about SOAP here? How do SOAP clients
obtain implementations of these classes?
Is there anyone (that includes you BEA) who can tell me more on this and
even get me a working SOAP interface for my EJB's?
Thanks in advance,
Erik van Zijst

I've seen that page. But it doesn't go deeper than the examples from
apache and MS which I already ran.
I can easily send strings and primitive datatypes to and from different
languages. My trouble is with complex classes.
Consider it the other way round: you are writing a Java app that needs
to do rpc with a C# application. The return types of the remote methods
are all complex classes. So you'll have to create stubs for them I
guess. How do you do that?
Erik
Jane wrote:
Check out the Developer Center...
http://developer.bea.com/circuit/xml.html
Jane
Erik van Zijst <[email protected]> wrote:
Looking at the multitude of questions regarding SOAP and WLS 6, I think
the time has come to make some kind of HOWTO on integrating SOAP
(especially apache's rpcrouter) in WLS 6.
Like many others, I also have a strong need to make my EJB's available
through SOAP in the very near future. My customers directly call EJB's.
When they make Java apps, that's fairly straightforward and fast, but I
also have clients requiring specific languages and runtime environments.
What would I do when I want to make my EJB's directly available through
SOAP?
My guess is to:
- install rpcrouter as a normal servlet in WLS;
- write thin wrapper over the EJB's ("Provider Classes" in apache's
rpcrouter admin);
- define DeploymentDescriptors for these EJB-wrappers.
The above is managable, but what about argument and return-type classes?
These are all home-brewed and fairly complex (extending many classes and
implemented many interfaces).
The client at the other side needs class declarations and
implementations if it is ever to pass one as an argument to a SOAP
function call.
In case of a Java client, I might give it these classes at forehand. In
case of, say, a C-sharp app, this ain't an option.
Another, even more fundamental problem is that of the interface -
implementation abstraction: my EJB return-types and arguments are all
interfaces. So the clients automatically use RMI to obtain an
implementation at runtime. What about SOAP here? How do SOAP clients
obtain implementations of these classes?
Is there anyone (that includes you BEA) who can tell me more on this and
even get me a working SOAP interface for my EJB's?
Thanks in advance,
Erik van Zijst

A confusing piece of code, may be food for thought.

Looking at the following code it seems very obvious to me that the output should be 1010 but it turns out to be 2020. Could anybody explain the reason behind it?
public class TestClass
public static void main(String args[ ] )
    TestClass tt = new TestClass();
    tt.ww();
public void ww()
    Base b = new Base();
    Base b2 = new Base();
    b.iAge = 10;
    b2.iAge = 20;
    System.out.print(b.iAge);
    Integer iw = new Integer(b.iAge);
    col(iw);
public static void col(Object o)
    Integer iw = (Integer) o;
    System.out.print(iw.intValue());
class Base
public static int iAge;
}

Considering that the iAge member is 'static' (only one copy no matter how many instances of the object), and that you last set it to 20 before you output anything, what's to wonder about?

FAST FOOD FOR EDITING

when i get into working on stuff I really hate stopping and doing other things ...unless I'm waiting for some process to get done ( eg. export etc ).
So when I am on computer working I get sucked into it and dont like to stop even to eat etc.
I have discovered that fast food is the answer.
even better...get on phone and order food delivered !
but other than that I've discovered you can enhance frozen food TV dinner things or soups...pretty quick and is really good...
1) get stouffers (sp?) fetticinii alfredo...nuke...( 2 min ? ) and add can of tuna ( mix it in..) yum...instant tuna casserole !
2) get progressive new engl clam chowder.. heat up... add can of chopped or minced clams...heat a min longer....way better !
( add red pepper or whatever ).
whats YOUR secret editing fast food solutions ???

darnit.. i was writing email to my state senator and missed the crab story.. what happened ? can we eat them ?
yum... i ate some crab cakes for breakfast this morning... from icelandic or something like that... microwave on high for 2 minutes covered... the perfect fast food for editing...add cocktail sauce.
cock and tail .... sauce... appeals to most people on a subliminal level .... IMO...
for me its the tail part.. but hey, friday is gay day in the film biz ...( IMO ) and mayor bloomberg tends to prove it 7 days a week !
no offense.. my best friend is gay
just kidding but it could be true
how would i know anyway? maybe i havent met the right wife yet.. 3 down but there are many fishes in the sea.... any chics feeling adventurous out there ??
edit... true story :
I was working on set of some stupid tv cop show ( i think it was law and order at chelsea piers but forget ) and sitting at a big 'conference table' with other crew members during a take. after the take we had to move to the room we were sitting in to shoot, and to do that we had to lower some bay lights etc which were above the big table .. so the room had to be cleared of people to do that ( dont wanna drop stuff on people etc ).
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Being a grip etc.. and pretty old ... I looked at this young woman and there musta been something in my countenance that sobered her up or something...cause she looked away and giggled and changed the subject and then got out of the room when I said, " We're gonna lower the bay light, get out of the room ".
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Looking for thoughts on the best way to repeat the header row at the top of the exported file.

I have a request to create an extract and they need the header row to be written twice at the top of the file.
I thought maybe a for each loop with a script that reset the increment variable one time before looping through the rest of the dataset, I am curious to hear what other options there are.
Thanks,
P

If it is the same record twice then make it a variable and append twice before the details as per this blog post:
http://agilebi.com/jwelch/2008/02/08/adding-headers-and-footers-to-flat-files/
Arthur My Blog

BRS........waiting for thoughts..........

Hi Experts,
- in manual BRS, how to find non cleared items. ex: bank charges, interest will be directly debited by bankers and customes sends payment without our notice. How these items are identified and how to make brs?
- Where you can assign profit center to business area?
adv thanks for your thoughts and will assign points
Thanks
anil

Hi bethwicklund,
I understand you're getting the same waiting for scanner message on your Officejet J4580. I'm sorry to hear that but I believe I can assist you.
There is no HP software for the J4580 for the Mac OS X 10.9 operating system, so you will not be able to scan from the front panel of the printer as it requires the HP software to function with the computer. For the computer side of things, it could be the driver being installed that's causing the issue.
I would recommend that you follow this Uninstalling the Printer Software document to get the HP software removed, and then reset your printing system followed by a verify/repair of your disk permissions. Once that is done, please reboot your Mac and please follow this OS X v10.9 Mavericks: Installing and Using the Printer on a Mac document to install the driver via the Apple Updates. Once that is completed, you should be able to scan following this How to Scan: OS X v10.9 document.
Hope this helps, let me know how it goes!
Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post resolved your issue, as it will help others find the solution faster
Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" on the right to say “Thanks” for helping!
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A Nightmare of a Macbook Change Decision. Looking for thoughts (not celebrations of Apple, I own and use their stuff already)

So, after having had about a 30 year hiatus of using Apple products, with a 2 year use of mac/windows friendly mac's at UTX Austin in grad school 15 years ago, I bought 2 macbooks (white ones last somring/summer), 2 ipad 2's, a couple of ipods, and my wife's iphone because Windows just stopped allowing me to use my palm pilot and dell axim systems. I have not used apple due to their high cost over the years of my life and that Windows rules the general market but I gave up once my palm systems weren't useful with the new post-vista world and got an ipad 2. I was so impressed that I bought one with 3g and two macbooks. At this age, my learning curve has become steeper so I don't play in OSX at all but I intend to (been years since I played hardcore geek outside of windows dos). Ok, now that you have some background... I'm wanting to shift to a macbook air for portability (nice and light) but I have to choose between three models: 2010, 2011, or wait for 2012. 2010 would, I think, meet my needs as I do mostly word processing, some statistical work, and web stuff (yes, timewasters too) but I don't do gaming and photography (seems alot of air users do photos and gaming). I really am not a power user. I'm concerned that the 2010 (which I really like for the processor power) is not going to be able to meet my needs with Lion OS and am worried about the tech changes hitting me re: software, websites, etc. I want to trade in my white macbook (which I really like) and upgrade but I don't want to end up regretting it. I've read as much as I can and even gotten lost in the tech arguments. I don't want a pro. I don't want to go back to windows (insert middle finger here as I went through 5 windows systems last year trying to meet my needs before I gave up and went over to Apple). So, please ask questions to me if you need more info. By trade, I'm a therapist in private practice with a Master's in Social Work and I do plan a PhD in clinical psych program in a few years. I want this thing to last at least 3 years and be able to do what I need. Thanks, y'all!
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I'm with Captfred. Go for the 2010 13". Keep in mind, the latest isn't always the "greatest." Sometimes the latest is a small, incrimental upgrade rather than large important one. Like the iPhone 4s vs. the iPhone 4. Not much difference. If that small upgrade is important to you--a blacklit keyboard say, or thunderbolt, then, of course, you should go for new. But I don't think you'd be tempted by the 13" if such things were "dealbreakers" --like for example, that you can't live without a backlit keyboard. From what you listed, this is a great machine at a great price.
As for Lion, I have a 2010 11" and Lion isn't a problem for me, it certainly won't be for the 13". Also, check out this site--it might aso help you decide: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
Don't let fear of buyer's remorse keep you from getting the 13" if you love both it and the price. I'm guessing that it will do all you need for many years, and that you won't be just happy with it. You will love it.

Brain food for MSI engineers, malware in MSI hardware

Good Morning Everyone,
This is for MSI engineers, I will be happy if you can sort out this problem or in any case this email will help you design your systems better in the future. Let me start by thanking MSI engineers for doing a great job, I love and enjoy the MSI products and services. Thanks for doing a great job. Now to the problem...
I have an old PC based on G31TM-P21 mother board. I have gifted it away to my friends/students and they came back to inform me that it does not work. It puzzled me and I used Wire Shark network analyser to find an IGMP protocol based beacon running over it. Now this poor PC is an ordinary desktop and was never intended to use protocols like IGMP that contacts ICANN, it is even more curious to find that firewall that comes free with Windows Vista actually will never block this IGMP protocol because VISTA does not expect home users to use IGMP protocol. Anyway, I reinstalled everything and in a couple of days the guys were back complaining that system no longer boots and this time I found out that system is in actually in halt state, the CPU fan is running and everything is fine but system just does not reach POST screen. I cleared CMOS and reached BIOS setup. I enabled the option to not to halt on any error in BIOS and viola the system was up and running in no time. I wish the troubled ended there but the guys came back after couple of weeks with the usual trouble that system dose not work. I cleared the CMOS and again reached the BIOS setup and disabled the USB controller and hey presto the system is online again although no USB hardware can be used over it. Enable the USB controller and bang everything goes down again.
This IGMP beacon seems to be platform independent because I had installed windows/linux on the system but it does not seem to go away even after formatting the hard drive and zeroing/clearing every sector. The beacon just gives away the identity of the system on web and then the malware writer finds out what I have done to fix the system and then he moves on to improve the malware.
All right, MSI guys can always point and tell me that TPM module option was there and it would have avoided this malware attack on motherboard.
Now, I love the MSI idea of taking the back up of BIOS but I wish they can give a similar kind of option for firmware also.
I personally believe the system is toasted but any update to fix this trouble will be great.
I "guess" malware author has reprogrammed the south bridge of the motherboard because thats where the USB controller is located. I wonder why the option of reprogramming ASICs is there on the motherboard. I wish there was some kind of jumper to make these chips read only and stop these kind of destructive online attacks.
That was long email, if you made it to the end then thanks a lot for your time and patience. Have some coffee and have a great day.
Ciao,
protob
PS: The TOSHIBA (Linux) and Sony (VISTA) laptops that I am using right now seems to have caught the same malware. This is MSIs great opportunity to improve the hardware+marketing and take over the market. :-)

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