Planning 11.1.1.3 application comparison, and some BR questions

1) Does anyone know how to compare 2 versions of the same Classic 11.1.1.3 Planning apps? Hiearchies, forms? Lets say, I have QA and DEV versions, and I want to see if they are in sync/identical? I remember that Ver 9 had Manage Models option in Administration menu that with some tricking was doing comparison of the two models (their file xtracts), but can't find anything like that in v 11.
2) Anyone knows the way to easily export the code of BRs into a file? The export XML doesn't always have the readable code in it, so its not reliable. Any suggestions?
3) Speaking of BRs, I've realised that in order to re-import BRs using XML export-import, I need first to delete all (to-be-reimported) BRs form my target server. Doing it one by one in EAS can be time consuming. Any easier way to delete BRs in bulks?
Thanks,
smilo

For exporting the rules to a flat file have a read of :- Re: Exporting Hyperion Business Rules as Text files
Deleting classic business rules has always been a pain, if only they developed a multi select, well it won't happen now because calc mangler is around.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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Njawin - jcomgen and some general questions

Hi.
I'm currently evaluating njawin, and some questions came up:
Will there be a command line interface for jcomgen?
The interactive GUI isn't really suitable for an automated build process.
njawin compared to jawin:
njawin seems to be more advanced, but there's no source available.
Does anybody know if this will change in the future?
regards,
roman

Carl,
The njawin distribution available for "evaluation" download around the web comes with no license, as it is a version of OLE for Java (OLEJA), a commercial product, which was developed before OLEJA went retail.
One thing you'll notice is that OLEJA and Njawin have remarkably similar APIs. If your application's functionality does not have very complex requirements, you can simply replace all references to "oleja" with "njawin", and all references to "compose" with "develop". This holds true for the generated .java files, the .xml file, etc. I am not sure if OLEJA introduces or uses more APIs than the ones that appeared in Njawin, but for my application, this approach was successful.
One other thing to keep in mind is that I don't see why you'd actually need to build your sources into a jar, if you simply include them in a larger package as part of your application's source code. Just put njawin.jar, njawin.dll, and yourdll.dll on the build path and the rest of your problems should be solved for you. Keep in mind that, since OLEJA is commercialized, it's been debugged a lot (as the author has stated in mailing lists) and that means Njawin could have some unexpected problems. In this case you should thoroughly test your usage of Njawin with your application to be sure it runs well in your environment. Errors that could potentially crash your JVM may appear when certain functionality (especially multi-threaded functionality) inside your ActiveX control is executed.
Regards
Sean McNamara

Planning 11 application comparison and BR collection

1) Does anyone know how to compare 2 versions of the same Classic 11.1.1.3 Planning apps? Hiearchies, forms? Lets say, I have QA and DEV versions, and I want to see if they are in sync/identical? I remember that Ver 9 had Manage Models option in Administration menu that with some tricking was doing comparison of the two models (their file xtracts), but can't find anything like that in v 11.
2) Anyone knows the way to easily export the code of BRs into a file? The export XML doesn't always have the readable code in it, so its not reliable. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
smilo

For exporting the rules to a flat file have a read of :- Re: Exporting Hyperion Business Rules as Text files
Deleting classic business rules has always been a pain, if only they developed a multi select, well it won't happen now because calc mangler is around.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Applications, data and folders structure question

I am new to the Mac OS X and wish to setup my folder structure correctly in a multi-disk environment (Mac Pro). I have 2 drives at the moment and plan to add more.
I assume that I should boot the OS from a separate OS disk and put apps and data on different disks. I also understand that Mac OS X uses a structure which includes a "users" folder in the root directory, application folder in root dir and "home" folders located in the "users" folder for various users which contain data.
Is this correct? How do you structure this over several disks? Do you move the "users" folder and or application folders to a different drive or partition? What are considered to be the best practices in that regard?

I never found putting any applications on another drive helps, even with multiple 15K drives.
I would invest in a faster drive for your system though.
And yes, it can help to use 2nd drive for the user account(s)
System control panel "Accounts" - unlock, command + control + click on the account's name and you can set the location of where it is...
/Volumes/volname/Users/acccount
Just copy or move or set up the folders (Users, and "myaccount") on the drive or partition of drive.
Also, you may want to have a scratch disk or partition, and a media drive or for editing.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html - WD 640GB Caviar $83 @ MacSales
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD6400AAKS/
http://www.barefeats.com/hard94.html - 1TB drives compared

Web dynpro ALV and some other questions

Hi All,
I have couple of question for experts.
I am very much new into Web Dynpro world, and i have one web dynpro application built by my old colleague.
I want to add search feature into the application so that out of 1000 records i could search one based on some field value, how can we achieve that ?
I have read lot abot ALV list in web dynpro, How to find that specific approach has been used into particular web dynpro application or not ?
Thanks for your time for reading my question and hope to get some response..
Pranav.

Hi Pranav,
Hope the following helps you.
Searching for a record based on some field value
You can have an input field (bound to a context attribute) in your view. Whatever you type in the field will now be associated with the context attribute in your context. Place a button on your view. Define an action for this button (e.g. SEARCH), in the property onAction of the button. Now, in the action handler for the button (ONACTIONSEARCH), access the context attribute (can be done using WD Code Wizard). Then using your business logic, get the date into another context attribute, which can be displayed in the view using a textview (or textviews)
Find whether ALV is used in your WD Application
Go to your WD Component, in the used components you should find a use for component SALV_WD_TABLE. Also, in one of the views, the Interface View TABLE of the ALV component will be embedded in its ViewContainerUIElement. This information can be found in the Window of your own WD Component.
Regards,
Neha
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Aspect ratio and some other questions...

I haven't purchased an Apple TV yet (emphasizing YET) but I'm very interested and may make the leap tomorrow. I've been reading a lot on the discussion boards but still had a few questions. I have a widescreen 46" Samsung LCD TV that I'm planning to use as my primary TV. The wife and I have rented a few movies from the iTunes store and noticed the aspect ratio leaves the picture fairly small. I wasn't expecting a full screen picture, but something a little more than barely half the screen. Will the Apple TV improve the picture size or is this what I'm going to expect going forward? Any pictures would be great!
Second, as far as I've read, you cannot connect an external hard drive to the Apple TV itself, but if I hook it to my PowerBook and use my external HDD as my iTunes Library source, will everything work fairly seamlessly? I have an Airport Extreme base station so I'm hoping things work pretty well.
Next, between the 40GB and 160GB Apple TV's -- is there an overwhelming reason to get one or another?
And last (I think), I've started ripping some of my old movies using Handbrake and was curious how the picture comes out on an Apple TV after extracting from DVD's. I've been using the standard "Apple TV" settings within Handbrake.
Thanks in advance for the help, I appreciate it! BTW, definitely a BIG fan of the iTunes rentals!
Brad

I don't know what monitor you have but there is a fair chance it has a resolution of at least 1600 x 1000 which is why your 640 x 480 rental doesn't fill it although itunes does have an option tto show movies full screen.
Tv's typically have much lower resolutions than monitors and the output from the tv is matched to such resolutions. In short your rentals will fill the screen on your tv when played on the tv.
Many of us here use external drives attached to either a desktop or a laptop to hold out libraries, yes they work flawlessly.
We can't actually discuss methods for ripping commercial DVD's but needless to say handbrake does give good quality exports, I've used it on a few non commercial discs and found the results to be more or less the same quality as the original. In addition to the  preset I always enable 2 pass encoding.

Imac G3 clock not working - and some other questions

This iMac is starting to act slow, especially browsing with FireFox. Also, the clock will not hold its time. Won't browse at all with IE or Safari. Well, Safari will sorta work - but for some reason automatically downloads FAD messages on desktop.
Does this computer just need a new battery for the clock? Also, will that battery also improve the general sluggishness?
What battery does it need and how can I replace it?
Also, regarding browsing - there are less and less browsers that work with this computer. I'd like to upgrade (currently using 10.2.8) but not sure if it can handle an upgrade. Will it actually start handling even slower because an upgraded OS is wearing it down? Any suggestions? More computer info listed below:
Proc. 500 MHZ PowerPC Gc
iMac version 22.14
Mem 348 MB
OS Version 10.2.8
Thanks for any feedback/suggestions on both the clock issue and improving browsing sluggishness.

You can run the top command in the terminal to get an idea about system and memory usage.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
type
top -u
then press enter and you will some memory stats. The display is hard to digest, but if you watch for awhile (days) you will get some hints.
Look for this line. The number in yours will be different.
PhysMem: 58.8M wired, 101M active, 271M inactive, 431M used, 336M free
so
wired + active + inactive = used
used + free = installed memory (768 off by a meg )
336M free means total unused memory. I have lots of free memory.
The next line
VM: 4.22G + 118M 22499(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts
VM is virtual memory.
You notice I have 0(0) pageouts which says that I am not using my harddrive for extra memory space. 0 is the total (0) is this time period
Hence, I would not benefit from more memory.
You could post your number here for comments.
Mac OS 10.2 doesn't do the best job of cleaning up after itself. Perhaps a little housekeeping would help.
Here is what Apple says, "Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388
Perhaps you should try running the periodic jobs. These jobs are run daily weekly monthly to do general system maintenance. These jobs will clean up the logs.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
Note: Enter your logon password. You need to be logoned on with an administrator id.
Maybe you should try one of these general clean up programs. You might backup your system before pounding too hard. I'd repair permissions as suggested earlier.
Yasu is a “Universal Binary” Macintosh utility that performs maintenance routines and clears the many cache files used by OS X. Yasu was designed to be a simple, first line of attack for a workstation that has started “acting up.” More often than not, a thorough purge of the cache files of a Mac will bring its behavior back into line.
http://jimmitchell.org/projects/yasu/
OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Expose, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, and more.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070
Robert

Understanding Flex: Can it be used without Flash-knowledge, and some other questions

Hi.
I'm trying to understand how Flex works. My understanding is
that Flex is like the integration link between Flash-content and
.NET-applications on the web. We need rich interface on our
.NET-applications - without ActionScript-coding required from the
programmer's side.
Can this be acheived with Flex alone?
What is Coldfusion required for? Can Flex be used without it
to create the rich web interface?
Are basic components included and ready-to-be-used? What if
special components are needed? E.g. multi-level menu-tree or some
special data grid. Can this be developed by a Flash-programmer and
used as a "generic" component?
My reason for choosing this would be that we easily can
acheive great web-layouts that are Flash-based, and that interact
with our .NET-applications. Is this the product I'm looking for?
Thanks alot in advance! :D

It is absolutely possible to create complex custom components
in Flex and without FlashPro.
Flex can communicate with the server in several ways.
WebService: SOAP-based
HTTPService: XML over HTTP, (like REST and AJAX)
RemoteObject: uses proprietary amf protocol, needs Java or CF
on back-end
There are some others like URLLoader and sockets.
Unless you need your back end functionality to be generally
available to anonymous third parties (hence the wsdl), WebServices
are unnecessarily complex.
I prefer HTTPService, I post xml strings in the normal
name=value format to the server and use e4x xml as the resultFormat
in flex.
Even though you said "roughly", that is still an impossible
question to answer, there are too many variables: On the back-end,
do you need to install a database? Create the schema? or is some of
that part done already? On the front-end, How will you navigate the
records? See, too many variables.
The communication part is by far the easiest. Almost
negligible, although the Flash Player security can cause some
head-scratching!
Tracy

SAP CM25 which profile to use and why and some general questions

Hi there,
I have a few general questions, if you may share your thoughts on this.
In a manufacturing environment, is CM25 more used to finite schedule the work centers or labor or both ?
Is it a good idea to even finite schedule the planned orders or just production orders ? We want to create production orders 1 week ahead of the production schedule and planned orders gets created 3-4 weeks earlier than production order gets created.
The graphical tool seems to be slow sometimes when dispatching and doing some actions on the screen, has any one have any say on this. Should we need to have better computers on the floor for this to work ?
I have been trying my solutions using CM25 and not CM21 or CM27 using the profile SAPSFCG005, is there any other profile that I need to consider and other transactions to consider like CM21 or CM27 for certain purposes?
Thank you

Hello
In a manufacturing environment, is CM25 more used to finite schedule the work centers or labor or both ?
It can be used for both depend upon bottle neck resource whether machine or labour.
Is it a good idea to even finite schedule the planned orders or just production orders ? We want to create production orders 1 week ahead of the production schedule and planned orders gets created 3-4 weeks earlier than production order gets created.
Better it should be finite planning for planned order also you can use MRP with lead time scheduling.
The graphical tool seems to be slow sometimes when dispatching and doing some actions on the screen, has any one have any say on this. Should we need to have better computers on the floor for this to work ?
It depends upon the data load and selection,
Restrict the number of objects to be displayed, for example, select only a small number of work-centers/orders.
Customize the time profile (transaction OPD2) such that the database read period, the planning period and the evaluation period are as small as possible. As a result, fewer objects are read and displayed.
Refer KBA 2038780 - Tips for performance improvement on Capacity Leveling
If you want to process more orders, check whether a batch planning (planning in the background on transaction CM40) is possible.
I have been trying my solutions using CM25 and not CM21 or CM27 using the profile SAPSFCG005, is there any other profile that I need to consider and other transactions to consider like CM21 or CM27 for certain purposes?
It depends upon your requirements which transaction to use and which profile. You can customize your own profile also.
Best Regards,
R.Brahmankar

FTP Proxy not being denied (and some other questions)

I have a simple BM37+NW6SP5 test server for testing rules prior to moving them to production (2x BM38+NW65SP6). Recently we tried to block all access to FTP sites and allow only a select group of users access. The rules on the test proxy looked something like this:
1. Action: Deny / Source: Any / Access: URL / Dest: SurfControl
2. Action: Allow / Source: FTP_User_Group / Access: FTP Proxy / Dest: Any
3. Action: Allow / Source: WWW_User_Group / Access: URL / Dest: Any URL
Default Rule:
4. Action: Deny / Source: Any / Access: Any / Dest: Any
Yet with this setup, anybody in the WWW_User_Group (but not in the FTP_User_Group) was able to access FTP. I temporarily closed the hole by doing this ruleset:
1. Action: Deny / Source: Any / Access: URL / Dest: SurfControl
2. Action: Allow / Source: FTP_User_Group / Access: FTP Proxy / Dest: Any
3. Action: Deny / Source: Any / Access: FTP Proxy / Dest: Any
4. Action: Allow / Source: WWW_User_Group / Access: URL / Dest: Any URL
Default Rule:
5. Action: Deny / Source: Any / Access: Any / Dest: Any
I don't understand why I have to explicitly deny access to FTP Proxy for this to work. I think the rule that grants access to URL for WWW_User_Group is also allowing FTP access. If I turn that rule into a Deny rule in the first ruleset, it deny's all FTP (as well as all HTTP).
Also, we are using SurfControl to block access to certain categories. I read that the URL rule only affects port 80 requests (which would seem weird when its affecting my ftp proxy over port 21 above). How would I go about blocking those same categories over HTTPS?
Finally, does anybody have any general guidelines on how many rules should exist in a typical medium business BM environment (assuming modern hardware)? I'm trying to get the customer to avoid adding so many adhoc rules as the production environment is pretty complex which is why I am testing on a test proxy with few rules to avoid accidental rule overlap. I'm going to have to do an audit of their existing production environment and prefer the KISS principle when it comes to rule definitions.
P.S. Since most sites require both a HTTP and HTTPS rule, almost every desired "rule" in BM needs to be repeated twice to allow (or deny) secure communication as most websites switch to SSL from the launcher (non-ssl) parent page. The rulebase expands quite quickly and gets confusing due to this.

cam wrote:
> Perhaps I should have said that this was being tested using normal dos
> FTP. Open a command prompt, type FTP proxyservername, open
> [email protected](for example), etc... no browser involved, but
> that does bring up another point of WHY do I need a dozen rules to block
> access to a single site over a single protocol?
Then you're doing something wrong or you're not telling the whole
settings. your rule was calling nds groups so you need authentication
enable and the checkbox for " Authenticate only when user......."
unchecked. Then the syntax once you open the connection to the ftp proxy
is ndsusername@[email protected]. In your example there is not
nds authentication.
you do not need ANY rule to block a single site. The default rule will
do for you. If you do not make an specific allow one, then sites will be
blocked.
Even if I use a web
> browser and access it as ftp://, it should use the FTP protocol, not
> the HTTP protocol.
When your browser is configure to go thru proxy and you access a ftp
site, you'll hit two situations with IE:
1. With default settings, IE will use its miniftp client build in and
try to access the ftp site directly. that can fail if there is a
firewall stopping this traffic as it will bypass bm.
2. If the option "enable ftp folder view" is unchecked and the "use pasv
ftp..." checked, IE will encapsulate ftp traffic into http and send it
to border, to the http proxy. So bm gets http traffic, remove the http
envelope and makes a ftp connection to the ftp server. But to apply
rules, this is a http traffic thru http proxy. A single LAN trace on the
server will show you this behavior
Firefox always uses the configured proxy settings.
> Regarding the point you bring up about HTTPS, I can't wrap my mind
> around how if this is true, we can still keep things secure and safe.
> Let's look at a single website, www.novell.com. The novell.com domain
> is not listed in a SurfControl category filter that places would
> normally block. Therefore most approved internet users would be able
> to access it. Now let's say you go to www.novell.com and log into the
> user portal; it switches to HTTPS! Without an allow port 443 rule,
> this should fail then. However, if that's the case, I need to know
> that this website needs access to port 443, so I am forced to manage
> another rule for port 443. This rules destination filter will grow to
> thousands if not millions of websites as almost every valid website
> known to man requires HTTPS if they want you to create a login on their
> site. This is unmanageable.
You;re exaggerating here.You will need indeed an port 443 rule but this
is how it works. SSL traffic and normal http traffic are two very
different things. But with a single allow all port 443 you can
accomplish here. Read below
> So you're solution is to create a Destination ALL rule for Port 443.
> While this removes the need to manage a list of millions of websites,
> it now opens you to all the vicious websites (domains listed in blocked
> categories in SurfControl for example) which use https. My company pays
> Websense thousands of dollars a year to block certain categories of
> websites, but if any of those websites use HTTPS, based on what you are
> telling me it seems it is impossible to block it using SurfControl since
> the Deny Port rule does not allow a Destination of ANY third party
> filter.
The allow all port 443 it has to be placed after the surfcontrol one and
after other third party rule or websense or whatever you use to block
specific sites. that means that the allow all port 443 only will be hit
if surfcontrol and other rules above this one did not find a match. If a
match is find, bm applies the rule and stop reading so if it hits a site
that websense or SF blocks, it will block it, regardless of the allow
all port 443.
Also you can make an allow port 443 with a domain name destination, just
for specific destination
if sites are on the blocked category for SF then it will blocked. You
can go to SF website an check it and if it is not blocked then is a SF
problem not a bm and you should contact them.
Gonzalo

How to be most popular and some finance questions.

Hi i'm interested how to make business podcasts.
As i see that's not that hard. Producing podcast is pretty simple if i have a content prepaired for iTunes.
But still i have some questions:
1) What do i need to be on the top rated list? How the ratings really work?
2) Can i sell podcasts somehow?
Thanks for answers.
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Voxdel,
1) Being a top rated podcast really comes down to having quality content and production, and being someone that people want to hear. There is no secret meta tags, or some secret technique to being a top rated podcast and getting on the featured list. If you're good, give the people something they want to hear, then popularity will come.
To be featured, according to Apple, is you have to have a minimum of 3 podcast episodes listed, have visually appealing album artwork, then getting on the featured podcast list is just a matter of staff approval (favorites). They review and select their favorites to feature based on what people are listening to and what they think provides good content. There is no real way to get on the list, other than producing a quality podcast that the staff feels is worthy of featuring.
2.) Can you sell your podcast? You can try, but the real question is, what would make someone want to pay for your podcast, when there are so many others out there with similar information for free? Unless you have a name established, it can be very difficult to really get people willing to pay for your podcast. What you should be thinking, is how can you use your podcast to promote other aspects of your business. If you put out a podcast that provides quality content, and leaves people wanting more, then you can direct them to your site to sell other products or services. But don't turn your podcast into a commercial where you are constantly plugging your products or services. People will tire of that and know you are just trying to sell them.
Give them good information, show them you know what you are talking about, and they will want to learn more. An alternative to selling your podcast to make money, is to sell advertising on your podcast. As you become popular for your quality content and giving away information, and your listener base grows, you can do much like radio stations do, and charge to put on a little commercial for other products.
Hope this helps.
Todd
P.S. Ralph, you misspelled "mortgage" in your web name you gave here. Link name you have doesn't work.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Streaming problems and some other questions

1) i've read that some people have problems streaming youtube as well as me. but mine is terrible, i can't stream at all. my curve 8900 can barely stream with wifi.......why is this? is there any updates? ALSO, i have version 4.6, can i update this to a more recent blackberry version? if so, where? thank you! x p.s. i just tried with wifi now, and it doesn't stream at all, it says i may have either javascript turned off or old version of adobe flash player........
2) can we not have adobe flash?...because i can't stream any video off any website...
3) through an e-mail i was sent a pdf file and i opened it and i'm not sure if i saved it. if i did save it, where could it be stored? i've looked everywhere!
4) under 'setup' there is an 'interactive' button. what i that for?
5) BLUETOOTH PROBLEM: i've paired it and tried (when to media and done the 'recieve using bluetooth') and it didn't work. so i deleted the pair and tried it without, and still nothing. i've tried fixing some options in settings but still nothing...i think i played with the options a bit too much now...lol. but is there an ideas? please help. also, is there anything in options that i have changed which might be hindering the process (i.e. firewall)?
p.s. i read both manuals that came in the both and the help they provide is all common sense!...they need a more detailed manual in my opinion. Also, is there a number i can call for support/help for my questions regarding my 8900?
thank you! x
Message Edited by mtpac2001 on 08-02-2009 10:03 PM
Message Edited by mtpac2001 on 08-02-2009 10:04 PM

mtpac2001 wrote:
1) i've read that some people have problems streaming youtube as well as me. but mine is terrible, i can't stream at all. my curve 8900 can barely stream with wifi.......why is this?
Many possible reasons -- poor coverage area, old OS, trying to use the full YouTube rather than their mobile site, etc.
mtpac2001 wrote:
is there any updates? ALSO, i have version 4.6, can i update this to a more recent blackberry version? if so, where?
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/download_sites.jsp
mtpac2001 wrote:
2) can we not have adobe flash?...because i can't stream any video off any website...
No. Flash is not available for BB's at the present time. I'm pretty sure that your "any" words are overstated -- perhaps the sites you try cannot stream, but there are others who can stream, so any is a bit over the top.
mtpac2001 wrote:
3) through an e-mail i was sent a pdf file and i opened it and i'm not sure if i saved it. if i did save it, where could it be stored? i've looked everywhere!
Just send yourself another attachment...then pay attention when you save it, then go there and that should be the same place that older PDF should have gone.
mtpac2001 wrote:
4) under 'setup' there is an 'interactive' button. what i that for?
Sorry, no clue...might be something specific from your carrier.
mtpac2001 wrote:
p.s. i read both manuals that came in the both and the help they provide is all common sense!...they need a more detailed manual in my opinion. Also, is there a number i can call for support/help for my questions regarding my 8900?
thank you! x
Your support is, by contract, provided by your carrier...that is how it works. For general use of the devices, these forums are, frankly, the best place as the folks here are other users just like you.
Cheers!
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Trouble backing up Macbook (10.4.11) and some newbie questions...

I am using a MacBook OS X 10.4.11 and do not have Time Machine. I have a couple newbie questions...
What is the best way to back up everything? I am using Disk Utility's Restore tab but it is taking forever. I first tried to do it though Disk Utility's First Aid tab but it wouldn't let me make a New Image because the "source was in use", I think it is because I don't have the Install Disc to begin with (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1553).
Secondly, does this include everything in "Home" (bookmarks, iPhoto library, iTunes library and so forth), Documents, and Desktop? Or must these be archived and transferred to the external hard drive separately from Macintosh HD?
Thanks in advance for any help!

I tried restarting the phone and switching to another USB cable and now it is working so never mind.

Binary comparison and linguistic comparisons

I was doing some performance testing to see if I have linguistic comparisons turned on at a session level and NLS_Sort set to Japanese_M, can I still perform binary comparisons on some of my columns and make them use the binary index.
I was pleasently surprised to see that this worked.
alter session set nls_sort=Japanese_M nls_comp=linguistic
select * from test where nlssort(id, 'NLS_Sort=Binary') = nlssort('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001', 'NLS_Sort=Binary');
As per the explain plan this was using the Binary index. I would have thought that since I am using a function nlssort, I would probably have to create a function base binary index for this to work.

The parser is clever enough, in some contexts, to recognize NLSSORT(...,'NLS_SORT=BINARY') and remove it from the query. This is the opposite operation to adding NLSSORT implicitly when NLS_COMP=ANSI/LINGUISTIC.
-- Sergiusz

Looking for volunteers to write application comparison articles

There are a number of "what's the best?", "easiest to configure", and "lightest", questions that come up frequently in the forums: Image viewer, PDF/document viewer, tiling window manager, floating window manager, desktop environment, text editor, IDE, web browser, terminal emulator, ETC. And while there's very good documentation on some of the individual pieces in the wiki, there isn't as much on comparisons between them.
In order to help keep the forums from an endless cycle of repetition, we're looking for volunteers to add some application comparison articles to the wiki. The entries don't need to be comprehensive on individual programs, and there should be every attempt made to not unnecessarily duplicate what's already been written. Basic information on things like keyboard friendliness, lightness, text and/or graphic mode, and the like is encouraged though.
We'd like to use this page as the starting point:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Common_Apps
Don't use it for the comparisons themselves, but put a link to the articles under the correct category. The page is already good as it is, although it needs both more entries and to be linked to in the Archwiki Table of Contents for higher visibility (please).
Of course the articles are not for flame wars or opinions. It's a place where users can go to get a good general view of how apps stack up against each other.
Report back any progress made here.

skottish wrote:
There's going to some gray areas, but most it falls into categories. For instance, having separate pages for IDE and text editors is probably silly. Vim is both a text editor and an IDE depending on how it's set up. So is Geany, SciTE, Texmaker, Emacs, ETC. Putting them all together makes sense.
The two categories of window managers (tiling and floating), as well as DE deserve their own pages. What do you do with E17 then? It's as much a DE as it is a WM. If ended up in the floating WM page, as well as the DE page, that'd be fine. And no, it's tiling module doesn't make it a tiling WM.
PDF viewers and document viewers should probably be lumped together because almost all document viewers can view PDF files. Image viewers should get their own page. Same with terminal emulators.
Stuff like GIMP, Inkscape, and Blender probably don't need a comparison page. Even though other stuff can duplicate parts of their functionality, they're pretty much special programs in the Linux world.
Why three pages for WM/DEs ? Put them all in one page, but separate tables or whatever.

Planning 11.1.1.3 application comparison, and some BR questions

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