Problem with Grab

When I've used Grab a number of times, I'll click on the Grab desktop icon and then find that the Grab feature turns off before I have a chance to actually choose the function I want to do with Grab. When this problem occurs, I've also noticed that the cursor will starting acting strangely. When I move the cursor across the desktop, any file icons, HD icon, etc that the cursor passes over will get highlighted and move. I have also accidentally moved files within the HD directory when the cursor starts doing this unintentional highlighting. The only solution I've found so far is to restart and then the problem goes away. Is there some permanent fix to this problem other than restart? Thanks

You might find the keystrokes easy to handle.
To take a screen grab press:
Apple  - Shift - 3 --- Whole Screen
Apple  - Shift - 4 --- Select the area of screen you wish to grab
Apple  - Shift - 4Space -- Select a window or dialogue box to grab.
Each one saves a file to the desktop.
cheers
mrtotes

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FrameGrabbingControl - grab frame problem with video type

Hi all
I have a problem with extracting frames from a video.
Currently I am able to extracting video from some avi formats. But this method does not works for many formats. like mpg etc...
The FrameGrabbingControl object return null for many formats.
This is my code
public Player getVideoPlayer() throws Exception
        if (videoPlayer == null)
            File file = new File("E:\\Songs\\English\\Video\\Alizee\\20090209114235.avi");
            MediaLocator videoMediaLocator = new MediaLocator(file.toURL());
            videoPlayer = Manager.createRealizedPlayer(videoMediaLocator);
        return videoPlayer;
public FrameGrabbingControl getFrameGrabCntrl() throws Exception
        if (frameGrabCntrl == null)
            frameGrabCntrl = (FrameGrabbingControl) getVideoPlayer().getControl("javax.media.control.FrameGrabbingControl");
        return frameGrabCntrl;
// frame extract method
public Image captureCurrent() throws Exception
        Buffer frame = getFrameGrabCntrl().grabFrame();
        BufferToImage stopBuffer = new BufferToImage((VideoFormat) frame.getFormat());
        return stopBuffer.createImage(frame);
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// taken from http://www.exactfutures.com/index02.htm and downloaded http://www.exactfutures.com/vid2jpg.zip
// WORKS FINE
   General
      Complete name : E:\Songs\English\Video\Alizee\testcam04.avi
      Format : AVI
      Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
      Format/Family : RIFF
      File size : 1.88 MiB
      PlayTime : 29s 596ms
      Bit rate : 533 Kbps
   Video #0
      Codec : Indeo 4
      Codec/Info : Intel Indeo Video 5.0 Wavelet
      PlayTime : 29s 596ms
      Bit rate : 528 Kbps
      Width : 320 pixels
      Height : 240 pixels
      Aspect ratio : 4/3
      Frame rate : 3.818 fps
      Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.801
// recorded video from a webcam
// WORKS FINE
   General
      Complete name : C:\Program Files\MSI\MyGuard Live\VideoClip\20090209114235.avi
      Format : AVI
      Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
      Format/Family : RIFF
      File size : 311 KiB
      PlayTime : 3s 200ms
      Bit rate : 710 Kbps
   Video #0
      Codec : Indeo 4
      Codec/Info : Intel Indeo Video 5.0 Wavelet
      PlayTime : 3s 200ms
      Bit rate : 705 Kbps
      Width : 640 pixels
      Height : 480 pixels
      Aspect ratio : 4/3
      Frame rate : 15.000 fps
      Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.153
// downloaded avi sample video
// NOT WORKS
   General
      Complete name : E:\Songs\English\Video\Alizee\fvss_demo.avi
      Format : AVI
      Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
      Format/Family : RIFF
      File size : 10.3 MiB
      PlayTime : 2mn 300ms
      Bit rate : 715 Kbps
   Video #0
      Codec : MS Video
      Codec/Info : Microsoft Video 1
      PlayTime : 2mn 300ms
      Bit rate : 638 Kbps
      Width : 160 pixels
      Height : 120 pixels
      Aspect ratio : 4/3
      Frame rate : 10.000 fps
      Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 3.325
   Audio #1
      Codec : PCM
      Codec/Family : PCM
      Codec/Info : Microsoft PCM
      PlayTime : 2mn 300ms
      Bit rate : 64 Kbps
      Channel(s) : 1 channel
      Sampling rate : 8000 Hz
      Resolution : 8 bitsI think problem is the codec. Am I correct?
Could anyone please tell me why can't I use this FrameGrabbingControl object to extract frames?

deshan wrote:
Currently I am able to extracting video from some avi formats. But this method does not works for many formats. like mpg etc...
The FrameGrabbingControl object return null for many formats.That's expected behavior when the codec doesn't support capture...
Could anyone please tell me why can't I use this FrameGrabbingControl object to extract frames?Because it's not supported for that format.
But T.B.M. and I have recently worked on / posted a workaround that should capture any video format that JMF can play.
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10596692#10596692]

Problems with ListViews Drag and Drop

I'm surprised that there isn't an Active X control that can do this more
easily? Would
be curious to find out if there is - although we aren't really embracing the
use of
them within Forte because it locks you into the Microsoft arena.
---------------------- Forwarded by Peggy Lynn Adrian/AM/LLY on 02/03/98 01:33
PM ---------------------------
"Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]> on 02/03/98 12:19:52 PM
Please respond to "Stokesbary, Michael" <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: Problems with ListViews Drag and Drop
I am just curious as to other people's experiences with the ListView
widget when elements in it are set to be draggable. In particular, I am
currently trying to design an interface that looks a lot like Windows
Explorer where a TreeView resides on the left side of the window and a
ListView resides on the right side. Upon double clicking on the
ListView, if the current node that was clicked on was a folder, then the
TreeView expands this folder and the contents are then displayed in the
ListView, otherwise, it was a file and it is brought up in Microsoft
Word. All this works great if I don't have the elements in the ListView
widget set to be draggable. If they are set to be draggable, then I am
finding that the DoubleClick event seems to get registered twice along
with the ObjectDrop event. This is not good because if I double click
and the current node is a folder, then it will expand this folder in the
TreeView, display the contents in the ListView, grab the node that is
now displayed where that node used to be displayed and run the events
for that as well. What this means, is that if this is a file, then Word
is just launched and no big deal. Unfortunately, if this happens to be
another directory, then the previous directory is dropped into this
current directory and a recursive copy gets performed, giving me one
heck of a deep directory tree for that folder.
Has anybody else seen this, or am I the only lucky one to experience.
If need be, I do have this exported in a .pex file if anybody needs to
look at it more closely.
Thanks in advance.
Michael Stokesbary
Software Engineer
GTE Government Systems Corporation
tel: (650) 966-2975
e-mail: [email protected]

here is the required code....
private static class TreeDragGestureListener implements DragGestureListener {
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 TreePath path = tree.getSelectionPath();
 if (path == null) {
 // Nothing selected, nothing to drag
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 tree.getToolkit().beep();
 } else {
 DefaultMutableTreeNode selection = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) path
 .getLastPathComponent();
 if (selection.isLeaf()) {
 TransferableTreeNode node = new TransferableTreeNode(
 selection);
 dragGestureEvent.startDrag(DragSource.DefaultCopyDrop,
 node, new MyDragSourceListener());
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 tree.getToolkit().beep();
}

Problem with MSI X58 Platinum SLI - IOH temperature !

Hi guys.
I have this PC configuration:
- MSI X58 Platinum SLI ( Bios Version 3.8 - http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/6707/161020101249.jpg )
- Intel Core i7 930 2.80 GHz box ( with Intel Turbo Boost running sometimes at 3.06 Ghz )
- MSI GeForce GT240 1GB DDR5 128-bit HDMI
- Corsair 6GB DDR3 1333MHz CL9 XMS3 Triple Channel Kit ( sets to AUTO and running at 1066 Mhz )
- Corsair CMPSU-750TXEU
- Ordinary case ( http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/4200/161020101246.jpg & http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/8480/161020101247.jpg ).
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
I bought my PC components 2 months ago, so they are new.
Now, guys I think that is a problem with my motherboard. When I turn on the computer in Bios I have this temps: CPU – 30 C (86 F); IOH – 71 C (159 F); System 30 C (86 F) - http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/394/161020101242.jpg. After 2 minutes the temperatures are: CPU – 34 C (93 F); IOH – 82 C (179 F); System 41 C (105 F) and 2 more minutes later the temperatures are: CPU – 34 C (93 F); IOH – 84 C (183 F); System 43 C (109 F). After 30 minutes of doing nothing I have this temps: CPU – 35 C (95 F); IOH – 85 C (185 F); System 42 C (107 F) -
Guys it is normal with IOH temperature ? I am a little worried about it ( to be honest I am more than “a little” … I am worried a lot ).
Ok, I know I don’t have a good case but in 3 weeks I should receive this Thermaltake Spedo Advance Case (http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1121&ID=1829) and I will buy a new CPU cooler ( I don’t know yet wich one – maybe Corsair CWCH70 or Noctua NH-D14 but I have to see the case first … to be sure there is a plenty of space for those coolers ).
Pls help me with that IOH temperature. It is normal ? What if I intend to make a little OC ( lets say CPU to 3652 Mhz and RAM to 1333 Mhz … but also I will ask for your support ! ) my motherboard will burn ?
If it is necessary I will contact my retailer and send him back the motherboard but … I like MSI a lot.
Thx guys for your support !

Hey guys,
Here is a nice cheap alternative.
Here is my story about the same issue. I found it after looking at why my computer freezes sometimes. Not very often but enough for me to do some investigation. I noticed my IOH temp was a whopping 117 degrees Celsius. lol. Surprised my mobo didn't burn out by now. I wanted to evaluate the situation with the heat sink and decided to take it off. After taking it off I found extremely crusty purple compound on board the chipset and the heatsink. I took me FOREVER to scrape it off. it was almost like a cement which I found odd. After scraping and cleaning the surfaces with alcohol, I placed some silver compound on and proceeded to put it back on.
Well, upon hooking everything back up I was still at 95 to 103 degs. Now I started to really look at the options to replace this. I had SLI config which means I had to do something clever with the southbridge as well. A nice thermaltake chipset solution w/fan and a low profile copper southbridge with shipping was about 45 bucks. Hmm ... This is a sure fix from the threads I have read and its really kid of expensive to fix a simple defect. the problem is not necessarily with the heatsink not being sufficient. Its the combo of the compound used vs the amount of pressure applied between the heatsink and chipset. It was completely unacceptable. I knew this right away when I was watching the temp and then I would press on the top of the IOH heatsink and I would watch it drop another 15 degrees in less then 10 seconds. The springs are extremely weak and not effective at all in transferring the heat from the NB.
Here if my fix. Cost me less than a dollar at the hardware store and it works ideal thus far. Do this at your own risk. Doing this will probably void any warranty too. All my problems are solved and I am running at 57 degrees, YES, 57 degrees with the stock heatsink and no additional cooling.
For one scrape all that old crap off like I did. Apply your new compound. But when you go to replace your heatsink, use the following method. The trick is to use metal screws with a mobo washer, original springs from the plastic studs and a nylon locknut. Use screws that are the same diameter and length (maybe a tad bit longer) as the plastic retainer studs. Also grab a few of those red nylon mobo washers too, were gonna need them as well.
After scraping and applying compound, reassemble as follows. Screw with washer inserted into the back of the mobo so the threads are out front. The plastic/nylon washer is betweeen the screwhead and the back of the mobo as a insulator. Put the heatsink on. With the threads thru the heatsink already, put the springs on and start spinning on the locknut. I torqued the nut down on the spring until the spring almost became fully compressed. The purpose of the spring here is really to prevent you breaking something and at the same time using the max force of the spring since it weak to begin with. Thats why we need to compress it down pretty much all the way. There will be little to no room in the spring at this point. The heatsink at this point should be pretty solid to the board as well. I noticed with the plastic studs before the heatsink would wobble if you gave it a little rocking back and forth before. Not this time. Shouldn't move much if at all. Remember not to torque down too much. You don't want to go beyond the springs compression. Even if you did by accident, its better then not using a spring at all. If you feel that it starts to feel tight when torquing, you torqued too far. Stop an backup a 1/4 turn or so. It is also very important to make sure both torques are equal on both sides as well. Alternate sides when torquing down. I could tell by how much thread I had left on both sides and by looking for any uneven sides.
To summarize, the compound is a problem no doubt. After you resolve the compound issue, its all about the adequate pressure between the heatsink and the IOH. Much like the amount of pressure needed between your CPU and your heatsink give or take. And the pressure that would be as an aftermarket solution like the thermaltake chipset cooler. You dont see cheesy springs on that. Wake up MSI. Simpy using a more effective spring could save MSI some cash in the long run. I envision a leafsprin design like the thermaltake chipset one. The heatsink design could be better, sure, but the design itself is not the problem. Replace the heatsinks if you would like to, if your overclocking and stuff. Funny, this board I have is a refurb too and only had it for a few weeks. Figured they would have done something about it.
Sorry the pics are not the best. Here is about as close as I could get to the finished product

Problem with tabs in xml text

I have a problem with my XML setup here
i use Tab key to aligh up info in the xml text for aligned
display in the program
hoever i tested on several computers and get different
resolts.
how can i fix this.
Please view the linked Image
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8394/flashtextproblemti4.jpg
this is what happenes even thow all run xp and all run same
latest flash version.
Anyone got an ideer how i can solve this.
BTW the font is verdana.
This is my actionscript ....
// Function to parse an address
f_parseAddress = function () {
// Set the text
_root.stageholder.textfield.htmlText =
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// Set up the XML object
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This is my XML file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<text>
<address>
<![CDATA[
Company name
Company name
address
address
Dir. tlf. + xx xx xx xx xx
+ xx xx xx xx xx
Mobil + xx xx xx xx xx
+ xx xx xx xx xx
web: <a href="
http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx">www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx</a>
E-mail: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
]]>
</address>
</text>
If anyone got a solution on how i can get my text to allign
corect
i would like to hear about it
Best reguards
Mis

alrighty then try this xml structure.
Note: formatting information like b, or linkage tags should
not be part of the xml.
The XML format is a universal format for data, if you fill it
with style information this is not good practive (in general, there
are of course scenarios where it makes sense, also since (x)html IS
also XML).
In your case you want to put the information about multiple
companies in a xml file, but you let the flash decide how to
display format this information.
so if you use the sugested XMl structure you will have full
control of the layout within flash, because you can grab every
piece of information from the xml and place it jsut where you want
in flash and format it within flash.
Of course this process is more coding work than your previous
attempt, but it pays of when you have a lot of data to process and
when you want to have full control of the final layout.
But maybe its overkill for your application (I don't know how
many companies will be stored in your xml and how complex the rest
of the app is).

I am experiencing two problems with iTunes on my iPhone 5s.

I am experiencing two problems with iTunes on my iPhone 5s.
Issue 1: iTunes Match
Some song playback is merging songs. I select “Song A” to be played and midway through the song it begins playing “Song B” however when I look at my phone it indicates that “Song A” is still playing even though the actual music is not “Song A”. I searched the Apple Support Community as well as the internet and this seems to be an ongoing issue back to 2012 that has not been resolved. All of the “fixes” that are provided do not work. For example, update/sync iTunes Match, delete the song from your iPhone and re-download from the cloud or delete the song from your iTunes including the iCloud and re-download. None of which worked. I even tried to complete erase the song from my computer hard drive and restarted my computer and then re-downloaded the song and it was still not working.
Issue 2: iTunes Preview Track
I am unable to preview any music on iTunes through the iTunes app on my phone. I have signed out of my user ID and restarted my phone and then logged back in and it did not fix the problem. My iTunes Match and iTunes radio are allowing me to play music. My software is up-to-date.

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Problem with custom control and focus

I've a problem with the focus in a custom control that contains a TextField and some custom nodes.
If i create a form with some of these custom controls i'm not able to navigate through these fields by using the TAB key.
I've implemented a KeyEvent listener on the custom control and was able to grab the focus and forward it to the embedded TextField by calling requestFocus() on the TextField but the problem is that the TextField won't get rid of the focus anymore. Means if i press TAB the first embedded TextField will get the focus, after pressing TAB again the embedded TextField in the next custom control will get the focus AND the former focused TextField still got the focus!?
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Any idea how to do this ?

Here you go, it contains the control, skin and behavior of the custom control, the css file and a test file that shows the problem...
control:
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import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
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 private static final String DEFAULT_STYLE_CLASS = "test-input";
 private TextField textField;
 private int id;
 public TestInput(final int ID) {
 super();
 id = ID;
 textField = new TextField();
 init();
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 getStyleClass().add(DEFAULT_STYLE_CLASS);
 public TextField getTextField() {
 return textField;
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 return getClass().getResource("testinput.css").toExternalForm();
 @Override public String toString() {
 return "TestInput" + id + ": " + super.toString();
}skin:
import com.sun.javafx.scene.control.skin.SkinBase;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.input.KeyCode;
import javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent;
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 private TestInput control;
 private TextField textField;
 private boolean initialized;
 public TestInputSkin(final TestInput CONTROL) {
 super(CONTROL, new TestInputBehavior(CONTROL));
 control = CONTROL;
 textField = control.getTextField();
 initialized = false;
 init();
 private void init() {
 initialized = true;
 paint();
 public final void paint() {
 if (!initialized) {
 init();
 getChildren().clear();
 getChildren().addAll(textField);
 @Override public final TestInput getSkinnable() {
 return control;
 @Override public final void dispose() {
 control = null;
}behavior:
import com.sun.javafx.scene.control.behavior.BehaviorBase;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.input.KeyCode;
import javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent;
public class TestInputBehavior extends BehaviorBase<TestInput> {
 private TestInput control;
 public TestInputBehavior(final TestInput CONTROL) {
 super(CONTROL);
 control = CONTROL;
 control.getTextField().addEventFilter(KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED, new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
 @Override public void handle(final KeyEvent EVENT) {
 if (KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED.equals(EVENT.getEventType())) {
 keyPressed(EVENT);
 control.focusedProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Boolean>() {
 @Override public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Boolean> ov, Boolean wasFocused, Boolean isFocused) {
 if (isFocused) { isFocused(); } else { lostFocus(); }
 public void isFocused() {
 System.out.println(control.toString() + " got focus");
 control.getTextField().requestFocus();
 public void lostFocus() {
 System.out.println(control.toString() + " lost focus");
 public void keyPressed(KeyEvent EVENT) {
 if (KeyCode.TAB.equals(EVENT.getCode())) {
 control.getScene().getFocusOwner().requestFocus();
}the css file:
.test-input {
 -fx-skin: "TestInputSkin";
}and finally the test app:
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class Test extends Application {
 TestInput input1;
 TestInput input2;
 TestInput input3;
 TextField input4;
 TextField input5;
 TextField input6;
 Scene scene;
 @Override public void start(final Stage STAGE) {
 setupStage(STAGE, setupScene());
 private Scene setupScene() {
 input1 = new TestInput(1);
 input2 = new TestInput(2);
 input3 = new TestInput(3);
 input4 = new TextField();
 input5 = new TextField();
 input6 = new TextField();
 GridPane pane = new GridPane();
 pane.add(input1, 1, 1);
 pane.add(input2, 1, 2);
 pane.add(input3, 1, 3);
 pane.add(input4, 2, 1);
 pane.add(input5, 2, 2);
 pane.add(input6, 2, 3);
 scene = new Scene(pane);
 return scene;
 private void setupStage(final Stage STAGE, final Scene SCENE) {
 STAGE.setTitle("Test");
 STAGE.setScene(SCENE);
 STAGE.show();
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 launch(args);
The test app shows three custom controls on the left column and three standard textfields on the right column. If you press TAB you will see what i mean...

Mac Pro (First Generation) problem with 1TB Seagate Barracuda

Hi Macianer,
I have a first generation Mac Pro which was sold with max. 750GB Hard drives for each bay. At this time I am grabbing for straws and maybe someone has any info on this problem.
I purchased 4 x 1TB Seagate Barracuda hard drives ( Model: ST31000340AS / Firmware: SD15 ), did a regular format after I purchased them ( GUID Partition Table, Journaled HFS+ File System). I am using 2 of them internally (they get quite hot and i didn't want to put all 4 of them in there) and two of them externally (backup purposes). The other two internal bays are covered by 2x 500GB Barracuda drives.
I put all four 1 TB hard drived through a 1 week stress test to make sure I am not dealing with bad apples. So far this practice served me well.
Now 2 weeks later one completely crashed (internal boot drive). It sounded to spin up alright but was not accessible at all. I went to BestBuy and GeekSquad said this drive is crashed and I returned it.
Since I had a backup I didn't worry too much. I put the back up hard drive in as the new boot drive (since it was a SuperDuper duplicat) it worked like a charm. Now the second hard drive starts temporarily freezing the system for 2-4 minutes and seems to get stuck showing the great colored ball of doom. After the freeze it continues to operate normal again and I am able to continue my work.
I ran the Disk Utility and I got the following message:
INVALID KEY LENGTH
VOLUME CHECK FAILED.
ERROR: FILESYSTEM VERIFY OR REPAIR FAILED.
It just seems weird, I never had problems with hard drives and now I get these problems with 3-4 week old hard drives.
I was in a chat with seagate support. First question to trouble shoot: Do you have access to a PC. My answer was no since Microsoft Vista I donated all of them to the Salvation Army. He asked if I formatted the hard drives low level and MBR with HFS+. I said since I do not have access to PC nor do I plan on using my hard drives for PC I formatted it regular with GUID and HFS+. I asked if there is any history of these drives that would help explain my experience. I was hoping for a recall or something of that sort or something that a firmware upgrade would remedy.
I guess my question is, is the first generation Mac Pro, even though it seems to format and run them fine, not able to handle 1TB hard drives on a daily basis. Or am I dealing with hard drive problems? The Seagate guy didn't seem to be of any help.
Any help is appreciated or even pointers that would help me in finding the problem.
Cheers,
PixelGrinch
Message was edited by: PixelGrinch

Excellent questions, I too am looking at SSD.
Some things I know about SSD:
1. Intel recently released new firmware for their SSD drives to improve long term performance including Trim/Garbage collection.
2. SSD drives can be setup as SLC or MLC - SLC is faster read 2X, write 4X over MLC, however SLC is smaller capacity. SLC also has a longer life span.
3. Intel plans to have an 320GB X25-M (MLC) and a 128GB X25-E (SLC) out soon.
OSX does not fully support Trim and I'm not aware of any 3rd party software for OSX that helps in the garbage collection area. Diskeeper 2010 for Windows 7 provides full support for all variants of SSD, but nothing on the Mac side.
I'm probably going to wait for 2010 to see what comes out, SSD appears to be good news, but it still also seems to have issues. Given the cost of these drivers and the frequent firmware updates, a wait and see is my choice.
I've thought about going with a SAS RAID controller and 15K RAID drivers, but the cost/performance ratio comes out about the same and the 15K drives are noisey and power hungry but they're a "known" entity.
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Problem with install on new compy, something to do with external?

Hello, so I have been having a few problems with installing Arch on my new computer. On my old laptop I never ran into this problem on any distro of LINUX I installed, nor on any other of the systems I have installed Arch on. I believe it might have something to do with the fact that I am running the live cd off of an external dvd drive maybe? I am kind of stuck here, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
If it helps
System Specs:
Motherboard: ASROCK 890FX Deluxe3
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
Hard Drives: 2 SATA 160gb hd RAID 0, and one 160gb ATA hd
OS: Windows 7 Professional on the RAID 0, hoping to put ARCH on the ATA (I have tried booting the ATA first in the list behind the USB DVDROM to no avail)
External Drive: Sony DVD/CD RW drive DRX-510UL
External DVDROM is the exact same drive I used to install windows 7 professional.
External DVDROM is plugged into one of my USB 2.0 ports, but the error still persists.
I am using the EXACT same disk I used when installing it on my past computer.
Trying to install x86_64 version of Arch, gets past the splash.
Output that I could catch:
:: Running Hook [archiso]
:: Rinning Hook [archiso_pxe_nbd]
:: Mounting tmpfs, size 75%... done.
:: Waiting for boot device...
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201005 ...
usb 9-1 : device descriptor read/64, error-62
usb 9-1 : new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
usb 9-1 : device descriptor read/64, error-62
usb 9-1 : device descriptor read/64, error-62
usb 9-1 : new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 9-1: device not accepting address 4, error -62
usb 9-1 : new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
usb 9-1: device not accepting address 5, error -62
hub 9-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
scsi 6:0:0:0: CDROM SONY DVDRW DRU-510A 1.0d PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
If you need any other info, I can grab it of course.
Last edited by crusniknano (2010-07-12 19:49:13)

K, got it running. was having errors with the USB hd, but just changed the name it booted from to the name of the drive. thanks!

Problems with java constructor: "inconsistent data types" in SQL query

Hi,
I tried to define a type "point3d" with some member functions, implemented in java, in my database. Therefor I implemented a class Point3dj.java as you can see it below and loaded it with "loadjava -user ... -resolve -verbose Point3dj.java" into the database.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
package spatial.objects;
import java.sql.*;
public class Point3dj implements java.sql.SQLData {
public double x;
public double y;
public double z;
public void readSQL(SQLInput in, String type)
throws SQLException {
x = in.readDouble();
y = in.readDouble();
z = in.readDouble();
public void writeSQL(SQLOutput out)
throws SQLException {
out.writeDouble(x);
out.writeDouble(y);
out.writeDouble(z);
public String getSQLTypeName() throws SQLException {
return "Point3dj";
public Point3dj(double x, double y, double z)
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
this.z = z;
public static Point3dj create(double x, double y, double z)
return new Point3dj(x,y,z);
public double getNumber()
return Math.sqrt(this.x*this.x + this.y*this.y + this.z*this.z);
public static double getStaticNumber(double px, double py, double pz)
return Math.sqrt(px*px+py*py+pz*pz);
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Additionally, I created the corresponding type in SQL by
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE point3dj AS OBJECT EXTERNAL NAME
'spatial.objects.Point3dj' LANGUAGE JAVA USING SQLDATA (
x FLOAT EXTERNAL NAME 'x',
y FLOAT EXTERNAL NAME 'y',
z FLOAT EXTERNAL NAME 'z',
MEMBER FUNCTION getNumber RETURN FLOAT
EXTERNAL NAME 'getNumber() return double',
STATIC FUNCTION getStaticNumber(xp FLOAT, yp FLOAT, zp FLOAT) RETURN FLOAT
EXTERNAL NAME 'getStaticNumber(double, double, double) return double')
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After that I tried some SQL commands:
create table pointsj of point3dj;
insert into pointsj values (point3dj(2,1,1));
SELECT x, a.getnumber() FROM pointsj a;Now, the problem:
Everything works fine, if I delete the constructor
public Point3dj(double x, double y, double z)
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
this.z = z;
in the java class, or if I replace it with a constructor that has no input arguments.
But with this few code lines in the java file, I get an error when executing the SQL command
SELECT x, a.getnumber() FROM pointsj a;The Error is:
"ORA-00932: inconsistent data types: an IN argument at position 1 that is an instance of an Oracle type convertible to an instance of a user defined Java class expected, an Oracle type that could not be converted to a java class received"
I think, there are some problems with the input argument of the constructor, but why? I don't need the constructor in SQL, but it is used by a routine of another java class, so I can't just delete it.
Can anybody help me? I would be very glad about that since I already tried a lot and also search in forums and so on, but wasn't successful up to new.
Thanks!

Dear Avi,
This makes sense when it is a short code sample (and i think i've done that across various posts), but sometime this is too long to copy/paste, in these cases, i refer to the freely available code samples, as i did above on this forum; here is the quote.
Look at examples of VARRAY and Nested TABLES of scalar types in the code samples of my book (chapter 8) http://books.elsevier.com/us//digitalpress/us/subindex.asp?maintarget=companions/defaultindividual.asp&isbn=9781555583293&country=United+States&srccode=&ref=&subcode=&head=&pdf=&basiccode=&txtSearch=&SearchField=&operator=&order=&community=digitalpress
As you can see, i was not even asking people to buy the book, just telling them where to grab the code samples.
I appreciate your input on this and as always, your contribution to the forum, Kuassi

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I've got a website project where the client wanted a picture
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movie any higher than AS2 and Flash 6 and have it work. That would
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or higher, namely a gradient mask. I was hoping that I could post
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you're not likely to get anyone in this forum to check your
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I have problem with my mail app. I'm using spaces for better organization. When I wanna add some file to mail message I usually go to different desktop (space), where I have the file I wanna attach. I grab it move to right up corner to activate spaces, than move to desktop (space) with mail.app and press spacebar (it activates the desktop immediately). At that time it also start random app, which is in my dock.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUypUnPHZvc
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I don't have selected "always..." so I also tried it with selected "always...".
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I am new to Spry widgets. I am working with CS5.
I have a problem with the only submenu I want to have for this site (in French). Instead of explaining, I attached a grab. My problme is clearly showing: the border of the submenu is offset on the left.
How can I fixed that? I went through all possible styles and could not find anything.
As well, when there are submenus, there generally appear a triangle on the right hand side of my menu to indicate that there is a submenu. How can I disable that?
Thanks a lot for any suggestion!
Bruno

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