The types of optical disc

Hi
I know that the types of optical disc are:
CD±R/RW, DVD±R/WR, DVD DL, DVD-RAM, DVD±R DL
First: Could you please confirm for me if these abbrivations can decode to:
Abbrivation
Disc/Media/Drive Category/ type
Decoding
CD±R/RW
CD Drive
CD± Recordable-Once Media, CD± Read-Only Access Media, CD± write-once disc /CD± ReWritable Media
CD±ROM
CD Drive
CD± Recordable-Once Media, CD± Read-Only Access Media, CD± write-once disc
DVD±R/WR
DVD Drive
DVD±Recordable-Once Media, DVD±Read-Only Access Media, DVD±write-once Media/DVD±ReWritable Media
DVD-RAM
DVD Drive
DVD±ROM
DVD Drive
DVD±Recordable-Once Media, DVD±Read-Only Access Media, DVD±write-once
DVD±R DL
DVD Drive
Dual-layer DVD-R and DVD+R discs to store significantly more data.
NOTE: I tried opening all discs on two computers with these speces :
I have a Windows 7 64Bit(SP1) with a HP laptop with i5Core.
This is optical drive:
Optical Drives
hp CDDVDW TS-L633R
Media Type DVD Writer
Name hp CDDVDW TS-L633R
Availability Running/Full Power
Capabilities Random Access, Supports Writing, Supports Removable Media
Read capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW DL, DVD+R DL
Write capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Config Manager Error Code Device is working properly
Config Manager User Config FALSE
Drive E:
Media Loaded FALSE
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target Id 1
Status OK
Also, I have Windows XP SP1(32Bit) with another Pentium III processor(1GHz), and 256MB of RAM
my Optical drive is:
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20
Media Type DVD Writer
Name HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20
Availability Running/Full Power
Capabilities Random Access, Supports Removable Media
Read capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Write capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Config Manager Error Code Device is working properly
Config Manager User Config FALSE
Drive F:
Media Loaded FALSE
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 1
SCSI Target Id 1
Status OK
Second:
IF you have a look at this screen shot below, you will see that CD Drive is listed as the type of disc on the propersties, although a DVD-R disc is inserted into optical drive. Thus, I think DVD Drive should be listed as the type of disc inserted.
Finally: What difference is there between 'CD-R/DVD-R' and 'CD-ROM/DVD-ROM'. Since I got confused when I noticed::
With some CDs-R is inserted into an optical drive, I see CD-ROM, insteaod of CD-R, since CD-R is inserted onto the drive.
With some CDs-R inserted into an optical drive, I see a CD-R
With some DVDs-R inserted into an optical drive, I see a DVD-ROM is listed as disc type, instead of DVD-R since DVD-R is inserted onto the drive.
With some DVD-R inserted into an optical drive, I see a DVD-R is listed as disc type.
A man should convert his anger and sadness into strength to continue living in this life.

Thanks a lot,
I would be highly appreciating it if you could take some of your precious time out to address these points below(I don't care about file systems at this thread of mine.)
I heard and sometimes see in the Internet such types of optical disc::
CD±R/RW, DVD±R/WR, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, CD±R DL, CD±RW DL, DVD DL, DVD±R DL, DVD±RW DL
First: The kind of discs I have been used to using, and seeing in the market are only:
CD-R, C-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
However, I've never ever used or even seen such these optical discs below at all
CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, CD±R DL, CD±RW DL, DVD±R DL, DVD±RW DL
Thus, I don't know if there are really existing in the market or not?
Second: I don't know if these abbrivations are short for normal names in the third column, or not. So, Could you please confirm for me if these abbrivations can decode to:( what the normal words(full name) of those abbreviations.)
Abbrivation/shortten term
Disc/Media/Drive Category/ Disc type
Decoding
CD±R
CD Drive
CD± Recordable-Once Media, CD± Read-Only Access Media, CD ± write-once
CD±RW
CD Drive
CD± write-once disc /CD± ReWritable Media
CD±ROM
CD Drive
CD± Recordable-Once Media, CD± Read-Only Access Media, CD± write-once disc
DVD±R
DVD Drive
DVD±Recordable-Once Media, DVD±Read-Only Access Media, DVD±write-once
DVD±RW
DVD Drive
Media/DVD±ReWritable Media
DVD-RAM
DVD Drive
DVD±ROM
DVD Drive
DVD±Recordable-Once Media, DVD±Read-Only Access Media, DVD±write-once
CD±R DL
CD Drive
CD±Recordable-Once Media, CD±Read-Only Access Media, CD±write-once
CD±RW DL
CD Drive
DVD±R DL
DVD Drive
Dual-layer DVD-R and DVD+R discs to store significantly more data/Dual-Layer DVD -RW
DVD±RW DL
DVD
NOTE: I tried opening all discs on two computers with these speces (ALL optical drives on both computers are detected well in both computers:
I have a Windows 7 64Bit(SP1) with a HP laptop with i5Core.
This is optical drive:
Optical Drives
hp CDDVDW TS-L633R
Media Type DVD Writer
Name hp CDDVDW TS-L633R
Availability Running/Full Power
Capabilities Random Access, Supports Writing, Supports Removable Media
Read capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW DL, DVD+R DL
Write capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Config Manager Error Code Device is working properly
Config Manager User Config FALSE
Drive E:
Media Loaded FALSE
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target Id 1
Status OK
Also, I have Windows XP SP1(32Bit) with another Pentium III processor(1GHz), and 256MB of RAM
my Optical drive is:
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HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20
Media Type DVD Writer
Name HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20
Availability Running/Full Power
Capabilities Random Access, Supports Removable Media
Read capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Write capabilities CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL
Config Manager Error Code Device is working properly
Config Manager User Config FALSE
Drive F:
Media Loaded FALSE
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 1
SCSI Target Id 1
Status OK
Third:
IF you have a look at this screen shot below, you will see that CD Drive is listed as the type of disc on the propersties, although a DVD-R disc is inserted into optical drive. Thus, I think DVD Drive should be listed as the type of disc inserted.
Finally: What difference is there between 'CD-R'
and 'CD-ROM', and 'DVD-R' and
'DVD-ROM'. Since I got confused when I noticed::
With some CDs-R is inserted into an optical drive, I see CD-ROM, insteaod of CD-R, since CD-R is inserted onto the drive.
With some CDs-R inserted into an optical drive, I see a CD-R
With some DVDs-R inserted into an optical drive, I see a DVD-ROM is listed as disc type, instead of DVD-R since DVD-R is inserted onto the drive.
With some DVD-R inserted into an optical drive, I see a DVD-R is listed as disc type.
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Thank you very much for any help / experiences people can share.

Thank you both for your prompt and helpful replies.
Mr Millaard, regarding your excellent article Planning and Building an NLE system, I have read it a couple of times now and it was your article which finally convinced me the time was now to upgrade but within it you said for good reason "Initial choice of CPU: i7-39xx with the intention to overclock to 4.6 - 4.8 GHz", hence my uncertainty about the CPU to use. I have seen a video you posted here - I think it was based on your cats (which I incidently enjoyed) so working on the editing done there (but not remembering if you mentioned what video format you used) and others who have mentioned many pro's for the i7-39xx I was leaning towards that - but I'm financially relieved at least - if the i3770 will do, although now with the possible recommendation by JEShort01 (sorry not sure of the forum etiquette for use of names) of the 2600K overclocked I'm a little bit back in the position of which is more suitable especially with the update to the i3770 being nearer than i7-39xx. This still makes me lean towards the i7-39xx.
Regarding the editing, the match play you can see on the channel is indeed 1 camera basic edits - multiple titles used to provide the score board. However, the coaching videos use mulitple cameras - 3 to 4 sometimes (another reason for upgrading to CS5.5 for the multi cam editing support) and the equipment testing video can use 3 or 4 tracks layered on top of each other other with each track having opacity settings and multiple motion effects and titles with occasional keying video effects added. For example this video at approx 2 mins 50 and 5 mins 10 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1E5T7xo57c&list=PL577F7AB5E31FC5E9&index=13&feature=plpp_v ideo
Monitor wise I use dual monitor setup. My laptop screen and I link out to an LG M2394 D for widescreen and I sometimes use an old Neovo F-419 for 3 / 4 editing. I won't be using more monitors than 2. If the 580 drops a bit more I'll probably go for that - although I'll have to make sure it's size isn't an issue for the motherboard combo setup. Interestingly there is a thread shown on the forum home page which discusses the 570 vs the 660ti and the opinion was go with the 660ti which surprised me a bit.
Windows 7 professional it is then - I should have known that too - apologises for asking a question already asked.
"Accepted, your correct criticism of the lacking hardware info on the PPBM5 website. That is the overriding reason that for the new site http://ppbm7.com/ we want to use Piriform Speccy .xml results to gather more, more accurate and more detailed hardware info."
No criticism intended Mr Millaard - more an observation and I really look forward to that evolution with PPBM7. I'm assuming the .xml results will use pre populated drop down lists people can select their hardware from - that way you can control and ensure consistent entries - downside being the work required by you to populate the lists in the first place and maintain them.
Thanks again for your help but I'm still unsure a bit about the CPU and video card though.

[svn:bz-trunk] 11030: Tweak the deserialization of ASObjects to treat an empty string for the type of an object as null .

Revision: 11030
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-20 11:35:02 -0700 (Tue, 20 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Tweak the deserialization of ASObjects to treat an empty string for the type of an object as null. It appears that there is some logic in the LC remoting code that relies on a non-null class name to always exist. This change reverts to the old behavior of not allowing empty string as a value for the ASObject.namedType.
This should fix bug 2448442 and its duplicates caused by the recent serialization changes.
I don't think this is the perfect fix. Pending further investigation, a better fix would be either:
a. If it's OK to assume that empty string should always mean null for the type of the ASObject, the code that enforces it should be in the setter/getter inside ASObject and not in the deserializer.
b. ASObject doesn't guarantee that a named type exists or is valid. In that sense an empty string is as bad as some random characters that cannot be a valid class name in java, so depending on how disruptive it may be, the fix should be in any logic that uses ASObject.getType().
Modified Paths:
    blazeds/trunk/modules/core/src/flex/messaging/io/amf/AbstractAmfInput.java

Hi Pavan,
"In your payload there is no namespace prefix for the elements under PayloadHeader element."
Yes, you are right - but this message is standard AQ Adapter Header message - it's not defined by me. I just used message which was automatically added to my project when I have defined AQ Adapter.
"In your process is the default namespace is same as namespace value of tns ??"
Do you mean targetNamespace? If yes it's different as it points to process "targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/PF_SOA_jws/PF_APPS/APPS_PROCESS" (names of application and process have changed as I try different ways to do that)
ns1 is: xmlns:ns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/aq/PF_SOA/PF_APPS/PO_AQ"
"another thing is tns and ns1 should have same values.."
When I create a variable of header type, namespace ns1 is automatically created for it. I set it as property of receive activity. When process is instantiated on the serwer I get the error in which you can see that namespace is tns.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't see how I could fix this in my process.
You can see that the message I get on the server has nothing in common with the application/project/process names. Is it possible to define such variable?
Regards
Pawel
PS:
In Transformation xsl file, both variables (source and target) has tns namespace for Header and PayloadHeader, and no namespace for subfields.
Edited by: pawel.fidelus on 2010-01-05 02:37

How do I make Step Types in the Type palette be "master" versions which all sequence files on a particular should use? (since this only seems to "half work")

The situation I would like is to have a library of step types which sequence developers can use. Therefore if new step types need to be added, or existing ones modified - all that needs to be done is to roll out a new MyTypes.ini (for example), and the code modules/substeps.
Scenarios:
If I create types in MyTypes.ini (make sure "Attach to this file" is checked, so they get saved here). I can then create a sequence file using these step types. No problem so far.
I can open the type palette, modify the step properties, and save. When I go back to my sequence file an asterisk appears (saying it needs to be saved, even if I have opened it from scratch). The properties have been updated to reflect what is in the Type Palette. Still no problem (Type versions are the same in the sequence file and type palette).
This is where the problem appears:
If I change a step type (in the Type Palette) from using a code module to using a Post-Step substep instead (changing the module adaptor to "None") - any instances do NOT update when you open sequence files. (The same happens vice versa also).
Please note that the "Type version" listed in the sequence file DOES match that listed in the Type Palette - the properties are the same but the manner in which the code modules are called is DIFFERENT! This then can lead to to runtime errors if the old code module has been deleted for example.
The only way around this is to open EVERY sequence file that contains an instance of the step type, and make sure that you have "Apply changes to all loaded instances of this type" checked in the step type properties dialog. This is is not a good solution since files could be missed, and is very time consuming if you have hundreds of sequence files!
What I need is that the Type Palette on any particular station contains the MASTER copies of each type. These are loaded whenever a sequence file is loaded and NOT retreived from the sequence file. As discussed above this seems to work when you modify properties - but doesnt work fine if you change the way in which code modules are called.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a limitation?

I had a system recently containing seven sequence files, approx 20 subsequences in each, and around 10-20 steps in each sub-sequence. Every step (except for the NI non-code module types) was an instance of a step type.
Each one of these steps had an Edit sub-step and a code module called through the code module adapter.
In order to make these into "wrapped up" step types it was decided to move the code module to a Post-Step substep (as also done in the NI-IVI step types) - so that developers cannot fiddle with the code prototype or module.
In order to do this I had to open all 7 of the sequence files, make the changes and then ensure that "Apply changes in this dialog to a loaded instances" was checked. This seems to sort of work, but some steps started causing Error 17502 (System Error) when you configure them (call the Edit substep). Over the course of the past few months I have had to effectively check every instance of a type to see if it works (deleting the step and replacing it when it doesnt). Other strange things happened like some of the step type instances now have the "None" (adapter) icon associated with them - but both still work.
The idea of creating a type-def of a step type is a good one, but frustrating that it doesnt seem to fully work. Why should the sequence file also store a version of the step-type - which is what is effectively causing this problem - why not make it so that if you dont have the step types installed in the type palette - TOUGH! Message Edited by RichM on 03-15-2005 06:55 AM

The type and the length of the members of the structures

I am making the BC-XAL program.
Reading `XAL_Interface_Documentation_11.pdf', now I succeeded in "Reading All Saved Monitor Sets" and "Reading All Monitors of a Monitor Set". but I can't find the type and the length of the member of the Structure BAPITNDEXT, so I cannot get the Monitoring Tree of a Monitor.
where can I get any documents or information ?

This is how it looks in my 46c system.
MTSYSID         SYSYSID         CHAR      8     0R/3 System, name of R/3 System
MTMCNAME        ALMCNAME        CHAR     40     0Alert: name of monitoring context
MTNUMRANGE      ALTIDNUMRG      CHAR      3     0Alert: monitoring type number range (perm., temp, ...)
MTUID           ALTIDUID        CHAR     10     0ALert: Unique Identifier for Monitoring Types (used in TID)
MTCLASS         ALTIDMTCL       CHAR      3     0Alert: monitoring type class (perf., single msg.,...)
MTINDEX         ALTIDINDEX      CHAR     10     0Alert: internal handle for TID
EXTINDEX        ALTIDINDEX      CHAR     10     0Alert: internal handle for TID
ALTREENUM       ALTREENUM       INT4     10     0Alert: MT Tree info: Number of tree
ALIDXINTRE      ALIDXINTRE      INT4     10     0Alert: Tree Info: Index of MT in Tree
ALLEVINTRE      ALLEVINTRE      INT4     10     0Alert: Tree Info: Level of MTE in Tree
ALPARINTRE      ALPARINTRE      INT4     10     0Alert: Tree Info: Index of Parent of MT in Tree
OBJECTNAME      ALMOBJECT       CHAR     40     0Alert: Name of Monitoring Object
MTNAMESHRT      ALMTNAMESH      CHAR     40     0Alert: Short Name of Monitoring Type
CUSGRPNAME      ALCUSGROUP      CHAR     40     0Alert: Customization: Name of Customization Group
DELIVERSTA      ALDELIVSTA      INT4     10     0Alert: MT Val: Delivery Status
HIGHALVAL       ALVALUE         INT4     10     0Alert: alert value (1 = green, 2 = yellow, ....)
HIGHALSEV       ALSEVERITY      INT4     10     0Alert: severity (alerts, monitoring type custom..)
ALSYSID         SYSYSID         CHAR      8     0R/3 System, name of R/3 System
MSEGNAME        ALMSEGNAME      CHAR     40     0Alert: name of monitoring segment
ALUNIQNUM       ALAIDUID        CHAR     10     0Alert: Unique Identifier to be used in AID (char10)
ALINDEX         ALINDEX         CHAR     10     0Alert: internal handle
ALERTDATE       ALDATE          DATS      8     0Alert: date
ALERTTIME       ALTIME          TIMS      6     0Alert: Time value in timeformat
DUMMYALIGN      ALDUMMYC2       CHAR      2     0Alert: Dummy field. Purpose: Alignment of date/time 16 byte
LASTVALDAT      ALDATE          DATS      8     0Alert: date
LASTVALTIM      ALTIME          TIMS      6     0Alert: Time value in timeformat
LASTVALDUM      ALDUMMYC2       CHAR      2     0Alert: Dummy field. Purpose: Alignment of date/time 16 byte
ACTUALVAL       ALVALUE         INT4     10     0Alert: alert value (1 = green, 2 = yellow, ....)
ACTUALSEV       ALSEVERITY      INT4     10     0Alert: severity (alerts, monitoring type custom..)
VALSYSID        SYSYSID         CHAR      8     0R/3 System, name of R/3 System
VMSEGNAME     ALMSEGNAME     CHAR     40     0     Alert: name of monitoring segment
VALUNIQNUM     ALAIDUID     CHAR     10     0     Alert: Unique Identifier to be used in AID (char10)
VALINDEX     ALINDEX     CHAR     10     0     Alert: internal handle
VALERTDATE     ALDATE     DATS     8     0     Alert: date
VALERTTIME     ALTIME     TIMS     6     0     Alert: Time value in timeformat
VALERTDUM     ALDUMMYC2     CHAR     2     0     Alert: Dummy field. Purpose: Alignment of date/time 16 byte
COUNTOFACT     ALCNTACTAL     INT4     10     0     Alert: MT Val: Count of active Alerts
COUNTSUM     ALCNTSUMAL     INT4     10     0     Alert: MT Val: Sum of Alerts in MT
VISUSERLEV     ALVISILEVL     INT4     10     0     Alert: MTE type dev cust: Visible on user level (op,exp,dev)
TDSTATUS     ALTDSTATUS     INT4     10     0
     Alert: MT: Type Def Status
Welcome to SDN.
Regards,
Rich Heilman

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