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Setting up a Bluetooth PAN

I am trying to create a Bluetooth PAN between two devices where I can access REST based web services over the Bluetooth connection. I have had some success with various proof of concepts (both Bluetooth legacy and Bluetooth Smart) but I am having problems trying to create a Group network [...] read more

Integer cube root

I'm looking for fast code for 64-bit (unsigned) cube roots. (I'm using C and compiling with gcc, but I imagine most of the work required will be language- and compiler-agnostic.) I will denote by ulong a 64-bit unisgned integer. Given an input n I require the (integral) return value r [...] read more

Ethernet CRC32 calculation - software vs algorithmic result

I'm trying to calculate the Frame Check Sequence (FCS) of an Ethernet packet byte by byte. The polynomial is 0x104C11DB7. I did follow the XOR-SHIFT algorithm seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check or here http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/crctut1.htm Assume the information that is supposed have a CRC is only one byte. Let's say it is 0x03. [...] read more

Troubleshooting "TypeError: ord() expected string of length 1, but int found"

ERROR : TypeError: ord() expected string of length 1, but int found I am getting this error while compiling the program. File "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\tracer1.py", line 129, in <module> get_route("www.google.com") File "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\tracer1.py", line 85, in get_route d = build_packet() File "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\tracer1.py", line 62, in build_packet myChecksum = checksum(header + data) File "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\tracer1.py", [...] read more

Nodejs: convert string to buffer

I'm trying to write a string to a socket (socket is called "response"). Here is the code I have sofar (I'm trying to implement a byte caching proxy...): var http = require('http'); var sys=require('sys'); var localHash={}; http.createServer(function(request, response) { var proxy = http.createClient(80, request.headers['host']) var proxy_request = proxy.request(request.method, request.url, request.headers); [...] read more

How to dump memory to a file in gdb (osx)? Need to rescue my work

I need to know how I can dump memory in Safari.app, to a file. I've entered gdb attach 6741 (my safari PID). Now what? I tried searching for help on gdb on google, but I couldn't find anything that told me what to do, even when searching for "how to [...] read more

Cisco ASA Site-to-Site VPN Dropping

I have three sites, Toronto (1.1.1.1), Mississauga (2.2.2.2) and San Francisco (3.3.3.3). All three sites have ASA 5520. All the sites are connected together with two site-to-site VPN links between each other location. My issue is that the tunnel between Toronto and San Francisco is very unstable, dropping every 40 [...] read more

Corrupted NTFS Drive showing multiple unallocated partitions

My external hdd with a single NTFS partition was accidentaly plugged out (kids!)... and is now corrupted. Iv tried running ntfsfix - with no luck - output below.. When I look at the disk under disk management in Windows 7 it shows up as having 5 partitions 2 of which [...] read more

Strongswan (IKEv2) connection established, but no traffic routing

I've seen this sort of question posted a few times before, but so far, none of them have solved my issue. I'm trying to set up an IKEv2 VPN on my Ubuntu Server to use with my Windows Phone using Strongswan. The connection seems to be set up correctly, but [...] read more

Disable IPv6 Loopback on Windows 7 64 Bit

I have a Windows 7 64 Bit machine, and I cannot find a way to disable the IPv6 Loopback. I looked at the article at How to disable IP version 6 or its specific components in Windows and shows how to set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents to various values – but none of [...] read more

SQL Server 2012 with account NT Service\MSSQLSERVER access is denied in domain

A few months ago we installed SQL Server 2012 in Windows 2008 R2 under the virtual account "NT Service\MSSQLSERVER", all good. A few days ago, one of the admins of the IT dept installed Full Text Search component to the SQL Server 2012 (the problem is he could not recall [...] read more

What is clang trying to do optimizing this simple recursive algorithm?

Upon writing an answer to this question: Using variable vs. using number I ran clang x86 9.0.0/trunk with -O3 to see if it could do tail-call optimization of this simple code: int faculty1 (const unsigned int n) { return n == 1 ? n : n * faculty1(n - 1); [...] read more

a class method named ._() function in dart?

ive seen this code can anyone please explain to me what the AppTheme._() means, as ive read about its singleton class in dart but I really can't understand how it works. class AppTheme { AppTheme._(); static const Color notWhite = Color(0xFFEDF0F2); static const Color nearlyWhite = Color(0xFFFEFEFE); static const Color [...] read more

FreeBSD IP aliases in different subnets and default outgoing IP address

I have a FreeBSD VPS that until recently had assigned 3 public ip addresses in a /29 subnet. When making outgoing connections, the IP address used was always the non aliased one ".20", however now I have added another block of 3 ip addresses in a different /29 subnet and [...] read more

ASA site-to-site IPSec vpn to linux ipsec-tools endpoints stops working after a random period of time

We swapped to ASA's over the weekend, and we replaced our VPN infrastructure which was previously based on openvpn and are now using IPSec between our ASA 5520's and our other sites that have linux (CentOS) routers. The VPNs connect just fine, but after a period of time the connections [...] read more

Enable TLS 1.2 in Windows Server 2012 running Exchange 2013 via IIS 8.0

I got some issues getting the TLS 1.2 protocol running on one of our Windows Server 2012 machines. I checked this using ssllabs.com by Qualys and also tested with a powershell script and the linux tool "cipherscan". The server hosts one Exchange 2013 SP1 (CU4) Server, with IIS 8.0. The [...] read more

OpenVPN connection works but no gateway is assigned

i try to setup openvpn on a vps and I'm able to establish a connection to the server, but the gateway isn't assigned to the client. Here are my config files: client config: client dev tun proto udp remote foo.bar 1194 resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun ca ca.crt cert client1.crt [...] read more

Direct3D crashes dxdiag in 32-bit but works fine in 64-bit mode

DxDiag crashes when I open it unless I bypass Direct3D. It works fine in 64-bit mode. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M, and I've tried updating (also uninstalling, reinstalling) my drivers. I've also tried doing the same with DirectX. How can I enable Direct3D for 32-bit? I've tried enabling [...] read more

Is my mac hacked? Found weird things

I apologize for posting in length, but I thought being complete would be of more value: 20120822, my browser was not resolving a domain so I went into my terminal to check and lo-and-behold! I find these crazy commands remnant: mac-mini$ su Password: sh-3.2# sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts Mar 22 23:07:08 [...] read more

disabling ipv6 on windows 7 64bit

not sure what i am missing here.. every website suggests creating this reg key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents as DWORD and setting its value to 0xFFFFFFFF i've done this, but when i reboot, my NIC adapter still shows IPV6 enabled. since i have 64bit version, i also tried setting this value as QWORD. [...] read more

In a MIPS assembly `addi` instruction, how is a hexadecimal immediate interpreted?

Is there is a standard or recommendation for how the addi instruction (and others) should be interpreted in assembly, when hexadecimal immediate values are used? Example: addi $t0, $zero, 0xffff I was expecting this to mean the same as addi $t0, $zero, -1 where 0xffff would be sign extended to [...] read more

`LoadLibraryExW` triggers exception `0xC0000023` from `NtMapViewOfSection`

It's going to be really hard to reduce the scope of this question, but here we go. CONTEXT I'm in the context of a 32-bit ActiveX control which is loaded into a host ( TstCon.exe). After unloading and reloading the control, I receive a streak of errors from NtMapViewOfSection, the [...] read more

Entity Framework Core - error: keyword not supported: '"server'

I am using Entity Framework Core 2.1. I scaffold my entity classes aka database first. When I try to get the data from one of the db tables, I get an error "keyword not supported for 'server'." I googled and it looks like my connection string is not correct. Here [...] read more

Bitwise operations in JavaScript

I know that numbers in JavaScript are stored in IEEE-754 format. But when we use integers, particularly bitwise operators, they're represented as two's complement with 32 bits. So -1 would be 0xFFFFFFFF. But (-1).toString(2) is -1. And -1 >>> 31 is 1, that's right, but -1 >>> 32 must be [...] read more

My two-way trust with selective auth seems to behave opposite to a one-way trust

I'm not sure why I'm the only one running into this, I think it's a larger problem with Server 2012 and RDS protocols... With 2008 machines, you can use utilize a one way trust to authenticate across domains with the TSGateway service, but with 2012 it breaks when running across [...] read more

How to limit ZFS writes on NVME SSD in RAID1 to avoid rapid disk wear?

Currently I'm running Proxmox 5.3-7 on ZFS with few idling debian virtual machines. I'm using two SSDPE2MX450G7 NVME drives in RAID 1. After 245 days of running this setup the S.M.A.R.T values are terrible. SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 27 Celsius Available Spare: 98% [...] read more

Block incoming traffic in bonding mode when primary interface is down

My server running on latest kernel (4.4.6) has configured a bond device (bond0) with two enslaved interfaces eth0, wlan0 with primary interface eth0. cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011) Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: eth0 (primary_reselect always) Currently Active Slave: wlan0 MII Status: up MII [...] read more

Issue installing IE11

I've been using WSUS to roll out IE11, there's a few stranglers that IE11 will not install and I've started looking into. Here's what I've done. 1. Confirmed all prerequisite updates have been done. 2. I'm using the x64 bit package of ie11 and only using x64 servers and workstations. [...] read more

System Account Logon Failures every 30 seconds

We have two Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers running in a SQL failover cluster. On one of them we are getting the following events in the security log every 30 seconds. The parts that are blank are actually blank. Has anyone seen similar issues, or assist in tracking down the [...] read more

How can I get FreeNAS to respond to libvirt shutdown requests

I have a KVM VM of FreeNAS 0.7.1 Shere (revision 5127) running on Ubuntu Server 10.04 and I'm unable to convince the VM to shutdown from the host virsh shutdown freenas I would expect this to send some ACPI? trigger to the VM and FreeNAS then do what it's told. [...] read more

Black screen while installing Debian

I tried installing Debian with a netinstall CD-ROM on my custom-built PC. Everything is going fine until I choose any of the install options because then the screen turns black and I get no graphical feedback at all. The screen itself seems to get information though because it doesn't go [...] read more

firewall-cmd - add-forward-port don't work

I have a KVM server (host) with multiple virtual machines (guests). My goal is my host forward port 222 to port 22 of a guest running an ssh service. This works... iptables -I OUTPUT -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -d 0.0.0.0/0 [...] read more

Error installing IE11 - prerequisite update KB2834140

I'm trying to upgrade Internet Explorer my Windows 7 (x64) development VM from IE8 to IE11. Both the online and offline installers fail with a bland error message: enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dueo.png] The troubleshooter tells me nothing, but the IE11_main.log reveals: 00:04.524: INFO: Download for KB2834140 initiated. Downloading http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=303935 [...] read more

What can trigger a SIGPWR signal that interrupts a 'sendmsg' system call?

On a RHEL 6 host, I have a Cassandra server listening for TCP connections on localhost. In parallel, I have a client application that sends it requests. The client (C# Mono) uses sendmsg to send the serialized bytes. I consistently see the sendmsg return without having sent all requested bytes. [...] read more

What does the "-->" notation mean in the output of ifconfig?

I have a VPN connection set up on my OS X machine, and when I run ifconfig in the terminal I get the following response: utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.8.0.6 --> 10.8.0.5 netmask 0xffffffff Can someone help me understand what the --> symbol means? read more

Sysprepped image will not complete setup

I'm having a problem installing/setting up an image. Background:I've created a Windows 7 Enterprise image (i.e. installed OS, installed applications, configured settings, etc.). Then I sysprepped it and captured/applied it with imagex (onto a computer with identical hardware as the original). When I boot up the new machine, windows starts [...] read more

How to use openvpn for browsing

I'm just starting out with VPN and OpenVPN. What I understand is that I when I have a vpn connection, it's like I'm on the same network as the server. Then I should be able to connect to the server via the local address (10.8.x.x). Next to that I should [...] read more

Something very strange with network

I have Windows 7 and I have very strange thing with my network. Some time I was connected through wireless router and my IP was 192.168.2.103, router's IP was 192.168.2.1 and some other IP was 192.168.2.100. The last I get from page "active DHCP clients" of web interface of the [...] read more

How to understand why an ARM exception happens?

I'm trying understand what is the reason of ARM exception that I encounter. It happens randomly during system startup, and may looks in few different ways. One of simplest is following: 0x8004e810 in ti_sysbios_family_arm_a8_intcps_Hwi_vectors () #0 0x8004e810 in ti_sysbios_family_arm_a8_intcps_Hwi_vectors () #1 0x80002f04 in ti_sysbios_family_arm_exc_Exception_excHandlerDataAsm(int0_t) () at /home/rnd_share/sysbios/bios_6_51_00_15/packages/ti/sysbios/family/arm/exc/Exception_asm_gnu.asm:103 Backtrace stopped: previous [...] read more

Task Scheduler returns 0xFFFFFFFF in Windows 7

I created a Python script that collects data from a website and generates an Excel file based on a table in that website. I used pyinstaller with -w -F parameters to generate a .exe file. I ran this file a few times and it worked perfect so I decided to [...] read more

How to limit speed for every device per MAC address in the gateway via Linux command "tc"?

I have a gateway whose OS is Linux.Assume my downlink bandwidth is 100 Mbps. I want to limit the max download speed to 1Mbps for every device which uses this gateway.In other words, if there are 100 devices, every device can get 1 Mbps bandwidth in theory.I tried doing traffic [...] read more

FreeBSD major update broke vpnc connectivity, incoming ESP traffic doesn't appear unencrypted on interfaces

I updated a FreeBSD box from 10.4 to 11.2-RELEASE-p4 recently and it seems to have broken the vpnc VPN connectivity. Here's the vpnc.conf:IPSec gateway 10.1.0.1 IPSec ID vpnuser IPSec secret su0hoh8liNgeiT8 Xauth username vpnuser Xauth password miuthei3Niew2ee Nat Traversal Mode none Noninteractive Following the interface configuration; em0 is the hardware [...] read more

High Performance AWS EC2 / RDS + Nginx + PHP-FPM setup

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUE We're currently running an application on a PaaS type solution for PHP. Their solution is based on AWS cloud and due to the fact that their plans don't fit our scaling needs, we've decided to migrate to AWS directly the application is performing "well" ~100ms [...] read more

How to debug ip xfrm rules

I created ip xfrm rules on 2 machine and trying to pass traffic through the ipsec tunnel. The packet comes into the other end, encrypted, and disappears. I traced them through iptables, and here is the trace. 2015-11-27T14:50:21.442638+04:30 cfae kernel: [70234.667488] TRACE: raw:PREROUTING:policy:2 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:b7:97:49:00:0c:29:42:5b:e1:08:00 SRC=172.24.1.178 DST=10.60.60.31 LEN=128 TOS=0x00 [...] read more

Same hardware/software, significant difference in performance

Introduction I have two sets of machines, set A and set B, with apparently the same hardware/software configuration, but with a significant difference in performance. Machines in set B are up to x4 faster than machines in set A. However, if I reboot a machine in set A, inexplicably it [...] read more

Iptables u32 matching nat

I'm currently setting up IPtables to redirect certain UDP payloads to my application. Here is an example of what I have working so far: iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p udp -d {IPDST} --dport 27055 -m u32 --u32 '0>>22&0x3C@8=0xFFFFFFFF && 0>>22&0x3C@12=0x54536F75 && 0>>22&0x3C@16=0x72636520 && 0>>22&0x3C@20=0x456E6769 && 0>>22&0x3C@24=0x6E652051 && 0>>22&0x3C@28=0x75657279' -j [...] read more

CentOS reporting lower total memory compared others in AWS

I have a t2.medium instance running in AWS on the CentOS 7 AMI and I noticed in top and free it's basically reporting 3.45GiB of total memory. If I launch an instance with the AWS linux (I think I tried the RedHat one too) it reports about 4GiB of memory. [...] read more

Windows 2008 R2 services not working

EDIT I spawned the Windows events logging service won't start issue to a separate question here I have a strange problem: 1. SQLAGENT won't start 2. Windows events logging service won't start Today I tried to copy a db to test some changes, and discovered that SQL server agent can't [...] read more

Setting up gateway on different subnet than IP address

My provider has a (stupid) setup where the IP address for the gateway is on a totally different IP range than the assigned IP address. They insist on doing this for whatever reason. I'm trying to get Windows Server 2012 R2 configured using a static route but have had no [...] read more

Packets not entering FORWARD chain

first of all, this is not an every-day routing issue. The setup is fairly complex, so let me state it before. I got a router with, lets keep it simple, 3 interfaces. eth0, eth1, eth2. eth2 is used for pppoe. eth0 & eth1 have the clients. Okay so far so [...] read more

HP P410 ADU (hpacucli) generates empty report

I'm trying to monitor hard drive's smart status. I've tried smartctl tools and HP's own hpacucli to generate ADU report. However, neither of them are useful. smartctl does not show values like Power On Hours or Hard drive temperature. ADU report shows them empty. What's the right way to monitor [...] read more

Linux port based routing : reponse packets discarded

I would like to use port-based routing on my Linux local gateway. Here is my network diagram : 192.168.42.148/24 192.168.42.1/24 192.168.44.2 192.168.44.1 +--------------------+ +----------------------------+ +----------+ | Workstation (eth0)-|----------------|-(em0) Local_GW (tun0)-|------------| VPN_GW | +--------------------+ | (rl0) | +----------+ +-------------|--------------+ 10.133.8.79/21 | | 10.133.15.254/21 | +--------------------+ | Provider_GW | +--------------------+ Provider_GW only [...] read more

iptables NAT with multiple interfaces

I have an ubuntu 10 machine I'm trying to set up with NAT. eth0 is the WAN interface, that uses DHCP. eth1, eth2, eth3 are LAN interfaces. They are connected to 192.168.0.50, .51, .52 respectively. NAT through eth1 works great. On eth2/3, I get nothing -- "no route to host" [...] read more

Windows: SSL/TLS connection reset after ClientHello (ECONNRESET / write:errno=10054)

I'm using Windows Server 2012 as a workstation. The problem is that HTTPS connection initiated by node.js randomly fails. Probably this is system-wide issue and not only node is affected, but it appears mostly with node. Because any HTTPS request can randomly fail, npm install is a lottery and for [...] read more

on xeon, does addq require 2 clock cycles?

How many cycles are required to add long ints on a xeon? from timing trials, it appears that 2 clock ticks are needed. /proc/info says model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz sample c code (loop.02.c) unsigned long i, j=0; for(i=0; i<(0xFFFFFFFF);i++) j+=3; assembler code 21:loop.02.c **** for(i=0; [...] read more

Windows 10 drops IKEv2 VPN connection to Cisco router in exactly 60 seconds after last data exchange

Update 3: 22 January 2017 I've narrowed down the update that causes this problem: KB3201845 OS Build 14393.479 from December 9 2016. I went through all these updates step by step. Looking at the changes files manifest, these files have been changed: * agilevpn.sys * vpnike.dll Other topics I've created: [...] read more

Failed MacbookAir boot Linux (Tails) - Kernel panic on boot

I’ve an error with my MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018), version 10.15.1 Boot ROM version : 1037.40.124.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.11081.0.0,0) I try to boot on Tails by a USB key and Apple adaptator Thunderbotl/USB See the log after select Tails boot : (AE_ALREADY_EXISTS) (20190703/psparse-529 [ 0.772994] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_PR.CPU0._PDC [...] read more

Network interface for VPN connection explanation

I'd like to know exactly what is happening when I create a connection with my company's VPN. When I connect (using OpenVPN), I see the following network interface by using ifconfig: utun3: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.8.0.18 --> 10.8.0.17 netmask 0xffffffff This looks different from other network interfaces in that [...] read more

How to slow down traffic with tc?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04; I'd like to learn the basics of traffic shaping, I made a simple script that should slow down my HTTP(S) traffic to ports 80 and 443. # usage: sudo ./filename.sh #delete existing rules # wlan0 is my WiFi tc qdisc del root dev wlan0 iptables -t [...] read more

How do I configure DNS when sharing a VPN connection in linux?

I'm using a Linux computer (raspberry pi) to share a VPN connection over ethernet. I want the raspberry pi to connect to the internet normally (not over the VPN). I'm very close to getting it working, but I don't know how to configure the DNS for the eth1 network. Connection [...] read more

How can I get a Mellanox ConnectX-2 to work on this ASUS desktop motherboard?

People seem to be happy with second-hand Mellanox ConnectX-2s on Linux so I grabbed a pair. Both cards result in an network interface showing up on one computer but neither show up in the other computer. Working computer: * EVGA 120-LF-E650 desktop board * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS * Linux 4.4.0 [...] read more

Enable SCHANNEL Protocols in Windows Registry (Win7 & 2012R2) DisabledByDefault or Enabled?

I have enabled TLS 1.0/1.1/1.2 protocols on my local Win7 machine and 2012R2 server as well as disabled SSL 2.0/3.0 using the registry DWord value DisabledByDefault = 0 based on the following Microsoft support article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/245030(see SCHANNEL\Protocols subkey...) But i noticed another TechNet article which seems to contradict this KB [...] read more

Routing subnet to specific routing table with fwmark, direct to ISP and VPN

Introduction I'm trying to set up a VPN on my router so that I have two routing tables. I want it so that all the filtering is done with iptables, and iproute just acts on the specific fwmarks, ie generic rules. It is an improvement of Routing a particular subnet [...] read more

OS X - GPU Panic

For half a year, I've been experiencing random freezes/reboots on my MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2012 model. My current OS is OS X Yosemite, but I started experiencing the issue in the Mavericks era. The laptop has endured some occasional, unintended slight physical abuse, but nothing very serious. Just mentioning [...] read more

Mac OS X: finder window keeps opening by itself and stealing focus

I have a Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11 here, with an annoying problem. After starting the computer and logging in, the finder keeps stealing focus. You can go back to your working app, but a minute later, it steals focus again. Even as I'm typing this message, I had [...] read more

Computer tends to BSOD crash (in any browser) when using Flash based apps?

About a month ago my computer started experiencing crashes, at first it was just every once in a while, then it escalated to around 5 times a day. Typically it crashes when I access flash-based games and videos, but it has occurred at random, e.g. no sensible correlation between what [...] read more

Flutter - ClipPath

How to create the above custom clipPath widget? (I attached the screenshot) I tried but it's not exact output Clipper class class MessageClipper extends CustomClipper<Path> { final double borderRadius = 15; @override Path getClip(Size size) { double width = size.width; double height = size.height; double rheight = height - height [...] read more

emmc drivers kernel linux crash when it is configured as loadable module

I have make a change to have mmc drivers loadable kernel module but I got a kernel crash when I tried to unload mmc_host_module using rmmod mmc_host_module. NB: I have deactivated CONFIG_MMC_CLKGATE. All insert command work correctly: insmod mmc_core.ko insmod mmc_block.ko insmod sdhci.ko insmod shdci_pltfm.ko insmod mmc_host_module.ko But when I [...] read more

Optimizing global memory load in CUDA

My task : I have two matrices : A - (18 x 4194304) ; B - (18 x 1024). I have to take each 18-length vector from A and compute distance with each 18-length vector from B and find minimum distance and index. My code : __device__ void GetMin(float &dist, [...] read more

Get overflow from arithmetic operations

When doing a math operation, how can I get the part that overflowed? For example, assuming 32-bit ints: unsigned int a = 0Xffffffff; unsigned int b = 0xffffffff; unsigned int c = a + b; In this case, c is 0xfffffffe, but the answer should be 0x1fffffffe. How do I [...] read more

Is there a way to prevent the compiler to mess with inline assembly

So I have this piece of "dumb" mixed C code and ARM assembly int main(int argc, char ** argv) { register int val asm("r0"); register volatile int dummy asm("r2"); register int res asm("r3"); val = atoi(argv[1]); res = 0xfffffff; dummy = 0xffffffff; asm volatile( "cmp r0, #0 \n" "beq edest [...] read more

What's the largest possible Logical Cluster Number (LCN) on an NTFS volume?

By spec, NTFS partitions can have up to 263 - 1 logical clusters. But when I tried to calculate what size drive I'd need to test values greater than 32bits, I ran into a problem. Doing the math, a 4k cluster size with 0xFFFFFFFF + 1 clusters results in 17,592,186,044,416 [...] read more

Enable IPv6 in MariaDB in FreeBSD jail

I'm trying to set up a MariaDB 10.2 Server on a FreeBSD 11.2 Jail. The Server is running and accepts remote connections via IPv4 just fine. According to sockstat, it should also be listening on IPv6: db# sockstat | grep 3306 mysql mysqld 17516 177 tcp46 *:3306 *:* This is [...] read more

Transparent HAproxy on ubuntu (amazon EC2)

I am trying to setup a transparent HAproxy load balancer using ubuntu 18.04 on amazon EC2. I got the HAproxy to work on a non-transparent mode, so now I am trying to add the changes required for the transparent mode, but I am getting 503 Service Unavailable No server is [...] read more

How to get TOR hidden service to work with iptables

I'm running an Arch Linux server which acts as a TOR relay and I would like it to act as a hidden service as well (I want to provide .onion access to my services, I know running a relay next to a HS is not suitable for an anonymous service). [...] read more

How to fix Apache2 w/ suPHP to scan the correct .ini directory?

Apache2 was reading the correct area for php.ini in /etc/php5/apache2 until suPHP was added to the system. Configuring suPHP_ConfigPath in /etc/apache2/mods-available/suphp.conf gets the correct php.ini loaded, but does not correct the directories to be scanned. How, and where, do I fix this so that Apache loads/scans/uses PHP from the original [...] read more

OpenVPN routing between static hosts

I have an OpenVPN server with successful static-key tunnels to two separate hosts - my laptop, and another server elsewhere on the internet. I have connectivity over both OpenVPN tunnels. How do I make it so the server with two tunnels routes traffic across its tunnels? Switching to server mode [...] read more

OpenVPN client connects but can't access internet

I setup an Openvpn server on a centos box and I can get the client to connect (osx) but can't access the internet or even the local network. I thought maybe DNS but couldn't access any sites via IP. Any help would be appreciated. I will list my config files [...] read more

DHCP offer is unicast but DHCPACK is broadcast

My DHCP server broadcast DHCPACK 0xffffffff . it is not working on layer 3 dhcp relay agent . as it can not forward this broadcast message to my client. can any one help me from exactly the broadcast bit set ? should I send any parameter to dhcp server so [...] read more

nslookup fails inside freebsd jail

I posted on the freebsd forums. I've been trying all night and I've made some progress but still I can't connect to the internet from my freebsd jail. Please just give me a hint here. I get the following inside the jail if I do nslookup www.google.com : ;; connection [...] read more

How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server

I have a performance lab running behind a firewall, so none of the machines in the lab has internet access. All machines in the lab are part of a domain with the domain controller also present inside the lab. The problem is that some server's time are drifting heavily. Some [...] read more

Debian not detecting NVMe, ASUS Zenbook UX430UA

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I am trying to upgrade the kernel from 3.10 to 4.19 on an Atmel at91sam9260 system, everything otherwise unchanged. The system has 8 partitions on a NOR flash that work fine on 3.10. Booting into an initramfs on 4.19 followed by mounting the unchanged JFFS2 partitions reveals a lot of [...] read more

PCI Read Error on QNX for PowerPC

My team is developping on an MPC8313 PowerPC Dev Board and we're trying to write a network driver. The network card is a PCIe card connected to a PCIe-to-PCI bridge (PI7C9X111SL). The pci utility detects the card and can read and write the PCI config space. The problem is when [...] read more

Replacing an ssd on notebook (asus N501VW)

I'm finally running out of space on a 128GB ssd on a notebook (N501VW) and am thinking of replacing it with a larger, 500GB, drive. The setup: * 1 notebook (N501VW) running Win 10 (x64) * 3 drives (128GB ssd (M2) (C:), 1TB hdd (D:), 500GB ssd (M2)) 128GB: C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil [...] read more

Why isn't my forced MAC address change working (Raspberry Pi)?

I'm working with Raspberry Pi Zeros on a subnet. I bought external Ethernet adapters for each one to connect them to one another. Unfortunately, these ethernet adapters all came with the exact same MAC addresses, making communication between the Pis near impossible. Because of that I've tried forcing a change [...] read more

System hang and black screen BugCheckCode 278 and BugCheckCode 0

For past two days the system would hang up or enter black screen and won't restart right away (after pressing restart button) but at one instant it generated Blue Screen (BugCheck Code 278). This issue has been occurring only during gaming(for one game during loading screen for other mid game [...] read more

Dell desktop falls asleep in a couple minutes, ignores power/screen saver settings

My parents' Dell Inspiron tower goes to sleep within ~3 minutes of inactivity, despite every power setting in Windows (screen saver, turn off screen, go to sleep, turn off hard-disk, etc.) either turned off or set to 60 minutes. This answer claims that Dell has been known to bundle their [...] read more

Windows 10 Explorer crashes when opening "new" context menu, need help deciphering dump file

As the title says, whenever I attempt to open the "new" sub-menu of the right click context menu in Windows 10 explorer locks up and then crashes a few moments later. This issue only appeared in the last couple days and I suspect it is a result of the Creator's [...] read more

Two openvpn connections: one with redirect-gateway and a second one for private network

I have a personal VPN that I use as a default gateway for all Internet traffic when I'm on the road. This works great and I have no problem. I also have a work VPN, which I need to connect to reach machines on their private network. What I want [...] read more

different speed ssd partitions

I have Samsung NVMe SSD 960EVO 250GB disk and it gives me some weird result when testing read speed using hdparm -tT. Speeds before trim /dev/nvme0n1: Timing cached reads: 24486 MB in 2.00 seconds = 12256.70 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 5502 MB in 3.00 seconds = 1832.95 MB/sec jkalmar@supercomp:~> [...] read more

Kworker thread has high CPU usage

I have a kworker thread with high cpu usage, which is causing my touchscreen to be very lag-y and unresponsive. Running a beaglebone with Debian. uname -r 4.1.15-ti-rt-r43 pid user pr ni virt res shr s %cpu %mem time+ command 90 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 34.7 0.0 [...] read more

HP Proliant getting down with Critical error LED Blinking - what then?

After a few hours of correctling working, our proliant Server stop calculus with the System Healt LED 12 blinking, which according to the documentation ( http://h20628.www2.hp.com/km-ext/kmcsdirect/emr_na-c01706108-8.pdf ) is the sign of a "Critical system failure detected (processor, memory, regulator, thermal event, fan, NMI)" (page 96). SSH is then lost. We [...] read more

PPTP error 619 when accessed externally

I set up a PPTPD server on Arch Linux. If I connect to the VPN using the server's local IP (192.168.1.107), it works, but if I connect to the VPN using the external IP address, then the client results in error 619. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Output of [...] read more

Postfix SMTP SSL config: Can't send email but can receive it with SSL

I am trying to finish configuring my postfix/dovecot mail server that sits behind my home's router/firewall. I'm on Mint/Ubuntu 12.04. I'm close. I can connect/retrieve emails via SSL but can only send email from a client when not using SSL, just username/password. If I attempt an SSL connection with the [...] read more

Recieved BSOD after restart

When i start my laptop i get this error "DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION" i really donyt know what is the issue... can some one help.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUMP FILE Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.3.9600.17336 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [I:\121115-55411-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and [...] read more

Windows 8.1 dual-boot with openSUSE boot failure

I already have Windows 8.1 on my newly built PC and wanted to dual-boot with openSUSE. I wrote the install image to a USB, but the install kept hanging so I used network install (also written to a bootable USB). Before install I created a separate 100 GB partition on [...] read more

Suspend does not work on Debian Jessie

Today I observed that suspend sometimes does not work properly in freshly installed Debian Jessie. After executing suspend (Alt + Shut Down button) the following message appears on black screen: Loading, please wait... The syslog is as follows. I kindly as for any suggestions. Jul 12 18:53:10 svarog kernel: [ [...] read more

pm-hibernate does not turn off system

I'm trying to make pm-hibernate to work on my Ubuntu 14.04 system. When I invoke sudo pm-hibernate display turns off and I can't do anything anymore but computer does not turn off. All I have found in logs is: Mar 17 21:40:25 dmitry-pc kernel: [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [...] read more

Mono is crashing on MAC OS X with Keepass 2.23

Mono is crashing on MAC OS X (10.8.4) with Keepass 2.23 while accessing password database. Using keepasshttp with firefox. Any workaround for this ? =========================================================== Process: mono-sgen [7586] Path: /usr/bin/mono Identifier: mono-sgen Version: ??? Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: bash [7194] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2013-08-15 13:34:28.515 +0530 OS [...] read more

Why can't I connect to an AFP server over VPN on OS X 10.8

I have set up a VPN connection on my MacBook Pro OS X 10.8.5 laptop, to my office network so I can access my AFP file server from home. The VPN connection appears to be working correctly. The Status reads Connected and I am getting both a connect time and [...] read more

Bluetooth / Bluez: No reply to ping over bnepX interface

I have trialed to use Network, NAP profiles on Bluetooth. On Host, xUbuntu 13.04 I have followed as here. This Host or XUbuntu machine is behind proxy & runs on virtual machine. It is installed with Bluetooth version 4.101 On embedded board, ping 173.194.112.211 responds as below: PING 173.194.112.211 (173.194.112.211) [...] read more

command to write to physicaldrive?

I have a bat file that we use to write meaningless data to a harddisk. But I dont know what exactly it means... Here is the command: dtlite2 of=\\.\physicaldrive1 bs=256k limit=200m passes=1000 disable=cache pat_part1=0xffffffff pat_part2=0xffffffff pat_part3=0x0 pat_part4=0x0 dlimit=2048 platform is windows. This is run from a bat file. read more

Laptop computer grahpic opens and loads slowly

So i have this laptop whenever i open a folder, close a folder, or do anything graphical it runs slowly. and when i say slow i mean you can actually SEE in slowmo the animation running. Say for instance you want to open a folder. you can see the full [...] read more

Wine crashes when trying to run portable version of Firefox

I think there is something wrong with my Wine setup, but I don't know how to fix it or even what it is. Others have gotten this program to work without problems in Wine. This is the console output that I get from Wine before it crashes. > fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! [...] read more

OSX Panic about once a week

I am running OSX 10.6.6 and I this is the second kernel panic in 2 weeks. Here is the log that gets sent to Apple. Help! Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: [...] read more

xorg.conf: Why does this have no effect?

Here is my xorg.conf file. The problem is that my resolution setting 1600x900 is getting ignored. The resolution keeps popping to 1280x1024 Edit The resolution comes up as 640x480 after unplugging the physical monitor. When my file gets ignored, the system seems to read my monitor to find it's capabilities [...] read more

PCI error handler in kernel driver never called, even when device is turned off

I'm writing a linux kernel device driver for a custom PCIe device. An user space application is mmapped to this device and frequently accessing its memory (read and write). The PCIe device is driven by an external power supply which may be turned off during runtime. Whenever the device is [...] read more

Conveyor with Flutter - Handshake error when running .net web app locally

I am using Conveyor (a Visual Studio 2019 extension) to have my ASP.NET Core available to android emulators. This has worked perfectly up until now. I have developed Xamarin apps, UWP apps and used it before for a native Android app at which this works fine. But on the current [...] read more

Firebase Dynamic Link doesn't load the right route in Flutter (Android)

I have a problem with Dynamic Links (Fireabase) to load the right route when clicking an url. 1. I setup a link Review /review in Firebase Dynamic Links 2. I added SHA 1 and SHA 256 codes to the Android App 3. The app starts well and it also tracks [...] read more

How to create nested Navigation in Flutter?

Basically there will be a main "part" in my App after logging in which only contains a custom Bottom Navigation Bar for now. Now, there are multiple Navigation Items in it, which should display different screens for every one of them like home_screen, map_screen, search_screen and so on, which then [...] read more

C - CRC32 checksum does not match Wireshark on Ethernet Frame Check Sequence

I'm using an online CRC-32 calculator to check that my output is correct however it seems that Wireshark has a different expected FCS for the ethernet packet. message2 is the ethernet frame minus the FCS as seen in Wireshark #include <stdio.h> #include <stdint.h> unsigned int crc32b(unsigned char *message) { int [...] read more

How to intercept special IEEE 802.15.4 frames on OpenThread?

I'm new to openthread and got a minimal Thread network running on two Makerdiary USB dongles based on nRF52840. Now I'd like to intercept special IEEE 802.15.4 frames and process them separately, e.g. from an energy harvesting switch. The MAC header looks like this: * Frame Control: 0x0801 (use short [...] read more

How to invoke platform specific driver in host machine?

I am writing a dummy PHY driver as a LKM. This is a platform driver and I can't call the driver probe since it depends on the compatible string. How can I make my driver invoke probe in my host machine, which is running Ubuntu 18.04, kernel version - 5.3.0-40-generic. [...] read more

OpenCV tutorial problems

I am doing a few basic tutorial on OpenCV. However on this: " https://docs.opencv.org/master/d4/d14/tutorial_windows_visual_studio_image_watch.html " tutorial I am running into problems. Here is my code: #include <opencv2/opencv.hpp> using namespace cv; int main(int argc, char** argv) { char* imageName = argv[1]; Mat image; image = imread(imageName, IMREAD_COLOR); if (argc != 2 [...] read more

Why does my ESP32 keep on reseting after startup?

I have wired up my ESP32 and after I power it, it keeps on restarting with the message: rst:0x10 (RTCWDT_RTC_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT) configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00 mode:DIO, clock div:1 load:0x3fff0018,len:4 load:0x3fff001c,len:812 load:0xffffffff,len:-1 ets Jun 8 2016 00:22:57 rst:0x10 (RTCWDT_RTC_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT) configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00 mode:DIO, clock div:1 load:0x3fff0018,len:4 load:0x3fff001c,len:812 load:0xffffffff,len:-1 ets [...] read more

Cocos2dx Collision : onContactBegin fired but collision check condition fail always

I have 3 Objects in game. Falling Ball, Upward moving Steps, Coins Now no problem with game play, I need steps and ball collision place to add sound effects.now onContactBegin fired twice for ball and steps collision. Once contact begin onContactBegin fired, also once it loose contact then onContactBegin fired [...] read more

How to activate OpenGL 3.3 core profile in lvvmpipe software renderer?

I have a Linux system with Mesa3D and llvmpipe software driver. glxinfo reports Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer): Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff) Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 9.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff) Version: 19.2.8 Accelerated: no Video memory: 65482MB Unified memory: no Preferred profile: core (0x1) Max core profile version: 3.3 Max compat profile [...] read more

How do i convert RGB color to hexadecimal in Java

I've searched everywhere, but i couldn't find a suiting solution. I have a RGB color that i want to convert to this format: 0xffffffff Many answers convert it to this format: #ffffff Does anyone know how to convert it to this format (0xffffffff)? EDIT: Solved! I actually needed a int [...] read more

Is bitset the right container to manipulate big data then move the results into memory?

I am trying to generate a 512bit pattern where the word 0xdeadbeef keeps rotating (shifted left by one) across the 512bits, each time I want to right the data to memory. Baiscally, 0xffffffff.......deadbeefffffffff (512 bits total). Keep shifting the deadbeef part by one and after each time write the whole [...] read more

Operation timed out,python,CVE-2009-2629

In my opinion, it just has a default timeout, so it turns off after 860 seconds. This is my code: # # exploit by brainsmoke # # nginx 0.6.32-2 i386 (Debian) # # Based on Aaron Conole's exploit: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14830/ # import sys, socket, select, time host, port, = sys.argv[1:3] uri_data, [...] read more

Expand AnimatedContainer to its child

I've got an AnimatedContainer which is able to change its height by an Inkwell with onTap. The reason is that the Container should show all TextSpans of RichText. My problem is that I have no idea how to get the height of the onTap flexible. If I add more TextSpans [...] read more

What does the `generateRandomNumber void` call in Pyfingerprint do?

i am trying to develop a fingerprint application in python. i'm storing fingerprints in database as strings. Like > storedPrint = "fb04e6cd868bd1fc265a69ef490deb0e5657d090f2bc249ad18886aa103ec717" i'm using pyfinger in my project. It is successful but it's compare of read finger is slow. pyfinger print has generaterandomnumber void . what does that void do? [...] read more

Cocos2d-x with Physics Editor - EventListenerPhysicsContact not fired

If I force reset CategoryBitmask and CollisionBitmask in code then contact listener fired. Why not its not work with physics editor…what’s my mistake with physics editor setup ? Hero, Coins, Bomb - 3 Objects. here Hero must collide with Coins and Bomb. Here is Code to force set: PhysicsShapeCache *shapeCache [...] read more

Display colors from an array list in second activity's background = app crash (log provided)

I'm new at this and any help is appreciated! -=) I have colors in an array list that are chosen in the settings activity using checkboxes. I want these to be displayed in the sequence activity's background in a loop. The colors are from the "colors.xml" values. Currently the app [...] read more

Camera2api How to solve ? E/BufferQueueProducer: dequeueBuffer: attempting to exceed the max dequeued buffer count (4)

I am using Samsung-A10 with sdk 28 I am trying to take images using the camera2api but always after collecting 14 frames I get I/com.oculid.daq: NativeAlloc concurrent copying GC freed 3481(447KB) AllocSpace objects, 33(1580KB) LOS objects, 49% free, 3MB/7MB, paused 149us total 174.997ms D/NetworkManagementSocketTagger: tagSocket(92) with statsTag=0xffffffff, statsUid=-1 D/NetworkManagementSocketTagger: tagSocket(100) [...] read more

Image doesn't fill its parent

I tried to load image as decoration for parent container but had the same result. I also couldn't find a way to load svg to decoration, so I stopped at Stack. Here is my code: class MainPageViewItem extends StatelessWidget { final mainPageViewItem; MainPageViewItem(this.mainPageViewItem); @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return Container( [...] read more

FormatException: Invalid radix-16 number (at character 1)

I was able to pinpoint the issue to this function, but I'm unsure of how to fix it. Color colorLuminance(String hex, double lum){ // Verifying & extending hex length if (hex.length < 6) { hex = hex[0]+hex[0]+hex[1]+hex[1]+hex[2]+hex[2]; } // Convert to decimal and change luminosity var rgb = "", i; [...] read more

Flutter : raised button width issue

I have issue with raised button on flutter, my codes ran without error but visually the raised button have background and taking too much width, I want get rid of it. This is the code: Widget _loginButton() { return Column( children: <Widget>[ RaisedButton( child: Container( child: Text( 'SUBMIT', style: TextStyle( [...] read more

State not update when PageView change current position

I'm new member in Flutter. I create a PageView and when page change position I need update text. Here is my code : import 'dart:math'; import 'package:flutter/material.dart'; void main() => runApp(new MyApp()); class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return MaterialApp( title: 'Flutter Demo', theme: ThemeData( primarySwatch: [...] read more

Duration is speed up 10 times

I am encountering a very strange issue with Duration in my welcome screen in two occasions. First, I placed the icon with AvatarGlow and I set: duration: const Duration(seconds: 5) Second, I am using delayed animations to build up the welcome screen: DelayedAnimation( child: Row( mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center, children: <Widget>[ ], [...] read more

Android changing background color from different activity

I'm trying to change the backgroud color of my main activity. From the menu, I select settings and brings me into another activity with settings. When I click on my checkbox to change the backgroud, it crashes. I'm trying to change the backgroud of the main activity view. LinearLayout is [...] read more

Failed attaching debugger to local docker linux container from visual studio 2019

So I have simple hello world .net core application setup on my local machine running on docker container using docker-compose The problem is when I tried to attach debugger from vs2019 using Debug -> Attach to Process -> ConnectionType Docker(Linux Container) -> select the process and hit attach. I got [...] read more

Can eBPF's perf_submit() be used in a socket_filter program as well?

So I was trying to send some data from the kernel space program to the user space program using perf_submit. I've done some studies and here(https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/2423), yonghong-song answered(the last comment) that a socket_filter program can not access bpf_perf_event_output helper and therefore it can only be used for tracing program types. [...] read more

Clion compiler error. not sure how to fix or what ive done wrong

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/JetBrains/CLion 2019.2.4/bin/cmake/win/share/cmake-3.15/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:60 (message): The C compiler "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.24.28314/bin/Hostx86/x86/cl.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program. It fails with the following output: Change Dir: C:/Users/Connor/CLionProjects/untitled6/cmake-build-debug/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp Run Build Command(s):nmake /nologo cmTC_5b714\fast && "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.24.28314\bin\HostX86\x86\nmake.exe" -f CMakeFiles\cmTC_5b714.dir\build.make /nologo -L CMakeFiles\cmTC_5b714.dir\build Building [...] read more

C Programming Registers Structure

Trying to create a registers structure on a 64 bit machine and extract it. There are 7 registers in total, 2 registers are 4 bits while 3 registers are 8 bits and last 2 are 16 bits. How would I be able to create a registers structure and extract it. [...] read more

Mono csharp AOT Optimizations

I am starting to learn C#, coming from a C++ background. I wanted to learn about the C# memory model and compare it to that of C++. In doing so I found the article The C# Memory Model in Theory and in Practice. So far, nothing is that surprising, but [...] read more

How can I create custom endpoint with post and get methods on wordpress api

I'm trying to make a custom endpoint, for example: https://localhostname.com/wp-json/company_name/settings Where I'll keep some settings like theme colors and other things, but it seems there are many ways to do that and I just want the simplest way. All the searching on the web is making me really confused. So [...] read more

Antialiased backbuffer flickering in DX9

im trying to render transparent grey scene as a death indicator and im having a trouble with flickering only when multisampling is enabled! I tried to load texture from a file instead of having it raw like it is right now and i also tried different swap effects and different [...] read more

is signed type suppose to be 32-bit?

I am testing on C data size with following program #include <stdio.h> #define MAXOF(n) (typeof(n))(-1) #define hexfmt "%#lx" #define printtype(n) \ {\ n _a; \ printf("%25s \t(%d bytes)\t " hexfmt "\n",#n,sizeof(n), MAXOF(_a) );\ } int main(int argc, char const *argv[]) { printtype(signed char); printtype(unsigned char); printtype(signed short); printtype(unsigned short); printtype(signed [...] read more

How to split a dataset into a train and test dataset using hashcode method

I am following the code of the Hands on Machine learning with Sci-kit learn and tensorflow 2nd edition. In the creating train and test dataset section they followed this procedure to create the training and testing dataset as follows: from zlib import crc32 def test_set_check(identifier, test_ratio): return crc32(np.int64(identifier)) & 0xffffffff [...] read more

MySQL not starting on AMPPS 3.8 on iMac/OS X

I am running AMPPS 3.8 on OS X (Mojave v10.14) After my HD unexpectedly died, I replaced the HD and reloaded my latest backup. MySQL does not load/run in AMMPPS :( My expectation was that the AMPPS would work as expected (Apache/php 7.1/MySQL would all run per usual). In attempting [...] read more

How to send String List to TabBar pages flutter

I made a json request on my main page. It returns a list of values. I want to send these values to one of my tabBar pages. I have little idea how to go about it guys. TabOptions.dart class Choice { final String title; final IconData icon; const Choice({this.title, this.icon}); [...] read more

Delete from a derived table in SQL Server?

I am studying the query in the answer of the post IN operator in SQL Statement Does not work?, as below: DELETE t FROM (SELECT t.*, ROW_NUMBER(*) OVER (PARTITION BY P ORDER BY ABS((P & 0xFFFFFFFF) * 256 - F) as seqnum FROM MyTable t ) t WHERE seqnum > [...] read more

IN operator in SQL Statement Does not work?

In SQL Server, I have a table MyTable, with the following 3 columns, P(bigint), F(bigint), D(bigint). Now what I need to do is to group all records by same P value, then in each group, calculate the following value: V = ABS((P & 0xFFFFFFFF) * 256 - F) for each [...] read more

Animate linear gradient on shader mask

Hi I'm using a linear gradient within a shader mask to apply a gradient to an Icon code below: child: LinearGradientMask( colors: [Color(0xFF21A9E4), Color(0xFF6152E7)], child: Icon( Icons.power_settings_new, size: 90, color: Color(0xFFFFFFFF), ), ) class LinearGradientMask extends StatelessWidget { LinearGradientMask({this.child, this.colors}); final Widget child; final List<Color> colors; @override Widget build(BuildContext context) [...] read more

Flutter - change color on another button tap

I have 5x5 grid of 5xTableRow -> 5xFittedBox. With the tap on the top right button, I want it to shuffle colors that are described in an array (see image). Array of boxes [https://i.stack.imgur.com/x3COQ.png] I tried with the "OnChanged" and "onPressed", but the problem is I don't know how to [...] read more

How to retrieve data from firebase into RecyclerviewView based on boolean condition

I want to retrieve data from firebase. i am storing those data into firebase recyclerview adapter. now i have requirement that all the data should be sorted based on boolean value. for example all true value fields come first and false value should come once true data finished. like in [...] read more

Striped down kernel take long time to load on Raspberry Pi 4

I'm just trying to customize the kernel configuration for Raspberry Pi 4B, to achieve a compact system image and quick startup, but as we can see in the logs there's approximate ~4.0s to start executing my 4.2MB kernel. * Logs: 23:20:06.198 -> 23:20:06.198 -> PM_RSTS: 0x00001000 23:20:06.198 -> RPi: BOOTLOADER [...] read more

How to get the seed according to the MT19937 array in python's random module?

I use the random.seed() to set a seed for random module, for example: >>> import random >>> random.seed(123456) Then i use random.getstate() to get the MT19937 array, it should be 624 32-bit integers: >>> MT = random.getstate()[1][:-1] >>> len(MT) 624 But when i check the value of these 624 numbers, [...] read more

Can't upload picture to controller (FormFile, ASP .NET)

I am develop gallery application and need to upload files, but can't do this. When i take image and press Sumbit, my program closes and give me exit code -1 (0xffffffff).I take a break point on my controller and i see that it did not call. Later i try again [...] read more

How to change only the back arrow in toolbar?

I'm using getSupportedActionBar().setTitle("This Phone"); I have managed to change the title color to white by using Toolbar.setTitleTextColor(0xFFFFFFFF); How do I change the back arrow key color to white too? read more

facing problem when running MQTT and HTTP praralelly in BG96

I have using BG96 with ESP32 on UART2. I am using an HTTP connection, during HTTP I also want to receive MQTT data. But during HTTP data if the publish some message, it stuck and reboots. the log here. BG><../main/lte_lib.c><6218><lte_http_read_ota>HTTP RAW DATA:**OK**** +QMTRECV: 1,0,"device/bc-dd-c2-d3-de-7c/bc-dd-c2-d3-01/16576/desired"," {** "OUTSIDE_COMM_CODE":** {** "Opcode 1":"0x0E",** "Opcode [...] read more

How to display number of fragment in a listview item?

I am lot wasting my time to search & create some code to development, but not find any solution, I am newer in android. Please help me. I got following error > Binary XML file line #15: Duplicate id 0x7f07002e, tag 0, or parent id 0xffffffff with another fragment for [...] read more

CLion cannot compile simple test program with Visual Studio

- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.16.27035.0 -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.16.27035.0 -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe -- broken CMake Error at C:/Program Files/JetBrains/CLion 2019.1.3/bin/cmake/win/share/cmake-3.14/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:60 (message): The C compiler [...] read more

STM32F411RE UART not working with IAR debugger

I am currently learning to work with stm32f411re. I use PA9/10 as TX and RX with baud rate 9600 and 1 start 8 bit word and 1 stop without parity. I connected PA9/PA10 with FTDI to my PC and i am trying to send from serial terminal. Trying to do [...] read more

Fragment facing issues with print adapter

I have a program where I have to print a lot of documents, sometimes up to 300 pages. What I am doing is creating a custom document and printing it using an adapter. But when I call the fragment the print intent is called twice and one overlaps the other [...] read more

Viewing the exact memory range that a linker 'uses' for a executable binary

I am doing a bit of OSdev, and I've been trying to implement memory management in my kernel. I have started off with a physical memory manager (this is a 32 bit OS). The idea is to keep a table of bits where we allocate a bit per 4K physical [...] read more

Expand or any other flex widget inside a ListView item

I am having problems getting my layout right... I need a somewhat advanced item in my ListView. If you see this screenshot:enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dq9Bz.png] My intention was to have the background image (lowest/first item in the stack) to stretch and fill the entire height, and the blue in [...] read more

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I have a ListView with dynamic content where I would like every item to have dynamic height based on their content, but if I do not set a fixed height of every item I get the error > package:flutter/src/rendering/sliver_multi_box_adaptor.dart': Failed assertion: line 549 pos 12: 'child.hasSize': is not true. Here [...] read more

Is it possible to calculate authentication key within the IPsec/L2TP tunnel?

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I'm seeking help for this issue that I'm having in our AD domain controller where a lot of security events are being logged due to failed logon attempts by a (former) domain user that has been disabled and subsequently deleted. I'm trying to pin-point the origin of these attempts but [...] read more

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I'm trying to redirect all the browser's requests from my wifi interface wlan1 to a captive portal. I have a node web server running on my target on 10.4.30.34:4040. It has to redirect the browser directly to the web server, on the good port, like I entered "10.4.30.34:4040" in the [...] read more

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This is my php sample script: <?php try{ $db=new PDO('mysql:dbname=_mydb;host=localhost', 'root', 'xxxxxx'); }catch(PDOException $e) { echo "Error: ".$e->getMessage(); } ?> And I have returned: could not find driver Also: user@nbook:~$ php -i|grep PDO PDO PDO support => enabled PDO drivers => mysql PDO Driver for MySQL => enabled This is [...] read more

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I am trying to bulid an lvs system, where 202.141.81.239 is the virtual IP and 202.141.81.241 and 202.141.81.242 are the lvs routers.Ths system is working fine in our intranet but is not through internet. The following is my iptables configuration # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Tue Mar 25 12:30:26 [...] read more

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I cannot sucessfully connect to my smtp server from my mail client. I am getting the following errors in my /var/log/mail.log file Dec 21 15:08:04 pareto postfix/smtpd[11101]: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data Dec 21 15:08:04 pareto postfix/smtpd[11101]: read from B96D2180 [B96C1EB3] (5 bytes => -1 (0xFFFFFFFF)) Dec 21 15:08:04 pareto postfix/smtpd[11101]: read [...] read more

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I'm trying to run a BAT script from Task Scheduler in Windows 2008 R2 and it runs for 3 seconds and then stops. It says it successfully completes but I know it doesn't. I can run this script from the command line directly, and it runs just fine. The bat [...] read more