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25,592 | 2 | null | 22,764 | 3 | null | OK, my joking answer didn't go down so well.
[This mailing list question, with answer from Matz](http://www.nabble.com/String-upcase-downcase-with-UTF-8-strings-in-Ruby-1.9-td18372062.html) indicates that Ruby 1.9's built in `String#upcase` and `String#downcase` methods will only handle ASCII characters.
Without test... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:47:49.070 | 2008-08-25T02:47:49.070 | null | null | 234 | null |
25,583 | 2 | null | 25,552 | 42 | null | I think the best method out there is to implement the [SIGAR API by Hyperic](https://github.com/hyperic/sigar). It works for most of the major operating systems ( darn near anything modern ) and is very easy to work with. The developer(s) are very responsive on their forum and mailing lists. I also like that it is ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T02:36:04.963 | 2017-09-27T19:24:20.887 | 2017-09-27T19:24:20.887 | 77,887 | 828 | null |
25,597 | 2 | null | 25,561 | 3 | null | After reviewing your question and the answers given, I came up with this:
```
RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.None;
Regex regex = new Regex(@"([ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTVXYZ0123456789]{8})", options);
string input = @"H3Y5NC8E-TGA5B6SB-2NVAQ4E0";
MatchCollection matches = regex.Matches(input);
for (int i = 0; i != match... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:53:26.793 | 2008-08-25T03:51:21.193 | 2008-08-25T03:51:21.193 | 1,117 | 1,117 | null |
25,596 | 2 | null | 25,552 | 209 | null | You can get some limited memory information from the Runtime class. It really isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I thought I would provide it for the sake of completeness. Here is a small example. Edit: You can also get disk usage information from the java.io.File class. The disk space usage stuff requires Jav... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T02:53:21.287 | 2014-01-10T19:34:10.053 | 2014-01-10T19:34:10.053 | 2,405 | 2,405 | null |
25,561 | 1 | 25,622 | null | 3 | 7,073 | I am attempting to parse a string like the following using a .NET regular expression:
```
H3Y5NC8E-TGA5B6SB-2NVAQ4E0
```
and return the following using Split:
H3Y5NC8E
TGA5B6SB
2NVAQ4E0
I validate each character against a specific character set (note that the letters 'I', 'O', 'U' & 'W' are absent), so ... | Capturing a repeated group | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T01:59:45.020 | 2011-11-19T01:20:58.360 | 2011-11-19T01:20:58.360 | 419 | 2,754 | [
"regex",
".net-2.0"
] |
25,595 | 2 | null | 25,561 | 0 | null | What are the defining characteristics of a valid block? We'd need to know that in order to really be helpful.
My generic suggestion, validate the charset in a first step, then split and parse in a seperate method based on what you expect. If this is in a web site/app then you can use the ASP Regex validation on the f... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:51:18.920 | 2008-08-25T02:51:18.920 | null | null | 149 | null |
25,601 | 2 | null | 25,561 | 0 | null | If you're just checking the value of the group, with group(i).value, then you will only get the last one. However, if you want to enumerate over all the times that group was captured, use group(2).captures(i).value, as shown below.
```
system.text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match("H3Y5NC8E-TGA5B6SB-2NVAQ4E0","(([ABCD... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:57:23.727 | 2008-08-25T02:57:23.727 | null | null | 1,862 | null |
25,591 | 2 | null | 25,561 | 0 | null | You can use this pattern:
```
Regex.Split("H3Y5NC8E-TGA5B6SB-2NVAQ4E0", "([ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTVXYZ0123456789]{8}+)-?")
```
But you will need to filter out empty strings from resulting array.
Citation from [MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8yttk7sy.aspx):
> If multiple matches are adjacent to one another... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:44:24.567 | 2008-08-25T03:24:05.813 | 2008-08-25T03:24:05.830 | 1,196 | 1,196 | null |
25,598 | 2 | null | 24,451 | 15 | null | `#ifdef TONGUE_IN_CHEEK`
Perl has a `goto` that allows you to implement poor-man's tail calls. :-P
```
sub factorial {
my ($n, $acc) = (@_, 1);
return $acc if $n < 1;
@_ = ($n - 1, $acc * $n);
goto &factorial;
}
```
`#endif`
Okay, so that has nothing to do with C's `goto`. More seriously, I agree w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:53:37.603 | 2008-08-25T02:53:37.603 | null | null | 13 | null |
25,550 | 1 | 25,631 | null | 4 | 11,370 | We get a large amount of data from our clients in pdf files in varying formats [layout-wise], these files are typically report output, and are typically properly annotated [they don't usually need OCR], but not formatted well enough that simply copying several hundred pages of text out of acrobat is not going to work.
... | What's the best way to import/read data from pdf files? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T01:49:22.250 | 2011-01-16T22:13:07.523 | null | null | 2,775 | [
"pdf",
"import"
] |
25,600 | 2 | null | 17,194 | 2 | null | The trick is to do a FULL JOIN, with ISNULL's to get the joined columns from either table. I usually wrap this into a view or derived table, otherwise you need to use ISNULL in the WHERE clause as well.
```
SELECT
Program,
Month,
ThisYearTotalRevenue,
PriorYearTotalRevenue
FROM (
SELECT
I... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:57:03.663 | 2008-08-25T02:57:03.663 | null | null | 2,199 | null |
25,602 | 2 | null | 25,561 | 0 | null | Mike,
You can use character set of your choice inside character group. All you need is to add "+" modifier to capture all groups. See my previous answer, just change [A-Z0-9] to whatever you need (i.e. [ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTVXYZ0123456789])
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:57:40.480 | 2008-08-25T02:57:40.480 | null | null | 1,196 | null |
25,603 | 2 | null | 25,396 | 2 | null | I'd guess (since I don't have IIS7 handy ATM) that you'd need to turn off Anonomyous Auth, and enable Forms Auth in the IIS7 sections.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T02:58:58.027 | 2008-08-25T02:58:58.027 | null | null | 2,199 | null |
25,612 | 2 | null | 22,503 | 0 | null | Unless your 2nd dropdown is in a databound control (say, a Repeater) - I'm not sure what you're trying to bind SelectedValue to. Apparently, neither is .NET - since that's probably where the error is occurring.
Where's Connect_ToProjectId supposed to come from?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:09:01.967 | 2008-08-25T03:09:01.967 | null | null | 2,199 | null |
25,611 | 2 | null | 20,376 | 1 | null | YUI also provides a [profiler](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/profiler/).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:08:44.727 | 2008-08-25T03:08:44.727 | null | null | 1,654 | null |
25,606 | 2 | null | 16,747 | 26 | null | Take a look at the [JQuery Validation plugin](http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/) this plugin is amazing,it's clean to implement and has all the features you could ever need, including remote validation via AJAX.
Also a sample MVC controller method can be found [here](http://httpcode.com/bl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:04:28.937 | 2008-08-25T03:04:28.937 | null | null | 2,758 | null |
25,617 | 2 | null | 696 | 1 | null | Indeed, a webservice seems like a great way to solve the problem. One way to avoid having a completely separate OS for it would be to write the webservice in Java on top of the AS400 tools for Java (which are quite nice, btw). That should at least let you run your service layer on the OpenBSD box as well.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:20:53.200 | 2008-08-25T03:20:53.200 | null | null | 1,432 | null |
25,618 | 2 | null | 25,566 | 0 | null | I think that if you do lots of copying then you can get a "reasonable" brute force search (N!) to take N^2 time per case giving N!*N^2
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:23:09.280 | 2008-08-25T03:23:09.280 | null | null | 1,343 | null |
25,610 | 2 | null | 22,764 | 1 | null | > I would love to see
```
my_proc = λ { |...| ... }
x ∈ my_enumerable # same as my_enumerable.include?(x)
my_infinite_range = (1..∞)
return 'foo' if x ≠ y
2.21 ≈ 2.2
```
I would love to see someone trying to type that program on an English keyboard :P
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:07:52.077 | 2008-08-25T03:07:52.077 | null | null | 2,148 | null |
25,613 | 2 | null | 20,675 | 18 | null | And, the most important difference (IME, at least)....is that CInt [overflows at 32,767](http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art18651.asp).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:11:03.490 | 2008-08-25T03:11:03.490 | null | null | 2,199 | null |
25,628 | 2 | null | 25,546 | 0 | null | Have you tried the award-winning [rsyncrypto](http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsyncrypto)?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:41:36.520 | 2008-08-25T03:41:36.520 | null | null | 573 | null |
25,622 | 2 | null | 25,561 | 4 | null | I have discovered the answer I was after. Here is my working code:
```
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string pattern = @"^\s*((?<group>[ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTVXYZ0123456789]{8})-?){3}\s*$";
string input = "H3Y5NC8E-TGA5B6SB-2NVAQ4E0";
Regex re = new Regex(pattern);
Match m = re.Match... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:33:47.303 | 2008-08-25T03:33:47.303 | null | null | 2,754 | null |
25,637 | 1 | 25,644 | null | 71 | 106,167 | Is there a way to shutdown a computer using a built-in Java method?
| Shutting down a computer | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:01:40.920 | 2022-08-31T13:44:50.710 | 2014-06-04T10:15:25.217 | 1,584,106 | 2,598 | [
"java",
"cross-platform",
"shutdown"
] |
25,631 | 2 | null | 25,550 | 3 | null | We use [Xpdf](http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html) in one of our applications. Its a c++ library which is primarily used for pdf rendering, although it does have a text extractor which could be useful for this project.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:48:40.640 | 2008-08-25T03:48:40.640 | null | null | 716 | null |
25,607 | 2 | null | 25,449 | 16 | null | I recommend that you take a close look at [the Java Service Provider (SPI) API](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html). It provides a simple system for finding all of the classes in all Jars on the classpath that expose themselves as implementing a particular service. I've used it in the ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T03:05:00.260 | 2013-11-26T05:23:09.390 | 2013-11-26T05:23:09.390 | 1,102,512 | 1,432 | null |
25,627 | 2 | null | 25,546 | 0 | null | You could set up shared folders over a secure VPN with [Hamachi](http://www.hamachi.cc), then use a folder syncing app to sync them up.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:41:29.173 | 2008-08-25T03:41:29.173 | null | null | 1,384 | null |
25,630 | 2 | null | 24,451 | -1 | null | Edsger Dijkstra, a computer scientist that had major contributions on the field, was also famous for criticizing the use of GoTo.
There's a short article about his argument on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:44:23.910 | 2008-08-25T03:44:23.910 | null | null | 1,328 | null |
25,605 | 2 | null | 25,566 | 2 | null | There's always NeverSort, which is O(∞):
```
def never_sort(array)
while(true)
end
return quicksort(array)
end
```
PS: I really want to see your deterministic O(n!) sort; I can't think of any that are O(n!), but have a finite upper bound in classical computation (aka are deterministic).
PPS: If you're worried... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T03:00:59.100 | 2008-08-25T10:44:42.260 | 2008-08-25T10:44:42.260 | 1,190 | 1,190 | null |
25,640 | 2 | null | 13,938 | 0 | null | I have never used this but maybe it could help....
[http://www.codeplex.com/VS2008UnitTestGUI](http://www.codeplex.com/VS2008UnitTestGUI)
"Project Description
This project is about running all unit test inside multiple .NET Unit tests assembly coded with Visual Studio 2008."
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:03:06.313 | 2008-08-25T04:03:06.313 | null | null | 2,786 | null |
25,650 | 2 | null | 25,637 | 2 | null | You can use [JNI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface) to do it in whatever way you'd do it with C/C++.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:17:05.157 | 2008-08-25T04:17:05.157 | null | null | 1,693 | null |
25,648 | 2 | null | 25,637 | 22 | null | The quick answer is no. The only way to do it is by invoking the OS-specific commands that will cause the computer to shutdown, assuming your application has the necessary privileges to do it. This is inherently non-portable, so you'd need either to know where your application will run or have different methods for dif... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:14:12.793 | 2008-08-25T04:14:12.793 | null | null | 107 | null |
25,614 | 1 | 25,701 | null | 3 | 2,537 | I've used jdom in the past, and have looked briefly at XOM and `DOM4j`. Each seems to provide essentially the same thing, as they each provide a simplified wrapper over the (very obtuse) standard W3C DOM APIs.
I know that JDOM went through some effort to develop a JSR and standardization process at one point, but as... | Which Java DOM Wrapper is the Best or Most Popular? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T03:11:58.497 | 2015-12-18T01:55:09.860 | 2015-12-18T01:55:09.860 | 1,997,093 | 1,432 | [
"java",
"xml",
"dom"
] |
25,652 | 1 | 25,673 | null | 2 | 2,794 | I want to programatically create an NSTextView. How can I determine the correct frame height so that the view displays one line of text in the current default font?
| Height of NSTextView with one line? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:19:25.777 | 2009-09-17T15:01:24.517 | null | null | 2,140 | [
"cocoa",
"macos"
] |
25,644 | 2 | null | 25,637 | 95 | null | Create your own function to execute an OS command through the [command line](http://www.computerhope.com/shutdown.htm)?
For the sake of an example. But know where and why you'd want to use this as others note.
```
public static void main(String arg[]) throws IOException{
Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-25T04:08:28.970 | 2021-05-08T02:29:47.657 | 2021-05-08T02:29:47.657 | 15,106,272 | 568 | null |
25,653 | 1 | 25,667 | null | 14 | 6,891 | Is there any way to apply an attribute to a model file in ASP.NET Dynamic Data to hide the column?
For instance, I can currently set the display name of a column like this:
```
[DisplayName("Last name")]
public object Last_name { get; set; }
```
Is there a similar way to hide a column?
: Many thanks to Christian H... | Hide a column in ASP.NET Dynamic Data | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:21:05.913 | 2011-04-08T20:40:16.993 | 2008-09-26T19:01:55.960 | 2,134 | 364 | [
"asp.net",
"dynamic-data"
] |
25,642 | 1 | null | null | 3 | 8,275 | I want to catch the NavigationService.Navigating event from my Page, to prevent the user from navigating forward. I have an event handler defined thusly:
```
void PreventForwardNavigation(object sender, NavigatingCancelEventArgs e)
{
if (e.NavigationMode == NavigationMode.Forward)
{
e.Cancel = true;
... | When is NavigationService initialized? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:04:48.977 | 2013-04-26T13:12:26.330 | null | null | 615 | [
".net",
"wpf",
"navigation"
] |
25,661 | 1 | null | null | 9 | 4,941 | What is the best way to use PyGame (SDL) within a PyGTK application?
I'm searching for a method that allows me to have a drawing area in the GTK window and at the same time being able to manage both GTK and SDL events.
| pyGame within a pyGTK application | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:36:48.980 | 2013-11-08T13:51:30.673 | 2008-08-25T08:31:28.477 | 269 | 2,772 | [
"python",
"gtk",
"pygtk",
"sdl",
"pygame"
] |
25,665 | 1 | 25,689 | null | 414 | 437,427 | Is there any python module to convert PDF files into text? I tried [one piece of code](http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465/) found in Activestate which uses pypdf but the text generated had no space between and was of no use.
| Python module for converting PDF to text | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:44:06.090 | 2020-05-18T17:56:23.060 | 2020-05-18T17:56:23.060 | 477,771 | 1,448 | [
"python",
"pdf",
"text-extraction",
"pdf-scraping"
] |
25,669 | 2 | null | 24,901 | 0 | null | An the reason why you ought to use ++i even on built-in types where there's no performance advantage is to create a good habit for yourself.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:52:45.850 | 2008-08-25T04:52:45.850 | null | null | 257 | null |
25,657 | 2 | null | 24,886 | 20 | null | Taking a leaf from Scott Meyers, [More Effective c++](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/020163371X) .
The prefix version is always preferred over the postfix in regards to objects, especially in regards to iterators.
The reason for this if you look at the call pattern of the operators.
```
// Prefix
Inte... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:29:02.587 | 2008-08-25T04:29:02.587 | null | null | 1,675 | null |
25,667 | 2 | null | 25,653 | 20 | null | Had no idea what ASP.NET Dynamic Data was so you promted me to so some research :)
Looks like the property you are looking for is
```
[ScaffoldColumn(false)]
```
There is also a similar property for tables
```
[ScaffoldTable(false)]
```
[source](http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2008/05/15/DynamicDataWeb... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:47:22.323 | 2008-08-25T04:47:22.323 | null | null | 202 | null |
25,646 | 1 | null | null | 3 | 1,313 | The following code writes no data to the back buffer on Intel integrated video cards,for example, on a MacBook. On ATI cards, such as in the iMac, it draws to the back buffer. The width and height are correct (and 800x600 buffer) and m_PixelBuffer is correctly filled with 0xAA00AA00.
My best guess so far is that there... | What could prevent OpenGL glDrawPixels from working on some video cards? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:11:49.803 | 2008-09-30T18:57:06.860 | 2008-08-25T20:10:27.020 | 1,329,401 | 1,329,401 | [
"macos",
"opengl",
"graphics"
] |
25,666 | 2 | null | 25,637 | 84 | null | Here's another example that could work cross-platform:
```
public static void shutdown() throws RuntimeException, IOException {
String shutdownCommand;
String operatingSystem = System.getProperty("os.name");
if ("Linux".equals(operatingSystem) || "Mac OS X".equals(operatingSystem)) {
shutdownComman... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-25T04:47:04.010 | 2022-08-31T13:44:50.710 | 2022-08-31T13:44:50.710 | 6,947,906 | 2,783 | null |
25,672 | 1 | 26,725 | null | 14 | 20,263 | Been going over my predecessor's code and see usage of the "request" scope frequently. What is the appropriate usage of this scope?
| ColdFusion - When to use the "request" scope? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T04:59:25.180 | 2015-11-11T12:19:21.000 | 2013-03-08T14:47:10.533 | 1,430,996 | null | [
"coldfusion",
"railo",
"cfml"
] |
25,663 | 2 | null | 24,963 | 19 | null | A classic, albeit a bit dated, book is [Fast Track to MDX](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1846281741). It's a great overview and a quick read, though it doesn't cover the new MDX features of SQL Server 2005.
The Spofford book [MDX Solutions](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0471748080) is mo... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-25T04:42:46.437 | 2022-07-21T14:05:33.273 | 2022-07-21T14:05:33.273 | 4,751,173 | 9 | null |
25,675 | 1 | 25,678 | null | 9 | 1,883 | In coding a traditional MVC application, what is the best practice for coding server-side form validations? Does the code belong in the controller, or the model layer? And why?
| MVC - where to implement form validation (server-side)? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T05:04:30.923 | 2008-10-17T21:00:11.603 | null | null | null | [
"model-view-controller",
"validation",
"forms"
] |
25,673 | 2 | null | 25,652 | 4 | null | The NSFont class has a method that can give you the size of a rectangle that would enclose a specific attributed string. Get the font used by your text view, create a string that serves as a reasonable example of what will be in the text view, and use that to inform your frame height. (The frame height will need to b... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:00:04.977 | 2008-08-25T05:00:04.977 | null | null | 714 | null |
25,679 | 2 | null | 6,113 | 3 | null | Just assume that the bad guys WILL get the credentials out of your config file. This means that they'd be able to login to your database and do whatever that user is capable of. So just make sure that user can't do anything bad like access the tables directly. Make that user only capable of executing certain stored ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:12:51.047 | 2008-08-25T05:12:51.047 | null | null | 1,975 | null |
25,668 | 2 | null | 24,886 | 49 | null | A better answer is that `++i` will sometimes be faster but never slower.
Everyone seems to be assuming that `i` is a regular built-in type such as `int`. In this case there will be no measurable difference.
However if `i` is complex type then you may well find a measurable difference. For `i++` you must make a copy of... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-25T04:49:21.710 | 2021-10-18T08:39:17.860 | 2021-10-18T08:39:17.860 | 2,921,691 | 1,043 | null |
25,683 | 2 | null | 15,414 | 3 | null | I recommend [Damien Guard's "Humane theme" for Visual Studio](http://damieng.com/blog/2007/10/14/colour-schemes-for-visual-studio). It includes a custom font he developed, Envy R, which uses a clever hack - the bold version of the font is actually italic, so his theme italicizes comments by telling Visual Studio to bol... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T05:15:05.517 | 2012-03-29T18:51:16.710 | 2012-03-29T18:51:16.710 | 1,219,121 | 5 | null |
25,678 | 2 | null | 25,675 | 4 | null | From Wikipedia:
> [Model-view-controller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_Controller) (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. Successful use of the pattern isolates business logic from user interface considerations, resulting in an application where it is easier to modify either the vis... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:09:41.800 | 2008-10-17T21:00:11.603 | null | null | 257 | null |
25,658 | 2 | null | 25,461 | 0 | null | Logically, you are not able to share source code between C and C++ with conflicting declarations for bool and have them link to each other.
The only way you can share code and link is via an intermediary datastructure. Unfortunately, from what I understand, you can't modify the code that defines the interface between... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T04:29:45.283 | 2008-08-25T04:29:45.283 | null | null | 257 | null |
25,677 | 2 | null | 15,414 | 1 | null | I successfully used [FontForge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/) to create a copy of Consolas (although this should work with any font) with the bold style actually being italics.
This [other answer of mine](https://stackoverflow.com/a/25676/369) has the details.
Basically, change the name and GUID, then open the i... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T05:08:51.477 | 2014-07-20T01:33:11.660 | 2017-05-23T10:27:42.823 | -1 | 369 | null |
25,698 | 2 | null | 25,450 | 2 | null | Also check out [BlueprintCSS](http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/), a layout framework in CSS. It doesn't solve all your problems, but many, and you don't have to write the CSS yourself.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:46:00.187 | 2008-08-25T05:46:00.187 | null | null | 1,109 | null |
25,689 | 2 | null | 25,665 | 159 | null | Try [PDFMiner](http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html). It can extract text from PDF files as HTML, SGML or "Tagged PDF" format.
The Tagged PDF format seems to be the cleanest, and stripping out the XML tags leaves just the bare text.
A Python 3 version is available under:
- [https://github.com/pd... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-25T05:21:22.927 | 2019-06-01T03:12:27.833 | 2019-06-01T03:12:27.833 | 7,385,033 | 2,783 | null |
25,692 | 2 | null | 25,675 | 4 | null | I completely agree with Josh. However you may create a kind of validation layer between Controller and Model so that most of syntactical validations can be carried out on data before it reaches to model.
For example,
The validation layer would validate the date format, amount format, mandatory fields, etc...
So tha... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:27:11.883 | 2008-10-17T21:00:11.603 | null | null | 959 | null |
25,702 | 2 | null | 24,648 | 1 | null | Take Mike Stone's advice and start with Minix. That's what Linus did! The textbook is really well written, and Tannenbaum does a great job of showing how the various features are implemented in a real system.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:53:51.650 | 2008-08-25T05:53:51.650 | null | null | 116 | null |
25,694 | 2 | null | 25,546 | 0 | null | I use SVN. It works (I think) over SSH and SSL.
Full versioning, file syncing, what's not to like?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:30:09.990 | 2008-08-25T05:30:09.990 | null | null | 1,343 | null |
25,701 | 2 | null | 25,614 | 5 | null | I like [XOM](http://www.xom.nu/), because I like the way Elliotte Rusty Harold thinks. Of the ones you mention I belive it's the one that strays away from the DOM standard API:s the most, but I consider that a benefit.
I once implemented a DOM library for Cocoa, and XOM was my inspiration.
I've worked with JDOM as we... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:52:22.433 | 2008-08-25T05:52:22.433 | null | null | 1,109 | null |
25,709 | 2 | null | 11 | 3 | null | Surely an easy fix to get rid of the '1 hours ago' problem would be to increase the window that 'an hour ago' is valid for.
Change
```
if (delta < 5400) // 90 * 60
{
return "an hour ago";
}
```
into
```
if (delta < 7200) // 120 * 60
{
return "an hour ago";
}
```
This means that something that occurred 110... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T06:12:29.623 | 2018-02-22T16:31:30.680 | 2018-02-22T16:31:30.680 | 305,953 | 1,612 | null |
25,726 | 2 | null | 7,517 | 1 | null | A diferent approach could be: first get rid of the constraints, then drop the tables in a single shot.
In other words, a DROP CONSTRAINT for every constraint, then a DROP TABLE for each table; at this point the order of execution shouldn't be an issue.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:18:16.000 | 2008-08-25T07:18:16.000 | null | null | 1,178 | null |
25,676 | 2 | null | 17,508 | 19 | null | Alright, I've successfully used FontForge to create a copy of Consolas (although this should work with any font) with the bold style actually being italics.
These are the steps that I followed:
- [FontForge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/)- - - - - - - - - - - -
Copy your two new ttf files into your \Windows\FON... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T05:07:30.903 | 2008-08-25T05:07:30.903 | null | null | 369 | null |
25,728 | 2 | null | 25,546 | 0 | null | +1 for Chris's recommendation. This is exactly what I use FolderShare for, keeps folders in sync across 3 PCs running Windows and 2 Macs running OS X.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:28:31.250 | 2008-08-25T07:28:31.250 | null | null | 1,554 | null |
25,721 | 2 | null | 25,675 | 0 | null | My experience with MVC thus far consists of entirely rails.
Rails does it's validation 100% in the Model.
For the most part this works very well. I'd say 9 out of 10 times it's all you need.
There are some areas however where what you're submitting from a form doesn't match up with your model properly. There may be s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:12:10.523 | 2008-10-17T21:00:11.603 | null | null | 234 | null |
25,727 | 2 | null | 25,546 | 0 | null | I'd recommend [rdiff-backup](http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/). It supports incremental backups over SSH and is a free and proven solution. Being incremental, it also allows access to files that were deleted or to older versions of modified files.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:24:03.477 | 2008-08-25T07:24:03.477 | null | null | 2,794 | null |
25,730 | 1 | 25,831 | null | 51 | 112,635 | I have a .exe and many plug-in .dll modules that the .exe loads. (I have source for both.) A cross-platform (with source) solution would be ideal, but the platform can be narrowed to WinXP and Visual Studio (7.1/2003 in my case).
The built-in VS leak detector only gives the line where new/malloc was called from, but I... | What is the best free memory leak detector for a C/C++ program and its plug-in DLLs? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T07:31:46.110 | 2020-07-17T14:54:07.893 | 2009-08-10T08:05:48.533 | 51,425 | 2,666 | [
"c++",
"c",
"visual-studio",
"memory-leaks"
] |
25,736 | 2 | null | 25,642 | 1 | null | @Espo your link helped me find the workaround. I call it a workaround because it's , but it's what MS themselves do in their documentation:
```
public MyPage() // ctor
{
InitializeComponent();
this.Loaded += delegate { NavigationService.Navigating += MyNavHandler; };
this.Unloaded += delegate { NavigationS... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:36:17.020 | 2008-08-25T07:36:17.020 | null | null | 615 | null |
25,741 | 2 | null | 7,517 | 4 | null | At the risk of sounding stupid, I don't believe SQL Server supports the delete / cascade syntax. I think you can configure a delete rule to do cascading deletes ([http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152507.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152507.aspx)), but as far as I know the trick with SQL Serve... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:40:42.033 | 2008-08-25T07:40:42.033 | null | null | 5 | null |
25,747 | 2 | null | 25,730 | 8 | null | I have had good experiences with [Rational Purify](http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/purify/). I have also heard nice things about Valgrind
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:54:46.383 | 2008-08-25T07:54:46.383 | null | null | 1,709 | null |
25,724 | 2 | null | 7,517 | 0 | null | The thing holding you back from dropping the tables in any order are foreign key dependencies between the tables. So get rid of the FK's before you start.
1. Using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA system views, retrieve a list of all foreign keys related to any of these tables
2. Drop each of these foreign keys
3. Now you shou... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:15:24.637 | 2008-08-25T07:15:24.637 | null | null | 51 | null |
25,719 | 2 | null | 7,517 | 0 | null | I ended up using Apache's [ddlutils](http://db.apache.org/ddlutils/) to perform the dropping for me, which sorted it out in my case, though a solution which worked only within sql server would be quite a bit simpler.
@Derek Park, I didn't know you could comma separate tables there, so that's handy, but it doesn't seem... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:08:17.587 | 2008-08-25T07:08:17.587 | null | null | 797 | null |
25,749 | 1 | 25,784 | null | 153 | 55,539 | I'm learning objective-c and keep bumping into the @ symbol. It is used in different scenarios, for example at the start of a string or to synthesise accessor methods.
What's does the @ symbol mean in objective-c?
| What does the @ symbol represent in objective-c? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T07:57:59.183 | 2022-07-23T16:29:10.920 | 2008-11-10T16:14:19.757 | 21,755 | 2,799 | [
"objective-c"
] |
25,754 | 2 | null | 25,752 | 2 | null | ```
```
Can you try that? Or is it the same?
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T08:03:50.243 | 2013-02-25T16:15:00.347 | 2013-02-25T16:15:00.347 | 1,238,019 | 1,695 | null |
25,746 | 1 | 25,798 | null | 61 | 39,977 | I'm learning objective-C and Cocoa and have come across this statement:
> The Cocoa frameworks expect that global string constants rather than string literals are used for dictionary keys, notification and exception names, and some method parameters that take strings.
I've only worked in higher level languages so hav... | What's the difference between a string constant and a string literal? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T07:54:29.080 | 2016-01-24T17:08:49.300 | 2010-08-28T22:11:41.010 | 379,897 | 2,799 | [
"objective-c",
"string"
] |
25,752 | 1 | 25,758 | null | 33 | 85,281 | In a drop down list, I need to add spaces in front of the options in the list. I am trying
```
<select>
<option>  Sample</option>
</select>
```
for adding two spaces but it displays no spaces. How can I add spaces before option texts?
| How do I put a space character before option text in a HTML select element? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:02:43.367 | 2019-08-08T14:23:47.310 | 2008-08-25T11:27:02.893 | 1 | 31,505 | [
"html",
"html-select"
] |
25,760 | 2 | null | 20,233 | 0 | null | I've found quite a sufficient compressed audio playback library [FMOD](http://www.fmod.org/). There are WM version of it. And I've found sample application on [CodeProject](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/simple_mp3_player_for_ppc.aspx) to start with.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:08:26.380 | 2008-08-25T08:08:26.380 | null | null | 2,313 | null |
25,761 | 2 | null | 25,661 | 1 | null | You may be interested in [this message thread](http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2006-September/012888.html). Looks like they recommend against it.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:08:46.253 | 2008-08-25T08:08:46.253 | null | null | 1,662 | null |
25,755 | 2 | null | 25,749 | 69 | null | From [Objective-C Tutorial: The @ Symbol](http://guides.macrumors.com/Objective-C_Tutorial#The_.40_symbol), the reason it is on the front of various keywords:
> Using @ should make it easier to bolt an Objective-C compiler on to an existing C compiler. Because the @ isn't valid in any context in C except a string lite... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:04:44.843 | 2008-08-25T08:10:15.597 | 2008-08-25T08:10:15.597 | 163 | 163 | null |
25,763 | 2 | null | 23,472 | 0 | null | These links are not AS/400 specific, but generally a good place starting with Oracle:
[http://tahiti.oracle.com](http://tahiti.oracle.com)
[http://asktom.oracle.com](http://asktom.oracle.com)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:11:01.693 | 2008-08-25T08:11:01.693 | null | null | 1,069 | null |
25,750 | 2 | null | 25,746 | 3 | null | Let's use C++, since my Objective C is totally non-existent.
If you stash a string into a constant variable:
```
const std::string mystring = "my string";
```
Now when you call methods, you use my_string, you're using a string constant:
```
someMethod(mystring);
```
Or, you can call those methods with the string... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T07:59:28.977 | 2008-08-25T08:16:25.707 | 2008-08-25T08:16:25.707 | 1,554 | 1,554 | null |
25,765 | 1 | 25,768 | null | 76 | 30,663 | I'm in the process of weeding out all hardcoded values in a Java library and was wondering what framework would be the best (in terms of zero- or close-to-zero configuration) to handle run-time configuration? I would prefer XML-based configuration files, but it's not essential.
Please do only reply if you have practi... | Java configuration framework | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:17:54.297 | 2015-05-06T18:00:22.020 | 2010-12-21T10:26:03.277 | 63,550 | 1,448,983 | [
"java",
"xml",
"configuration",
"frameworks",
"configurationmanager"
] |
25,770 | 2 | null | 25,767 | 0 | null | OK, this doesn't answer your question, but doesn't your current code leave you open to SQL Injection?
I could be wrong, never worked in PHP, just saw the use of strings in the SQL and alarm bells started ringing!
### Edit:
I am not trying to tamper with your post, I was correcting a spelling error, please do not rol... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:27:37.957 | 2008-08-25T08:27:37.957 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 832 | null |
25,772 | 2 | null | 14,330 | 5 | null | As mentioned also, a grayscale translation (note that monochromatic images need not to be in grayscale) from an RGB-triplet is subject to taste.
For example, you could cheat, extract only the blue component, by simply throwing the red and green components away, and copying the blue value in their stead. Another simpl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:30:01.367 | 2008-08-25T08:30:01.367 | null | null | 2,238 | null |
25,759 | 2 | null | 25,752 | 15 | null | I think you want ` ` or ` `
So a fixed version of your example could be...
```
<select>
<option> Sample</option>
</select>
```
or
```
<select>
<option>  Sample</option>
</select>
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:06:27.507 | 2008-08-25T08:14:09.377 | 2008-08-25T08:14:09.377 | 797 | 797 | null |
25,767 | 1 | 25,805 | null | 3 | 3,274 | What is the quickest way to get a large amount of data (think golf) and the most efficient (think performance) to get a large amount of data from a MySQL database to a session without having to continue doing what I already have:
```
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='" . mysql_escape_string($_POST['username'... | Most efficient way to get data from the database to session | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:23:14.957 | 2016-01-15T15:26:29.040 | 2008-08-31T01:07:20.947 | 305 | 115 | [
"php",
"mysql",
"session"
] |
25,768 | 2 | null | 25,765 | 29 | null | If your hardcoded values are just simple key-value pairs, you should look at [java.util.Properties](http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html). It's a lot simpler than xml, easier to use, and mind-numbingly trivial to implement.
If you are working with Java and the data you are storing or retr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:23:22.227 | 2008-08-25T08:23:22.227 | null | null | 122 | null |
25,771 | 1 | null | null | 19 | 18,250 | How can I insert compilation timestamp information into an executable I build with Visual C++ 2005? I want to be able to output something like this when I execute the program:
> This build XXXX was compiled at dd-mm-yy, hh:mm.
where date and time reflect the time when the project was built. They should not change wit... | Output compile time stamp in Visual C++ executable? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:28:19.890 | 2017-09-15T05:31:50.743 | 2012-09-01T22:58:41.280 | 1,561,378 | null | [
"c++",
"visual-c++",
"execution",
"compile-time"
] |
25,780 | 2 | null | 25,771 | 10 | null | ```
__DATE__
__TIME__
```
are predefined as part of the standards for C99 so should be available to you. They run once with the preprocessor.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:34:17.707 | 2008-08-25T08:39:21.143 | 2008-08-25T08:39:21.143 | 269 | 269 | null |
25,758 | 2 | null | 25,752 | 31 | null | Isn't ` ` the entity for space?
```
<select>
<option> option 1</option>
<option> option 2</option>
</select>
```
Works for me...
### EDIT:
Just checked this out, there be compatibility issues with this in older browsers, but all seems to work fine for me here. Just thought I should let you know as you ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T08:06:18.490 | 2016-06-01T18:30:37.653 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 832 | null |
25,775 | 2 | null | 25,767 | 0 | null | I am not sure what you mean by "large amounts of data", but it looks to me like you are only initializing data for one user? If so, I don't see any reason to optimize this unless you have hundreds of columns in your database with several megabytes of data in them.
Or, to put it differently, why do you need to optimize... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:30:56.717 | 2008-08-25T08:30:56.717 | null | null | 1,709 | null |
25,782 | 2 | null | 25,767 | 0 | null | > Try using json for example:```
$_SESSION['data'] = json_encode(mysql_fetch_array($result));
```
Is the implementation of that function faster than what he is already doing?
>
Yes, it's bugged.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:35:34.757 | 2008-08-25T08:35:34.757 | null | null | 1,709 | null |
25,781 | 2 | null | 25,767 | 0 | null | @Unkwntech
Looks like you are correct, but following a Google, which led [here](http://shiflett.org/articles/sql-injection) looks like you may want to change to
As for the edit, I corrected the spelling of as well as removed the "what is the".. Since that's not really required since the topic says it all.
You can r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:35:08.453 | 2008-08-25T08:35:08.453 | 2017-05-23T12:08:35.993 | -1 | 832 | null |
25,787 | 2 | null | 25,767 | 0 | null | >
Again, unless this is actually causing performance problems in your application I would not bother with optimizing it. If, however, performance is a problem I would consider only getting some of the data initially and lazy-loading the other columns as they are needed.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:38:20.223 | 2008-08-25T08:38:20.223 | null | null | 1,709 | null |
25,785 | 1 | 34,862,475 | null | 200 | 148,616 | Is there a simple way, in a pretty standard UNIX environment with bash, to run a command to delete all but the most recent X files from a directory?
To give a bit more of a concrete example, imagine some cron job writing out a file (say, a log file or a tar-ed up backup) to a directory every hour. I'd like a way to ha... | Delete all but the most recent X files in bash | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:37:03.287 | 2023-01-10T15:43:15.550 | null | null | 797 | [
"bash",
"unix",
"scripting"
] |
25,790 | 2 | null | 25,785 | 89 | null | ```
(ls -t|head -n 5;ls)|sort|uniq -u|xargs rm
```
This version supports names with spaces:
```
(ls -t|head -n 5;ls)|sort|uniq -u|sed -e 's,.*,"&",g'|xargs rm
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T08:42:05.487 | 2014-05-19T06:10:00.270 | 2014-05-19T06:10:00.270 | 263,268 | 163 | null |
25,789 | 2 | null | 25,785 | 119 | null | Remove all but 5 (or whatever number) of the most recent files in a directory.
```
rm `ls -t | awk 'NR>5'`
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:41:24.227 | 2008-08-25T08:41:24.227 | null | null | 2,257 | null |
25,793 | 2 | null | 1,323 | 3 | null | N maximally distant colors can be considered a set of well-distributed points in a 3-dimensional (color) space. If you can generate them from a [Halton sequence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_sequence), then any prefix (the first M colors) also consists of well-distributed points.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:44:06.310 | 2008-08-25T08:44:06.310 | null | null | 2,686 | null |
25,776 | 2 | null | 25,767 | 0 | null | Try using json for example:
```
$_SESSION['data'] = json_encode(mysql_fetch_array($result));
```
Later you then `json_decode` the `$_SESSION['data']` variable and you got an array with all the data you need.
You can use `json_encode` and `json_decode` if you want to reduce the number of lines of code you write. ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T08:31:26.700 | 2016-01-15T15:26:29.040 | 2016-01-15T15:26:29.040 | 4,932,070 | 1,585 | null |
25,802 | 2 | null | 25,771 | 0 | null | Visual C++ also supports `__TIMESTAMP__` which is almost exactly what you need. That being said, the tough part about build timestamps is keeping them up to date, that means compiling the file in which `__TIMESTAMP__` is used on every rebuild. Not sure if there's a way to set this up in Visual C++ though.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T08:59:08.990 | 2008-08-25T08:59:08.990 | null | null | 2,594 | null |
25,794 | 1 | null | null | 439 | 498,998 | Without local access to the server, is there any way to duplicate/clone a MySQL db (with content and without content) into another without using `mysqldump`?
I am currently using MySQL 4.0.
| Copy/duplicate database without using mysqldump | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T08:47:27.160 | 2020-03-20T01:11:53.523 | 2016-12-21T06:40:19.577 | 652,669 | 211 | [
"mysql"
] |