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Please excuse my complete lack of technical expertise, however I do hope someone might be able to point me back in the right direction.
I'm following the installation guide and this is where I'm at: https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/server-setup#updating-datadir
I've downloaded the client data as per recommended ('Download' sub-title) and I seem to be stuck at: "4. Edit your the DataDir config option to the location of your folder."
I simply cannot find the "worldserver.conf" file. As instead I can only find a .DIST file (worldserver.conf.dist) located in: C:\Build\bin\RelWithDebInfo\configs
In here also contains: authserver.conf.dist and dbimport.conf.dist
As a result of my own ignorance I decided to simply copy these files creating anew, but this time named "worldserver.conf","authserver.conf" etc, editing both the original and the copy to contain the DataDir, in this case: C:\Build\bin\RelWithDebInfo\Data
Having not got very far already and this not being the first time I seem to have failed to follow the instructions without confusing myself, I moved onto the next step, Database Installation (https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/database-installation).
I opened MySQL 8.0 Command Line Client, entered my password I had created in the earlier steps and then right-clicked to paste the text I had copied from (https://github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk/blob/master/data/sql/create/create_mysql.sql)
It did something... Now realising I might be completely and utterly useless on a computer, I proceeded to the next step: Networking (https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/networking)
After opening HeidiSQL, the acore_auth database has nothing in it, no realmlist, nada.
I certainly don't want to have my hand held and waste anyone's time, but I'm concerned now that if I can't do this, I'm sure at s*** not going to be able to create the Single/Local Network 2-person server I'd hoped for with PlayerBots, Transmog and AH bot.
Whilst I'm sure many of you will laugh at my appalling attempt to create and config my own server, should any of you spot the error(s) I'm making, I'd be extremely grateful for some assistance. Alternatively, I feel I might be whipping out the old computer to download a repack and hope for the best that I don't get flooded with malware
Programs I downloaded:
Git Extensions
Visual Studio (17) Community 2022
MySQL 8.0 (basically the whole thing from the installer: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/installer/8.0.html)
HeidiSQL
cmake-3.26.0-rc3-windows-x86_64 (realising now that I downloaded the RC version like an idiot, however I'm not sure why it's important?)
Win64 OpenSSL v3.0.8
Boost (64bit)
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We have a linux production server and a number of scripts we are writing that we want to run on it to collect data which then will be put into a Spark data lake.
My background is SQL Server / Fortran and there are very specific best practices that should be followed.
Production environments should be stable in terms of version control, both from the code point of view, but also the installed applications, operating system, etc.
Changes to code/applications/operating system should be done either in a separate environment or in a way that is controlled and can be backed out.
If a second environment exist, then the possibility of parallel execution to test system changes can be performed.
(Largely), developers are restricted from changing the production environment
In reviewing the R code, there are a number of things that I have questions on.
library(), install.packages() - I would like to exclude the possibility of installing newer versions of packages each time scripts are run?
how is it best to call R packages that are scheduled through a CRON job? There are a number of choices here.
When using RSelenium what is the most efficient way to use a gui/web browser or virtualised web browser?
In any case I would scratch any notion of updating the packages automatically. Expect the maintainers of the packages you rely on to introduce backward incompatible changes. Your code will stop working out of the blue if you auto update. Do not assume anything sacred.
Past that you need to ask yourself how much hands on is your deployment. If you're OK with manually setting up each deployment then you can probably get away using the packrat package to pull down and keep sources of the exact versions you are using. This way reproducing your deployment is painful, but at least possible. If you want fully automated reproducible deployments I suggest you start building docker images with your packages and tagging them with dates or versions.
If you make no provisions for reproducing your environment you are asking for trouble, while it may seem OK at first to simply fix any incompatibilities as they come up with updates, and does indeed seem to be the official workflow from the powers that be, however misguided that is; eventually as your codebase grows that will be all you will end up doing.
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I was working on some aspx page, and suddenly my system was crashed, when I rebooted my system, file was there, but when I opened that file from solution explorer, file content was replaced by some whitespace characters,and opened in notepad file. I have checked its size and it was around 31 kb.
Is there any way to recover its content ? its around 4-5 days of my work
I faced the same problem with a file today and overcame it successfully. :D
Felt freaking heavenly after getting my file back ... :D \m/ :D
Here is the solution. Actually, there can be two types of solution of recovering corrupted files I found.
Scenario: Your file is corrupted (ie. null or space everywhere in the file while the size is ok)
Solution #1: Using file recovery software.
File recovery softwares can recover a file when it is already deleted.
In our scenario, your file is not deleted but corrupted. So how to use
the software in this case!!!!
Just delete your file
Try to recover your deleted files with popular file recovery softwares
And voila ... it is recovered ... :D
The recovery software I used is Recuva. Worked perfectly.
Solution #2: If its a web content, like CSS/Javascript/html etc.
You can collect the last working copy of the file from browser cache,
IF and ONLY IF you hadn't opened the corrupted webpage in that brower.
The thought that help me finding the first solution is from
Mark Twain - "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
While I was thinking how to use this recovery software, I thought about this quote and said myself "LETS DRAG THE FILE DOWN TO THE LEVEL, WHERE RECOVERY SOFTWARE CAN RECOVER" ... :D
I'm assuming you do not have backups or svn/git repositories or the last resource like the shadow copies.
I guess your best bet is by using some file recovery tools like OnTrack or Recuva
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In our organisation we deliver products to different product lines depending on the requirements. in short the same application is customised according to customer requirements and delivered. After deploying the application sometimes we got some issues logged by client.
My question comes here. who is responsible to look into the issues and solve it
Programmers
Testers
Management is asking Testers to have a look into the issues and solve them. But the testers don't have the chance to look into the code. is it feasible to ask the testers to go for the issue resolution and end up wasting time doing nothing thus delaying the solution to the customers.
I would normally expect management to look through the issues every so often (say, every week), and allocate depending on schedules, severity, forthcoming releases etc. Some questions are:
is it an issue a bug, a feature request etc.?
does it prevent your client from working with your tool ?
is it impacted by forthcoming work (e.g. will a new feature remove the feature causing the issue) ?
I don't believe you can resolve these issues in isolation. It requires project managers etc. with awareness of project direction and programmers with awareness of the codebase to work together to determine how/when issues should be addressed, and their impact on other work streams.
Initially you should have a support department that does triage on all newly added issues. They should be empowered and informed enough to decide whether this is a non-issue, whether there's a work-around or whether they don't know. If it's the latter then it should be elevated to programmers.
You might also want to include the testers in the chain if the support guys are unable to produce an adequate 'how to reproduce the problem' document for the programmers.
The way it works at our company is that the testers are asked to verify the client's issue, i.e. trying to reproduce it and document the steps taken to reproduce it. Then it gets logged as an official bug and assigned to a developer who can retake the tester's steps and hopefully fix the bug.
Testers can identify an issue. How can they resolve the same? Only the developer will be able to do it. Looks really strange where a tester is asked to resolve the issue.
Who deals with the clients? Liasing with clients is not a task normally associated with the technical staff.
You should have someone whose role it is to speak to the customers, find out exactly what the issue is and how the client would like it resolved so that it may be passed onto the most relevant person to address the issue.
I would say the logical way to do it is:
Testers should try to reproduce the problem and identify its source
Report the problem with steps to reproduce it to the programmers
It's not common usage to let testers solve the issues as the programmers won't get the feedback they need to avoid the issues in the future.
Testers - verify that the problem exists.
Programmers - solve the problem.
In between there is another part to this, which is "gather information about the problem". Usually this is a split between testers and programmers; exactly how balanced that load is depends on the team.
If you don't have the code, you can't fix bugs. It's as simple as that. At the very most you could fix configuration errors, but if the misconfiguration was caused by the program that's a short-term fix.
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I'm a college student and at any given time I have 4-5 programs I'm writing in various languages for various classes/projects.
At any given hour of the day I might be in the library, at home, in any of our different computer lab classrooms, etc.
Right now my current modus operandi is at the end of each class period or coding session, I gmail myself the current state of whatever I'm working on with an appropriate subject line (ie, "MIPS Assembly Lab 2, Revision #3").
However, this is becoming cumbersome and I'm looking for other solutions.
Restrictions:
No Thumbdrive. I'm about as absent minded as possible while still somehow managing to function. I'll lose it.
Portable or Web Apps only. I can't install non-portable executables. So, if a tool requires an installation wizard or administration privileges, I can't use it. I can use portable executables however, stored in our network drive space given to each student. So, that might open some possibilities.
I'm looking for some kind of online storage that I can easily download the latest files for my project or update those in the online storage, with as little friction as possible.
I've considered using some free version control repository and trying to find a portable executable or web-tool I can use to integrate with it, but I wonder if it might be overkill. I'm not really looking for keeping a revision history.
I've seen videos of things like dropbox and it seems like it is a step in the right direction.
Any suggestions?
A good solution would be to get an account at some hosting provider that offers shells (eg. Dreamhost) and do your work remotely. That way you always have a consistent environment that you can just ssh into from anywhere.
It's far easier to find a run-anywhere SSH client than a run-anywhere filesharing or revision control system.
www.github.com?
Git binaries should be usable without any installation process (I do not get the 'portable' part there, as you do not mention anything about your work environment).
Or, alternatively, a thumbdrive git repository, altough you said that you do not want to use a thumbdrive.
The most simple solution (if you can share the code with the world), is to create a project on Google code. This gives you a subversion repository plus a wiki to sort your ideas and an issue tracker for your TODO list, too.
Today, I prefer Subversion in your situation for two reasons:
There is a command line standalone client (just a couple of files which need no install) for Windows. Git would need either Cygwin or MinGW and a Unix environment of some kind. Too much hassle.
It's a bit more simple to use than Git. Git asks a paradigm shift from your brain and unless you get that right, Git will feel "weird".
For professional work on large projects, I prefer Git :)
CVS, Subversion and GIT all allow to create the repository on a network share. All of them discourage this because, in the case of a network outage, the repository may become corrupted.
So if you have frequent network outages, this might not be an option but frankly, most networks are pretty stable today. And in my 15 years since I use VCS, I never had one corrupt a repo on a share. Most network file systems will try their very best to commit pending writes, so unless the server completely dies, the data will be saved when the hiccup is over.
But if you're still worried, use git because it allows to restore the main repository with minimal data loss from your local copy (see this question for details).
We use CVSDude, who do CVS and SVN, it's a pay service $6/month = 250M, works really well, although maybe you're after something free?
You can get a free account on drivehq to store up to 1GB of data. Nothing fancy, but if you're looking for some place to put software it might do the trick.
You might like to check out Bespin:
Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment
that proposes an open, extensible
web-based framework for code editing.
I use Dreamhost's integrated SVN. They have an interface for setting up repositories and user accounts. I work on a mac which comes with SVN installed so the whole thing for me was completely painless. Couple of clicks, point SVN at my server and I was good to go.
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At my job we make & sell websites. Usually we install our .NET C# based site on a customer's server and maintain and support it remotely. However, every once in a while, for bigger development works and just to make things simpler (and faster!), we will copy the site to a local server.
This is great, but has one pain - moving the site back to the customer. Now, If nothing was change on the customer's copy - no problem. However, it is the sad truth that sometime (read more often than I would like) some fixes were needed to be applied on the production server. Either because the customer needed it NOW or simply because it was major bug.
I know that you can easily apply those bug fixes to the local copy as well, but this is an error prone process. So I'm setting my hopes on a distributed version control to help synchronize the two copies.
Here is what I need:
Easy to install - nothing else needed except the installer and admin rights.
Can integrated in an existing website as a virtual directory and works on port 80 - no hassle with new DNS required.
Excellent software
That's it. Any ideas?
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First, thanks! much appreciated.
I've looked at Mercurial and Bazaar and both look very good. The only caveat is the installation as a virtual directory on IIS. Mercurial, as far as I understand, use a special protocol (wire) and Bazaar needs and addition of python extensions. Is there another system which is easier to integrate with IIS? I'm willing to take a performance hit for that.
I'd look at either Mercurial or Bazaar. I'm told Git also works on windows, but I suspect the windows port is still a second class port at best.
You'll probably need to be able to run python scripts on your webserver to host either of them.
Maybe not exactly what you request but checkout DeltaCopy which is a windows version of rsync. You can also read about another rsync solution here
I can also vouch for Mercurial. Simple to use and powerful to boot!