Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
Application Name:    netgen.exe
Application Version:    4.9.11.0
Application Timestamp:    4aaaabd3
Fault Module Name:    netgen.exe
Fault Module Version:    4.9.11.0
Fault Module Timestamp:    4aaaabd3
Exception Code:    c0000005
Exception Offset:    000c1fee
OS Version:    6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID:    1033
Additional Information 1:    fd00
Additional Information 2:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3:    fd00
Additional Information 4:    ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

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Also the install on Vista x64 SP3 is broken in the presence of Account Control ON which is the normal case for Vista. It gives an error as indicated in the following picture:

Here is a ZIP file of all the files including the STL file that caused the crash.

Netgen_Crash_Gengon

Thanks,

Windy

Fails in Firefox 3.0.12 and 3.5.2. Website reported as a failed site.

Using Max 2009 on Vista x86, SP1, I created and exported a simple scene with a knot, 3 lights and a camera.

Here is the scene on this website.

The model does not play in Firefox 3.0.13, either from the file system or from this website.

It does play in MS IE 8 both from the file system or from the website.

The samples on the hypercosm website play in both MSIE 8 and Firefox 3.

This is what the model should look like.

I’ve rebooted the system at least once after installing HyperCosm. It seems very odd that the plugin does not work in Firefox for my model, when it works perfectly well on the samples and works in MSIE 8.

- windy

Like many of us, I use Firefox. After a file is downloaded, the virus scanner is called, in this case AVG Free, to scan the download for any nasty free loaders. This only take a couple of seconds on a local hard drive, but if you point your download to a network drive, in this case so that I can play my podcast using a media client – my PS3 actually – the virus scanner will take many times longer, perhaps a couple of minutes rather than a couple of seconds.

Not sure why that should be, but it is. So don’t point your downloads to a network drive.

- windy

I’m planning a short vacation. So the obvious thing to do is to use Google Maps to plan the trip. After putting in some way points, I got to a ferry, and Google croaked… I’ve got some screen shots that show the problems and I’ve got some suggestions about features that are missing.

The vacation we have planned takes us from Coos Bay, OR to Anacortes, WA. From there we take a ferry to Sidney, Victoria Island and then by ferry to Vancouver, BC. Well the first problem occurred when I added a destination to Sidney.

Here the Ferry Terminal shows correctly and the directions are valid. I added a destination of Anacortes, WA and then dragged the marker down the street to the ferry building. That was fine and as you can see from the above picture the Ferry Terminal Rd is a valid destination.

Then I added Sidney, but spelled it wrong, but no worries mate, Google helped correct that. But the ferry stopped the trip dead in the water, so to speak. How about we add an option for “As the Crow Flys” or some such routing in the middle of a trip, until we get ferries added to Google routing, that is.

But after adding the ferry, and having that fail, I got a messed up trip destination list with duplicated entries.

So apparently Google has forgotten the location of the entry that it added to the list. Sigh… That was pretty lame don’t you think? And then it apparently just coughed up a hairball that caused a real mess.

The Bottom Line

Google Maps has some issues:

1. Sometimes GM forgets the location of entries that it adds to a route when you drag a flag. That clearly should never happen.
2. There is no way to do “As the crow flys” for legs of a trip where other routes are not possible. This would be useful in many instances. Say I don’t want to travel, but just measure distances on a map. As the crow flys would allow me to measure distances along a route between way points.
3. Each leg of a trip should drop back to ATCF, if routing can’t be done by other ways, with an appropriate message of course, to allow me to continue with the entire trip in a single route. In this case I have to break up my trip simply because I’m going to take some ferries.
4. Google should support ferry trips – not schedules, but just routing and distances – to help plan trips that include ferries.

Now I’m going to look in Google Maps and figure out how to pass this to them.

- windy

Audacity 1.2.6
Vista x86 SP1

click for full size image.

To reproduce the problem:

1. Record a segment of audio.
2. Select a portion of the audio and
3. point to a point beyond the audio recording on the same track and
4. paste. Observe that the pasted audio is tacked to the end of the recording, not at the paste point.
5. Select the Envelope tool.
6. Observe that Envelope handles for the pasted audio are displayed beyond the audio data.

I have tried to reproduce this outside of this test project and was not able to reproduce the problem. However, the picture above indicates that this problem does exist for some series of steps.

I suggest that the audio paste should have occurred at the mouse position rather than at the end. This would require adding a segment of silence to the file.

Also, I’m not sure how one can move a segment of audio along a track without moving the entire track. For example, if the alignment of the pasted audio needed to be adjusted, then I’m not sure how this could be done. The Time Shift tool apparently moves the entire track, not just the selection. I’ll check the documentation.

- windy

Here is the crash info:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
Application Name:    audacity.exe
Application Version:    0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp:    455814e4
Fault Module Name:    ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version:    6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp:    4791a7a6
Exception Code:    c0000005
Exception Offset:    00068915
OS Version:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:    1033
Additional Information 1:    fca9
Additional Information 2:    0dc2035d9f92c9e2614959a67b8ae723
Additional Information 3:    18f1
Additional Information 4:    3bfce306861458c8ad571409cb716cf8

Here is the AVI file that causes the crash: Audacity_Crash_1

Folks keep saying that it works, but it does not work for any of my characters on any of the servers that I have tried.

If you look at the interface casually it appears ok, but if you actually try to send mail, you can’t.

The Mail Interface Previously Looked like this:

Notice the SEND and CANCEL buttons at the bottom of the left mail window.

Here is the new interface as of 4.6.16.

Notice that absence of the SEND and CANCEL buttons in the left window.

It would seem that the mail interface is being removed. And this version allows mail messages to be retrieved for the 29 or fewer days that mail messages are being held until they expire.

I never saw an announcment or rational for why mail is being removed.

If mail does not look this way for you, then take a screen shot and show me your interface.

- windy

This tool records a number of kernel mode activities and then allows analysis in detail, esp of interrupts and Deferred Procedure Calls.

Using XPerf on the ailing laptop has shown that the culprit is acpi.sys.

The laptop is going back to the factory to figure it out.

- windy

Dynamic reports fail with the data not matching the column headers. Static reports work.

Update: This is a known problem. The problem is that the name TITLE doesn’t work as a report column. This means that no column of a database table can be named TITLE if dynamic tables are used.

Here is the table. This is an OO native database. The database is provide below.

Use the Report Wizard to generate a Dynamic Report with the following columns.

Note that the report is wrong. The AUTHOR appears under the title. It doesn’t matter whether we sort on the title, as intended or not. The bug still appears if the report is dynamic.

The data is correct if a static report is generated with the same fields.

This is a ZIP archive of the native database. 609KB.

windybooks_native ZIP

- windy

When building a database of my DVD collection which includes BLOB images of png images of the covers, the database can be backed up, but it cannot be restored. This of course makes the backups useless. The images are 475×475 pixel PNG images.

UPDATE: Problem solved. Parameter max_allowed_packet is the packet size for requests. This defaults to 1M and needs to be larger to allow this restore to work. Setting the max_allowed_packet parameter to 10M allowed the restore to complete successfully.

I’m using MySQL administrator 1.2.12, MySQL 5.0.51b-Community-nt, MySQL client version 5.1.11 running on Windows Vista Ultimate x86 SP1.

The database was built using OpenOffice 2.4.

Using the default backup settings, the error on restore was:

Error while executing this query:INSERT INTO `dvd-collection` (`dvd_ID`,`MovieTitle`,`Director`,`Producer`,`Actor`,`Genre`,
`Notes`,`Rating`,`Review`,`Subject`,`Writer`,`Format`,
`Source`,`DateAcquired`,`ReleaseYear`,`MPAARating`,
`Length`,`disk_image`) VALUES
(1,’Step Into Liquid.’,'Dana Brown’,NULL,’Robert August,
Rochelle Ballard, Shawn Barron, Dave Kalama, Gerry Lopez,
Robert \”Wingnut\” Weaver’,'Documentary’,
‘No stuntmen. No stereotypes. No other feeling comes close’,
5,NULL,’Surfing’,'Dana Brown’,'DVD’,'DishNetwork’,2006,2003,
‘PG’,88,0×89504E…44AE426082);
The server has returned this error message:MySQL server has gone away
MySQL Error.

Using these additional settings:

• InnoDB Online Backup
• No EXTENDED INSERTS
• Add DROP Statements
• Complete INSERTS
• Comment
• Compatibility Mode
• Disable Keys

The error was:

Unknown object in backup file

Download excerpts of the SQL files that fail to restore:

mysql_restore_bug 1.4MB

DVD_Backup_2_40_Rows 14MB

These excerpts fail as well. The complete SQL backup file is 270MB, so not only is it large but I don’t really want to share the entire file. By the way, “Analyze Backup File Content” works fine for all the files.

The mysql command fails as well:
C:\Darrell\Video_Database\backups>mysql --user=root --password=mysecret dvd_video < DVD_Backup_2_40_Rows.sql
ERROR 2006 (HY000) at line 89: MySQL server has gone away
C:\Darrell\Video_Database\backups>mysql --user=root --password=mysecret dvd_video < DVD_Video_Two_Rows_Second_Try.sql
C:\Darrell\Video_Database\backups>

It works for 2 rows, but not for the 40 row file.

Thanks,

Windy

I just got a new Alienware m15x. Great machine. Very nice design. But I’m running into a couple of problems.

Update: 8 June 2008 9pm- I spoke too soon. The problem is back in spades. See section later in this post regarding use of SysInternals Process Explorer with more data on the problem.

Update: 8 June 2008 - The CPU Busy problem is not occurring for about the past 2 hours. The system was idle – but with the CPU busy for several hours today. There appears to be no reason for this change. It bears watching.

Update: 7 June 2008 – New information added on CPU Busy.

The CPU becomes very busy almost all the time. The CPU is a dual core T9300. Alienware has lots of extra gizmos on this model. I have not yet installed any new drivers on the system. The Task Manager does not show any process on the system that is responsible for the CPU time. The Alienware Stealth Mode, Wireless, Bluetooth enabled or disabled are not effective in reducing the CPU busy state.

In the CPU busy state, one of the processor cores is maxed out and the other looks normal. Whatever is running runs exclusively in the left hand CPU – in task manager display – which tells me that whatever is running has affinity.

Example of CPU Busy

Notice the left CPU panel shows that the CPU has become 100% busy. During this time the Hard Drive is not busy and there are not Processes in the process list that show the required CPU time. Removing the Logitech wireless mouse does not affect the state. No new drivers were installed for the mouse, only the standard Vista drivers are used with the mouse.

CPU Busy State Returned to Normal

After some time the CPU busy state returned to normal.

CPU Returned to Busy

A little while later the CPU returned to Busy. This occurs every few minutes.

Diagnosis Steps Taken

1. Disable Alienware functions from the keyboard controls, as mentioned above. These include Blue-Tooth, Wireless, and Stealth Mode.
2. Diabled the Intel TurboBoost device to determine whether Vista Ready Boost was causing the problem. This made no change in the CPU activity.
3. Uninstalled and re-installed many layered products. Among these Virtual CD 9; Skype 3.5;
4. Run QuickSlice – a performanence analysis tool from Microsoft - to determine where CPU time is being spent. More on that later.
5. Disable almost every device possible to eliminate device interrupts as a possibility.

None of these steps has changed the problem.

QuickSlice

While I don’t have a detailed description of QuickSlice, it appears to be a program which ties into a high priority clock interrupt and then takes data about which processes are active when the clock interrupt occurs. For each process in the system it displays the process name, and a bar of Kernel Mode and User Mode time spent.

This shows QSlice with a busy process with mostly user mode and very little kernel mode using one processor. The bar only goes 1/2 way across the qslice panel which indicates that 1 out of 2 cores are active.

The following shows the CPU when it is not busy: Click for a larger view.

Note that the only active process is “System Process” and it is only running in Kernel Mode. This is the Idle Process. Note that it goes all the way across the panel indicating that both processors are Idle.

The following shows QSlice when the CPU is busy – the pathogical condition I’m trying to fix.

Note in this case, when one of the Cores is maxed out, that the Idle Process is only taking about 1 Core, and that there is another process showing some activity. This is System, so it’s not possible to figure out what is really active. Also note that nothing else is active, and that the total does not add up to 100%, or both Cores fully active. So there is missing time. Now let’s compare these two states in Task Manager.

When System running normally, Task Manager Looks like this:

Note that the bar at the top left shows very little CPU usage.

And here are some examples of the Task Manager when the CPU is very busy:

And here is the Task Manager process list when the CPU is busy, for all processes, sorted by CPU time utilized:

Click for the larger view.

Note the very strange conclusion. The System Idle process shows 74%. So the performance panel is showing that the CPU us busy, but the Process List shows that the CPU is idle. Very strange.

Disabling Devices to Find the Problem

Using Device Manager, almost all the unnecesary devices were disabled to attempt to identify the device driver that was causing interrupts. None of these made any change in the problem:

Note the very small indications on the icons that the devices have been disabled. This did not cause any change in the CPU activity.

I also Disabled the Windows Search service, and this made no difference. This posting in the Microsoft Tech Forum indicated that this has been the source of CPU Busy problems in the past.

Process Explorer from SysInternals – 8 June

Using Process Explorer from SysInternals, it shows that the time is being used in DPC [Deferred Procedure Calls] and Hardware Interrupts. This indicates to me that the problem must be an out of control hardware or hardware device driver. It seems odd that sometimes the interrupts stop for a while, perhaps many hours in the case of this afternoon. Here are some pictures with comparisons with my Area-51 7500 Desktop.

Area-51 7500 Desktop which never shows this problem.

A skype call was active at the time, but notice that the DPCs and HIs were very small percentage of the CPU.

Alienware m15x Notebook that is showing the problem.

Notice that the middle histogram across the top shows the history of CPU usage and that Red shows Kernel mode usage. Also note that the DPC time is 25% of the CPU and Hardware Interrupts are showing 12% of the CPU. Clearly pathological.

Conclusions So Far

At this point I conclude from these tests that:

1. The problem is occurring in kernel mode and is not measured by qslice, the Microsoft Tool designed to find these kinds of problems.
2. In order to avoid qslice, the problem is likely to be an interrupt or device related problem.
3. Disabling all the unnecessary devices has not found the problem, so if the problem is a device, the list of remaining devices is very short.
4. Since the problem comes and goes on a minute to minute basis, it’s not a broken piece of hardware, but more likely an unforeseen interaction between hardware and a driver.
5. but I’m just guessing. The Process Explorer data rules out a problem with Vista itself. It seems clear that this is something peculiar to the m15x.

While the system can be used with this problem, it needs to be fixed:

1. The CPU activity puts more load on the battery, and causes more heat than necessary. This is especially troublesome for a laptop.
2. This problem does not occur on an Alienware Area-51 Desktop system running VIsta x64, so there would seem to be no reason to put up with the problem on this Alienware m15x running Vista x86.

COM Surrogate Crashes

I don’t know if this is related or not, but occasionally the COM Surrogate crashes.

Update: This is apparently not related. This is no longer occurring. I don’t know what I was using that contributed to this problem.

The crash details are as follows:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DllHost.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Application Timestamp: 4549b14e
Fault Module Name: StackHash_1703
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0153b5ed
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 1703
Additional Information 2: 2264db07e74365624c50317d7b856ae9
Additional Information 3: 1344
Additional Information 4: 875fa2ef9d2bdca96466e8af55d1ae6e
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Summary

1. The CPU occasionally gets very busy for no apparent reason.
2. The COM Surrogate – whatever that is – occasionally crashes.

- windy

cdpuvbhfzz(dot)com
ccfelomvhk(dot)com

The attack was apparently perpetrated because two php.ini parameters were left that allow exploits:
allow_url_fopen = on
register_globals = on

These settings have now been changed to OFF.

The attack also placed php code in a jpg file and a few of the changes were set to check to see if the tags were removed and if so, caused this code to be executed to reinfect the site. The permissions of all html and php files may also have been changed to 777 from the normal 644.

This attack might never have been noticed, except that WordPress and Calendar showed the effects. WordPress crashed and Calendar showed an error message at the top of the page. The other subsystems, Coppermine and SMF, showed only very small frames, 1 pixel square, at the bottom of the page.

The databases of my site were apparently not modified.

Total time to backup, diagnose and reload the site so far as been about 12 hours.
Much of the work was manual using FileZilla, directory by directory to set permissions and to upload the php and html files. If this happens again, tools will be found or built to fix the site more efficiently.

Attack Files Archive

Here is an archive of the nasty bits that were used to infect my site. These do not include the code that used the exploit. This has been posted in the hope that it will help those who want to help stop these attacks.

A search of the web indicates that these attacks have been going on since March 2008 and that they are some sort of phishing expedition, although no specific information was included in the posts found, about how someone might have used this code to do anything useful or criminal, outside of destroying a site when the subsystem is not tolerant of the changes.

It would be interesting to see the authorities track down the perpetrators and shutdown these domains. As of this moment, 19 April 2008, these domains are still active.

- Windy

All the Windows hype about the “Media Editions” of Windows was never very clear. Apparently the Media Edition contains the features necessary to serve various files to the other entertainment systems in the home. Music and video players can play files from your desktop harddrive via these servers. Now with a new PS3, Media Services is becoming more useful. It will be interesting to play photos and videos from a server. The PS3 only has a 40GB harddrive and the file management features of the PS3 are very primitive.

Summary

TwonkyMedia Server is the best one that I’ve found. Very reasonable price – $39.95US. It runs on both Windows [Vista x64] and Ubuntu Linux with no problem. It is very efficient using very little memory and processor time. It works just fine on my little Blue-Diamond 800MHz VIA system.

Test Cases

The test cases are modest. About 860 images – jpgs 1024×768 on the PC and 1280×1024 on the Linux box. About 250 mp3 files. The images all display on the PS3 from a USB flash key. Almost all the music files play from a data DVD when inserted into the PS3. Some show “Corrupted File” on the PS3 for an unknown reason. Most of the mp3 files play with no problems using WinAMP on a Windows PC. As of today, the PS3 is running version 2.17 of the firmware.

Update: I’ve discovered the source of some, if not all, of the Corrupted File indications.

Using MP3Tag V2.40 I’ve discovered that a few of the files had very strange meta data, and were in an unsupported format. Click on the pic above to see the full size view. Note that the highlighted files have strange bitrates and frequencies. I’m not sure whether this causes the server to trip up, or just the PS3.
After retesting Twonky and gMediaServer after cleaning out the strange files allowed Twonky to sometimes serve the files, but often it tripped up with a 2103 protocol error and basically stopped working after that. gMediaServer still would not serve any of the sanitized mp3 files.

Nero Media Home – Ultra 8

A google search for “PS3 media servers” indicates that Nero Media Home is a media server. But I suggest you don’t waste your time with it. There are several reasons:

• It is very resource intensive, shall we say, taking over 60MB of your precious ram to run the server. This burden requires an indexing service, which is a constant load on the system regardless of whether you are using the server or not.
• It’s not fast in it’s response to serving to the PS3. It takes a very long time to get the list of items to the PS3.
• It causes protocol error reports on the PS3. “DLNA Protocol Error 80710092″ whatever that is.
• The NMH crashes and hangs quite often, esp when you stop and start the server.
• It won’t serve mp3s. You get No Tracks Available on the PS3.
• Photos work somewhat, but are slow.

A Little Blue Linux Box

The little blue Linux box seemed like a good candidate for a server. It now has a wireless adapter – ZyXEL G202 and is running Ubuntu 7.10.

After a little research, gMediaServer seemed like a good server to try. 0.12.0 is built into Ubuntu 7.10. The latest version 0.13.0 supports PS3 explicitly with a profile for PS3 that sets all the media types supported by the PS3. Not sure what else the server knows about the PS3.

When started with the following command line the server serves photos to the PS3 with no problems.

gmediaserver -ieth1 -v1
--file-types='jpg,mp3'
--friendly-name='Blue-Diamond Media Server'
/home/darrell/Pictures/Fantasy_1280
/home/darrell/Music/musicfiles


When running the gmediaserver only requires 1.6MB of memory. It serves photos with no problem and much faster than the Nero system, as observed from the PS3 system. Occasionally a “DLNA protocol error 2103″ appears, but this only appears once or twice when the server starts to display images.

Music files do not work. I get “No Tracks Available” on the PS3. Since neither server will serve music files to the PS3, the problem may be in the PS3. Update: Even the sanitized mp3 files would not show up at all in the PS3.

Twonky Media Server

Twonky Media 4.4.4 is very light weight – only about 4MB of ram total for the two server processes, and has a nice web interface for configuration.

It works very well for photos, and shows music files, but the files will not play. The PS3 tosses a “800100B network error” when you try to play a track, after a very long time of waiting.

Summary

1. Nero Media Home – Ultra 8 version. Photos work. Music doesn’t show any tracks and it tosses 80710092 protocol errors. This thing is 60MB of ram [ can you believe it??] in three processes, and it keeps crashing. So dead in the water as far as I’m concerned.
2. gMediaServer 0.13.0 on Ubuntu 7.10 – 1.6MB of ram. Works great for photos. But again music does not work. Shows no tracks. Occasionally I get 2013 protocol errors.
3. Twonky Media 4.4.4 – Very nice with web config and light weight in memory – two processes of about 4MB total of memory. Photos work just fine. Music tracks show in the list but trying to play a track gets an 8001000B protocol error.

BTW, all the mp3 music files play just fine from a data DVD on the PS3 and on WinAmp on PC. And on the Linux system too BTW.

So, I conclude that the PS3 V 2.17 is broken for media services for playing Music.

Anybody prove me wrong?

• What media server are you using to play MP3 music on your PS3, and where did you get your MP3 file?
• Do we know that the PS3 is picky about it’s MP3 files?
• Why should it be pickier about the MP3 files over the net than it is from a DVD?

Update: This PS3 appears fairly picky about mp3 files, esp when reading files from a MediaServer and the protocol apparently does not recover from a bad file.

I tried the demo version of Virtual Audio Cable 4 from this website. The product says that it supports vista, but the demo version install tossed the following dialog during the install:

At the end of the install I got this:

Which I have learned not to trust given my previous experience.

After this I did an uninstall of the product and a system restore to the automatic restore point from midnight. That was probably overkill the uninstall would have probably fixed the problem.

Here is a link to my system configuration.

I look forward to using Virtual Audio Cable 4, but only after this problem is solved.

Thanks very much,
- windy

I have laid out the folders like this:

As a test, I started with a CLR [.Net] based console application and included all the libraries as statically linked. Then I tried to run the sample code and got the following error. Since Zlatkovic did not provide the sources, I cannot debug this directly.

C:\Code\XML_SignTest\release>XML_Signtest sign1-tmpl.xml ca.key > sign1-res.xml
Arguments Dummyargument
Arguments sign1-tmpl.xml
Arguments ca.key
XML_Sign - found start node
XML_Sign - Created Signature Context
XML_Sign - Loaded Key
XML_Sign - key name is set
func=xmlSecDSigCtxProcessSignatureNode:file=..\src\xmldsig.c:line=465:obj=unknow
n:subj=dsigCtx->c14nMethod == NULL:error=100:assertion:
func=xmlSecDSigCtxSign:file=..\src\xmldsig.c:line=303:obj=unknown:subj=xmlSecDSi
gCtxSigantureProcessNode:error=1:xmlsec library function failed:
Error: signature failed


1. Perhaps this is a problem with incompatibilities with VS 2005, VS 2003, or
2. Perhaps this is another problem with how I have included the libraries.

I see a couple of ways that I can proceed:

1. Get the sources from Zlatkovic and build them again debug after converting the projects to VS2005. Also provide him with the VS2005 projects after I have them working.
2. Start again with the sources of the projects, and build the VS2005 projects for them.

Here you can find a ZIP of the complete VS2005 test project including the key, certificate and test samples I used. This is a 3.5MB download and some large files have been removed [ncb, pch], but these can be recreated with a rebuild.

Please contact me by email if you have any thoughts.

Thanks very much,
Windy

I’ve got the latest trial [3.10.15], running on Vista x64, quad processor, 4GB memory and 500GB HD.

I created a simple project, no problems in creating the project. But when I check it out I get an error on SUO file.

I’m not sure if I need to source control this file or not, but that shouldn’t be a problem if I do, as far as I know.

UPDATE:
SUO files don’t need to be checked in. The problem appears to be that the SUO file is “hidden” in Windows. Problem solved.

Here is a screenshot history of my efforts. Click on pictures for a full size view.:
Create an Attribute Group for the SUO file and make it binary.

Add the file to the project.

Check the status of the file.

Checkout the file:

Overwrite warning. Choose Overwrite:

Checkout failed. Visual studio express is not running now and I have full permissions on this file.

I have done a recursive checkout of the project and all looks fine with that. Only the SUO file is a problem. Any hints about why I can’t source control the SUO file?

- windy

Click for a larger view.

shows this:

The same animation in poser looks ok.

Here is the BVH file created by Poser. Couple Shower Male
This file works fine when loaded into SL so it is a valid BVH file. Looks like a problem with QAvimator. These animations were made using IK for all limbs. Perhaps QAvimator cannot deal with a file made in this way.

Running Retail Windows Vista Ultimate x64 operating system

As delivered by Alienware the configuration was:

===========================
1 | AREA-51 7500-R4

1 | FULL-TOWER BLACK CASE 2.0B
1 | EVGA NFORCE 680I SLI MB
1 | D- CORE 2 DUO EXTREME 2.66GHZ QX6700 8M
4 | PDP 1GB DDR2 LOW LATENCY PC-6400 AW96
2 | SEAGATE 250GB SATA 3G 7200RPM 8MB CACHE NCQ
1 | NEC 18X DUAL LAYER DVD±R/W RAM RECORDER
1 | ATECH 28 IN 1 MEDIA READER
1 | INTEGRATED HIGH-DEF AUDIO NVIDIA C55-MB
1 | EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTX 768MB PCI-E
1 | VISTA ULTIMATE COA 32 BIT
1 | ALIENWARE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD STORE
1 | ALIENFX SOFTWARE VERSION 1.05
1 | POWERDVD 7 FOR VISTA 8CH
1 | NERO 7 R5.9 DL
1 | VISTA RESPWAN KIT
1 | SYMANTEC GHOST CORPORATE VERSION 8 (LICENSE)
1 | OWNER IDENTIFICATION CARD
1 | ELC TO MOTHERBOARD PWR/HD CABLE REV3
1 | ELC TO MOTHERBOARD USB CABLE REV3
1 | ALIENWARE MAIN BOARD RGB REV 4
1 | CONTROL ELC SW CARD
1 | AVC PENTIUM 4 DUAL CORE HSF Z9H741K001
1 | GX2 G80 DUAL SLOT CARD KEEPER
1 | 1 KILOWATT OEM ATX PSU
1 | 1 KILOWATT MOUNTING BRACKET AMTEK
1 | 1 KW POWER CORD
1 | 3.5? TO 5.25? EXTERNAL DEVICE ADAPTER
1 | ELC MAGENTA
1 | RAID 0 STRIPING 2 DRIVES
1 | 4-YR 24/7 WARRANTY
1 | ON-SITE WARRANTY
1 | PERIPHERALS
1 | BLACK BASIC OPTICAL MOUSE
1 | ALIENWARE MOUSE PAD
1 | VISTA RECOVERY DVD
1 | VISTA SUPPORT CD – AREA-51 7500 R4
1 | NERO 7 R5.9
1 | ALIENWARE DESKTOP BINDER VISTA
1 | STANDARD KEYBOARD BLACK

I had to install these rpms manually. YAST refresh of the site would never complete and it would then produce errors that the available RPM could not be found on the site. I downloaded them from the site and then installed them using rpm -Uhv.

These are the components that I have installed in the KDE mm suite. [click for larger image].

When I use any of the video players: Totum, Kaffein, Xine – the audio plays, but there is no video. Is there something else that I need? I get a black screen. No errors. The configuration for Kaffein indicated no errors.

Thanks,
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