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LVM snapshot of mounted filesystem

I'd like to make a snapshot of a live filesystem in Linux, preferably using LVM. I'd like not to unmount it because I've got lots of files opened (my most common scenario is that I've got a busy desktop with lots of programs). I understand that because of kernel buffers and general filesystem activity, data on disk might be in some more...

why does maven release plugin allow for SNAPSHOT version in dependency managment?

We have 1 company parent pom. This uses dependencyManagement to manage the versions for all the dependencies of all the artifacts used. What is alarming, is that SNAPSHOT versions can be defined in dependencyManagement. Though when maven release is performed, the pom is allowed to be released with SNAPSHOT version in depende...

How to get table and column names from existing sql server snapshot/backup file

Hi, We are designing a windows application where we need to 'Get table and column names from existing sql server snapshot file or backup file' . Does anybody know how it can be done. Please provide help. Thank you. ...

Make a "Merged copy" of a CALayer composition.

I know it has answered here, but I cannot get it work. I have some puzzlePiece CALayer subclass instance, each with 4 additional sublayer. When user manupulates a piece, its sublayers get changed. But after manipulating finished, user can only move these pieces. I want to make somehow a "snapshot" of the sublayers after user finished m...

maven snapshot updates

I have a maven project with a snapshot dependency. How does maven know if the snapshot needs to be updated? Does it always update? Is it time based? A checksum based update? I know I can force an update but otherwise, how does it check? thanks, Jeff ...

How do I get my snapshots in Nexus to appear in the m2eclipse dependency search?

Hi, I've been working through the Nexus guide this weekend and I've got everything set up, to the point that I can publish a snapshot to my local nexus install. I can't seem to work out how to get m2eclipse to see the snapshot and offer it as an option in the Add Dependencies search panel. How do I do that? Thanks! In case it's of any...

How to start a major iPhone app update in Xcode

I have an app in the iPhone app store and have released several minor updates to it. I want to begin work on some major feature additions and reorganization, but don't want to lose the source code of my most recent version in case everything goes horribly wrong. Should I start a new Xcode project from scratch and copy my existing source...

[JavaME] Getting snapshot produces always same value

Hi, I have this piece of code: byte[] snap = ((VideoControl) player).getSnapshot("encoding=jpeg"); , which gets a snapshot from the camera. Now, after a little processing it produces correct image. The weird part is, that when I debug this line of code, it always has the same value in the field even when the resulting image is differe...

SSRS: Snapshot runtime?

I have a SSRS report which is the snapshot or another report. It runs every day @ 6 am. I want to add a header at the top of the report(snapshot), which indicates when the snapshot was taken so that the user knows when the snapshot was taken. Does anyone know how can i do that? ...

All pages snap shots

The requirements for the Snapshot is to essentially take a screengrab of every user facing page of the site on a daily basis and save the pages into an archived location. The business reason for this snapshot is that from a our Client's Compliance Department perspective, a visitor to the site may claim to have seen a performance data or...

Setting Xvfb screen area to obtain larger snapshots

Hi all, I have a script that makes snapshots on a Linux server using Xvfb, Firefox and ImageMagick. The script works fine and is piloted by a bash script, but currently I can obtain only snapshots of 1280x1024, that is the area of Xvfb. I also maximize the FF page, when opening a website, using some Javascript on a dummy page that is lo...

Grabbing a random frame from a webcam with GStreamer in Python

I'm trying to write a program to control a robot by interpreting frames from a webcam and happened upon GStreamer. I've been able to stream video in Python from the webcam with GStreamer with help from this page: http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/04/python-power/ However, I don't know how to ask for a single RGB-encoded frame from the...

EF4 POCO: Snapshot vs Self-tracking over WCF

Hello Last year I developed a data access service for our project using Entity Framework (.NET3.5 of course) and using Julie Lerhman's book as a guide developed state tracking POCO objects. We use WCF and also have Silverlight 3 clients. We are moving to .NET 4.0 and I want to switch to using code generation to eliminate wasted develope...

xcode snapshots

hi guys What exactly does xcode do with project snapshots after the xcode project is moved or renamed. I have noticed they completely disapear...Where should I look? Defintely not in ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/SnapshotRepository.sparseimage ...

snapshot of website with provided URL address, through vb.net code

i have seen google chrome, whenever you open a new tab, it will show you the last 8 pages that you have visited. I want to do a similar thing, except i have a vb.net code behind the .aspx file, which shall give me a list of URL's called form the database. When the page is loaded the URL's are displayed on it. what i need my code to do is...

Cannot use READPAST in snapshot isolation mode

I have a process which is called from multiple threads which does the following: Start transaction Select unit of work from work table with by finding the next row where IsProcessed=0 with hints (UPDLOCK, HOLDLOCK, READPAST) Process the unit of work (C# and SQL stored procedures) Commit the transaction The idea of this is that a thre...

emacs local version control

hello. I am wondering if there is local version control/snapshots for emacs independent of VC? let me clarify: every time I save buffer, I would like to be able to keep track of changes of each save in session. I know I can do something similar with backup files, but they are not automated like VC and a somewhat cumbersome. I have sea...

Read committed Snapshot VS Snapshot Isolation Level

Could some one please help me understand when to use SNAPSHOT isolation level over READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT in SQL Server? I understand that in most cases READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT works, but not sure when go for SNAPSHOT isolation. Thanks ...

SQL Server 2008 Snapshot or NOLOCK hint for reading tasks?

I've tried googling and MSDNing a lot but I don't find a concrete answer for this. I have a database with some tables that are heavily written and almost no read, and another tables that are heavily read and less written in a about a 200:15 ratio. I'm thinking in making a snapshot of the database each 15 minutes. Then I'd change the ap...

Height of a webpage for snapshots in PHP

We have an application that takes snapshots of certain web pages. It's quite tightly integrated into the code, so we're not ready to incorporate another library. But we don't have a way of being able to calculate the web page height, so we end up taking snaps of 8000px height. Which is now proving troublesome when inserted into PDFs. I...