 20 Jun 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New environment variable MIDAS_EXPNAME
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I just realized that we had already MIDAS_EXPT_NAME, and now people get confused with
MIDAS_EXPT_NAME
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28 Jul 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New environment variable MIDAS_EXPNAME
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Concerning naming of shared memories I went one step further due to some requirement of a local experiment.
The experiment needs to change the experiment name shown on the web status page depending on the exact
configuration, but we do not want to change the whole midas experiment each time.
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 15 Aug 2023, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mlogger update
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A bit of update to the mlogger. In preparation for more cleanup when Stefan is
here at TRIUMF.
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17 Aug 2023, Thomas Lindner, Info, MIDAS Workshop 2023 - Sept 12-13
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Dear All,
A quick update on the MIDAS workshop. Based on the number of planned talks we have made the decision to switch to a two day workshop on Sept 12 and 13 |
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06 Sep 2023, Thomas Lindner, Info, MIDAS Workshop 2023 - Sept 12-13
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Dear All,
A final reminder about the MIDAS workshop in 6 days. A (hopefully) finalized agenda is posted here:
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26 Sep 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, mjsonrpc_db_save / mjsonrpc_db_load have been dropped
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The JavaScript function
mjsonrpc_db_save / mjonrpc_db_load
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06 Oct 2023, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, default midas history switched to "FILE" and "PerVariable" history
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We are very happy with the "FILE" implementation of MIDAS history and it is time
to make it the default for new experiments. This history driver works best if
"per variable" history is alos enabled. (SQL history already only works in "per-
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06 Oct 2023, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, new history panel editor
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the new history panel editor has been activated. it is meant to work the same as
the old editor, with some improvements to the history variables selection page.
this new version is written in html+javascript and it will be easier to improve,
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06 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New equipment display
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Since a long time we tried to convert all "static" mhttpd-generated pages to
dynamic JavaScript. With the new history panel editor we were almost there. Now I
committed the last missing piece - the equipment display. This is shown when you
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09 Oct 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, New equipment display 
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An additional functionality has been implemented on the equipment table:
You can now select several elements by Ctrl/Shift-Click on their names, then change the
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07 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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Dear beloved MIDAS users,
I'm happy to announce a "holiday update" for MIDAS. In countless hours, Zaher from
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10 Dec 2023, Andreas Suter, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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Hi Stefan and Zaher,
there is a problem with the new sequencer interface for midas.
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10 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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> If I understand the msequencer code correctly:
> Under '/Sequencer/State/Path' the path can be defined from where the msequencer gets the files, generates the xml, etc.
> However, the new javascript code reads/writes the files to '<exp>/userfiles/sequencer/'
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10 Dec 2023, Andreas Suter, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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> > If I understand the msequencer code correctly:
> > Under '/Sequencer/State/Path' the path can be defined from where the msequencer gets the files, generates the xml, etc.
> > However, the new javascript code reads/writes the files to '<exp>/userfiles/sequencer/'
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12 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas Holiday Update
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> > 3) Make /Sequencer/State/Path relative to <exp>/userfiles. Like if /Sequencer/State/Path=test would then result to a final directory <exp>/userfiles/sequencer/test
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> > I'm kind of tempted to go with 3), since this allows the experiment to define different subdirectories under <exp>/userfiles/sequencer/... depending |
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15 Dec 2023, Stefan Ritt, Info, Implementation of custom scatter, histogram and color map plots
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Custom plots including scatter, histogram and color map plots have been
implemented. This lets you plot graphs of X/Y data or histogram data stored in the
ODB on a custom page. For some examples and documentation please go to
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12 Feb 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS and ROOT 6.30
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Starting around ROOT 6.30, there is a new dependency requirement for nlohmann-json3-dev from https://github.com/nlohmann/json.
If you use a Ubuntu-22 ROOT binary kit from root.cern.ch, MIDAS build will bomb with errors: Could not find a package configuration file provided by "nlohmann_json"
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14 Feb 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, bitbucket permissions
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I pushed some buttons in bitbucket user groups and permissions to make it happy
wrt recent changes.
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08 Mar 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS frontend for WIENER L.V. P.S. and VME crates
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Our MIDAS frontend for WIENER power supplies is now available as a standalone git repository.
https://bitbucket.org/ttriumfdaq/fewienerlvps/src/master/
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01 Apr 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, xz-utils bomb out, compression benchmarks
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you may have heard the news of a major problem with the xz-utils project, authors of the popular "xz" file compression,
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3094
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