 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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02 Apr 2024, Zaher Salman, Info, Sequencer editor
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Dear all,
Stefan and I have been working on improving the sequencer editor to make it look and feel more like a standard editor. This sequencer v2 has been finally
merged into the develop branch earlier today.
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02 Apr 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Sequencer editor
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> Stefan and I have been working on improving the sequencer editor ...
Looks grand! Congratulations with getting it completed. The previous version was
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04 Apr 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS RPC data format
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I am not sure I have seen this documented before. MIDAS RPC data format.
1) RPC request (from client to mserver), in rpc_call_encode()
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24 Apr 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS RPC data format
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> 4.5) TID_IN32|RPC_VARARRAY does not work, corrupts following parameters. MIDAS only uses TID_ARRAY|RPC_VARARRAY
fixed in commit 0f5436d901a1dfaf6da2b94e2d87f870e3611cf1, TID_ARRAY|RPC_VARARRAY was okey (i.e. db_get_value()), bug happened only if rpc_tid_size()
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24 Apr 2024, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS RPC add support for std::string and std::vector<char>
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I now fully understand the MIDAS RPC code, had to add some debugging printfs,
write some test code (odbedit test_rpc), catch and fix a few bugs.
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