 20 May 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, New ODB++ API
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> All this is very good news. I really wish this were available some months ago: it would have helped me immensely. The old C API was clunky at best.
> I really like the idea and looking forward to using it (even if at the moment I do not have the need to) ...
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 09 Jun 2020, Isaac Labrie Boulay, Info, Preparing the VME hardware - VME address jumpers. 
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Hey folks,
I'm currently working on setting up a MIDAS experiment and I am following the
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10 Jun 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Preparing the VME hardware - VME address jumpers.
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Hi, if you are not using any VME hardware, then you have no VME address jumpers to
set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus
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12 Jun 2020, Isaac Labrie Boulay, Info, Preparing the VME hardware - VME address jumpers.
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> Hi, if you are not using any VME hardware, then you have no VME address jumpers to
> set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus
>
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19 Jun 2020, Isaac Labrie-Boulay, Info, Building/running a Frontend Task
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To build a frontend task, the user code and system code are compiled and linked
together with the required libraries, by running a Makefile (e.g.
../midas/examples/experiment/Makefile in the MIDAS package).
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24 Jun 2020, Stefan Ritt, Info, New image history system available
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I'm happy to report that the Corona Lockdown in Europe also had some positive side
effects: Finally I found time to implement an image history system in midas,
something I wanted to do since many years, but never found time for that.
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28 Jun 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd https support openssl -> mbedtls
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For password protection of midas web pages, https is required, good old http
with passwords transmitted in-the-clear is no longer considered secure. Latest
recommendation is to run mhttpd behind an industry-standard https proxy, for
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28 Jun 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd https support openssl -> mbedtls
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To add. Using https with either openssl or mbedtls requires obtaining an https certificate. This can be self-
signed, or signed by a higher authority, or issued by the "let's encrypt" project.
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28 Jun 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Makefile update
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I reworked the MIDAS Makefile to simplify things and to remove redundancy with functions
provided by cmake.
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15 Jul 2020, Stefan Ritt, Info, Makefile update
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Please note that you can also compile midas in the standard cmake way with
$ mkdir build
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15 Jul 2020, Stefan Ritt, Info, Minimal CMakeLists.txt for your midas front-end
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Since a few people asked me, here is a "minimal" CMakeLists.txt file for a user-written front-end
program "myfe":
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07 Aug 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, update of MYSQL history documentation
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I updated the documentation for setting up a MYSQL (MariaDB) database for
recording MIDAS history: https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/History_System#Write_MYSQL-history_events
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10 Aug 2020, Mathieu Guigue, Info, MidasConfig.cmake usage
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As the Midas software is installed using CMake, it can be easily integrated into
other CMake projects using the MidasConfig.cmake file produced during the Midas
installation.
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13 Oct 2020, Soichiro Kuribayashi, Info, About remote control of front end part of MIDAS on chip
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Hello!
My name is Soichiro Kuribayashi and I am a Ph.D. student at Kyoto University.
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13 Oct 2020, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, About remote control of front end part of MIDAS on chip
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> My name is Soichiro Kuribayashi and I am a Ph.D. student at Kyoto University.
> I'm a T2K collaborator and working for Super FGD which is new detector in ND280.
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13 Oct 2020, Soichiro Kuribayashi, Info, About remote control of front end part of MIDAS on chip
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Dear Konstantin,
Thank you very much for your reply and detailed information.
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20 Oct 2020, Stefan Ritt, Info, About remote control of front end part of MIDAS on chip
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We also use a Zynq chip and boot in the following order:
1. SD Card
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21 Oct 2020, Soichiro Kuribayashi, Info, About remote control of front end part of MIDAS on chip
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Dear Stefan,
Thank you very much for your help.
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17 Nov 2020, Stefan Ritt, Info, Equipment "common" settings in ODB
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Today I addressed a topic which bugged me since long time. The ODB contains
settings under /Equipment/<name>/Common which are a "mirror" of the equipment[]
setting in a frontend (using the mfe.cxx framework). If the "Common" entry in
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20 Nov 2020, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Info, Equipment "common" settings in ODB
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Indeed this "mirror" of the ODB in settings option can cause frustration in
particular when we think the ODB is empty but is not.
In the other hand, over time the settings are adjusted to a particular
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