 13 Dec 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, ss_thread_kill() kills entire program
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> Hi, I'm having some trouble getting ss_thread_kill() to work properly. It seems
> to kill the entire program instead of just the thread.
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 24 Jan 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Compression benchmarks
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In the DEAP experiment, the normal MIDAS mlogger gzip compression is not fast enough for some data
taking modes, so I am doing tests of other compression programs. Here is the results.
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13 Feb 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Review of github and bitbucket
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I have done a review of github and bitbucket as candidates for hosting GIT repositories for collaborative
DAQ-type projects. Here is my impressions.
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08 Mar 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, ODB /Experiment/MAX_EVENT_SIZE
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Somebody pointed out an error in the MIDAS documentation regarding maximum event size
supported by MIDAS and the MAX_EVENT_SIZE #define in midas.h.
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02 Apr 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Review of github and bitbucket
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Hi, thanks for your positive feedback. I have been using git for small private projects for a few years now
and I like it. It is similar to the old SCCS days - good version control without having to setup servers,
accounts, doodads, etc.
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05 Apr 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, ODB JSON support
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odbedit can now save ODB in JSON-formatted files. (JSON is a popular data encoding standard associated
with Javascript). The intent is to eventually use the ODB JSON encoder in mhttpd to simplify passing of
ODB data to custom web pages. In mhttpd I also intend to support the JSON-P variation of JSON (via the
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11 Apr 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Persistent ipcrm error
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> [system.c:308:ss_shm_open,ERROR] Shared memory segment with key 0x4d008002 already exists,
please remove it manually: ipcrm -M 0x4d008002
> [midas.c:1950:cm_connect_experiment1,ERROR] cannot open database
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30 Apr 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, ROOT switched to GIT
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Latest news - the ROOT project switched from SVN to GIT.
Announcement:
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06 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Recent-ish SVN changes at PSI
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A little while ago, PSI made some changes to the SVN hosting. The main SVN URL seems to remain the
same, but SVN viewer moved to a new URL (it seems a bit faster compared to the old viewer):
https://savannah.psi.ch/viewvc/meg_midas/trunk/
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06 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, TRIUMF MIDAS page moved to DAQWiki
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The MIDAS web page at TRIUMF (http://midas.triumf.ca) moved from the daq-plone site to the DAQWiki
(MediaWiki) site. Links were updated, checked and corrected:
https://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/MIDAS
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07 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Updated: javascript custom page examples
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I updated the MIDAS javascript examples in examples/javascript1. All existing mhttpd.js functions are
now exampled. (yes).
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10 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, Fixed: crash if alarm "write elog message" is enabled
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If the MIDAS Alarm property "write elog message" is enabled, an uninitialized variable "tag" is passed to
el_submit() and depending on your luck, cause a crash. "tag" is supposed to be and is now a NUL-
terminated string. The only other use of el_submit() is in mhttpd.cxx and mserver.c, where it is called
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10 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd JSON support
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> odbedit can now save ODB in JSON-formatted files.
> Added functions:
> INT EXPRT db_save_json(HNDLE hDB, HNDLE hKey, const char *file_name);
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10 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Updated: javascript custom page examples
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> ODBCopy(path, format); -- no doc
Updated example of ODBCopy:
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17 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd JSON-P support
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> Added JSON encoding format to Javascript ODBCopy(path,format) ("jcopy"). Use format="json", Javascript example updated with an example example.
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31 May 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd JSON-P support
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> To see how it all works, please look at examples/javascript1/example.html.
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> - JSON encoding has an extra layer of objects (variables.Variables.foo instead of variables.foo)
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10 Jun 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, ladd00.triumf.ca https ssl certificate update, elogd update, relocation.
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The HTTPS SSL certificate on ladd00.triumf.ca has been updated. Same as the old
certificate, the new one is self-signed and your web browser may complain about
that and ask you to "save a security exception".
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22 Jul 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MidasWiki at TRIUMF
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We are happy to announce the creation of the MidasWiki at TRIUMF (https://midas.triumf.ca) as the
new location of MIDAS documentation, user instructions, examples, etc.
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22 Jul 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS source code converted from SVN to GIT
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The MIDAS source code repository was converted from SVN to GIT, hosted as bitbucket:
https://bitbucket.org/tmidas.
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24 Jul 2013, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MidasWiki at TRIUMF
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> We are happy to announce the creation of the MidasWiki at TRIUMF
> https://midas.triumf.ca
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