So how many of you have ever seen the dreaded “Failed to save document” message like the one on the left?  Usually this warning appears after you have spent ALL day working on an uber complicated assembly and there you sit, right?

Well, I think I have found a way to not lose all of the work you put into that assembly since your last save.  Here are the steps to save yourself from the wrath of you boss when you have to explain to him that the last how many hours have been lost on that hot project you are working on.

1. Do a “Save As” of the assembly with a different name inside the same folder as the original assembly.
2. Close all SolidWorks files, saving what you can.
3. Delete the original assembly (take note of the EXACT file name).
4. Using Windows Rename, rename the new assembly to the file name of the original assembly.
5. Open assembly and you should be where you left off.

This method especially works well when you have in-context relations in that assembly.  By renaming the newly created assembly to the name of the original you will regain all of your in-context relations.

I hope this works for you as well as it worked for me.

Image courtesy of SolidSmack.

One of the most common questions I get in our Six Sigma courses is how to understand the difference between Type I and Type II errors. I’ll offer an explanation and then describe how I personally remember which error is which.

Type I and Type II errors are mistakes made when performing null hypothesis testing. Remember that your null hypothesis is always that there is no relationship among your variables. We have to decide whether or not the null hypothesis is true, and we’re either right or wrong. This leads to four possible outcomes. Two of these four possible outcomes are correct decisions—your data leads you to conclude that there is no relationship among your variables and there really isn’t OR your data leads you to conclude that there is a relationship and indeed there really is. The other two potential outcomes are errors.

A Type I error means that your data leads you to conclude that there is a relationship among variables in your dataset, but in the real world there is no relationship. For example, your data shows that eating ice cream is related to living longer, but it really isn’t. A Type II error occurs when your data leads you to conclude that there is no relationship among your variables, but in the real world there is. For example, your data says there is no difference in lifespan between people who eat only junk food and those who eat very healthy, but in the real world there may be this difference.

How do I personally keep these two errors straight? What I remember is that researchers almost always want to find relationships among their variables—they want to find potential causes, interesting patterns, and things that are worth publishing. So the number one error that researchers are biased to making is saying that there is a relationship among their variables when there really isn’t it. This is the Type I error.

Another day, another embarrassing mistake. In a Washington Post  jobs advice column this morning, whoever copy-edited this column was asleep at the keyboard.  A reader asks columnist Lily Garcia how to deal with an employee who mispronounces common words such as “library” in presentations. Garcia advises the reader to talk to the employee and ”bring up the four developmental areas that you indentify in your question.”

I make plenty of my own mistakes and I don’t expect the Post or any other publication to be an error-free zone. On the other hand, ”indentify” in a column about getting language wrong?

–Barbara

Math can be really fun. Seriously.

This post is the 2nd in a series of posts I’m planning to have about why math is such a beautiful, useful, and awe-inspiring subject, and that a lot of us can do math (advanced/seemingly difficult math even). Math is such an integral part of humanity since our cave dwelling days, and much more so now in most of our technology driven lives. Previously I wrote about how even advanced math, particularly advanced geometry, can be easily tackled with just your imagination. This time it’s about probability. I can just imagine some of you cringe at the thought of math, let alone probability. But I’ll try to show you that often times, logical reasoning is all that it takes to wrap your head around probabilities, even the ones that confound a lot of brilliant people, even some mathematicians themselves. In fact, we’ll end this article with a simulation of a game/game show. Not bad huh?

Probability and people

In a nutshell, probability is the area of math which deals with the likelihood of an event happening. It is usually expressed as a number, whether a fraction or a decimal, between 0 and 1, with a probability of 1 meaning the event will surely happen and a probability of 0 meaning the event won’t happen.

Now, don’t be too hard on yourself thinking that probability is too hard for you, unlike most of the human population. In fact, probability is one really confounding area of math and problems in it that seem to be easy in hindsight, turn out to be deceptively difficult or tricky, even for  mathematicians, teachers, and other brilliant men and women around the globe. In fact a lot of us have trouble wrapping our heads around probabilities. You mix that with human hopefulness and also the difficulty of grasping very large numbers and what you get is the staggering number of people around the world falling in line to get their lotto tickets so they could win the multi-million prize money.

In fact, if we do the math, in a typical 6/49 game of lotto (6 unique numbers chosen out of 49 numbers, where the order of the 6 numbers is not important) we find that your chances of winning today after buying that lotto ticket is 1 in about 14,000,000. So if Lucy (one of the earliest hominids/proto-humans known to us) or her people, or perhaps even Neanderthals started betting on the lottery at the beginning of their lives, some of them should be millionaires by now. That’s how bad we are at assessing odds, especially coupled with large numbers. So when you go buy that lotto ticket later, I’m afraid the odds are so much against you.

However, I’ll discuss next a particularly perplexing probability problem pondered by people, even brilliant ones, and found the solution to be deceptively trivial after all. Actually, even after you get the explanation, from a practical standpoint it doesn’t seem like so. But the logical reasoning will quite surely buy you out. But don’t fret, all you need again is imagination and logical reasoning.

Game time

Some of you may have heard/read about the American game show Let’s Make a Deal. The Monty Hall problem (MHP) was named after the show’s host. Simply stated, the rules of the game are as follows:

The game master (GM), has 3 doors: 2 with goats behind them and one with a car behind it. The GM lets you choose one door, which you think holds the prize car behind it. Since the GM’s job is to make you and the audience excited and enjoy the game, the GM opens another door. But since the GM knows the placement of the goats and the car i.e. which door has which item behind it, the GM opens a door which has a goat behind it. Now, the GM poses a question to you: Do you or do you not want to change the door you initially picked i.e. the GM gives you an opportunity to stay with the door you originally picked, or to choose the other door, knowing that one of the doors, which the GM opened, has a goat behind it.

The GM in the show is of course Monty Hall (MH). Now, you’d most probably think that since there are only 2 doors left unopened, that the probability of getting either a goat or a car is now 50/50 or 50% right i.e. it doesn’t matter whether you switch doors or not?

Nope.

In fact, however counterintuitive this may seem, your chances of getting the car at this point of the game doubles if you decide to change the door you initially picked. How? Let’s find out shall we?

Goat, Car, Goat

Now let’s strap on our imagination and logical reasoning caps to find out how the probability of getting the car increases two-fold if you switch your chosen door, and that it’s not a 50/50 chance of getting the car once a door with a goat has been opened by the GM.

Monty Hall problem

One way of looking at how this counterintuitive probability problem is correctly tackled is by taking the possibility of the events one at a time (refer to the figure above please). In this scenario we show that when you switch doors, you always double your chances of winning. Here’s how:

1. First event, say you picked a door and it happened to have the prize car behind it.  Regardless of which door the GM opens, switching in this case either gives you goat A or goat B i.e. you lose the prize car. Out of the 3 possible scenarios (2 of which are listed right after this one), in this one event/case do you lose the prize car.

2. Second event, you choose a door with a goat (goat A) behind it. The GM opens a door again with a goat (goat B) behind it. If you switch in this case, you get the car. This event, wherein you get the car by switching, is one event which you get the prize car. Score one for you.

3. Third event, you choose the 3rd door with a goat(goat B) behind it. The GM again opens a door with a goat (this time, goat A). So when you switch, you get the car again. Yay. This event, wherein you again get the car by switching, is another event which lets you take home the prize.

So what did we get from all this? We saw that out of 3 events/cases of picking either of the 3 doors, you always get 2 events (event 2. and 3.) which favor switching and which lets you walk away with the prize (or in this case, drive away with the prize). So the odds of getting the car/prize in the MHP is not 50% as a lot of us would initially assume, but instead, is really 2/3 or approximately 66.7%.

It can take a while to sink in, but the reasoning/explanation is quite logical and sound.

Try it out!

I actually tried this out with my mother and at another time with my younger brother. What I did was I got 3 opaque plastic cups (simulating the doors) and 2 toy cows (no goat toys in our house at that time) and 1 robot toy that transforms into a car (not bad for a prize no?). I made them act as a GM at one time, with me being the game contestant. Of course to prove my point I always switched. We did this about 20 times and I got the prize car (or robot) at around 14 times out of the 20 (roughly 2/3 of 20). Then I acted as a GM and they acted as the contestant. Then their job was not to switch doors (or cups), just to prove my point that you get the prize more often than not (2/3 of the time remember?) by switching instead of staying with your original door/cup.

They even asked me if I was doing a magic trick on them. I told them it was the power of mathematics and of logical thinking. Imagine what much more primitive, let’s say Bronze-aged men, would think of me, with this knowledge, even without modern devices like a cellphone. Perhaps they’d think of me as an oracle or even a god.

Great, great. But what’s the use?

I think one important thing we can get from this (other than to show you that you can do maths you thought were too hard or complicated for you) is that with math, we can make decisions in our lives (sports betting, lottery, game shows and so on) with more clarity, logic, and sound reasoning, instead of just blind optimism.

If you didn’t get the logic on how to win the game at first glance, or if you thought it was 50/50, don’t be ashamed, a lot of people (some brilliant even) fell for it too. In fact, out of 228 subjects in a study, only 13% chose to switch, and that the rest (87%) assumed that the switching didn’t matter since the likelihood of getting the car out of the 2 unopened doors are equal (research by Mueser and Granberg, 1999).

Quoting cognitive psychologist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

“… no other statistical puzzle comes so close to fooling all the people all the time”

and

“that even Nobel physicists systematically give the wrong answer, and that they insist on it, and they are ready to berate in print those who propose the right answer.”

So, not bad eh? Still think math (or at least those areas you think are too advanced or complicated for you) isn’t for the average person? If so, then look forward to my next posts about math.

References, resources, and further reading

• Wikipedia article on the mathematics of lottery
• Wikipedia article on the Monty Hall problem

As a journalist, we are in search for the “truth”. We interview several people to get a good picture of the issue or topic we are reporting. We are given pieces of information, and oftentimes we find ourselves connecting the dots to make sense of the whole thing. Our report has to flow somehow.

He said this, she said that. This happened on this day, and that happened on that day. Our sources give us point A and point B, and we draw a the line that connects the two. “Oh, so this is how it happened…,” we often say.

I still have a lot to learn about journalism, but I think many of our errors as journalists (at least of mine) come out of our attempt to connect the dots. We put a straight line between two pieces of information, when life is more complex than that.

She’s a believer of Young Earth creationism, you say? Well, according to Wikipedia, they believe that the earth is about 6,000-10,000 years old. You take the “younger” age and quickly write that she believes the earth is 6,000 years old. After the paper is published, she tells you she thinks it’s 10,000.

These could probably fall under “honest mistakes”. Well, that’s what I try to comfort myself with. But we must always strive for 100% accuracy in our reporting.

Sometimes, life is not as simple as you think. So never, ever make assumptions.

I had a problem with my blog these days. This is one of the reasons I didn’t post anything for more than a week. Every time I was trying to post something I only could see an error message. As usual, I didn’t think that if I report that, someone could or would do anything but today I said ‘Ok, let’s report that and see what’s happening!’ The result? I received a message 30 minutes ago (that means in an hour or maybe two) and now I can post again! Thank you, Mark!

Are the Xbox 360 Error getting tiresome? Well, you will be a surprise, because you do not throw absolutely, Xbox, some of these errors can be corrected if you know how. The Red Ring of Death and E74 errors are the most common and fixable errors on the Xbox 360

This error appears when you do a reboot of the system. To explain better to be able to take an example: you play the game suddenly freezes, there isno way, unless re-start to thaw the Xbox, but when you reboot, you get an error message.

Red Ring of Death error: This is not a GPU bug is not fatal. In other words, the graphics processing unit has a malfunction. Several things can cause this malfunction. This could be caused by the decaying thermal paste causing the chip to get lost on the motherboard. Another reason it is not because the GPU will start another chip on the touchAllowing the motherboard to fail. Many people try the towel trick, but this should be avoided because they could heat up and cause the system to cause further damage to the chip or the motherboard. Really, the best thing you can do is learn how to repair the Xbox 360-biting bug, or just going forward and the bullet, and send it to Microsoft.

The other common mistake is the Xbox 360 Error E74, which are lighter than the Red Ring of Death fix it.There are only three things that cause this error, and they can be easily fixed. First, an A / V cable was loose or not properly installed. Replace Unplug and wipe the metal part with a dry, soft cloth and her. This is the easiest way to fix the problem and hopefully resolve.

Otherwise, it could mean, the ANA / HANA chip has come loose or the GPU has a malfunction in the Red Ring of Death. Your Xbox warranty does not apply to this failure and the only option that youhave is either learn to change it or send it to Microsoft and pay about $ 100 for the repair.

Do not worry, there are ways to resolve these errors, to themselves and it costs much less. Is all you need to do to follow the repair steps and you're well on your way to ever resolve the Xbox 360 errors.

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:

Errors in data tracking job creation under the stimulus are prompting bipartisan blowback on Capitol Hill.

Hours after ABC's Jonathan Karl reported on government data showing hundreds of created jobs and millions of dollars spent in congressional districts that don't exist, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., late Monday issued a blistering statement demanding an immediate fix to “ludicrous mistakes” on the Recovery.gov Website.

“The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes,” Obey said. “Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it. We've got too many serious problems in this country to let that happen.”

“Whether the numbers are good news or bad news, I want the honest numbers and I want them now,” Obey continued.

The revelation about the jobs in phantom districts comes in advance of a Thursday hearing in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, can expect sharp questions from Republicans who have been critical of the administration's job-creation statistics.

Another hiccup in advance of that hearing: The administration was forced to slice 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on stimulus spending because of what officials deemed to be “unrealistic data” flowing in from stimulus recipients, according to ABC's Matt Jaffe.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the oversight committee's ranking member, is calling on the board to add a disclaimer to the Web site, if board members say they can't certify the accuracy of the figures.

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:

Errors in data tracking job creation under the stimulus are prompting bipartisan blowback on Capitol Hill.

Hours after ABC's Jonathan Karl reported on government data showing hundreds of created jobs and millions of dollars spent in congressional districts that don't exist, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., late Monday issued a blistering statement demanding an immediate fix to “ludicrous mistakes” on the Recovery.gov Website.

“The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes,” Obey said. “Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it. We've got too many serious problems in this country to let that happen.”

“Whether the numbers are good news or bad news, I want the honest numbers and I want them now,” Obey continued.

The revelation about the jobs in phantom districts comes in advance of a Thursday hearing in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, can expect sharp questions from Republicans who have been critical of the administration's job-creation statistics.

Another hiccup in advance of that hearing: The administration was forced to slice 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on stimulus spending because of what officials deemed to be “unrealistic data” flowing in from stimulus recipients, according to ABC's Matt Jaffe.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the oversight committee's ranking member, is calling on the board to add a disclaimer to the Web site, if board members say they can't certify the accuracy of the figures.

In a supreme act of abject poltroonery, the Connecticut legislature bowed to the hospital lobby. Prior legislation required hospitals to publicly report adverse outcomes. New legislation eviscerates the requirements allowing hospitals to deny potential patients valuable information regarding institutional and physician performance and outcome.

Since the new legislation has taken effect reports of adverse events have fallen sharply. I strongly suspect that it’s not because the doctors or hospitals got better. Records of adverse events are difficult or impossible to find. Hospital lawyers hide them behind “peer review privilege.” Now, more than ever you need to ask critical questions and get answers in writing.

The changes appear to benefit no one except the hospitals. My suggestion- flood your legislators office with complaints. Next take your business outside the state if you live in Connecticut (it’s a short drive- not like you live in central Texas). Specifically boycott hospitals named HERE.

It’s your health. Take it seriously. Take charge.

I have been working with Xubuntu for a while now and so far it has worked wonders at a point which I haven’t used Windows for months.

About 2 weeks ago I have upgraded my current Xubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and this has become my biggest mistake ever.

Since the upgrade this is the kind of errors that I have been getting:

• Skype doesn’t have any more sounds or can’t find mic
• Applications Bar gone
• Turning off or rebooting fails drastically making a hardware shutdown and power up necessary
• And the latest, my XServer is gone (all the user interface that looks like Windows)  and with it the login screen (everything now is terminal)

From all the troubles so far, the Xserver is by far the worst. Since it is gone I haven’t been able to run it using my user and to execute it I have to run everything as root.

After making a short trip to Windows and checking Google to find some solution at least for the XServer, I could manage to make the everything come back, but all using root.

If you are about to upgrade → DONT – This can be my best advise for you.

But if you are finding yourself in the same position that I was today then this is what you should do (you should be seeing only terminal at your screen):

1. execute display – if your x-server have a problem, then it will warn you about
2. now execute startx – this will start the xserver and all display options for your user. If you can see your Desktop, yeay, nothing more is necessary, otherwise you will need to run it as root (sudo startx)

Now is waiting for a good release of Xubuntu to solve this issues or reinstall everything from scratch.

from October 19, 2008

This blog post is in response to the blog prompt for Week #46 as provided by Amy Coffin at We Tree (via GeneaBloggers): “Comment on obituaries in your collection. Obits come in all shapes and sizes. Share some of the stand-outs with readers.”

My lessons learned after writing, reading and relying on the information made available in obituaries includes that they can be chock full of useful information: next of kin, parents, burial information and of course, major life events, but they are not the most reliable sources.

I am a reporter by training and have written several obituaries, both for relatives and for complete strangers*. Not all obituaries are written by professional journalists, however (and much to my chagrin, even when they are, errors can be edited in later). Many obituaries are written by relatives of the deceased — they may or may not have gone through the rigors of checking original sources of the information listed in the obit. In fact, it’s not impossible to imagine that many may gloss over some facts in remembering the life of their loved one and they may, inadvertently or not, introduce errors into the listing.

Before she passed away, my mother requested that I be the one to write her obituary. This I did, including the names and places of residence for her surviving family members, including her three younger sisters, all in the state of Virginia. Even though I typed the information for the obit and emailed it (in copyable/paste-able form) to the newspaper for inclusion, the state of residence for my youngest aunt was printed as California and not Virginia. Sigh.

Another obituary in my collection is for my great-grandmother, Della Hayes. I had always assumed that her maiden name (Crow) was spelled with an ‘e’ on the end because that is how it was listed in her obituary. All records I have found since then point to a spelling without an ‘e.’ Similarly, her mother’s maiden name also appears to have been misspelled in the obituary (Gorley instead of Gourley, as I have found in other records). Whether these spellings were provided by the family incorrectly or were printed incorrectly for some other reason, I do not know.

Of course, not all obituaries are so error-ridden and they are good starting points for finding facts that should be confirmed through further research.

*Obituaries are often the first things that budding reporters learn to write. Therefore, I found everything had come full circle during my final stint as a reporter (I decided not to pursue a career in journalism shortly after graduating from college). My final article as a general assignment reporting intern at the Viriginian-Pilot’s Virginia Beach bureau was  the obituary for G. Dewey Simmons, a minister who hailed from that area. He had gained notoriety by performing wedding rituals in unusual places, including one ceremony underwater. On my last day in the bureau–the day the obituary appeared in the paper–I had a voicemail on my phone. It was his daughter, in tears, calling to thank me. She said it captured his life perfectly. I can’t think of a better way to end my reporting career.

Interesting side note: the major news services pre-write obituaries for major public figures so that when these individuals do meet their demise, it is simply a matter of adding the details of death before posting on the wire.  I learned of this practical, if morbid, procedure while touring the Knight-Ridder library at the National Press Building during another reporting internship in college. It’s often the newsroom librarians who compile the facts for these canned pieces, before they are polished up by the reporters.

Massive Election Fraud threw vote count against Hoffman
WIDESPREAD FALSE REPORTS GIVEN TO PRESS, ALL TO DEFLATE HOFFMAN VOTE COUNT

Article: The Post & Email

It looks increasingly that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in her zeal to get the Health Care Federalization Bill passed, may have sworn in an unelected candidate for the NY-23 Congressional District, in violation of the U.S. Constitution and New York State laws.

As a matter of fact, not only has the Secretary of State of New York not certified the election, in which Doug Hoffman and Bill Owens vied in a special election, nearly head to head — after Scozzafava retired in humiliation, having lost the support of conservatives in her district — but that vote count is in doubt this morning.

The Post-Standard of Syracuse published this morning a detailed report which lists all the irregularities; errors of vote counting which were all against Doug Hoffman.

Ryan said an important factor in the decision to concede was the unexpected — and erroneous — close vote in Oswego County, where polls had Hoffman with a double digit percentage point lead heading into Election Day.

“That’s the thing that threw us off,” Ryan said.

Oswego County elections officials blame the mistakes on “chaos” in their call-in center that included a phone system foul-up and inspectors who read numbers incorrectly when phoning in results. Of 245 races in the county — not including the congressional and court races — 84 had incorrect totals reported election night.

In the congressional race, more votes were cast in Oswego County than any other in the 11-county district.

The district’s second biggest voter turnout was in Jefferson County, where Hoffman also has benefited from a turnaround since election night, gaining about 700 votes. Owens led Hoffman by 300 votes on the final election night tally. But after recanvassing, Hoffman now leads by 424 votes, 10,884 to 10,460.

Jerry Eaton, the Republican elections commissioner for Jefferson County, said inspectors found a problem in four districts where Hoffman’s vote total was mistakenly entered as zero.

“Hoffman definitely gained votes where he didn’t have them,” Eaton said.

Since 10,200 absentee ballots were distributed, and more than 1,300 returned from pro-military Jefferson Country alone have not even been counted (a more than 70% return rate on ballots distributed), there is a good chance that Dough Hoffman has won the election.

The consistent errors in the election process against Hoffman’s vote count, can only indicate one thing: a conspiracy to commit election fraud on a massive scale.

It turns out that Pelosi’s swearing-in of Owens had the political effect of garnering the addition Republican vote, of Cao, in the vote for the Health Care Bill, which passed narrowly, 220-215. The election fraud, in the NY-23 district, therefore, puts in doubt the legitimacy of that vote also.

The question of the day, therefore, is: “Was this election fraud organized and directed from the White House, which had everything to gain or lose, based upon a favorable or unfavorable vote tally?”

Hm. Sounds unsurprisingly familiar. Al Franken much?

Article Source: http://cutedarilahir.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-handle-vista-registry-errors.html

Here is a list of errors that i have came across recently and a possible solution for them.

[ i was using a copied xp home sp2 disk on a dell dimension e510 and the error message:

stop: c0000221 unknown hard error
/systemroot/system32/ntdll.dll

solution: system cant find the file to setup. USE A VAILD CD/DVD.

problem solved.

I have been using Subversive as my main SVN plug-in for my instances of Eclipse both at home and at work since it is now part of the Eclipse foundation. It woks pretty much like SubEclipse which is the SVN plug-in I used since I started using Eclipse for my Flex and ColdFusion development.

I had a new unpack of Eclipse 3.4.2 Ganymede (Eclipse is not installed, just unpacked from a zip archive in case you did not know) and I needed to use SVN to check out some code. As usual I added the repository for the Subversive plug-in, clicked install and let it rip. It installed with no problem which it should and as with all plug-in installs for Eclipse, it requires an application restart. Everything is happening by the numbers thus far.

After Eclipse restarted, I proceeded to checkout an SVN project like you normally would, some of you who are attentive might have noticed something by now. Anyway I pasted the URL link into the repository URL and guess what? An Error got thrown. To those of you who saw this coming, kudos to you.

As all who had used Subversive before, the plug-in and SVN connectors are in two different repositories. From what I understand this is due to licensing issues but that is a story for another time. The point is that after you install the plug-in, you are supposed to install the connectors which I did not do.

So I thought no biggie, I will just have to install the connectors. Then my episode of getting AssetionFailedException errors kept on happening when I tried to install the connectors. So tried a different connector repository and still no dice. I was like what in the name god happened? Then I tried doing an update for all my plug-ins which is no small undertaking considering the fact that my friend here blew my home bandwidth cap and after an agonizing 11 minutes, same error came up.

At this point I felt that maybe I should just unpack a fresh Eclipse and start over but then I tought could this be a plug-in issue because Subversive ran without its dependent plug-in which perhaps caused some corruption? I closed Eclipse and fired my command prompt and did this :

c:\> cd eclipse

c:\eclipse> eclipse –clean

The clean argument passed onto Eclipse as you probably know is something used to basically start Eclipse and re-links all the plug-ins together and flushes everything save for your user preferences, at least thats what I think it does. I hoped this would flush out the corruption in my plug-ins wherever they might be.

After long waits and loads of resource consumption (note to self: running aTunes, Pidgin, Chrome and Windows Update is a bad idea when running eclipse -clean), I tried again to install my SVN connectors. Now it worked like its supposed to and then I decided to blog about this. Hope this helps somebody else who had the same issue as I did.

Useful Links :

http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/subversive/download.php

http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/

I received an error (in the windows event log) the other day when trying to configure a BizTalk receive location using the WCF LOB SAP adapter. The error looked like this:

One solution (as suggested by MSDN) is to install the SAP client.

This solution works, but what is it about the SAP client install that is required by the WCF LOB SAP adapter? Why should you have to install the SAP client on a production server?

It turns out the SAP client modifies the following file: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services, by making entries to resolving the SAP gateway host’s name (as used in BizTalk WCF SAP receive location’s URI) to the gateways address.

Once you manually modify this file to contain these entries the WCF SAP BizTalk receive location will work without having to install the SAP client.