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• Roles, permissions - DataCenter, file, Cluster, host Layout - best Practices\How-to

  Have a little problem with permissions and roles. I'm sure it will be an easy one for those of you with more experience of working with roles. I hope that my layout organization made with quote boxes is readable.

  The Organization has just spun a new host ESXi 4 for developers and added in vCenter. Developers want to use the vSphere Client\VIC to manage the ESX Server. They need rights to create virtual machines, remove VMs, clone VMs, VMs potential power. However, we don't want them to be able to reach production.

  According to the diagram below, the new host of development, labeled as "HostC (autonomous DEVELOPMENT host)", is located under "Data Center-City-2", who also owns the production ESX clusters. " And obviously I don't want developers having rights on production groups.

  Lets say I have create a role called 'HostC Dev Sandbox Rights', add users and assign directly to "HostC" below. This role contains the VM 'create' right, however when I run the wizard Creation of VM of HostC as a member of the role the vSphere Client tells me this task requires rights create VM on the level of data center! But given these developers to create VMS access on the data center would give them rights to create virtual machines in the poles of Production! Which is obviously a problem.

  I can't believe that our need to give these rights to ONLY one host in a DataCenter is rare. I don't know that there is a misunderstanding on my part of how to configure VMware roles for best practices.

  Anyone with more expirence on VMware roles ready to help me on this one? Thanks in advance!

  Organization representative Schema using quote boxes:

  vSphere (vCenter Server)

  City of DataCenter-1

  Many cases, clusters, hosts

  City of DataCenter-2

  FolderA (Division A)

  ClusterA (A Cluster of Production)

  HostA1 (Production host in Group A)

  HostA2 (Production host in Group A)

  %Windir%$NTUninstallKB941568_DX8$\Spuninstb (division B)

  Focus (Production Cluster B)

  HostB1 (Production host in Group B)

  HostB2 (Production host in Group B)

  HostC (autonomous DEVELOPMENT host) - under %windir%$NTUninstallKB941568_DX8$\Spuninstb but not in the cluster

  City Center-3

  Many cases, clusters, hosts

  You can apply permissions directly to the data store.  I didn't need to go further than the clusters in our environment, but what really works for you is to place data warehouses in folders for storage.  Have the records be the names of your groups hosts and clusters.  Then place the warehouses of data for each cluster in the corresponding folder.  Then, just apply permissions for the data on the record instead of warehouses in each individual data store.  Off topic a little, but a records of something in the store of data discovered lack is the function of "views of storage" and I put a future application.

  Yes, if you set permissision to the view of the data store the user can turn opinion and see.  Extensive your permissions framework tests is guaranteed before pushing users.  Looks like you are already doing.

• (Best practices) How to store the adjustment curve values?

  I got two sets of data, Xreal and Xobserved, abbreviated Xr and Xo. Xreal is a data set that contains the values of sensor from a reliable source (it's a pain to collect data for), and Xobserved is a set of data containing the values from a less reliable source, but much less maintenance, sensor. I'll create a VI that receives the entry of these two sources of data, stores it in a database (text file or csv) and crosses some estimators of this database. The output of the VI will be best approximation of linear adjustment (using regression, not the Xreal) of the input value of Xobserved.

  What are best practices for storage Xreal and Xobserved? In addition, I'm not too known using best VI made, take CSV files for entry? How would format it best?

  '

  Keep things simple.  Convert the table to CSV file and write to a text file.  See attached example.

• best practices: how many css pages?

  CS6 Newbie Question

  I seem to keep automatic generation of pages in css. I'm trying to:

  -boilerplate.css: redirects all browsers

  -fluid.css: fluid grid sheet

  -content.css: for styling everything (paragraphs, div, etc.)

  Is this a good approach?

  Somehow I have continued to generate fragments everywhere

  When to use dialog boxes to interface design instead of writing directly in mode code.

  When you create a new CSS rule, you specify DW anywhere that it defined.   See screenshot.

  

  The options for this document are:

  • (This Document only)
  • (New Style sheet file)
  • boilerplate. CSS
  • FluidGrid.css
  • Content.CSS

  You must choose new each time.

  Nancy O.

• Dell MD3620i connect to vmware - best practices

  Hello community,

  I bought a Dell MD3620i with 2 x ports Ethernet 10Gbase-T on each controller (2 x controllers).
  My vmware environment consists of 2 x ESXi hosts (each with 2ports x 1Gbase-T) and a HP Lefthand (also 1Gbase-T) storage. The switches I have are the Cisco3750 who have only 1Gbase-T Ethernet.
  I'll replace this HP storage with DELL storage.
  As I have never worked with stores of DELL, I need your help in answering my questions:

  1. What is the best practices to connect to vmware at the Dell MD3620i hosts?
  2. What is the process to create a LUN?
  3. can I create more LUNS on a single disk group? or is the best practice to create a LUN on a group?
  4. how to configure iSCSI 10GBase-T working on the 1 Gbit/s switch ports?
  5 is the best practice to connect the Dell MD3620i directly to vmware without switch hosts?
  6. the old iscsi on HP storage is in another network, I can do vmotion to move all the VMS in an iSCSI network to another, and then change the IP addresses iSCSI on vmware virtual machines uninterrupted hosts?
  7. can I combine the two iSCSI ports to an interface of 2 Gbps to conenct to the switch? I use two switches, so I want to connect each controller to each switch limit their interfaces to 2 Gbps. My Question is, would be controller switched to another controller if the Ethernet link is located on the switch? (in which case a single reboot switch)

  Tahnks in advanse!

  Basics of TCP/IP: a computer cannot connect to 2 different networks (isolated) (e.g. 2 directly attached the cables between the server and an iSCSI port SAN) who share the same subnet.

  The corruption of data is very likely if you share the same vlan for iSCSI, however, performance and overall reliability would be affected.

  With a MD3620i, here are some configuration scenarios using the factory default subnets (and for DAS configurations I have added 4 additional subnets):

  Single switch (not recommended because the switch becomes your single point of failure):

  Controller 0:

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.130.101

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.131.101

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.132.101

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.133.101

  Controller 1:

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.130.102

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.131.102

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.132.102

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.133.102

  Server 1:

  iSCSI NIC 0: 192.168.130.110

  iSCSI NIC 1: 192.168.131.110

  iSCSI NIC 2: 192.168.132.110

  iSCSI NIC 3: 192.168.133.110

  Server 2:

  All ports plug 1 switch (obviously).

  If you only want to use the 2 NICs for iSCSI, have new server 1 Server subnet 130 and 131 and the use of the server 2 132 and 133, 3 then uses 130 and 131. This distributes the load of the e/s between the ports of iSCSI on the SAN.

  Two switches (a VLAN for all iSCSI ports on this switch if):

  NOTE: Do NOT link switches together. This avoids problems that occur on a switch does not affect the other switch.

  Controller 0:

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.130.101-> for switch 1

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.131.101-> to switch 2

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.132.101-> for switch 1

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.133.101-> to switch 2

  Controller 1:

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.130.102-> for switch 1

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.131.102-> to switch 2

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.132.102-> for switch 1

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.133.102-> to switch 2

  Server 1:

  iSCSI NIC 0: 192.168.130.110-> for switch 1

  iSCSI NIC 1: 192.168.131.110-> to switch 2

  iSCSI NIC 2: 192.168.132.110-> for switch 1

  iSCSI NIC 3: 192.168.133.110-> to switch 2

  Server 2:

  Same note on the use of only 2 cards per server for iSCSI. In this configuration each server will always use two switches so that a failure of the switch should not take down your server iSCSI connectivity.

  Quad switches (or 2 VLAN on each of the 2 switches above):

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.130.101-> for switch 1

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.131.101-> to switch 2

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.132.101-> switch 3

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.133.101-> at 4 switch

  Controller 1:

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.130.102-> for switch 1

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.131.102-> to switch 2

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.132.102-> switch 3

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.133.102-> at 4 switch

  Server 1:

  iSCSI NIC 0: 192.168.130.110-> for switch 1

  iSCSI NIC 1: 192.168.131.110-> to switch 2

  iSCSI NIC 2: 192.168.132.110-> switch 3

  iSCSI NIC 3: 192.168.133.110-> at 4 switch

  Server 2:

  In this case using 2 NICs per server is the first server uses the first 2 switches and the second server uses the second series of switches.

  Join directly:

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.130.101-> server iSCSI NIC 1 (on an example of 192.168.130.110 IP)

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.131.101-> server iSCSI NIC 2 (on an example of 192.168.131.110 IP)

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.132.101-> server iSCSI NIC 3 (on an example of 192.168.132.110 IP)

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.133.101-> server iSCSI NIC 4 (on an example of 192.168.133.110 IP)

  Controller 1:

  iSCSI port 0: 192.168.134.102-> server iSCSI NIC 5 (on an example of 192.168.134.110 IP)

  iSCSI port 1: 192.168.135.102-> server iSCSI NIC 6 (on an example of 192.168.135.110 IP)

  iSCSI port 2: 192.168.136.102-> server iSCSI NIC 7 (on an example of 192.168.136.110 IP)

  iSCSI port 4: 192.168.137.102-> server iSCSI NIC 8 (on an example of 192.168.137.110 IP)

  I left just 4 subnets controller 1 on the '102' IPs for more easy changing future.

• Best practices for the application of page multi Landscape/Portrait

  Hello
  I am looking for information on track to develop auto guide demand in pure actionscript with new components of qnx.fuse, but there is not a good example in real code. Every time I tried to make it resizable layout to get deformated fluid only components in portrait or landscape mode.

  I have a simple application with the point main and 3 displays:

  public class Main extends NavigatorSprite
  {
      public function Main()
      {
          addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init); 
  
          stage.nativeWindow.visible = true;
          stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
          stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
          stage.nativeWindow.activate();
      }
      private function init(e:Event):void
      {
          removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
          navigator.pushView(View1);
      }
  }
  
  public class View1 extends ViewSprite
  {
  
      private var container:Container;
      private var button_two:LabelButton;
      private var button_three:LabelButton;
  
      public function View1
      {
          addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
      }
  
      private function init(e:Event):void
      {
          removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
  
          container = new Container();
          var layout:RowLayout = new RowLayout();
          container.layout = layout;
  
          button_two = new LabelButton();
          button_two.label = "to page 2";
          button_two.width = 150;
          button_two.height = 45;
          button_two.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleTwoClicked);
          container.addChild(button_two);
  
          button_three = new LabelButton();
          button_three.label = "to page 3";
          button_three.width = 150;
          button_three.height = 45;
          button_three.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handleThreeClicked);
          container.addChild(button_three);
  
          addChild(container);
      } 
  
      private function handleTwoClicked(e:Event):void
      {
          navigator.pushView(View2);
      }
  
      private function handleThreeClicked(e:Event):void
      {
          navigator.pushView(View3);
      }
  }
  
  public class View2 extends ViewSprite
  {
  
      private var container:Container;
      private var back:BackButton;
  
      public function View2
      {
          addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
      }
  
      private function init(e:Event):void
      {
          removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
  
          container = new Container();
          var layout:RowLayout = new RowLayout();
          container.layout = layout;
  
          back = new BackButton();
          back.label = "Back";
          back.width = 100;
          back.height = 45;
          back.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goBack);
          container.addChild(back);
  
          addChild(container);
      } 
  
      private function goBack(e:Event):void
      {
          navigator.popView();
      }
  }
  
  public class View3 extends ViewSprite
  {
  
      private var container:Container;
      private var back:BackButton;
  
      public function View3
      {
          addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
      }
  
      private function init(e:Event):void
      {
          removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
  
          container = new Container();
          var layout:RowLayout = new RowLayout();
          container.layout = layout;
  
          back = new BackButton();
          back.label = "Back";
          back.width = 100;
          back.height = 45;
          back.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goBack);
          container.addChild(back);
  
          addChild(container);
      } 
  
      private function goBack(e:Event):void
      {
          navigator.popView();
      }
  }
  

  Is there for example some best practices how to modify this code to have pages and components with the same sizes in portrait and landscape? On presentation buttons size always 150 width and height 45 and wil containers have stageWidth and stageHeight.

  Thank you if someone could help with this problem

  Hello

  Try listening to a shift in focus screen with this code:

  stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onResizeHandler, false, 0, true);
  

  You can only change the width/height of your components to the event based on the width/height of the floor.

  I will guard against specifying specific sizes, if you want your code to work on devices BB10. I recommend using %'s.

  Kind regards

  Dustin

• Nexus 1000v and vSwitch best practices

  I am working on the design of our vDS Nexus 1000v for use on HP BL490 G6 servers. 8 natachasery is allocated as follows:

  vmnic0, 1: management of ESXi, VSM-CTRL-PKT, VSM - MGT

  vmnic2, 3: vMotion

  vmnic4, 5: iSCSI, FT, Clustering heartbeats

  vmnic6, 7: data server and Client VM traffic

  Should I migrate all the natachasery to 1000v vDS, or should I let vmnic 0.1 on a regular vSwitch and others migrate to the vDS? If I migrate all the natachasery at the very least I would designate vmnic 0.1 as system so that traffic could elapse until the MSM could be reached. My inclination is to migrate all the natachasery, but I've seen elsewhere on comments in forums that the VSM associated networks and, possibly, the console ESX (i) are better let off of the vDS.

  Thoughts?

  Here is a best practice-how-to guide specific to 1000v & VC HP might be useful.

  See you soon,.

  Robert

• Best practices on how to code to the document?

  Hello

  I tried to search the web tutorials or examples, but could not get to anything. Can anyone summarize some of their best practices in order to document the LabVIEW code? I want to talk about a quite elaborate program, built with a state machine approach. It has many of the Subvi. Because it is important, that other people can understand my code, I guess that the documentation is quite large, but NEITHER has yet a tutorial for it. Maybe a suggestion ?

  Thank you for your time! This forum has been a valuable Companion already!

  Giovanni

  PS: I'm using LabVIEW 8.5 btw

  Giovanni,

  Always:

  Fill in the "Documentation" in the properties of 'VI '.

  Add description to the controls of its properties

  Long lines label

  Label algorithm, giving descriptions

  Any code that can cause later confusion of the label.

  Use the name bundle when clusters

  Add a description tag in loops and cases. Describing the intention of the loop/case

  Follow the good style guide as will make reading easy and intuitive vi.

  I'm sure there are many others I can't think...

  I suggest you to buy "LabVIEW style book", if you follow what this book teaches you will produce good code that is easy to maintain.

  Kind regards

  Lucither

• How to disable snapshots for domain controllers in ESXi 5? Or other best practices?

  Dear all,

  I need some aspects of assistance to the deactivation of snapshots for 2 VMS in my HA cluster running Active Directory to Windows 2008 R2.

  I read that best practices for virtual machines running that active Directory is never for them to snapshot.

  I'm worried about auto created by the systems periodically snapshots and the problem arises if a snapshot is to be reinstated by mistake.

  So, what are the best practices for virtual machines running as domain controllers? To deactivate the snapshot function or other recommended methods?

  Please kindly share. Thank you.

  Rgds

  Leslie

  leschua75 wrote:

  .

  I'm worried about auto created by the systems periodically snapshots and the problem arises if a snapshot is to be reinstated by mistake.

  VMware has no system automatically taking portraits.

  Snapshots exist either because you made them manually, an application backup created. In this case, talk with your backup vendor.

• Best practices for migrating data tables - please comment.

  I have 5 new tables stocked with data that must be promoted an evolution to a production environment.
  Instead of just DBA using a data migration tool, they are insistent that I have record and provide scripts for each commit, in good condition, necessary both to build the table and insert the data from ground zero.
  
  I'm very little used to such an environment, and it looks much more risky for me to try to reconstruct the objects from scratch, so I already have a model perfect, tested and ready.
  
  They require a lot of literature, where each step is recorded in a document and use for deployment.
  I think their purpose is that they do not want to rely on backups but would rather than rely on a document that specifies each step to recreate.
  
  Please comment on your view of this practice. Thank you!

  I'm not a DBA. I can't even hold a candle to the fans of the forum as Srini/Justin/sb.
  Now that I'm giving a slightly different opinion.

  It is great to have, and I paraphrase of various positions
  Deployment documents,
  sign off of groups
  recovery steps
  Source code control
  repositories
  "The production environment is sacred. All the risks that must be reduced to a minimum at any price. In my opinion a DBA should NEVER move anything from a development environment directly in a production environment. 'NEVER.'
  etc etc.

  But we cannot generalize that each production system must have these. Each customer is different; everyone has different levels of fault tolerance.

  You can't wait for a change of design of the product to a cabinetmaker to go through "as rigorous than at NASA. Why would it be different for software change?

  How rigorous you put is a bit subjective - it depends on the policies of the company, experiences in society with the disasters of migration (if any) and the corporate culture.

  OP can come from a customer with lax controls. And it can be questioned if the rigour at the level of the new customer is worth it.

  To a single client, (and I don't kid), the prod password is apps/apps. (after 12 years of being alive!) I was appalled at first. But it's a very small business. They got saddled with EBS during the .com boom Hay days. They use just 2 modules in EBS. If I speak of creation (and charge) these documents/processes, I would lose the customer.
  My point is that not all places must or want these controls. By trial and error, you get what is the best company.

  OP:
  You said that you're not used to this type of environment. I recommend that you go with the current first. Spend time on understanding the value/use/history of these processes. Ask if they still seem too much to you. Keep in mind: this is subjective. And if it comes down to your existing reviews of the v/s, you need either an authority OR some means of persuasion (money / sox (intentional typo here) / beheaded horse heads... everything that works!)

  Sandeep Gandhi

  Edit: Typo-detail fault

  Published by: Sandeep Gandhi, independent Consultant on 25 June 2012 23:37

• Best practices... VCenter

  Buenos dias,

  Llevo UN my intentando realize the best practica para el stage as voy a comentar, read y releido documentation y foros, y aun no me claros some basic concepts like that Creo. A worm if alguien me los you can row.

  Tengo 2 Servidores Proliant essential vmware con. Cada uno tiene 44GB RAM y 6 red cards.

  The tests we are doing crazy cabinas office. Estamos con probando P4000 VSA (left) y Stormagic. (OL me will an aconsejar cabinas are physical I designed). Pero este're mi laboratorio.

  Y estas son put dudas:

  1 - if alguien conoce estas 2 cabinas. Cual how you look? El precio creo that are similar.

  2 - Instalo los ESXi 5 en memorias PEN. I have 2 por equipo. Las puedo clonar y comprobe than injerto works perfectly. Lo hago para no disco malgastar is para tener una copia del fair rapida. Is buena opcion?

  3 - where instalar Vcenter? This is one of the set large dudas. If instalo stormagic, be replaced by Recomiendan that part of los 2 servidores tenga a failover donde instale Vcenter haga PC y Stormagic.

  Para esto El otro windows 2008. Instalarlo como sin if instalo Vcenter for windows, no soy capaz configurar solapa LDAP, AD. ¿Pero para that voy a instalar en AD a PC if el driver del dominio goes a ser una las VM than instalare in los servidores?

  Y las VM not las puedo instalar hasta as tenga las cabinas office. (El pez that muerde cola). If lo instalo con el device of suse. El instalarlo como una VM for example el Vmware Workstation en PC, porque luego tambien el instalar el software stormagic en este windows y corre.

  A mi me gustaria instalar todas las VM, in las cabinas office. Pero me is the duda el TR VCenter instalarlo directly in el servidor, y luego clonarlo al otro servidor sin ser virtual cabina, instalarlo en PC...

  Algo parecido me pasa con el Lefthand VSA.

  3 - ¿Mejor VCenter para windows o linux device? Salvando problems than waiting antes con LDAP. ¿Mejor en los servidores o los servidores dentro fuera PC? Case of ser fuera. ¿Cuanta RAM?

  Gracias y saludos.

  1 - if alguien conoce estas 2 cabinas. Cual how you look? El precio creo that are similar.

  Me gusta mas Lefthand

  2 - Instalo los ESXi 5 en memorias PEN. I have 2 por equipo. Las puedo clonar y comprobe than injerto works perfectly. Lo hago para no disco malgastar is para tener una copia del fair rapida. Is buena opcion?

  Yes, pero prefiero eso in laboratory tests of o entornos.

  3 - where instalar Vcenter? This is one of the set large dudas. If instalo stormagic, be replaced by Recomiendan that part of los 2 servidores tenga a failover donde instale Vcenter haga PC y Stormagic.

  Para esto El otro windows 2008. Instalarlo como sin if instalo Vcenter for windows, no soy capaz configurar solapa LDAP, AD. ¿Pero para that voy a instalar en AD a PC if el driver del dominio goes a ser una las VM than instalare in los servidores?

  Prefiero instalarlo in una VM, y ojo con el DNS y AD TR are virtual, debe iniciar antes as el VC.

  Y las VM not las puedo instalar hasta as tenga las cabinas office. (El pez that muerde cola). If lo instalo con el device of suse. El instalarlo como una VM for example el Vmware Workstation en PC, porque luego tambien el instalar el software stormagic en este windows y corre.

  A mi me gustaria instalar todas las VM, in las cabinas office. Pero me is the duda el TR VCenter instalarlo directly in el servidor, y luego clonarlo al otro servidor sin ser virtual cabina, instalarlo en PC...

  Algo parecido me pasa con el Lefthand VSA.

  3 - ¿Mejor VCenter para windows o linux device? Salvando problems than waiting antes con LDAP. ¿Mejor en los servidores o los servidores dentro fuera PC? Case of ser fuera. ¿Cuanta RAM?

  Linux right para entornos development o Pequeños y no paga additional lic.

  But Windows.

  LTC

  Diego

• Place pictures (screenshots) to legends - best practices?

  Illustrator CS6, Windows 7

  I am placing screenshots (screenshots of the software) in the files of my work to add captions and create illustrations for a user manual.

  The machine I'm capture has a screen resolution at 1920 x 1080 (required for software). I am using Snagit and capture screens, saving files, then place in Illustrator. I am using minimum 300 dpi and never upsizing images in Illustrator. I still think that my results could not be better.

  In the past, I used .jpg as my export filetype for placement in Illustrator. But these recent readings of messages in this community lead me to believe that my practice might be defective.

  Question: What is considered best practice to place the screenshot images (or any source) in Illustrator? What kind of capture file will get the results of the lighter and more adaptable?

  My color mode of Illustrator file is CMYK and my other art and legends supporting the perforated Cap work very well.

  I am creating the work for import into Framemaker and create a PDF file for print and online.

  I want to say is; What is the user looking at, and what you are training on?

  For example, if the application includes part of your documents and medical imaging covers something like the assessment of medical images in the application, it would probably be a scenario much more color-critical application in which the user just displays and manipulates the data.

  Generally, you don't need something like 300 PPI for screen captures in documentation of the software. The whole intention is to the image of resemble the screen you document, which is something like 72 or 96 DPI at full size. You can reduce a screenshot as much less 50%, but at this size, the drive shows the text of the application (including the menus, etc.) to half of such size as displayed in the app, which is supposed to be sized for comfortable reading. The sharpness is good. You don't want the images to fade in the pursuit of pointless "resolution."

  Also in General, screenshots of the software are not usually colour-critical. Implementation (same sticky of SnagIt) directly in the page layout application is usually very good. PostScript knows how to separate RGB images. These things have been done for a long time before anyone who sweated blood on "color management." Assuming that the interface of your application uses Garish colors (which would be the poor interface design; it's tiring), I dare say that the conversion of RGB to CMYK screenshots to the imagesetter or press would be nice.

  How to print manual? Unless you're talking about a large prints of the press, today the software (subject to frequent updates) documentation is often printed on presses on demand (think glorified digital color, photocopiers) presses not leaves. With the documentation of the software, you're talking about aren't usually the collection of coffee table books. (The exception would be something like a book on the color in Photoshop correction; so my first question.)

  I always paste screenshots of SnagIt directly into InDesign pages to document software applications and add captions in InDesign. Only when I need some special graphics (plunging arrows, etc.) Assemble the captions for the screenshots in Illustrator; and even when I do that I have usually also paste the SnagIt capture directly to HAVE.

  Keep your native legends for better page layout program facilitates language translation, when you need to outsource that.

  JET

• Best practices for JTables.

  Hello
  
  
  
  I'm programming in Java since 5 months ago. Now I am developing an application that uses charts to present information to a database. This is my first time manipulation of tables in Java. I read the tutorial Swing of the Sun on JTable and more information on other sites, but they are limited to the syntax of the table and not in best practices.
  
  
  
  So I decided what I think is a good way to manage data in a table, but I don't know which is the best way. Let me tell you the General steps that I'm going through:
  
  
  
  (1) I query the data from the employee of Java DB (with EclipseLink JPA) and load it into an ArrayList.
  
  (2) I use this list to create the JTable, prior transformation to an Object [] [] and it fuels a custom TableModel.
  
  (3) thereafter, if I need to get something on the table, I search on the list and then with the index resulting from it, I get it from the table. This is possible because I keep the same order of the rows on the table and on the list.
  
  (4) if I need to put something on the table, I do also on my list, and so on if I need to remove or edit an item.
  
  
  
  Is the technique that I use a best practice? I'm not sure that duty always synchronized table with the list is the best way to handle this, but I don't know how I would deal with comes with the table, for example to effectively find an item or to sort the array, without first on a list.
  
  
  
  Are there best practices in dealing with tables?
  
  
  
  Thank you!
  
  Francisco.

  You should never list directly update, wait for when you first create the list and add it to the TableModel. All future updates must be performed on the TableModel directly.

  See the [http://www.camick.com/java/blog.html?name=row-table-model url] Table of line by a model example of this approach. Also, follow the link BeanTableModel for a more complete example.

• Best practices for the application of sharpness in your workflow

  Recently I tried to get a better understanding of some of the best practices for sharpening in a workflow. I guess that I didn't know, but there are several places to sharpen. Who are the best? They are additive?

  My typical workflow involves capture an image with a professional DSLR in RAW or JPEG or import into Lightroom and export to a JPEG file for the screen or printing of two lab and local. 

  There are three places in this workflow to add sharpening. In the DSLR manually into Lightroom and when exporting a JPEG file or print directly from Lightroom

  It is my understanding that sharpening is added to RAW images even if you add sharpening in your DSLR. However sharpening will be added to the JPEG from the camera. 

  Back to my question, it is preferable to manually the sharpness in the SLR in Lightroom or wait until you export or output of your printer or final JPEG file. And additive effects? If I add sharpening to the three places I am probably more sharpening?

  You have to treat them differently both formats. Data BULLIES never have any sharpening applied by the camera, only JPEG files. Sharpening is often considered to be a workflow where there are three steps (see here for a seminal paper on this idea).

  I. a step sharpening of capture which compensates for the loss of sharp in detail due to the Bayer matrix and the filter anti-repliement and sometimes the lens or diffraction.

  II. A creative sharpening step where some details in the image are 'highlighted' sharpness (do you eyelashes on a model's face), and

  III. output sharpening, where you fix the loss of sharpness due to the scale/resampling for the properties of the average output (as blur because of an impression how process works or blurry because of the way that a screen LCD sets out its pixels).

  These three are implemented in Lightroom. I. and II. are essential, and basically must always be performed. II. until your creative minds. I. is the sharpening that see you in the Panel to develop. You need zoom at 1:1 and optimize the settings. The default settings are OK but quite conservative. Usually you can increase the value of the mask a little so that you're not sharpen noise and play with the other three sliders. Jeff Schewe gives an overview of a strategy simple to find the optimal settings here. It is for the cab, but the principle remains the same. Most of the photos will benefit from optimization a bit. Don't go overboard, but just OK for smoothness to 1:1.

  Stage II as I have said, is not essential, but it can be done using the local adjustment brush, or you can go to Photoshop for this. Stage III, however, is very essential. This is done in the export, the print panel Panel or the web. You can't really get a glimpse of these things (especially the sharpening printing-oriented) and it will take a little experimentation to see what you like.

  For jpeg, sharpening is done already in the camera. You could add a small extra capture sharpening in some cases, or simply lowering the sharpening in camera and then have more control in the post, but generally, it is best to leave it alone. Stage II and III, however, are still necessary.

• Just improved m tips on best practices for sharing files on a Server 2008 std.

  The field contains about 15 machines with two domain controllers, one's data is the app files / print etc...  I just upgraded from 2003 to 2008 and want to get advice on best practices for the establishment of a group of file sharing. Basically I want each user to have their their own records, but also a staff; folder. Since I am usually accustomed to using windows Explorer, I would like to know if these actions can be done in the best conditions. Also I noticed on 2008 there is a feature of contacts. How can it be used? I would like to message or send an email to users their file locations. Also, I want to implement an admin at a lower level to handle the actions without making them far in on the server, not sure.

  I read a certain bbut I don't like test direct more because it can cause problems. So basically a way short and neat to manage shares using the MMC, as well as the way that I approach their mail from the server of their actions. Maybe what kind of access cintrol or permissions are suitable also for documents. Also how can I have them use office templates without changing the format of the model.

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