VMWare Fusion Mac Power Maps Error Fix

VMWare Fusion Mac Power Maps Error Fix 

If you are using VMWare Fusion 7-8.5 and Running Window 10. When you use Power Maps / 3D Maps Features in Microsoft Office Excel 2013 / 2016 you will have a error as below,

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3D Maps
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Cannot initialize DirectX. Confirm that your hardware supports DirectX 10 or later and that you have the latest video card driver installed.
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OK   
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To Fix the problem Shut Down the Windows 10 Virtual Machine, Click the Settings and Select Display

Check the Accelerate 3D Graphics Settings

UnCheck the Accelerate 3D Graphics Settings

Start the Virtual Machine, Open the Excel, Insert, 3D Maps

Do It Yourself ToastMasters Timing Light

Do It Yourself ToastMasters Timing Light 

Green, Amber (Yellow), Red signals are commonly used in Toastmasters clubs to show speakers when they have reached minimum time, are halfway through their allotted time, and when they have reached maximum time. Many clubs use a set of colored cards–some Toastmasters even carry small colored cards in their wallets for impromptu Toastmasters meetings!
But cards have to be held up in the air and are not very eye-catching. Timing lights are preferred, where actual green, amber and red lights can be turned on and get the speaker’s attention. The official Toastmasters Signal Light costs $110 to $185 depends on the area you live in.

Toastmasters Signal Light costs $110 to $185

Toastmasters Signal Light costs $110 to $185

I wanted the same in battery operated without external power and for low cost. There are other do it yourself kits but that needs external power, hence i have decided to make my own. DO IT YOURSELF. 

Do It Yourself ToastMasters Timing Light 

I managed to do it yourself toastmasters timing light with less $50 including batteries

Parts: 

I live in Ontario, Canada. Bought it from A1 Electronics
http://www.a1parts.com/led/led.htm
http://www.a1parts.com/battery_holders/battery_holders.htm
http://www.a1parts.com/switches/index.html#ROTARY SWITCHES

1. Signal Light 30 LED`s - $7.50 x 3 = $22.50
2. Battery Holder - $2.80
3. Rotary Switch - $4.80
4. Incandescent indicators 12VDC - $2.50 x 3 = $7.50
5. Rotary Switch Knob - $0.99
6. Dollarama Wooden Box (Transparent Lid) - $2.00

Total Parts = $40.59

1. Signal Light 30 LED`s

Part Number MCD

DK4555-G  (Green) 18000

DK4555-Y  (Yellow) 7500

DK4555-R  (Red) 6500

12V  $7.50 / each

2. Battery Holder 

Part Number: 4200A
 Um3x8 for Eight "AA" Cells
Size: 60mm (L) x 29mm (W)x58mm (H)
$2.80


3. Rotary Switch

ITEM NO. DK6561 C

SECTIONS: 1

POLES: 3

POSTIONS: 4 (OFF, GREEN, YELLOW, RED)

$4.80

4. Incandescent indicators 12VDC

Incandescent indicators 12VDC

55-492(Red Lens)

55-493(Amber Lens)

55-495(Green Lens)

$2.50

5. Rotary Switch Knob

Part Number
54-374-BL
A mm -
B mm - 30
C mm - 15
Shaft mm - 6.35

Price - $0.99


6. Dollarama Wooden Box (Transparent Lid)

$2.00 Dollarama

7. Tools 


Hook - up Wires  (Stranded) (If you don't have $3)

Soldering Iron (If you don't have one you can get it for $5)

8 AA Batteries

References:

http://tmvision.org/clubs/affordable-timing-light-toastmasters/

http://www.blackdovenest.com/2007/11/toastmasters-timing-lights-device.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBgafGcq5ZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsoVU6wdOls

Big Data Hadoop Hive SQL Query Hello World

Big Data Hadoop Hive SQL Query Hello World

Prerequisite

• Big Data 
• Hadoop 
• SQL

If you are reading this blog you should know about Big Data and Hadoop.

Big Data is a technology revolution in the RDBMS world, however big data hadoop distributed file system can be written as a flat file with different formats like CSV, Tab Delimited etc.,

Also in order to process these data you need to be an expert in Java to write a Map Reduce program.

To make use of Big Data for non-Java users like Data Analysts, there is feature to Query the flat files using SQL has been introduced. This is Apache Hive https://hive.apache.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hive

Hive was introduced by Facebook and now used by Netflix. It is a powerful querying tool in Big Data hadoop.

Basically Hive is capable of transforming your SQL queries into Map Reduce programs.


The following are the steps to be done

1. Create Hive Table with Meta data information
2. Load data into Hive Table ( 2 Types )
      a. Loading data in local file system to Hadoop & Hive
      b. Loading data in hadoop file system to Hive
3. Query the table


I have a Test Data as below, ( It has 2 fields ID & PHONE NAME)

1,iphone
2,blackberry
3,nokia
4,sony
5,samsung
6,htc
7,micromax


To get started you need have hive installed already and hadoop file system configured with Name Node, Job Tracker, Data Node, Task Tasker etc.,


Step 1:  Launch the hive console from the command line / terminal

Step 2:  Create the table with the 

CREATE TABLE PHONE ( ID INT, PHONE_NAME STRING)

ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' STORED AS TEXTFILE;

Step 3:  Loading data in local file system to the table 

LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/training/PHONE.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE PHONE;

Step 4:  Query your table which is created and data loaded in Hive

select * from PHONE;

Well you should be good with local mode.

Let's have a quick peek at the Server Mode (Type 2). If you have to load data from Hadoop File to Hive, first we need to send the file from local file system to hadoop file system.

Step 1: Place the file from local file system to HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)

hadoop fs -put PHONE.txt

Step 2: Verify if the file has been placed in the HDFS

hadoop fs -ls PHONE*

Step 3:  Create the table with meta data information

CREATE TABLE PHONE_SERVER ( ID INT, PHONE_NAME STRING)

ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' STORED AS TEXTFILE;

Step 4:  Load the data from HDFS to HIVE Table

LOAD DATA INPATH '/user/training/PHONE.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE PHONE_SERVER;

Step 5: Verify by performing a SQL Query and check the results

select * from PHONE_SERVER;

Big Data Hadoop Hive Getting Max of a Count

This Example about a query to get Max of a count.

Pre-Requiste
- Basic Hadoop Knowledge
- Basic Hive Knowledge
- Basic SQL Knowledge


My Input Data is something like as below,

1,iphone,2000,abc
2,iphone,3000,abc1
3,nokia,4000,abc2
4,sony,5000,abc3
5,nokia,6000,abc4
6,iphone,7000,abc5
7,nokia,8500,abc6

Problem:
In Hive we can perform group by as we do in ANSI SQL Example as below,

select d.phnName,count(*) from phnDetails d group by d.phnName




The output of the above query is as below,

iphone 3
nokia 3
sony 1

You might have a scenario something like to retrieve only values for equal to Max

Example if you need output like as below,

iphone 3
nokia 3

Resolution:

We need to use multiple Sub Queries to perform this operation

select c.phnName, c.counter 
from 
(select d.phnName as phnName, count(*) as counter from phnDetails d group by d.phnName ) c 
join 
(select max(f.counter) as countmax from
(select cnt.phnName as phnName, count(*) as counter from phnDetails cnt group by cnt.phnName ) f) g 
where c.counter = g.countmax;

Output is as below,

Queries built in multiple iterations as below,

CREATE TABLE phnDetails ( id INT, phnName STRING, price INT, details STRING)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' STORED AS TEXTFILE;

LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/training/Phone/phones.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE phnDetails;

select * from phnDetails;


select d.phnName, count(*) from phnDetails d group by d.phnName;


select c.phnName, c.counter from 
(select d.phnName as phnName, count(*) as counter from phnDetails d group by d.phnName ) c ;

select max(f.counter) as countmax from
(select cnt.phnName as phnName, count(*) as counter from phnDetails cnt group by cnt.phnName ) f ;

select max(f.counter) as countmax from
(select cnt.phnName as phnName, count(*) as counter from phnDetails cnt group by cnt.phnName ) f ;

select c.phnName, c.counter 
from 
(select d.phnName as phnName, count(*) as counter from phnDetails d group by d.phnName ) c 
join 
(select max(f.counter) as countmax from
(select cnt.phnName as phnName, count(*) as counter from phnDetails cnt group by cnt.phnName ) f) g 
where c.counter = g.countmax;

Android Read and Write PDF File using iText

This tutorial is about Android Read and Write PDF File using iText  API

Pre-Requiste
- Basic Android Knowledge
- Basic Java Knowledge
- Basic iText Knowledge


Sample Screenshots for the demo

activity_main.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:text="Android Read/Write File" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/fname"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="File Name"
        android:text="sample_pdf_file" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/ftext"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="100px"
        android:hint="File Text"
        android:text="Hello World" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/btnwrite"
        android:text="Write File" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/fnameread"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="File Name"
        android:text="sample_pdf_file" />

       <Button
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/btnread"
        android:text="Read File" />
       <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/filecon" />
</LinearLayout>

FileOperations.java

package com.example.readwrite;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;

import android.util.Log;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.PdfReaderContentParser;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.SimpleTextExtractionStrategy;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.TextExtractionStrategy;

public class FileOperations {
    public FileOperations() {
    }

    public Boolean write(String fname, String fcontent) {
        try {
            String fpath = "/sdcard/" + fname + ".pdf";
            File file = new File(fpath);
            // If file does not exists, then create it
            if (!file.exists()) {
                file.createNewFile();
            }

            // step 1
            Document document = new Document();
            // step 2
            PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
                    new FileOutputStream(file.getAbsoluteFile()));
            // step 3
            document.open();
            // step 4
            document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
            document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World2!"));
            // step 5
            document.close();

            Log.d("Suceess", "Sucess");
            return true;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return false;
        } catch (DocumentException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
            return false;
        }
    }

    public String read(String fname) {
        BufferedReader br = null;
        String response = null;
        try {
            StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer();
            String fpath = "/sdcard/" + fname + ".pdf";

            PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(new FileInputStream(fpath));
            PdfReaderContentParser parser = new PdfReaderContentParser(reader);

            StringWriter strW = new StringWriter();

            TextExtractionStrategy strategy;
            for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
                strategy = parser.processContent(i,
                        new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy());

                strW.write(strategy.getResultantText());

            }

            response = strW.toString();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
        return response;
    }
}

MainActivity.java

package com.example.readwrite;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    EditText fname, fcontent, fnameread;
    Button write, read;
    TextView filecon;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        fname = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.fname);
        fcontent = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.ftext);
        fnameread = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.fnameread);
        write = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnwrite);
        read = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnread);
        filecon = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.filecon);
        write.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                String filename = fname.getText().toString();
                String filecontent = fcontent.getText().toString();
                FileOperations fop = new FileOperations();
                fop.write(filename, filecontent);
                if (fop.write(filename, filecontent)) {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                            filename + ".pdf created", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                            .show();
                } else {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "I/O error",
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            }
        });
        read.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                String readfilename = fnameread.getText().toString();
                FileOperations fop = new FileOperations();
                String text = fop.read(readfilename);
                if (text != null) {
                    filecon.setText(text);
                } else {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "File not Found",
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    filecon.setText(null);
                }
            }
        });
    }
}

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.readwrite"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="14"
        android:targetSdkVersion="18" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name="com.example.readwrite.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Make sure you have the itextpdf-5.5.1.jar in the right location as below,