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AspDotNetStorefront – Changing Max File Upload Size

In Asp.Net StoreFront – You can change it by editing the file here:

/RadControls/Editor/ConfigFile.xml
Properties:
MaxImageSize
MaxFlashSize
MaxMediaSize
MaxDocumentSize
MaxTemplateSize

Who wants 2K images anyway!

Set them to a higher or lower value depending on what you need to happen.

Hamachi Install for Starcraft

Download Hamachi by clicking this link:
hamachisetup-1015-en

This is an old version of Hamachi, it’s important to use the old version.

Click NEXT until the “Basic vs Premium” Screen – Choose “Use Hamachi Basic”

Keep Installing.

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Open Hamachi
Click the “Power” in the lower left corner.
Create a username that is unique.

Click the Triangle Looking button in the near right corner.
=Select “Join Network”

Join network: ASKME
and use the password I tell you.

Clickonce – Unable to Sign Application

I get this error when I try and publish the Click-Once project in .Net:

Cannot publish because a project failed to build.
SignTool reported an error ‘Failed to sign bin\Debug

Here is the Fix:

Go to the properties of the project.
Go to “Signing”
“Create Test Certificate”
Dont bother with a password
Save
Re-Publish

-Do this to all the projects in the solution.

This should fix the error and get you ClickOnce Publishing again.

Python: Grab Email from Gmail and Insert into MySql Database

This script will:

Log into Gmail Pop
Read the email
Delete the read email
Insert the email’s text into a MySql database
Sleep for 1800 seconds, and repeat

try:
        import poplib, sys, time
        import string, random
        import StringIO, rfc822
        import datetime
        SERVER = "pop.gmail.com"
        USER  = "gmailusername"
        PASSWORD = "gmailpassword"
        i = 0;
        print """
        |------------------------------------------|
        |  This is a python program that checks a  |
        |  POP account and if there is a message,  |
        |  it adds it to the SQL server.           |
        |------------------------------------------|
                  by: Daniel Folkes
                         email: [email protected]
 
        (every 180 seconds)
        Checking POP server....
"""
        while 1:
                try:
                        server = poplib.POP3_SSL(SERVER, 995)
                        server.user(USER)
                        server.pass_(PASSWORD)
                except:
                        print "error setting up server."
 
 
                resp, items, octets = server.list()
                # download a random message
                try:
                        id, size = string.split(items[0])
                        resp, text, octets = server.retr(id)
 
                        text = string.join(text, "\n")
                        file = StringIO.StringIO(text)
                        note = ""
                        name = ""
                        message = rfc822.Message(file)
                        for k, v in message.items():
                                if k=='from':
                                                name = v[:12]
                        note = message.fp.read()[:50]
                        print "note: ", note
                        server.dele(1) #this will delete the message after you read it
                        server.quit()
                #-------------------------------------------
                        if note !="":
                                import MySQLdb
                                db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="USERNAME", passwd="PASSWORD",db="DATABASENAME")
 
                                cur2 = db.cursor()
                                if name:
                                        cur2.execute("INSERT INTO note (note, name) VALUES (%s, %s)", (note, name))
                                else:
                                        cur2.execute("INSERT INTO note (note) VALUES (%s)", (note))
                except:
                        i+=1
                        #print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]
                        time.sleep(1800)
except:
        print "Failed Unexpectedly"

Min-Height CSS Hack – Height – Minheight – IE – FF – Minimum

selection {
  min-height:450px;
  height:auto !important;
  height:450px;
}

This code will give min-height to all browsers. IE, FF, Opera, Safari and more.
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Darkness is Spreading – Backstory – Game – How to Play

BACK STORY

In the year 2920, the Golden Age of Psionics is unlocking worlds of
possibilities for humankind. The psionically gifted are recruited at
a young age to participate in the Planetary Defense Force’s psi-ops
program, where their talents are honed through
cybernetically-interactive mind games. These games can reprogram the
trainees’ subconscious minds for optimal psionic output, all in
parallel with the conscious effort toward solving the puzzle.

DARKNESS IS SPREADING
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CoreLaborate – Document Elaboration on the Core Formats

A site I created so that collaborating on Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, SVG files would be easier. All of those binary formats that are complicated to share and elaborate on.

I hope this is helpful to many people. Especially in the Open Source world.

Supports: PSD,AI,PDF,XCF,SVG.

Thanks,
Daniel Folkes