Status report - pre-xmas

So, long time not posting, blogging is out of focus these month. Moved to our new flat, doing reconstruction but if you do everything on your own, it takes just too long now. Still not finished in one room. And if it will be, i can start again with small changes. Bathroom maybe next year. Oh, and this morning our 4 year old nephew puked on the beautiful white wall :S

Quit my job, from january starting at a new place, keep fingers that it will be a good one and that i will perform well.

X-mas is coming, great, the holiday of BUY-BUY-BUY, the fiest of capitalism.

Probably will not post many news, maybe a review of my plans for this year, but I did not progressed as planned, things have changed.

Have fun, bye :)

Status report

Hi! Seems 2011 will be the least productive year of my blogging. There have been many factors affecting this: moving out from a flat, staying at a friends for a month, moving into another flat in another city, half dead notebook.

I participated in a public photo exhibition, anybody could present their work. Mine got not much attention but I expected it. The most admired photos by public were sunsets, HDR and nudes; or the best, all in one! Cliches, what to say. And the most admired photos by the organizators were artistic photoshopped multiexposures. I have to admit they were interesting and enjoyable, ...

In this era of economical collapse, we decided to take a loan and by a flat :S Hope everything will go right. I have a new PC so soon will start posting new pictures.

Have a nice day.

c# .NET HttpWebRequest slow - Expect 100 continue!

Another tech stuff, at least as I am not posting lately. So, we were sending HTTP requestso the server and against a previous (3rd party) version it was extremely slow. Any browsing would suggest to change buffering, async mode or turning off proxy, but none helped.

When we changed POST to GET, this problem dismissed!
When we rewrote using sockets, the problem dismissed, but could not take the risk of an own implementation on a production system.

Profiling showed the bottleneck is this line:

HttpWebResponse r = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

the poll method. Finally the solution was

Expect 100 Continue

Never heard of? :) What a surprise, turn itt off and give it a try. For further explanation search the web for it.

System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
or
request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;

Good luck.

Lonely red piano story

Pics from ph-art

Sorry, pics are not displayed, need to figure out how to embed. but if you click, you will be redirected.

Update: Pics should be visible by now, i got it :)

VS Express Edition - Start external program solution

"As you've noticed, this functionality is not available in Express. This is one of the many places where the IDE has been simplified..." words of Luke Hoban on social.msdn.microsoft.com.

It's not simplyfication, it is just taking away basic functionality and getting money from users. The postbuild event idea is not bad, but will start the application every time and I am not sure about debugging, if you need to attach to a process or it is done automatically. Here comes a solution, you need to edit the .user file of your project: .vcproj.user for C++ or .csproj.user for C#, probably similar for VB.

For C++ find a Configuration and edit|add DebugSettings:

    <debugsettings
        Command="C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.1\FrameMaker.exe"
        WorkingDirectory=""
        CommandArguments=""
        Attach="false"
        DebuggerType="3"
        Remote="1"
        RemoteMachine=""
        RemoteCommand=""
        HttpUrl=""
        PDBPath=""
        SQLDebugging=""
        Environment=""
        EnvironmentMerge="true"
        DebuggerFlavor="0"
        MPIRunCommand=""
        MPIRunArguments=""
        MPIRunWorkingDirectory=""
        ApplicationCommand=""
        ApplicationArguments=""
        ShimCommand=""
        MPIAcceptMode=""
        MPIAcceptFilter=""
    />

C#:

<project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <propertygroup condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <startaction>Program</startaction>
    <startprogram>C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.1\FrameMaker.exe</startprogram>
    <startarguments/>
    <startworkingdirectory/>
  </propertygroup>
</project>

Good luck debugging your libraries with Express edition.

Instantchess reset free game limit

Ever wondered how they are doing (instantchess dot com)? Changing the nick soes not help. It works from the same network but different computers. So it is not filtered on IP. Cookies? Good one, but no! And that didn't let me sleep. Flash cookies!!! Very smart. Will not tell you how to clear those beauties but Google will show you the proper Macromedia page.

Oh, on the other hand any person familiar with web and flash, or just a well informed person knows things like this. Companies like to hide things in flash/cookies and many times they are also harnessing this feature. So just spreading common knowledge, think people, smart things make you stupid!

Workplace: they started to monitor internet browsing - solution

Hi, my employer or rather those beautiful administrators decided to monitor internet browsing, to reduce the network traffic. They were monitoring it even before, but not officially and were doing it only to add pages to blacklist. I'm so happy, now the 2Mb connection will be like Pegasus, flying when needed. Of course not.

But what to do when you are bored or asking for tasks is not the way to getting promoted :)
Fortunately we are intensively using virtual machines for different purposes, VMware. Set the network to bridged, that way you access your network directly and they will have no way to get to you, they will see only the ip and the name of the virtual machine (change it) :) Happy browsing anonymously and till admins will find a way (if exists, probably yes) to associate virtual machines to real ones :)

You know this is not ethical ;)

Uploading large files using HTTP PUT in .NET

Hi,

another tech blog to share my struggle with HTTP PUT. C# offers many ways to upload files, the simplest is using WebClient, however it failed with out of memory on large files.

During the testing I received many different problems

• System.NotSupportedException: The stream does not support concurrent IO read or write operations.
• System.OutOfMemoryException
• The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine
• And few more I forgot but will add later, maybe...

Out of memory:
HttpWebRequest request = new ...
request.SendChunked = true;

Concurrent IO operations:
HttpWebRequest request = new ...
request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = false;

Protocol violation:
Create a web.config file near your exe with useUnsafeHeaderParsing=“true“, search web how to do that properly. But that was not acceptable in our case as we had both source codes, client and server. The server was not sending response or not a standard response with proper headers. So after uopload we removed the wait for a response:

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()

Hope I helped, good luck.

ph-art

Making traffic and links for a friend, have a look at it: ph-art :)

Promised pictures

Hi, here you have the promised pictures from the first film I developed myself. Need to solve the problem with water.

Ilford HP5+ developed in Ilfosol 3, 6.5 min.

First analog film and print developed

Finally I managed to develop my own film and also to make prints. I need to thank to a friend who had found time on me. The theoretical part was longer mastered through texts and youtube but it is still better to be there with somebody with practice.

Despite the negative is not perfect and the prints were just exercises, it was a great experience. The darkroom was not completely dark, there were light leaks I was afraid of. The developer tank was also leaking when turning. We had only tap water to work with. The enlarger timer just short circuited :) First we tried to enlarge on the wrong side of the paper, without success. :) Quite a thrill. I dropped the negative into the positive developer while enlarging :( Ah.

The only thing that bothers me are the water marks on the negative because of tap water. That needs to be made better next time. As I have everything to develop my own negatives plus some real experience, next time I'm going to do it myself. No more waiting 10 days to be developed by whoever for lot of money. That money will be spent on more negative :)

Today will scan the film and post some pics on my vivo page and probably few even here. Keep watching, bye. :)

Annoying password policy - solution

Hi, for sure you have faced the welcome message of expired password. Then you thought you will change it quickly and continue. But, it needs uppercase, lowercase, numbers, signs, squirrel sounds as Dilbert said, zero is not allowed not to be missed by o and other specialties...

This happened to me last time and it made me quite angry. Finally when you have a new password, safety is still worthless because you are unable to remember your password and you write it down on your desk. Oups.

Keeping the same password is not allowed, you need to find out how many last passwords are remembered, change your password as many times and finally use your last one. It will take more time, but you can keep your old password. Is it right to do this? Hm, maybe not, but is it right to writing it down?

First post in 2011

Hi, happy new year or like that. Just a pic to keep posting. I had to work between holidays and also this week. Days are short, hard to find time for shooting. I pass everyday by a frozen lake, where kids are playing hockey or just skating, the days are foggy, the view is beautiful, the possibilities are endless and i need to go to work :(
Tomorrow or who knows when next, cause after then school holidays are over, weather could warm up, I need to be there.

The picture I made walking to the lake at my parent's home, did some postprocess. Enjoy.

December - christmas - Me

Seems the weekly pic is dead, got unmotivated by the amount of responses :) What happened the last month:

Christmas is coming so fast that could not obey it longer, it is the holiday of globalisation, shopping, stress, etc. It is not any more about family and love. BUY, BUY, GIFT, BUY, PRESENT, BUY,... I wanted to negotiate to give each other a self portrait, not a photo, but a painting or drawing :) Naturally, they are all so materialists and selfish that such ideas were refused instantly, they want presents! Money is not present!

I was asked what I want for christmas (small letters, it does not deserve to be written in capital), yes, of course, they want present, so they buy you a present, but they ask what should they BUY you for return. They are even lazy to try to surprise you. I asked for books or analogue film. There is no smiley to represent their face ;) The film was rejected and books also, cause I was given books the last christmas and birthday. Yes, cause every book is the same, all contain letters and some even pictures.

...

I become involved in a cooking blog, nothing special, give it a try if interested, but Hungarian language skills are needed or try google translate, but usually the result is questionable. Here ya go, boszikonyha.

...

No pic today, you can find more of my pics on my vivo page, check them there if interested. Will start my own web page soon, will place pictures there regularly, it will be a dedicated photoblog based on customized pixelpost. Will see. Lately was shooting only family, and you know, personal pictures are mostly a no go!

Have a nice day ;)

November rain

It is a month I wrote anything, but still stick to not quit blogging. Not sure why, it's mostly like a personal diary, since it's being public I do not confess with all the things that bother or make me happy.

You can find some pictures from Spain - Malaga, Granada, Alicante in my web album. Few portraits, street shots, landscapes/cityscapes. Will add more pictures later from the bus trip from Granada to Alicante, a 7h marathon.

To publish pictures also here, a portrait from a shooting we did in autumn, the weather was beatiful, crisp colours and light, corn field still not harvested. Unfortunately the session was very short as my beautiful model got sick as soon as we arrived. The picture reflects my actual mood, ill and alone the whole week. But the warm toning help, what you think? :)

Status report

Hi, got back 2 weeks ago, had no time or mood to write. So just a short status report of the last month. Spain is great, food was great, wines are especially great... Actually as on my all trips I got back more tired, trips are to relax and have a rest, but not ours :) My ex girlfriend aka my wife, for sure has some perpetuum mobile in her legs and curiosity for two :) We've visited Malaga, Granada and Alicante. Skipped Barcelona and Madrid as we thought visiting them for 1-2 days is not enough, next time.

I made many pictures, few good and even less great ones. Will post them as soon as I manage to sort them and edit. It is now a habit of mine to forget something to bring with me, like CF card, charger. Lately it was the charger for databank :( so I was again limited in amount of free space. Internet cafe's had all limited HW possibilities (tried 3+), copy centers offered me to burn 2 dvds for 30 euros, sure I pissed them.

Our favorite city from those 3 was Granada or Malaga? Hm, maybe both, Granada is more nicer, first of all the Albayacin or how is it written. Al Hambra is just a tourist magnet, nice but so crowded and expensive, just overrated and priced.

In the home of flamenco we had no luck to see it :( On the other hand we tasted as much food as it was possible. We spent 80% of our money on food and drinks :D God bless them for free tapas!

Then last two weeks were a mess, back in work, deadlines push, stress. Weekends at home the same hurry, visit parents, friends, siblings. I new baby borne meanwhile :)

Will post some pics the next tiem, I have processed the first 3 days already, most f them :)

Weekly pic #20

Hi. The last week I got married, and this weekend we are leaving for our honeymoon into Spain, Andalusia. No post for about two weeks, unless I find an urge to write, not really possible. Till then enjoy the pic.

Weekly pic #19

Hi, as I mentioned, we have been to Czech Republic, canoeing Vltaqa river, here are few pics of Cesky krumlov and the Vltava River.

Deportation of Roma people from France

Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, will you also deport yourself? Or you want to be the only one in France? Let them bring up the next generation, maybe the next president will be one of them.

Weekly pic #18

So, another week, another pic and status info. Less than 3 weeks left till my wedding, gosh, the year from my engagement just flew away so fast. But looking forward for honeymoon, as had we had no longer vacation this year.
We had a team building event in Czech Republic, were canoeing Vltava river for three days, was great, will post few pics next time, need to scan the pics.
Also got developed 7 rolls of film, so in near future will try to process them and post.

For this week I publish a photo of a homegirl :))