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Developer's Corner / Re: Check Gmail using C#

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 03, 2010, 01:16 PM »

Hmm, it seems that I cannot get a file to upload to my website, using C#.  Here's my code (note: the only substitutions made here are that I've substituted "my_username" for my actual website username, and "my_password" for my actual password to the website):

I keep getting a 404: not found error.

Code: C# [Select]

1. private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
2.             WebClient client = new WebClient();
3.             client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("my_username", "my_password",
4.                 @"http://www.glensforkumc.com");
5.             client.UploadFile("http://www.glensforkumc.com/non_church/myfile.txt", "localFile.txt");
6.         }

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Official Announcements / Re: November 2010 Giveaway and Discount - e2 Text Editor - Winners Posted

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 02, 2010, 08:28 PM »

I tried entering it and got an error.  But tried again and it worked.  Hmm.

Must've been my mistake.

Thanks!

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Official Announcements / Re: November 2010 Giveaway and Discount - e2 Text Editor - Winners Posted

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 02, 2010, 06:02 PM »

Yay!  I've never won software before!

Do I wait for a serial # to be mailed from the producer?  What is the 4-5 line alphanumeric string DC emailed me?

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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 01, 2010, 05:43 PM »

No doubt about it, Google needs to change their practices.  Only problem is, they're hard-wired into their current cannabalistic business practice.  No real way for them to get out of it gracefully, or even economically intact, that I can see ... even if they wanted to...

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 01, 2010, 05:36 PM »

Bryan Miller
age: 39
2nd marriage (hers too): 2 years along and going strong...

B.A. in psychology
M.Ed. in counseling
licensed psychotherapist in Kentucky

2 children
3 stepchildren

Been in the psychotherapy business 12 years now.

Programming is a hobby.  Started with BASIC, then Visual Basic 6.0, now C# and .NET.  Also, taught myself rudimentary HTML coding.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 01, 2010, 05:33 PM »

kyrathaba: why does the wiseman have a lampshade on his head? And is camle some new dialect of CAML?

Haha!

I think the innocence reflected in the misspelling is endearing

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Living Room / Re: December has arrived...Are YOU Prepared for Christmas?!

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 01, 2010, 06:57 AM »

Mostly ready.  Only a few more gifts to buy...

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 30, 2010, 08:17 PM »

Finished "I Am Number Four".  Pros: fast-paced, interesting concepts.  Cons: seems geared a bit more to younger readers (dare I say "teens").  I give it 3.5 stars.

Finished "Infected" by Scott Sigler.  Excellent read.  Very fast-paced, held my interest.  Good prose.  I give it 4 stars.

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 30, 2010, 06:48 PM »

Dixit looks nice!  Might have to try this.

Ravenloft is only to be played when you have a good Dungeon Master who is up for it.

And I can tell you now that there are not that many.

This setting was tried by our group when it was still active, but our DM did not have the 'chops'.

Agreed.  I had one of those rare DMs who was so in love with the Ravenloft setting (and novels) that he Dungeon Mastered these games with real excellence.
Like Shades, I wish I could participate in a tabletop game, but I live in a rural area, and have little time.  I have to content myself with my online game.  My favorite AD&D setting was Forgotten Realms.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 30, 2010, 06:39 PM »

One of our young sons likes to draw pictures, and then tape them to our windows (for our viewing "pleasure").  Here's a Christmas nativity drawing he did last year:

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Living Room / Re: Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 30, 2010, 06:35 PM »

And if it does catch their interest, it will open up a huge world of amazing free classic literature to them.

Yeah, I agree completely.

I've installed "Kindle for PC" on my laptop and have been downloading several free classics.

We're fortunate in my home.  Three of our five are avid readers.  We're just hoping that the youngest two children follow suit.  There is a significant body of research showing that success in later-life career endeavors is strongly positively correlated with early-start and ongoing reading.

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Developer's Corner / Simple Pack

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 29, 2010, 09:38 PM »

Has any else here used Simple Pack library for archiving directories?  Opinions?

Here are the author's benchmark comparisons to some common compression-capable archiving solutions:

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Living Room / Re: KewlAid.net - Posted

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 29, 2010, 06:51 AM »

she-who-must-be-obeyed doesn't know; I am living DANGEROUSLY

Hilarious!  Know where you're coming from, brother 

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Living Room / Re: Jeans pocket - the square-ish one on the right

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 28, 2010, 08:55 PM »

I use it to keep three or four quarters in, with which I sometimes treat myself to a drink from the softdrink machine in the lobby of the clinic where I work.  So for me, it's a coin pocket.

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Living Room / Re: Regular Expressions (Regex) - Your Thoughts?

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 28, 2010, 08:52 PM »

I find it hard to believe that there are developers out there that don't know what they are, much less that there are developers that can't use them.

Well, I've only used them a couple of times, but I admit there've been plenty of other times they would have been useful, if I had greater facility with them.  I cut myself some slack, since I'm only a hobbyist programmer, and only that for the past 4-5 years.  Still, I am pleased with an email address validity checker I developed for my entry in this year's N.A.N.Y. competition.

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Living Room / Re: Robot Comes Back To Life After 45 Years!

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 27, 2010, 11:08 PM »

Through a collective effort of members, we should fund the building and programming of a Cody robot, which would serve as a traveling-trophy, spending the year with each year's winner of the N.A.N.Y. contest

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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 27, 2010, 07:34 PM »

Pretty soon speaking out will be a crime.

There is a definite movement in the U. S. Congress right now to pass legislation to label certain things as hate speech, not covered by freedom of speech: certain passages of Scripture being applied to certain minorities, anti-[insert your favorite group] groups of various stripes.

What we're going to see, going forward in the coming years, is a curtailing of the Right's free-speech, as the politically-correct Left redefines some topics as hate speech.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Nextfeeds :: Great deal for information overload

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 27, 2010, 06:03 PM »

Here are some more services purporting to help cut through the info-overload:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-sites-deal-information-overload/

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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 27, 2010, 01:14 PM »

Still, I can't help wondering why so many countries (other than the USA) manage to maintain better levels of homeland security with only a fraction of the obtrusiveness (and budget) the United States seems to feel it requires.

+1.

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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 27, 2010, 11:59 AM »

You can quote me on this: it may happen in our lifetimes, or maybe not for several more generations, but we're heading for a time when all essential liberties will be taken from us, and people will actually be killed for fighting to reclaim lost freedoms.  I would say hopefully it'll be generations away, but then that would lay it on the shoulders of our distant offspring.

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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 26, 2010, 09:33 PM »

That's our government protecting us from the true (in their eyes) threat: a minority of our own citizens.

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Living Room / Re: Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 26, 2010, 08:19 PM »

I bought my daughter a 2nd generation Kindle, as a Christmas gift.  I've been fooling with it, getting it ready for her.  I've de-registered it from my own Amazon account, created her an Amazon account and registered the device to her account.  And, I've copied quite a few free books onto it, and one purchased book she'd requested.

I have to say, it's pretty nifty.  Very light.  Battery life seems excellent.  Love the full-screen "photo-like" images it displays when putting itself into sleep-mode. 

Thinking of getting myself one at some point.

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Living Room / Re: Robot Comes Back To Life After 45 Years!

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 26, 2010, 07:35 PM »

Some DC'ers need to get together and build a Cody robot...

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Living Room / Robot Comes Back To Life After 45 Years!

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 26, 2010, 06:58 PM »

read article

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Dominion Rules Character Creator

« Last post by kyrathaba on November 26, 2010, 10:56 AM »

Redacted.