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As Nagy pointed out in his comments below, things got a little bit wet this weekend, especially this afternoon.
The first of the winter rain was forecast this weekend and on Friday, it teased with a sprinkling, Saturday was a downpour and today it was a mental short sharp downpour, the worst I have seen since moving here. Some parts of the city were under several feet of water, and for a country that is not geared up for rain, the lack of street drainage is very noticeable.
The kids thought this was ace with "I'm so glad we don't have drains!".....until I reminded them how much cat pee and poop is probably in the water. 
Anyway, I put some pics from around the compound and its new canals and some videos on my blog:
Qatar is Calling: And so the rains came![^]
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In other news, Qatar has joined OWEC (the Organisation of Water Exporting Countries). 
I hope you and your house came through OK.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hi, Dave,
I have a burning desire to know how camels act in heavy rain: do they dance in ecstasy, run amoc from terror, attack automobiles, people, and.or, other camels, fall asleep, make strange sounds, get horny ... or, is it just "ho hum ... weather ?"
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I imagine they absorb so much water that they bloat up and become so heavy they can't stand.
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I'm not sure about camels, but would suspect they move to higher ground or swim. The tortoise in our garden that came with the villa moved to higher ground then dug a hole which seems a bit counter intuitive.
The people on the other hand go into a mad frenzy. Normal cars tend to slow to a crawl, the big 4x4s driven by those in white don't appear to change, but a majority become obsessed with putting on their hazard lights so you now have no idea of their intentions, not that we had much before anyway!
Then we have the wtf crowd, those that clearly don't appear to possess any grey matter and end up being rescued from underpasses on cranes.
Sadly one of the rescue centres for animals, was particularly hit bad, with water several feet deep flooding the facility drowning animals and wiping out all their supplies and facilities.
I suppose when you get so little rain throughout the year, and spend most of the time being baked, the relief it brings comes with side effects!
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BillWoodruff wrote: attack automobiles, people, and.or, other camels,
This is, for a camel, normal behaviour. As a species their base state of being is outright malicious bastard with a side order of vindictive malcontent. They understand only two things - a pointed stick and two bricks.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: two bricks
ouch (Garth winces) - I actually know that joke
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My esteemed Magyar colleague, Nagy,
Please say more about you, or your ancestors, experiences with camels. [^], [^]
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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F-secure blocked suspicious site. 
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Did I see a post somewhere about some new security something or other on CP?
Been using JSOPs CPAM for years and since I returned from the woods this week it won't get past "validating user ID". WTF?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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If he's using the WebClient class I've had this with other apps doing site scraping.
It seems some newer certificates need to be "notified" to the system. Just add:
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType)3072; Before you construct the WebClient instance:
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType)3072;
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
string html = wc.DownloadString(url); If you are configured for .NET 4.5 or above, you can use
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
If you don't specify it, you will get an exception:
The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel
[edit]Minor typos[/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 27-Nov-16 12:03pm.
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Thanks OG! Thought I had seen some buzz about security but nothing specific...that I can remember. (That CRS thing)
Haven't had to do anything to it in a long time so I don't remember what he uses to scrape. In the past it's typically been a layout problem and fairly straight forward.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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I met it at the beginning of the month when a site scrapper stopped updating the DB, so it was fresh in my mind... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Awesome thanks OG.
FYI - The CPAM app was built with NET 3.5
Quote: NET 3.5 or below. TLS 1.2 is not supported (*) and there is no workaround. Upgrade your application to more recent version of the framework.
clickity[^]
So I upgraded to 4.0, 4.5 had a butt load of problems during conversion but 4.0 worked fine.
On the road again...
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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IE 9 started failing with Quote: TLSv1 Record Layer: Alert (Level: Fatal, Description: Handshake Failure)
That is from a Wireshark capture.
So I finally had to dump IE 9.
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The reason CPAM probably doesn't work is that the site is formatted somewhat differently from when CPAM was new and exciting (CPAM scrapes web request responses with a 3rd party html parser - I forgot the name - for the info it uses, so any change to the site could break the code).
If you feel the urge, you can replace the web scraping stuff with the relatively new CodeProject API which actually hits the database.
I just haven't felt like updating the code. I could be persuaded with an appropriate proffer of cash.
BTW, the Reputationator article will probably have the same problems.
I didn't think anyone was using the code.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've been updating CPAM every time there's been a change on CP, so it still works for me.
Changes Haven't been to bad over the years, a few but relatively minor. Maybe I'll take on the project of going to the DB and give CPAM a facelift. Can't afford to pay you my friend, you make the big bucks I'm just a lonely grasshopper.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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If you do refactor it, I would recommend converting the UI to WPF and use some variant of Sql Server for data storage. Life will be easier on you, I think. Also, don't forget to post an article about it so that others might benefit.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Thanks for the tips, they still support WPF?
Since it's been cooler here in Florida I've been busy as hell doing trail maintenance, especially bad this year because of hurricanes we had. I figured it out last night and I've helped clear about 60+ miles in 2-1/2 months.
Plus I lead hikes...I live along the Suwannee River and it's a popular spot for hikers and boaters.
So it might be a while before I get a round-toit but it's something I would like to do.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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I decided to test out BlogEngine.net (instead of WordPress (WP)) on my site since WP was so terribly slow.
I was also annoyed at WP's lack of nice post editor.
BlogEngine.net took me a few extra minutes to set up, but it has a great post editor and it is much faster than WP (at my host anyways).
Plus, I'm using a DigitalOcean droplet to keep the (ASP.NET MVC) site always preloaded so it is much faster.
With WP PHP it would take at least 7-10 seconds before you see anything on the site.
Now, with BlogEngine.net it is under 1-2 seconds.
And with the added benefit of the nicer post editor.
Edit
After working to get BlogEngine.net set up and customized on my site I thought I might add a few notes now.
Challenges
1. I was frustrated for a bit because none of my posts would show up. I couldn't find any documentation on it. Then I saw under the Settings there was a "server time offset" item.
Apparently blogengine.net does not show posts until the server has hit the "published time".
Since my server time was off by 2 hours I actually needed to offset the time by two hours to get them to show up immediately. That is a very odd and esoteric piece of info.
2. I could not find where to edit the default social links which are part of the standard theme. They all linked to blogengine instead of my twitter, google+ etc. Finally, worked my way through the actual files on my server and found it in a site.master file and I manually edited them.
There doesn't seem to be any place to edit those in the blogengine admin pages.
The Great Stuff
After that, everything is easy.
1. A much better post editor. it is fantastic. It looks like the following:Post Editor at DNBE[^]
I was shocked that the WordPress editor was so clunky and didn't allow me to set headers or any styles easily. BlogEngine makes all of that really easy. Actually, probably about the easy post creation tool there is out there.
2. You can easily edit your site by adding pages and typing them up in the editor, then the pages show up on the main menu.
This is nice software for quick and easy blogging. You really may want to take a look at it if you have had the same issues I have with WP.
modified 27-Nov-16 18:02pm.
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raddevus wrote: BlogEngine.net
Site cannot be reached, took too long to respond........
What did you do!
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raddevus wrote: A much better post editor.
That's (a slightly out-of-date version of) CKEditor[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I didn't know that, but it is a great editor.
I wish I could explain how superior BlogEngine.NET is to WordPress.
It works as you hope a blog software would.
There were so many things that were really difficult with WordPress.
Thanks
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Having 2x 128GB Google Pixel phones arrive in the post, complete with VR headsets and not wanting to break the seals on them before crimbo. aarghh!  
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