Thrashing iPod firmware Saturday, May 10, 2008

I wished iPod had the crossfade feature, similar to what Winamp have since Winamp 5.x . This feature blends current track into the next track on playlist, it kind of mixes music and gives continuation.

Bad Bad Apple never gave this simple option in the provided firmware for iPod. So what could be the solution, googling suggest many but one application got my attention.

Rockbox , is what I was looking for. Tried to install and it went by like a breeze. Now I have option of playback as crossfade and also I can edit playlist at run time.

Its back Sunday, April 13, 2008

The so called king or de-facto of torrents is back. Yes , I am talking about Demonoid. Today I gave it a try as one of my very old download was stuck, and wallah!! I could not believe my browser. Stunted , and in disbelieve I deleted browser cache and reloaded Demonoid. it came up just fine.

Its time to enjoy and seed people.

Data transfer accounting Tuesday, December 4, 2007

I recently upgraded my Internet connection to a data transfer one . The one in which you pay a monthly fee, and they give you a upper limit above which you should not go and if you go you pay dearly.

Obviously I wanted to account the amount of data transfer now for optimum usage. From my Linksys Wifi router to the Internet which routes Internet for 3 PC on my network. I desperately searched for a software that can account for the data transfer I do, also keep a track. Such that I can keep a upper-limit and do not end up paying extra. In my search I could not find one (If their is one out their then I need to re-learn my goggling skills) . Now I have decided to build one on my own. How will I do that ?

1. Netmon and Winpcap can monitor data transfer check more here.
2. I propose to filter / pipe all this data machine wise to a SQLite database. That would solve the purpose.
3. Give whole application a VB.net front end.

Their may be a flaw in the above approach but I will take my chances and keep on posting under label netaccount

CoreLab PostgreSQL.net auth for login Friday, November 16, 2007

 

I wanted login access to one of my application through database table fields data on VB.NET  project. For this I devised the following

1. A table that will have username and password
2. A SQL query that would run and return record count and if count is = 1. This would be considered as success.

Here is the code that did the trick for me

Dim command As New CoreLab.PostgreSql.PgSqlCommand
        Try
            PgSqlConnection1.Open()
            command = PgSqlConnection1.CreateCommand()
            Dim uparam, pparam As New CoreLab.PostgreSql.PgSqlParameter
            command.Parameters.Add("uparam", CoreLab.PostgreSql.PgSqlType.VarChar, 100).Value = TextBox1.Text.ToString  'this converts the VB.Net Text box to PostgreSQl data type
            command.Parameters.Add("pparam", CoreLab.PostgreSql.PgSqlType.VarChar, 25).Value = TextBox2.Text.ToString
            command.CommandText = "select * from authuser where uname = :uparam AND passwd = :pparam"
            command.BeginExecuteNonQuery()
            Dim rowcount As Integer
            rowcount = command.GetRecordCount()
            If rowcount = 0 Then
                Label3.Text = "Retry Incorrect login or password "
                PgSqlConnection1.Close()
            Else
                Me.Hide()
                base.Show()
            End If
            PgSqlConnection1.Close()
Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox("An Error occured please contact administrator" & Chr(13) & ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Critical)
        End Try
        PgSqlConnection1.Close()

Added the above code in click event of a button in VB.NET form. Though it may not be a master piece code for many but for me it is.

My first road block on VB.net Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Fine the application I was developing was the typical one as you fire the app the login screen comes up. On response from the login page either it opened a MDI form or it may exit the program.

Problem: If I exit from the main login form which was in the main() section the program would exit clean and release all resources.

   1:  'on failed auth do following

   2:  Me.close ' close the login form   3:   

I could not find a way to show my MDI main form after a success authentication and hiding or killing the login form. So I did following 

   1:  'on sucess auth 

   2:  Me.hide() ' this would hide the login form 

   3:  mymdiform.show() 'show the form

the problem with this approach was that If I close the MDI form invoked by the login form it (login) still remains in the memory and does not release it. Even if the form is not visible on the screen it is still in memory hogging memory. Now the question was how to get rid of this problem

   1:  Me.Dispose() ' Dispose the MDI form

   2:  Application.Exit() ' Dispose the whole application

this did the trick the whole application would close, when the click event calls the above code it works. Not only this the classic window cross also works after this piece of code