building pwlib

i have to add 729 codec support to my application. for that i downloaded voxgratia's patched version of openh323 and pwlib and started the fight for building them.
what i kept getting was some unresolved externals, so after a long, long struggle i noticed that the compiler-encoded method string which ptlib looks for for linking in ptlibd.def differs from the string in the ptlibsd.lib which is being linked.
so i decided to replace the strings in ptlibd.def with the correct ones in ptlibsd.lib. everything compiles fine so far, i wonder if it will also work fine ....

file upload with asp.net

while playing with some basic asp.net stuff i got this

Maximum request length exceeded.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Maximum request length exceeded.

Source Error:


An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.


Stack Trace:




[HttpException (0x80004005): Maximum request length exceeded.]
System.Web.HttpRequest.GetEntireRawContent() +895
System.Web.HttpRequest.GetMultipartContent() +58
System.Web.HttpRequest.FillInFormCollection() +256
System.Web.HttpRequest.get_Form() +50
System.Web.UI.Page.GetCollectionBasedOnMethod() +70
System.Web.UI.Page.DeterminePostBackMode() +47
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +42


solution was found here: simply increase HttpRuntime maxRequestLength in machine.config

But I bet you knew this already, didn't you ? :)

knoppix 3.8 and usb modems

so i decided to get a try at linux and got a knoppix cd. successfully changed the language to english (by default the cd boots in german) and wanted to browse the net. but i couldn't. rebooted to windows and started searching for a solution. after about 3 hours on almost every forum i search everybody said that it is either impossible ot very difficult to get an usb device running under linux. wtf ?
that got me even angrier so i did what i've should've done from the start: went to the source and searched the knoppix site for questions and luckily through reference from another post got to this thread:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=82705.

initially that guy's advice didn't work for me, but was great for a start.
i installed the usbnet package and as this wasn't enough i remembered having read somewhere about the tulip package and that it was somehow connected with usb devices on linux. after that i run the network card configuration and .... voila! welcome internet! :) the only remark is that for broadcast 192.168.1.255 should be used, the network card wizard came up proposing another ip...