getStrokesAsString = function(inkpresenter) {
var strokes = inkpresenter.strokes;
var buffer = "<inkpresenter .Strokes>";

for (x = 0; x < strokes.Count; x++) {
buffer += "<Stroke>" +
"<stroke .DrawingAttributes>" +
"<drawingattributes Color='#FF000000' Height='1.75' Width='1.75'/>" +
"</stroke>" +
"<stroke .StylusPoints>";
var curstroke = strokes.getItem(x);
if (curstroke) {
var sps = curstroke.StylusPoints;
for (y = 0; y < sps.Count; y++) {
buffer += "<StylusPoint X='" + sps.getItem(y).X + "' Y='" + sps.getItem(y).Y + "' />";
}
}
buffer += "</stroke>";
buffer += "";
}
buffer += "</inkpresenter>";
return buffer;
}
setStrokesFromString = function(inkpresenter, silverlightobj, strokestring) {
inkpresenter.strokes.Clear();
var allstrokes = "allstrokes";
var allstrokes = silverlightobj.content.createFromXAML(strokestring);
inkpresenter.strokes = allstrokes;
}

Sorry it’t not formatted nicely — wordpress stripped all that out.

Use the getStrokesAsString method to get a XAML string representing all the strokes; just pass it the inkpresenter element.

Use the setStrokesFromString method to transfer a XAML string representing the strokes into actual strokes on the canvas. Pass it the inkpresenter element, the silverlight object (usually window.silverLight), and the XAML stroke string.

Once I get back from the internship, I’ll be redesigning this site to be more friendly to tracking downloads and keeping them separate from blog posts. If I end up writing a custom program for this, I’ll make it available for download.

In addition to the new site, I’ll be writing a system (in collaboration with Blueshift Labs) called CompactIS which is too complicated to explain on here. The spec on the protocol will be made available as soon as possible.

1. Go into the phone’s menu
2. Type 0 (zero) seven times
3. Hit #
4. Go to ‘Motor Test’
5. Turn it on

Then the phone will vibrate until you go back in and turn it off.

Click here to go to the downloads archive

Note: This is a beta, more features WILL be available soon
Another Note: You need .NET 2.0 to run this.

Sometime soon I plan on adding an easier way to change the text, and to make the error messages look more authentic, but for now, this is a good solution. Note that the FBSOD will capture all keys and key combinations (except Ctrl+Alt+Delete), so there’s no way to exit unless you know how to use the task manager, or if you know the secret.

To exit the FBSOD, move the mouse all the way to the top of the screen and click.

To change the FBSOD text, create a file called C:\windows\bsodtext.txt

Click here to download the Fake Blue Screen of Death

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This version includes a few minor interface changes as well as a few changes to the backend. There are now 2 new options which allow you to hide outages if they are less than a certain length (default: 30 seconds), and another which allows you to disable the notifications when the connection goes down, so the tray icon simply changes color and writes the log. Here’s a total list of changes:

Under the hood:

• Better error handling
• More efficient log parser

Interface Changes:

• Renamed a few menu items in the log viewer so they are more descriptive
• Added an option to hide the notifications when the connection goes up or down (default: show notifications)
• Added an option that allows the LogViewer to hide outages if the connection is down for a negligible time (default: 30 seconds)
• LogViewer automatically scrolls to the end of the file
• LogViewer will now open plaintext files in the viewer rather than trying to parse them out (which adds support for version 2 logs)
• Added a menuitem that will open the options pane
• Better icons

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ICM V3.1

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As you can see (if you’re using IE), the cells simply don’t show up and it looks extremely ugly. It looks even worse when using special borders. Here is a simple script that will go through all tables on your page and fill the contents of the empty cells with &nbsp;

Put this script in the <head> of your document to show empty cells in IE:

note: the <!–[if lte IE 7]> line allows this script to run only in IE browsers.

<!--[if lte IE 7]>
  <script type="text/javascript">
   window.onload = function() {
        tds = document.all.tags("td");
        for (x = 0; x < tds.length; x++) {
            if (tds[x].innerHTML == '')
                tds[x].innerHTML = "&nbsp;";
        }
   }
   </script>
<![endif]-->

• ICM Version 3.1 - A few bug fixes and feature adds. The most noticeable feature will be the ability to hide outages under x seconds, as well as a few other GUI interface additions and changes
• Easythumb 1.0 - A PHP Page for quickly generating image thumbnails, with support for adding watermarks as well

Most of you have never heard of this, but it’s been a project of mine for the past 2 years, although I haven’t really actively been updating it. Just a brief history:

This was created to monitor my internet connection because it frequently cuts out for long periods of time. I needed something to show my ISP to prove to them that the service kept dropping. For this, I created a simple BASH script that would ping our ip every x seconds, and wrote a log of outages. This system was extremely limited, however, so about 6 months later, I wrote a Python version. Still, this version was buggy and inadequate. So now I release version 3.0.

It is written in C# and:

• Puts an icon in the system tray that shows the current status of the connection (red for down, green for up)
• Shows balloon tips when the connection drops or comes back up
• Options for changing polling interval, port, server, and where to save the logfiles
• A logfile viewer that parses the logfiles and tells you how long the connection was down

Click Here to Download ICM Version 3.0

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