January 15, 2009 at 12:13 pm
GilaMonster (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
We don't train with a wakizashi at my dojo and I've never tried it.Neither do we. I have a couple books and I'm seeing if I can figure some things out. It's hard. The coordination of the two is very difficult.
I'd love to study kenjitsu, but there are only two instructors in South Africa, one in Durban (550km away), one in Cape Town (1400 km away)
The draws alone have to be pretty different or do you work from a present position?
I've been working mostly working from various 'ready' positions, with both swords drawn. The one draw that I've tried has the katana drawn as the first movement then, as you're striking with the katana, the wakisashi is dawn
I would probably take off a hand... Oh, I just remembered two more swords in the house, my son has a couple of wall-hangers (glued together, pot metal) in his room, a katana & a wakazashi. I should try it with those. The worst that'll happen is I break the swords, cause sure as shootin', they won't hurt me.
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January 15, 2009 at 12:22 pm
RBarryYoung (1/15/2009)
You might have more luck looking for Kendo instructors. There's a whole Kendo Federation in SA, so I would think that there were a few instructors.
There's a school just down the road. I tried it. Didn't enjoy it at all.
There's too much emphasis on the sport side, where to strike to score points and the like. I'm not interested in that. I'd do Iaido, but it and the kendo school are one, and a student has to do Kendo for 4 years before they're allowed to study Iaido.
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
I would probably take off a hand...
Oh, I'm not using steel. I've got a wooden wakisashi, so I use it and one of my bokken.
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January 15, 2009 at 12:52 pm
GilaMonster (1/15/2009)
There's a school just down the road. I tried it. Didn't enjoy it at all.
There's too much emphasis on the sport side, where to strike to score points and the like. I'm not interested in that. I'd do Iaido, but it and the kendo school are one, and a student has to do Kendo for 4 years before they're allowed to study Iaido.
And that's the difference between a jutsu and a do type of school. While I know that I will never, ever use a sword to lop off arms, I'd rather train that way than train to score points.
[quote-1Oh, I'm not using steel. I've got a wooden wakisashi, so I use it and one of my bokken.[/quote-1]
I've got a live steel, sharpened blade that I use for training. But I always work up to it with the wooden ones.
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January 15, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Not to hijack the thread for something totally unrelated, but....
Gail, according to your web site you've done web development at one time, so I have a very basic question for you, where would I look to check the timeout value for a web app?
January 15, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Lynn Pettis (1/15/2009)
Not to hijack the thread for something totally unrelated, but....Gail, according to your web site you've done web development at one time, so I have a very basic question for you, where would I look to check the timeout value for a web app?
Most of the time, it is the http request timeout you want to change.
In the web.config file, below the *system.web* section (* replacing the less than / greater than symbols)
add
*httpRuntime executionTimeout="1000" /*
(using whatever timeout value you want)
January 15, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Okay, but where do I look. I am most definately not a web developer (at the moment any way) and don't even know where to look on the server. This is the first time I've been asked to check due to user complaints.
January 15, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Lynn Pettis (1/15/2009)
This is the first time I've been asked to check due to user complaints.
One of the main reasons to carry a sword to work... no one asks those types of questions... 😛
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January 15, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Lynn Pettis (1/15/2009)
Not to hijack the thread for something totally unrelated, but....Gail, according to your web site you've done web development at one time, so I have a very basic question for you, where would I look to check the timeout value for a web app?
There can also be some general timeout settings on the website under the properties of the website too. What version of IIS are you running? And is this .Net or ASP?
I'm not an expert on this, but have tweaked a couple of these, and they can exist in more than one place.
And more description of what is timing out might help someone. Are you generating an error message?
Greg E
January 15, 2009 at 7:43 pm
If it is .Net, there is a web config file in the root directory of the application. IIS Manager (look under adminstrator tools on the start menu) can help you locate it.
In IIS Manager, right click on the properties of the default website and you should see some timeout value. Also check under the website itself.
What is timing out? I'm sure there are some other things to check.
I'm not an expert by any stretch on this, but know that if you increase some timeouts, you can run into other issues with resources. See how much memory the IIS worker process is using. On 32 bit, once I hit about 1.7 GB under any process, I run into issues.
Please try and add a bit more description of the issue and the version of the OS (32 or x64), IIS, and if it's .Net or classic ASP.
Greg E
January 15, 2009 at 11:46 pm
To be sure, not completely sure. I normally don't provide support for the front-end application. I usually keep to the SQL side of things and let those who have been supporting the app continue to do so. That person just happened to be at lunch when I was asked to check.
I found what I was looking for and it confirmed what I was asked to verify.
I got my info second hand, so I actually doubt if the person who asked me to check got the actual error message from the user. What a user calls a timeout could be an actual network error, but our network has no problems or issues.
January 16, 2009 at 1:00 am
Lynn Pettis (1/15/2009)
Gail, according to your web site you've done web development at one time, so I have a very basic question for you, where would I look to check the timeout value for a web app?
Oh, wow. Now you're asking something. I haven't done web dev in about 6 years.
It depends what the web pages are written in and what, if any, data components they use (nHibernate, etc)
From what I recall, the default timeout on ADO and ADO.NET is 30 sec. That can be changed in any piece of code just by setting a different timeout on the command.
MySQLCommand.CommandTimeout = 120 // timeout to 2 min.
Hence, there's no single place to check. Is the developer anywhere around?
Gail Shaw
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January 16, 2009 at 4:53 am
GilaMonster (1/15/2009)
Grant Fritchey (1/15/2009)
For example, oh Gail, how many swords in your house?Only one at the moment. I'm considering buying a basket-hilt rapier (local weapons shop has a nice ornamental one) and I'm eyeing some of the Lord of the Rings weapons (Tolkien fan)
Plus three knives (2 sharpened), three practice swords (two bokken, one wooden wakisashi), two short staves, two wooden tanto, one recurved bow (30 pounds draw weight) and a quiver of arrows.
Grant, if you're ever in Edinburgh, there's a beautiful weapons shop half way up Royal Mile, They sell assorted swords, axes, maces, armour, shields, etc. Only reason I didn't empty the bank last time I was there is that they don't ship to SA, and I didn't think I'd get the stuff back by plane easily.
Actually when you have legal weapons there are procedures in air lines that lets you fly with your weapons. You won’t be able to have any weapons with you on your carry on. Sometimes it is enough to put it in the suitcase that you check and sometimes you’ll have to give it to the air line official and get it back after you lend. Of course this is true when it is not dangerous to fly the weapon. For explosives it can not be true, but for swords, axes etc’ it can be done.
Adi
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January 16, 2009 at 5:03 am
Adi Cohn (1/16/2009)
Actually when you have legal weapons there are procedures in air lines that lets you fly with your weapons. You won’t be able to have any weapons with you on your carry on. Sometimes it is enough to put it in the suitcase that you check and sometimes you’ll have to give it to the air line official and get it back after you lend. Of course this is true when it is not dangerous to fly the weapon. For explosives it can not be true, but for swords, axes etc’ it can be done.Adi
No problems flying with longbows & war arrows last year. Just make sure your stuff is adequately packaged and labelled (carpet tubes are great for this), and check with the airline beforehand - many of them have special provisions for weapons. Last time I flew, I just happened to have, in addition to the longbows which went into the hold, a couple of spent WW2 rounds in my pocket - a perfect 9mm and a less-than-perfect .303. They were confiscated with a lot of tutting. What did they think I was gonna do with them, poison someone with the lead? 🙂
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January 16, 2009 at 5:16 am
Adi Cohn (1/16/2009)
Actually when you have legal weapons there are procedures in air lines that lets you fly with your weapons.
I think it depends on the airline and how helpful the check in person is feeling. A couple years back it took 20 min and a chat with a manager to get my jo (in a padded bag) accepted as luggage. (it's a 4 ft long piece of wood that looks like a broomstick)
Apparently it was 'an unusual shape'
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January 16, 2009 at 5:31 am
Guys,
I've been reading the thread from the start, its been so exciting to read that I just can't resist myself joinin' in.:D
Can you believe that this thread is 27 pages long (on a page size of 20), me, typing 795th post (unless someone else beats me up!!!).:D
Steve,
Does this broke the record for maximum no. of pages, posts & average posts by a person? I believe it has or it will anytime soon, what you say guys? Should the posters be given appreciation for breaking the record, Steve?:D
One more thing, you people have got lot of lethal weapons, specially the potato chop launcher..:P, I too got special weapons, my friendly sql developers, for my clients. All I have to do is just tell them to create a procedure for their process and thats it...bang...:w00t:
--Ramesh
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