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Image Enhancement Research

For some of the projects I have in mind this would be a great way to handle poor quality images, for example schematics that have low pixels. From there I would have an easier time convert to svg files but that is a project later down the road. For now this is something I need to keep in mind of. msmsajjadi/EnhanceNet-Code: EnhanceNet: Single Image Super-Resolution Through Automated Texture Synthesis (official repository)
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Linux: Managing Security & System Logs

Not a linux novice by any means, so this last year (2019) I had been tracking logs on my server. I'll come back to this article and clean it up but incase I dont these definitely helped me track things until I start using a third party tool. sudo ip6tables -I INPUT -m geoip --src-cc IT,FI,GB,CA,MX,CN,DE,TR,ID,RU,IN,IL,BR -j DROP http://blog.jeshurun.ca/technology/block-countries-ubuntu-iptables-xtables-geoip https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92560/list-all-connected-ssh-sessions  cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 'Connection closed' |  tail -n 40 sudo iptables -L  iptables -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP Notes http://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables.man.html https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/345114/how-to-protect-against-port-scanners https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/318859/how-to-use-watch-command-with-a-piped-chain-of-commands-programs https://daenney.github.io/2017/01/07/geoip-filtering-iptables http://xmodulo.com/block-network-traffic
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ReUsed Flexcode ADOC Connection

Back in 2019 I was working for a consulting firm which this came in handle, I dont think I will ever need to go back to an ERP system and specially dont think I will need to work with flexcode again. Still this was something that I found and might help someone else. Public Sub Database_Connection()  Do      If cn1.State = 1 Then Exit Sub      On Error Resume Next      Set cn1 = macForm.ConnInfo.OpenADOConn      On Error GoTo 0  Loop  End Sub
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Aspnet Dotnet Notes: Custom Authorization & App_Data

Trying to handle a secure folder  where the files are not pushed to the server at deploy. Like all files in wwwroot they are in source control, these will not. The files I'm storing are so big that moving them is a separate process do outside of my application. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36775942/how-do-i-serve-static-files-only-to-authorized-users https://github.com/ClintBailiff/MiddlewareDemo/blob/master/Startup.cs get current user   inside an MVC controller: From the  Controller  base class, you can get the  IClaimsPrincipal  from the  User  property System . Security . Claims . ClaimsPrincipal currentUser = this . User ; You can check the claims directly (without a round trip to the database): bool IsAdmin = currentUser . IsInRole ( "Admin" ); var id = _userManager . GetUserId ( User ); // Get user id: Other fields can be fetched from the database's User entity: Get the user manager using dependency injection private
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Dynamically sitemap.xml in Aspnet Core

Someday I'd like to complete this project but for now I have very little time so I'll just hold onto these notes. The goal or idea would be for me to create a SEO friendly site but with all my experience with cms or spa applications I'd create it more based on a headless cms. If I get the chance I'd want to work with orchard core on this. Notes https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50311264/how-to-create-dynamically-sitemap-xml-in-net-core-2 https://rehansaeed.com/dynamically-generating-sitemap-xml-for-asp-net-mvc/ https://github.com/uhaciogullari/SimpleMvcSitemap#google-sitemap-extensions
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Still a use case for slow-cheetah

With .net 6 out I'm still finding myself maintaining application dependent on .net framework 4.7.2 which isnt too difficult to move them over just time consuming. So as a real quick reminder for myself there's a way to handle debug/local environments. Since most employer's dont know about this cool library or dont see the advantage, over using #DEBUG  in code. Which I really hate handling so instead I install slow-cheetah and using the foling.  xdt:Locator="Match(name)" add this to your App.{env}.config and call it a day with handling your environment! Notes https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/transform-config-using-slow-cheetah/ https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscps.SlowCheetah-XMLTransforms
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Azure functions appsettings.json instead of local.settings.json

 Currently one of the services I manage needs to properly set configurations similar to appsetting.json so that the parent name of the config doesnt need to change. This is because of service that calls for the config is looking specifically at the parent name. However since its a azure function using this I ran into an issue of using a different name rather than "Values" where db connections or other properties need to be in order to be read. I tried using the following example... { "CustomParent": {      "test":"true"      }    "Values": {          "test": "true"       } } For my custom name I can grab the test value, just what's in values parent. https://adamstorr.azurewebsites.net/blog/why-wont-you-load-my-configuration-azure-functions https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51781298/read-custom-settings-from-local-settings-json-in-azure-functions https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions/issues/1023 https://stack
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