While in Nelson, down very South, a good friend of mine Kit Carson, a farmer, woodturner and artist taught me an important lesson. the great rugby player, Jonah Lomu was of Tongan origin, an Islander – not a Maori). Locals struggled to tell us apart, the same as we struggled to tell the English from the Dutch or the Maoris from the Pacific Islanders (NB. We never bothered (very wisely) to call it Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian or… I was just one of us, ex-Yugoslavs and we all spoke naški – our language. At the same time, for most the Yugoslav immigrants in Aotearoa, I was naš – ours.
Pakeha or Caucasian, that was the choice I had. I learnt the trade and a couple of years later, upon graduation, I could tell ALL the commercial fish species in the South Pacific.įilling the many forms of the New Zealand immigration service and later of the government, I identified as a Pakeha, the Maori term for white people and, apparently, also for a pig. I too found myself in a new setting, in Nelson, New Zealand where a friend of a friend operated a fleet of fishing boats.
In the early nineties, many of my countrymen (and women) fled the war. It was only in the late 90s that I noticed that the footballer Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known as Pele was black! And I remember watching him play for the first time in Sweden 1970! It took me thirty years or perhaps, ten years of living in an English-speaking country to think of the great football magician in terms of race. I grew up in Belgrade listening to African American blues musicians such as BB King, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Blind Lemon Jefferson, playing basketball to better the likes of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson! Through the non-aligned movement, it had many links with third-world countries and we used to call Africans: braća crnci, Black Brothers. I was born in Yugoslavia, the most multicultural country in Europe. It has nothing to do with me.Įxcept that… it has everything to do with me and there is no-one to speak out for me! How did a refugee from war-torn socialist Yugoslavia turned fisherman in the South Pacific become a privileged White male? How come I find myself in this bizarre situation? People in the streets and on television say that Whites should kneel and apologise. This event is always raised and is always the first event to occur during the processing of a request.In this country I am regarded as White and therefore, privileged – it seems. If ( 4096000)Īnd add the following information to web.configīeginRequest event –The BeginRequest event signals the creation of any given new request. Say changing the value to say 700mb ( not sure what the maximum length of request could be) The best solution for this could be to set the value of maxRequestLength to a very high value. I tried with the above code, but it isn’t consistent. Response.Write( “Click Here to go back to page ”) Please resubmit the form with less data.”) Response.Write( “The form submission cannot be processed because it exceeded the maximum length allowed by the Web administrator. If ( = “Maximum request length exceeded.”) Exception appException = Server.GetLastError() Path.GetFileName(Request.Path) = “Default.aspx”) Void Application_Error( object sender, EventArgs e) In this case we can catch the error in the Application_Error event handler of the Global.asax file.
Even in this case if user tries to upload a file with size more than 10 mb we than get the above “Page cannot be displayed error ” or the page simply hang up. We can change the value of maxRequestLength to a desired value in our web.config of the application. By default, the element is set to the following parameters in the nfig file: To upload larger files, we must change the maxRequestLength parameter of the section in the Web.config file. By default, ASP.NET permits only files that are 4,096 kilobytes (KB) or less to be uploaded to the Web server.