Home Base > Announcements & Issues
This Thread IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICS!
Bernd:
DJH,
Thanks. How very kind of you to offer. Lets see if anybody will take you up on your offer.
Good luck and thanks again.
Bernd
dsquire:
--- Quote from: GrahamC on December 04, 2009, 07:51:43 AM ---
I am a little confused Don and I am not sure what the cause of this problem is.
--- End quote ---
Graham
I think partially the cause of the problem is the "FREE" picture posting accounts that places like Photobucket offers. As we all know, free is only a catch word to get our money in one way or the other. People start using Photobucket and think it is great until they have a problem. Over time their photo collection grows and throw in a few video's and start to get watched by everyone. Now your starting to exceed your bandwidth. Now to fix the problem you have to throw money at it and there goes the "free" part of it.
--- Quote ---
One of my peeves with "The Home Shop Machinist & Machinist's Workshop BBS" is that you need to have an external (to the BBS) web site to store the photos that you want to post on the forum.
This forum is different in that you can either use an external web site to store the pictures or you can upload the picture to the BBS, the later being my preference as I don't to have "yet another" web site to upload to and maintain.
In the case of the thread you have refered to, was his pictures stored on another site? If so, the long term lose you refer to is very real and can and will happen at any moment. If he in fact had uploaded his pictures to this web site it begs the question as to why they have disappeared (server failure and loss of data? or did the pictures disappear from the BBS when he removed his profile?)
--- End quote ---
If the pictures had been stored on this site we would not be having this discussion now as everything would be OK.
The pictures were stored in a free photobucket account. Because of the popularity and size of photo's and the number of times viewed his bandwidth was exceeded. When the bandwidth is exceeded you get the blank photo not available box. Bandwidth is calculated on a monthly basis and if exceeded it will be reset on the monthly anniversary. Free Photobucket accounts are allowed 10GB of bandwidth per month.
Here is an example of how bandwidth is calculated on Photobucket.
Quote
Example: You have various images of 25K each in size that are viewed by 100 users on your favorite message board in one day. You also have one video of 15000K that is viewed by 10 users in one day. 25K * 100 requests = 2500K (or 2.5MB). 15000K * 10 requests = 150000K (or 150MB). When you add the two together, you have used 152.5MB of bandwidth in one day.
End Quote
--- Quote ---
I had always assumed (dangerous - yes) that on web sites where I post pictures to, that those pictures would always remain in those posts (server hardware and storage problems notwithstanding) forever and a day regardless of whether I maintained a profile on that site or not.
--- End quote ---
I believe that any pictures you post to the MadModder site will be there for all present and future users forever and a day regardless of whether you maintained a profile on the site or not. If you were to post the pictures to a photobucket account then the pictures would disappear about 1 year after you died unless you could log in from the grave.
--- Quote ---
Perhaps the admins can explain some of the inner workings of this forum and their policies regarding such matters.
cheers, Graham in Ottawa Canada
--- End quote ---
cheers :beer:
Don
dsquire:
--- Quote from: Bernd on December 04, 2009, 04:07:42 PM ---
And remember nothing is ever free.
Now here's one thing I don't understand. When I signed up for the Internet back when I got my first computer the phone company provided space for me to build a web site as part of the package for Internet service. I'm sure it's limited to how big and bandwidth. So my question is doesn't everybody that signs up with a service provider get a place for a web site?
--- End quote ---
Bernd
I have the option of running a small web site as part of my Internet providers benefits. While this would do me at present for my photo needs as I post very few, it would not solve the problem that I am trying to get at. When we die or whatever happens to us their will be no one keeping our Internet service payed up therefore it will cease to exist as will any photos or videos that I might be hosting on it.
Suppose that I had came up with a new way to build a new machine and wrote it up in a new project post. It consisted of about 500 posts and was very well documented with photographs and videos. Great, everybody loved it and had praise for me. Then without warning I have a heart attack and am dead. 30 days later nobody pays my Internet, my account is closed and now in that lovely 500 post document there are over 300 little boxes all neatly lined up in rows and they each have the same text in them. Picture or Video not Available.
At one time this may have been a good article. Now it is just a piece of garbage that does not make sense. It is the same as taking the books written by James Watt, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, etc. and tearing out all the illustration from their books.
I think we have to come up with a way to keep the text, photo's and video all stored in one place so that it will survive us and be available for the next and future generations to learn from or laugh at.
I don't want to step on toe's here but I guess if people want to open a Internet Site they should decide what they want for content and what they are willing to pay to support. Do they only want text? Do they want photo's? Do they want Video's? Maybe members will have to pay a small membership fee for this privilege or heaven forbid even advertising.
If we are going to throw the baby out with the bath water, it's no sense having the baby!
Cheers :beer:
Don
Darren:
I have a web site that I have not logged onto for about eight years and i have not been with NTL for about the same amount of time .... I can't even remember the passwords to get into it.
It's still there ... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/darren.dean/
dsquire:
--- Quote from: Darren on December 06, 2009, 12:45:22 AM ---I have a web site that I have not logged onto for about eight years and i have not been with NTL for about the same amount of time .... I can't even remember the passwords to get into it.
It's still there ... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/darren.dean/
--- End quote ---
Yup, It still works and I am glad for you. The Photobucket account that I was referring to I was going by what they show in their terms and conditions.
As far as my Internet Service provider I am just assuming that if I don't pay they would shut my site down if I had one.
It would certainly be nice to find a site that one could load photo's too and have them be available for the rest of time just like a good book. I guess no matter how hard we try, we are not going to be able to replace a book and all its good features.
Thanks for the comment Darren. I am going to go check out the rest of your old site now.
Cheers :beer:
Don
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version