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Post by Steve on Aug 23, 2005 20:10:00 GMT
Thanks, Spy_Master, I didn't know that. I remember a time when I used to help you out with tech stuff, but lately you're providing tech support for me. ;D That's fine then, but you might want to take a look inside the zip file if you still have it and look for one extra file. If you had the 'Add System and Hidden Files' box ticked (which I think it is by default) then it might have added that little XP data file called Thumbs.db. If so, then the server would not recognise it as a valid image file type and that could cause the error. I can't check because I don't have access to XP at the moment, but I've mentioned it in case you encounter something similar again, somewhere where a rar file isn't an option. From the FAQ: I think that means 2x the current cumulative traffic (as distinct from 2x the average traffic per user), in which case I expect it would indeed be difficult to generate such a spike so I wouldn't worry too much about that one. From the FAQ: I imagine the access logs run to thousands or tens of thousands of lines per hour. With a busy website it wouldn't be too difficult to appear in the log each hour, but to then consistently appear in such a tiny sample would be highly unlikely, except for somebody who was using a ridiculous amount of bandwidth so I think that's not likely to be a problem either. Well that's good that you've started using it already, Spy_Master, I hope it will work out ok. I'll be recommending to Alice that she should give it a try for a while and if it's reliable in terms of server uptime then it would probably be a good idea to stay with Freewebs for the html files, linking to Photojerk for the screencaps.
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Post by SpyMaster on Aug 24, 2005 15:55:07 GMT
Steve I've now switched hosting from angelfire and photobucket for my caps to photojerk and added more all in less than an hour. Maybe I'm just a pessamist but should it really be this easy? Uploading all the images in a zip file, find/replacing the code. It takes hardly anytime whatsoever and is easy.
It seems too good to be true. How are photojerk paying for the space and bandwith? They don't force any adverts, there's no incentive to upgrade because there are hardly any limits on the free accounts, it doesn't make any sense. It's too easy. I'm just waiting for something to go wrong.
Do you think it will?
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Post by Steve on Aug 24, 2005 20:37:59 GMT
I know what you mean, Spy_Master, you would expect to be seeing the name mentioned everywhere, but it isn't. I just did a search for photojerk and then a search for photobucket on Google. Photojerk returned just 863 results, while Photobucket returned 1,640,000! It's hardly a scientific comparison but it's a bit baffling that they are so relatively unknown. There are ads by the way - I had to go into IE before I could see them because they must be already blocked in Firefox. They're very discreet though - just plain text ads - no flashing, jumping, irritating images so I might even unblock them because they're doing no harm. The 'donation' for the premium account is really an annual subscription by another name, because a 'donation' provides 12 months on the premium service. I assume that between the ads and donations they are at least covering their costs, if not actually running at a profit. The one thing I would say is to make sure your site is fully backed up on your hard-drive - preferably in folders which mimic the folder structures at Freewebs/Photojerk/Photobucket. I take responsibilty for keeping a backup of Stanie's Screencaps, including vids - I have all the files but I haven't recreated the directory structures yet, which is something which I should do. I dont have a backup of my own screencaps site at all, which is something I should add to my list of things to do, because some of those images are no longer on my hard-drive so I should really recover them all from Freewebs, just in case. Make sure you backup your html files as well by the way, because you know how very time-consuming it can be to put those together. That's as simple as opening the page, and then View - Source, then save as either an html file or a plain text file. It's so easy that there's really no excuse for not having a folder full of them. Did you notice when you open source code in Firefox it comes out all pretty and colour-coded - I like that. I have three episodes of Stanie's Screencaps hosted from my own Photobucket account so I'll move those over to Photojerk very soon and I'll let you know how it goes.
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Post by SpyMaster on Aug 25, 2005 13:31:32 GMT
There are ads by the way - I had to go into IE before I could see them because they must be already blocked in Firefox. They're very discreet though - just plain text ads - no flashing, jumping, irritating images so I might even unblock them because they're doing no harm. The 'donation' for the premium account is really an annual subscription by another name, because a 'donation' provides 12 months on the premium service. I assume that between the ads and donations they are at least covering their costs, if not actually running at a profit. What ads on the pictures pages? I've checked and I don't have any. If you mean ads in the control panel then that's like photobucket only they don't take ages to load. I get those in Mozilla. I thought that was the only way to create an advanced HTML site by having a complete copy of it on your harddisk. I don't like that. Unlike with IE you can't go view source and it opens up in notepad directly for editing. You have to go view source and then copy the code to notepad as you can't edit it in mozillas own screen. Annoyed the hell out of me till I made new habits although I do admit that the colours are convenient for scanning over peoples source code. Actually I have another question for you to do with backing up files longterm on the PC. I have a Multivision PC and Multivision have gone bust, I'm covered and everything but part of the PC was a mirror disk which is two separate hard disks which copy all the files from one to the other incase one busts. However, I've never been convinced that that works properly and I don't understand how it does it anyway. I was going to find out and then they went bust. Really I'd much prefer just to have that as a normal hard disk because I'm slowly running out of room on the one that I use and I mean really running out of room. It's 120 GB hard disk and my WinFast won't record anything anymore because it says there's not enough disc space. Everything on there is stuff I need and most of it is on a day to day basis. Basically what I'm asking is can I make the second hard disk that I've got a normal hard disk? I would just stick with putting files on a DVD but I did that as a trial and the discs somehow wiped themselves, good thing I still had the files on my PC. Or do you have a better suggestion? I'm up for suggestions. I've uninstalled all the programs I can do without. Deleted everything I can do without but I'm still in a jam. Thanks Spy_Master
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2005 17:03:20 GMT
Yep, that's what I meant. Yes that's correct, and you need that when you're doing FTP uploads to the server. The couple of sites that I'm involved with though are hosted all over the place and don't accept FTP uploads so there is no absolute need for the site to be mirrored on my hard-drive, and unfortunately I keep the files dotted about all over the place. The backup of Stanie's Screencaps is neat and tidy, but none of my own stuff is. Have you considered an external usb hard-drive? Christmas isn't so very far away so you have time to drop some hints. ;D If you want to stop the second drive from being used as a mirror, then I think you identified the program which you thought was doing the mirroring when you had a virus problem and we ran HijackThis - it was on your startup list and if you can find the thread on Sarah's forum then the program name will be there. It might be as simple as disabling that in startup but I'd want to look into it a bit further before doing that. Can you use Windows Explorer to browse that drive? Is it in fact a mirror of the C-drive? Also, what is the drive letter? Is it the D-drive or what? Also you would want to check if that program is referenced in your autoexec.bat file which you will find in the root directory, C:\autoexec.bat but... DON'T double-click on that and run it, because it's only intended to run at startup, but you can view it this way - open Notepad and then from File - Open - browse your way to it and it will open as a plain text file. See if there is any reference to that program and then close it without saving any changes. As a general rule, never double-click on any .bat (batch) file unless you know exactly what it is, but it's always safe to open them that way if you want to know what they are.
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2005 17:13:34 GMT
Actually, I think you can forget about the autoexec.bat file - I think that became obsolete when XP was introduced but I'm not sure. I remembered that I've seen XP with no autoexec.bat so maybe it's no longer needed.
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Post by SpyMaster on Aug 25, 2005 17:19:50 GMT
Have you considered an external usb hard-drive? Christmas isn't so very far away so you have time to drop some hints. ;D If you want to stop the second drive from being used as a mirror, then I think you identified the program which you thought was doing the mirroring when you had a virus problem and we ran HijackThis - it was on your startup list and if you can find the thread on Sarah's forum then the program name will be there. It might be as simple as disabling that in startup but I'd want to look into it a bit further before doing that. Can you use Windows Explorer to browse that drive? Is it in fact a mirror of the C-drive? Also, what is the drive letter? Is it the D-drive or what? Also you would want to check if that program is referenced in your autoexec.bat file which you will find in the root directory, C:\autoexec.bat but... DON'T double-click on that and run it, because it's only intended to run at startup, but you can view it this way - open Notepad and then from File - Open - browse your way to it and it will open as a plain text file. See if there is any reference to that program and then close it without saving any changes. As a general rule, never double-click on any .bat (batch) file unless you know exactly what it is, but it's always safe to open them that way if you want to know what they are. You can browse through it. I realised actually after I posted the message to you that I'd accidently installed a couple of programs on there. (Yet it says there's no room on the drive) You see this backup drive is the C drive and the normal drive is the D drive. I don't understand how it can be the mirror of D drive though because none of my files are there to be viewed. You see I don't want to backup my hard disk I want all my files that I have now (which I need to reference too but not neccesarily to edit or anything) to be on one hard disk and I can use the other. I would get an external hard disk and I probably will at some point it just seems to be a waste to have that hard disk and not be making any practical use of it. As for christmas I already have a list but I'm going to see what I can buy for myself before then or go halfs on or something. I want a freeview TV tuner so I can record better quality video and also access more channels which have the programs on that I want to record. I also want a flatscreen monitor. My room is so tiny and the 17" CRT that came with my PC really overpowers the room for the forseeable purpose, also I need the desk space. Just out of interest do you know of any good models for either of the above?
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Post by SpyMaster on Aug 25, 2005 17:38:51 GMT
Just remembered something else I meant to ask you Can you get a free upload manager so if there's a power cut or a thunderstorm or the internet plays up and you get cut off you can still resume your upload? You see I'm sharing some pretty big files and if I get cut off it disrupts everything. Thanks
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2005 17:48:28 GMT
Oh I thought you had got Freeview ages ago, but I must be mistaken. I got a box a few weeks ago. I hardly ever watch TV so I just got a really cheap one from my local ASDA for £35 which I think is the cheapest available anywhere in the UK. If you can find a review site and decide on which model you might want, go next to www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/ and that will tell you who has the best price on it. A flatscreen monitor would be nice but I'm still using my old CRT monitor and I'm not really in touch with the market. Do you know of Digital Spy forums? They have a great technology forum, with dedicated boards for DTT Freeview and computing - anybody can read the forum but registration is required to post. They have over 100,000 members so it's a busy place and you will find plenty of opinions there. forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/index.php?
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2005 17:55:03 GMT
No, I don't know of one. I use GetRight for big downloads because I'm on dial-up so I get automatically disconnected every two hours so that's sometimes a necessity. I don't even know if there is such a thing as an upload manager in that sense though - one which could resume interrupted uploads. It seems to me that it would need to be installed at the server machine, not the client machine. Google probably knows the answer.
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2005 17:58:49 GMT
Oh hold on, you might be talking about a server to which you have access - in that case it would be worth searching on Google because such a thing may well exist. I'm sure it would need to be installed at the server side though.
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2005 18:00:48 GMT
You probably want a good FTP client - do a search using the keywords FTP client resume interrupted uploads
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Post by SpyMaster on Aug 25, 2005 19:02:43 GMT
Oh I thought you had got Freeview ages ago, but I must be mistaken. I got a box a few weeks ago. I hardly ever watch TV so I just got a really cheap one from my local ASDA for £35 which I think is the cheapest available anywhere in the UK. If you can find a review site and decide on which model you might want, go next to www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/ and that will tell you who has the best price on it. I didn't mean a box for the TV because I did get one of those ages ago I meant one for my computer. You know I'm got a TV tuner already which does terrestrial, well I want one that does freeview. I know there are some around, I just wondered if you knew of any makes that were good at all. I'm talking about my mums webspace again. I don't know if that counts as having access to the server but all the uploads have to be done via ftp. I never bothered getting a client for it but did it all via Internet Explorer and the built in access point there. I just put in the search terms that you suggested and came up with one called Robust FTP. I'm trialling it now.
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2005 20:13:31 GMT
Ah, I see. Where is the Freeview box? Is it near your computer? Because if so then you can take the signal from the video out socket on the box and feed it to the video in socket on either your TV card or your graphics card. That will allow you to make caps (feed the audio output to the line input socket on your soundcard). Is that possible?
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Post by SpyMaster on Aug 25, 2005 23:17:16 GMT
Ah, I see. Where is the Freeview box? Is it near your computer? Because if so then you can take the signal from the video out socket on the box and feed it to the video in socket on either your TV card or your graphics card. That will allow you to make caps (feed the audio output to the line input socket on your soundcard). Is that possible? Nope the freeview box is in the living room downstairs. My computer is in mr room upstairs. Besides we had problems setting up the freeview box and so now anybody touches it under penalty of death, that includes me. I already messed up the TV and VCR in mums room by borrowing it to hook up to my PC (I broke one of the leads). Anyway I'd rather get a proper tuner card for it so I can record and everything. Screencaps come second. Oh that Robust thing was a bust, didn't work. I downloaded another program called Royalftp which has all the appearences of being made by the same company but this one works. I've no idea why I'm still up at gone midnight uploading a file when I can just resume it tomorrow morning. Probably the fact I just messed up my messageboard trialling a skin and now I've lost functionality in my admin CP I'm waiting for a reply from the help board.
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