Faces of a.org

[that_punk_guy]

:lol:

Thanks, glad you people are enjoying the site :-)

Heh, I was tempted to put up a picture of myself with a rather nice girl I met at new year, but I didn't because I thought it would be wrong to exploit her image in order to make myself look cooler... uh, okay I didn't use it 'cause I look like a dork in that picture. ;-)

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I actually put that in as a place-holder, 'cause I'm lazy. If you look at the HTML you might guess why. Every time I put a single new image in, I have to shift everyone's image down round the table tags and things...

I need to come up with a better way to organise it all. Actually I've just had a small brainwave...

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mikeymike
Moderator

Joined: 2002/11/1
Posts: 1999

;-)

Aren't beards a sign of uber-majesty in Unix circles?

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bloodline wrote:

That last post was your 2000th, you have now moved up a rank!!!

Actually mikeymike doesn't move up a rank until his 2001st post, IIRC ;-)

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*Bangs head against table*

This is all too much for my tiny brain...  :-(

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Mike_Amiga wrote:
...unfortuanate text...

:lol:

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tpg hides his blushing eyes...

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blobrana wrote:
3.141592653589793236484....

(from memory)

That's either really impressive, or truly disturbing ;-)

And I thought I was cool for knowing pi to 5 decimal places!

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Two more lovely faces on the site today :-)

Go see!

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Seehund wrote:

Glaucus wrote:

blobrana wrote:

Ummm...  I don't think so. The image scaling you suggested would scale the image in the user's browser AFTER they already downloaded it. The proper way to do what you suggest would be to scale the images on the server side, sorta like how we are forced to do with our avatars.

Look again.

But I agree with that it sucks to make the clients scale images. The width=x height=y is quite good to have there, as long as it specifies the actual size of the image (makes the layout rendering quicker, and you can see where there's supposed to be pictures if they're broken or you've got image loading turned off).

Blobrana's is a thumbnail in this vein, have a click :-) It works nice enough, thing is I don't have the time to resize everyone's pics and everything. Besides that most people's images are not so much bigger than the tags specify, so there's no real performance hit. The idea was never to have ultra-high-res pics of everyone, just big enough photos so you can actually see what they look like (cyka take note ;-))

I'm thinking about getting my webserver back up and running and then maybe I can run some kind of photo album PERL/PHP scripts (open to suggestions there if anyone knows what might look nice)...

Thing is my home server couldn't cope with hosting Faces. 128kbps upstream is not a lot when you're getting the kind of hits Faces does (tens of thousands so far by my estimate :-o) so I'd have to keep the actual images on my faster NTL webspace... maybe via an automated FTP upload... goddamn it's complicated!

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Was that like, so kinky it was even beyond Matt's comprehension?

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odin wrote:
TPG dude......you look like Murdoch/Lt. Barclay :-D.

Who's tha... Hey! :-x

;-)

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cecilia wrote:
yeah, what is it with you "English Types" (said with the monty python fake french accent) and cutting all your hair off???
see, hair should be kept ON the head, and OFF the body. cecilia's law. :lol:

In my case, it's just the cheapest haircut available. I can do it at home! :-D

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Karlos wrote:
@that_punk_guy

Man, you look loads different without the hat :-D

But better? Now that I look almost happy? Heh heh :-D

Perhaps you might consider splitting the page into a set defined by maximum number of images? Over 56K it can be a bit of a mission :-)

My only worry with that is that people might not take the time to see all the pictures, so say if I split it in half, the people in N-Z won't have their pics seen as often.

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bloodline wrote:

(heh, heh, i can handle blood-what's-his-name)

I'll like to see you try... no honestly I really would!!!  :-)

Hmm, "handle."