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Izo
2005-12-31 05:00:54 pm
soaking through
You can't have "too many".  At least, you definitely can't have an enforcable rule about having too many random avatars.  Just use your own judgement.
DeathNoble
2005-12-31 05:24:46 pm
Quote from Izo:
Just use your own judgement.


Now there's a bad thing to tell me. Laughing
arkarian
2006-01-01 08:05:45 am
red chamber dream
Yeah, you can have as many as you want. Why would it matter to me?
DeathNoble
2006-01-01 08:10:15 am
I was thinking it would matter to Nate.  Don't want to have too many files on my M2K2 space that ends up using bandwith and costing him money.

Or something.
arkarian
2006-01-01 08:12:26 am
red chamber dream
Aren't most peoples' random avatars not hosted on m2k2 at all? I know mine aren't.
DeathNoble
2006-01-01 08:14:50 am
arkarian
2006-01-01 08:15:55 am
red chamber dream
Oh, in that case, yeah, Nate might care if you have a ton of avatars in there.
DeathNoble
2006-01-01 08:17:12 am
:? Hopefully he'll be back soon and can have something to add.
Izo
2006-01-01 09:00:28 am
soaking through
Um, in bandwidth terms, isn't having a random avatar the same as just having one avatar with the average size of all your avatars?  Because they don't get downloaded any more than one avatar would.  I suppose the only thing that matters is space, and I don't think he's too worried about that.

EDIT:  :P
trh
2006-01-01 09:04:41 am
Quote from Arkarian:
Oh, in that case, yeah, Nate might care if you have a ton of avatars in there.


I doubt it, can't be any worse than an IE user viewing someone's profile that uploaded the picture to the forum. But then again, I'm not Nate.

Edit: damn you, Izo.
Smops
2006-01-01 10:18:10 am
Quote from Izo:
Um, in bandwidth terms, isn't having a random avatar the same as just having one avatar with the average size of all your avatars?  Because they don't get downloaded any more than one avatar would.  I suppose the only thing that matters is space, and I don't think he's too worried about that.

EDIT:  :P


Actually, if you have 1 avatar, you only download 1 jpg, 1 time. The computer caches the picture so you don't download it again. If you have 50 avatars, you need to download 50 jpgs.

But hell, they are so small, looking at 1 video is going to cost more bandwith as using the avatars for a month. :P
SAMUS METROID
(user is banned)
2006-01-01 01:49:58 pm
cool very interesting :D
SABERinBLUE
2006-01-01 02:39:10 pm
Cook of the Sea
In any event, 50 avatars are not going to break the server's bandwidth.
DeathNoble
2006-01-01 03:04:21 pm
Actually, there's 64 to be exact.  :D  Nice estimate, though.  :D

You have a point Saber.  Nate himself does have 200+ avatars of just Jessica Alba.  But what I'm worried about is if he "I'm paying for it, so I can have as much bang for my buck as I want" or not.  I'm not saying that Nate's unfair, I'm just saying that the money to keep this site up and running comes out of his pocket.
Yoshi348
2006-01-01 03:18:01 pm
PAGE BREAKER
Ready and willing.
It takes a GUNSHIPLOAD of pictures to reach the usage of one video.
nate
2006-01-01 08:12:30 pm
Quote from Smops:
Actually, if you have 1 avatar, you only download 1 jpg, 1 time. The computer caches the picture so you don't download it again. If you have 50 avatars, you need to download 50 jpgs.

with the latest version of the random avatar script (lovingly modified by carlmmii), no caching happens. this is to ensure you get a new random avatar every time you visit a thread where that person has posted (assuming the script doesn't pick the same one twice, anyway).

as long as the avatars are under the size limit, i don't particularly care how many you have.
DeathNoble
2006-01-03 09:57:40 am
Cool.  Thanks for clearing up the confusion.  And welcome back, Nate.  We've missed you!  :D
nate
2006-01-03 10:50:58 am
yeah, i missed y'all too.
DeathNoble
2006-01-12 01:46:09 pm
I've also been meaning to ask for future reference so I don't have to bug Nate himself anymore...

If I'm using my M2K2 space for my avatars, I upload the .htaccess file.  After I rename the file so it has no name, it disappears.  Now, if it's gone and not showing up, then I am unable to delete it.  Which means I wouldn't be able to delete the folder the .htaccess file is in.  But I can delete everything else in there.

My question is how do I get that .htaccess file to show up after it has no name so I can delete it myself?
SABERinBLUE
2006-01-12 02:13:10 pm
Cook of the Sea
You can upload a blank file named .htaccess and overwrite.  I'm sure there's a more direct way of doing it, especially in CLIFTP, but I wouldn't know.
DominicanZero
2006-01-12 03:45:25 pm
直死の魔眼使い
Or you can log in through the command line FTP and delete it normally. :P 'Tis what I do. Mr. Green
DeathNoble
2006-01-12 03:58:27 pm
The .htaccess still won't show up.
SABERinBLUE
2006-01-12 04:10:07 pm
Cook of the Sea
It's not supposed to.  Particularly not after you delete it.
DeathNoble
2006-01-12 04:37:47 pm
I meant in response to DZ's solution.  The .htaccess is still there, just won't show up.  I know it's there because it's right in the main directory of my M2K2 space.  If it weren't thre, then my sigs (The ones I'm using as of this moment) wouldn't be randomizing.

I can't delete the .htaccess if I can't get it to show up.  Getting it to show up to delete it is my problem.
nate
2006-01-12 04:38:06 pm
may have to use a different ftp client or learn to use command line ftp (basically just windows+r, ftp protoman.com, enter your username and password when prompted, then type delete .htaccess and hit return. to get out, type "bye" without the quotes and hit return).