[TopAce]

I got a problem. How can you handle the IMG command? Some sort of stupid window comes and I cannot do anything with it!
I want to insert a squadron logo into my message and this comes:

JavaScript Commandline

Enter the text to be formatted:


What the hell is that?

[Shrike]

You have to put the link to your image into the text box.  Something like this:  http://www.hosting.com/site/mypicture.jpg

[TopAce]

I have my picture on my winchester! What shall I do then?

[Shrike]

Your winchester?

[Knight Templar]

rifle..?

[CP5670]

[diamondgeezer]

Winchester? What an odd thing to say...

[WMCoolmon]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Winchester

Winchester

An informal generic term for floating-head
magnetic disk drives in which the read-write head planes
over the disk surface on an air cushion.

The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype
for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
volumes; 30--30 became "Winchester" when somebody noticed the
similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle
(in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the
second to the grain weight of the charge).

[Shrike]

So, in other words, a hard drive?  Yeesh.

No, you can't host pics off your hard drive, they need to be on a server.

[diamondgeezer]

I flat refuse to call my HD a winchester... just so you know

[Solatar]

I'd love to call my hardrive a 30-30:D

[ZylonBane]

Wow, I thought they stopped calling hard drives "winchesters" at least 15 years ago.

Anyway, the IMG tag is already explained perfectly well in the vB Code help. You DID read the help first, right?

Didn't think so.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Coolmon

 Winchester

An informal generic term for floating-head
magnetic disk drives in which the read-write head planes
over the disk surface on an air cushion.

The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype
for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
volumes; 30--30 became "Winchester" when somebody noticed the
similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle
(in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the
second to the grain weight of the charge).

Wow.. Learn something new everyday.. my next guess was the house, but that's in San Jose.

[Sesquipedalian]

Winchester used to be computer geek slang.  Interesting.
I'll have to add this to my little list of linguistic lore.

Tidbit:  The rule that one should not dangle a preposition in proper English is the single greatest grammatical fraud in our tongue's history.  This so-called rule has its origins in a grammar book written in the late eighteenth century by a fellow who firmly believed that Latin was the perfect archtypal language.  In Latin, one cannot dangle a preposition, and so he decided to make this a rule for barbarous English too.  Upon being critcised for violating this rule, Wnston Churchill mocked it, replying "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we are not going to put."  Presumably this was accompanied by a good .

[SadisticSid]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Tidbit:  The rule that one should not dangle a preposition in proper English is the single greatest grammatical fraud in our tongue's history.  This so-called rule has its origins in a grammar book written in the late eighteenth century by a fellow who firmly believed that Latin was the perfect archtypal language.  In Latin, one cannot dangle a preposition, and so he decided to make this a rule for barbarous English too.  Upon being critcised for violating this rule, Wnston Churchill mocked it, replying "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we are not going to put."  Presumably this was accompanied by a good .

Amen, brother. A shame that come hell or high water, I will never persuade my friend of this.

Sid.

[TopAce]

Who can suggest me a homepage, which is simple to use, and I can store my pictures?

[Sesquipedalian]

Free ones include Angelfire and Geocities.  However, neither one will let you link directly to them for images (i.e. you won't be able to put an image straight into a post here that is hosted on there).  Instead, when you upload your picture, also make a simple html page to go with it, and provide a link to that page in your post.

The html page doesn't have to be complex by any means.  For showing an image, just open Notepad and put the following into a file:

Code: [Select]










Change the address inside the quotation marks to reflect the proper one for your image file, and save as an html file.

[TopAce]

Already have the solution, but thank for the advice anyway.

[Styxx]

I can't believe you all didn't know Winchester is a slang for HD.

[Knight Templar]

Well seeing as it was born, used, and died before I was even around...