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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Eishtmo on March 28, 2002, 07:19:07 pm

Title: Complaint
Post by: Eishtmo on March 28, 2002, 07:19:07 pm: HLP staff, from now on, when you post a news article DON'T PUT IN ANY PICTURES!!!!

My modem can't handle all the images. Stop torturing my modem. Thank you.
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 28, 2002, 08:19:58 pm: My modem undergoes more torture from me than it does from the frontpage. Live with it. ;)
Title: Complaint
Post by: Dr.Zer0 on March 28, 2002, 08:52:10 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
My modem undergoes more torture from me than it does from the frontpage. Live with it. ;)

or just get a better modem :p
Title: Complaint
Post by: Mr. Vega on March 28, 2002, 08:53:30 pm: One of the few times I think there is a conspiracy going on with the cable companies.
Title: Re: Complaint
Post by: vadar_1 on March 28, 2002, 08:57:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Eishtmo
HLP staff, from now on, when you post a news article DON'T PUT IN ANY PICTURES!!!!

My modem can't handle all the images. Stop torturing my modem. Thank you.

o cry, just because you cant afford something better then dial-up dosn't mean the rest of us have to suffer. jeez.:o
Title: Complaint
Post by: CODEDOG ND on March 28, 2002, 09:37:05 pm: worked fine on my dail-up
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 28, 2002, 09:40:48 pm: Simple solution: Optimize those pictures. I was able to get the on.gif picture to go from 1139 bytes to 231...Tada!
(http://members.cox.net/wmcoolmon/images/on.gif)
Title: Complaint
Post by: untouchable on March 28, 2002, 10:12:34 pm: Ewwww!
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 28, 2002, 11:18:08 pm: :confused:
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 28, 2002, 11:25:08 pm: (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/cmon-opt-test.jpg)

You call that optimised? :p
Title: Complaint
Post by: Carl on March 28, 2002, 11:44:41 pm: 715, i don't think there should be a modem problem with that.

(http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=102759)
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 29, 2002, 12:58:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/cmon-opt-test.jpg)

You call that optimised? :p

Is it my[/i] fault you run your monitor at 640x480 resolution and have the brightness turned up all the way? :p
Title: Complaint
Post by: Fineus on March 29, 2002, 01:33:39 am: He has a point, looks fine on mine - but I still like Setekhs inclusion of images in his posts - it makes it all so much more interesting for the reader even if it does add another minute to the loadup time :nod:
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 29, 2002, 01:35:28 am: Quote
Grey Wolf and LtNarol (of the GTD Wolf and 158th Banshee Squadron respectively) have put out a call to arms! They need staff - Grey needs a Fredder and an ANI artist, while Narol addresses his request to "to all ye modelers out there, turreters, texturers, fredders, converters, artists, animation creators, and sound effects peoples". (Quite a broad spectrum, eh?) If you think you can help the Wolf, head here.0.html - while if you'd rather go for the 158th, send yourself here..0.html And you know what'll happen if they don't get the staff they need...

EDIT: Oh, how could I forget! Thorn And The Tappers need assistance on The Apocalypse Project - they need people who can resize COBs (trueSpace format), convert to POF, and add POF data. And you know what'll happen if Thorn and his goons don't get the staff they need...

Best to give them what they want. Thanks for your time, people!

:lol:
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 29, 2002, 01:58:41 am: Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Is it my[/i] fault you run your monitor at 640x480 resolution and have the brightness turned up all the way? :p

I always magnify my pics. :p And that's Cleartype - AA'd text, right on your desktop. ;7

Oh, and I'm glad you like the news post. :D
Title: Complaint
Post by: an0n on March 29, 2002, 08:34:43 am: 1280x960
Degredation visible in red HLP logo thingy.
Title: Complaint
Post by: Styxx on March 29, 2002, 09:40:04 am: I'm on a modem when I'm at home, and I'm fine with the images... :p
Title: Complaint
Post by: Shrike on March 29, 2002, 02:21:41 pm: Um, wow. I didn't noticed there was quite so many on the front page.
Title: Complaint
Post by: Eishtmo on March 29, 2002, 07:37:06 pm: That's my point Shrike, there are way too many. Cut down on them, there are ways to do that you know.

And I can't even afford a dial-up. I steal it.
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 29, 2002, 07:40:21 pm: I know there are. I did it deliberately - it gets boring. :p
Title: Complaint
Post by: CP5670 on March 29, 2002, 08:35:58 pm: If you like images, you could just make the front page a really big render containing all the news and stuff... :D
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 29, 2002, 09:53:16 pm: Don't tempt me. :D

That said, I'll keep this in mind. I'll probably just have a bunch of much, much smaller thumbnails in the following news posts. :)
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 29, 2002, 10:57:19 pm: Bah! Just make a Hard and Light version... :nod:
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 29, 2002, 11:26:16 pm: Hah! Talk about a well-placed pun. Nice one. ;)
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 29, 2002, 11:49:58 pm: It's not such a bad idea actually... ;7
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 12:05:14 am: I agree. :nod: I'll talk to Cobalt about it.
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 12:09:49 am: Might be able to be done with XML, or just 2 versions of the news. Should be easy to have two versions of the news...
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 12:22:34 am: Could do. Darn you, now you've got my head thinking about how to implement this! :D
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 01:00:21 am: Have some sort of form such as below, then the PHP in the top of the page, then the php where the news goes.

[color=orange]//The form[/color]
[color=pink]

Layout:
[/color]

[color=orange]//The code that goes at the top of the page[/color]
if($submitlayout)
{
setcookie("HLPLayout",$chlayout,time()+1892160000,"/~freespace/","dynamic.gamespy.com");
}
?>

[color=orange]//The code that goes where the news goes[/color]
if($HLPLayout=="Hard"){include("hardnews.inc");}
else{include("lightnews.inc");}
?>

Of course, if register_globals isn't turned on, you might have a problem with the script... :doubt:
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 01:01:53 am: Nah, dynamic files need to be on the dynamic server... it won't work. :)
Title: Complaint
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2002, 01:06:43 am: Well, I'd post a link to Homeworld Universe as an example of how making the site on the Dynamic server isn't that bad of an idea...
BUT THE DYNAMIC2 SERVER IS DOWN! :sigh:
How about a good old-fashioned splash page? With a render, of course
Title: Complaint
Post by: Setekh on March 30, 2002, 01:08:41 am: I definitely wouldn't discount the possibility - I didn't for the Array, you'll notice. :)

But, the dynamics do go down a lot more often than the main servers. :doubt: