Also in foobonic news, I talked with Andre earlier this week to get the scoop on the donation situation. Thus far, the hosting of the site has been done by a friend for next to nothing. But, because of the space and bandwidth the site uses, this perk is disappearing. So, what he wants to do is switch over to a dedicated server with all the bandwidth he'd ever need, plus roll out a new, slicker, prettier format. The bad part is that this will cost about $1500 (for a year). So, either he'll raise the money, or he won't and foobonic will go away. He's said he'll try to warn me if it comes to the site disappearing and promised that if it does, he will make sure that I can get ahold of all the hatrack stuff. So, folks, that's the situation..... Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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I could always install gallery on my webspace. I have lots of bandwidth and disk space I'm not using. Without the, uh, "other" side of foobonic, I could probably handle the needed bandwidth.
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That's good to know. You'll be hearing from me if foo goes the way of the dodo....
Andre always said that the Hatrack portion is not taxing in terms of space and bandwidth (which is why he was happy to host it), so it shouldn't be too difficult to find it a home elsewhere (I would hope).
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I don't know if anyone else thinks this, but if I chip in some money and the total needed is not met, do I get my money back?
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So you think that foobonic should issue some type of guarunteed certificate? Mayhaps a commercial paper or a equipment certificate? Maybe he should issue common stock or some kind of bond.
"I own 200 shares of FOO!"
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Looks like he's got just over a week to raise the funds to pay for the first quarter (he found out they'll let him do quarterly payments) - he has to do something by the 17th.
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The updated site looks great...I wish I could donate anything at all, but I'm overdrafting my bank card daily. Posts: 1225 | Registered: Feb 2002
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Also, if someone else is going to offer to host the Hatrack photo portion of it, we should know what amount of hard drive space and bandwidth it takes. Do you have any idea or can you find out?
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When I talked to foo last week he said he hadn't had much in the way of donations. He's going to try to cover the cost himself, but I'm not sure if that'll be possible.
I don't know the info on the Hatrack space/bandwidth use. I'll ask Andre.
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Please ask him. As long as it's not a huge amount, I can host it on madowl without any problems.
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I guess now wouldn't be the time to ask to have a picture added .
I hope foobonic gets it's new home. I'd donate but I'm in between jobs at the moment so my budget is rather nonexistent for now.
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I couldn't host that much on the MUD server right now... it barely handles the MUD its an aging iMac. However I might get a new server this summer, in which case, assuming I can work out with Skidmore a way of keeping it online, I should be able to handle that.
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Last night, in a fit of weirdness, I downloaded the entire Jatraqueros section- not the other meeting sections and stuff, but just the Jatraqueros section (yes, it took a while). It was about 200MB of data. That's probably the biggest section and a lot of that data was wasted space because people uploaded rediculously huge, uncompressed jpegs. I think I found one that was 6mb. 6 effing MB! That could easily be cut down. It would just take some time to compile all of the images and run them through a batch processor to cut them down to a maximum of 800x600 with a compression level of about %85. That's plenty for people just to look at pictures of other jatraqueros.
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Yeah, I was guessing there were some huge uncompressed images. I think the 4G estimate includes all the meeting folders and all the ridiculously huge jpegs. If we were to host it all elsewhere, I was going to research a resizer I could wash everything through first to cut down on the wasted space (cause opening and resizing everything in Photoshop would be way too huge a PITA).
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fugu, by "alternate sizes" do you mean the images that Gallery created or the ones that were originally uploaded? I went through and downloaded all of the original, uncompressed images.
I thought that I would have enough webspace for this thing, but I only have 500mb available. If I were to leave the files uncompressed, It'd easily push the 500mb limit. Even with resizing, I'd have probably 2-300mb taken up.
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Gallery stores multiple versions of each pic, both the uncompressed ones and smaller ones, including thumbnails and a mid-range size for particularly large pics.
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Gotcha, just wasn't sure if you'd included those in the size estimate, they could easily add a few dozen megs.
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I just added a bunch of pics of my pets, including the newest addition , and I wanted to show them off. Posts: 1225 | Registered: Feb 2002
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I just discover this URL. Génial ! I post one or two comments. How can i post one or two picture, me too ?
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When you are on the individual picture page that you want to comment on. . . go all the way to the bottom and it will say [add comment]. Click on that and add a comment. (Make sure you have site pop-ups allowed and not blocked.)
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