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Politics : Sioux Nation

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (15282)	5/1/2005 5:19:33 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) of 361203

august- here's a pm i sent to sioux earlier today explaining the pics-in-profiles situation. if this doesn't clear it up for you read it to mall rat and she'll explain. i don't get sunday off? the problem is just semantics. the pic IS a jpeg. your photo web program (pbase) has named it: jiki.pbase.com there's an extra period in the file name between the number 42758831 and the word SiouxNation. that confuses SI's computer... making it think it's a .SiouxNation.jpg file instead of a .jpg file. i would venture to guess that you can't link any of your pbase photos into your profile for that very reason and it's probably an intentional move by pbase to protect their bandwidth and not let people use their servers for hosting pics to outside sites. if you rename the pic and re-upload it to pbase i'll bet you'll get another period added in the file name by pbase. to actually display pics in your profile you'll have to save the picture somewhere else. if you don't have any webspace you should get some... it's cheap. whenever a pic is loaded in someone's browser (like when they view your profile) it has to be served up by the host computer that it resides on. that uses bandwidth. pbase lets you use that bandwidth when you put in a direct link because it takes traffic to their site but they don't want to be bandwidth hosts for other applications or organizations like SI when they get no benefit from it. when you have your own web space you pay for the bandwidth and you can use it however you see fit. if you get excessive hits on your pics and exceed your bandwidth limit then your web host will want you to pay more. i put wharfrat's pic on rose's webspace. that's why it worked. i also renamed it of course, so it didn't have any extra periods in the filename and it ended with .jpg BUT i did not change the format of the pic, i only changed the semantics of the filename and i put it on rose's site as the host. she has paid for plenty of bandwidth that she can use as she pleases and wharfy's pic is insignificant. as insignificant as the bandwidth is for one pic you can see why pbase restricts direct links to their photos because if all of thier customers did that and some of the pics became heavily popular and got millions of hits then they'd be severley hurt by it. the other photos in your profile are linked to other servers and you're actually using their bandwidth for free every time someone goes to your profile page. someday in the future you're likely to see those little red X's show up where your pictures are now. <g> <takes off his teacher hat and puts back on the ball cap to outside and get the sailboat ready to take up to the lake> -dusty

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