Avatar woes....

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:15 pm

Remember when deamonfaj had that screenshot of an avatar/ Remember how annoying that was? Well there's a newer problem, and it's a little more serious.

I'm not going to beat around the bush, Triton and G-Prime have avatars or sigs that are waaaaaaaay to big, and take waaaaaay too much out of some people's computers to load, including mine. It's caused error's, freezings, and hurricanes! Why am I making this public? Couldn't I have just pmed the two and be done with it? Yes, but want to discourage these avatars publicly. They're murder on small compys, and dial-up losers...

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:20 pm

Ok, well is mine ok (I know it is rotating, but they're less than 20K apiece)? If it NEEDS to be a single avatar, I know which one to choose, but I really like my rotating thing.

Post by **Triton** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:21 pm

jeeze, sorry

lol, im a "dialup loser" and the lag i get from my sig is negligable but if i must i shall remove it.

G-Prime · Post by **G-Prime** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:22 pm

Lol, you could have just pm'ed me about it and I would have changed it...just give me a min to go find another cool avatar

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:23 pm

I'm sorry big guy. I don't want to be a prick, but..."ah yam, wha ah yam!" -Poopie

It's just been a problem...and florida does NOT apreciate the hurricanes...

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:40 pm

I like how you fight dirty luc

The sucky-dial-up-losers-of-america organization thanks you.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:03 pm

G-force wrote:I like how you fight dirty luc The sucky-dial-up-losers-of-america organization thanks you.

I'm sorry, I had to edit that post

pezman · Post by **pezman** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:05 am

im so glad you did this cause i was gonna until i just blocked the images with mozilla. go mozilla!!!

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:18 am

I understand the feelings of anger from dialup users towards people with big avatars and stuff, I was once one of them. At one point, I'd click a web page and go get a snack, or play a level in a game while waiting for it to load. I take speed for granted nowâ€¦

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:59 am

is mine ok?

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:00 am

usbcd36 wrote:Ok, well is mine ok (I know it is rotating, but they're less than 20K apiece)? If it NEEDS to be a single avatar, I know which one to choose, but I really like my rotating thing.

yours is only okay if you tell us how you made it rotate like that.

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:13 am

triton you dont have dial up. when i sent you a file before it was downloading at braodband speed. Triton you have DSL just every time you have to connect using a user and password.

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:48 am

wallydawg wrote:
usbcd36 wrote:Ok, well is mine ok (I know it is rotating, but they're less than 20K apiece)? If it NEEDS to be a single avatar, I know which one to choose, but I really like my rotating thing.
yours is only okay if you tell us how you made it rotate like that.

It's a PHP script. If you browse http://www.metroid2002.com/usbcd36/Avatars/, it is the file called "usbcd36.jpg". It MUST be hosted in the same directory as the image files that it will rotate. The source code came from Nate, the webmaster there. It resides in http://nate.metroid2002.com/avatars/avatar.txt, but renaming that with a ".jpg" won't do anything, you must add a few lines of text to your .htaccess file (there should already be one in your main directory) to force the type as PHP script, even though it is named as a JPEG. The code is:

Code: Select all

<Files avatar.jpg>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

. Also remember to change "avatar.jpg" to the actual name of your random PHP script)

After that, upload the .htaccess file (you should turn on invisible items, but if your FTP client can't do that, upload it as something like ht.htaccess and rename inside the FTP client.

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:02 am

i feel the same way Luc does about big avatars and sigs, so i dont use em...

sam · Post by **sam** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:02 am

*o* wrote:is mine ok?

I would crop it to about 20x10 less pixels. just a littlebit, so it doesnt make it stretch, ya know what I mean?