Modern Vespa

I just got the strangest message from MV after submitting a post. Has anyone seen this one before?

This post it would seem
Has been submitted before
IE treachery

Click Here to return to the forum

For reference, I am on a Mac with Mac OSX and using Safari as my browser.

Yes - it's the patent-perfect Jess double-post antidote when you click on the back button instead of re-loading after posting.

Is that haiku?

Yup. Saw it once. I don't remember exactly what I did, but I was probably using Firefox on XP. Whatever it was, the message was appropriate, because I had, in fact, messed up and would have double posted.

Ah, I hadn't seen that message before but I now recall Jess mentioning something about new programming to decrease the double posts. Hmm I don't recall hitting the back button, but who knows maybe I did. Thanks Jim. I have no idea, but it is almost poetic isn't it?

My last post I tried to post a photo for the ET4 problem and when I tried to up load i was told that i was at 40MD already.

WTF is 40MD?

I would have to assume that Yardsale has maxxed out the amount of images he has uploaded.... 40 MB? 40 Mega Byte...

Yes, it is haiku. It follows the 5-7-5 syllable format of a proper haiku.

(Yes, I majored in English.) 8)

Oh, he uses Jess's webspace rather than his own for images. Free-loader, or incompetent at first resizing images to a suitable size. Why am I not surprised.

I thought we were supposed to link when possible? I am not too upset about it all...

Yep, I've seen enough milk-crates.

Hey Yardsale!
Have you checked out: http://www.flickr.com/groups/modernvespa/

Accounts there are free until you load them up with pictures
And reasonable if you wish to continue, thereafter

He should have his own web-space from his ISP. He should use that, not other people's.

I'm pretty sure it's time to change your sig to, love,
-oz

A bit over my head, but I'll take your word for it

Who knew Yardsale was a technogeek!

Hey JIM you seem grumpier than usual. Getting laid more often will put a smile on your face and more positivity in your prose

OMG, Judy!
Did you just proposition JimC???

Okay, now THAT was weird.

L and ALICE

Ok... I guess that was mean
...But soooo funny!!


(Edit: do you think that JimC has gone to sleep?)

You guys got me on that one

Maybe he decided to take Judy's advice. We'll know tomorrow if he shows up all sweetness and sugar ...

Yup!
Or... he could be a shade grumpier
once he reads this foolishness

I'm pretty sure he can take a joke.

In general, I support the use of uploading to MV. I'd rather have the pictures here, attached to the thread, so that they will always remain. Too often, when stuff is linked from elsewhere, those links go stale. We've all seen it in other forums, lots of missing pictures with little Xs or ?s where the photo should be.

Space is finite, though, which is why there's an upload limit in place. 40MB is a lot, though, and we're already way oversold, when you consider how much space 40mb times our number of users works out to.

I hope he does find someone. Maybe he can help some of my grumpy co-workers. I have been complaining for 2 years that they need to get some action, but I am not seeing any progress in that direction I am not volunteering either.

In this case, whatever it is, it is something good

80MB?

Jess,
I compliment you on your haiku. Nothing like a zen error message to make one's day.

Couldn't you just search the directory for images that are over a certain size (say 100k) or where the dimensions are greater than 350*350 pixels and then just process them down to a more manageable size? You'd keep the same name so the links all work. If an image hasn't been viewed for a long time then perhaps it could be reduced still further.

Aha! A programming challenge for Jess, most likely involving sophisticated compression algorithms!

But perhaps we, as community members, should take it upon ourselves to tidy up our own spaces. Just click the Profile link under any of your posts to reveal your diskspace usage, then click the link for the User Attachment Control Panel which reveals a list of all the images you've uploaded, showing the file name, extension, and size of each one as well as the thread on which it's posted it.

Click the link to the thread and it takes you right to the image in situ, at which point you can replace it with a "more fully processed" image that takes up less space.

Of course then posts will be littered with "last edited on..." notations.... oh well!

So ... once you reach your 40MB, can't you just go back through your older posts and start deleting them?

Delete the posts themselves? You can't delete the posts, but you could strip out the uploaded images.

Of course that could make some of the older threads pretty confusing....

If you have to rely on users to do something correctly then you'll always end up disappointed by your users - users just aren't built that way, they just do things the way that's easiest until they hit a problem and then they just start complaining. If you do it for them behind the scenes then no-one would even notice. I'd suggest it might be easier to use one of the available linux commands to do the compression rather than write your though.

I meant the photos ... not the posts.

<splutter>
You guys nearly cost me a new keyboard!

Who's got the MV screen cleaner?

I think we used it all, cleaning up after MVBot sprayed... whatever that was... all over the lounge.