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keesan
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Images on grex
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Nov 6 22:43 UTC 2001 |
Use this item to discuss whether grex should allow images at grex-based
websites, if so how to control size or number of them, and other issues
related to images stored in the grex computer.
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dunne
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response 1 of 69:
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Nov 6 23:04 UTC 2001 |
The grex policy on images is sensible. Pictures on personal homepages
are often a waste of bandwidth. Even a small jpg is 20 or 30 k --
imageine how many words would fit in that space! For those who
simply must show the world 100 scanned photos of them and their dog
(http://photo.net/~philg), there are many suitable free hosting
sites available; many ISPs make some webspace available as part of
the service package too.
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jep
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response 2 of 69:
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Nov 6 23:24 UTC 2001 |
As long as Grex is on the current system, it has very limited
resources. It is wise to be cautious in allocating those resources.
When there are hundreds of gigabytes of disk space, and a few T1 lines
for connectivity, that'll be the time to consider freeing up
availability of photo images. But I predict by then there won't be any
issue to be discussed.
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steve
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response 3 of 69:
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Nov 7 03:41 UTC 2001 |
The disk space problems isn't the real issue, its the bandwidth
problem that scares me. With disk quotas, we could pretty much
throttle disk usage back, but the bandwidth issue remains. Sadly,
I think that will remain for some time.
Something that might not be impossible however, would be for a
Grex "images box" to reside somewhere else on the net that has good
connectivity, and create ftp accounts for people there, such that
their graphical images could come from that machine, and not impact
Grex itself at all. If we made people ask for such accounts, and
had disk quotas there as well, we could probably deal with it, without
it becoming a huge staff headache.
The problem with this approach is that we'd need to find a place
with a pretty good network connection that would let us have a machine
there. Offhand, I don't know of such a place.
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gelinas
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response 4 of 69:
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Nov 7 05:14 UTC 2001 |
<PerverseMode>
Australia?
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spooked
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response 5 of 69:
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Nov 7 08:32 UTC 2001 |
Nice place.
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scott
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response 6 of 69:
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Nov 7 13:08 UTC 2001 |
Maybe instead of actually hosting images we could come up with an easy system
for referencing images stored elsewhere.
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pfv
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response 7 of 69:
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Nov 7 13:40 UTC 2001 |
what's "difficult" in pointing outside grex, to public servers or your ISP,
to load an image?
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