Anyone else having troubles with the Forum avatars?
What happens is that My avatar will show for awhile and then after that will only show the “X marks the place where the file wont show” Icon. Can anyone else see my avatar? is it a retrival error on my computer only?
Just testing my Avatar… Let’s see if I am on Fire!
Lol, yeah good one. Now what the hell is wrong with mine?
It appears fine to me. It is supposed to be a leaf, right?
CoolWaterOS wrote:
What happens is that My avatar will show for awhile and then after that will only show the "X marks the place where the file wont show" Icon. Can anyone else see my avatar? is it a retrival error on my computer only?
I see a picture placeholder and then it goes away…
It appears you have put it on geocities, they tend to have some logic to prevent content from being retrieved outside of their site unless the entire page (with ads) is retrieved… i had the same problem before (specifically with geocities)
Try another hosting, I moved mine to some free webspace that my ISP gives me.
Lol, that IS the webspace my ISP gave me! Freeking SBCglobal man, I swear. I should’ve known to steer clear when I saw that retarded Yahoo! Rocket-ship on the sign-up page…
CoolWaterOS wrote:
Lol, that IS the webspace my ISP gave me! Freeking SBCglobal man, I swear. I should've known to steer clear when I saw that retarded Yahoo! Rocket-ship on the sign-up page...
that’s pretty low… if I ever get DSL, i plan to host my own webspace on my home server… as it is, I do already host a domain over my dialup connection for personal purposes, but I certainly wouldn’t punish anyone by making them download content from it…then again, it would trash my already-terrible-bandwidth
I think is cool now. Am I on? Leaf at the left? I got some help from SigmaNunki with some netspace, thanks Sigma! And hey Sigma, I hadn’t any idea that you could host with such meager hardware (no offence :-). I had always wanted to host from my P3 1GHz (384Mb Ram), but I thought that was nothing. How do I designate myself as a server?
And Umccullough, firstly, I found it hard to read that your still on dial-up (sorry man!), but DSL is becoming so wide spread, you should be able to find some type of xDSL for only about twice the price your paying for your dial-up service (who is that with?) no? and secondly, could you provide a brief synopsis of how I could host my own domain on my machine. And please forgive my naivete because know that I think this question is a bit silly myself but, Is it possible to host a domain for free? I mean, I just dont understand WHO, or why I have to pay anybody, just so I can have content on "www.whateverthefuck.com!"
I mean, I understand the current standard of these assholes scooping up TONS of popular potential domains to peddle (assholes…), but I’ve checked so many that haven’t been registered yet (althogh who knows, give those web-pricks some time I guess). How do I secure such a domain without having pay some fucker to use it, if it’s possible? (can you feel the flames?)
CoolWaterOS wrote:
I think is cool now. Am I on? Leaf at the left? I got some help from SigmaNunki with some netspace, thanks Sigma! And hey Sigma, I hadn't any idea that you could host with such meager hardware (no offence :-). I had always wanted to host from my P3 1GHz (384Mb Ram), but I thought that was nothing. How do I designate myself as a server?And Umccullough, firstly, I found it hard to read that your still on dial-up (sorry man!), but DSL is becoming so wide spread, you should be able to find some type of xDSL for only about twice the price your paying for your dial-up service (who is that with?) no? and secondly, could you provide a brief synopsis of how I could host my own domain on my machine. And please forgive my naivete because know that I think this question is a bit silly myself but, Is it possible to host a domain for free? I mean, I just dont understand WHO, or why I have to pay anybody, just so I can have content on “www.whateverthefuck.com!”
I mean, I understand the current standard of these assholes scooping up TONS of popular potential domains to peddle (assholes…), but I’ve checked so many that haven’t been registered yet (althogh who knows, give those web-pricks some time I guess). How do I secure such a domain without having pay some fucker to use it, if it’s possible? (can you feel the flames?)
if you want to continue this topic, PM me since this will be moving off topic a bit… - let me just say though, that where I live, I’m too far for DSL (even IDSL!) - i’m a little over 7 miles from my CO, which offers really good SBC DSL from what I hear… and there’s no cable in my area either… I guess you could say I live “in the middle of nowhere”… my only broadband options are satellite (check the prices on that, you’ll probably agree it’s not worth it, especially with the crappy latency issues) - even my dialup is pathetic… I get a meager, but consistent 31.2kbps, and that’s after wiring CAT3 straight from the modem to the phone box, and new wire from the phone box to the pole in front of my house… can you say pairgain? Anyway, I only pay about $8.50 US/month for my dialup, 3 email addrs, and some webspace.
The most important thing you need in order to host a domain from a dynamic IP is dynamic DNS… I’ll PM you the details of my setup… besides, i’m a bit embarrassed to say it’s hosted on Win2k… but it’s all running on an old P200MMX w/128mb RAM 
CoolWaterOS wrote:
No prob. My last server was a P166 (non-MMX) w/ 32 MB RAM. I just depends on traffic and what kind of pipe you have to support.
I got some help from SigmaNunki with some netspace, thanks Sigma! And hey Sigma, I hadn't any idea that you could host with such meager hardware (no offence :-). I had always wanted to host from my P3 1GHz (384Mb Ram), but I thought that was nothing. How do I designate myself as a server?
As for hosting http://www.easydns.com/ They have support for those w/ dynamic IPs as well. A domain has a yearly fee (.ca = $40 CDN/yr, I don’t know the others costs) and the rest you can do yourself.
PM me if you need any more info/help.
SigmaNunki wrote:
CoolWaterOS wrote:No prob. My last server was a P166 (non-MMX) w/ 32 MB RAM. I just depends on traffic and what kind of pipe you have to support.I got some help from SigmaNunki with some netspace, thanks Sigma! And hey Sigma, I hadn't any idea that you could host with such meager hardware (no offence :-). I had always wanted to host from my P3 1GHz (384Mb Ram), but I thought that was nothing. How do I designate myself as a server?As for hosting http://www.easydns.com/ They have support for those w/ dynamic IPs as well. A domain has a yearly fee (.ca = $40 CDN/yr, I don’t know the others costs) and the rest you can do yourself.
PM me if you need any more info/help.
I suppose anyone with a 386 and a barebones copy of ages-old linux could probably run a website…if they’re brave 
You can pick up a domain using godaddy.com for like $9 US/year i think…unless they increased their prices. That’s what I used.
dyndns.org, hn.org, and many others support dynamic dns - the http://www.directupdate.com website has a healthy list that it supports (it’s the client software I use to update my dns)
umccullough wrote:
True, but anyone that bought a desent computer for the day between 5 - 7 years ago (I would also dare to say 10 years) would have no problem hosting there own domain on a residential DSL or cable connection. That is unless they expect 1000s of hits an hour or so. But, then we get limitations of the pipe (which is where the bottleneck usually is, not the server itself).
I suppose anyone with a 386 and a barebones copy of ages-old linux could probably run a website...if they're brave ;)
And no offense to Linux (it does have its place), but if one was to setup a server and cared about security, overhead, etc. they should go with OpenBSD. I could go onto reasons why, but that’d definitely take us too far off topic.
SigmaNunki wrote:
umccullough wrote:True, but anyone that bought a desent computer for the day between 5 - 7 years ago (I would also dare to say 10 years) would have no problem hosting there own domain on a residential DSL or cable connection. That is unless they expect 1000s of hits an hour or so. But, then we get limitations of the pipe (which is where the bottleneck usually is, not the server itself).I suppose anyone with a 386 and a barebones copy of ages-old linux could probably run a website...if they're brave ;)And no offense to Linux (it does have its place), but if one was to setup a server and cared about security, overhead, etc. they should go with OpenBSD. I could go onto reasons why, but that’d definitely take us too far off topic.
valid points