Pleasure Beach - Page 2

dar512 · 01-20-2009, 02:14 PM

But it's dead, Jim.

HungLikeJesus · 01-20-2009, 02:35 PM

That reminds me of this site, where a woman writes about her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl. It includes lots of pictures.

(There is some controversy over the authenticity of her story.)

Here are a few images from that site:

Shawnee123 · 01-20-2009, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

That reminds me of this site, where a woman writes about her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl. It includes lots of pictures.

(There is some controversy over the authenticity of her story.)

Here are a few images from that site:

This is what she wrote:

Quote:

My name is Elena. I run this website and I don't have anything to sell. What I do have is my motorbike and the absolute freedom to ride it wherever curiosity and the speed demon take me.

This is what I believe she meant to write:

Quote:

My name is Elena. I run this website and I don't have anything to do. What I do have is my motorbike and the absolute freedom to ride it wherever curiosity and the speed demon take me.

Seriously, who funds these people? I could be a real maverick go-getter wanderlust cool person too...if I had the support of whoever supports all these maverick cool people.

Undertoad · 01-20-2009, 02:38 PM

Images removed. Don't be hotlinking! It broke the Cellar page, there, for a while.

HungLikeJesus · 01-20-2009, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Images removed. Don't be hotlinking! It broke the Cellar page, there, for a while.

Sorry, I didn't know that was a problem. I've done that several times in the past, including this post.

I've always wondered what hotlinking was.

Is that different from linking to pictures on a photo-sharing site?

limey · 01-20-2009, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Images removed. Don't be hotlinking! It broke the Cellar page, there, for a while.

Me? or HLJ?

Undertoad · 01-20-2009, 03:38 PM

HLJ, if you link from picture sharing sites it goes by their terms of service. If you link directly from other sites, that's hotlinking; it's considered poor form, or in worse cases stealing, because you wind up using their bandwidth to display the images.

HungLikeJesus · 01-20-2009, 03:54 PM

What about post #14, above? Is that done in a different manner?

lumberjim · 01-20-2009, 04:03 PM

if hotlinking is a problem, why do we have the capability?

is it hotlinking to:

right click a picture,
click 'copy image location' and
then hit the little yellow square insert picture icon^up there on the border of this text box,
and paste the picture url in there?

limey · 01-20-2009, 04:12 PM

Thanks for asking that question LJ. I've never know what hotlinking is but didn't like to ask for fear of appearing a mook!

Undertoad · 01-20-2009, 05:39 PM

Yes that would in fact be hotlinking.

Why *can* you do it? Because it's hard for CNN, for example, to determine whether you fetched that image because you were looking at a page on CNN, or because you were looking at a page on the Cellar. Your browser requests the image in nearly the same way.

There are techniques for limiting access, but they are tricky, and depend on the participation of the browser.

Hotlinking of Cellar images has been a big headache for me. Often I see traffic jump, only to find some remote blog in Russian has hotlinked the iotd.

HungLikeJesus · 01-20-2009, 05:53 PM

Now I feel stupid. I probably hotlink a thousand times a day.

lumberjim · 01-20-2009, 06:07 PM

so what is your official stance on this, Ute?

the saving/resizing/uploading process is more time consuming, and you lose all control over where the image will wind up in your post.

but if you'd prefer we didn't do it......

Undertoad · 01-20-2009, 08:59 PM

I'm against it;

But with a few lines of code I might be able to put together something to replace it. xoB and Clod know... I gave them access to my quickie image uploader, so they could do IotDs without attachments. The Cellar can be its own image host. The only problem is, it's a fairly large security risk. But it's long time that it should be done.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-20-2009, 10:25 PM

Linked images have a habit of going away, sometimes quickly.

01-20-2009, 02:35 PM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	That reminds me of this site, where a woman writes about her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl. It includes lots of pictures. (There is some controversy over the authenticity of her story.) Here are a few images from that site: __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-20-2009, 03:54 PM	#8
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	What about post #14, above? Is that done in a different manner? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-20-2009, 04:03 PM	#9
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	if hotlinking is a problem, why do we have the capability? is it hotlinking to: right click a picture, click 'copy image location' and then hit the little yellow square insert picture icon^up there on the border of this text box, and paste the picture url in there? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-20-2009, 04:12 PM	#10
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Thanks for asking that question LJ. I've never know what hotlinking is but didn't like to ask for fear of appearing a mook! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

01-20-2009, 05:53 PM	#12
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Now I feel stupid. I probably hotlink a thousand times a day. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-20-2009, 02:14 PM	#1
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	But it's dead, Jim. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

01-20-2009, 02:38 PM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Images removed. Don't be hotlinking! It broke the Cellar page, there, for a while.

01-20-2009, 03:38 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	HLJ, if you link from picture sharing sites it goes by their terms of service. If you link directly from other sites, that's hotlinking; it's considered poor form, or in worse cases stealing, because you wind up using their bandwidth to display the images.

01-20-2009, 05:39 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yes that would in fact be hotlinking. Why can you do it? Because it's hard for CNN, for example, to determine whether you fetched that image because you were looking at a page on CNN, or because you were looking at a page on the Cellar. Your browser requests the image in nearly the same way. There are techniques for limiting access, but they are tricky, and depend on the participation of the browser. Hotlinking of Cellar images has been a big headache for me. Often I see traffic jump, only to find some remote blog in Russian has hotlinked the iotd.

01-20-2009, 06:07 PM	#13
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	so what is your official stance on this, Ute? the saving/resizing/uploading process is more time consuming, and you lose all control over where the image will wind up in your post. but if you'd prefer we didn't do it...... __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-20-2009, 08:59 PM	#14
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm against it; But with a few lines of code I might be able to put together something to replace it. xoB and Clod know... I gave them access to my quickie image uploader, so they could do IotDs without attachments. The Cellar can be its own image host. The only problem is, it's a fairly large security risk. But it's long time that it should be done.

01-20-2009, 10:25 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Linked images have a habit of going away, sometimes quickly. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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