Hey Seeker, could you do us a favor...

[Agent 57]

...by downloading your avatar onto your PC and then uploading it here to the Shrine server?

For some reason, Wikipedia always takes a long time to load, and every time I click on the "jump to newest message" dealie in a thread that has one of your messages in it, the forum sits there for 20 seconds while it loads your avatar and <i>then</i> jumps down to the newest message. It's a pain in the ass, to be frank, and if you uploaded your avatar to the site instead of linking to it, the problem would go away.

Thanks.

[SineSwiper]

Turn on caching. It shouldn't do that EVERY time you click on it.

[Agent 57]

I have a 2 MB disk cache set up, and yes, it accepts images. I dunno what else I can do besides that.

[SineSwiper]

2 megabyte disk cache?! Good lord, no wonder. Crank that up to about 50 MB or so. At the very least, put it at 10 MB. Granted, I don't agree with IE's "5% of your HD" rule (which ends up being like 5 GB on some HDs), but you should at least have a little bit more cache than 2 MBs.

[Julius Seeker]

I tried it before, it wouldn't upload for some reason; the problem has probably been fixed now. I'll work on it next time I post though.

[Nev]

i'm surprised phpbb would let people link avatars externally. i think leeching kind of sucks.

[Tortolia]

Why? Not every board adminstrator wants to provide webspace for people's avatars.

Not all external linking is leeching.

[Shellie]

I can understand if it's from your own webspace. But not from another site, that would be leeching their bandwidth.

[Julius Seeker]

"The avatar must be less than 96 pixels wide and 96 pixels high"

It still won't upload. I keep getting this message. I don't know how to edit the size of images, so it's going to have to stay the way it is for now.

[Nev]

I can understand if it's from your own webspace. But not from another site, that would be leeching their bandwidth.

yes exactly

[Shellie]

"The avatar must be less than 96 pixels wide and 96 pixels high"

It still won't upload. I keep getting this message. I don't know how to edit the size of images, so it's going to have to stay the way it is for now.

Sine, is there not a way to have it auto resize, or shrink down the avatar to meet requirements?

[Kupek]

Sine, is there not a way to have it auto resize, or shrink down the avatar to meet requirements?

It's probably possible, but it would require a dependency on another application - probably the Gimp.

Anyway, since I doubt Seeker will ever do it, here it is. Seeker, download this, then upload it to the shrine:
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~scotts/Cheicon.jpg

[SineSwiper]

the thing that's preventing his avatar from expanding to full size is a small MOD that puts a width property on the image. I guess it doesn't account for this when uploading pictures.

[Kupek]

Bumping this so that Seeker grabs the pic.

[Julius Seeker]

Thanks, this should work now.