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Burke Prefect
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Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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08-09-2005 17:54
Any suggestions? Comments? Job Offers? Buyout Offers? Criticism?
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
08-09-2005 18:01
From: Burke Prefect
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Turn on your private messages please.
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
08-09-2005 18:13
From: Seldon Metropolitan
its not up right now :(


I haven't been able to see it at all since I heard about it. Doesn't load.
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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08-09-2005 18:49
I enabled messages.

What browser are you all using? Firefox and IE can read it fine. I'm not sure about Safari or Opera
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Siggy Romulus
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Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
08-09-2005 18:53
Sweet! I can do what I like to do in RL when I'm bored.. got the Hot or Not site and carpetbomb them with the lowest rating possible!

I figure the old self esteem is already in need of affirmation.... targets just ripe for the pickin!
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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08-09-2005 20:02
Yeah. Um... don't do that. Or I'll re-enable Who Rated Me and you'll get all kinds of hell
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Ardith Mifflin
Mecha Fiend
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,416
08-09-2005 20:24
From: Burke Prefect
I enabled messages.

What browser are you all using? Firefox and IE can read it fine. I'm not sure about Safari or Opera


The first time I tried accessing the website, it refused to load. However, it came up after I retried later that evening.
Arbel Vogel
Burstin' w/Fruit Flavor
Join date: 17 Oct 2004
Posts: 1,155
08-09-2005 20:29
Tried going to the site, and doesn't load, and I'm using IE...
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Burke Prefect
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Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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08-09-2005 20:41
It might take a bit to load. Just retry. *makes sure he can load so he's not eating his own words...*
Hmmm. I need to have a talk with my host.
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Seldon Metropolitan
Zen Taxi Driver
Join date: 20 Jun 2005
Posts: 376
08-10-2005 03:43
it worked fine from work yesterday afternoon, but it hasnt worked at all since Ive been home
I was using IE at work, and mozilla here
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Richie Waves
Predictable
Join date: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 1,424
08-10-2005 05:43
From: Willow Zander
LOL its ok I was 10 for about 10 mins, now im 6.8!!!

*cries*

:p


Me too :( then I sank and died.. cant check it in work.. looks like the fun alarm went off..but at least they unlocked this site at least.. ^_^

U always the hottest Will!! and dam right Im biased :P

Cool site btw.
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Zack Cline
Registered User
Join date: 22 Jun 2005
Posts: 59
08-10-2005 05:48
I pitty the Second Life member. :)
Seldon Metropolitan
Zen Taxi Driver
Join date: 20 Jun 2005
Posts: 376
08-10-2005 06:03
working fine now. maybe I just need to force update my dns at home.
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Dianne Mechanique
Back from the Dead
Join date: 28 Mar 2005
Posts: 2,648
08-10-2005 06:34
From: Burke Prefect
I actually didn't know that was happening. Can someone throw a MiniMac my way so I can find a workaround? Perhaps when I take a shinehammer it it'll work. Are you getting a rendering problem or an actual error message?
I'm getting nothing. The site wont load in the window period, white square. :)
(safari w/popup disabled)
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FlipperPA Peregrine
Magically Delicious!
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,703
08-10-2005 07:34
I keep wondering if my rating is high cause the guys think I'm a chick. hehe

Dianne... try this URL?

http://www.ratemyav.com/index2.php

I'm wondering if Safari is blocking the HTTP header redirect the site is attempting somehow.

Regards,

-Flip
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Seldon Metropolitan
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Join date: 20 Jun 2005
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08-10-2005 07:35
no, its high cause guys think you're a HOT chick :)
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FlipperPA Peregrine
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08-10-2005 07:37
From: Seldon Metropolitan
no, its high cause guys think you're a HOT chick :)


Ha! Time to come out of the closet... I AM REALLY A MAN! Most of the time.

Here's an RL pic... you decide!

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Richie Waves
Predictable
Join date: 29 Jun 2005
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08-10-2005 07:52
From: FlipperPA Peregrine
Ha! Time to come out of the closet... I AM REALLY A MAN! Most of the time.

Here's an RL pic... you decide!




LOL I cant tell anywayz....
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Rmike Javelin
Muskrat Pilot
Join date: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 159
Wow - I'm so COOL!!
08-10-2005 08:38
Dadgum! I'm a ten!!!
Hhhaha - take that- you little whippersnappers :p
Canimal Zephyr
Mentally Ill
Join date: 16 Sep 2004
Posts: 705
08-10-2005 08:41
theres a RateMyAV.com ?!?!?!? OMG new thing to do at work!!!! :D
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Katiahnya Muromachi
Ninja Mistress
Join date: 25 Jun 2005
Posts: 130
08-10-2005 10:17
From: Burke Prefect
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My suggestion is to change the max picture specs from 640x480@500K to 1024x768@400K.

This will make for better looking pictures for players who wear outfits that incorporate hi-res textures, while at the same time will save server space by prohibiting unoptimized and uncessarily large size image files.
FlipperPA Peregrine
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08-10-2005 11:21
Just for the record,

There's no point in making clothing or skin a high resolution than 512x512. The entire make up of your second life avatar - lower body, upper body, and head, including all layers, skin, pants, shirt, etc - is calculated once when you put on a new outfit. The entire avatar body is layered and painted into a single texture so you only have to transfer one texture to each client, and that can not exceed 512x1024. If you're using bigger textures, you're just wasted space, bandwidth, and server cycles every time you change an outfit.

Cheers,

-Flip
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
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08-10-2005 13:03
From: Katiahnya Muromachi
My suggestion is to change the max picture specs from 640x480@500K to 1024x768@400K.

This will make for better looking pictures for players who wear outfits that incorporate hi-res textures, while at the same time will save server space by prohibiting unoptimized and uncessarily large size image files.


This would be a really really bad idea, from a bandwidth perspective. Speaking from experience with Snapzilla over the past 6 months, even with the postcard resolution images, bandwidth usage continues to skyrocket - it has gone from 10 gb for the first month of Snapzilla, to July, which just topped 100 gb of transfer. Depending on its success, RateMyAv could be buried if bandwidth is not kept under control.
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ANOmations - huge selection of high quality, low priced animations all $100L or less.

~SLUniverse.com~ SL's oldest and largest community site, featuring Snapzilla image sharing, forums, and much more.
FlipperPA Peregrine
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08-10-2005 13:40
Burke & everyone interested in keeping bandwidth low:

I was in charge of keeping images to reasonable sizes and managing the "image size" versus "quality of image" (otherwise known as "tech department" versus "design department";) at CDnow, and can recommend a number of tools in the freeware realm for these things.

First off, starting with version 4.3.2, PHP ships with the GD library included. If compiled with the "--with-gd" flag, it comes with a handy sweet of tools. These tools allow you to take an uploaded jpeg, resize it, and compress it server side so that every time it is downloaded thereafter, it is much smaller than the original upload. My guess is that this is what the package RateMyAv is using utilizes, and can probably be tweaked to lower picture size with minimal artifacting.

If you don't have control over your PHP distro - or aren't using PHP - there's a free, open source tool out there called ImageMagick. Its basically a command line tool you can call that does many of the function of Photoshop (and friends). It can automatically resize and compress any image to be a reasonable size as well, and all kinds of other tricks beyond the capacity of the PHP GD library. This is what I use for the GIF 89a ---> SL targa texture tool available at http://www.SLBoutique.com/anim/

I hope these tips help!

-Flip
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
08-10-2005 18:26
Well...
On the 9th I added RMAV to my signature. Then it suddenly caught on.
In the time I've had around 1,500 unigue hits.
Almost 1.6gb in two days. I am having to upgrade my hosting in order to deal with what might be the biggest site I've ever done.

RMAV NEEDS A CODER!
At the moment I just need to fix the profile feilds.

RMAV NEEDS ADVERTISERS!
... yeah, I'm a whore. Actually, I need to test the banner system AND I need a little cash to pay for a) the coder and b) upgraded hosting for the month.
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