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Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Fri, 26 May 2000 12:40:07 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Dan Jezek writes:
> The 80x60 thumbnails take at an average 3K. To have 50,000 of them would
> require 150MB of disk space which is about 1/2 of the total Brickbay
> webhosting disk space so it _is_ possible. The question is, who would do all
> the rendering? And what if TLC introduced a new color? That would mean
> rendering all the parts over again.
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> > As it is right now, making each one in MLCAD would probably take me a year
> > to ever finish.
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> Not only that, I have to run them through a batch thumbs program to generate
> the thumbnails in GIF format, even more pain.
If Steve (or someone else) can give directions for doing this in a mostly
automated way I can leave my new 850 at home running it while I'm at work. I
have scads of free hard drive space and a fast connection (from work - I can
burn the images and bring them to work to upload).
In fact, if space ever got to be a huge issue I enough room to host at least
150 megs on more than one machine I run.
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| (...) This is one of the biggest things I miss about running the computer labs at The University of Missouri. I had what felt like ubiquitous computing. I could have slid >20GB onto the web or more onto the campus backbone, assigned any.edu as a web (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available
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| (...) Hmm. It needs just a bit of programming. Something like the following, depending on your development toys (view in fixed-pitch font for best results). Note: CONVERT.EXE is part of ImageMagick, available for most platforms. // Process all (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available
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| (...) The 80x60 thumbnails take at an average 3K. To have 50,000 of them would require 150MB of disk space which is about 1/2 of the total Brickbay webhosting disk space so it _is_ possible. The question is, who would do all the rendering? And what (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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