I am slowly going to giving out larger file space. The first upgrade is that your usersound is now allowed to be up to 5MB. Right now in firefox there is a flash player that plays the sound by displaying a little speaker button under the contact links, under your userpic. You can test the player using firefox by clicking on the speaker icon on my journal here (e:paul)
I will probably finish the IE player tomorrow. Until then you can still upload mp3 files on either system and as always you can get to them from your profile.
To upload a file, click on your userpic and click on the same little speaker icon. With the new system you are limited to mp3 files. You can still upload midi and wav files to your regular journal entries.
I will streamline this system better later.
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02/06/2006 01:46 #30206
User Sound UpgradeCategory: upgrade
02/04/2006 15:09 #30205
Journal Overview/Journal Dots UpdatedCategory: estrip
Under every user's userpic is the Journal Overview and Journal Dots link. I updated them and fixed them so that they are both finding the styles again.
Joural Overview is the title, link to and first 200 words of every journal for that user. Mine might take a while to load on a slow computer because I have around 2000 entries.
The journal dots are a quick and easy way to visualize you old entries and flip though all the old journals you wrote. The ones you visit get black borders so you know you already saw them. Orange ones are ones with categories. The red ones have not been categorized.
If you switch to month view you can see the journal dots listed in a per month fashion which gives you an idea of when you wrote the most.
Joural Overview is the title, link to and first 200 words of every journal for that user. Mine might take a while to load on a slow computer because I have around 2000 entries.
The journal dots are a quick and easy way to visualize you old entries and flip though all the old journals you wrote. The ones you visit get black borders so you know you already saw them. Orange ones are ones with categories. The red ones have not been categorized.
If you switch to month view you can see the journal dots listed in a per month fashion which gives you an idea of when you wrote the most.
02/01/2006 01:01 #30204
e:strip Back in the DayCategory: estrip
I was going through some stuff today when I found this old picture of estrip in 2003, when it was pretty much my journal and my personal friends. Wow, how much it has grown since then. Here we are more than 2 million words later.
01/26/2006 19:25 #30203
Pledge Drive ContrinuedCategory: estrip
This is about the RAM post [inlink]paul,4143[/inlink] I wrote yesterday. Thanks (e:jenks) and (e:uncutsaniflush) for donating to the RAM drive, you guys are awesome. Should I name it the jenks-uncut chip or the uncut-jenks pic!? lol
If anyone else can donate I would appreciate it. Just click on the donate button above the lastest journals list. You can donate with paypal.
In response to (e:ajay)'s comment about ditching the motherboard for one that takes DDR RAM. The motherboard I have already has 1GB of RIMM and dual xeons in it that I don't really want to pull out because they are working and happy in it. It also seems so sad to just get rid of it, it is a huge $450 piece of plastic and metal and has a lot of life left in it. I can't justify it environmentally. But definately, the next one will not have RIMMS.
[size=m]historical background[/size]
Here is a little history of the machine that is (e:strip). In 2002 I started working on my MFA at UB and was working hard on Virtual Reality and 3D. I was determined to have a really powerful machine with the latest graphic card and processors. At the time I bought the motherboard, it was the only dual processor motherboard I could find with AGP 8x which I needed for 3D at the time. RDRAM was also really popular and fast (6400MB/s) back in 2003.
Sadly enough, that mega fancy graphic card (ATI firgGL X1 256MB ) now lives its outdated life in a cardboard box because the server just didn't need to server web pages. Anyone want to buy it?
It felt really strange downgrading to the new consumer grade video card I got at compusa, but I figured the less complicated, the less that could go wrong and the server definately is not a graphics workstation anymore.
Slowly, I started to realize how expenive 3D is. It is a never ending cycle of buying the latest greatest hardware and software. I lost patience for 3D design and moved to web. By 2003 I decided to make (e:strip) as a class project for my Virtual and Online communities class. It needed a server and I decided I could repurpose the one that I was using for 3D. The problem is that I could never seem to afford the connection. I tried to host it at home with my adelphia connection but serving a site is against their TOS agreement and would have been a constant battle with home internet usage taking up the whole pipe. Sometime (e:matthew) can make Azureus take the whole internet down. So instead, each month I paid for it to be hosted elsewhere. When it was tiny in 2003 it only cost $7.99/month for the first couple months. As it started to grow I ended paying $40.00/month for a virtual server space.
Then just a month or so ago, Jamie Moses from Artvoice offered to let me host my server there and now whenever you type something or use the site, you are actually just using my computer which is living in their basement.
Anyhow, so I think it is a waste to just throw it out?!
If anyone else can donate I would appreciate it. Just click on the donate button above the lastest journals list. You can donate with paypal.
In response to (e:ajay)'s comment about ditching the motherboard for one that takes DDR RAM. The motherboard I have already has 1GB of RIMM and dual xeons in it that I don't really want to pull out because they are working and happy in it. It also seems so sad to just get rid of it, it is a huge $450 piece of plastic and metal and has a lot of life left in it. I can't justify it environmentally. But definately, the next one will not have RIMMS.
[size=m]historical background[/size]
Here is a little history of the machine that is (e:strip). In 2002 I started working on my MFA at UB and was working hard on Virtual Reality and 3D. I was determined to have a really powerful machine with the latest graphic card and processors. At the time I bought the motherboard, it was the only dual processor motherboard I could find with AGP 8x which I needed for 3D at the time. RDRAM was also really popular and fast (6400MB/s) back in 2003.
Sadly enough, that mega fancy graphic card (ATI firgGL X1 256MB ) now lives its outdated life in a cardboard box because the server just didn't need to server web pages. Anyone want to buy it?
It felt really strange downgrading to the new consumer grade video card I got at compusa, but I figured the less complicated, the less that could go wrong and the server definately is not a graphics workstation anymore.
Slowly, I started to realize how expenive 3D is. It is a never ending cycle of buying the latest greatest hardware and software. I lost patience for 3D design and moved to web. By 2003 I decided to make (e:strip) as a class project for my Virtual and Online communities class. It needed a server and I decided I could repurpose the one that I was using for 3D. The problem is that I could never seem to afford the connection. I tried to host it at home with my adelphia connection but serving a site is against their TOS agreement and would have been a constant battle with home internet usage taking up the whole pipe. Sometime (e:matthew) can make Azureus take the whole internet down. So instead, each month I paid for it to be hosted elsewhere. When it was tiny in 2003 it only cost $7.99/month for the first couple months. As it started to grow I ended paying $40.00/month for a virtual server space.
Then just a month or so ago, Jamie Moses from Artvoice offered to let me host my server there and now whenever you type something or use the site, you are actually just using my computer which is living in their basement.
Anyhow, so I think it is a waste to just throw it out?!
theecarey - 02/01/06 21:09
heh,(e:jim) took the words right out of my mouth.
alright, not so much.. :)
Any word on an outline or any other form of new user/site help? Last I read there were a couple of people working on something.. I am eager to jump in, but not until I have an idea as to where! I have a little time coming up that I can commit to writing/working on something.. I can and would anyways.. but with a commited chunk of time, that would be helpful to all.
When some cash comes in, I will gladly donate.. e;strip can count on it!
heh,(e:jim) took the words right out of my mouth.
alright, not so much.. :)
Any word on an outline or any other form of new user/site help? Last I read there were a couple of people working on something.. I am eager to jump in, but not until I have an idea as to where! I have a little time coming up that I can commit to writing/working on something.. I can and would anyways.. but with a commited chunk of time, that would be helpful to all.
When some cash comes in, I will gladly donate.. e;strip can count on it!
jim - 02/01/06 20:47
Memory still shouldn't be that big of a bottleneck, it'll be hard drive or database related. You still need a heck of a lot of concurrent users to do that.
Wait and benchmark before spending the money. Sort of premature optimization at this point? You might wish you'd used the money for a caching front end proxy/web server instead, and then use your current beefy server as your DB server.
I'll pledge $50 no matter what you decide to do. But not til next paycheck. Also, I'm back from my conference and will do some more work on the docs this week.
Memory still shouldn't be that big of a bottleneck, it'll be hard drive or database related. You still need a heck of a lot of concurrent users to do that.
Wait and benchmark before spending the money. Sort of premature optimization at this point? You might wish you'd used the money for a caching front end proxy/web server instead, and then use your current beefy server as your DB server.
I'll pledge $50 no matter what you decide to do. But not til next paycheck. Also, I'm back from my conference and will do some more work on the docs this week.
paul - 01/27/06 21:07
There is no bottleneck for anything. I want more RAM because this will be shared with the rememeber buffalo project which will server much more media and soon enough we will advertise in artvoice and have lots of new peeps.
There is no bottleneck for anything. I want more RAM because this will be shared with the rememeber buffalo project which will server much more media and soon enough we will advertise in artvoice and have lots of new peeps.
ajay - 01/27/06 11:03
How many requests per second do you serve up?
You have a dedicated server w/ 1GB memory now. Earlier, you had a shared server with nothing close to that. I don't think it's the memory that's the bottleneck here.
How many requests per second do you serve up?
You have a dedicated server w/ 1GB memory now. Earlier, you had a shared server with nothing close to that. I don't think it's the memory that's the bottleneck here.
01/25/2006 06:26 #30202
Site TransferCategory: estrip
The site has been transfered to the new server. I am still leaving the old one up for a bit just in case. Unfortunately, elmwoodstrip.com.org has not fully transfered everywhere. I believe in some places it has. In the mean time you can use mobl.us which you will be automatically redirected to when you visit elmwoodstrip.org/com. All three are the same web site. At least for now.
So play around with it and send me a site email if there are any problems.
--paul
So play around with it and send me a site email if there are any problems.
--paul
The dots are a great feature... allowed me to step back in time :)