geralday opened this issue on Feb 16, 2002 ยท 9 posts
geralday posted Sat, 16 February 2002 at 11:58 AM
Attached Link: http://fast3d.co.uk
Long Blonde Hair / Centre PartingBy popular request ... centre parted hair with length adjustment.
Penguinisto posted Sat, 16 February 2002 at 1:33 PM
Attached Link: http://205.122.23.229/geralday/lbh.zip
Heh - your front page got nuked on the bandwidth thing again... I took the liberty of popping a more direct link to it below :)geralday posted Sat, 16 February 2002 at 4:11 PM
Thanks for posting the direct link ... my site has almost recovered all it's bandwidth now and is generally running 12+ hours each day.. should be fully active in another week.
The hair was designed using P4 woman, but should work.. with adjustment, on all figures.. including Mike and Dork.. the "Heavy Metal" look?
Gerald.
geralday posted Sat, 16 February 2002 at 4:35 PM
Penguinisto posted Sun, 17 February 2002 at 11:04 AM
Hehehe - why do you think I went to the school board with the Hot Lab idea? :) Seriously - the students are putting it to great use, and now handle nearly everything from user account maintenance to backups to ...??? (load-balancing will happen soon, once the other two servers come online.) I just supervise whenever something is done on it now. Still need to find a student already worth a damn at HTML so I can avoid doing that, too ;) /P
Penguinisto posted Sun, 17 February 2002 at 11:22 AM
Exactly... I used to own spark.org a long time ago. The site never really generated a lot of traffic (about 150,000 page hits over its 3-year lifespan), but more than most personal website accounts (and more than a lot of commercial accounts) that the local ISP hosting spark.org had... A colocator or webspace provider's bread-and-butter comes from the vast majority of account holders that pay the monthly fees, but don't use hardly any bandwidth. This goes not only for the obvious "w3lc0m3 to JimMee'z Bon Jovi Fansite!!!111!!1", but for small businesses as well. Most folks don't go surfing to the website for, say, a local 4x4 customization shop, when it's faster and often easier to just drive down and have a chat with the manager about a specific need (like getting a new Detroit Locker rear-end for my Jeep, say...) Ergo, most of those sites sit idle, and do absolutely nothing at all but make the ISP money. It's the active sites that cost you as an ISP, which is why that cost is passed on in bandwidth charges. /P
Jim Burton posted Sun, 17 February 2002 at 2:40 PM
I made a mistake of putting a popular FreeStuff item up in my Web providers server, got a nice note from them about how much it was going to cost me next month for the bandwidth, I pulled that sucker right away! BBay hosts my stuff now, the commerical stuff I sell there pays for the access to the Freestuff, in effect.
hermit posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 3:32 PM
Wow, are my eyes opened up now. All the bandwidth hoopla makes sense now, and I see it isn't so much hoopla. I've always felt that artists should be paid for their work, but never realized how much THEY PAY to share their work with us. Here's an even louder THANK YOU for all the free stuff you guys present to us all. Hermit
Penguinisto posted Mon, 18 February 2002 at 4:02 PM
Hermit - no need to thank me, instead thank the taxpayers of Utah... Seriously - I set up a hot lab that provides data and traffic for the students, and artists here get a place to put up all the data and traffic I want my students analyzing and caring for. It is literally a public service, and approval for it was rather swift from the administration on down. (There is only one caveat - that "Green Jello" standard I keep joking about is in full effect.) But yeah, bandwidth is essentially open until one of two things happen: A) The State and Federal Gov'ts stop providing schools with gallons of free bandwidth (our school physically services all of Northern Utah's schools with our on-site OC-48, and unlimited BW per month), or B) The Utah taxpayers decide that they really don't want any of their AP or undergrad Comp. Sci. students learning how to network machines on something with a live Internet hookup. Since I don't really foresee either event happening anytime soon, our server (Soon to be called www.openart.com once DNS is approved) will remain as a public service. /P