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To: Right_Handed_Writer

D'oh, they appeared when I first posted. Now it's red x's. Wassup with that?!


6 posted on 02/14/2005 2:21:57 PM PST by Uncledave
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To: Uncledave

post link at least, someone will get it working.


9 posted on 02/14/2005 2:23:22 PM PST by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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To: Uncledave

did you close your thingy?


12 posted on 02/14/2005 2:24:20 PM PST by RushCrush (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. - Reagan)
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14 posted on 02/14/2005 2:25:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Uncledave
D'oh, they appeared when I first posted. Now it's red x's. Wassup with that?!

Some sites don't like it when their images get embedded in other sites' HTML.

21 posted on 02/14/2005 2:27:34 PM PST by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: Uncledave

63 posted on 02/14/2005 3:24:21 PM PST by b4its2late (If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.)
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To: Uncledave
That's because the domain has protection to keep people like you from hotlinking their images and stealing their bandwidth. You could see them because they were in your temp folder cache file on your computer= it finds the file with the same name so that if you are on a site with the same images on every page it doesn't have to load them each time. Eventually it refreshes and you can't see them anymore.

As a webmaster, this is a sensitive issue with me because people leech our bandwidth all the time. When you 'hotlink' an image like that, especially on a very popular and well-trafficked site like this, you can cause a giant spike in that person's bandwidth usage, sometimes crashing the server which isn't set up for massive traffic, and at the very least draining a lot more bandwidth than they are set up to pay for each month. Whether you realize it or not, every page, image, flash, anything on a webpage costs money to go from the host server to your computer. The more bandwidth you use the more it costs. When you hotlink an image like that the original webmaster is getting no benefit, but paying the cost of displaying that image- that's why they put protection on many servers, lots of people probably hotlink those bunny pix.

What you should do is get some webspace somewhere, save the images then upload them to your server space on the web, there are free pix hosters, then link to that. And always credit the original site.

68 posted on 02/14/2005 3:40:19 PM PST by puppets
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