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Never could get the bucket to work. I use an app to resize & post here from android.
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Sept. 10, 2021 Steve left us. You are missed.
What app is that?
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Called "reduce photo size" & has a little purple & green widget.
On iOS if you long-top on a picture in a web browser, you get a menu that lets you save it. I suspect Android does something very similar.
-Kevin
Minute Of Berm
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This resizer works well and allows you to save the resized photo to your computer,
http://www.resize2mail.com/index.php
http://www.resize2mail.com/index.php
L1A1Rocker
Active Member
Wow, I just found out about this. I figured PB was having money problems with all their ads on their sight but this is just nuts. Just figure out how to attach a small add to all the photos that are linked to and you have a huge revenue stream. This does nothing but drive people away and make them close their accounts. It really pisses me off when I think about all the photo tutorials out there that are now useless.
Ian, I think I see a business opportunity here. Let's talk.
Ian, I think I see a business opportunity here. Let's talk.
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
Yikes. Fortunately, I have no photos stored anywhere but on my own drives. I have external backups of
everything, and for most, I have burned DVDs, too.
Starting to think about using SD cards as a one time thing in the camera, sorta digital film and just file them
and buy another, cheap enough nowdays.
All my pix on the site have been uploaded, after resizing to no more than 1000 pixels on the max side.
Only the one video is 'hosted', and that is on Vimeo.
Back to depending on yourself, it seems. Never been comfortable about security or reliability of "Oh,
all my files are stored in the cloud."
Bill
everything, and for most, I have burned DVDs, too.
Starting to think about using SD cards as a one time thing in the camera, sorta digital film and just file them
and buy another, cheap enough nowdays.
All my pix on the site have been uploaded, after resizing to no more than 1000 pixels on the max side.
Only the one video is 'hosted', and that is on Vimeo.
Back to depending on yourself, it seems. Never been comfortable about security or reliability of "Oh,
all my files are stored in the cloud."
Bill
Ian
Notorious member
My IT/programmer buddy is very realistic about information storage. People will tell him they have their OS and files all backed up on an external hard drive. He says no you don't, because you haven't installed it all on a blank system yet to prove it. Until you actually confirm that the stuff will install and work, you haven't backed up anything. Even then, it only worked once, no guarantee it will happen again.
The "cloud" is aptly named.
The "cloud" is aptly named.
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
I make no claim to having my OS backed up, just the files I want to keep.
Decades ago I created a file structure where my files, as opposed to OS files, are ALL under a master subdirectory called, on
all my computers, "DATA". Under that I have dozens and dozens of subject and application specific subdirectories.
I back up "Data" on an external drive. If I lose the computer, OK, I'll get another. But I want my files. And I want the
important ones in multiple places.
Bill
Decades ago I created a file structure where my files, as opposed to OS files, are ALL under a master subdirectory called, on
all my computers, "DATA". Under that I have dozens and dozens of subject and application specific subdirectories.
I back up "Data" on an external drive. If I lose the computer, OK, I'll get another. But I want my files. And I want the
important ones in multiple places.
Bill
Bill, you sound a bunch like me.
When we travel we keep images on the SD card from the camera, on the storage of the Surface we use for viewing, and on a portable hard drive. Yes, we travel heavy on electronics.
I have heard that CDs and DVDs like we mortals can write on aren't great for archival storage. Kept out of sun and away from heat they are 10-15 years.
When we travel we keep images on the SD card from the camera, on the storage of the Surface we use for viewing, and on a portable hard drive. Yes, we travel heavy on electronics.
I have heard that CDs and DVDs like we mortals can write on aren't great for archival storage. Kept out of sun and away from heat they are 10-15 years.
Here is some interesting info.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984...edia-and-methods-for-archiving-your-data.html
Looks like the right kind of DVD makes all the difference in the world
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984...edia-and-methods-for-archiving-your-data.html
Looks like the right kind of DVD makes all the difference in the world
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
Excellent commentary. We spent some time really thinking about this at work.
I had been "doing computers", for almost 5 decades. I have been user, system manager,
network designer, network operator, network hardware installer, etc. for our computers at
work from PCs to Unix workstations, to Minicomputers (Vax) and then ultimately supercomputers, like
Crays and SGI, original style and at the end we had multiple 2048 CPU supercomputers.
None of this was because I was "a computer guy". I was doing engineering, and couldn't
get the tools or get them run to suit unless I did it myself. Finally managed to get enough
skilled folks working for me the last 10 yrs that I could wash my hands entirely of the
sysmanager and hardware stuff. Very happy to go back and only do engineering, and
at that point mentoring and project management.
We had been through a lot of different backups, from punch cards, to reel to reel tapes,
to single reel tapes, to tape cartridges (remember TK50s?), VHS tapes (data) and
optical platters, removable hard disks, and more.
We realized it was pretty complex. Far more complex than at first glance.
1. Will your media survive? This is about where most folks stop thinking.
2. Will you have a hardware device which will read your media?
3. Will you have a computer, OS and driver that will talk to your hardware device?
Find a floppy drive. See if you can connect it to your current PC and make it read
floppys. It may happen, but I doubt it will be easy, and perhaps not even possible
anymore. That was only a couple of decades ago!
4. If you recover the zeroes and ones, will you have any software that will run on
the OS and computer of the future which will be able to interpret those zeroes and
ones and do something useful with it?
It is not just the media, there are several more hardware, driver, OS and software
layers - any one of which can just totally screw you on "recovering your data".
For example. If you have a perfectly good TK50 tape cartridge today, do you know of anyone
who has a VAX computer with a working drive to read it - assuming that the ferric oxide hasn't
fallen off of the mylar - which it does do. May be a VAX or too still working, but will not
be very many.
I have a couple of IBM punchcard decks that I kept for sentimental reasons (my master's
degree software) and I seriously doubt that there is any way to use them any more and
read the data that they contain. Even if you have a IBM 29, will it run on any current
OS? That was current technology in 1975.
Recently tried to load a legit copy of Office 2003 on an older computer. Could not
get the online validation to work, even though it loaded perfectly. Without that you have
30 days and it shuts down. Called MicroSoft. Basically "Tough S#!+", we don't support
that anymore and don't care that you bought "permanent" license. So, if you need special
software to use your files, even if you have the software, can you load it and use
it if the company dies or doesn't help in the future?
Bill
I had been "doing computers", for almost 5 decades. I have been user, system manager,
network designer, network operator, network hardware installer, etc. for our computers at
work from PCs to Unix workstations, to Minicomputers (Vax) and then ultimately supercomputers, like
Crays and SGI, original style and at the end we had multiple 2048 CPU supercomputers.
None of this was because I was "a computer guy". I was doing engineering, and couldn't
get the tools or get them run to suit unless I did it myself. Finally managed to get enough
skilled folks working for me the last 10 yrs that I could wash my hands entirely of the
sysmanager and hardware stuff. Very happy to go back and only do engineering, and
at that point mentoring and project management.
We had been through a lot of different backups, from punch cards, to reel to reel tapes,
to single reel tapes, to tape cartridges (remember TK50s?), VHS tapes (data) and
optical platters, removable hard disks, and more.
We realized it was pretty complex. Far more complex than at first glance.
1. Will your media survive? This is about where most folks stop thinking.
2. Will you have a hardware device which will read your media?
3. Will you have a computer, OS and driver that will talk to your hardware device?
Find a floppy drive. See if you can connect it to your current PC and make it read
floppys. It may happen, but I doubt it will be easy, and perhaps not even possible
anymore. That was only a couple of decades ago!
4. If you recover the zeroes and ones, will you have any software that will run on
the OS and computer of the future which will be able to interpret those zeroes and
ones and do something useful with it?
It is not just the media, there are several more hardware, driver, OS and software
layers - any one of which can just totally screw you on "recovering your data".
For example. If you have a perfectly good TK50 tape cartridge today, do you know of anyone
who has a VAX computer with a working drive to read it - assuming that the ferric oxide hasn't
fallen off of the mylar - which it does do. May be a VAX or too still working, but will not
be very many.
I have a couple of IBM punchcard decks that I kept for sentimental reasons (my master's
degree software) and I seriously doubt that there is any way to use them any more and
read the data that they contain. Even if you have a IBM 29, will it run on any current
OS? That was current technology in 1975.
Recently tried to load a legit copy of Office 2003 on an older computer. Could not
get the online validation to work, even though it loaded perfectly. Without that you have
30 days and it shuts down. Called MicroSoft. Basically "Tough S#!+", we don't support
that anymore and don't care that you bought "permanent" license. So, if you need special
software to use your files, even if you have the software, can you load it and use
it if the company dies or doesn't help in the future?
Bill
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KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
Bill, I use a CAD program called Cadkey 98. It was designed to run in the Win 98 environment. It was written well enough that it is running on my Win 10 laptop that started out as an XP machine. Too bad the company sold out/closed down years ago. If it ever quits working I'm going to have to learn a whole new CAD system.
RBHarter
West Central AR
In about 1989 I had a watch that would do in 5 programs what it took 2 5" floppies to load and drive in my 83-4' computer science classes . Today I can move and use as much data in 94 seconds as those classroom desktops could store on a slow connection .
Someone about 25yr ago said if aviation had advanced as fast as computers we would have gone to the moon by 1928 . I was like pppppffft . China was cutting edge for 900 yr with beads on wires .........
Remember the big Microsoft anti trust thing ? A friend with a degree said to me this is like buying any car you want but you can only have it with a Chevy drive train . I said but I can change the engine with the correct tools but I can't drive it any where if I don't have rail wheels on it . Aka IBM compatibility ........ Crickets , well sort of , he then tried to explain why that was completely true but not true at all and after 5 minutes or so I called our waiter an got another round of beer . Then I asked how his folks were doing .
Someone about 25yr ago said if aviation had advanced as fast as computers we would have gone to the moon by 1928 . I was like pppppffft . China was cutting edge for 900 yr with beads on wires .........
Remember the big Microsoft anti trust thing ? A friend with a degree said to me this is like buying any car you want but you can only have it with a Chevy drive train . I said but I can change the engine with the correct tools but I can't drive it any where if I don't have rail wheels on it . Aka IBM compatibility ........ Crickets , well sort of , he then tried to explain why that was completely true but not true at all and after 5 minutes or so I called our waiter an got another round of beer . Then I asked how his folks were doing .
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
Keith, learning new software is a pain, I agree. I had to learn several new CAD systems over the years.
In some cases it was just a bit different, but some run on entirely different concepts, and that can be
culture shock.
Early CAD was just lines, stored in 3 space, with nothing to do with each other. We were tasked to bring
a CAD drawing like this (called a 'haystack' because it is just a pile of lines) into our solid modeling
software and use it. It took me a 20 page white paper to explain to management why "those darned
analysis guys won't use our CAD designs to do their analysis more easily". On a printout or on a
screen it LOOKED like three lines that made the edges of the cube were connected, but in reality,
they were offset and separate endpoints, so our solid modeling software had to be tweaked a LOT
to force the lines to match....which distorts the geometry, and making high precision parts
isn't good that way.
Modern stuff is all solid modeling, you do not make a line, you make a cross section and extrude or
revolve it, then add or subtract from that. Then, how you store it is a big deal, too. B-splines or
corners, or what? Eventually they now store the PROCESS of how the part was made, regenerate
it. This is the only reliable definition of the part.
Takes a lot of different concepts to work in new CAD/CAM compared to the early days.
My wife is a AutoCAD guru, says you can still get Base AutoCAD which is still lines and
points. I suspect it will be expensive if you need to purchase it for your business.
Hope your current tool keeps working for a long time.
Bill
In some cases it was just a bit different, but some run on entirely different concepts, and that can be
culture shock.
Early CAD was just lines, stored in 3 space, with nothing to do with each other. We were tasked to bring
a CAD drawing like this (called a 'haystack' because it is just a pile of lines) into our solid modeling
software and use it. It took me a 20 page white paper to explain to management why "those darned
analysis guys won't use our CAD designs to do their analysis more easily". On a printout or on a
screen it LOOKED like three lines that made the edges of the cube were connected, but in reality,
they were offset and separate endpoints, so our solid modeling software had to be tweaked a LOT
to force the lines to match....which distorts the geometry, and making high precision parts
isn't good that way.
Modern stuff is all solid modeling, you do not make a line, you make a cross section and extrude or
revolve it, then add or subtract from that. Then, how you store it is a big deal, too. B-splines or
corners, or what? Eventually they now store the PROCESS of how the part was made, regenerate
it. This is the only reliable definition of the part.
Takes a lot of different concepts to work in new CAD/CAM compared to the early days.
My wife is a AutoCAD guru, says you can still get Base AutoCAD which is still lines and
points. I suspect it will be expensive if you need to purchase it for your business.
Hope your current tool keeps working for a long time.
Bill
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Photobucket has hundreds of my photos.
I've tried to download them ( albums ) so I can close my acct.
I've tried to download them for 2 weeks.
I can't ! !
I've contacted PB, they say they are well aware that they have an issue with the ability of people to download their own albums. They " allege " that they are working on the problem. If they put 1/2 as much effort into the problem as they did adding more pop - ups to their web site, the problem would have been corrected weeks ago.
I've tried to download them ( albums ) so I can close my acct.
I've tried to download them for 2 weeks.
I can't ! !
I've contacted PB, they say they are well aware that they have an issue with the ability of people to download their own albums. They " allege " that they are working on the problem. If they put 1/2 as much effort into the problem as they did adding more pop - ups to their web site, the problem would have been corrected weeks ago.