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Random Lack of Squiggily Lines
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i want to change my picture, but i cannot, because it is not on the internet, so i cant put it in the space. help?
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Re: the picture
« Reply #1 on: Mar 9th, 2008, 7:11pm » |
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One thing you can do is put the picture you want in a post here using the attachment feature. This will save the picture in the directories for this site on the Berkeley server. You can find the path by doing a "View Source" on the page (Firefox offers this as a choice when you right-click on a generic part of the page, and I think IE does as well). Search for the name of your picture, and it should occur in the full path name.
Then enter this path name in your profile.
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Random Lack of Squiggily Lines
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please escase me, im trying
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Re: the picture
« Reply #3 on: Mar 9th, 2008, 8:02pm » |
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Ok, i got it, thank you for the help.
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on Mar 9th, 2008, 8:02pm, Master of Everything 42 wrote:| Ok, i got it, thank you for the help. |
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Yeah, me too. 
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Re: the picture
« Reply #5 on: Nov 2nd, 2008, 8:02am » |
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How come we are unable to change our profiles? 
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Re: the picture
« Reply #6 on: Nov 2nd, 2008, 8:33am » |
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I don't seem to be having a problem. What sort of error or response do you get?
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Re: the picture
« Reply #7 on: Nov 2nd, 2008, 8:47am » |
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When I click Change Profile I get the White Screen of Death saying:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8g Server at www.ocf.berkeley.edu Port 80
And my avatar at http://www.abcwebworx.com/avatars/fantasy/fantasy13.gif is showing up as a small red dot.
I will try with IE.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #8 on: Nov 2nd, 2008, 8:57am » |
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I suspect the problem may be your signature. If try to change my signature to yours I also get a "Bad Request" error. And I'm fairly sure you've had since before the forum began having problems with the input of certain characters. Additional evidence, try putting it in a message; that also gives "Bad request".
So, either you'll have to change your signature, or you should ask William if he can manually change the link to your image.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #9 on: Nov 2nd, 2008, 9:09am » |
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Thanks towr. How did you suss that out, given that those symbols haven't been a problem until very recently?
Trial and error? Process of elimination? LOL
I wonder why they did become a problem. Maybe something to do with the new mirrors.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #10 on: Nov 2nd, 2008, 10:00am » |
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on Nov 2nd, 2008, 9:09am, ThudanBlunder wrote:| Thanks towr. How did you suss that out, given that those symbols haven't been a problem until very recently? |
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The problem with certain symbols started about a year and a half ago (I have some email correspondence about it from June 2007). But the most pressing problems with characters and strings where fairly quickly fixed then. Most other characters that can still give trouble are ones we don't really use anyway.
For example letters with accents still give "bad request" errors as well. Anything that's not on a standard keyboard is likely to give problems.
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It was the first thing I tried after seeing if I could change anything in my profile. Server errors here, in my experience, are one of two things, either a time-out of the script (happens a lot to me with the search option), or a problem with characters or strings that are posted.
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I think it was something to do with the web application firewall on the server trying to keep garbled nonsense and spam from being posted to the server. (Which gave some problems at the time because programming code posted in the CS section also seems like garbled nonsense most of the time  But that was fixed fairly quickly.)
So unless you've updated your profile since that time, I think it's safe to say the problem was around since then and it just hadn't come up.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #11 on: Nov 2nd, 2008, 1:59pm » |
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Thanks for your informative reply, towr.
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Ah, finally I now know how to put one of my pictures up for my avatar, thank you towr, thanks, also, for anyone who uses Safari, a right click, or control click if you use a mac with single mouse button, like me, a right/control click in a generic part of the page also lets you view the source, also if you go to the "View" menu, or you can just right/control click the picture and open it in a new window/tab, then just copy from the address field.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #13 on: Dec 22nd, 2008, 9:40pm » |
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AH! Whoops, guess that was way too big, sorry bout that, there we go, though, finally got the picture I wanted 2 years ago next to my name.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #14 on: Dec 23rd, 2008, 1:09am » |
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Want me to resize it for you? It'd probably look a bit less grainy if it's the right size for an avatar rather then reduced in size by the browser.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #15 on: Dec 24th, 2008, 12:12am » |
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It doesn't really bother me, but sure, I don't turn many offers down, I'd do it myself but I can't put photoshop on this computer, it just doesn't have enough space to run it, nor is it up to scratch.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #16 on: Dec 24th, 2008, 1:15am » |
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Installing photoshop would be a bit overkill just to resize an image anyway  Irfanview is a decent lightweight application for such purposes.
Anyway, I've resized the image; so in addition to looking a bit smoother, it now takes up less space and bandwidth as well.
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Re: the picture
« Reply #17 on: Dec 24th, 2008, 6:46am » |
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Just make a screen copy of your browser window and paste it in paint. Move the avatar to the top left corner and adjust the size to 65x65.
PS: oops, it is resized already.
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