Let's see if this works.

[azurelunatic]

This ought to be a photo of Darkside.


Nope, I've got it wrong, or Geocities is that sort of thing that doesn't allow you to do that. I'd be betting on Geocities, myself.

OK, now it works all of a sudden. ...umkay...

(11:28) and now apparently it doesn't. Oy.

(1:05, still awake) I guess what you've got to do is right-click, select properties, and go visit it where it lies at http://www.geocities.com/silenceshadow/darkside.jpg and then it *may* show up in my journal.

...or it may not.

Dammit, computers are still past my level of specialty.

(7:38 the next morning) Nope, image no longer shows 'cause I violate the Terms of Service in showing it from here. Dammit, post a f*ing ad-banner at the top every time an offsite computer looks at it directly, irritate the f* out of all of us, but at least we get the f*ing picture.

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Why the pics work intermittantly

[lasayla.livejournal.com]

A note to everybody who may read this...

Geocities doesn't support direct linking.

This is because they want to annoy the crap out of me.

I don't know of any free webspace providers that *do* support direct image linking now. Bolt used to, but they recently clued in.

Anyway, to view the image just Crl + N to open another browser window, then paste the url in to view the page. If it doesn't work remove either the http:// or the www. and you can fool it into thinking you've not been directly linked.

And then send an e-mail to Geocities complaining because it is so fucking annoying to have to keep doing that.

If you specifically want to piss off Yahoo and use their servers for direct image linking anyway, create an open YahooGroup, stick your pics in Shared Files and direct image link from there.

[azurelunatic]

If what they want is some exposure, I'm sure there's some way to make sure that an ad banner for their site appears at the top of the image every time it's accessed by someone that isn't them. That would piss off a lot of people, but

a) they still get their exposure
b) we still get our pictures.

Win win, eh?

[acpizza.livejournal.com]

The CPU demand that would generate if it were done dynamically would be immense. Done staticly, it would require the image be stored somewhere else on the server, and the server would have to decide, on the fly, which of the two to show.

A system similar to this is already used at many sites, which instead of a broken link, will show a banner for the site itself. Ever seen "Image hosted by angelfire"? Angelfire used to actually find offending images and replace them in peoples websites themselves (actually changing the site. At that time, offsite hosting worked nicely until they caught you by hand and changed the image file.), but somewhat recently (last few years) they have started having the server make the decision on the fly.