◆ PARALLAX

Marjorie you are not a silly old woman and a couple of these clowns owe you a nicer tone. I am two states over with the same kind of study full of the same kind of records, so if the Montpelier man sorts the machine, ask him to put your files onto CDs as well -- two copies, kept in two rooms. Harold got you onto the computer; let me get you onto a backup, so the next Sunday storm cannot frighten you like this. You can write me here. The bread-and-tomato thread misses you anyway.

[staff] Right -- ACTUAL bug-thread housekeeping, because this is still the bug thread. Fixed since the move: reset emails now flowing (reverse DNS sorted, Quentin is back in). Still broken: about a third of the avatar redirects and a chunk of the older member-posted photos -- I am grinding through them, do not re-report individual ones, I have the list. Not a bug: the server move did not affect anybody's home computer, anywhere, ever, and if you have wandered into this thread to ask, scroll up and read the saga first. We will leave it unlocked because the photos are still settling, but the basement, I promise you, cannot reach your house.

Back in, thank you. Since this thread is apparently where lost souls wash up: unrelated, but does anyone know why my modem renegotiates down to 28.8 every night around 9 and holds 49.3 fine in the mornings? Same line, same modem. It is not the board, I know, I just trust this lot more than my ISP's helpline.

Quentin -- evening line noise, almost certainly. More households on the local loop after dinner, more crosstalk, your modem backs off to hold the link. Try &F then ATM0 to mute the speaker so you stop hearing it suffer, and if you really care, ring the telco and ask them to test for line attenuation -- but they will blame your wiring. They always blame your wiring. Not a board problem.

while the tech-support shingle is out: how do you shrink a scan to fit under the avatar size limit without it turning into mud? mine looks like a potato. (avatars are loading again now btw, thank you SkepWell, the wood-knocks thread has its little faces back)

Cascade -- resize in ONE step, not five, and sharpen once at the very end. Set it straight to the final pixel size (do not nudge it down 10% at a time, that is what makes the potato), then a single Unsharp Mask, then save as GIF if it is flat colour or JPEG if it is a photo. If your paint program only does the nudge-down thing, get a copy of that little shareware image viewer everyone uses, it has a proper resample.

sorry to dig this up, it was top of the search. my hotmail bounces everything from this board, says blocked. is that the reverse dns thing from before or is it me? not urgent. half expecting no reply, the thread looks old.

Wesley if you are still about -- it is the Hotmail end, they block whole host ranges for weeks at a stretch and there is nothing this board can do about it; get a different free account just for forum mail, that is what most of us did. Anyway -- I think this thread has done its work. The modem sorted itself when they reseated something at the exchange, which K7 will enjoy, because it was, in the end, the wiring. Cheers all.