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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA
2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online
2,005 legs,
8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs,
196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
June 02 2003 19:55 ET by Luke Kolin
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I was doing a review of the signature image handling code today, and I noticed that I never actually got around to enforcing restrictions on the image and file sizes of these images. This is a significant issue, for two reasons.
First, many of our users are still using dial-up connections. A significant signature image will take a while to download. Second, if they're using broadband, they probably have a faster connection than I do. You may not be aware that the DVA site is hosted out of my bonus room above the garage, and all we use is the cheapest business-class internet service I can get.
(In case you're interested, I'm attaching a picture of our 'server farm'. The box on the left side is my internal server, which is a dual P3 866. The middle box is the DVA server, with a 400Mhz DEC Alpha 21164 RISC CPU and 512MB RAM, and the box on the left is the mail server and NAT gateway, with a 300 Mhz PII with 128MB RAM. The blue box to the right of the monitor is the internal 10/100 switch, and right below it is the IDSL router and 10Mbps Ethernet hub for the external network. The big boxes to the right are the UPSs that provide clean power and surge supression.)
I will be restricting signature images to a limit of 32K in size. If you are careful with your image size and JPEG quality, I don't see that as an excessively onerous restriction. To enforce this, I will be adding code to profile edit function to automatically discard images above that size. Once this is in place I will skiip through the pilot profiles, and simply delete any images above 32K. It's a little dranconian, but efficient.
If you like your signature image and don't want to lose it, save it. Right click on it and select "Save as File". If you are curious as to its size, right-click on it and select "Properties". The file size should be there, and the magic number is 32768 bytes. If it's 32769, it's going into the bit-bucket in a few days.
Cheers!
Luke
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA1129
Senior Captain, B757-200
E-MAIL
Joined on March 10 2003
Million Mile Club
Millennium Club
Online Six Century Club
""never ever give up""
Ardmore, OK USA
1,210 legs, 3,192.7 hours
602 legs,
1,222.0 hours online
508 legs,
1,054.6 hours ACARS
15 legs,
27.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 02 2003 20:04 ET by Craig Davidson
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i guess that means me. 
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DVA455
Senior Captain, MD-88
Joined on April 29 2002
Century Club
"Aquatone"
Shelbyville, IN
132 legs, 255.8 hours
79 legs,
158.6 hours online
29 legs,
52.9 hours ACARS
2 legs,
3.8 hours event
276 legs, 632.7 hours total
23 legs dispatched, 11.3
hours
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Posted onPost created on
June 02 2003 20:24 ET by Ryan Watkins
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*phew* I'm toeing the line but still golden! Good move, Luke. I certainly understand the importance of conserving resources. I like that photo by the way. Kinda looks a little like my lab. I'm testing for Microsoft MCSE certification so I've got computer boxes and parts all over the place.
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DVA953
Senior Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL
Joined on November 17 2002
50 State Club
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
"V1 means V1..."
West Lafayette, IN USA
214 legs, 376.8 hours
211 legs,
373.0 hours online
117 legs,
223.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
June 03 2003 06:53 ET by James Brickell
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Guess I'd better get a new one..oh well.
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DVA1194
Senior Captain, MD-88
E-MAIL
Joined on April 18 2003
Century Club
Southeastern United States
112 legs, 349.3 hours
42 legs,
66.7 hours online
1 legs,
1.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 03 2003 07:43 ET by Matthew Sisson
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| I don't like the idea one bit. Maby we need restrictions yes but that much? Maby 50k or something. As many can see it's kinda of a compition or the way us pilots at DVA show off. It's the way everybody knows us maby if we could lessen the restriction or something?
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DVA1194
Senior Captain, MD-88
E-MAIL
Joined on April 18 2003
Century Club
Southeastern United States
112 legs, 349.3 hours
42 legs,
66.7 hours online
1 legs,
1.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 03 2003 07:44 ET by Matthew Sisson
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| but I do understand why we need the restriction just not so much maby?
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DVA953
Senior Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL
Joined on November 17 2002
50 State Club
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
"V1 means V1..."
West Lafayette, IN USA
214 legs, 376.8 hours
211 legs,
373.0 hours online
117 legs,
223.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
June 03 2003 08:02 ET by James Brickell
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Oh, that photo reminds me of my room at one time...I was putting together an Athlon box so there were components all over my desk, at the same time I was trying to fix a crappy old machine that I eventually gave up on..lol
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DVA057
Senior Captain, B777-200
COMM
Joined on June 02 2002
Events Century Club
Six Century Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Everett 500 Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"We Are ... Penn State!"
Atlanta, GA USA
672 legs, 1,338.4 hours
531 legs,
1,076.4 hours online
392 legs,
786.1 hours ACARS
190 legs,
406.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 04 2003 07:32 ET by Terry Eshenour
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Why? You are under the 32K max.
BTW, what rwy are we about to land on?
Terry EshenourSenior Captain, B777-200
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