h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well. Almost.

A) Windows and 'Mac' are on the same machine.
B) It's not strictly speaking /actually/ Mac.
C) It's just a themed extra shell.
D) It looks and acts like a Mac though.
E) It has schweet extras that the normal Windows shell can't handle by itself.

See my Photohost account (look in Aston Screenshots) or check out my blog for screenshots and a more in-depth explanation.

Photohost: http://chris.photohost.vze.com/
Blog: http://www.aka-blog.vze.com/

Can't get the photohost url, says it's dud

The pic in your blog looks good though

Mel

Hm. The link works for me - the domain might've been down. See if it still doesn't work - or try it later.
If it doesn't work, try http://82.42.98.165/ and let me know if you get anything from that. (that's the server it's hosted on)

And yes - it does look very sweet, doesn't it? I've updated it a bit now - I have TrayAmp, which is a little thing that sits next to the system clock (the hh:mm one in the taskbar, not the Binary one, or the Analogue one), and saves me from having to unminimise Winamp every time I want to change the song a few tracks. Along with that, I have a quick Halt applet which sits near TrayAmp and lets you shutdown or reboot with just one respective left/right mouse click.

And you should hear the sound scheme I created.
With help of course from the Linux community - check out http://kdevibes.artemio.net/ - *UNBELIEVABLE* quality system sounds there. They're in OGG format, so if you want Windows to use 'em as System Sounds, you'll have to run 'em through a program to convert them (I used Goldwave to run a batch process. The other basic converters cut off a second or so from the beginning. Goldwave didn't. Goldwave is a light Cool-Edit-type sound suite. Goldwave is brilliant. Download Goldwave. http://www.goldwave.com/)

I like my Opera skin too. It fits my sidebar buttons in almost all on one line - the font is miniscule, but not so small I can't read it. And it doesn't scream 'Look at me, look at how clever I am!', which is also good.

I'll look later, am just laughing at the new and no new posts symbols on the union bulletin board at the moment!

http://union.surrey.ac.uk/discussions/index.php

Mel

Heh, I know the image that cat comes from, aswell.

I think almost everyone on the internet has seen the original image for the cat!

Mel

Yep.

Just Google for 'funny pictures' sites.

It'll be there.

Trust me.

So clichéd.

I just find it difficult to remember which one means new posts and which one means no new posts!

Mel

Well here's a question. Why don't you just get a Mac?

Well here's a question. Why don't you just get a Mac?
(sorry for the double post) Also the Photohost wouldn't load for me either.

aka, you are so incredibly crap at linking to images. Why didn't you just put up the whole address, instead of making people root around in your photohosting? They are less likely to bother!

Hellbound: I can't afford a Mac. I can afford a piece of software that makes my PC look and act like a Mac. Unfortunately, it doesn't come with the clause of not being the target of 95% of the World's viruses through not using Windows. But meh - you can't have it all.

Ok, fine. On my blog you can find the images themselves. Or you can trouble yourself with navigating *once* into my Photohost folder. That's why I coded the browsing interface for Photohost. So people could browse it. *rolls eyes*

But anyway.

Minimised to Desktop:
http://82.42.98.165/photo/chris/Aston%20Screenshots/Desktop1.png

Desktop with some windows on it:
http://localhost/photo/chris/Aston%20Screenshots/Desktop2.png

Opera (browser) and other stuff:
http://localhost/photo/chris/Aston%20Screenshots/Opera%20(and%20others).png

Fun with recursion, and Fireworks MX:
http://localhost/photo/chris/Aston%20Screenshots/Recursion.png

And finally, a behind the scenes look at my Photohost account:
http://localhost/photo/chris/Aston%20Screenshots/Voyeuristic%20view%20into%20my%20Photohost%20account.png

And besides, it's nicer to tell people they can find my Aston screenshots on http://chris.photohost.vze.com - than to list all the URLs to images. See?

Hellbound - can you get to http://82.42.98.165?

Yes. I get a page that says "Welcome to the Server"
When I click the Photohost link I get a page that says I can log in or sign up.

But fyi, I cannot get into the Photopost links in the previous post.

Ah. I know why. I'll try and fix that. I've just found out by the way, the root of a problem that people had been complaining about before. So lots of people should be happy by the time I fix this.

Try http://www.photohost.vze.com/chris/ instead. (Then try http://www.photohost.vze.com/chris and notice the difference. The slash at the end stops the bug.)

Ah, those bleepin' slashes. That worked.

Good.
But those slashes don't explain why direct links didn't work. Saturnine has used full links on her Blog, and on h2g2 I think, before - and nobody's complained.

Can you do me a favour? Visit Alertra's Spotcheck at http://www.alertra.com and type in 82.42.98.165 for me? Let me know it fails anywhere. I'd do it myself, but pinging a machine from that same machine is a bit of a pointless process.

Here ha go:

"Spotcheck
Spotcheck Results for 82.42.98.165
Time (US/Eastern) Checked From Result Size Secs
04/29/2004 18:00:16 Frankfurt GERMANY OK 1181 0.46
04/29/2004 18:00:16 London UK OK 1181 0.44
04/29/2004 18:00:17 Los Angeles USA OK 1181 0.89
04/29/2004 18:00:16 Oklahoma City USA OK 1181 0.60
04/29/2004 18:00:16 Las Vegas USA OK 1181 0.63

Complete."

Sorry if you already did this. I just saw your request. I have a pile of backlog I've been going through today and a slow connection.

No problem - that helps, cheers!

Because what that means is that whichever corner of the globe you're in, you can get to the server. Which helps, but doesn't explain why you couldn't get those image links.