Avatar - The new you - Photo's

2 weeks ago I posted about my screenshots being used in an exhibition in Australia. Some days ago I got email from Malcolm with photo's. So here they are and enjoy them:

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Screenshots featuring at the Avatar exhibition at the ACP

Some time ago I got contacted by Malcolm Smith from the ACP. The ACP is going to have an exhibition about online alter-egos named Avatar. So 30 of my screenshots will feature on that exhibition. Really excited about it and can't wait to hear everything about it when it's over. You can find more about it on the ACP website: http://tmp.acp.org.au/future/index.php#files1

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World of Warcraft Custom Google Map back on screenshots

Just wanted everyone to know I enabled the World of Warcraft Google Map on the screenshots again since I'm done with the speed updates. Started working on tthe coords for each zone. This time I'll be using a 4 number coord insstead of the default 2 to increase acuracy.
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WoW Screenshots Map disabled

The new style maps on the wow screenshot pages are there now for a while. People seem to like them alot as they startmoving them around and check out place in the world. For the moment they are disabled to correct a few issue's. There are some problems I would like to fix before putting them back on. They can be very bandwidth demanding so I'll be looking into using a mix of image type to have optimal bandwidth useage but keeping the quality up. Another thing that is going to be included are Instance maps (thanks to Dan Gilbert from atlasmod.com). The third issue are the markers. Currently they are only on a handfull of zones like Nagrand. (The maps will only be removed on screenshot pages, but will be available on the map page and the page pages since they are still usefull on those pages.) This upcoming change will also include (when available) 4 diget coords to improve acuracy.

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Site updates: Referer to Pingback, Character Banners

Referer to Pingback

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Blog && Screenshot updates

As previously announced I added an anti scraper text to the RSS feed of my blog. It's a tiny extra bit of text with a link to the article, the tags of the article, a link to WyriHaximus.net in general and 1 link to my blog.

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Good Mojo Reborn

So with my new box arrived (a Dell XPS 420):

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Bad Mojo Ressurected (Frankenstein style)

After some trying and moving files around I got a temporary solution (until I get a new server) for the problems. As we speak I'm uploading the data files to a secondary server that has taken over the role of file server. This solution will be altered a bit when I get my new server to create a more fail proof situation. The screenshots itself might a bit longer to get online properly again. Until that time I hope the most viewed ones are all in the cache.

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Bad Mojo R.I.P.

After trying to get everything back in order I gave up trying to get the disc itself to work again. It's unable to boot from it but I can read from it using a live CD. Preparing my workstation to take over the HTTP server so I can open up the wow_db and wow_screenshots section again.

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Bad Mojo Revisited

So after posting the previous blog post I did some checks with my home server before I had to go to work. And it completely died before my eyes. It went from a complete free, to a kernel panic to a complete failure of the system. When I get home tonight I'll place the harddisks from the server into the old one and get everything up and running that way. When installing the dead one I made the decission to using hotplug hardware detection instead of setting what drivers to load by hand. I'm so happy with doing that now cause it basicly means I can swap the harddisks plug everything in and fire it up without problems.

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Bad Mojo

Great a few bad things happend the last 12 hours. First of all the blog post I was preparing yesterday night failed to get into the database so I can start all over again today. Secondly the electric company blew out a phase putting half the building (and including me) without power. That resulted in a down and eventually damaged how server. Due to that all the wow_screenshots and wow_db pages that aren't in the cache are unavailable. Probably I have to recompile the servers kernel when I get back home tonight from work. I'll keep you posted.

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Toplist 2.1 ACP

The available options in 2.1:

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Pingback, Akismet and HTMLized modules

Hey all a bit more big update this time, taking on 3 totaly different things.

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Toplist 2.1 Screens

Main toplist page:

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Tiny site updates

A few weeks ago I added the social bookmarking links just above the forum topics list.

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Screenshots Maps

As part of the redesign of the wow_db module I added a map with tiny red dots that represent screenshots taken.

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Mods Base

I have suspended the development of Mods Base 1 and started working on Mods Base 2. Mods Base 2 will be a light micro API and won't require to install an additional MOD. All MB2 files will be deliverd with the MOD that requires it. So that users don't get botherd with some extra thing to install. Wich was a great deal to me aswell since alot of people complaint about it. This means MAriage MOD 2 is delayed a bit (it is for a few years allready anyway), so t hat I can adjust it :).

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Screenshows problem

Currently my home server (wich contains the screenshots) has networking problems (something is wrong with the system updating it atm). So they might be not available. Most commen checked screenshots should be available cause they are cached on this website server.

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100K Hits well almost

My 2.0.1 Screenshot topic made it onto Schwick his 2.0.1 FAQ topic:

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WoW Screenshots

I changed the quality of all the fullsize screenshots to save bandwidth. The images are compressed as JPEG.15 now (wich is not pretty) but it stays readeble and it saves up around 250KB to 300KB per image of filesize and bandwidth.

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PvP Rewards Bandwidth

Hey I posted a topic on the official world of warcraft EU PvP forums with screenshots (hosted on my site) of all PvP rewards. Now I got 20k visitors and 3.5GB of traffic everyday since they day I posted them. It's so much it shows up on the servers bandwidth graphs, I posted it wensday evening: