peteh
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Still making mistakes!
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Post by peteh on Jul 24, 2017 10:51:37 GMT
Might that have been my Northumbrian build?
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Post by Jo on Jul 24, 2017 10:59:30 GMT
The fact is you don't get something for nothing. These forums need to be completely self sufficient to ensure their long term survival and sombody needs to pay. Usually thats through advertising revenue or marketing statistics, demagraphics information or whatever else can be gleaned from the information innocently supplied by the subscribers. The assumed primary purpose of a website is of no consequence to the owners they just want the profit from the revenue. For example, Facebook is not about people keeping in touch with each other. Pete We Admins run MEM at our own cost as because we enjoy making model engines and believe it is important to share the knowledge of how to make them so that others can also benefit and make engines of their own. To put things in perspective it costs us less to pay all the hosting/IP registration fees than it would cost one person to subscribe to a well known model engineering magazine. I for one get much more out of participating in MEM  than out of the magazine. Jo |
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Post by doubletop on Jul 24, 2017 20:01:20 GMT
The fact is you don't get something for nothing. These forums need to be completely self sufficient to ensure their long term survival and sombody needs to pay. Usually thats through advertising revenue or marketing statistics, demagraphics information or whatever else can be gleaned from the information innocently supplied by the subscribers. The assumed primary purpose of a website is of no consequence to the owners they just want the profit from the revenue. For example, Facebook is not about people keeping in touch with each other. Pete We Admins run MEM at our own cost as because we enjoy making model engines and believe it is important to share the knowledge of how to make them so that others can also benefit and make engines of their own. To put things in perspective it costs us less to pay all the hosting/IP registration fees than it would cost one person to subscribe to a well known model engineering magazine. I for one get much more out of participating in MEM than out of the magazine. Jo MEM is pretty unique in that respect. But my point elswhere all these forums need to be self contained and capable of hosting all their own content. Which means the forum owners would need to cough up for storage and hope they get the money back from, say, advertising. I also agree its more cost effective to do that rather than expect all the contributors to sperately pay for the storage of the photos, which also puts the long term retention of the content at risk. This forum in particular ran out of capacity years ago and nothing seems to have been done about it. Pete |
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jools
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Post by jools on Jul 26, 2017 22:08:22 GMT
Guys, Just back off my hols, catching up and found this thread... It occurs to suggest, if no one has already (couldn't read it all), a number of these photo hosting web sites have a clause that gives them ownership of the photos posted. Meaning I guess, once you've posted your photos there you no longer own the copyright and perhaps if you subsequently use one of YOUR photos in a publication or maybe another site it could trigger a shitstorm of litigation although I could be wrong. Stevew I would hope that would never hold up - plus I still hold all the original full size images. However, I opened a Flickr account, downloaded all my images from PB then deleted all of them from PB so they have nothing left to use. Can't see how to delete the account though. These images were then uploaded to Flickr account. Since then I have been slowly editing previous posts on other forums and replacing the image links. Fortunately there is a common numbering sequence between the PB downloads when uploaded to Flickr which makes it easier if a long winded process. |
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oldnorton
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5" gauge LMS enthusiast
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Post by oldnorton on Aug 2, 2017 14:19:17 GMT
Has anyone tried dropbox and does it support 3rd party hosting? I use it to swap family photos with others and it is good for that, but I will have to go into it to investigate 3rd party use, unless someone has already tried that.
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Post by Roger on Aug 2, 2017 15:02:00 GMT
Has anyone tried dropbox and does it support 3rd party hosting? I use it to swap family photos with others and it is good for that, but I will have to go into it to investigate 3rd party use, unless someone has already tried that. I don't think you can use it like that, I can't see a way to do it. |
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Post by chris vine on Aug 2, 2017 15:31:24 GMT
here is a link to a picture in my dropbox folder Does it work??  modified re below comments. Well done John Baggo!!! Chris. |
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oldnorton
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5" gauge LMS enthusiast
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Post by oldnorton on Aug 2, 2017 16:27:37 GMT
Thanks for trying Chris, I tried various bits of posting here using IMG /IMG boxes but it would not work. Then I looked on the web to see what other people can do with dropbox and clearly it is not a public photo hosting site, and its owners seem to actively stop it being used as such. I have managed to replicate what John has achieved two posts further on. This image is in Dropbox.  |
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Post by chester on Aug 2, 2017 16:40:30 GMT
Hi Chris i can see picture of two book covers and can expand them to 1600%.Graham
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Post by John Baguley on Aug 2, 2017 16:56:40 GMT
 Found this by Googling - just change the dl=0 at the end of the link to raw=1. That seems to work John |
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uuu
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Post by uuu on Aug 2, 2017 17:02:24 GMT
I used to use Dropbox. But they changed the rules and made all the files in my "Public" folder private by default. And all the pictures I already had on this forum instantly stopped working. I could go through and make them public and re-link them all one-by-one, but they might just change the process again. If they had changed the method for new files, but left the old ones alone, I'd have kept with them.
Wilf
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Post by John Baguley on Aug 2, 2017 17:02:38 GMT
  Yup, that works! John |
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Post by GWR 101 on Aug 2, 2017 22:55:15 GMT
Hi John, very nice loco are you attending on Sunday?. Regards Paul
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Post by John Baguley on Aug 3, 2017 8:32:37 GMT
Hi Paul,
Yes, I'll be there and bringing the P1. It belongs to a friend of mine. It originally had the connecting rods on the third axle instead of the second for some reason. I made new rods and moved everything to the second axle as per the full size. It's very much over scale but it runs well and is very easy to drive for a 2½" gauge loco.
John
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Post by GWR 101 on Aug 4, 2017 11:08:45 GMT
Hi John, I will be there and looking forward to seeing you and the locos. Our club seems to not operate very much at this gauge so I will be looking on in awe, I struggle with 3 1/2" so you must be very proficient to operate at this scale. Please try to make contact, I was going to say that I am instantly recognisable as the old guy with grey hair and a red hat.....but that covers at least 90% of our membership. Regards Paul
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mbrown
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Post by mbrown on Aug 4, 2017 11:26:07 GMT
I'll be there with the Burma Mines loco to give it its first track test - provided it gets a boiler certificate ...
It will be good to meet other forum members so do introduce yourself!
Malcolm
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Post by John Baguley on Aug 4, 2017 17:01:01 GMT
Look forward to seeing you both I'll be the one with a limp ! John |
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stevep
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Post by stevep on Aug 5, 2017 8:33:33 GMT
I hope everyone is downloading their pictures from Photobucket, and then deleting them from their site. When they see their volumes plummet, they may re-think their policies.
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Post by Roger on Aug 5, 2017 8:59:50 GMT
I hope everyone is downloading their pictures from Photobucket, and then deleting them from their site. When they see their volumes plummet, they may re-think their policies. I have a feeling that this it what they want, so they don't have that overhead. I was tempted to dump everything I've got onto their site, just to cost them more. Most of it is of no interest to anyone but ourselves. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 11:19:47 GMT
I hope everyone is downloading their pictures from Photobucket, and then deleting them from their site. When they see their volumes plummet, they may re-think their policies. I have a feeling that this it what they want, so they don't have that overhead. I was tempted to dump everything I've got onto their site, just to cost them more. Most of it is of no interest to anyone but ourselves. I agree, this is exactly what PB want and in fact need, to stay afloat....I say leave them there to cripple them more...there is the other fact that if I deleted my PB account and it's photo's I'd have a near impossible task of finding the correct image to replace the broken images currently on my thread. At the moment I just right click to open in another tab to see the image, find it on my Imgur account and edit the post...it's slow but doesn't tax my mind too much... Pete |
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