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Author Topic: John P's CRAP-Coded Photo Jim Leko Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Redondo Beach, CA, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 09-23-2003 04:36 PM                     quote: As far as GIF goes, it is capable of 256 colors simultaneously. What is there now looks like no more than 16. GIF is also lossless, so I don't see how saving it over and over again would decrease the colors. I swear it looked better yesterday. If it looks like 16 colors, there must be something wrong with your display. It looks like 256 to me, as 16 would make John's face unrecognizable. CAP code looks very realistic.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-23-2003 05:33 PM                        Everyone else's pictures (even John Hawkinson's GIF picture and Bob Maar's GIF picture, as well as every other GIF I've come across on the internet) look fine. Not sure how something would be wrong with my display and only John's picture all of a sudden. Here's what it looks like for me: That is definitely NOT 256 colors. Film-Tech is running horrible for me lately. We're talking 10 minutes to load a single page. Every other site on the planet seems to go super fast. I have to agree with Scott that the site has had many more problems since the switch from UNIX to Windows. Maybe this is a result of FT's X-Treme slowness. But then again why ONLY this GIF? Is there something special about it?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-23-2003 07:39 PM                  Damn Joe, that really sux... you need to get a better computer, a better monitor, oh...and a better life! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-23-2003 07:53 PM                     It's just you Joe. I know how you hate Windows, but UNIX vs. Windows is not the issue with the speed or John's picture. Besides we are not switching back to UNIX, so complaining will produce no positive results. All you computer geeks out there, don't reply. Really, I don't want to hear the ridiculous babble about why the UNIX operating system is so superior and why you like VI.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-23-2003 07:59 PM                        vi? Real men use ed! ed is the standard text editor!  |  IP: Logged Jim Leko Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Redondo Beach, CA, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 09-24-2003 03:31 AM                     I learned a (very) little of UNIX in a class that I took. We had some old version of SCO, and when I tried the VI editor, I was shocked. How anybody could prefer VI to the latest version of Word is beyond me (and I know people who swear by it). Whatever you are using now Brad seems to be working fine. I never have trouble with this site. I am still waiting for my member pic to get integrated though.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-24-2003 11:14 AM                        Windows Rocks! - Dave Stambaugh, MCSE/MCP  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-24-2003 12:19 PM                        Windows Blows! - Daryl C. W. O'Shea, MCSE/MCSA/MCP  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-24-2003 03:13 PM                        Oops, typo, that's actually what I meant to say too.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-24-2003 03:19 PM                        I thought so. Novell Rocks!  |  IP: Logged Matt Hale Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Vancouver, Canada Registered: Dec 2002 posted 09-24-2003 05:08 PM                        If your monitor is set to 256 colours and those don't happen to be the same 256 colours as the gif uses then you will get something that looks like that. Set your monitor to Thousands or Millions if its not already, then re-launch your browser and it should map the colour palette correctly. Some browsers will not loop animated gifs indefinitely, only a fixed number of times, so that may account for some not seeing the cap code in John's picture. I see it. Looks about right to me.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-24-2003 05:13 PM                        My monitor is set to millions of colors. It turns out to be IE on the Mac. Any other browser, Mac or PC, seems to render the GIF fine. I don't know why this particular GIF doesn't agree with Mac IE, all the others do. Bizarre. Unfortunately IE is the best browser (though still not great) in Mac OS 9.2, which is primarily what I use until OS X gets its act together.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-24-2003 05:35 PM                     I used Image Ready 3.0 to make all of the animated gifs for John, Steve and Bob all on the same computer. I don't know why this one would turn out any different.  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-24-2003 08:41 PM                     I have been seeing those damn aggrevating dots on the last 3 movies I have screened. I have not heard of any complaints from patrons as of yet, but I bet there coming. William T. Parr MCSE\MCP+I  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-24-2003 10:30 PM                     Adam's responsible for this mess. I get it now. Manny Knowles, CCP/LB  |  IP: Logged

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