Starship Asterisk*

Im really confued by this and don't know how to do it.

Hi, bry intructive

Hmm,

I am reading this question and the answer. But when I select reply, I don't see an Upload Attachment link or tab next to Options. So I guess I will continue to read the manual - which seems to be a collection of emails. Pressing on. This is becoming quite the learning adventure.

Terry - W6LMJ

OLT wrote:Hmm,

I am reading this question and the answer. But when I select reply, I don't see an Upload Attachment link or tab next to Options. So I guess I will continue to read the manual - which seems to be a collection of emails. Pressing on. This is becoming quite the learning adventure.

I think the ability to upload images may be limited for new members. It gives the moderators a chance to weed out spammers.

Yup.

Terry, you seem to have managed to read about everything except this, which is what you were looking for.
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=22034

Ah, yes, this part:

To post an image that is already online:
Please click the "Post Reply" button that appears at the top or bottom of the thread. (The "Quick Reply" screen is not as friendly for posting images.)
Use the img, img2, or img3 tag. (I usually use the img2 tag.)
Click the image tag you want; that will make the tags appear in the reply window.
Put your cursor between the tags, and insert the URL of your image -- this should be the URL of just the image itself. Please test the link you want to use by putting it in the address bar of your browser. If you get MORE THAN the image in the browser window -- if you get an entire web page -- you don't have the URL to the image file and putting the URL you have between the img tags will NOT work.
Click "Submit." Woo-hoo! You're done!

However, with your help I was able to succeed.

Thanks again.

Terry - W6LMJ

Use the img, img2, or img3 tag. (I usually use the img2 tag.)

Why are there three "img" codes? What determines the best one to use?

Bruce

The img tag presents the image inline but doesn't allow for clicking on it to see the image at a larger size, as img2 does. img3 allows for use of a caption under the image and for seeing the image at its true size. All three img tags constrain the view of the image to 400px across, this a setting of our forum software.

Use of img tag:


Use of img2 tag: Use of img3 tag: Image from http://www.cutebunnypictures.com/pictur ... is_sad.htm

Thank you very much Owlice, and that was a wonderfully illustrated example. I promise to use these powers with great discretion.

That reminds me, (warning, completely unnecessary, off topic, totally irrelevant, trivial personal anecdotal verbiage to follow) in my childhood the pet progression wasn’t Kittens Puppies Bunnies, it was Kittens Bunnies Puppies Guppies.

Insane demand for non-secrete entrance code alteration by miss-understood weirdo newcomer punctuated with pointless exclamation points.

Profuse apologies for misplaced meta-speak.

Bruce

There's a pet progression?? My childhood experience featured pet expansion; we had dogs (never more than one at a time except when my dog had 9 puppies), cats (almost always more than one, with a bonus round of simultaneous litters that boosted the cat population to 13), guppies, neon tetras, seahorses, one hamster, one mouse, the occasional injured-and-nursed-back-to-health wild bird (drove the cats crazy), turtles, and salamanders. No bunnies, nor snakes. Mostly cats, though; a lot of cats.

What an animal enriched childhood!

Back to the photo posting topic, I seemed to have overstepped a rule about copyrighted photo posting in today’s APOD, which you corrected Owlice. Thanks. As you noticed that photo was one included in the Wikipedia article on Monument Valley. Obviously, I must have been wrong to assume that Wiki photos are in the public domain. What should I have done to make my use of that photo completely kosher?

Bruce

BDanielMayfield wrote:Back to the photo posting topic, I seemed to have overstepped a rule about copyrighted photo posting in today’s APOD, which you corrected Owlice. Thanks. As you noticed that photo was one included in the Wikipedia article on Monument Valley. Obviously, I must have been wrong to assume that Wiki photos are in the public domain. What should I have done to make my use of that photo completely kosher?

You can use almost all the images in Wikipedia. First, click on the image to be taken to its page. The licensing terms are listed. The image you posted is CC-BY (which is the most common). This means you can freely use the work, but if an author is listed, you should attribute him. In this case, something like "Digital photo taken by Marc Averette." The actual rules.

As a rule, you can provide a link to the original image (rather than uploading a copy) along with a link to the original page, and that satisfies most rules. That's because links are not treated as usage in most cases- the Internet is built on the concept of links not violating copyrights.

Thanks Chris.

BDanielMayfield wrote:What an animal enriched childhood!

Back to the photo posting topic, I seemed to have overstepped a rule about copyrighted photo posting in today’s APOD, which you corrected Owlice. Thanks. As you noticed that photo was one included in the Wikipedia article on Monument Valley. Obviously, I must have been wrong to assume that Wiki photos are in the public domain. What should I have done to make my use of that photo completely kosher?

Bruce

Bruce, the image was also too large for a hotlink; that's why I attached it rather than keep the hotlink. Hotlinked images should be under 400K; larger images can slow a thread down.

Always a good idea to keep the page footprint down when possible. Low bandwidth connections seem like a thing of the past but in fact people are browsing from their phones using cellular connections more than ever. They aren't as bad as the old dial-up but they sure run a lot smoother without a lot of extra stuff to load.

So... a hotlink would be when you use a url tag? ... But you would still have to down load and resize the picture to less than 400 kb before using attachment, or the computer wouldn't accept it, right?

The file size limit for uploading to Asterisk is much higher now than it used to be. The only thing I don't recommend uploading to the forum is animated GIFs. It tries to resize them and does a bad job at it.

Ok, what does much higher mean??

You, sir, do not need to post images.

Hmmm... there must be a difference between pictures (which are images) and images of space things then, because i do post pictures once in a while (which are images) but i never post any images of space things unless it's through a quote. So there must be two categories for the word image, as far as the Asterisk* is concerned.

When I say you do not need to post images, what I really mean is don't post images because you don't seem to understand it. Once you do, you can post images. Quotes are also fine for now. Small moves, Beyond. Small moves.

I must have been posting 'dumb' pictures all along, as i haven't learned a thing from them. Oh well, maybe one day I'll run across some 'smart' pictures to post.