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Polverone
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Sciencemadness file hosting
(This thread originally appeared under the title "new sciencemadness feature" in 2003. It has been updated and made sticky in April 2005 to
reflect current changes.)
Sometimes you may have pictures or other modestly sized files you wish to share with the world but you don't want or need a full-blown hosting
service. Free services like Geocities are a pain to use since you can't link to the images from another site.
So, as a service to sciencemadness users, I have set up a special FTP account. FTP to sciencemadness.org with username scipics, password scipics, and
you will be able to upload images into a 'scipics' directory that is linkable on sciencemadness.org and elsewhere.
Example: (http://www.sciencemadness.org/scipics/test.jpg)
You may upload pictures, PGP keys, or other files of a sciencemadness-related nature. There is currently a maximum quota of 100 MB for the whole
directory; it will be expanded if necessary. Please do not host images for your own website in this directory. I will periodically check up to make
sure that it is not abused. If it is abused too heavily, it will have to be changed to a more private system.
I would appreciate it if users would upload files to this directory rather than using the board's attachments feature, since the attachments can
be more awkward to view and don't play nice with my automatic archival script.
Enjoy!
[Edited on 5-8-2005 by Polverone]
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Eliteforum
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I was going to do something like this on my PC. I've already installed Apache webserver, and am hosting an image on it already. If it becomes
abused, perhaps I could step in..?
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DeusExMachina
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THANK YOU! so now I can host a picture that I need to be hosted? I've been looking for a proper host for months now.
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Organikum
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Wow!
Fast!
Thanks Polverone.
I am sure this will help a lot for more comprehensive and understandable posts.
You might consider to add .mol and .pdb extensions for funny 3d molecules, will ya?  (and they are the most space saving at all....) The .bmp format may be skipped after my opinion - just a waste of bandwidth and space.
ORG
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Polverone
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changes made
It now accepts .pdb and .mol.
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vulture
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Maybe a good idea to upload PGP keys too?
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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Blind Angel
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hmmm, sorry for my ignorance but what are PGP key used for?
/}/_//|//) /-\\/|//¬/=/_
My PGP Key Fingerprint: D4EA A609 55E4 7ADD 8529 359D D6E2 33F6 4C76 78ED |
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Polverone
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More importantly, do they end with any particular file extension?
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vulture
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.asc is the extension for PGP keys normally.
Although I think you can rename them to .txt
PGP keys are used to send encrypted messages between people. You encode your message with the public key of the reciever and the reciever decodes your
message with his private key.
[Edited on 17-9-2003 by vulture]
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Polverone
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added
Yes, I did take my own sweet time remembering. Files with .asc extensions are now accepted.
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vulture
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Maybe it wasn't such a good idea of me after all. Why? Because there's a public server and more important, everybody on this forum has acces
to the webspace.
This means users could tamper with eachothers keys, making it a security vulnerability.
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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raistlin
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Not really vulture... all one has to do to verify if the key is genuine is to check the persons key fingerprint.
\"To ignite, or not to ignite, that is the question.\"
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vulture
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True, but assume someone hacked his way into my account. They could change the fingerprint and replace the key, whereas you need to original key to
change it on the international keyserver.
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Polverone
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drat
Vulture, please meet me in the conference room. We need to pick a new security officer  .
.asc files are again disallowed.
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vulture
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Check my new user title...
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He's a cop, get him guy!
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Eh?
[Edited on 23-9-2003 by vulture]
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My PGP Key Fingerprint: D4EA A609 55E4 7ADD 8529 359D D6E2 33F6 4C76 78ED |
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I remember when I made that pic. I think it was with Lightwave, however mine didn't have the guy behind the building 
What if, what is isn\'t true?
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Organikum
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I re-upped the missing pictures in the benzene thread and for the coppercondensor. If other pictures of mine are missing please tell (WITH LINK!) and
I will fix it ASAP.
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Image Problems?
I added a message with a new image to this thread:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=3717
I can see the file I uploaded in the ftp directory, but the image is showing up as an X. I noticed the previous images in the thread are also not
showing up, although I can still see them in the FTP directory. I thought maybe this was a temporary glitch or a problem with my PC but the problem
has existed for two days and I also tried another PC and have the same problem from there.
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Organikum
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You have a double backslash before the pictures name:
//AgBrPhot.jpg
right is:
/AgBrPhot.jpg
The picture in the first post of the thread, FerricPrints.jpg, is not on the server at all.
[Edited on 10-5-2005 by Organikum]
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chemoleo
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No problem
I just fixed it, you tried some slightly wrong version - you have to use the http:// in front, lowercase [img] (knowing that uppercase [B][/B]
doesn't work), and one slash / instead of two as a directory separator
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Thanks
Thanks. I just re-uploaded the older two pics as well, and they now show up again.
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I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've tried a few different ftp programs, and each one looks like it is working well but stops
right at the list command, and gives error the directory cannot be listed. I was trying to upload a couple pics for a post I haven't made yet.
Any ideas?
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Polverone
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IrC, I experienced the same problem when trying to connect from my campus network. No matter what program I used, simply attempting to list files or
download anything would fail and disconnect me. I have no problems from my home DSL connection though. I haven't been able to figure it out.
PGP Key and corresponding e-mail address
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IrC
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I am on my 1.5 m/s DSL also, and have no firewalls, antivirus or any other form of software running on it. I always keep a machine for online use only
that they can destroy for all I care, with CD's I can have it formatted and back up in under 2 hours. Funny as it sounds I have not even had a
single virus in the last 7 years on it. In any case there is nothing software related that would keep it from listing that I know of.
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