Photo's for Audifans.com

[Theron J. Bliss]

Well, perhaps we should set up a fund (based on donations) to get the proper
servers.  Something quick enough to handle it.

"Mark L. Chang" wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Marc Swanson wrote:
>
> > One very interesting thing I've been playing with lately is to take a larger
> > image and convert it to a thumbnail on the fly with some built in PHP stuff
> > (check out imagecreatefromjpeg/gif/png/etc).  Saves the need to have 2
> > images kicking around....
>
> BTDT. The only issue is that on-the-fly is tough for a slow machine like
> the one Dan has. If there are 50 people doing browsing, it'll kill it, not
> to mention that it has to serve up web pages, do searches in the archives,
> and most of all, send the mail out to everyone.
>
> So, I've done caching with PHP, but it just gets stupid and messy
> overall. I've used a system like BLORP from the Winamp dudes, but it's
> unfinished. I'll polish it then do what I was telling Huw, which was
> integrate the gallery with the registry.
>
> Then you can browse the registry to find listers in your area, or you can
> go through the gallery and look at all the cars -- all crosslinked. Nice.
>
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