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tassupervee That really hurts doesnt it!

1,171 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#154058
Anybody had dramas adding an avatar l8tely?
I changed mine the other day and no matter how many times I try the image URL is not accepted by the control panel. It just wont "stick" into the form.

I type it in, I cut and paste it, hit the "Edit Profile" button all to no avail.

When I return to the control panel, nothing is in the box for the avatar URL?????

Got me knackered? Never had this drama b4...

Have I been blackballed? (Muwaaaahhhh)

Anyone in power help?

L8tr
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#154060
At great personal risk, I've just deleted and renewed my avatar in my profile without any problem.

Tell me, what do *you* think your avatar's URL is? Post it here, then at least we'll know whether we're dealing with a proper, fully qualified, canonical URL.

hth
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au

tassupervee That really hurts doesnt it!

1,171 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#154069
http://www.ozsuperkart.net\images\KestrelKC3Small.jpg

The image URL is good its just that it wont "stick" into the form.

L8tr M8
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#154071
The "hints" were in my previous post. What role (if any) do you think that a backslash has in a properly-formed URL?

Try it with forward slash.

hth
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au

tassupervee That really hurts doesnt it!

1,171 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#154075
Dude
M8 How about dropping the holier than tho attitude yeah.
I needed advice/help, not the attitude fair enough?

Yes, the backslashes appeared as that url was copied out of my webauthor (FP2002) and it happend to work in a browser so i did not question it (nor even notice it).

Bty: The avatar works now so thanks for the tip.

L8tr
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#154077
Which part of "try it with forward slash" did you find unhelpful? Was it too oblique?
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#154088
Brad,
This is an OK URL, but it's an URL to a "thread" (topic) not to an image. An image URL will look like:
http://www.modulus.com.au/images/avatar.jpg
for example, which points to my avatar (note the .jpg extension, referring to a picture, could also be .gif, .jpeg or .png)

You've got to get your avatar to a place on the net where it can be referenced like mine is in the example. This might be a "free space" server or might even be here, but I'm not an admin. or moderator here, so I can't offer you any space to host it.

If you have somewhere you can place it and then reference it, you should be able to put the resulting reference into the address bar of yr. browser and it should show yr. avatar (you can test that with mine, above). Unfortunately some browsers will work even with invalid characters such as backslashes ('\') rather than forward slashes ('/"), but this is still worth testing.

All onliqueness has been deliberately removed from this post and, on review, I might have been a bit severe with tassuperveee, who is, of course, one of the forum's gentlemen.

hth
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#154094
As additional atonement for my sins of excess obliquity and holiness, you can set up your avatar by using the URL

http://www.aussiekombicampers.com/images/65busser.jpg

This is temporary, and will cease to work at some future date, by which time you should have found another hosting spot.

hth
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au

twoguns simply aircooled

4,275 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#154096
65busser, i dont think you can host your avatar on this forum anymore. i htink it has to be hosted elsewhere.
Simply Cruzin'...

65busser Moderator Custom Title Time!

1,795 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#154103
Modulus, you are a legend. Thanks mate.

Is obliquity a word?

www.busnbug.com

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#154105
obliquity (o-blîk´wî-tê, e-blîk´-) noun
plural obliquities
1. The quality or condition of being oblique.
2. a. A deviation from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position, or direction. b. The angle or extent of such a deviation.
3. a. A mental deviation or aberration. b. Immoral conduct.
4. a. Obscurity in conduct or verbal expression: "It may be that the candor of contemporary literature creates a nostalgia for indirection, obliquity and deferral" (Anatole Broyard). b. An obscure statement.
- obliq´uitous adjective

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.


I think I am guilty of all preceding variations (but rarely on the same day).
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au

vanderaj Administrator a suffusion of yellow

3,130 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#154119
For the time being, avatars are difficult to arrange here. Most ISP accounts have some web space attached - please look into using that for the time being.

Andrew

tassupervee That really hurts doesnt it!

1,171 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#154183
Sir Modulus, my good man
I seriously doubt that you can maintain a dignified manner and straight face behind that screen whilst referring to me as a forum "gentleman".....however, I shall take whatever sunshine that comes my way without question, graciously!

I therefore retract my acidic toned rebuke and replace it with a concilliatory tone.

Are we good now???!!!!!

L8tr
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....

65busser Moderator Custom Title Time!

1,795 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#154273
Ok how 'bout "onliqueness"? "All onliqueness has been deliberately removed from this post"
And where did you put it when you removed it?

www.busnbug.com

modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#154282
A Google search for "onliqueness" returns "Did you mean: obliqueness ?", to which the answer is, well, yes, I did....
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au