[vox-outreach] Advertising SFD

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:56:49AM -0700, Jimbo wrote:
> 
> Fm say that it is a first come first serve basis.

Interesting.  Can someone who's dealt with the FM people (Henry?) speak
up about this?

Again, one of the reasons we always set up in the location shown on that
aerial photo map I posted was because (1) that's where they put us and (2)
that's where the power was.


> Davis sys admin states 
> that the best signal would be close to the rec room (?).

Yeah, that's way on the south end (not shown in my map).  South-west-ish of
the green shaded area.


> I am a freak about doing things early.  With wifi access I will be
> there all day long.

Well, if you (folks) really want to set up that early, go for it! :)


<snip>
> If you are reffering to the png: png is another format of image file, like 
> jpeg, gif, tiff,  that is very editable.  Png files retain all of their 
> layers and editing caracteristics (but don't quote me) when used with a 
> program built for such.

Actually, PNGs are single-layer.  I know much about them.
What confused me was why you were _unable_ to put a PNG up on your site...

  "Unfortunatly I am unable to set up a png picture on my web site"


> For some reason I cannot get png files to come up on my site.  I can't ftp 
> to my site as well.

Weird.


> Called Charter (isp provider) a few days ago...was 
> told that they were having issues with ftp (as well as some other issues).  
> I was to able in the past in which a window would come up asking my for 
> name and password.  Here is the link
> http://webpages.charter.net/evesautomotive/Untitled-1.png .  People can d/l 
> from there if so desired.
> 
> I just tested this link and it does work but be forewarned...it is an 
> extremly heavy file.  Don't access if you have dial up.  It is enormous 
> when viewed in a browser but once I load it into my graphic editing 
> program, it comes up perfect for printing on a regular sheet of paper.  
> Looks dam good on photo paper!

Cool!  Gotta run right now, but will put that on lugod.org later today.

PS - "pngcrush" can be useful if your PNGs are big. ;)

-bill!