BOFH Cam

LooseChanj · Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 1537

I'm amazed I had the presence of mind to grab this, since the cam refreshes every 5 seconds.

http://www.geocities.com/loosechanj/Funny/bofhcam.jpg

Kevin1 · Joined: Dec 04, 2002 Posts: 259

"This page is not available. "

Noooo!

Maybe it's just me, can anyone else access it?

J C · Joined: Dec 04, 2002 Posts: 371

Its not just you Kevin, I can't get to it either.

willij · Joined: Dec 04, 2002 Posts: 177

I got it to work for me.

lockergnome · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 1:11 am Post subject:

I'm becoming less and less impressed with Geocities with every passing day. And I didn't like it all that much three years ago. Neat tools, poor service.

MinnieTaur · Joined: Dec 07, 2002 Posts: 6

If you copy and paste it into your browser it will work.

mark1 · Joined: Dec 07, 2002 Posts: 57

The link werked fer me... Ewwww!!!

-M-

Dirt · Joined: Dec 05, 2002 Posts: 13

Is this one of those image hosting issues.?? Where you can change the extension of the jpg file to .html so that it won't be blocked yet still be viewable?

sugarprincess · Joined: Dec 05, 2002 Posts: 650

I was going to say it was an image hosting issue...although I've never heard of (or tried) the switching to html thing--might me worth a try. But that was one of the main reasons I finally dropped geocities and got my own domain. Now I can link anything! Smile

Maxwell · Joined: Dec 08, 2002 Posts: 81

Geocities blocks "hotlinking" of images by checking what site you were previously on when you clicked the link. This way you can't use images hosted on their servers, unless you are using their servers. Not an all that bad policy from a webhost's point of view, especially a free host. But it is irratating to the users.

To get around it, just copy and past the URL, like MinnieTaur said.

Maxwell

Kevin1 · Joined: Dec 04, 2002 Posts: 259

Ah, I was wondering what the hotlinking thing was in my server control panel.

LooseChanj · Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 1537

Be gentle, heh?

http://67.8.244.66:999/~ogw/pix/bofhcam.jpg

deuce868 · Joined: Dec 05, 2002 Posts: 1225

umm...yea, one of those things you don't let get out to the public.

spike · Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 99

SQFreak · Joined: Dec 08, 2002 Posts: 35

Whatever you do, don't use One2Host (http://www.one2host.com). In a week, I've had 14 hours of downtime - that I've noticed. Even for a site like mine that gets 2 hits a day on a good day, that's unacceptable.

greykey · Joined: Dec 05, 2002 Posts: 10

You can get around a lot of these things with the Proxomitron. It's freeware get it here.
It is a local proxy that screens and makes corrections to web pages before they hit your browser. One advantage is that it's a dandy pop-up killer and it also handles the referrer tags that will stop you from viewing "deep linked" images on websites.

BTW, that's a pretty gross pic, Dude.

admiraljustin · Joined: Dec 05, 2002 Posts: 1349

Heh, proxomitron can even get around the pop-up blocker detectors Very Happy

*is a long time user of proxomitron*

Spazoid · Joined: Dec 19, 2002 Posts: 51

I could have done without seeing you picking your nose..... Surprised

LooseChanj · Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 1537

Rock_Slatestone · Joined: Dec 08, 2002 Posts: 104

Just remember that you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose...but you can't pick your friends nose.