Logical,
I was thinking about getting a new one anyways, so it is no big deal.

The pics that you guys are using for the sigs won't slow the server down at all. These pictures are from a different server (i.e. jq's Spinning Shield is http://www.jps.net/tdhowell/Spinshld.gif. So this means that your browser will fetch the image from some other server, and not the ChiefsPlanet server. So don't hesitate to use pictures in your sigs, except for JQ....


[Edited by chiefsfan58 on 02-22-2001 at 09:30 PM]

Chiefsfan58,

Thanks for setting that straight. Sorry to JQ and Raiderhader, I thought you were using placing animated gifs in your signature. By the way Chiefsfan58 how did you know they were using another reference, and second while it is playing isn't it still taking bandwidth to be retrieved from the other server?

Logical,

To find out where the picture is being retrieved from, just right click on the picture and select properties. Next to Address(URL) it shows the URL that the picture is being fetched from.

OK, and as for how it doesn't take bandwith. When you goto chiefsplanet.com, it takes bandwith to transfer all of the HTML. This is then stored in your computer's cache. The browser uses this HTML to display the tables, text, etc. on your screen. Lastly, it retrieves the images, the ones that are from the ChiefsPlanet server, such as the smilies and Chiefs Logo at the top are downloaded from the ChiefsPlanet server to your hard drive and use bandwith. The rest of the stuff that's from other servers is downloaded from those servers, so the ChiefsPlanet server isn't involoved in the transferring or viewing of these images, wheter they are animated or not.


[Edited by chiefsfan58 on 02-22-2001 at 09:53 PM]

OK,

One last question, so bandwidth is being expended just not on the Planet server. Does this explain why even though I have DSL the threads with virtually no images load instantaneously, while those with the heavy use of images seem to build right in front of my eyes, kind of like it used to be when I was using a regular modem only much faster. If so is not might statement that the BB is being slowed down (though technically incorrect) in essence the result to we the end user?

Images take up a lot more space that text, so naturally they are going to take a lot more time to load. But another reason why it takes longer even though you have DSL could be because the server you are getting the image from is either very busy, or on some slow free server like Geocities, or Homestead.

You could say that the BB is taking longer to fully load (becasue of the other pics), but the server is operating like it always has been. So if we load the BB with tons of pictures on each post, the text and all the other ChiefsPlanet pics will load normally, but the page will take longer to fully load on your computer because the other images haven't all been downloaded from the other servers. So the ChiefsPlanet server is functioning at the same speed and uses the same bandwith, but it just takes longer for the whole page to appear on our screen. Posting, viewing tables and text, searching, etc. should all take the same amount of time. Does that answer your question?

"xoxo" is indeed "hugs & kisses."

I send a lot of notes here at work and I started adding that several years ago. Since most notes at work mean "you did something wrong" I added xoxo to show them I was not mad at them.

I got lots of odd looks at first, but now [just like the lightning bold earring and ponytail], it is simply part of the Gaz mystique. Now, if I send a note without the "xoxo" I get a call asking if I am mad or something.

The tilde ~ means absolutely nothing that I am consciously aware of. Feel free to assign whatever dark, hidden meanings you like. It would be cheaper than therapy.

xoxo~
gaz
can't think of a witty comment.

58Forever's signature always makes me smile...

xoxo~
gaz
has no regrets whatsoever.

Thanks for the props on my sigs.

I like to try and provide a little comic relief and maybe a little controversy with them.

Gaz - the tilde (~) is the mathematic symbol for an approximation. I am shocked & surprised you did not recall that! :)

HC_Chief-

True.

I should have said that it has no conscious meaning in my signature.

xoxo~
gaz
wondering what Freud would have said about the tilde.

"xoxo~" makes me think of a snake, the birds eye view of a snake allbeit a short, stubby snake. The "~" is the snakes tounge. the snake is saying "Gazzzzz"


ok, that was a wierd moment wasn't it . . .

I wish I was as creative as some people on this board, but by trade I am a nothing but a dull pencil-pusher. I can only be creative when the Financial Statement requires me to be so.

mmaddog
*****************

maddog....

You mean the [**********] of you sig is not a blocked off swear word??












wuss!

Well, if I was a snake, I would be a short, stubby one...

xoxo~
gaz
hissing in his pit [heh!].