Pictures

[Dule]

Hello all,
How can i resize pics to post them here for my profile?

 

[tummynavelboy]

you'll need a Resizer program like MS Paint or Paint shop pro i would assume. Nessonite should be able to you more out though Dule

Good Luck

 

[Kalamos]

It's quite easy if you have the right tools.
We've already answered to this one - so you might want to search the threads to find it - but it's really a matter of minutes. 🙂

First of all you need a graphic program. Mspaint is a bit too streamlined to do avatars properly.

Jasc's PaintShop Pro is my prog of choice. And you could get a trial version from www.jasc.com .

Once you have it, installed and properly configured - just follow the built-in help - making a selection over your chosen pic and cropping it down to size is really simple.

Use the selection tool and draw a rectangular area around the area you desire - and crop it.

Then, from menu, select Resize, and type in the pixel measures. If your pic is still too large, use Resize Canvas to get just the needed size.

Now save as gif or jpg - and use the Compression Wizard to reduce size under 2k.


Easy, funny, tax deducible. 🙂
Reg's.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

A good program to use if you don't want to spend money is Imageforge, a free image editor available here: http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imw_d.html

Or, if you have Windows (I believe XP is the only one that has this,), right click on the image you want to resize, go to "Open With," and choose Microsoft Photo Editor. It is a very easy program to use, especially for resizing.

 

[Dule]

Thanks

A good program to use if you don't want to spend money is Imageforge, a free image editor available here: http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imw_d.html

Or, if you have Windows (I believe XP is the only one that has this,), right click on the image you want to resize, go to "Open With," and choose Microsoft Photo Editor. It is a very easy program to use, especially for resizing.

Thanks for all the help everyone. I hope i can do it and if so you'll get to see my pic here.

 

[Faramir]

A good program to use if you don't want to spend money is Imageforge, a free image editor available here: http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imw_d.html

Or, if you have Windows (I believe XP is the only one that has this,), right click on the image you want to resize, go to "Open With," and choose Microsoft Photo Editor. It is a very easy program to use, especially for resizing.

Thanks for this little tip HDS...I have XP Pro, and didn't know I could do that (of course I'm not the most brilliant of computer users either). I'm sure this OS has ton's of things in it that I don't know about. I'll give your suggestion a go and see what happens...(I'll be sure to make duplicates of the pic's before I try it, just to be on the safe side ya know...LOL..!!).

Now can anyone help me out with re-enabling a hard drive...??

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Re-enabling? What exactly do you mean? What wrong with the drive exactly?

 

[Faramir]

Re-enabling? What exactly do you mean? What wrong with the drive exactly?

This may take awhile...the original HD that came with my PC is a Seagate 36Gb, 10,000rpm SCSI drive. I thought that something had gotten into it (in hindsight, my Norton WinDr would have probably fixed the registry prob). I had another HD that I had purchased on sale earlier last year, a Seagate 80Gb, 7200rpm IDE/ATA drive, and had been wanting to install it in my PC as a second (slave) HD. It was suggested to me that I should make the 80Gb drive the "system drive", with all the system files (OS, etc.) on it, and make the 36Gb drive the slave, as it would be better for all my Multi-Media apps, files, and programs, because it is a faster drive. Made sense to me...so, what I did was unplug the 36Gb drive, removed it's controller card from it's slot, then installed the 80GB drive, plugged it in, powered up my system, and installed everything as if it were a brand new install. Everything went fine, and is still working great.

The problem I have now is, I've got over 2000 mp3's on that 36Gb drive, not to mention tons of jpg's and and very many mpeg's. I want to hook that drive back up as a "slave" drive, but it also has all the system files on it. Which leads me to ask...what will happen when I fire up my system and it see's all those duplicate system files and other programs that I have on it, that are also on the new 80Gb drive..?

Does this clear things up..? Or do you have more questions.?

Forgot to add, even though they are different types of drives, it has been confirmed to me by the PC's manufacturer that they CAN co-exist on the same system with each other.

 

[cosquillero1]

If you have files duplicated on your small disk (36 GB), then simplely delete them from this. If you don't erase files on your main disk (80 GB), you can to delete them from small HD. There isn't any trouble with it.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Ah, so you have a Serial ATA RAID it appears. Well, if you can hook it up to another computer and delete the files, that would be easiest HOWEVER, since your computer is pointed to the 80 GB hard drive when booting up, it will ignore the duplicates and only use the ones from the 80 GB drive. With almost 95% certainty, I can say that having the other files on your old drive will not matter UNLESS you switch the boot device in system setup. But, since you are making it a slave, it will not boot from it. You will and SHOULD delete the redundant files once you start it up and get the OS running, but for the boot up itself, the computer should be fine.

 

[Faramir]

Ah, so you have a Serial ATA RAID it appears. Well, if you can hook it up to another computer and delete the files, that would be easiest HOWEVER, since your computer is pointed to the 80 GB hard drive when booting up, it will ignore the duplicates and only use the ones from the 80 GB drive. With almost 95% certainty, I can say that having the other files on your old drive will not matter UNLESS you switch the boot device in system setup. But, since you are making it a slave, it will not boot from it. You will and SHOULD delete the redundant files once you start it up and get the OS running, but for the boot up itself, the computer should be fine.

Thank you for replying HDS...I sort of figured that would be the case. I imagine I will have to put a 'jumper' in the 36 to make it a slave? I also thought of first disabling the 80, plugging the 36 back in as it was, powering back up, and un-installing all the duplicate prog's, then go back...because, ...won't the 'add/remove programs' utility in my control panel read both drives, and un-install the prog's from both drives? Only prob with this is, now I forgot where that little wire on the SCSI controller card gets plugged into...!! Oops..!!

 

[His Divine Shadow]

lol, server scares. After reading that, I concur, disable the 80 and plug in the 36. While it may boot up normally with both in, I'm honestly not sure what the Add/Remove Programs will show. 😛 As to the wire plug in....I am not sure, as I have not seen your system and drives. Hopefully, only one socket will fit. As to the jumper, probably, but it depends on your system configs. In other words, check 'da manual. Hopefully there is a good diagram within it.

 

[Kalamos]

Well, add/remove should be registry dependant...

So, as long as you boot from a boot disk or a clean install, no system files on the slave disk should give you problem.

UNLESS you have something in your present registry pointing to files on the same partition the slave would now occupy.

Of course you could boot from a partition-manager disk. Such as MaxBlast for maxtor hds. You could just plug in both hds as primary and secondary masters [not sure on this: don't know scsi tech at all] and then copy the secondary partition over an empty primary partition.

If you just installed your OS you should have space to spare.
Then you could just unplug the old hd, boot from the new, clean up the copied partition deleting [or simply renaming] redundant or old system files, plug in the old hd once again [ok, bothersome but just to be sure...] and copy back your media files to the formatted hd.

I have four hds I juggle around when I need to fix or test things out.

An older 20 gigs is my boot and game disk - 1 small fat 16 partition and one large 32.
An 80 gigs makes up my OS and media disk [I have boot files and OS on different HDs so I can boot up even in case of OS failure]

And I have a backup 20 gigs in case I mess up my win partition on the 80 gigs.

I know its sounds messy, but I used to have many more, and it's really useful. Especially when you run scandisk or defrag and you have to do it on one 20 gigs partition instead of a whole 80 gigs hd...


Reg's!

 

[Dule]

I finally got it to work, thanks everyone...
p.s. these are my wife's toes..

 

[Kalamos]

Bright Pink!!! 😎 😎 😎

 

[Faramir]

I finally got it to work, thanks everyone...
p.s. these are my wife's toes..

okay...now where did I put my magnifying spectacles...!!

 

[Faramir]

Well, add/remove should be registry dependant...

So, as long as you boot from a boot disk or a clean install, no system files on the slave disk should give you problem.

UNLESS you have something in your present registry pointing to files on the same partition the slave would now occupy.

Of course you could boot from a partition-manager disk. Such as MaxBlast for maxtor hds. You could just plug in both hds as primary and secondary masters [not sure on this: don't know scsi tech at all] and then copy the secondary partition over an empty primary partition.

If you just installed your OS you should have space to spare.
Then you could just unplug the old hd, boot from the new, clean up the copied partition deleting [or simply renaming] redundant or old system files, plug in the old hd once again [ok, bothersome but just to be sure...] and copy back your media files to the formatted hd.

I have four hds I juggle around when I need to fix or test things out.

An older 20 gigs is my boot and game disk - 1 small fat 16 partition and one large 32.
An 80 gigs makes up my OS and media disk [I have boot files and OS on different HDs so I can boot up even in case of OS failure]

And I have a backup 20 gigs in case I mess up my win partition on the 80 gigs.

I know its sounds messy, but I used to have many more, and it's really useful. Especially when you run scandisk or defrag and you have to do it on one 20 gigs partition instead of a whole 80 gigs hd...


Reg's!

OMG....this IS scary...!! but thanks all the same...!!

 

[Faramir]

lol, server scares. After reading that, I concur, disable the 80 and plug in the 36. While it may boot up normally with both in, I'm honestly not sure what the Add/Remove Programs will show. 😛 As to the wire plug in....I am not sure, as I have not seen your system and drives. Hopefully, only one socket will fit. As to the jumper, probably, but it depends on your system configs. In other words, check 'da manual. Hopefully there is a good diagram within it.

server scares...??

all I can do is give it a go 'n see what happens...aye? I'm not scared...am I..??

"check 'da manual" translation = ...RTMF (Read The Fucking Manual)...LOL..!! Right...I read you loud and clear on that...!!

😀 :grind_tee :nerd:

 

[Kalamos]

-> Storm Cat

Well... it's not all that scary. I've had to recover large chunks of lost data. Having multiple hds helped.

A bit complex, that's true. But redundant system files shouldn't give you problems, as long as your boot partition has been properly set up.

The two hds swap trick is just a measure in case you feel something in the older OS might "leak" into your newer install.


Reg's!

 

[His Divine Shadow]

lol, I didn't mean the manual bit like that. I've just noticed that most people don't even consider the manual when a problem comes up.

 

[Faramir]

A Whole New Prob; ? for HDS and Kalamos

Now I have a whole new problem I think:

Why would my MP3's sound static-y, but not Internet radio. Would that indicate a prob with my sound card, or a corruption in my hard drive?

The problem started: a few weeks ago after I had to change out my CD burner for a new one. After I put the new one in, I vacuumed out my WS. After I powered back up, I noticed that system speed was greatly diminished, and no matter what I did (warmboot, coldboot, etc.), nothing changed that. Later that night, I noticed that the screw driver I used to change out the burner was sitting right next to, and touching the metal case of the WS...and the screw driver had a magnetized tip on it. Although the WS was powered down for the night because I was going out for the rest of the evening, I immediately moved the screw driver away from the WS. Later that night when I came back home and powered the WS back up, everything was back to normal, except now my MP3's sound like crap, and I can't figure out why.

Did that damn screw driver f**k up my system?

 

[His Divine Shadow]

That is truely bizzare. Yes, it is possible the magnetism of the screw driver messed with the hard drive, being a magnetic storage device, but if it did, why only affect the MP3s? Why not other files? This perplexes me....

 

[Kalamos]

About mp3s, it could be a re-registering of mp3 files under the wrong codec.
Playing them through medial player returns a lot of statics.

I know it doesn't make sense - yet installing a new cd-burner might have screwed proper file associations.

Trying to manually play them on different player might work. If they sound awful under winamp, try playing them with kjofol or similar prog.


Reg's.

 

[DarthHardon]

That is truely bizzare. Yes, it is possible the magnetism of the screw driver messed with the hard drive, being a magnetic storage device, but if it did, why only affect the MP3s? Why not other files? This perplexes me....

Perplexed...?? Yes...to say the least...!! ...would do that to me as well...!!

now listening to: Pantera - 'Cowboys From Hell' ... and ...'Vulgar Dislay...

 

[Faramir]

aaaaaggghhhhhhh.....!!!

The only other item I could add, would be to say that...THIS DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\My Documents\My Pictures

...and ask...?:

How the hell did the 'Start Menu' get into THIS path...?? That's not supposed to be in there...is it..??