The Digital Surgery (computer questions/problems here)

[Spitfire]

Ha ha, maybe it's a digital form of กรรมสนองกรรม Richard.

[richard]

What does that mean Spitfire?

[Spitfire]

Sorry Richard, just taking the piss, doesn't help in the slightest . The nearest English translation I think is 'What goes around comes around' (gam sa nong gam, I suppose, not sure exactly of the English phonetics off the top of my head), although I'm not an expert and an "expert" may well surface and disagree.

Just a bit of fun.

[richard]

Thanks Spitfire. Guessed that

Despite the fact I have no problems with other forums and I've checked my settings thoroughly seems no one has a solution for me so I give up

[caller]

Not sure if this should be here or elsewhere? But twice in the last few days whilst moving around the forum, I got a message saying to the effect 'General Error' and then is smaller text 'sql error' and an explanatoin that the number of users exceeded the whatever (sorry missed that bit). It just happened 10 minutes ago and said the number of users was 1203. Refreshed a few minutes later and got back in.

Thought you would want to know.

[BaaBaa.]

I had that problem today.

[PeteC]

I've been getting that for the last year or so at infrequent intervals. I think Lev mentioned that the system automatically backs itself up from time to time which causes it. Pete

[Lev]

Not sure if this should be here or elsewhere? But twice in the last few days whilst moving around the forum, I got a message saying to the effect 'General Error' and then is smaller text 'sql error' and an explanatoin that the number of users exceeded the whatever (sorry missed that bit). It just happened 10 minutes ago and said the number of users was 1203. .

Yes, that is a problem with our hosting provider - it happens when too many people/bots/search engines are accessing the forum at the same time. We need to upgrade/change our host (again - we have already done this three times in the forum's history).

[richard]

For no apparent reason my response to postings problem is now solved

[Super Joe]

Jpeg file size/quality question:

If a graphic has been created on specialist software and you're given a 2000x1500 pixel jpeg file (approx. 2.4MB), and I then reduce the size to 1000x750 pixel (which works out around 590kb) using Microsoft Picture Manager, would this be exactly the same quality/sharpness as can be produced from the originating software? or would that produce a superior image?

Thanks,

SJ

[buksida]

By reducing the pixel size you reduce the physical size also so yes, you will lose some detail.

Other things to check are your export format (what you're saving the image as) - jpegs have a quality scale with 100 being the highest (also largest file size), 80 being regular and anything lower will start rapidly losing image clarity. DPI (dots per inch) also indicates quality, 300 should be used for printing and 72 for web use.

[Super Joe]

Thanks Buksi, dpi was the missing part of my puzzle I think, they're 300dpi so that's cool. Checked a lot of other jpeg files I have and they're 72 or 96dpi.

Cheers,
SJ

[hhfarang]

How do I get Google to come up in English... not the results, they are in English, but the Google options are in Thai and I don't read Thai. When I type www.google.com in the address bar it gets converted to Google.co.th automatically, I guess because of the location of my IP, and yes, I know I can go to the Google page and select English and it will redisplay, but I want it to default to English when I type the address as well as in the Google search bar in my (FireFox) browser.

[Big Boy]

I've just tried http://www.google.co.uk/ and it works. I guess you could replace the uk with us, and get similar results.

[hhfarang]

Big Boy, there is no such thing as (website).co.us.

.com is the U.S. default...