On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jonas Rand joeyyuan@cox.net wrote:
On Mon, 5 May 2008 13:34:58, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Jonas Rand joeyyuan@cox.net wrote:
Sometimes, the background of Wikipedia is grey, and sometimes it is white (see http://jonasrand.110mb.com/images/Greywiki-screenshot.PNG and http://jonasrand.110mb.com/images/Whitewiki-screenshot.PNG). This is both on Simple English Wikipedia (shown) and the regilar English Wikipedia. Can someone explain this phenomenon?
These links are dead.
-- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
The links were dead and refirected to the 404 page right after I uploaded them last night, but now they seem fine. It's odd that you seem to be the only one who doesn't see the images, it might just be your connection.
Actually the solution of pasting the links instead of clicking them did the trick. I assume many of you are not using a webmail service, so when you click the links your email program requests that your browser open the URL, in which case there is no sensible referrer for the browser to send. So apparently the site doesn't like hotlinking of images.
(And, FWIW, there is absolutely nothing about my actual connection that would cause a server to return a 302 status to me and 200 to others, unless they are doing IP-based blocking. Or if we had a caching proxy server and someone else at my university subscribes to this list too and tried to click them before they worked. Anyway, I'm rambling -- I'm just anal about technical stuff and when someone claims something very improbable like this I feel the need to point it out.
BTW I just finished watching an episode of Big Bang Theory... is it sad that right now I'm reminding myself of those guys?)