Post your deskthority header images here

[webwit]

Getting an image from AJAX would only take a few lines of JavaScript and a few lines of PHP/Perl.

It's a bit more complicated. We don't want to DDoS ourselves. Images rotate at the top of each hour without page refresh. If you have the forum spy open for 10 hours, and 4 other tabs with dt, they will show the same image. Everyone will see the same image. I don't want to sent an ajax request and receive the new image as data, because it won't be properly cached. Also it will request the next image at the top of the hour for each visitor, not at random times. Well, not exactly, the requests for the next image are spread out a few minutes before the top of the hour when it rotates. If I add a separate data request to find out what the next image will be, I double the number of requests in the minutes before the top of the hour, one for data, one for the image itself. If I increase those "few minutes", many useless requests will be sent, because people will go to a new page in the meantime. It currently uses a very simple implementation to prevent all that, by sending the entire sequence to the browser at page load. This is just a bunch of numbers of corresponding images (5 7 14 12 9 etc) and to make an image appear more often, it is simply added multiple times to the list. It is not random. Because the list is not equal to a day (and with the right number of images so it shifts nicely), it has the illusion of randomness.

[webwit]

no rotation. one per day.

no header images. come back, one year.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

This is just a bunch of numbers of corresponding images (5 7 14 12 9) and to make an image appear more often, it is simply added multiple times to the list. It is not random.

So, if I understand this correctly, the number of images is reduced just to keep the list of numbers down in size?

This will be dashboard_schedule then? It's not exactly a long list …

You could expand that list significantly into the space wasted by things like repetitions of 'style="background-image: url(http://deskthority.net/styles/deskthori ... m_read.gif);"' (that's both inline CSS that should be in a stylesheet, and pointless use of an absolute URL), commented-out code etc. Also, the "Resize too large images" script is inline instead of its own script where it could be cached (though maybe it's proven faster to inline small amounts of JS over running a conditional GET each time?)

Kind of makes one wonder just how terrible a few more digits really is, honestly.

[webwit]

Also because old images get boring. There are now 36 in rotation so I added "etc" to my example (36 is a bad number btw, because if you're online at certain fixed times you won't see them all). So if you find it repetitive, you're online too much

But seriously, we have a larger history of background images now, and in general there's a lot which can be improved about the software. Pay me.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

While figuring out the code I was verifying that the numbers really did point to valid images. I noticed one image that I didn't recall seeing for ages, and having looked at your headers.php there's a load that never show up for me.

It looks like you've designed it such that I'll only see the images that are in use during the specific times of day I look at the forum, so those narrow bands of the day result in the same images being shown.

I'm not sure (I've not tried to figure it out), but I know that I see my Matias one a lot, and I've not seen the space invaders one for weeks, same goes for that red PCB one (not sure when I last saw that — six months ago?). The rotation seems to only offer me a small subset, so it's far more repetitive than the amount of images imply that it should be.

It might be my imagination though.

[QWERTim]

Not sure if this has been submitted before, but here is one of the photos we took of the key caps we did for you guys:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sw80ivc6qhjri ... er%203.jpg

[Muirium]

Nice, but doesn't look the right size…

Crop to 980 x 190 and try again. Also boost the levels, it's a bit muddy.

Let's see…

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The top cap is in the best focus, but it's too tightly cropped.

[QWERTim]

I'll see if I can find the original!

EDIT:

How's this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yp11xti8dmmcanh/IMG_4373.JPG

Can you work with that?

[Muirium]

That's more like it. Here's some levels…

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[QWERTim]

Thanks mate, think I like the middle one the most, not as much noise as the last, but can get the corner of the key cap in.

[damorgue]

Where is this from:


It looks like it could be a Cherry board ending with 'SAN'. I just want to confirm its existence

[JBert]

It looks like Broadmonkey posted that one. You could try sending him a PM I guess, though it'd be nicer if it were posted here as well.

[Broadmonkey]

Yeah, I posted it,. It's from my Amiga 2000/G80-0924
They are double shot key caps, mine is yellowed a bit but not by that much.

Very bad lighting!

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[Daniel Beardsmore]

That lighting could be a lot worse!

[damorgue]

Ok, I thought they looked dyesubbed and got my hopes up. I have never even seen a picture of a Norwegian or any Nordic Cherry made dyesubbed cap.

[Broadmonkey]

It's hard to get good lighting in Scandinavia in November. I had to take it on my parents roof to find the best lighting on a more or less neutral background.
I color corrected them some time ago but that was on my old monitor, now that I have a new one I don't know if I did more good than bad!

The small amount of yellowing on the key caps should give them away as ABS double shot
I have yet to see a nordic dye sub keyset, which is a bit annoying since BSP Europe is a Danish company

[kint]

I can spot the red "A" so the lighting can't be that bad... Really nice keyboard...

[Broadmonkey]

Red A?

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[kint]

Red A?

yes. Makes me:

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[Daniel Beardsmore]

Red A?

Amiga.jpg

Almost thumbs up, but back in my day, it were black A and hollow A. Apparently — I did have to look that up, as I didn't remember it being red. I've not used an Amiga 500 in years. Wonderful machine, though.

[tinnie]

Red A?

yes. Makes me:

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[phosphorglow]

DinoRAWWWR!

[Muirium]

Yes!

[scottc]

Perfect, I love it!

Off-topic: Phosphorglow, do you have a wallpaper-sized version of that picture?

[phosphorglow]

Perfect, I love it!

Off-topic: Phosphorglow, do you have a wallpaper-sized version of that picture?

Hehehe! Thanks!

Here ya go: http://phosphorglow.net/wp-content/uplo ... .23.48.jpg

[scottc]

Cheers!

[CeeSA]

@ Dino
Extremely embarrassing.

Just another one for my block list.

Have fun guys.

[Muirium]

Yes, it's mechanical.

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I cheated twice. It's not mine, I'm just proxying it. And see if you can spot the second.

Spoiler:

It's a typewriter. Left is right…

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But this one doesn't work well with the banner. I'll need to recompose.

Now I've seen them in action: the third crop, with the curve on top, works the best.

[photekq]

Those look really, really nice. I think the third's my favourite aswell.

[Muirium]

Those look really, really nice. I think the third's my favourite aswell.

Thanks. It's a pretty piece of hardware. Must resist temptation to start collecting typewriters!