[lit-ideas] Re: 500 pixs?
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 05:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
This may get too technical for this list, but usually
compressing (zip) already compressed data (jpg) get's
you no where, that is zip of a jpg is couple per cent
reduction and may actually grow the file size. See for
example the discussion at
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=96535
But to solve the bandwidth issue, how about
peer-to-peer? That is using Kazaa or something
similar, maybe even a private peer-to-peer network
simply because it would be so cool to have a private
P2P. So Andreas puts the pixs in his shared directory,
and notifies his buddies of their location, for
example Kazaa user name. (Which would be different
user name then the one used for dowloading pictures
one wishes to keep private.) Now when Bob downloads
the pictures, they and up Bob's shared directory. Then
when Cheryl want's to download them, the load is
distributed between Andreas's and Bob's network
connection. And so on.
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
--- ckerwan <ckerwan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I posed your question to a techie friend of mine who
> put a bunch of my
> pictures on the Net for a conference presentation.
> However, I'm not a
> computer person, so I may have missed something.
>
> Here's what she suggested:
>
> "No, the best thing to do is resize the image and
> send it as a zip file, or
> upload it so that people can download the file to
> the computer and view the
> pictures that way.
>
> They have to downsize them or at least use
> thumbnails. If they make the
> image to at least 27, you're looking at less than a
> MEG. I did all or your
> Korea pictures, and they were well over 500, and it
> was only 224K, which is
> not even half of a meg."
>
> She also some CD's for me to mail to another group,
> and that did become
> expensive. Catherine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Wager" <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:10 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: 500 pixs?
>
>
> There's a third option, the old "middle way" made
> famous by websites
> developed by both Confucius and Aristotle.
>
> PUT your photos on your website, but in a directory
> that isn't linked
> from any public file. Put a robot.txt in this
> directory so that people
> can't search and come across the directory by
> accident. Then just email
> the URL to your friends and neighbors, up to the
> cost of sending out
> CD's. If you were planning on $25 for the cost of
> CD's to 50 people, and
> it would cost $25 to transfer files to 100 visitors,
> then email the 100
> people the URL with a note that this directory will
> only be available
> for a limited time due to cost. This would also
> probably be less
> time-consuming for you than trying to create 50
> copies of the CD.
>
> Isn't Confucius wonderful?
>
> Andreas Ramos wrote:
>
> > . . . .As jpgs, my photos
> images are about
> >130 KB each. At 550 pixs, that's 71 MB. If I put
> all of that on the web and
> >invite people to see it, and if 100 people see the
> pages, that's 7,000 MB
> >(roughly, 7 GB) of file transfer. I'd have to pay
> extra for that amount of
> >file transfer.
> >
> >My personal newsletter goes out to some 4,000
> people and my extended
> >family's newsletter has several hundred people.
> Some 50,000 people per
> month
> >visit my website. So it's very likely a few hundred
> people would look at
> the
> >pixs. . . .
> >
>
> >At the moment, the best solution is to put the pixs
> on a CD (about five
> >cents) and send it by postal mail (37 cents for the
> stamp). Regrettably,
> >this means only a few dozen people will see the
> pixs (I won't make more
> >copies).
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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