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Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast Instruction Manual Scans (+32X & SMS)
TSOLfan:
Got 4 additional strikes this morning, so 4 more games were removed by MediaFire.
Thus far, they won't even respond to my requests asking who is contacting them so I can even reach out to ask permission, which is frustrating.
Does anyone know of any decent (preferably free) gallery/book plugins or scripts that I could use to achieve a MediaFire-esque view (as I really like their interface). I'm looking at just hosting these on my own server.
Something perhaps like:
http://www.rockscenester.com/
That site was my original inspiration for what my site became.
Arseen:
I recieved 4 of those few weeks ago too.
I removed mediafire links from my signature and haven't recieved any sinse.
TSOLfan:
--- Quote from: Arseen on February 24, 2013, 10:29:26 AM ---I recieved 4 of those few weeks ago too.
I removed mediafire links from my signature and haven't recieved any sinse.
--- End quote ---
Unfortunately, since I want people to find my website (if they are looking for a manual), having it in my signature helps with the search engine results (doing a search for sega manual scans, or something like sega saturn manuals, you'll more than likely find a thread I posted in on any number of relevant forums to help get the word out).
I did whip up a quick script of my own to return a list of JPGs in a folder and uses a JPG component installed on my server to generate a thumbnail realtime based upon a width request and stream it to the browser, never saving it to disk (to prevent a bunch of thumbnail images from floating around).
When I hit that page, CPU peaks at 7% on the server, so while a nice idea, not realistic. My next idea was to use this same idea, but, actually have it generate the thumbnail into a local "cache" folder if one doesn't already exist. If one does exist, simply use it. That way, if I do upload a new scan, I can just empty the cache folder for that folder, and the system will regenerate the files on the next request.
It hit 8% CPU (due to some additional logic to check for a cache folder, if not there, create it, then check for a thumbnail with the requested width, if not there create it, then stream it), and subsequent runs don't even hit 1%.
So, now I just need to setup some FTP queues to run over the course of this week to move everything over, and then finish building a minimalistic UI I'm happy with (now that I've got a solution for my biggest problem, various thumbnail sizes).
Arseen:
It seems that your sig doesn't have direct Mediafire links like mine did, so it's not that.
I have my suspissions towards who it was but not sure...
TSOLfan:
I finished up all of my UI work yesterday (as mentioned, I'm going with a next to nothing UI, focusing on the scans), and I'm satisfied enough with it to launch it once I finish getting the rest of my RAW JPG files uploaded this week (works nicely from my laptop, phone and tablet), and then I'll be off MediaFire.
Once it launches, if anyone notices anything missing, let me know, as I probably coded something goofy (had to write some exceptions as my image resizing code didn't like file names with ampersands or commas) or failed to upload something. Also, when doing some testing, I happen to click on Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, and apparently my manual scans for it were totally cropped wrong (as in, the top half of the manual was missing throughout) that no one seemed to notice before :)