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they have been offline since mid afternoon

so i thought i would share my thought while waiting for them to get there s#it together

$#!T head Boss a special breed
guess there is a bunch of guys on treble time somewhere .
while a guy on huge bonus shouts about things anything while talking on the phone alot

I remember moving a 20 ton backup generator with about 8 guys on a night shift, no machines for the last 50 feet metal tubes big levers and profound "your mother" language from the boss . he walks in after 15 mins its zero degrees outside and the store has no roof .
walks over to this guy fires him ,like you would close a phone (he told us later) "he said" I was going to fire the first c%@t that i saw wasn't sweating
he was as brilliant electrical engineer clever and safe but disliked by everyone

i also had a stint on a crabber 5 years way BITD when there was some crab
had the boss from hell he was the most unlike d person i have ever met.
him, wife ,father used to shout at each other at 2am on the quay we called him PING , and yes its golf,
There seemed to be alot of golfing caps with PING on them floating around the rowing club on a lock-in
.the other guys would say he went of like a golf ball about anything and everything uugg moody back stabbing..... but the best fisherman i ever worked with though . brave and strong he was 4,9 and suffered from napoleon complex to.
two of the worst guys i ever new but would work with again .
which ultimatly led to the two best quits i ever jobbed

anyone have a Boss from hell they would work with again?

Paul waiting for photobucket

Nice story... Photobucket is working fine for me by the way.

well all my pics are under construction so this has been going on and off for two days ?? kinda messing me up.
as my little connection has about 100meg of s#it to up load . cant sell things if you cant see them . waiting for photo bucket ...again

well they must be moving there offices to Venezuela because there web site reads the about of time left in days LOL

http://s804.photobucket.com/albums/yy326/treehugger206/

i need an good alternative fast i have waited 24 hrs to up load and have dead lines anyone know of a better proxy for my pix???

so now it looks like my photos stored may have kicked the bucket and of course it has only affected a SMALL PERCENTAGE .great it will mess my whole picture presents here .

so anyway i was thinking about that electrician and another job popped into my head a 6 square acre meat processing plant the word in the T hut was the mob ,but things are never repeated and a job building a factory to grind up whole cows and stuff them in 4x10 microwavable dish ,i wasn't even there and don't recall the day.
Anyway the nice foreman that was way out of his league had the task of organizing a shut down. for the whole 6 acre job.
That was to coincide with sweb (our local electricity company ) shutting down 100 acres and up grading to 480,000v,.... high voltage , i think 480,000 volts ,cant remember of hand .
So anyway a big deal all round .the high voltage is a great job , they used to dig a huge hole around the cable mounding it up into a crater and then pair back all the armor and insulation ,i guess like diffusing a bomb then when the insulted conductors were exposed they have a shot gun shell powered guillotine Big CF blade .
this is done because no one can guarantee the cable can or will turned off being connected to the grid.
Anyway back at the ranch foreman dude is lapping in all the privileges that come with his task .(tossing it off royally )long lunches flirting with the delivery girl .
shut down is on Sunday there is 60 electricians Thursday pm all looking forward to double time on Sunday for 8 then going into treble time there after and there was a but load off planned maintenance so this was going to be fill yer boots lads.
Friday morning the foreman checks the bus bar ,and slowly realizes it the wrong one . by mid day its confirmed no way in hell its going to fit and even if he could touch the old bus would have to redrill the dew one to bodge it in .
well this set up was massive around 2 1/2 by 6 pretty high copper content in this stuff .so not the off the shelf item .
now this is where it gets sad I ,WE ,know he was pressured into going into the back of that cabinet live ,
And to take some measurements he tried to push his tape between different phased bars and then try and run a kink in the tape to as measure the back of the bus . so he could drill the new bar and bodge it in , well after they replaced his skin on all the exposed parts of him and he suddenly started wearing a hat He lost his job and license and then they sued and he lost his house and the only reason that they went that far ,is because he had a apprentice helping him and was injured in the explosion . the kid with him said there was a blinding flash and when he could see again what was left of the tape was burning up like an old time tnt fuse .
And something that i always think-of when i see the Philips head screw holding the two half's of my tape together ,i think of the interesting cross he has burned into the palm of his Hand

And as much as these little trips down treehugger lane sound a crock they are true and more mild experiences of my checkered work history .

Try:
tinypic.com

for uploading picture may be faster then photo bucket.

thankyou i spent a few hours trying to find out why my 1200 pics i spent weeks uploading disappeared from there severs along with a crap load of other peoples
i uploaded all these pics because i have been packing them away thinking i can rely on the pics
now i have to start from scratch. i started another photo bucket account and out of the first 5 pics 3 failed to uoload there must be some major s#it going down as there is alot of people asking why there ebay store front is AWOL

Paul

Qballll wrote:Try:
tinypic.com

for uploading picture may be faster then photo bucket.

is there any other as im kind of gun shy of the bucket S#it right now they are costing me days ?

Photobucket has been working fine for me, do you have another pc in your home you can try load photobucket on?

That's just one of many reasons why I hate free hosting sites like Photobucket, ImageShack, or any other free service you can name. Since you're paying nothing to use the service, if they go tits up, they owe you nothing. Buh-bye, too bad, so sad.

Other reasons to hate those sites: If you post links to your images on forums such as this, instead of uploading them directly, if anything happens to the free host--service goes down, you change the names of your albums or pics, the site gets shutdown, the site is blocked at your work network, you forget your login info and your free account gets closed due to inactivity--the end result is a forum full of broken image placeholders that does nobody any good.

I always try to upload images directly to a forum server, because those images will still be visible years later--unless the forum shuts down or an admin bumbles something. (It happens!)

The worst scenario, I can use 1970chargerregistry.com as an example. I'm a member there, it's a great site but for some stupid reason (especially by today's standards), they do not accept image uploading. Members are FORCED to use hyper-linked images such as ImageShack, Photobucket, etc. That forum has tons of how-to and DIY links that have become useless over time as all the images linked from years ago, such as pics showing how one guy restored his dash or another guy demonstrates how to remove the front clip, are all broken. VERY frustrating.

/rant

Coelacanth wrote:That's just one of many reasons why I hate free hosting sites like Photobucket, ImageShack, or any other free service you can name. Since you're paying nothing to use the service, if they go tits up, they owe you nothing. Buh-bye, too bad, so sad.

/rant

i just started a smug mug it charges 40 bucks a year. i feel the hundreds of hours trying to reload stuff
bucket always seemed to crash .And of course on the three pics out of twenty that you really need.
then your going back and hunting down single pics
i feel 40 is a small price to pay , to have total security on my media .
and if you think about it maybe i should pass around my hat , as you now you dont have to listen to me droning on about my work history. while miy pics upload .

Paul

EDIT 30 hrs later i get my media back

Coelacanth wrote:That's just one of many reasons why I hate free hosting sites like Photobucket, ImageShack, or any other free service you can name. Since you're paying nothing to use the service, if they go tits up, they owe you nothing. Buh-bye, too bad, so sad.

Other reasons to hate those sites: If you post links to your images on forums such as this, instead of uploading them directly, if anything happens to the free host--service goes down, you change the names of your albums or pics, the site gets shutdown, the site is blocked at your work network, you forget your login info and your free account gets closed due to inactivity--the end result is a forum full of broken image placeholders that does nobody any good.

I always try to upload images directly to a forum server, because those images will still be visible years later--unless the forum shuts down or an admin bumbles something. (It happens!)

The worst scenario, I can use 1970chargerregistry.com as an example. I'm a member there, it's a great site but for some stupid reason (especially by today's standards), they do not accept image uploading. Members are FORCED to use hyper-linked images such as ImageShack, Photobucket, etc. That forum has tons of how-to and DIY links that have become useless over time as all the images linked from years ago, such as pics showing how one guy restored his dash or another guy demonstrates how to remove the front clip, are all broken. VERY frustrating.

/rant

I remember we've discussed this very issue on here before. If I wasn't so lazy I would look for the thread. Anyway, you have to remember that not all message boards are on dedicated servers.

If it wasn't for Bill Krueger wanting to run multiple sites and forums from the same hosting company, RC10Talk here probably wouldn't have to be on a dedicated server either. I don't know the actual stats but I can't see this place getting enough traffic to warrant it.

Get a cheap old computer, put a 1TB drive in it and host stuff yourself. Or put two 500GB drives in a RAID configuration for data loss prevention. Server boxes don't need to be very powerfull for image hosting. I read an article on how easy it is to do this. I will see if I can find the link.

I agree. With the ridiculously cheap cost of storage these days--I can buy a 1.5 TB drive for $59.99 at the local computer store--there's no longer an excuse for a lack of storage. Assuming a filesize resolution limit of 1024 x 768, and the average image of that resolution not exceeding 150 KB in size, one single $60 drive will store in excess of 10 million images. 10 MILLION. Maybe that doesn't sound like a lot, but people don't really know how many files that really is. The Win XP computer I'm on right now only has 56,400 files, which includes all the Windows, program files, user documents, downloaded music, and a crapload of hi-res digital cam pics on it, not to mention all the temp files & folders in the various cache folders, and probably a bunch of porn too.

Storage capacity for 10 million pics is a LOT of pics--for only $60. I highly doubt this forum's number of uploaded pics is even close to that. That's why I can't understand the argument of sites like 1970chargerregistry.com not being able to "afford the storage". C'mon. It's more likely due to a lack of time or resources to administer the site. There's a very small membership at that forum, too.

Coelacanth wrote: Storage capacity for 10 million pics is a LOT of pics--for only $60. I highly doubt this forum's number of uploaded pics is even close to that. That's why I can't understand the argument of sites like 1970chargerregistry.com not being able to "afford the storage". C'mon. It's more likely due to a lack of time or resources to administer the site. There's a very small membership at that forum, too.

Thats all fine and dandy if they owned their own hardware that their sites hosted on. The only way thats possible is if they're doing Colocation which they aren't. That means they don't decide or pay for what hard drive they want.

I'm not absolutely certain but it appears from the information I've gathered that they are on a shared hosting account with Ipowerweb. That means they're regulated on all accounts. Disc space, bandwidth, memory etc... So if they allowed members to upload images at the rate and capacity of here for example it can cause several different problems. Though it does depend on what shared hosting account tier they're on.