Questions tagged [images]

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How to find out all the software packages installed by default on a linux install?

I am thinking of getting a VPS and using Ubuntu with it. I've installed linux on home servers and I almost always choose a very bare system and then install packages manually after the install is complete. However for a VPS, some providers have…
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Real-time Image Resize, Cropping and Caching Server Product

I'm investigating what products are out there that will allow you to request images through a HTTP API in arbitrary image sizes. The server would behind a CDN but would still need to be able to handle a fair bit of traffic and be possibly…
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Using Windows Backup to Deploy Windows 7

Can I just setup a clean install and image this using Windows 7 backup and then restore this image to all the other machines (changing computer names and rejoining to active directory of course)?
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Enlarging image disk space on an existing virtual server (centos 5 guest on centos 5 host - Xen)

Is it possible to increase the size of an existing virtual server image (centos 5 guest on centos 5 host - Xen)? I just installed a new guest, and found out that I did not assign enough storage to the guest at install time. I know I can add virtual…
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Displaying ODG files thumbnails in Mediawiki

I would like to manage network diagrams in a Mediawiki instance using Libreoffice Draw (odg extension) : importing the odg files in the wiki is working but it's actually impossible to display thumbnails of the files in pages. Is there any way to do…
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Using Loris image server for IIIF functionality, no responses

I've been trying to implement a small, local IIIF supported image server using the Loris image server. I'm running this on a Centos box (which did required some special setup wizardry.) I was able to make it through the setup up process, and when…
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How to convert files to jpg format in nginx?

I've just setup nginx uploading with nginx_upload_module with the following configuration: location = /upload { # backend upload_endpoint upload_pass @upload_endpoint; upload_store /var/uploads 1; # Set specified fields in request…
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nginx load balancing images not loading

Below is my load balancing configuration.my other servers contain nginx unicorn based application setup. When i tried above configuration the images are not loading. I have total three servers 1 for load balance and other 2 for applications. can…
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How to ideally store images on Amazon S3

I want to store a huge number of images on Amazon S3 (served via Cloudfront). Currently the way I am doing is simply dumping the images and having basic HTTP Cache headers set to a month so that users can have fast browsing experience. But I still…
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google Safe Search web filtering

I had an issue raised that a student did a google images search on Reece Bennett and on the second page, after removing safe search from moderate to off, they got some inappropriate images. Blocking the preferences page wont help because there is a…
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htaccess rewrite?

i have a script that uploads images, creates a hash for it, creates 3 directories, and stores the image to imgs/f3s/v5g/234/536_f3sv5g2344270fd093ee8a9bf8de3de32dad.jpg (the “536_” is the user id) so im trying to…
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Best way to optimize (loss-less) thousands of jpgs in a windows folder structure?

Using Smush.it or Firebug's built-in image optimizer I realize we can reduce the file size of all of our web jpgs. By quite much actually. As we have hundreds of thousands of images, is there any way to batch optimize (and replace) these images…
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Optimizing image serving using nfs for a system with a high read to write ratio

Our system use NFS primarily for replicating and serving images from multiple nodes. New images are not added very frequently. Hence writes are rare. Almost all requests will be read requests. How can i optimize my system to get the maximum read…
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nginx hackery : change image file every X request

Let me describe what I am trying to do first. I have a bunch of pictures in a directory called /images/*.(jpg|gif|png|blah blah|) Now say these images are embedded in an html page and I dont really care which image or where its embedded. For every…
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Accessing apache on virtual pc

I am using a virtual pc to test my website. I can access all my webpages on the virtual pc. However, images don't load correctly. I can browse to my images folder and view all of them. However, if I click an image it will not load, and the apache…
Rick Hensly