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Glenn English
Dabei seit: Januar 2008
Herkunft: N. Ireland
227 Beiträge |
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Hi,
I'm just testing to see if I can get an avatar to work - it's all a little complicated........ 
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 10.12.2008, 23:45 |
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Glenn English
Dabei seit: Januar 2008
Herkunft: N. Ireland
227 Beiträge |
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| 10.12.2008, 23:50 |
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Christian Müller
Dabei seit: Januar 2003
Herkunft: München
3864 Beiträge |
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Hi Glenn,
maximum allowed sizes of an avatar are 90x90 px and 10000 bytes.
'Avatar verwenden' means 'use avatar'.
the radio button right of that must be unchecked, as a checked button means 'do not use an avatar'
if your upload is successful, the picture appears at 'eigenes avatar verwenden' below of radio button 'Ja', which must be checked
you have to use this [URL=http://www.eolc.de/board/profile.php?mode=avatars]link[/URL], the avatar has not to be stored in your personal webspace.
[IMG]http://www.eolc.de/upload_area/281/avatar.gif[/IMG]
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| 11.12.2008, 09:00 |
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Andrew Zich
Dabei seit: April 2007
Herkunft: Berlin, Germany, Europe
376 Beiträge |
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Hi Glenn,
I just changed my avatar to a new "Graham Hill" -picture.
I couldn´t get it uploaded first, because the size of the JPG-File was 10.430 Bytes and that is 430 Bytes too much.
How do I solved this? Well I reduced the color depth from 24bpp to 8bpp (256 colors) so now the file had a size of 9.950 Bytes and now it works.
So its cruecial to stay within the limits of 90x90 pixels and below 10.000 Bytes of space.
If your avatar-pic doesn´t meet this criterias it fails to upload.
I hope you now can get it work...
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| 11.12.2008, 11:35 |
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Glenn English
Dabei seit: Januar 2008
Herkunft: N. Ireland
227 Beiträge |
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Thanks Christian and Andrew
I'll try some re-sizing etc in photoshop later on.
By the way Andrew, - I like your new avatar, but who was that furry guy in your old one ??
Glenn.
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| 11.12.2008, 14:11 |
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Yannick Loonus
Dabei seit: September 2007
Herkunft: Düsseldorf
879 Beiträge |
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Helge Schneider, wasn`t it?
German comedian and musician.
He lives in Mühlheim, just like my Drum-teacher, who told me this little story about Helge:
A few years ago he had his house completly rebuild and while it had no windows or doors his new piano, worth close to 100.000DM at that time, was delivered.
So Helge came over and played a few hours for the builders and then left, leaving the instrument unattended 
Who steals a piano anyways 
I think he has 5 children with 5 different women, or something like that... So this dude is pretty awesome! 
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| 11.12.2008, 15:29 |
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Andrew Zich
Dabei seit: April 2007
Herkunft: Berlin, Germany, Europe
376 Beiträge |
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Zitat:
Original von Glenn English
...but who was that furry guy in your old one ??...
Hey, you are right..you saw that from the look of the picture, that that guy is FUNNY ? Great ! (Oh, I saw just you wrote "furry" not "funny", btw: what does this mean? Its not in my dictionary..)
This is Helge Schneider .
From Wikipedia:
Helge Schneider (born August 30, 1955 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German comedian, jazz musician, author, film and theatre director, and actor. Schneider plays various instruments such as the Hammond organ, acoustic and electric guitar, ukulele, drums, piano, accordion, trumpet and others.
He became a popular comedian in the 1990s and still is among the best known German comedians.
He toured and still tours (alone and with his bands "Hardcore", "The Firefuckers" and others) through major concert halls with a mixture of music and comedy.
He frequently appears on German TV, and is probably best known for his song Katzeklolied (Kitty Litter Box Song): "Katzenklo, Katzenklo, ja das macht die Katze froh " ("Kitty litter tray, kitty litter tray, that's what makes the kitty gay." - 'gay' meaning 'happy', not 'homosexual'), a number one hit in 1994.
He wrote, directed and starred in four movies. In 2007 he appeared as Adolf Hitler in a satirical film: Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler .
His comic techniques include parody, use of the local Ruhr area dialect, surprising use of infantile language and other unexpected changes in style, slapstick/physical humour, Dada-esque absurdities, sudden and unexpected use of crude/sexual humour, references to national and international highbrow and lowbrow culture, and phonetic and declamatory playfulness and exaggeration. Most of his material is heavily language dependent and therefore does not translate well into other languages .
He is also known for smoking lots of Hashish in the early stages of his carreer, maybe that is why he has a sort of humor that not everbody likes. ( Some of the EOLC people here said they do not like him.)
An example of his language is his song title: "I break together" with is a 1:1 translation of the german words: "Ich breche zusammen" which means "I break down" or "I collapse" 
I like his style, because I like the english sort of humor, represented most for me by "Monty Python´s Flying Circus", and Helge Schneider is some sort of one-man Monty Pythons.
I could added an link here for one of his videos, but as said before most of his german text is a play with words and it is hard to understand for non-german-native-speaking people.
But you can use Google to look for something of his work....
@Yannick: You also know him? Sorry that I ask, your name does not sound german to me, where do you live? I just wonder that anybody not from Germany know that freaking musican.
Whooaahaha.  ..Helge goes global...So he can start his around-the-world tour next year...
[IMG]http://www.eolc.de/upload_area/705/HelgeGlobe.jpg[/IMG]
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| 11.12.2008, 15:32 |
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Yannick Loonus
Dabei seit: September 2007
Herkunft: Düsseldorf
879 Beiträge |
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Sadly I don`t know him personally, though the guy who`s giving me drum lessons does. They live in the same town, "Mühlheim an der Ruhr".
I´m german indeed by the way, i live near Düsseldorf.
My father is belgian, that`s where the name comes from.
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| 11.12.2008, 16:52 |
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RicoKlein
Dabei seit: April 2004
Herkunft: Deutschland M/V
1877 Beiträge |
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even when i don´t like the cheap way, helge earns his money, this is the best kind of entertainment, i ever saw from helge.
he sings a duett: helge schneider and udo lindenberg, but is is all allone. hf
[URL=http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ymM0zdekwys]klick[/URL]
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| 11.12.2008, 19:42 |
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Christian Müller
Dabei seit: Januar 2003
Herkunft: München
3864 Beiträge |
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I saw him 2 times in concerts in Munich in the last 3 years, once together with Flo, the other with my girlfriend (as she donated a ticket to me)
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| 11.12.2008, 19:56 |
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Glenn English
Dabei seit: Januar 2008
Herkunft: N. Ireland
227 Beiträge |
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I'm still in trouble with my avatar guys- No matter how small (say 70 pixels x 50 pixels) and awful looking I make the picture, the jpeg file size never seems to get any smaller than 12KB, which of course is too big. I use photoshop (which I've forgotten how to use properly) what do you guys use to get your images to the right size ?
BTW Helga Schneider sounds like a pretty cool guy - I'm a bit of a monty python fan, and I've been known to tinkle the ivories of a hammond organ on more than a few occasions.............
so he sounds like my kind of guy
Glenn.
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| 11.12.2008, 23:41 |
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Andrew Zich
Dabei seit: April 2007
Herkunft: Berlin, Germany, Europe
376 Beiträge |
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Ok, Glenn...
one clue is as said before to save the picture in JPG-format and in a low color depth. Do not use 65million colors, use only 8Bit -> 256 colors. And the prog I use offers to choose the quality of the to be saved compressed JPG-File. Maybe do not use here 100% but 90% or less.
If this is all too complicated for you...:
Maybe I can do it for you, if you want...
send me your picture-file attached in an E-Mail to "azich@gmx.net " and I am sure I am able to downsize and resample it for you that it works.
If you do not know how to attach a file to an Email you may upload the pic to FileFront, RapidShare or other webspace-sites where I then can download it, if you sent me the link.
I will do the work for you and sent it back to you.
Progs for picture resizing and resampling I use are: IrfanView and NET.paint
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| 12.12.2008, 00:25 |
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Karl-Jürgen Hilger
Dabei seit: Juli 2006
Herkunft: Hamburg
1835 Beiträge |
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Yes, Glenn, you can set the JPG-compression in small steps. That's the best way to reduce the filesize.
Also have a look at XnView for a great picture viewer with many options to work on pics.
KJ
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| 12.12.2008, 10:35 |
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Andrew Zich
Dabei seit: April 2007
Herkunft: Berlin, Germany, Europe
376 Beiträge |
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Aaaahhh....
I see your new avatar is there, Glenn.
Good. I am glad, everything went fine. 
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| 12.12.2008, 21:29 |
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Glenn English
Dabei seit: Januar 2008
Herkunft: N. Ireland
227 Beiträge |
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OK Chaps !
A big thank you to Andrew who has now re-sized my avatar for me, so my postings will no longer be faceless.
Question is, whose is the face ?
He is, in my opinion "The Last Gentleman" - Andrew thinks it could be JYS (Jackie Stewart).
Can anyone make another suggestion, and say why I might want to use his face as my avatar ?
Glenn.
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| 12.12.2008, 21:32 |
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Patrick Kessler
Dabei seit: Oktober 2005
Herkunft: Bonn
2068 Beiträge |
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ok it should be John Watson
Why? Best F1 Presenter, ever. He does A1GP now.
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| 12.12.2008, 21:49 |
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Glenn English
Dabei seit: Januar 2008
Herkunft: N. Ireland
227 Beiträge |
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Yes indeed Patrick,
The face is that of John "Wattie" Watson, F1 driver 1973-1983 who holds the record for the greatest drive through the field - at the Long Beach GP in 1983 he started 22nd on the grid and came through to win.
He is also, of course, a fellow Ulsterman and in my opinion the last of the true "racing Gentlemen", which is why he's my choice of avatar.
@ Andrew - when I said that Helga looked "furry", it's another way of saying "hairy".....
Thanks again,
Glenn.
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| 12.12.2008, 22:21 |
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Andrew Zich
Dabei seit: April 2007
Herkunft: Berlin, Germany, Europe
376 Beiträge |
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| 12.12.2008, 23:11 |
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Glenn English
Dabei seit: Januar 2008
Herkunft: N. Ireland
227 Beiträge |
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Sorry about the "Helga" Andrew -
wife rolling around in laughter here......
Glad to know you guys are pretty familiar with Wattie - as we have always had F1 TV coverage on normal "free" stations like BBC, we aren't familiar with him as a commentator - so thanks for the audio clips
Glenn
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| 13.12.2008, 00:22 |
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