From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bungalow Halloween Photos
Date: Thu,  4 Nov 2010 20:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike Bartman wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>> Michael Nelson wrote:
>>> http://razimir.smugmug.com/Holidays/Halloween-2010-at-the-Fabulous/

>> Thanks.  I have extracted all 117 jpegs referenced at that URL, and
>> stored them in a tar file on Panix to download to my Apple laptop
>> -- the only machine I have that does graphics -- this weekend, so I
>> can view them.

>> Apparently most of them are quite small.

> The page shows thumbnails on the left, and one full image on
> the right.  You may have grabbed the thumbnails.  The site is
> script-driven, so it's likely that you can only get all the images
> full size by using a scripting browser...or perhaps analyzing the
> scripts to find the URLs to the actual files and then fetching them.

Thanks.  I have broken the code.  The thumbnails all end with Ti.jpg.
Changing that to Th.jpg, S.jpg, and D.jpg gets me larger and larger
image files, which are presumably the same photo in four different
resolutions.  There are 104 or 105 such set of four files (some
variants are missing).  There are 107 files on the Facebook page.
Are these the same images?  None of the Facebook files are identical
to any of the Smugmug files, and the Facebook files are all dated
December 31, 2007 or December 31, 2008.

The total size is about 400 megabytes.  At 9600 bps that would take
about two full days to download.  Skipping the highest resolution set
would knock it down to 9 megabytes, which would take a more reasonable
three hours, so I'll probably do that, and come back the following
weekend for the highest resolution versions of the pictures that I
want to inspect under a (virtual) magnifying glass, if any.

There's plenty of room on the laptop for all the high resolution
images, but then I'd no longer be able to back up all my files onto
a 4 gig thumb drive.  (I have several, one of which is always in my
pocket, and two of which are buried in the woods.)

(And I do mean *all* my files.  *Millions* of emails and newsgroup
postings, some dating back over 30 years.  Plus the complete WSFA
website as of when I resigned as webmaster.  And much more.)

I don't have room to store all these image files permantnly on Panix,
either, but I can keep them in the /tmp directory until the next
reboot.  And that will probably be a while, as the current uptime is
95 days.  Of course I could always grab another copy of the set from
Smugmug if I lose this copy, but that might cost Mike money.