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Nope.

DTVuser2009

They're still showing up on my end? try using something other than Internet Explorer. i can see them fine on the first page so i know it's not a problem at my end. i'll relink to them but i can see them fine.

Can any of you see the pictures on the sidebar here in the forums? if not there's definetely a problem with your computers because i can see those too. alternatively you can look in my photos because that's where they are.

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DTVUser2009,
I don't have internet explorer or windows. Using Firefox for Linux here. I also tried Mozilla Seamonkey and Konqueror. No images. I do see the Album pictures on the right hand side, though.

If you clear your cache, do the images still show up for you?

DTVuser2009

I can still see them. and believe me the computers here suck. it's got to be at your end. i posted valid BB code and if i go to page 1 the images still show up. even on my cell phone or iPod touch. it's not at my end. all the pictures are linked here through the forums using the BB code from these forums. if my album pics show up there than unless there's a problem with the forum code (ask Jay) i can't do anything else about it other than post more BB code here. let's see.



There's one



There's another. these are both using the forum here and it's BB code linked through my own album. if they still don't show for you then it's at your end. can you view the page source and even see the code? if not then your computer or its browser is incapable of showing BB code or you have Javascript or Ad Block Pro set to off or maximum security, which does give issues.

This computer is a Compaq Presario PIII machine running WinXP SP3 and using IE 8.0. all settings are at their factory defaults (default security settings too) so if anyone has monkeyed or set their security settings to maximum or has disabled java or javascript or uses third party tools to maximize protection against spyware that's all i can think of. Firefox should show the images as easily as IE unless someone has an add-on disabled or added to prevent the display of BB code.

I can't speak for Linux, i gave up on that when it couldn't install other programs from the internet (needed libC this and that for just to install Adobe Flash player. no easy one-click like in windows. heck)

If the java or j-script is disabled and you can't enable it or prefer not to i can show direct links too and see which ones show:

http://www.dtvusaforum.com/members/d...181-tuner1.jpg

Can you see the direct link now? if so then you cannot display BB code for whatever reason.

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No. Clicking the direct link does not work, it opens a tab and the page is blank. When I quote your post, I see the IMG code & URLs posted, but they do not display an image. Since it's happening with more than one member, don't assume it's on "our" end. I tried viewing it with several browsers, including Firefox in "Safe" mode (no extensions running, all java & scripts allowed). No images.

WRT Linux, it must've been a while since you tried it. Many versions now have more or less everything you need, including java, flash, open office, adobe and many other viewers. They will also play most video files without mucking with anything. My wireless setup was easier in Linux Mint than windows. It just works.

DTVuser2009

Why can i see the images just fine? btw i just put the problem into the chatbox, even though i have zero trouble out of three devices. two wireless devices and one public access kiosk.

Perhaps i should try photobucket?



Can you see it now? if so then the forum here has issues. but again, i can see everything fine.

The last distro i tried of linux was ubuntu. the Adobe Flash player wasn't packaged with it. i tried to do like i did normally and go to their site and click 'install flash player' and they said 'error. there's no flash player available for your operating system or browser.' so i went to download a tarball of the player for my specific version of linux and platform and kernel version. then it scrolled for a few minutes a bunch of jargon about this dependency and that not existing and failed. a few other downloaded games did the same thing. there's at this time no simple 'EXE file' to double-click and it works. yet. i mean i could use what it came with and browse the internet minus flash or J2re and download/play back MP3s and DivX video, but if i wanted more it was harder than anything to get it installed and work without either failing entirely or booting me from the X window system to a command prompt (which i suppose is their method of 'crashing'.)

Yes, some distros come with Flash player, and many other programs, but if i wanted to download or install more, i couldn't easily do it. what good is an OS if i can only use what it's packaged with? it simply cannot replace MacOS or Windows. yet. Linux is great for those who are fluent in Unix stuff, but aside from considering an older copy which i successfully installed (manually) the X window system plus Gnome, that's about the only time i accomplished anything big on the system. the others install easily and work, but installing anything from online is still a caveat. it can be done, but not easily to a beginner. i've played with linux on older hardware (i don't want to wipe a good machine such as my netbook and render it a brick yet) and had fun just doing what i already do on my smartphone or touch, but what i want to do with it it's not easy in my humble opinion.

To download/use any program such as Flash player i had to use the included WINE emulator or whatever it is that allows me to use IE and the flash player for it for windows. but if i wanted to get Linux i'd expect to get away from windows. i cannot help but find it very counterproductive to use linux to still use windows. that's like me buying a MacBook Pro just to use WinXP in a virtual machine.

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I can see the pictures now. What's a distro?

DTVuser2009

It's Linux-speak for 'Distribution,' meaning there's a lot of different 'flavors' of Linux (for servers, gamers, etc and tons at that) and you have a 'Distribution' referring to which 'flavor'. as in 'Ubuntu' is a distribution of Linux. there's a lot of Linuxes out there. all of them are based on UNIX.

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I see the photobucket picture with the set top box with the animal on top.

I always use an external photo uploading site for pics like photobucket or tinypic. Saves space and bandwidth on this server. Tinypic.com requires no registration. Just go there and hit "upload." They provide the code to paste in forum posts.