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How do I upload a song?

I have a wav & mp3 of the Stinko Man K 20X6 theme and I want to poast it, so..... how do I?

Do I need to have on the net somwhere already or can I just upload it from my CPU?

You can't. DISCLAIMER: Only registered users who are logged on can upload files. However, I have a pretty good feeling that those particular files would just be deleted as

1. Files of type ".wav" are HUGE. I've been able to reduce a 3.15 MB wav to 444KB by converting it to a 256 kbps mp3. Wavs have to be around four times that bit rate before they are really even listenable. Bear in mind that I have some pretty low standards as to what constitutes "listenable." Even mp3s are still kind of bulky when compared with OGGs.
2. You'd be stepping on TBC's toes with regards to copyright and whatnot because, somebody correct me if I'm mistaken, but that's already available to download at http://www.videlectrix.com.

Sorry to crush your hopes and dreams — User:ACupOfCoffee @ 07:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Well I am a registered user.

The theme I have is the one that they put lyrics to in Japanese Cartoon; "Challang and fighting and fighting and challange toniiiight...."

But I have one question; What the crap is an ".ogg" file and how do you make one?

I'm sorry, but I've never been down wit' ogg. So please fill me in. — OX (Talk | contribs) 16:35, 25 January 2006 (left unsigned)

OGG is like MP3, only that it's open source. That is, anybody can make a program that makes OGG's. There are several programs that encode OGG, some easier to use than others, but I can't think of any right now. Again if you're considering uploading the entire song please be aware of the points made above. --Stux 16:14, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Icon

Is there a way to remove an icon next to a link outside HRWiki? Tampo (^T/C)

Are you refering to the little images that show up on Firefox for links to homestarrunner.com, yahoo.com, videlectrix.com, and thorax.corp? Or are you refering to the little arrows that show up to the right of links? Because if you want to get rid of the arrow for a link like this, use this code:

[www.something.com link here]

To make it look like this. Hope that helps. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 00:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I want to get rid of all the icons including the H*R and the Videlectrix ones.

Tampo (^T/C)

14:04, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

There's probably a way to do it in your personal Monobook.css file. I'll have a look on Meta-Wiki and see if there's a way to get rid of all icons next to links. --

ENUSY 14:14, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
EDIT: I'm not sure if this will get rid of the H*R links, but it'll get rid of the external link icon at least.

/* Get rid of the stupid arrow after external links (only for http for the time being) */

bodyContent a[href ^="http://"] {

   background:inherit !important;
   padding-right:inherit !important;
   padding-left:inherit !important;

}Just paste that code into your monobook.css, which I've linked above. For specific sites, just enter the www part of the URL after a[href ^="http://.

Hi guys, given the interesting request, I'd like to comment on something that's been on my mind for quite a while: although i find it neat to have link pictures next to H*R links etc., I find them more of a hassle than a benefit for various reasons:

IE users do not see the links, as such, IE and firefox users will see different versions of the pages and sometimes, these minute differences can and have caused display problems in tables and such that only firefox users can notice.
There are many times when the link picture itself does not render itself correctly (my guess is because it is used as part of the "background" property:
like I mentioned before it does not render well in tables, (they used to not have a clear background but that's been since fixed -- and example for firefox users can be found here),
and if you want, for some weird reason, to have really small links, (like this St u x), it won't render as you want it to,
and if, for some reason you wanted to plainlink the link it doesn't work: (at least not for me)Stux or Stux it looks messed up. (This is just an example that I came up with, it isn't anything I intend to use for my sig :-p ;) )

view from firefox

So, I am not suggesting that we get rid of this, I kinda liked the feature, but I'd really like it if:

*everybody* could see the feature, and more than that,
anyone could have an easy way of turning the feature off for a specific link without having to edit their monobook (if they really don't like it then they're welcomed to).
Moreover, if the picture was actually treated as a "character" instead of a background element, perhaps it might work better in tables and stuff.

Any thoughts, ideas, comments, techincal know-hows, opinions? --Stux 16:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

For the benefit of IE users everywhere, I have included a screenshot of the comment above so you may see what i'm talking about. --Stux 16:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Imageshack

How do I link to images on Imageshack? I'm having troubles. When I wanna link to an image on Imageshack, it comes out as a blue text link, not the picture. HOW IN THE HECK DO I DO THIS?? Whew. Homfrog 12:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

You need to type in the url of the image on your page without using [external brackets]. — Lapper (talk) 13:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Easter egg image

Can you put an image on a page and when someone clicks on it it will go somewhere (like an easter egg)? 404'd!! FILE NOT FOUND! 23:48, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

If your question is MAY you add an easter egg to your user page then I suggest you read HRWiki:User space. If you would like to know how to do it after you've read the aforementioned page, I suggest you read Help:Link. The Help button on the left is a great resource on how to do stuff. --Stux 00:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

This is a few days old, I know, but I just inadvertently found your answer. RJMT has one in her sig and a discussion about how to do it is on her talk page.

Sig image bug

I noticed a problem displaying a sig under certain conditions (namely 1280x768 but only b/c of the way the text wrapped at that resolution) and placed a note and screenshot here. If anybody know what's going on that'll be great! --Stux 14:42, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

It's not a bug. He's using non-breaking ( ) spaces. -- Tom 19:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I see what you mean, wouldn't then this be a Firefox rendering error? I guess I'm not quite clear what the   rendering rules are. If it's one chunk of text, then it should be wrapper properly, shouldn't it? --Stux 22:27, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

If rendered properly, non-breaking spaces should not break a line. From the looks of it, Firefox is correctly rendering them. -- Tom 22:35, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I guess my question is: shouldn't the non-breaking space be treated as a regular letter, and so the whole chunk as a regular word? So normal word-wrapping rules should apply and as a result then entire chunk be wrapped to the next line? I did a thorough check and IE seems to do that (wrap the text properly) but not Firefox (firefox only wraps the word "Nerd42" and ignores the other chars when considering the wrap). --Stux 16:04, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

The raw HTML code output for his sig there is the following:

( --<span style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(80, 80, 80); border-right: 1px solid rgb(80, 80, 80); background: rgb(224, 224, 224) none repeat scroll 0%; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 90%; line-height: 80%;" class="nounderlinelink"><a href="/index.php/User:Nerd42" title="User:Nerd42">NERD42 </a> <a href="mailto:nerd42@gmail.com" class="external text" title="mailto:nerd42@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">email</a> <a href="/index.php/User_talk:Nerd42" title="User talk:Nerd42">talk</a> <a href="http://bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U203906" class="external text" title="http://bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U203906" rel="nofollow"> h²g²</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nerd42" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nerd42" rel="nofollow">pedia</a> <a href="http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/User:Nerd42" class="external text" title="http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/User:Nerd42" rel="nofollow">uncyc</a> 18:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Taking a closer look, I'm guessing it's the "style="white-space: nowrap" that's doing it then. -- Tom 01:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I tried your suggestion as you can see here but instead it broke the sig, despite the   being a non-breaking space (it did this in both IE and netscape). Both browsers seem to be breaking this "non-breaking" space. It seems to me that the no-wrap then is being interpreted correctly by Firefox but not explorer. But my issue is now then why have a "non-breaking" space that will be broken? Ok I think i've been repetitive enough. :) --Stux 17:00, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

unknown cartoon

There's one old cartoon that features a skinny King of Town and an egg filled with chocolate. Does anybody know what I'm talking about and where it is?

Talking about flashback? — Lapper (talk) 05:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

If you're looking for toons, they're pretty much all here, from Strong Bad Emails to Store Thank You Messages, to all the DVD stuff, and everything in between. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 07:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Is it allowed to post your own websites?

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