Good news!
The blog icon system has been democratized: you can now change your blog pictures whenever you want.
Here's how it works:
1) Format your picture. It should be a jpg or pct file, and a perfect square, 32 x32 pixels. If you send the computer something larger, or something in a different shape, it will force the image to 32x32. So keep in mind, anything really visually complicated, like an army of zombies or a bear fighting a shark, will look like soup.
2)Rename your picture as [your user name] dot [jpg or pct or whatever].
In case you've forgotten, your user name is probably the first letter of your first name followed by your last name... for example, I, Jamie Antonisse, am jantonisse. I renamed my picture jantonisse.jpg. Don't tell anyone.
2) log into MT as if you were going to write a new blog entry
(in case you've forgotten, the url is here. )
3) Click on "upload file", choose the picture you created, and upload. If it doesn't show up within a few minutes, double check the file path. It should be set to
So please, go forth and differentiate yourselves. We'd like to minimize those lopsided IMD ninja stars on the "people" page.
Comments (6)
Would you please let me know why "people" cannot overwrite the old one? Thanks.
Posted by yuechuan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 17, 2007 12:40 AM
Posted on January 17, 2007 00:40
To be clearer, I uploaded yuechuan.gif - yuechuan is my username I use to log in - but I'm noticed like this:
Error writing upload to '/var/www/html/members/yuechuan/yuechuan.gif': Opening local file '/var/www/html/members/yuechuan/yuechuan.gif' failed: Permission denied
Posted by yuechuan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 17, 2007 3:06 AM
Posted on January 17, 2007 03:06
Problem solved. If you have both username.jpg and username.gif on your blog, username.jpg will be used: you need to overwrite or erase THAT file to change your picture.
If anyone else is having problems with their icon, just comment on this post and let me know: I'll help you fix the problem.
Posted by Jamie Antonisse![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 22, 2007 2:48 PM
Posted on January 22, 2007 14:48
How strange. I woulda sworn I fixed the privs on all of them... oh I see... Yuechuan, your yuechuan.gif was created by your FTP user, thus owned by "him" and is chmod'ed 644. When you upload an image via MT, it uses the apache user. Thus, apache does not have permissions to overwrite your gif. Only you do. (and me if I invoke SU... ;)
Shall I fix it for you or would like to chmod 664/666 your gif? ;)
Posted by Boris Anthony![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 26, 2007 6:01 AM
Posted on January 26, 2007 06:01
I see. If "chmod 644" means users cannot overwrite the old file, why do we still keep it? I think, for this very file, an overwritable mode, 664/666, is definately necessary, not only for "yuechuan.gif" but also for "everybody.gif". Thanks a lot for doing that.
Posted by yuechuan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 26, 2007 7:55 AM
Posted on January 26, 2007 07:55
I think the "people" you want to reach in this case are the undergrads -- who don't generally check the blog. You'll need to use that old-fashioned thing called email to communicate with them ...
Posted by Tracy Fullerton![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jantonisse/nav-commenters.gif)
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January 26, 2007 9:49 AM
Posted on January 26, 2007 09:49