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pr0n FAQ

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Last updated April 13th, 2007

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Last updated November 20th, 2015

So, what is this pr0n thing anyway?

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Can you remove a picture of me?

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Yes! By Norwegian law you have the right to deny publication of an image + where you are identifiable (with a few exceptions). Just send me an e-mail + (see below) with the URL of the images you want removed, and I'll remove them. + No questions asked.

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I just changed thumbnail resolution, why is everything so slow?

Probably the requested size was never generated before, so the server @@ -54,7 +61,7 @@ so the next time somebody views the same images in that resolution, it will be snappy as usual.

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Why didn't you just throw up Gallery?

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Why didn't you just throw up Gallery? (Or use Flickr, Picasaweb, etc.)

Because it didn't fit my needs, and the same goes for all other systems I've seen. I wanted something no-nonsense that would work for my @@ -78,26 +85,28 @@

What hardware/software does it run on?

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pr0n currently runs on an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 4GB RAM and ordinary - SATA disks. (The server does a lot of other stuff besides running pr0n, of - course.) pr0n itself is a custom-made system by myself, tightly coupled - into Apache 2.2, mod_perl 2.0 and ImageMagick 6.x (as well as various - other Perl modules), using PostgreSQL 8.2 as the back-end - database for metadata et al. The base operating system is Debian lenny (ie. “testing”).

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pr0n currently runs on two Intel E5-2650v3 (2x10 cores at 2.30GHz) with 64GB RAM and + SATA disks, with some SSDs in front for cache. (The server does a lot of other stuff besides running pr0n, of + course.) pr0n itself is a custom-made system by myself, + a PSGI + app server running under Starlet + behind Varnish 4.1, + using ImageMagick 6.x + (as well as various other Perl modules) and + qscale, using + PostgreSQL 9.4 as the back-end + database for metadata et al. The base operating system is + Debian jessie.

The Perl modules aren't really that big — we're talking about only - approx. 2500 lines of code (of which ~25% is the WebDAV part; I should + approx. 3000 lines of code (of which ~20% is the WebDAV part; I should really make that a bit cleaner once). Most of the real work is done by the software on which pr0n builds on.

How much data is there in there, anyway?

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At the time of writing, approximately 72GB of image data (that is, over - 46000 different images), plus cache, plus metadata in the SQL database. +

At the time of writing, approximately 720GB of image data (that is, over + 195000 different images), plus cache, plus metadata in the SQL database. (These numbers are growing rather rapidly, so they could be outdated at any given time.)

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Probably, but are you sure you can get it to work? It's non-trivial to set up, as it depends on lots of odd modules and a lot of custom configuring; this is not a pre-made, user friendly package for your - favourite Linux distribution. There is a bzr repository at - http://bzr.sesse.net/pr0n/, but + favourite Linux distribution. There is a git repository at + http://git.sesse.net/pr0n/, but I'm not going to hold your hand configuring it. :-) (Hint: If you do not - know what bzr is, and cannot find out on your own, pr0n is not for + know what git is, and cannot find out on your own, pr0n is not for you.)

Will you implement feature X?

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