I've got to run to work (I'm late!), but if one of you could please put a post on the slashdot article explaining the problem I would be very thankful!
It seems I broke a rule at sourceforge which limits file sizes to 100MB
If someone could offer a mirror site I would be very thankful for that as well!
Thanks! Chad
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i do use linux professionally - not in spreadsheet and regular office stuff but neither on the server side.
i am doing graphical design since 4 years now and worked a long time on mac's in graphical school. i just cant dig this hillarious expensive pieces of designer trash - i embraced linux cause it lets you do stuff with tools that all those monkeys in DKNY suits don't have. their not better - but different as is linux. its not better - its different. the philosophy rox - you wont be able to do stuff in linux as the big guys do - the only question is should you do a graphic design the photoshop way (talking about filters etc.).
if i look in magazine X today i can definetly estimate why an ad or a picture looks like that because its influenced to 80% what the software is able to do and 20% what the artists imagination is/ ok to be correct the better the artist the higher the percentage of his imagination - but thats not reality.
machines influence the way we think - the only question is: you want to think microsoft or GPL ?
man where are the simple and yet addicting games?
i dont dig this shit. COM ACT WAIT. hell ff8 made me sick, at the point where i had played for around 20 hours and i got not past this lamer of a lizard because i had no ultima spells left.
turn based RPG's promise the most of fun where you spend your free time on recreation instead of frustration.
playstation 2 games simply suck where the only innovation is the graphics and the "hey mom look! they made the fighting system more complicated than it was before"
i have seen a bunch of overloaded mac desktops.
most were around 100 files lying around on the desktop, but alas these people spent 4000 bucks on a power "workstation" g4.
most file selectors also suck big ass. great is the current gtk file selector (the ximian version), which doesnt has this nasty bug, of erasing the file name when you choose save image as in the browser, and also offers a syntax-auto-completion.
talking about:
make something that even an idiot can use, and only an idiot will use it.
this is some common mistake when geeks talk about computers - for most geeks the "average" user is an idiot that doesn't care about the underlying technologies - geeks love technologies, and geeks made linux what it is and probably will ever be.
geeks dont want a simple desktop like MacOS 9.x or windows, they want their xterminals and remote shell accounts which they can use to pop up in irc: *@bsd.rocks.org or whatever.
thats all really a cool thing, but "average" users really dont want to use that and dont really appreciate such stuff, they want to click a file on the desktop and be able to select mailto: to popup a mailcompose window to send it to someone.
and for being a OS that is developed by geeks it's still very far away from the average users desktop. the click a file on the desktop and it's loaded into the application doesnt really work in linux. click one gimp file, then a second and each time the whole application will load for each file, instead of being loaded into the allready running apllication.
one problem remains that is: windows goes a totally different direction as linux, upcoming security issues and DMCA features of XP will show how far users will like it or not. i never used it but from the interface view, windows gives you a nice interface you are accustomed too, which is fast even on low hardware configurations whereas if you want to run mozilla on a laptop with 500mhz and 64mb ram, your in trouble, scrolling pages gets a pain in the ass. it's not unusable but far away from being comfortable.
i am currently using gnome on a 900mhz athlon with 256mb ram, it runs fine, and since yesterday i got the glory of an antialiased mozilla, but the more i think about windows programms versus linux programs and its economy i just get dizzy:
in windows you have to pay for most applications, but people just use warez at home from quake to photoshop - most software manufacturers dont care about that, still making most cash from selling their software bundled with hardware ( for adobe that is a firewire card for the dummy user with adobe premier - for microsoft that is the average no-name pc's from your nearest wallmart ) - whereas in linux 99% of the software is free as in beer, but the problem is that you need geeks that are interested in creating an illustrator/freehand replacement for linux - believe me there are few of them.
is the last thing linux needs to succeed at the moment.
so why ask for people to write one, if it lacks in totally different places.
a question from me maybe:
is it possible to scale linux down, put (insert the most user-friendly windowmanager here) in it, and keep all those server stuff (appache, bind etc.) out put it on one cd, make an easy installer with good hardware detection, make a framework that 3rd party software vendors can work on without colliding with the GPL's issues, eye candy - multiuser support. and ease the pain of windows users.
ah ya, and dont forget to write a script that makes the delete and backspace buttons work under every terminal-emulator.
i think no one gets the point, that globalisation and with it our whole economic model is still based on the ancient model of colionalism.
it's not so long since most countries which were in the past refered to as colonialised countries got "independent" from the western world, which strangely ended up in becoming 3rd world countries.
in fact there is no difference between the model of a colony, and a third world country. the colony produces cheap resources because it is occupied by some state. the third world country produces cheap resources and labor, because they ow debts to the western countries.
how they pay back their debts is not decided by them, but by executives from the world bank. they even can't decide what the money is used for, resulting in obscure projects from the worldbank like building one of the largest cellulose factories in the midst of the amazonas, with western technology, lead by a western corporation and without a view of ever earning black figures for the 3rd world country.
Surely highly specialized applications with a very small marketplace are fine being open and free.
this to some extent does only apply to scientific applications. things like digital video or sound editing tools are just too hard to code and to implement by open-source initiatives.
sure gimp stands out of this. but remember that gimp is the ONLY program on linux which is to some use to design professionals.
but when it comes to making website-designs, catalogues or cd-covers most design companies want to stick with fast reliable software like from adobe or macromedia.
i talk about end-user application, sadly only less than 10% of linux graphic apps are in end-user state. their are neither usefull for design-professional, nor for your mom or dad.
how could those billion dollars be spent in preventing war?
but sadly spending that amount of money would be counterproductive against the national economy. why should money be put into countries, that are of high value to our nation so we can get cheap beef, cheap paper, cheap iron, cheap carbon, cheap fuel which only would result these basic materials of our economy getting too expensive to hold our state of living.
ever wondered why coffee is so cheap? in fact it's collected by people who have no education, no land, and in fact no property at all.
you could argue that their is financial aid by the world bank for 3rd world countries, but thats a joke. they get money, which in fact they got to return as exports into western countries - cheap exports, and they can't even choose how to use the money.
it's like you go to the bank, ask for money, they say you get it if you open up a whore house, and when they come to you, you got to blow their ****** for free.
that's what our civilised countries do with 3rd world countries.
don't wonder if some mad guys get lots of power there and nuke some skyscrapers in the us - it's whats coming, and it will not get better by bombing these people, nor by putting all money we've got into defense. we can't build a great wall that stops everyone from entering either.
yup, and i don't get, why va-linux fired rasterman.
it's a shame. and shows, that lot's of stuff at va-linux is going the wrong direction.
on one side they "support" open software development. but on the other side, they fire one of the most promising programmers after he moves to australia.
great job va-linux!
i wonder why slashdot asks this questions, it's clear most people don't have the time to spend development on such "unpromising" free-desktop solutions, when most companies focus on server-software in linux.
get out your nazi flags and fight for a clean, christian and american world. don't think about who this terrorists are and what made them, it needn't to concern america.
america is great, it's a country where everyone lives in peace, prosperity and freedom.
america is a gift for our world. wherever america intervenes, flowers and birds grow out of dirty desert sand. happiness to all people thats the true american spirit - if someone doesn't want that, he should be punished.
America brings prosperity to those 3rd world countries, where real work is done, america rewards it.
go fight - the american way of live
punish now - learn nothing
_____________
may peace come over israel
but i understand your point - for me its wrong to legally kill people, that don't 'fit' in our society. it's definetly wrong, and won't stop others from commiting the same crimes. psychos dont think about the consequences of their doing. they often have lost everything and see no way out, sadly for some of them get into a viscious circle of hatered, and start to kill people.
but no death penalty can either get the lives of the victims back, or cope with the fact that such people exist.
in the end death penalty just tries to cover those people under the floor, people that were a part of our society, and are a product of our society.
the same goes out to those terrorists. THEY HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY US. FOREIGN POLITICS
apart the fact, nostradamus used this kind of 'code-language' to encrypt his research against the inquisition.
that being the most reasonable source of all his uttering, his theses could be translated as research of chemical or physical reactions.
any way you can proove this?
last time i got it installed the only "bad" thing was that it took a minute to start. but after starting it was a good working environment.
don't corporate users also care about SECURITY ?
____
MacsAintComputers
hmm... last night i pondered over a book, where the method of antialiasing is described.
all in all AA takes the pixels and blends it 4 times over each other, each time moved by 0.5 pixels.
sadly i discovered my 700 PS 1 fonts got somehow broken by afm2pfm. at sizes smaller than 12 pixels the edges of the characters begin to form ugly spots. the good thing is however, abisource fonts look flawless...
maybe its time to check out some open-source font-editor.
the question is: why the apple anti-aliasing looks so cutting edge, and antialiasing in gimp for example is not usable for sizes of 12-9 pixels? this makes webdesigning... a pain in the @ss.
luckily i dont stick with mainstream design trends
Slashdot Mirror
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received roughly 2241 downloads of the ISO image provided through your
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Chad has asked that the following be posted:
I've got to run to work (I'm late!), but if one of you could please put a post on the slashdot article explaining the problem I would be very thankful!
It seems I broke a rule at sourceforge which limits file sizes to 100MB
If someone could offer a mirror site I would be very thankful for that as well!
Thanks! Chad
Here's what sourceforge had to say
--------------
Greetings,
My name is ********; I am the Quality of Service Manager for SourceForge.net. This message is directed to you since you are designated as a project administrator for the Simply GNUstep project on SourceForge.net.
First, we would like to take a moment to congratulate you on your recent press exposure on Slashdot.org -- we love to see Open Source projects succeed, and press exposure of this nature is always of great benefit. Since the announcement of your project efforts on
http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/Download.h
It has come to our attention that you are making use of SourceForge.net project web services as a mechanism to release file materials in excess of 100MB in size. Each project hosted on SourceForge.net is provided with project web services as to ensure that they may adequately provide an online description and information regarding their project.
maybe they pop up version 1.0 tomorrow ?
guys he must be joking.
what the hell is the target-audience for this piece-o-crap ? the forbes 500 ?
i do use linux professionally - not in spreadsheet and regular office stuff but neither on the server side. / ok to be correct the better the artist the higher the percentage of his imagination - but thats not reality.
i am doing graphical design since 4 years now and worked a long time on mac's in graphical school. i just cant dig this hillarious expensive pieces of designer trash - i embraced linux cause it lets you do stuff with tools that all those monkeys in DKNY suits don't have. their not better - but different as is linux. its not better - its different. the philosophy rox - you wont be able to do stuff in linux as the big guys do - the only question is should you do a graphic design the photoshop way (talking about filters etc.).
if i look in magazine X today i can definetly estimate why an ad or a picture looks like that because its influenced to 80% what the software is able to do and 20% what the artists imagination is
machines influence the way we think - the only question is: you want to think microsoft or GPL ?
man where are the simple and yet addicting games?
i dont dig this shit. COM ACT WAIT. hell ff8 made me sick, at the point where i had played for around 20 hours and i got not past this lamer of a lizard because i had no ultima spells left.
turn based RPG's promise the most of fun where you spend your free time on recreation instead of frustration.
playstation 2 games simply suck where the only innovation is the graphics and the "hey mom look! they made the fighting system more complicated than it was before"
i have seen a bunch of overloaded mac desktops.
most were around 100 files lying around on the desktop, but alas these people spent 4000 bucks on a power "workstation" g4. most file selectors also suck big ass. great is the current gtk file selector (the ximian version), which doesnt has this nasty bug, of erasing the file name when you choose save image as in the browser, and also offers a syntax-auto-completion.
damn this get frustrating... at least news.gnome.org works now, but theres nothing new.
talking about:
make something that even an idiot can use, and only an idiot will use it.
this is some common mistake when geeks talk about computers - for most geeks the "average" user is an idiot that doesn't care about the underlying technologies - geeks love technologies, and geeks made linux what it is and probably will ever be.
geeks dont want a simple desktop like MacOS 9.x or windows, they want their xterminals and remote shell accounts which they can use to pop up in irc: *@bsd.rocks.org or whatever.
thats all really a cool thing, but "average" users really dont want to use that and dont really appreciate such stuff, they want to click a file on the desktop and be able to select mailto: to popup a mailcompose window to send it to someone.
and for being a OS that is developed by geeks it's still very far away from the average users desktop. the click a file on the desktop and it's loaded into the application doesnt really work in linux.
click one gimp file, then a second and each time the whole application will load for each file, instead of being loaded into the allready running apllication.
one problem remains that is: windows goes a totally different direction as linux, upcoming security issues and DMCA features of XP will show how far users will like it or not. i never used it but from the interface view, windows gives you a nice interface you are accustomed too, which is fast even on low hardware configurations whereas if you want to run mozilla on a laptop with 500mhz and 64mb ram, your in trouble, scrolling pages gets a pain in the ass. it's not unusable but far away from being comfortable.
i am currently using gnome on a 900mhz athlon with 256mb ram, it runs fine, and since yesterday i got the glory of an antialiased mozilla, but the more i think about windows programms versus linux programs and its economy i just get dizzy:
in windows you have to pay for most applications, but people just use warez at home from quake to photoshop - most software manufacturers dont care about that, still making most cash from selling their software bundled with hardware ( for adobe that is a firewire card for the dummy user with adobe premier - for microsoft that is the average no-name pc's from your nearest wallmart ) - whereas in linux 99% of the software is free as in beer, but the problem is that you need geeks that are interested in creating an illustrator/freehand replacement for linux - believe me there are few of them.
is the last thing linux needs to succeed at the moment.
so why ask for people to write one, if it lacks in totally different places.
a question from me maybe:
is it possible to scale linux down, put (insert the most user-friendly windowmanager here) in it, and keep all those server stuff (appache, bind etc.) out put it on one cd, make an easy installer with good hardware detection, make a framework that 3rd party software vendors can work on without colliding with the GPL's issues, eye candy - multiuser support. and ease the pain of windows users.
ah ya, and dont forget to write a script that makes the delete and backspace buttons work under every terminal-emulator.
i think no one gets the point, that globalisation and with it our whole economic model is still based on the ancient model of colionalism.
it's not so long since most countries which were in the past refered to as colonialised countries got "independent" from the western world, which strangely ended up in becoming 3rd world countries.
in fact there is no difference between the model of a colony, and a third world country. the colony produces cheap resources because it is occupied by some state. the third world country produces cheap resources and labor, because they ow debts to the western countries.
how they pay back their debts is not decided by them, but by executives from the world bank. they even can't decide what the money is used for, resulting in obscure projects from the worldbank like building one of the largest cellulose factories in the midst of the amazonas, with western technology, lead by a western corporation and without a view of ever earning black figures for the 3rd world country.
thats what sucks about globalism
Surely highly specialized applications with a very small marketplace are fine being open and free.
this to some extent does only apply to scientific applications. things like digital video or sound editing tools are just too hard to code and to implement by open-source initiatives.
sure gimp stands out of this. but remember that gimp is the ONLY program on linux which is to some use to design professionals.
but when it comes to making website-designs, catalogues or cd-covers most design companies want to stick with fast reliable software like from adobe or macromedia.
i talk about end-user application, sadly only less than 10% of linux graphic apps are in end-user state.
their are neither usefull for design-professional, nor for your mom or dad.
devel opers devel opers dev elo dev elo devel op ers *scratch the harddisk to the record*
how could those billion dollars be spent in preventing war?
but sadly spending that amount of money would be counterproductive against the national economy. why should money be put into countries, that are of high value to our nation so we can get cheap beef, cheap paper, cheap iron, cheap carbon, cheap fuel which only would result these basic materials of our economy getting too expensive to hold our state of living.
ever wondered why coffee is so cheap? in fact it's collected by people who have no education, no land, and in fact no property at all.
you could argue that their is financial aid by the world bank for 3rd world countries, but thats a joke. they get money, which in fact they got to return as exports into western countries - cheap exports, and they can't even choose how to use the money.
it's like you go to the bank, ask for money, they say you get it if you open up a whore house, and when they come to you, you got to blow their ****** for free.
that's what our civilised countries do with 3rd world countries.
don't wonder if some mad guys get lots of power there and nuke some skyscrapers in the us - it's whats coming, and it will not get better by bombing these people, nor by putting all money we've got into defense. we can't build a great wall that stops everyone from entering either.
yup, and i don't get, why va-linux fired rasterman.
it's a shame. and shows, that lot's of stuff at va-linux is going the wrong direction.
on one side they "support" open software development. but on the other side, they fire one of the most promising programmers after he moves to australia.
great job va-linux!
i wonder why slashdot asks this questions, it's clear most people don't have the time to spend development on such "unpromising" free-desktop solutions, when most companies focus on server-software in linux.
america is great, it's a country where everyone lives in peace, prosperity and freedom.
america is a gift for our world. wherever america intervenes, flowers and birds grow out of dirty desert sand. happiness to all people thats the true american spirit - if someone doesn't want that, he should be punished.
America brings prosperity to those 3rd world countries, where real work is done, america rewards it.
go fight - the american way of live
punish now - learn nothing
_____________ may peace come over israel
to err. is human
but i understand your point - for me its wrong to legally kill people, that don't 'fit' in our society. it's definetly wrong, and won't stop others from commiting the same crimes. psychos dont think about the consequences of their doing. they often have lost everything and see no way out, sadly for some of them get into a viscious circle of hatered, and start to kill people.
but no death penalty can either get the lives of the victims back, or cope with the fact that such people exist.
in the end death penalty just tries to cover those people under the floor, people that were a part of our society, and are a product of our society.
the same goes out to those terrorists. THEY HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY US. FOREIGN POLITICS
time to step back and look at the whole
apart the fact, nostradamus used this kind of 'code-language' to encrypt his research against the inquisition.
that being the most reasonable source of all his uttering, his theses could be translated as research of chemical or physical reactions.
so you need visa ?
thats though...
any way you can proove this? last time i got it installed the only "bad" thing was that it took a minute to start. but after starting it was a good working environment. don't corporate users also care about SECURITY ? ____ MacsAintComputers
hmm... last night i pondered over a book, where the method of antialiasing is described.
all in all AA takes the pixels and blends it 4 times over each other, each time moved by 0.5 pixels.
sadly i discovered my 700 PS 1 fonts got somehow broken by afm2pfm. at sizes smaller than 12 pixels the edges of the characters begin to form ugly spots.
the good thing is however, abisource fonts look flawless...
maybe its time to check out some open-source font-editor.
the question is: why the apple anti-aliasing looks so cutting edge, and antialiasing in gimp for example is not usable for sizes of 12-9 pixels? this makes webdesigning ... a pain in the @ss.
luckily i dont stick with mainstream design trends