Go to terminal window. Type in a URL.
Highlight URL with by dragging across it with left mouse button.
Switch to Netscape. Middle-click in URL field to paste.
Go to a different site in Netscape. Highlight new URL with left button drag.
Switch back to terminal window. Paste with middle button.
Right - the key to copy and paste is implied copying upon selection and middle-click to paste. Hardly intuitive, particularly among apps like Xemacs, Netscape and xTerm that have "copy" and "paste" menus items that rarely work between each other. When they do, it's a combination of luck and the implied copy when a selection is made.
Copy has always been an explicit action in the Xerox-derived UIs of Mac and Windows, and it's a concept I agree with - just because I've selected something doesn't mean I want you to copy it. You're destroying my previous selection that I DID want to keep in the copy buffer - maybe I selected this text because I wanted to delete it, or change something about it.
In any event, the arcane process described above, although more reliable once you know it (and I used Linux as a programmer and administrator for years before discovering it - it was hardly put out in front anywhere as a warning), can hardly be called a copy and paste replacement for the masses.
I still don't want to hear Linux geeks griping about the Apple UI (not enough mouse buttons/wheels/levers/whatever) when basic things like copy and paste don't work reliably. Gripe about the fact that OS < 10 crashes once a day, at least, and I'm right there with you. Gripe about the cost of Mac hardware and I'll cry with you. But give the UI stuff a rest, Linux World, until you sort out your own house.
Don't blame "Linux" for the brokenness of a particular program (Netscape).
It's not just Netscape, it's a whole bevvy of commonly-used apps that behave inconsistently. My Big Three - Xemacs, NS and xterm - all have different copy and paste methods that are barely interoperable unless you know the secret middle-click tricks (and ignore the "copy" and "paste" commands in the menus).
I know the origin of the problem, of course, but Joe User won't. Joe User uses Linux and copy and paste don't work, it's Linux that gets the blame, not the particular app. And it IS Linux's shortcoming for not providing a standard method for coders, but it's an impossible task to anticipate all of the different wierd ways coders rolled their own copy and paste algorithms since there was no standard method. I'm not saying this is a reasonable thing to ask for given Linux's roots - the whole point is that I get tired of Linux geeks complaining about Apple's UI very, very quickly these days.
I'm sure it would be possible to write such a broken app for MacOS as well. Would you then blame MacOS for the failure to copy/paste?
Actually it would be quite difficult, because copy and paste are integrated into the Text Services part of the MacOS Toolbox. They work everywhere. If you have text editing capacity in your app, you have copy and paste unless you go out of your way to avoid supporting it.
I've been cutting and pasting in X for 2 years now. And I can't recall a time when an app didn't let me. I suggest you read more documentation.
I'd be happy to if you'd point me to it. Tell me where the documentation is that explains why copying a URL from Netscape and choosing "Paste" in a term window doesn't do anything. Or why selecting and copying from Xemacs works pasting into Netscape somewhere between a third and a half of the time.
It comments that this that keep flames alive. I dont think any diehard users of Linux are worried about Mac OS X.
Most of the time people flame because they're afraid or mad, and most of the time people are mad becuase they're afraid. It's just silly and stupid. Linux is a wonderful OS, and MacOSX is going to be incredible. I'll still use Linux because I love open source, but I can't wait to have the option of running emacs and perl and mysql and apache on an OS that has a gorgeous, stable UI, where I won't need to worry about X crashing out from under me when a java app launches in a browser window.
For God's sake. I love Linux. I do. But Linux geeks complaining about anything GUI-related from Apple have no leg to stand on, and doing so sounds just plain silly.
Be sure and let me know when Linux has a simple GUI where every app can do the simple task of copy and paste among them - twenty-year-old technology by most standards. Every time I copy text in one app, paste in another, and see nothing, I roll my eyes and shake my head. And this with the very latest bleeding-edgest GNOME/Sawfish/Enlightenment/whatever.
Maybe if the Linux world only had one mouse button to worry about, it could get it right. Then add more buttons once the first one works.
Maybe OSX is scaring the shit out of Linux partisans because it's going to put the world's most advanced GUI on top of a rock-solid kernel, which the Linux world has never managed to even come close to?
This drive is awesome. And the new PowerBooks are awesome. If only the CDRW/DVD-R drive were available as an option on the PowerBooks - even as an external for more dough... perhaps a pipe dream, but I'm now very torn between the killer desktop with the drive and the sleek PB's without it.
A new Macrovision copy protection system prevents the duplication of tapes by copying from one digital deck to another. The content is encrypted with a High Definition Copy Protection (HDCP) system JVC developed that is similar in function to the Content Scrambling System (CSS) on a DVD.
The HDCP system can't be broken, however, because only high definition sets will have the HDCP decoder, according to Dan McCarron, national product specialist in JVC's color TV division.
So: it will only play on systems with the special decoder, which will be prewired to limit the ability to copy. Say goodbye to deck-to-deck editing like I did on VHS compliation tapes back in the day.
No thanks. I'm not buying crippleware, hardware or software, no matter how cool it seems otherwise.
If a site can charge - must charge - to remain open, then it has every right to do so.
Sure it does, and users have every right to stay away in droves if they can do without the service it's charging for.
We charge for [x], which is a web-based game. If we didn't, we couldn't continue to run the game.
And your business model, which is built squarely around this payment model, will either work or it won't. If it doesn't, then you can conclude that your model is flawed. If it does, then you have nothing to complain about! But your continued inference that people who believe in a "free web" are "moochers" is just silly, if not insulting. Nobody's stealing from you. And some of us like to provide free content and get our money from other sources.
The sad point is, you've either never been out in the "real" world, or you don't value your own job enough to realize why things cost money -- intellectual property or otherwise.
Hee, hee, you silly person... what a silly thing for you to say, since you have no idea who I am or what I do!
In fact, I run a server (among other things) and pay for my own bandwidth. My business-oriented stuff, I pay for (and expect to), and the things I give away, I eat the (small) costs of doing so without whining.
I just don't expect my website to be a source of revenue. My revenue comes from other sources. My website is an expense like my phone line is an expense, or like an ad in the paper is an expense. Don't want to run a site, pay for one, or give stuff away? Then don't. Just don't complain that there's a cost involved in doing so. Simple, no?
If you're really going to assert that use of a website constitutes "stealing," as you said in your first sentence, then you're greviously misunderstanding the entire paradigm. And while all companies need to make a profit (mine included), trying to do so via the web is running smack up against this problem. Build a proprietary protocol if you want one, and try to convince people to use it. The web was born free. Businesses that put all their eggs in this basket deserve whatever happens to them. I won't lose sleep if Amazon and Ebay go out of business. I'd choose a smaller, free web run by enthusiasts any day over another pay-per-view extension of the corporate world that already bombards us from every other angle.
Content isn't doomed. But the ridiculous pipe dream of getting rich off a web site is.
Do your web site out of love, because you have things to share that will enrich the world - not because you expect the world to enrich you. Anybody thinking that way deserves to fail. You'll get rich in other ways that are hard to measure - in appreciation from your fellow man, in a spreading reputation that might someday turn into a Ship Coming In(TM); if you do good work, in living in a world all the more interesting for your efforts.
The hippies were right. Share the love, baby! It comes back around.
Let me know when all of the various sdl RPMs needed even to play DOOM don't conflict with each other or require specific, conflicting versions of each other.
Seriously, mad propz etc. to the sdl hackers who do this stuff that I can't even imagine how to do, but for casual folks like me that don't want to assemble all of the components and libraries to compile from source, there needs to be a single self-contained RPM that can be installed simply.
Until then, and until I can play Diablo II, run my USB scanner and digital camera, and watch pr0n^h^h^h^hquicktime movie trailers from Linux, my hated Windoze partition stays.:(
This is really amazing: the MSN terms of use do say this. Too bad I spent my mod points modding down some idiot troll in another thread.
MSN says they can change their policies any time they want without notifying you, and that your continued use of the system constitutes your agreement to be bound by their changes whether or not you're aware of them. This insanity has got to stop. Boycotting the gazoonga-services like Amazon and MSN and whoever else is trying to pull this shit is such a pain in the ass, but it looks like we really have to.
I continue to be amazed that "agreements" like this can be legally binding at all. Has anyone tried to contest something like this? Is it enforceable? Most federal judges won't enforce non-competition clauses in the tech industry (so an older/. story went) because they're absurd; these "agreements" strike me as way beyond absurd.
The way it is now, IE 5.5 is *so* far ahead of 4.x that there's no way anyone except those with a serious anti MS handicap and those without a choice would use the Netscape browser for surfing. Netscape 6.0 is a step *back* from 4.x.
While I think you mean in terms of overall useablity, not rendering (obviously) in the "step back" statement for NS6, I use NS 4.x under Linux for exactly two reasons:
NS 6 (and even Moz 0.6), while I love the rendering, are just too slow, and
IE 5 isn't available under Linux.
It's that simple. I can't WAIT until either NS gets its feature bloat under control, or MS decides to build IE5+ for Linux. Until then, I use NS 4.x and curse and curse and curse, simply because there are no viable alternatives. It's awful.
Folding@home requires at least 32 MB of RAM. Weird things happen under windows with less memory and the console client simply segfults under linux under low memory conditions.
Too bad: I've got a few pII Linux boxen running seti, with a few other functions, and they have 32mb each for that and the other things they do. The text-only seti client runs very nicely; I didn't see any indication from the FAQ that I could do the protein-folding stuff neatly on the older machines.
I'd think that they'd have some interest in making sure it can run on 486s; lots of distributed computing is done on extremely old machines with very limited RAM.
Guess I'll keep looking for little green men for the time being.
If Gore had been a stronger candidate, he wouldn't have needed Nader's 96,000 votes in Florida. That's all there is to it. Nader polled barely 2% nationwide. If Nader had polled 19% (like Perot did in '92), then you could posit the argument that Nader cost Gore the election. Gore has no-one to blame but himself (for not being more appealing to voters) and the dubya voters (for choosing a football-watching-buddy-kind-of-guy to lead the country). TomatoMan
...at least at the presidential level. In a republic, electors choose the leaders; in a democracy, the people choose the leaders. The United States is not a democracy in this sense. (At the state level, it (usually) is, but not in the presidential elections.)
I'm a big fan of democracy, myself, even when the will of the people is to choose a leader they'd like to watch a football game with rather than one whose IQ is close to their weight. We tend to get what we deserve.
But clearly the Electoral College has got to go. There are plenty of well-researched alternatives to this silly voting system, some of them thousands of years old. I think the best thing about this election is that it will bring the whole issue back into the spotlight. As much as I detest dubya, I like the idea of having a president in office who lost the popular vote, inasmuch as we will have to take a look at the whole system again. We have to seize the moment when our short attention spans are focused on it.
This may be rhetorical; I'm sure the Bungie boys are being leaned on heavily by the MS brass to keep their mouths shut. However, in this interview on Blue's News, Doug Zartman says this about PC and Mac versions of HALO:
The decision about what platforms Halo and future Bungie games will be developed for remains in the hands of Bungie Studios, in the hands of the teams developing them. In Halo's case the decision has not been made yet.
Why, then, does the HALO page at http://halo.bungie.com still say "Coming soon for Windows and Mac OS"?
Doesn't Zartman really mean "We were planning to do Mac and Windows versions of HALO, but that decision is now being revisited"?
TomatoMan
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This is from npr.org; here's the Napster hour segment of the show at 28.8.
Face it, the X-Files has just deteriorated into a parody of itself. It's time to let it go.
My gf got me into it a couple of years ago, and there were a few really thoughtful and brilliant episodes, and the big main storyline held my attention. But now, where are they? At the open and close of the season we get an episode about this impending invasion of earth and the conspiracy to conceal it, but in between it seems everybody forgets about it and we get tongue-in-cheek episodes about brain-eating, shapeshifting fast food workers, the occasional slimy monster, and just plain idiotic concepts like "First Person Shooter," written specifically to make gamers watch and see Mulder and Scully dress in ridiculous outfits, "disappear into the game" (oooh! original!) and display combat tactics that would lead me to sneak up behind them with the gauntlet and get a quick "Humiliation!"
I say, finish the damn story; it's interesting. Forget the cheese whiz space-fillers. Then move on.
I also got the EOF error from the mirror (I was only able to connect from Linux, my (faster) mac connection via Fetch or browsers wouldn't work - is it set up to reject clients based on platform?).
However, going at it with tar xfzv Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0.tar.gz got most of it out, maybe all of it. I'm browsing it right now and so far it seems intact. It may be that just the last image got mangled, or the tar itself.
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If they could, then we could hack it and add cool things like the very neat idea you mentioned, and probably some other goodies as well.
TomatoMan
Go to terminal window. Type in a URL.
Highlight URL with by dragging across it with left mouse button.
Switch to Netscape. Middle-click in URL field to paste.
Go to a different site in Netscape. Highlight new URL with left button drag.
Switch back to terminal window. Paste with middle button.
Right - the key to copy and paste is implied copying upon selection and middle-click to paste. Hardly intuitive, particularly among apps like Xemacs, Netscape and xTerm that have "copy" and "paste" menus items that rarely work between each other. When they do, it's a combination of luck and the implied copy when a selection is made.
Copy has always been an explicit action in the Xerox-derived UIs of Mac and Windows, and it's a concept I agree with - just because I've selected something doesn't mean I want you to copy it. You're destroying my previous selection that I DID want to keep in the copy buffer - maybe I selected this text because I wanted to delete it, or change something about it.
In any event, the arcane process described above, although more reliable once you know it (and I used Linux as a programmer and administrator for years before discovering it - it was hardly put out in front anywhere as a warning), can hardly be called a copy and paste replacement for the masses.
I still don't want to hear Linux geeks griping about the Apple UI (not enough mouse buttons/wheels/levers/whatever) when basic things like copy and paste don't work reliably. Gripe about the fact that OS < 10 crashes once a day, at least, and I'm right there with you. Gripe about the cost of Mac hardware and I'll cry with you. But give the UI stuff a rest, Linux World, until you sort out your own house.
TomatoMan
Don't blame "Linux" for the brokenness of a particular program (Netscape).
It's not just Netscape, it's a whole bevvy of commonly-used apps that behave inconsistently. My Big Three - Xemacs, NS and xterm - all have different copy and paste methods that are barely interoperable unless you know the secret middle-click tricks (and ignore the "copy" and "paste" commands in the menus).
I know the origin of the problem, of course, but Joe User won't. Joe User uses Linux and copy and paste don't work, it's Linux that gets the blame, not the particular app. And it IS Linux's shortcoming for not providing a standard method for coders, but it's an impossible task to anticipate all of the different wierd ways coders rolled their own copy and paste algorithms since there was no standard method. I'm not saying this is a reasonable thing to ask for given Linux's roots - the whole point is that I get tired of Linux geeks complaining about Apple's UI very, very quickly these days.
I'm sure it would be possible to write such a broken app for MacOS as well. Would you then blame MacOS for the failure to copy/paste?
Actually it would be quite difficult, because copy and paste are integrated into the Text Services part of the MacOS Toolbox. They work everywhere. If you have text editing capacity in your app, you have copy and paste unless you go out of your way to avoid supporting it.
TomatoMan
I've been cutting and pasting in X for 2 years now. And I can't recall a time when an app didn't let me. I suggest you read more documentation.
I'd be happy to if you'd point me to it. Tell me where the documentation is that explains why copying a URL from Netscape and choosing "Paste" in a term window doesn't do anything. Or why selecting and copying from Xemacs works pasting into Netscape somewhere between a third and a half of the time.
It comments that this that keep flames alive. I dont think any diehard users of Linux are worried about Mac OS X.
Most of the time people flame because they're afraid or mad, and most of the time people are mad becuase they're afraid. It's just silly and stupid. Linux is a wonderful OS, and MacOSX is going to be incredible. I'll still use Linux because I love open source, but I can't wait to have the option of running emacs and perl and mysql and apache on an OS that has a gorgeous, stable UI, where I won't need to worry about X crashing out from under me when a java app launches in a browser window.
TomatoMan
For God's sake. I love Linux. I do. But Linux geeks complaining about anything GUI-related from Apple have no leg to stand on, and doing so sounds just plain silly.
Be sure and let me know when Linux has a simple GUI where every app can do the simple task of copy and paste among them - twenty-year-old technology by most standards. Every time I copy text in one app, paste in another, and see nothing, I roll my eyes and shake my head. And this with the very latest bleeding-edgest GNOME/Sawfish/Enlightenment/whatever.
Maybe if the Linux world only had one mouse button to worry about, it could get it right. Then add more buttons once the first one works.
Maybe OSX is scaring the shit out of Linux partisans because it's going to put the world's most advanced GUI on top of a rock-solid kernel, which the Linux world has never managed to even come close to?
Sheesh.
TomatoMan
(enormous rant skipped)
Amazingly, Apple has survived over 20 years of imminent demise. Maybe there's a new branch of physics to be discovered in looking closer at this.
The company won't crash and burn.
Oh. I thought you were saying "Apple will die." You might have mentioned this at the beginning and saved us all a lot of bandwidth.
TomatoMan
This drive is awesome. And the new PowerBooks are awesome. If only the CDRW/DVD-R drive were available as an option on the PowerBooks - even as an external for more dough... perhaps a pipe dream, but I'm now very torn between the killer desktop with the drive and the sleek PB's without it.
TomatoMan
A new Macrovision copy protection system prevents the duplication of tapes by copying from one digital deck to another. The content is encrypted with a High Definition Copy Protection (HDCP) system JVC developed that is similar in function to the Content Scrambling System (CSS) on a DVD.
The HDCP system can't be broken, however, because only high definition sets will have the HDCP decoder, according to Dan McCarron, national product specialist in JVC's color TV division.
So: it will only play on systems with the special decoder, which will be prewired to limit the ability to copy. Say goodbye to deck-to-deck editing like I did on VHS compliation tapes back in the day.
No thanks. I'm not buying crippleware, hardware or software, no matter how cool it seems otherwise.
TomatoMan
If a site can charge - must charge - to remain open, then it has every right to do so.
Sure it does, and users have every right to stay away in droves if they can do without the service it's charging for.
We charge for [x], which is a web-based game. If we didn't, we couldn't continue to run the game.
And your business model, which is built squarely around this payment model, will either work or it won't. If it doesn't, then you can conclude that your model is flawed. If it does, then you have nothing to complain about! But your continued inference that people who believe in a "free web" are "moochers" is just silly, if not insulting. Nobody's stealing from you. And some of us like to provide free content and get our money from other sources.
TomatoMan
The sad point is, you've either never been out in the "real" world, or you don't value your own job enough to realize why things cost money -- intellectual property or otherwise.
Hee, hee, you silly person... what a silly thing for you to say, since you have no idea who I am or what I do!
In fact, I run a server (among other things) and pay for my own bandwidth. My business-oriented stuff, I pay for (and expect to), and the things I give away, I eat the (small) costs of doing so without whining.
I just don't expect my website to be a source of revenue. My revenue comes from other sources. My website is an expense like my phone line is an expense, or like an ad in the paper is an expense. Don't want to run a site, pay for one, or give stuff away? Then don't. Just don't complain that there's a cost involved in doing so. Simple, no?
If you're really going to assert that use of a website constitutes "stealing," as you said in your first sentence, then you're greviously misunderstanding the entire paradigm. And while all companies need to make a profit (mine included), trying to do so via the web is running smack up against this problem. Build a proprietary protocol if you want one, and try to convince people to use it. The web was born free. Businesses that put all their eggs in this basket deserve whatever happens to them. I won't lose sleep if Amazon and Ebay go out of business. I'd choose a smaller, free web run by enthusiasts any day over another pay-per-view extension of the corporate world that already bombards us from every other angle.
TomatoMan
Content isn't doomed. But the ridiculous pipe dream of getting rich off a web site is.
Do your web site out of love, because you have things to share that will enrich the world - not because you expect the world to enrich you. Anybody thinking that way deserves to fail. You'll get rich in other ways that are hard to measure - in appreciation from your fellow man, in a spreading reputation that might someday turn into a Ship Coming In(TM); if you do good work, in living in a world all the more interesting for your efforts.
The hippies were right. Share the love, baby! It comes back around.
TomatoMan
Wow, it's amazing how you basically said nothing new, insighful or interesting and yet got modded up.
Why don't you try:
I, myself, thought the comment was interesting, and would have modded it up myself if I had points right now.
TomatoMan
Let me know when all of the various sdl RPMs needed even to play DOOM don't conflict with each other or require specific, conflicting versions of each other.
:(
Seriously, mad propz etc. to the sdl hackers who do this stuff that I can't even imagine how to do, but for casual folks like me that don't want to assemble all of the components and libraries to compile from source, there needs to be a single self-contained RPM that can be installed simply.
Until then, and until I can play Diablo II, run my USB scanner and digital camera, and watch pr0n^h^h^h^hquicktime movie trailers from Linux, my hated Windoze partition stays.
TomatoMan
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TomatoMan
This is really amazing: the MSN terms of use do say this. Too bad I spent my mod points modding down some idiot troll in another thread.
MSN says they can change their policies any time they want without notifying you, and that your continued use of the system constitutes your agreement to be bound by their changes whether or not you're aware of them. This insanity has got to stop. Boycotting the gazoonga-services like Amazon and MSN and whoever else is trying to pull this shit is such a pain in the ass, but it looks like we really have to.
I continue to be amazed that "agreements" like this can be legally binding at all. Has anyone tried to contest something like this? Is it enforceable? Most federal judges won't enforce non-competition clauses in the tech industry (so an older /. story went) because they're absurd; these "agreements" strike me as way beyond absurd.
TomatoMan
While I think you mean in terms of overall useablity, not rendering (obviously) in the "step back" statement for NS6, I use NS 4.x under Linux for exactly two reasons:
It's that simple. I can't WAIT until either NS gets its feature bloat under control, or MS decides to build IE5+ for Linux. Until then, I use NS 4.x and curse and curse and curse, simply because there are no viable alternatives. It's awful.
TomatoMan
The FAQ on their site states:
Too bad: I've got a few pII Linux boxen running seti, with a few other functions, and they have 32mb each for that and the other things they do. The text-only seti client runs very nicely; I didn't see any indication from the FAQ that I could do the protein-folding stuff neatly on the older machines.
I'd think that they'd have some interest in making sure it can run on 486s; lots of distributed computing is done on extremely old machines with very limited RAM.
Guess I'll keep looking for little green men for the time being.
TomatoMan
If Gore had been a stronger candidate, he wouldn't have needed Nader's 96,000 votes in Florida. That's all there is to it. Nader polled barely 2% nationwide. If Nader had polled 19% (like Perot did in '92), then you could posit the argument that Nader cost Gore the election. Gore has no-one to blame but himself (for not being more appealing to voters) and the dubya voters (for choosing a football-watching-buddy-kind-of-guy to lead the country).
TomatoMan
...at least at the presidential level. In a republic, electors choose the leaders; in a democracy, the people choose the leaders. The United States is not a democracy in this sense. (At the state level, it (usually) is, but not in the presidential elections.)
I'm a big fan of democracy, myself, even when the will of the people is to choose a leader they'd like to watch a football game with rather than one whose IQ is close to their weight. We tend to get what we deserve.
But clearly the Electoral College has got to go. There are plenty of well-researched alternatives to this silly voting system, some of them thousands of years old. I think the best thing about this election is that it will bring the whole issue back into the spotlight. As much as I detest dubya, I like the idea of having a president in office who lost the popular vote, inasmuch as we will have to take a look at the whole system again. We have to seize the moment when our short attention spans are focused on it.
TomatoMan
This may be rhetorical; I'm sure the Bungie boys are being leaned on heavily by the MS brass to keep their mouths shut. However, in this interview on Blue's News, Doug Zartman says this about PC and Mac versions of HALO:
Why, then, does the HALO page at http://halo.bungie.com still say "Coming soon for Windows and Mac OS"?
Doesn't Zartman really mean "We were planning to do Mac and Windows versions of HALO, but that decision is now being revisited"?
TomatoMan
This is from npr.org; here's the Napster hour segment of the show at 28.8.
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/t otn/20000607.totn.01.rmm
TomatoMan
My goal as a programmer is to continually increase my fluency in
I hope to get there by three main methods:
I've been at it for 20 years, and am still learning every day. I get just as many thrills from it all today as I did when I started.
TomatoMan
Face it, the X-Files has just deteriorated into a parody of itself. It's time to let it go.
My gf got me into it a couple of years ago, and there were a few really thoughtful and brilliant episodes, and the big main storyline held my attention. But now, where are they? At the open and close of the season we get an episode about this impending invasion of earth and the conspiracy to conceal it, but in between it seems everybody forgets about it and we get tongue-in-cheek episodes about brain-eating, shapeshifting fast food workers, the occasional slimy monster, and just plain idiotic concepts like "First Person Shooter," written specifically to make gamers watch and see Mulder and Scully dress in ridiculous outfits, "disappear into the game" (oooh! original!) and display combat tactics that would lead me to sneak up behind them with the gauntlet and get a quick "Humiliation!"
I say, finish the damn story; it's interesting. Forget the cheese whiz space-fillers. Then move on.
TomatoMan
I also got the EOF error from the mirror (I was only able to connect from Linux, my (faster) mac connection via Fetch or browsers wouldn't work - is it set up to reject clients based on platform?).
However, going at it with tar xfzv Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0.tar.gz got most of it out, maybe all of it. I'm browsing it right now and so far it seems intact. It may be that just the last image got mangled, or the tar itself.
TomatoMan