Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:24:09 -0600 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>, Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Well, FreeBSDCon has already made it into upside magazine... Message-ID: <19991025102409.34180@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910231922250.17094-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>; from Jeremy Shaffner on Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:25:17PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910221311050.15490-100000@peloton.runet.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910231922250.17094-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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On Saturday, 23 October 1999 at 19:25:17 -0500, Jeremy Shaffner wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Gregory Sutter wrote: >> >>> There are more pointers and comments being posted on the Daily Daemon >>> News, http://daily.daemonnews.org/. Check out the pictures! >> >> Note that while the pictures are great, the downloads are SLOW even on the >> mirror site, which has better connectivity, because the "thumbnails" >> aren't really thumbnails, just rescaled, via HTML, images of the full size >> images. That means instead of loading about (for the pictures from >> the 19th) 200kB worth of thumbnails, you download about 4.5 MB worth of >> stuff. >> >> It would REALLY help if the "thumbnails" were really thumbnails. > > I agree. I would have done as much when I setup the mirror, but: > > 1) gmarco didn't create real thumbnails. > 2) The workstations in the terminal room weren't equipped with the Gimp. You can use xv. Bill Fumerola did exactly that from the terminal^Whub room, and it worked fine. > 3) It was rushed. Nik was posting it, and the 128K wasn't going to cut > it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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