From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 29 9:12:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDC5154A8 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA23809 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 01:41:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Message-ID: <19991025102409.34180@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:24:09 -0600 From: Greg Lehey To: Jeremy Shaffner , Brett Taylor Cc: Gregory Sutter , Mike Tancsa , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Well, FreeBSDCon has already made it into upside magazine... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Jeremy Shaffner on Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:25:17PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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