From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 18:40:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A9037B506 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:40:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17865; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:40:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdQ17863; Thu Aug 3 11:40:03 2000 Message-ID: <023801bffcec$5874e340$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <014e01bffcb8$7d46fed0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000802215841.A36147@mithrandr.moria.org> <01a201bffcc0$9f2c6370$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <2000080222 Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:44:18 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks Andrei I know its a bit poxy right now but I'm working on some updates that should make it halfway presentable in a week or so. I know FreeBSD has a script that lets one capture stuff printed to screen (anyone know what its called & how to use it ??) however I don't know that the script thingy is practical for a new installation. From the compliments I've received it sure appears that what newbies want is plenty of pretty pics instead words in some unknown language. If there's a practical way to cut the pics back in size or compress them without losing more resolution from the already so-so jpg's it would be a "very good thing". They are far lighter than I started with, but obviously part of the reason why the site is dreadfully slow .... too many pics per page too but ran out of time :( ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:06 AM Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view > > > Doug Young wrote: > > > > Can't say I saw a mention of it on the doc@FreeBSD.org mailing list. > > > > > The thing was produced primarily to assist members of a non-profit internet > > group to setup gateway boxes for their permanent dialup modem connections, > > although many of the FreeBSD newbies have used it for whatever purpose. > > Great site, many thanks !!! > > > [..] from the current 13 odd Mb without removing the pics, > > It does create real life feeling I agree, but maybe lite version > would be useful too for those on slow modems ? > Actually all of your pictures are screen shots of 80X25 (?) VGA > screen, ASCII symbol and color. I'd just bet the money that it can > be compressed to hell less, be day light distribution and curvature > of the monitor together with its boundaries given smaller priority > in compression. I vagually remeber reading something about already > existing compressor being able to do it. I can dig in comp.compression > if there is any interest. > > > [...] > > Andrei > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message