Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 19:25:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> To: 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: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910231922250.17094-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910221311050.15490-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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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. 3) It was rushed. Nik was posting it, and the 128K wasn't going to cut it. -=========================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet, Regional Internet Services System Administrator 7 Area Codes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana jer@jorsm.com 100Mbps+ Connectivity, 56K-DS3, V.90, ISDN support@jorsm.com Quality Service, Affordable Prices http://www.jorsm.com Serving Gov't, Business, Individuals Since 1995 -=========================================================================- On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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