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From: dorayme on 25 Feb 2010 17:38 In article <m2mxyxt13z.fsf(a)nntp.bednarz.nl>, Eric Bednarz <bednarz(a)fahr-zur-hoelle.org> wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(a)web.de> writes: > > > … (let's face it, the Mac is primarily about cool > > design, > > I am not familiar with that expression; is it related to the design of > ventilation systems for extreme hardware conditions, like in the MacBook > Air? ! <g> -- dorayme
From: Ed Mullen on 25 Feb 2010 20:55 Jonathan N. Little wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> jeff wrote: >> >>> Stan Brown wrote: >>>> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:25:43 -0500 from jeff<jeff_thies(a)att.net>: >>>>> A thumbnail 100px x 50px, does not carry a lot of detail. >>>>> >>>>> There are no hard and fast rules. Just guidelines. >>>> >>>> One "rookie mistake" is resizing the whole picture. Often it is much >>>> better to crop it first,then resize only the interesting part to make >>>> the thumbnail. >>>> >>>> Extremely easy to do in Irfanview: mouse, Ctrl-Y, Ctrl-R, select >>>> size, S (for Save As). >>>> >>> What a fabulous free program that is. Er, it is supposed to be free? >> >> Google is your friend. [psf 6.1] >> >> IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free or Open >> Source software, and it is Windows-only. > > It is not OpenSource but it is *free* for non-commercial use, so for > most people that is "free" enough. > > "IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial > use (that means at home)." > > http://www.irfanview.com/ > > >> I have not tried the keyboard >> shortcuts yet, but generally the same can be done with The GIMP, which is >> free software, and consequently can run natively almost everywhere. > > True, but IrfanView can do quite a lot with a much simplified interface. > The batch feature does not require programing experience like Gimp so it > is more accessible for the home user. So handy that I have in on my > Ubuntu boxes via Wine. A Linux port would be nice. > And it can also run on a Flash Drive installation. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Let the machine get it.
From: Stan Brown on 26 Feb 2010 07:11 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:48:14 +0100 from Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(a)web.de>: > Google is your friend. [psf 6.1] > > IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free Funny, the author disagrees. Irfanview most certainly *is* free. The very first sentence of http://irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm begins "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer" Donations are requested (and I made one some time ago), but payment is not required. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ validator: http://validator.w3.org/ CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Why We Won't Help You: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 26 Feb 2010 08:05 Stan Brown wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free > > Funny, the author disagrees. > > Irfanview most certainly *is* free. The very first sentence of > http://irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm > begins > "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE > (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer" When you misquote, you can argue anything. Thomas's full phrase, which you snipped inappropriately, said: "IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free or Open Source software, .." "Free or Open Source" is a group of words frequently used together, especially in the Linux world. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: Stan Brown on 26 Feb 2010 13:32
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:05:06 -0500 from Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous(a)example.invalid>: > > Stan Brown wrote: > > > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > >> IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free > > > > Funny, the author disagrees. > > > > Irfanview most certainly *is* free. The very first sentence of > > http://irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm > > begins > > "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE > > (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer" > > When you misquote, you can argue anything. Certainly, but I did not misquote. > Thomas's full phrase, which you snipped inappropriately, said: > "IrfanView can be downloaded free of charge, but it is not free or Open > Source software, .." > > "Free or Open Source" is a group of words frequently used together, > especially in the Linux world. Perhaps. But that's kind of irrelevant to a Windows-only program, isn't it? In any event, what the PP said in English is that it's not free software (false) and it's not open source (true). I can't imagine why the PP chose to capitalize "Open Source", but that further undercuts your premise since the PP did *not* capitalize "free". -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ validator: http://validator.w3.org/ CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Why We Won't Help You: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you |