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Chris wrote:
> In article <KtCdnQr5zOh76sneRVn-1Q@rogers.com>, A. Ben Hmeda
> <abhNOCAPS@canada.EH.com> writes
>
>> Chris wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> You must admit, this is a a magnificent example of giving people what
>>> they want!
>
>
>> <snip>
>> In my book, any program that does stuff like that automagically is
>> worth un-installing.
>
> <snip>
>
> Fair enough - I am open to ideas.
> How would you do this in Debian though?
> In fact, how *do* you do it?
> Do you go through all the steps one-by-one when you want to send a picture?
> Or do you use a script to automate the process?

If I were to send many pics, then I would use gThumbs to mass-resize to
640x480 and create a web album. I browse to the directory it created and
grab the resized images from there...and delete everything else

In article <cq2dnatQTppDbMTenZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@rogers.com>, A. Ben Hmeda
<abhNOCAPS@canada.EH.com> writes
>
>If I were to send many pics, then I would use gThumbs to mass-resize to
>640x480 and create a web album. I browse to the directory it created
>and grab the resized images from there...and delete everything else

Thanks - I will keep your suggestion as a reference.
Haven't yet had time to look at gThumbs - but I take it that it
compresses the files as well as re-sizing?
--
Chris

Chris wrote:
> In article <cq2dnatQTppDbMTenZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@rogers.com>, A. Ben Hmeda
> <abhNOCAPS@canada.EH.com> writes
>
>>
>> If I were to send many pics, then I would use gThumbs to mass-resize
>> to 640x480 and create a web album. I browse to the directory it
>> created and grab the resized images from there...and delete everything
>> else
>
>
> Thanks - I will keep your suggestion as a reference.
> Haven't yet had time to look at gThumbs - but I take it that it
> compresses the files as well as re-sizing?

gThumb could be used to mass-resize pics and creates a nice web album
from these pics to be viewed by a browser

> ... - but I take it that it compresses the files as well as re-sizing?
sure it does comporess it if u select jpg, png or gif as output file
format, nothing special.

> ... - but I take it that it compresses the files as well as re-sizing?
sure it does compress it if u select jpg, png or gif as output file
format, nothing special.

Chris wrote:
> How can Linux benefit from Microsoft?
>
> A very strange thought!
> But consider.
> What does Microsoft have? Money and power.
>
> That means they can find out what people want.
> (It is *extremely* expensive to find out what people want!)

Open Source software is created by people trying to solve their own
needs. While it is not the result of massively expensive market
research, it is about an individual finding a way to solve their own
problem. In essence one of the thesis of Open Source is that given that
the source to everything is readily available, a percentage of users
will be motivated to improve it to better meet their needs and the best
solutions/improvements will work their way back into what all of us use.

If you use OpenSource long enough while you will certainly find a few
ways in which Windows is friendlier or does a better job, you will also
discover inumerable ways in which OpenSource tools are better and
friendlier.

I am a software developer. I take both windows and Linux (and other
projects). When doing windows development, I run coLinux under windows
so that I always have a Linux environment available that I can use to
work on my windows projects. There are many programming tasks that can
be performed trivially just by dropping to Linux and scripting together
the tools needed.


One of the hardest things about migrating - from anything to anything,
is it does not matter if the destination is significantly better than
the source, Outlook Users will not migrate to Thunderbird, Office users
will not migrate to OpenOffice, until they can easily perform - usually
exactly the same way that subset of tasks that they do routinely.
Conversely, once you migrate, you will not return even when the
underlying problem that caused you to move gets fixed for exactly the
same reason. Microsoft continues to bleed users to Firefox. Even if IE
is fixed sufficiently to stem the loss, getting the users that left back
can not occur until IE supports the FireFox features like tabbed
browsing they have come to depend on.

Obviously OpenSource developers should borrow good ideas from Microsoft
- just as Microsoft "borrows" ideas. But OpenSource Developers are
scratching their own itch, and that is more likely to produce useful
innovations for all of us.








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In article <bUednVlV6qPsvL3ZUSdV9g@ptd.net>, David H. Lynch Jr. writes
>Chris wrote:
>> How can Linux benefit from Microsoft?
>>
>> A very strange thought!
>> But consider.
>> What does Microsoft have? Money and power.
>>
>> That means they can find out what people want.
>> (It is *extremely* expensive to find out what people want!)
>
> Open Source software is created by people trying to solve their own
>needs. While it is not the result of massively expensive market
>research, it is about an individual finding a way to solve their own
>problem. In essence one of the thesis of Open Source is that given that
>the source to everything is readily available, a percentage of users
>will be motivated to improve it to better meet their needs and the best
>solutions/improvements will work their way back into what all of us use.
>
> If you use OpenSource long enough while you will certainly find a few
>ways in which Windows is friendlier or does a better job, you will also
>discover inumerable ways in which OpenSource tools are better and
>friendlier.
>
> I am a software developer. I take both windows and Linux (and other
>projects). When doing windows development, I run coLinux under windows
>so that I always have a Linux environment available that I can use to
>work on my windows projects. There are many programming tasks that can
>be performed trivially just by dropping to Linux and scripting together
>the tools needed.
>
>
> One of the hardest things about migrating - from anything to anything,
>is it does not matter if the destination is significantly better than
>the source, Outlook Users will not migrate to Thunderbird, Office users
>will not migrate to OpenOffice, until they can easily perform - usually
>exactly the same way that subset of tasks that they do routinely.
>Conversely, once you migrate, you will not return even when the
>underlying problem that caused you to move gets fixed for exactly the
>same reason. Microsoft continues to bleed users to Firefox. Even if IE
>is fixed sufficiently to stem the loss, getting the users that left back
>can not occur until IE supports the FireFox features like tabbed
>browsing they have come to depend on.
>
> Obviously OpenSource developers should borrow good ideas from Microsoft
>- just as Microsoft "borrows" ideas. But OpenSource Developers are
>scratching their own itch, and that is more likely to produce useful
>innovations for all of us.

Good ideas - well expressed. Interesting. Thankyou.
--
Chris

i don't trust Monopoly$oft anymore. their code is hidden and only viewable
by the chosen ones. i'll never use their overpriced infected crap again.






Chris wrote:

> In article <bUednVlV6qPsvL3ZUSdV9g@ptd.net>, David H. Lynch Jr. writes
>>Chris wrote:
>>> How can Linux benefit from Microsoft?
>>>
>>> A very strange thought!
>>> But consider.
>>> What does Microsoft have? Money and power.
>>>
>>> That means they can find out what people want.
>>> (It is *extremely* expensive to find out what people want!)
>>
>> Open Source software is created by people trying to solve their own
>>needs. While it is not the result of massively expensive market
>>research, it is about an individual finding a way to solve their own
>>problem. In essence one of the thesis of Open Source is that given that
>>the source to everything is readily available, a percentage of users
>>will be motivated to improve it to better meet their needs and the best
>>solutions/improvements will work their way back into what all of us use.
>>
>> If you use OpenSource long enough while you will certainly find a
>> few
>>ways in which Windows is friendlier or does a better job, you will also
>>discover inumerable ways in which OpenSource tools are better and
>>friendlier.
>>
>> I am a software developer. I take both windows and Linux (and other
>>projects). When doing windows development, I run coLinux under windows
>>so that I always have a Linux environment available that I can use to
>>work on my windows projects. There are many programming tasks that can
>>be performed trivially just by dropping to Linux and scripting together
>>the tools needed.
>>
>>
>> One of the hardest things about migrating - from anything to
>> anything,
>>is it does not matter if the destination is significantly better than
>>the source, Outlook Users will not migrate to Thunderbird, Office users
>>will not migrate to OpenOffice, until they can easily perform - usually
>>exactly the same way that subset of tasks that they do routinely.
>>Conversely, once you migrate, you will not return even when the
>>underlying problem that caused you to move gets fixed for exactly the
>>same reason. Microsoft continues to bleed users to Firefox. Even if IE
>>is fixed sufficiently to stem the loss, getting the users that left back
>>can not occur until IE supports the FireFox features like tabbed
>>browsing they have come to depend on.
>>
>> Obviously OpenSource developers should borrow good ideas from
>> Microsoft
>>- just as Microsoft "borrows" ideas. But OpenSource Developers are
>>scratching their own itch, and that is more likely to produce useful
>>innovations for all of us.
>
> Good ideas - well expressed. Interesting. Thankyou.