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Topic: One more reason to switch to Linux |  |
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Jing
Freeciv Developer
New York, NY, USA
May 2000
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posted June 08, 2000 09:53
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OK, I said before that I am not here to convert anyone to Linux and will refrain from bashing Windows, but this is much more serious than an OS war. Read this and see if you are as angry as I am. I do hope the sound I hear is Micro$oft digging its own grave.Sorry about the off-topic post, but someone has to spread the word. |
Mitzi
Settler
UK
May 2000
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posted June 08, 2000 11:02
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I think its great that M$ have decided to do this, may give people a slap in the face and persuade them into looking into alternate OS's when their Windoze installation DOES fail and lets face it, it will, sooner rather than later!------------------
<a href="http://www.mitzi.f2s.com" target="_blank"></a> |
Mitzi
Settler
UK
May 2000
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posted June 08, 2000 11:03
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Oops, looks like my sigs died, lets try again....
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Thue
Freeciv Developer
b.02-15-99
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posted June 08, 2000 11:56
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hmm - I had forgot images were possible here...
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CapTVK
Prince
Voorburg, the Netherlands, Europe
b.02-15-99
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posted June 08, 2000 14:19
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quote:
Originally posted by Thue on 06-08-2000 11:56 AM
hmm - I had forgot images were possible here...
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Cool, I have that image on my desktop. But CapTVK, don't you run windows NT?...sssshH  |
Kumiorava
Warlord
of the Elastic Mammals
b.02-15-99
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posted June 09, 2000 10:22
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Jing - tell us something we didn't already know!  |
sigra
Settler
May 2000
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posted June 11, 2000 02:41
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And then we have this one. The new Microsoft Keyboard with all the functionality of Windows in only 3 keys:
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Gjost
Settler
Charlotte, NC, USA
May 2000
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posted June 12, 2000 21:10
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Bah, you all owe your ability to complain in this medium to Microsoft. And if you think I'm full of crap then you have about as much wisdom as you deserve. |
Kumiorava
Warlord
of the Elastic Mammals
b.02-15-99
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posted June 12, 2000 21:23
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Sigra: LOL  |
Thue
Freeciv Developer
b.02-15-99
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posted June 13, 2000 05:03
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Originally posted by Gjost on 06-12-2000 09:10 PM
Bah, you all owe your ability to complain in this medium to Microsoft. And if you think I'm full of crap then you have about as much wisdom as you deserve.
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What part of doing this post do I owe to M$ then?
And if you answer the computer industri in generel, I doubt it, go check what the judge said about how M$ inhibited the industry. |
Kumiorava
Warlord
of the Elastic Mammals
b.02-15-99
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posted June 13, 2000 22:19
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Thue - You have as much wisdom as you deserve! |
mindseye
Prince
San Francisco, CA, USA
Apr 99
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posted June 14, 2000 04:19
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Hey Thue!How are you! Can I ask you a question - that hilarious image a few postings above ("Good evening, Mr. Gates")... what piece of Linux software was that created with? - mindseye (a/k/a Tim Smith)
[This message has been edited by mindseye (edited June 14, 2000).] |
Thue
Freeciv Developer
b.02-15-99
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posted June 14, 2000 04:37
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I don't know about that specifik picture. But I do know that the main graphics program on linux is the GIMP. It is (of course) free, and the source code is available.
I haven't used it much, but I hear there is a few things about it that could be done better, fx the user interface that is mostly done through right click menus.
Any decent linux distribution should ship with it.
[This message has been edited by Thue (edited June 14, 2000).] |
Kumiorava
Warlord
of the Elastic Mammals
b.02-15-99
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posted June 14, 2000 10:26
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The GIMP is sweet. Once you learn how to use it, its an exellent replacement for Photoshop. And if you happen to know perl, then you can really squeeze a lot out of it. How ever, the picture Thue posted earlier is only a thumbnail size version of the much larger original. Parts of the image are rendered, and I don't know what tools the artist might have used for that. Any idea where one could find the full sized original? |
Kumiorava
Warlord
of the Elastic Mammals
b.02-15-99
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posted June 14, 2000 10:36
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FOUND IT!Get a load of THIS! Check out a couple other good ones here. |
Mark von Wagner
Prince
of Peace
May 99
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posted June 15, 2000 01:06
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If parts of the image are rendered, they were probably rendered with POV-Ray, another open-source program.    
[This message has been edited by Mark von Wagner (edited June 17, 2000).] |
mindseye
Prince
San Francisco, CA, USA
Apr 99
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posted June 15, 2000 22:08
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Thank you for the URL to the full-size image - that was choice! - mindseye |
deepone
Freeciv Developer
May 2000
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posted June 16, 2000 19:17
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A great free 3d-rendering program for Linux is Blender.
[This message has been edited by deepone (edited June 16, 2000).]
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