2008/9/22 Bill Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Igor, > > Ah, but you miss the point, wise and kind sir :) Dumbing down users > makes them less able to pirate software. > yeah, yeah.. "don't copy that floppy". Maybe i have a bad morale, but i'm still finding it really weird, why one should feel sin by making a copy. He should feel sin, when he using the software with no legal right of using it. But declaring making a copy is illegal is something completely different.
> That aside, assuming I unzip the files into a folder of my chosing[*] > and run Pharo.exe, what should happen? I will unzip it elsewhere to see > what I find. One of my attempts lead to "file not found." It looks too > correct to be corrupt download, so I'm thinking MS is tripping up over > file names. > maybe you have a kind of anti-virus, which checks downloads (even zipped ones) and tripping files from it? :) The progress demands from the software to be more and more clever nowadays :) > Bill > > [*] Seriously, each update cycle, this particular XP box gets weirder > and weirder. > > > > > > Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. > University of Florida > Department of Anesthesiology > PO Box 100254 > Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (352) 273-6785 > FAX: (352) 392-7029 > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/22/2008 12:28:05 PM >>> > 2008/9/22 Bill Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I appeared to get a valid download, but something isn't right. Is > the >> idea to download, unzip (MS seems to make this flakier with every >> update???), and then launch Pharo.exe? Are there separate image and >> change files? I do not see them, just a LOT of folders/files that > are >> giving my Java flashbacks. >> > > MS people invented term of 'installing software' , while in most cases > it can be done by simply copying files. > And one of the results of such 'invention' that now people simply > can't make simplest things like unpacking acrhive to choosen folder > and run the program by themselves - they think in a terms of 'icon on > desktop' or 'icon in the launch menu'.. A progress. What i can say. > > >From this POV, the distribution is still far away from the > 'one-click', because , in my vision, a single click should be in > browser, and after this click you should have everything up and > running on your PC. :) > >> My assumption was that this is a prepared image with Polymorph and > TT >> loaded, and on seeing the structure, I figured it was a Sophie-like >> distribution. Are my expectations skewed? Please let me know if I > am >> missing something. Otherwise, I will try this again later. >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. >> University of Florida >> Department of Anesthesiology >> PO Box 100254 >> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 >> >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Tel: (352) 273-6785 >> FAX: (352) 392-7029 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
