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]
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>
>
>>>> [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
>>
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