Re: GIMP 2.2 splash screen contest

2004-12-04 Thread Greg Rundlett
Greg Rundlett wrote: All the entries are here: http://gimp.org/contest/gallery.cgi My entry is here: http://gimp.org/contest/gallery.cgi?display=imagename=2004120406421820315 There is also an unofficial voting page[1] that actually makes it easy to see the whole gallery of images. [1]

Question about installing Linux on a Dell

2004-12-04 Thread Numberwhun
Hello everyone! I recently purchased (and am waiting for the delivery of ) a new Dell Inspiron 9200 ( 17 display, 1920x1200, 1 gig ram, 100gig internal hd, 250 gig external hd, dual 9cell batteries) which I pimped out as it is going to have to last me a while. I have been doing some searching

Re: Question about installing Linux on a Dell

2004-12-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
I don't have specific info about the laptop in question but, unfortunately, it seems to be very common these days for laptop manufacturers (as well as the manufacturers of the various components) to be just howlingly stupid about Linux support. It's infuriating! For example, I have Debian

Re: unformat??

2004-12-04 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:39, Benjamin Scott wrote: For my own personal data, I learned that lesson the hard way myself. Then a few years later, I became complacent and got to learn it again. Reality is a persistent instructor. I burn my backups onto DVD-R(W) these days, as well as keep

Re: unformat??

2004-12-04 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:56, Mark Komarinski wrote: ... There are two kinds of people in the IT world: Those who make backup copies, and those who will wish they had. The third is those who have a potential (key word) data crash, panic, discover they didn't really lose the 30G of

Re: GIMP 2.2 splash screen contest

2004-12-04 Thread Fred
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 04:38, Brian Chabot wrote: ... Many if not all of them look fabulous. Ditto. My major concern though, is whether or when they will work on reducing the load time and footprint for the plugins. Making them load-on-demand would certainly help, as would unloading them

ROI in OSS (was: GIMP 2.2 splash screen ...)

2004-12-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 8:07pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I kinda like Gimp's GUI the way it is and would not want to see it changed just to win over a handful of Photoshop lovers. A handful of Photoshop users? Heh. When it comes to graphics on desktop computers, there's Photoshop, and then

Re: Question about installing Linux on a Dell

2004-12-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 12:42pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased ... a new Dell Inspiron 9200 ... I have been doing some searching on places like google and cannot really find anyone that has installed Linux on this particular model. Well, a couple academic points: One should

Re: unformat??

2004-12-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 9:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard stories about some rather interesting installs for people who... lets just say they paint houses... ... and fly around in black helicopters powered by devices obtained from crashed alien spacecraft, I'm sure. ;-) I've seen

Re: Question about installing Linux on a Dell

2004-12-04 Thread Michael Sh
Hi Jeff, I've tinkered with various versions and flavors of Linux on everything from servers to notebooks to iMacs, and there were a few Dells in the bunch, the only machine that really gave me issues was an old Racer with an AMD K6-2, that refused to accept anything other than Libranet or

Re: unformat??

2004-12-04 Thread Jared Watkins
Benjamin Scott wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 9:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard stories about some rather interesting installs for people who... lets just say they paint houses... ... and fly around in black helicopters powered by devices obtained from crashed alien spacecraft,