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Jing is offline Jing
Freeciv Developer
Toronto, ON
May 2000
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One more reason to switch to Linux Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

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 is offline Mitzi
Settler
UK
May 2000
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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!

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Mitzi is offline Mitzi
Settler
UK
May 2000
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Oops, looks like my sigs died, lets try again....


Thue is offline Thue
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan 1970
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Put an end to popups!

hmm - I had forgot images were possible here...

CapTVK is offline CapTVK
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Voorburg, the Netherlands, Europe
Jan 1970
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Originally posted by Thue on 06-08-2000 11:56 AM
hmm - I had forgot images were possible here...



Cool, I have that image on my desktop. But CapTVK, don't you run windows NT?...sssshH

Kumiorava is offline Kumiorava
Prince

Jan 1970
time: 00:14
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Suffering from ads?

Jing - tell us something we didn't already know!

sigra is offline sigra
Freeciv Developer

May 2000
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And then we have this one. The new Microsoft Keyboard with all the functionality of Windows in only 3 keys:

Gjost is offline Gjost
Settler
Charlotte, NC, USA
May 2000
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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 is offline Kumiorava
Prince

Jan 1970
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Sigra: LOL

Thue is offline Thue
Freeciv Developer
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan 1970
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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.


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 is offline Kumiorava
Prince

Jan 1970
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Thue - You have as much wisdom as you deserve!

mindseye is offline mindseye
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A Yankee living in Shanghai
Apr 1999
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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)
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Thue is offline Thue
Freeciv Developer
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan 1970
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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.
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Kumiorava is offline Kumiorava
Prince

Jan 1970
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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 is offline Kumiorava
Prince

Jan 1970
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FOUND IT!

Get a load of THIS!

Check out a couple other good ones here.

Mark von Wagner is offline Mark von Wagner
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Albert in a Can
May 1999
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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).]

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Thank you for the URL to the full-size image - that was choice!

- mindseye

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May 2000
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A great free 3d-rendering program for Linux is Blender.


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