GIMP creates huge GIF files
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:35:39 GMT
Here's a 573x573 pixel PNG image that is just 415 bytes in size:
http://i37.tinypic.com/6icpqp.png
But if I load it into the GIMP and save it in GIF format, then it becomes
50068 bytes in size. I knew that GIFs could be inefficient compared to
PNGs, but that's 120 times larger!
I intended to create a simple ...
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X-Window resize events ...
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:29:14 +0000 (UTC)
So a frustration I've been having as of late is that after a recent
security update (Debian, Etch) xterm window resize events don't appear
to be getting through. So I'm in 'vi' (or nano, or some other text based
app that knows what to do when it gets a resize event) and I change the
xterm size and the application ...
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Virgin Media Broadband
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:05:18 +0100
Is anyone using this with Linux. Is it OK?
The Virgin sales people think it will only work with Windows XP or Vista, or
Mac OSX. This seems unlikely as the actual connection is to a DSL modem
either using an Ethernet cable or wireless.
Chris Gordon-Smith
www.simsoup.info
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movement on this more money jobs
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:31:38 -0700 (PDT)
http://candapud.blogspot.com/ ...
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Linux on the BBC
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:21:52 +0100
This article has just been pointed out to me by someone I've been trying to
convince (in a spectacularly unsuccessful way) to use Linux.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594249.stm
Ho hum ...
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Geoff
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Why Python
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:49:26 +0100
In answer to Chris Davies' request in another thread about python please
look at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882, I think it's an
interesting article but please put on the standard ESR goggles first.
I like Python and I program in it more often than anything else but I'm not
going to recommend it to ...
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Linux friendly MP3 player
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:46:20 GMT
Hi all,
Posted this over on alt.music.mp3.hardware but thought there may be some
people in here with advice too.
I'm currently using an oldish 40 Gig iPod in my car, running Rockbox. This
is almost full now, and getting a bit long in the tooth, so I'm on the
lookout for a suitable replacement.
Basic requir ...
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Samsung ML-1640 printer problem
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:49:38 +0100
I bought this printer today but cannot make it work with MDV2008.1 system.
Printerdrake does not have a driver for it, so I installed the driver
provided on the disk. It actually installed 3 drivers, CLP300, ML2010 &
ML1640. I can't get any printing with any of the three drivers.
The printer is OK, I attached i ...
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Domain registration
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:30:35 +0100
Anyone care to recommend a domain reg? I want a co.uk that points to a host
I've already set up.
Simon ...
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Konqueror and Javascript
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:49:22 +0100
Perhaps a silly question, but I would like to disable Javascript in
browsers, but if I disable it globally, then sites that require it still
refuse to work, even though I put in their URLs to the 'Allow Javascript'
configuration. The sites that currently are most important to me are
https://webmailcluster.1and1.co ...
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