Subject: Re: : CS 1.2 : new zImage-prep 2.2.15 and scsi reset bug (?)
From: Peter M. Bagnall (pete@surfaceeffect.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 16:52:51 MST
>I have a 56k modem (connected at 45333 right now) and his image did not take
>THAT long to DL (a few minutes [800K/270K/min]). Yes I agree it could have
>been compressed better (hopefully without lessening readability). Now if the
>image was > 1 MB I could understand, but it was less than 1 MB, so what's a
>few minutes?
It's more annoying when you don't have free local phone calls! It took me
about 5 minutes to fetch my mail, compared to about 30 seconds normally.
If you can I prefer it if you can put things like that up on an FTP or web
site and give a URL. POP seems to very inefficient for transfering binaries
from my ISP (or is that a general thing with POP). I normally tell people
that sending pictures by email is impolite unless they've asked people if
it's ok first. Also with lists there are several hundred people potentially
losing a few minutes. That adds up to a lot of time. Many lists simply
don't allow you to send attatchments for this reason. The other point is
many email clients don't multitask, so you can't read mail while your
fetching. I'm using Eudora under MacOS, at it suffers from this.
Having said all that if you do need to send images there are things you can
do to help out. It is well worth cropping them as tightly as you can. If
you can it's also worth making the image greyscale rather than full colour.
Having done this and saved it as a medium quality JPEG it went from 550k
down to 52k which probably isn't a problem in email.
The main thing to do though is crop. That makes the most difference. Much
more that you might imagine. Hope those are helpful hints. I don't mean to
spoil anyone's fun!
Cheers
Pete
-- Peter M. Bagnall pete@surfaceeffect.com - http://www.surfaceeffect.com/
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