There has got to be an Alternative…
Monday, June 6th, 2005..or are we all to be irrevocably assimilated by evil conglomerates?
The other day, I got my Bay of Bisay pictures back and so I wanted (finally!) to blog about that magical day at sea. So this morning I sat down to extract my pictures from the CD and—aaaahhhhrrrgg— not photos! Dozens of little ‘.gif’ files which turned out to be graphics for AOL. Eh??
I rooted around some more and found promising folders (‘pics’) but they were all empty. I opened Mozilla and looked at the single HTML file which promised an extra cheap deal for signing up to AOL. By now I was fuming (AOL, even if it was free, is useless for LINUX users). Where were my photos?
John reckons they compressed them and hid them in the 6 Megabyte software package on the CD. I have never seen any photo CD which did not have the images as separate files for me to extract with the glorious GIMP. He has taken the thing and will extract the pictures on his Microshit™ labtop. I have cautioned him that AOL might hijack his internet setup and try to force his workplace to subscribe to their services (that has happened to me with another ISP when I clicked on automatic upgrades on my old work labtop which was running the doomed Windows 2000 OS—I was officially advised to upgrade constantly because of the many security holes in that release.
<rant>Only Microsoft gets away with bullying people into buying faulty products. I ask you, when your wheels come off on the motorway and your brakes fail would you still get you car fixed at Kwickfit? No—garages are forced to provide an honest service, but Microshit owns our souls! </rant>).
So, I’m sorry but the Biscay writeup will have to wait a while.
Denni