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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 08/26/05 11:21
_____/ On Friday 26 August 2005 08:55, [Blinky the Shark] wrote : \_____
> It really pissed me off. The bugs were just frustrating. The
> Full-Strength Over-The-Top-Deal Killer was that some kind of site
> management utility would pop up in my kicker bar and WOULD NOT DIE. I'd
> kill the process and it'd start right back up. It was The Util From
> Hell. Believe it or not, even after I uninstalled kBear, I think that
> util's bin was still there and I had to track the little bastard down
> and remove it by hand. Grrrrr!
You have sharp teeth. I'm sure you managed.
I tried it a couple of hours ago for the first time. I feel your pain.
Hopefully it does not consume much space. It sure was time-consuming.
The conclusion: never download programs that are called after an animal,
e.g. eMule, KBear, BonzyBuddy (if that counts as an animal)...
....with the exception of the Firefox suite...
>>> Then when I checked out the Firefox FireFTP extension, I liked it and
>>> have been using it ever since.
>>
>> That FireFTP extension is getting my site about 500 visitors a month
>> (I wrote about it when it came out). It is rather buggy though. I use
>> it only at home when I make my bi-weekly backup of new photos. I just
>> need to open a new tab and toss it in some Webspace. Very efficient...
>
> The only thing I've seen with the version I have <clickety> (0.88.3) is
> that once in a while I'll come back to it after not using it for a long
> time, and it will still show as connected when it's really not. That
> just requires me to click Disconnect before hitting Connect, so it's
> not really even an aggravation for me.
I only use it to upload one file at a time (a compressed archive). It has
bad handling of recursive operations and it doesn't seem to be maintained
anymore. I could be wrong...
>>> Wait! I said I'd never have thought about using a browser...
>>>
>>> Well, I'm not *exactly* using a browser. ;)
>>>
>>> Datapoint: Mandrake/KDE here.
>>
>> Try KDE. You can't beat drag-and-drop that's also multi-threaded. I
>
> Try it? I've used it every day for three years. :)
As an FTP client, that is. Maybe I misunderstood you.
>> think my version of KDE (3.1) does not support secure FTP
>> authentication though, so I can't use KDE alone. That's why I
>> sometimes use gFTP.
>>
>>
>>>> I do the same thing with KDE's thumbnail gallery generator.
>>>
>>> Hey, what's that called?
>>
>> Open a location in File Management mode, Top menu -> Tools -> Create
>> Image gallery.
>
> No such animal. KDE 3.1.3 / Konq 3.1.4.
Odd... I am fairly sure it's still alive in 3.4. Even with the same default
settings and colours...
>> With some enhancements, you can produce some beautiful pages, handling
>> thousands of pictures with just the command-line.
>>
>> One among many...
>>
>>
http://www.schestowitz.com/Family_Photos/Webcam/2005/07/10072005/images.html
>>
>> All generated by the Übergreat KDE.
>
> I must have a crippled trial copy. ;)
have you got Pixie Plus (if not, download it). File -> Make Web Image
Gallery. Lots of widgets to play with in there... never practically used it
though because I discovered the former tool first.
Roy
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