From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32 19 Sep 1998 22:27:06 -0700 Message-ID: <19980919150709.10326.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1e.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Steve Morris , gnu-win32 Gifs will be gone by Monday afternoon EDT if not sooner. ---Steve Morris wrote: > > > John A. Turner writes: > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > > > I have started creating this announced web page. Feel free to take a > > > look. > > > > Looks like it will be a great resource. > > > > But please, ditch the silly animated gifs. Please. > > I second that on both counts. Great page. Thanks. It is going to the top of my > bookmark file. I'm looking forward to its evolution. > > soapbox on. > > However animated gifs cause netscape to continuously take up cpu cycles on my > Sparc and, more important for me, forces vm swapping to/from disk. It forces > swapping when I have a lot of things running. I prefer netscape to be as quiet > as possible when I don't give it a command. Animated gifs degrade the > performance on my system. Animated gifs force me to leave your page everytime > I want to do something else. > > As to why I am reading a win32 based web page on my sparc that's another story > although I suspect the cpu cycle and swapping issue would be the same on my NT > box (or my Linux box.) Animated gifs are great for people who are only using > the browser. They are bad for reference pages. > > Soapbox off. > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > == - \\||// -----------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------ -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://freeyellow.com/members5/gw32 -- --------------ooo0O--O0ooo--------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".