So, I'm not familiar with the asking for things policy around here, but I couldn't find a sub-board for this. Here goes:
In my spare time, I read comic books from the internet in order to maintain my sanity. The most common method of archiving these comic book images is to dump a load of Jpegs in a zip or rar file and pushing it out where I can save it on my HDD and view it any time I want. Comical (comical.sourceforge) lets me point at the archive and read the comic book as if I had it in my lap, two pages at a time, etc..
I know the project hasnt been update for a few years, but it was the thing I really missed when I switched over from fedora (FC4). It's also a bit difficult to get working on any given version of *buntu, due to it's oldness. I'm not a programmer, and the packages it depends on have evolved while it has not, and it's gotten to the point where I **cannot** meet the compilation dependencies no matter what I try. (at least, not without spending 10 hours compiling things, and we network engineers are strapped to our routers and switches 25/8. I think our network has a protocol running that determines when I am most busy and then fails. Dynamic Anger Multiplying Network, or something like that.)
So my choices were: A, maintain a legacy system that can watch my comic books; B, migrate to a distro that has it; or C, ask for the package to be put in the repo.
There are a couple of good security reasons not to do A, various professional reasons not to do B*, and that left C.
Pretty please?
*(Imagine being asked by the IT oversight board at my job why I'm pushing a product for the enterprise that I wont use personally. In public sector, that leads to corruption charges and arrests...)
Edited, capitalization and spelling. You know it's bad when my first instinct was to make fun of myself... :P
In my spare time, I read comic books from the internet in order to maintain my sanity. The most common method of archiving these comic book images is to dump a load of Jpegs in a zip or rar file and pushing it out where I can save it on my HDD and view it any time I want. Comical (comical.sourceforge) lets me point at the archive and read the comic book as if I had it in my lap, two pages at a time, etc..
I know the project hasnt been update for a few years, but it was the thing I really missed when I switched over from fedora (FC4). It's also a bit difficult to get working on any given version of *buntu, due to it's oldness. I'm not a programmer, and the packages it depends on have evolved while it has not, and it's gotten to the point where I **cannot** meet the compilation dependencies no matter what I try. (at least, not without spending 10 hours compiling things, and we network engineers are strapped to our routers and switches 25/8. I think our network has a protocol running that determines when I am most busy and then fails. Dynamic Anger Multiplying Network, or something like that.)
So my choices were: A, maintain a legacy system that can watch my comic books; B, migrate to a distro that has it; or C, ask for the package to be put in the repo.
There are a couple of good security reasons not to do A, various professional reasons not to do B*, and that left C.
Pretty please?
*(Imagine being asked by the IT oversight board at my job why I'm pushing a product for the enterprise that I wont use personally. In public sector, that leads to corruption charges and arrests...)
Edited, capitalization and spelling. You know it's bad when my first instinct was to make fun of myself... :P
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