Been watching the numbers, average item is downloaded ~850 times the first month, most of those the first week. So a 1Meg item, on average, will generate 850Meg of traffic. Doesn't take too many megs of free stuff to eat up the transfer for a "free" or most small hosting accounts. Biggest reason I'll host it for free, have many gigs to spare...

Love 'em! The classic battle of "good" versus "evil." Finally! a moral message from poser! (Uh... can you make the costumes "rip away" easily?) :p

Thanks, shot an e-mail. (and if you need hosting space for free stuff: www.geekantics.net/render/submit.html Some space available at the moment, and should be a LOT more by the end of the week.)

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No one would argue that, but most would prefer using window's "search" to find all files with "curly" in the name over typing in "ls -alR | grep curly" at a UNIX prompt. I'd also rather drag and drop from a file manager than enter something like "cp ../../../../../home/whisker/*.zip ." to move files around. CLI has it's place, but GUI's are easier to learn, more efficient for people who type like I do (fat-fingered,) and less intimidating for users who just want their applications to work.

Gotta agree with Little Dragon, "Steven" is the best reason not to buy a Dell. :) We may complain about the stability of windows, or Microsoft's "marketing" techniques, but they played a major role in the growth of the PC industry by making PC's easier to use for "non-geeks," which meant more people buying them, more manufacturers making them, and more "bang for the buck" for everyone. My first PC was a 10 Mhz 286 running DOS 3.x, with a 20 Meg hard drive, no speakers, EGA monitor, 512K of RAM, dot-matrix printer, and cost just over $3,000. Now, I can get ~1000 times the performance for a third of that price. For that, I'm grateful.

Jaqui, I feel the same way you do, but it does depend on the organization's circumstances. For a small/mid-sized company that needs a windoze administrator anyway, it may make sense to use windows servers if they don't have to hire an additional unix administrator, and some organizations can also afford more down-time than others. The availabilty of unix people also varies geographically, and some people are simply afraid of unix. (I'm a fan of unix, but see both sides.)

You deserve the $$$! Unfortunately, that's one reason windoze is catching on more in network environments. Windows administrators are easier to find (and usually less expensive) that Unix administrators, so so even though windows software is more expensive and less reliable, it's often cheaper to run in a commercial environment. Sad, but true...

I'd love to see poser on Linux, but I can't see the economics of it. Windoze and Unix have different strengths. Windoze is easier to use but isn't so stable, so is better for users who just want their applications to work most of the time. Unix is MUCH more stable but less user friendly, so is better where stability is important (eg. network servers) or for people who like getting into the "nuts and bolts" of the OS. (I use both for different things.)

Great catch Jon! The server logs even indicate some failures because of people trying to download "www.geekantics.net/render/billy-home/First" (incomplete file name.) I copied the files into the same directory with new names to eliminate the spaces, then adjusted the html to reflect it. Should be fine now on the browsers that don't like spaces. THANX! (from the Geek at Geek Antics) :)

They seem fine, can you try again?

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Can't remember the exact quote, but there's one to the effect "There are no problems so great that they can't be solved with the proper use of high explosives." Also got "(bang-bang) Maxwell's silver hammer" floating around in my head now. THANKS A LOT FOLKS! :p

There are very few problems that can't be solved with a large hammer...