Re: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why Triggers?)

En réponse à Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:

>
> > I think it's Acrobat Reader working with Internet Explorer which is
> very
> > slow.
> >
> > And how did you do that, if I may ask? Because that's interesting.
>
> My university faculty in Utrecht holds a campus license which is valid
> for
> all students of the UU as well. So I just borrowed the installation
> disk
> from the Facultaire Computer Groep, and made a copy for my own use.
>
Lucky you! My status is quite difficult. I'm emplyed by the Stichting FOM, so
I'm not an employee of the TU Delft, which make things quite difficult
sometimes. On the other hands, being a FOM employee, I get advantages that TU
Delft employees don't get. So let's say that's even :) .

>
> TU Delft has a Surfnet connection. There is not much that can beat that,
> I
> think.
>
Me neither :) .

>
> > Reading PDF-files through the browser is the only case where it
> happens
> > to be slow. That's why I'm a little concerned about
> > Internet surfing through PDF-files.
>
> I see, afraid to be left out, aren't we? Just kidding, of course. I
> seriously think that something must have gone wrong with your
> installation
> oslt. Maybe too old a version of IE?
IE 5.5 it is, and I installed Acrobat Reader just a month ago, so that
shouldn't be the problem.

 What size were the files you tried
> to
> view?
>
Around 500kb IIRC. quite small actually.

> Have you had this occur many times, or just with a few files from a
> single
> site. It may be possible that you came across a selection of badly
> defined
> files oslt. But if it happened with various PDFs at various
> locations...
Not with many files, but files from different sources. Some from language
sites, others from science sites. A little of everything...

>
> www.alamran.net/resources/
>
I'll look at it :) .

>
> > So you're not far! Even the busline I sometimes use to go to work
> > goes until Rotterdam Central :)) .
> >
> > Makes me think that we didn't do conlang meetings for a while now. Are
> the
> > Dutch conlangers on the list interested?
>
> I would be, as long as it is not on the weekends, because I have other
> obligations then.
Probably difficult then. I may be a Ph.D. student, I'm still supposed to work
during the week (and not answer to e-mails all day, but it's not as if I was
extremely busy currently :) ). Maybe a dinner...

> I am just a starting con-langer (haven't even finished one conlang yet),
> and
> have no background in linguistics whatsoever. Everything I learned, I
> learned from the net...
>
Kind of like me, though I started that a little earlier :) . And of course,
when I started conlanging, there was no such thing as the web :) (when you
think it's only 13 years ago :) ).

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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