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Re: A serious challenge for Feeb

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: A serious challenge for Feeb
Date 2019-02-12 05:40 +0000
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Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 9:32:04 PM UTC-7, Steve Carroll wrote:
>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 9:22:51 PM UTC-7, owl wrote:
>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2/11/2019 10:50 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 8:19:47 PM UTC-7, DFS wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/11/2019 8:45 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
>>>>>>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:39:27 PM UTC-7, DFS wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> <https://imgur.com/a/8xuEc7B>
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> (I added a little 'lighter' image)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Can you see that your 2nd image is a little over-rotated?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> At this rate you can't complain!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> <https://imgur.com/a/EtTpp9l>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I think it's an optical illusion ;)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Maybe, maybe not.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In a fit of Snit you clipped the 2nd pic.  Why?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Because it actually had a slight rotation issue and wasn't
>>>>> centered as well (and the dark text against those dark
>>>>> backgrounds didn't show up as well).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "And in next weeks lesson we shall discuss image rotation!"
>>>> ...
>>>> And when the bulb turns on Steve Carroll shall slap himself on the
>>>> forehead.  :)"
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 1) Who said [something very close to ] it?
>>>> 2) In what famous thread?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> https://imgur.com/a/8xuEc7B>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I figured you had a ton, trying to prompt Feeb into action.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> A whole .pdf's worth.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Feeb changed the background color of a .jpg, but finding those random
>>>>>>>> collections of black pixels and differentiating them from, say, a page
>>>>>>>> number, is probably much more challenging.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As in 'not doable'.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Feeb and owl offered up some solutions - I'll try them later.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Neither of them address the stray mark issue. If you have
>>>>> access to the original I'd rescan. If not, it'd take you about
>>>>> a work week's worth of hours with MS paint I'd imagine (to
>>>>> get rid of the stray marks, that is). I tried some layering with
>>>>> different blend modes on channels to see if that might do
>>>>> the trick but I don't think it'd satisfactorily remove 'em. Do
>>>>> all those pages have issues to that same degree (even
>>>>> the text pages)?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Every page I looked at, some to a high degree.  Did I say it was 1120 
>>>> pages (less front and back cover, which aren't too bad)?
>>>> 
>>>> A fair number of pages have sections like this:
>>>> https://imgur.com/a/akua4AJ
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2nd ed. of that book:
>>> 
>>> http://www.codeman.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Computer_Systems-A_Programmers_Perspective-2e.pdf
>> 
>> LOL!
>> 
>> <https://imgur.com/a/flpv2wr>
>> 
>> I swear I didn't see your post.
> 
> I was too busy gagging over this:
> 
> <https://imgur.com/a/llII4uz>
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, that's Crackhead's DW course. WTF
> is it doing in my FB feed? Someone I know apparently
> 'liked' Udemy. Can it be that people are actually buying
> that crap?!
> 
> 

It will show you courses you have visited — esp if you have repeatedly. 


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A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 19:42 -0500
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 16:53 -0800
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 16:57 -0800
      Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 20:11 -0500
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 17:23 -0800
          Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 20:39 -0500
            Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 17:45 -0800
              Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 22:19 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 19:50 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 23:10 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 04:22 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 20:32 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 20:42 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2019-02-12 05:40 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 10:40 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 16:39 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 13:43 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 20:18 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 19:58 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-13 06:48 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <frussell@random.info> - 2019-02-13 15:10 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-13 08:02 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Ratchetjaw <ratchetjaw@mail.com> - 2019-02-13 16:28 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-13 09:29 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 04:03 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 10:56 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 10:58 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-12 07:59 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 16:37 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-12 08:42 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 17:09 +0000
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-02-12 01:27 +0000
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 02:04 +0000
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 21:11 -0500
      Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 02:19 +0000
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 09:36 -0500
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2019-02-12 09:54 +0000
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 09:30 -0500
      Re: Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2019-02-12 15:24 +0000
      Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-02-12 22:40 +0000
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Ratchetjaw <ratchetjaw@mail.com> - 2019-02-12 23:07 +0000
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 19:53 -0500
          Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <frussell@random.info> - 2019-02-13 18:15 +0000
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-12 07:21 -0800

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