Re: MICRO Magazines Library Now Complete

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Jul 29, 2:00 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 12:53 pm, Mike <magin...@computist-project.net> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:38:24 -0700 (PDT), "bill.mart...@gmail.com"
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> > <bill.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On Jul 28, 11:15 pm, Mike <magin...@computist-project.net> wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:58:47 -0600, Mike
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> > >> <magin...@computist-project.net> wrote:
> > >> >On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:12:38 -0700 (PDT), Calibrator
> > >> ><calibra...@freenet.de> wrote:
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> > >> >>On Jul 27, 10:53 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > >> >>> Great news, Bill--and thanks to all who made this possible.
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> > >> >>Yes, it's definitely a wealth of information. I always thought micro
> > >> >>was strictly for the single-board computers of the early eighties
> > >> >>so this was a positive surprise.
> > >> >>I also like the "no compromise" hi-res full-color approach of the
> > >> >>newer scans.
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> > >> >>> It does look like "micro_50_jul_1982.pdf" is damaged, though.  ;-(
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> > >> >>You may want to try downloading it again as I had no problems
> > >> >>with the file.
> > >> >>It's 126,385,707 bytes large, by the way, and a scroll-through
> > >> >>showed no problems (I use the Foxit PDF viewer).
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> > >> >>bye
> > >> >>Marcus
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> > >> >Hmm.  I'm having the same problem as Michael.  Acrobat tells me it's
> > >> >not a valid PDF, though I'm seeing the file as being 41,934,848 bytes
> > >> >- about the same size as all the others.  Foxit Reader also chokes on
> > >> >it...
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> > >> >Issues 48, 49 and 51 also fail to open.
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> > >> >- Mike
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> > >> Hmm.  I was able to get good copies using Firefox instead of Chrome.
> > >> Weird.
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> > >> - Mike
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> > >I have downloaded and checked all 4 with Acrobat and absolutely no
> > >issues exist.   Could it be that your downloads of the issues are not
> > >completing?  That is the only thing I can see that would cause the
> > >file size difference and then naturally it would not open.
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> > >--billm--
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> > Bill,
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> > Firefox was able to get good copies.  For some reason, Chrome was not.
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> Yeah, similar to the download problems some experienced on the Blue
> Book, myself included - there are some instances where the server is
> doing odd things to the download via browser.

Hmm.....that is interesting.   Sadly, I cant do much about these as
they arent on my server but I will have to check into our settings and
see if there is something we can do.