Re: Re: GIMP 2.4.2 help?

> From: Ritergal <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:12:10 -0500

> Thanks for the link to the 2.4 documentation.
> Unfortunately the link on the Wordpress site leads
> to a site on 4shared.com. I don't know if all
> download links on 4shared.com are the same, but the
> link to the GIMP help 2.4.2 pdf file has been
> hijacked by pop-up ads from ad-brite.

    [In other news, Google is buying Doubleclick,
    one of the worst offenders for dropping spyware
    on my computer. Ugh.]

> I finally ferreted out the link from source code:

> http://dc37.4shared.com/download/30943600/1bc2a1c2/gimp-help-24-en.pdf?tsid=20071221-075951-2d70649d

> Unfortunately I can't get snipurl to work with
> that long, long link.

Tiny URL would have encoded it, I've used it to
encode links over 500 bytes long. Sadly, that
wouldn't have done any good in this case.

> Hopefully anyone on this list will know how to
> repair it if it gets broken in transmission. I did
> successfully download the 22mb file and it looks
> intact. I won't have time to read it for a few days.

Right now, that link, entered, just pulls up the
page with the hijacked download link. I've reported
the problem to 4shared.com, but more than likely
they are co-conspirators.

xanthian.



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