NASA Shuttle pics

Gentlemen, gentlemen I never intended to nor did I want to set off an
internal war of words over who
is or is not right. I simply wanted some direction as to how I could
unencrypt the NASA pics.

Joe you are right, I am an older member of the group and thou fairly pc
literate I am simply not
familiar with the various files and formats that JS3 has posted re the NASA
pics. So I have no
idea of even how to go about opening them. Hence my original question to the
group.
At the end of the day I would have thought that we are all subscribers to
the aviation newsgroup
as we have a love of planes and associated issues (with the odd hangar queen
thrown in for good measure)
- see I do have a sense of humour!!. So intrenal bickering solves nothing!!

So I will say bye bye to the nasa pics and watch with interest for the next
installments of good pics re planes etc.
Phil


"Joseph Testagrose" wrote in message
...
JS3 is a ****ing ****head, he floods the newsgroup with hundreds of
posts in complete disregard of the wishes of the members of the
newsgroup. He could post jpg's 10 day and have compassion for the
older members of the newsgroup who don't have the time to learn new
ways of opening photos in formats they have no idea of what they are.
Joe.
On 12 Aug 2008 15:58:05 GMT, Lee
wrote:

Mitchell Holman wrote in
:


All I can offer is caution. I thought I would follow the masses and
give it a try. I did a Google on WINrar and then picked this site
http://gperavguslive.info/.

I agree my stupid error. Ended up with a virus - trogon - or what
ever.
Spent 9 hours of my present life getting rid of the POS.

Life and computer is back to normal again and doubt I will ever
consider
dealing with RAR or PAR files ever again. I really don't care how good
they are reported to be.

So what ever you decide for your fate be aware you have been warned of
the Dark Side.

Good luck.



Personally I have never seen a reason to stray from jpegs.
They don't carry viruses, they are read by every image viewer
known to man, they can be resized and enhanced by even more,
and they will be the universal standard for years to come.

IMHO, that is............





Mitchell, as one of your biggest fans, it bothers me to have to say
this...
but you are yelling "Fire" in the crowded theatre. Shame on you!!

You and the other guy (who "says" he got the virus) are not helping
matters
at all, in fact, what you have said in haste regarding RAR is counter-
productive at the very least. What few little rabbits who might have
taken
a chance to learn how to work with RARs/PARs have been frightened off, for
no telling how long.

By phrasing your statements as you did, both of you scared the ignorant
away from using an improved way of sending/receiving large amounts of
information over the net.

WinRar was not the reason he got a bug... he got it from a site preying on
the unlearned and unguarded, who wanted to learn. WinRAR was the bait.
The same could happen if someone was searching for information on how to
convert .BMP files to .JPG.

WinRAR had nothing to do with getting a bug, only his ****-poor choice of
sites from which to learn. Lesson learned. Do not to go to some brand X
site for information (or at least keep you prophylactic fresh). There are
plenty of reputable places (e.g. C-Net, PC World) to learn something about
all things digital.

Just 'cause Google places a site in the first few entries, doesn't mean
it's a nice place. Google doesn't give a **** about your virus
protection... but they do care about incoming dollars.

You know yourself how ****y this group can be, Mitchell. Now, for more
years to come, they will all blame the evils of WinRAR for the downfall of
Roman Empire, the Tunguska blast and the reason their pricks don't stay
hard. JeebusGawd, now there is *another* wicked-evil that goes bump in the
night (along with the mere mention of that boogie-man, YEnc).

You also know about the howls of anguish from this lot if a picture does
not match their standards. (Of course those standards are subject to
change
at their whim or the day of the week)

These HiRez Shuttle pics would have them screaming bloody murder if they
came over the wire as a JPG. Just imagine the audacity of having to make
one of these guys join a multi-part picture. Better yet, if you could get
such a photo across the wire in one part... then they'd be bitching that
"it takes too long" or "it's too big"

Damned if you do...

Rather than staying perched on this soap box, I'll close by pointing out
that this group, as a whole, would be a perfect comparison to the current
crisis in our public education system.

The ones who learn and are willing to do so, must continually slow down to
the speed of those unwilling or incapable of learning. Rather than having
the slow ones work harder and learn more, we continue to dumb down the
group to the lowest denominator. The real ****er are the calls for a
burning at the stake when anyone shows a little imagination, change or
initiative.

ABPA-holes.