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but nothing more than usual.

Oops, I cannot find the share 'My Workspace' command....

I'm not getting 404s. But I am getting server timeouts on about every other page.

"The server at techrepublic.com.com is not responding to a connection request and Firefox has stopped waiting... ?:|

I can dance on my grave, with the cremated remains in them that would test to be ME. :D

Here's a small sampling of GIMP tutorials already out there.

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/gimp-tutorials-and-tips-f8.html
http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials.php

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/gimp/drawing/

http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/tutorials/appreference/thegimp/#order=9

Besides, if I remember right, you've seen the tutorial list before, way back in a discussion Apotheon started, at least a year ago :0 (not going to look it up).

Getting started with the GIMP is easy Scumdog but you've got to want to learn to use it and just do it.

Now I sound like I'm being rough on you and I don't mean to be.

It's just a simple thing really, get the GIMP and the GAP, open a picture with it and start hitting all of the buttons and crap to see what it'll do. If you get stuck with anything in particular I will be glad to send you a personalized email tutorial complete with screen shots but you've got to want to learn the basics yourself. I'll even send you tips and tricks on how to do the basics, if it comes to that, or hunt up tutorials someone's already done.

Be aware, I'm no GIMP guru and don't pretend to be, I've just messed with it enough to know my way around a little bit.

It wouldn't really take all that long for you to be able to do anything I can do, and more, but you might want to avail yourself of the resources already there. You too can draw a circle with eyeballs. :)

I don't mean to disappoint you rather I encourage you to delve into the resources I've provided and get into graphics your own way. I have a LOT of fun with it. There are a few graphics that I'm very pleased with that I made from scratch, or nearly so and yet I'll bet other people just panned over them without ever giving it even a passing thought. That's just the way it goes.

If you need any help with anything, I'll do my best to provide you with instructions via email. Until I hear from you, no tutorials. Too lazy. :^0 Actually, I just want to know that the time and effort I'd put into providing specialized information would be put to good use. I think I'm like a blog writer in that regard. There has to be some kind of positive payback/response from the reader even if it is just an audience of one.

Have fun.

That or very deep cover.

Thing is, you wouldn't be talking about it so that leaves me curious, WTF did happen?

I couldn't let the world's misery end when I died, so I came back. ]:)

I'll just remain puzzled.

And the workspace was a major hit on the database in best of times.

It generally would time out long before it could finish, and would require several attempts to get it to load.

I gave up on that feature as hopelessly fubar'ed other than when it is time to change avatars.

I haven't been able to get to the forums discussion page lately and when I tried to get to my profile I had some text at the top of the page and that was it.

Here's hoping TR's going to make it thru the weekend.



Edited to add screenshot:

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj4/sharewhat4/ScreenShot746.jpg

I am trying to cleanup Questions Subscribed to. If I select the 100 and Unsubscribe I get a 404. That means that I have to click on Forums, My WorkSpace, My Forum Posts and then Questions Subscribed To, scroll to the bottom of the page, just to get back to roughly where I was. If I select 50 at a time it seems to work. Also trying to open My WorkSpace quite often fails with a 404. I then click on Forums, My WorkSpace and it opens.