2 alan:<br>well, after i couldn't open the MHT file i googled for answer and what i came up with was:<br>firefox, safari (KHTML engine) can't open it. eventually IE7 crashed twice before opening it<br>(i came down to sydney jones library for that occasion). opera only can open it with the <br>
plugin, but Windows only version :)<br><br>here's my first letter regarding this case:<br><br>My letter to the Music Industry course administration (Lecturers, Assistants, Professors, etc):<br><br><br>To whom it may concern.<br>
<br>Week
4 reading, the article: Copying music legally in the digital age
Technology The Guardian.mht was posted on VITAL in a proprietary web
page archive format that can't be opened by<br>either Mozilla Firefox
Web Browser nor by KHTML [open source] engine driven ones, like Safari
on Mac OS X platform. Indeed to read this article I had to go down to a
place with Windows machine that had Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (that
was struggling to open it indeed and crashed 2 times before opening the
article). As a Linux-based OS user I think this is a discrimination of
me and other users who don't use the products of one monopolistic
corporation but prefer the freedom (as in free beer as well as in free
speech) and use other Operational Systems, either Linux-based,
BSD-based, or other systems, that belong to UNIX family (like Mac OS X,
for example).<br><br>In the future if such a proprietary formats could
be avoided as digital handouts that would be very handy and not
discriminating as it is now.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Vladimir J., <br>W310 Student<br><br>------------------<br><br>the self extracting archive:<br><br>no, it's not a zip archive, it is a binary .exe, as i said.<br>
so unzipsfx gives me that output:<br><br>vovka-macbook:~ vovka$ unzipsfx Documents/Studies/Music\ Industry/Week\ 8/12\ single\ as\ medium\ and\ artifact.exe <br>UnZipSFX 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Info-ZIP (<a href="http://www.info-zip.org">http://www.info-zip.org</a>).<br>
unzipsfx: cannot find myself! [unzipsfx]<br><br>and unzip says:<br><br>vovka-macbook:~ vovka$ unzip Documents/Studies/Music\ Industry/Week\ 8/12\ single\ as\ medium\ and\ artifact.exe <br>Archive: Documents/Studies/Music Industry/Week 8/12 single as medium and artifact.exe<br>
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not<br> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the<br> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on<br>
the last disk(s) of this archive.<br>unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of Documents/Studies/Music Industry/Week 8/12 single as medium and artifact.exe or<br> Documents/Studies/Music Industry/Week 8/12 single as medium and artifact.exe.zip, and cannot find Documents/Studies/Music Industry/Week 8/12 single as medium and artifact.exe.ZIP, period.<br>
<br>reply from owen about the initial (MHT) issue was quite harsh.<br>when i sent the letter about the archive, what happened - i just opened the same resourse - and <br>voila! the file was changed from .exe to MPEG file. opens with quicktime on this macbook, but it is eventually is a scan (should have been pdf, i reckon). <br>
<br>2 aldan: no, i don't want to raise this issue [now], because Owen is a nice person and a very good lecturer indeed - one of the best modules, actually (Music Industry). don't want to pick up one guy, but the issue, certainly need a closer look. it's not a singe case (.doc handouts - all the time, WMA and WMV files, the list goes on).<br>
<br>vladimir<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Sanders / EFG</b> <<a href="mailto:wsanders@efgroup.net">wsanders@efgroup.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Oh, poor Owen !<br> <br> mht file ? That's an OLD Microsoft format, usually made from Publisher or<br> Word or something else from Office.<br> <br> I think Owen's IT people need to audit his machine, and install the<br>
updated toolsets - after all, this is Liverpool, and it's got mondo smart<br> IT folk on staff.<br> <br> Apprently Owen isn't taking advantage of the free support he gets through<br> the IT Staff, so you should remind him that MHT is a deprecated format, no<br>
longer supported by MicroSloth, and he should really re-align himself with<br> the current toolsets, again - available for FREE at his IT Support desk at<br> the UNI.<br> <br> Hopefully Owen is just a small lecturer and not a tenured professor - I'd<br>
be scared to know a tenured professor creates MHT files - I think he'd<br> need a good talking to from his boss !<br> <br> <br> Slan ! [Bill]<br> <br>> hi everyody!<br> ><br> > just wanted to post a letter i just send to one of my lecturers,<br>
> would like to know the opinions on that issue - what can and cannot be<br> > done.<br> > so here's the deal:<br> ><br> <br>--<br> William Sanders / efGroup<br> <br><br> _______________________________________________<br>
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