maques's sparks

I like Far Manager a lot (and Midnight Commander as well on linux boxes, if we’re here), as I grew up on Norton Commander. Once someone knows the keyboard shortcuts, he can work with that lightning fast.

Now, it happened, that I got a freshly installed notebook and one of the first things was to get Far Manager installed.
I visited the site, and found that the latest versions only available in .7z format.
Since I didn’t want to install 7-zip first, I downloaded an early install package in the good-old (erm…) .exe format.

Then, I thought I let them know, that maybe it is not the best idea to host the newest versions in .7z format, or at least provide an .exe version, but I couldn’t find a contact link on the site.

Then, I saw the forum!
Easypie – so I though -, I just register and drop a comment.
However, on the registration page, I faced an Impossible Mission!
A dreadful captcha, which was not just hard to read, but was impossible to read!
I tried to guess, but wasn’t successful, then I got another one, “Impossible Mission II” captcha.
To demonstrate what I am talking about, here are the two images I got (and no, I don’t have 16 color EGA mode selected on my computer). Anyone goes to the registration page can get similar ones.

(and no, “30M92” wasn’t a good answer…)

No wonder there are no activity on the forum!

Finally, I found a contact address at the “If you are visually impaired or cannot otherwise read this code please contact the Board Administrator.” section, I sent a mail on this “captcha” and 7z issues, but so far I didn’t get any answer…

I believe I did all I could – even wrote a blog entry! :-)

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