World: r4wp

Putting it on a Windows site where you need to log in would offend 
a large part of our audience

sure, I'm hoping you don't need to - did you try and it asked for 
creds?

there's different kinds of sharing - so I'm just trying them out

I'd have to give it cookies first to find out for sure. Don't want 
to do that, either

This is the kind of trouble we get when taking extra infrastructure 
onboard

let me see if I can find some place like depositfiles - though the 
free downloads usually involve a countdown timer

dropbox is good for just giving a link with no hassle, but I only 
have 7 gb there and most is used up

That all sucks. This is why we're using S3. All under our control

they don't have the 100 mb limit like box does, though

how large is the image?

about 140 MB

I tried it on anothe computer and it seems you do need to sign in 
- I thnk I left this checkbox checked to allow editing the file, 
though - maybe that's why

Is that uncompressed?

no, compressed

well, the vmdk is just a little bigger - about 148 MB

What sort of compression?

7zip

like your other archives, no?

Yes. However, the standard CD is 93 MB. The VM shouldn't be much 
bigger

Did you install multiple times over the same image?

no

Hm, there's a serious inefficiency in there somewhere

this was a fresh VM - nothing else installed

Odd. This is another reason that the creation of our distributions 
is quite critical. Our existing VMware image is 55 MB, although that's 
for Syllable 0.6.6, which was smaller

when you create the disk, there's an option to pre-allocate it - 
I chose that (the size had was a 1 GB disk). Not sure if that would 
make a difference as to how small it would compress

Skydrive needs a Live ID to download a publicly shared file? That's 
hilarious. I should buy Dropbox shares (if I had the money). :-)

I can try again with a disk that is not pre-allocated

Could be, if it doesn't zero-fill it

no, I think I just shared it with the option to edit

Qtask also needs cookies to get into a public file listing

(If only Dropbox had public shares ... :)

creating the VM again without pre-allocating the disk to see if it'll 
compress more

Thanks

with 0.6.6, did you choose the top compression with 7zip?

I just did it at whatever is the default

also, not sure if versions after 9.20 compress any better - do they?

Yes, was going to say that, highest compression. It takes longer

I don't know about newer versions, but I do everything with 9.04 
on Syllable

same size with the disk not pre-allocated

here's the depositfiles link:

http://depositfiles.com/files/junsikpqn

Kaj, it looks like bloat is just the natural course :-)

was the prior image for an even older version of Workstation than 
6?

Waited a minute, watched ads, says download will take 61 minutes, 
answered captcha, got popup ads, chose downloading, get same popup 
ad over and over, no download

VMware version: don't remember. I never made them myself

jeez, it's sad that things have gotten so bad - the thing is that 
with adblock plus I never see popups so I forget how bad it can be

I was just wondering how I can get a popup. Firefox is supposed to 
block them, but they put them under the download button

you should try the regular download - the other one requires more 
BS

Regular?

you should use adblock plus