Re: Perlmonks: How deplorable can it get ?

[harangzsolt33]

I copied the reply link from this page and just edited the parent node number. And when I tried to load that address from my web browser, it said "This site can’t be reached perlmonks.com took too long to respond." then I hit reload, and after a few trials it finally loaded the site and shows this message: "Replying to that node has been restricted." Huh?

I sent him a reply in private message. Now, of course, I have no idea if he will see that since I have never seen where the private message area is in this site. If anyone ever sent me a private message, I probably didn't see it and didn't get it. So, I don't know how useful that is. Anyway, I suggested to him to try to download the ImageMagick binaries from the internet. ImageMagick can be downloaded already compiled. The only difference is that when you use the binaries, you call them with system() from perl and use the arguments to tell ImageMagick what to do. It works flawlessly! And there's no need to compile anything! There's always a way around to get things done. ;) Ultimately, if he is so determined to work with images that he has to use "Magick.exe" then keep in mind that there are other image manipulation softwares out there as well, which may be more streamlined for the task. ImageMagick is a large 19MB executable, and I don't know how much of it is loaded into memory when the system executes this program. But it seems a bit too big for simple tasks.

I suggest renaming this post to "ImageMagick install question doesnt have a reply link" so that the person who asked can see that this post is in reply to his question. I had no idea that the two posts are related until I clicked on this.