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  Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 4 Nov 2008 13:15:42
Message: <4910914e$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
> Very cool.  I'm hoping I'll have the time to play around with it - when 
> you do post it, can you let me know where?

Naturally.

>> And yeah, I'll need to finish rendering the background-image for X :p.
>> 12:33:03 Rendering line 200 of 544, 14155 rad. samples
> 
> :-)

Damn, it seems that the texts on the image will overlap. Well, I can
always tweak it also afterwards.

http://www.zbxt.net/~aero/xplbg.png

(it's tracing on my laptop, C2D 1,83GHz, 3.6 so one core only)

> I know the feeling; I'd probably have a render going right now if I 
> wasn't trying to crack a PDF we created at work a few years ago - nobody 
> has the source files any more and of course it's got an owner password on 
> it.  Someone needs to parallelize pdfcrack. ;-)

Unencrypted? Run through pdf2ps and then ps2pdf. Quick, simple and
effective ;).

> Jim

-Aero


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