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  Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 4 Nov 2008 13:43:47
Message: <491097e3$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:16:58 +0200, Eero Ahonen wrote:

> 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.

Thanks!

> 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)

32-bit system or 64?  Really cool image.

>> 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 ;).

<thud>  Damn, now that saved me a lot of time but is also scary at the 
same time.....Thanks for that tip!

Jim


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