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  Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 6 Nov 2008 00:01:41
Message: <49127a35$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:05:58 +0200, Eero Ahonen wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
> I'll still need to dump the databases and truncate the dumps. Maybe
> tomorrow, I'll have to sleep before going to work tomorrow.

OK - probably won't have time to look much until the weekend anyways.  :-)

>>> (it's tracing on my laptop, C2D 1,83GHz, 3.6 so one core only)
>> 
>> 32-bit system or 64?  Really cool image.
> 
> 64-bit, running Gentoo Linux (surprisingly).

Why surprisingly? ;-)

>> <thud>  Damn, now that saved me a lot of time but is also scary at the
>> same time.....Thanks for that tip!
> 
> The easiest and quickest ways are often out of mind - partly luckily.

That's true enough.  Now I just need to convert from PDF to Framemaker 
and we've got the original files to work with again.  :-)

Jim


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