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Advice: Hmmm...I noticed that it was taking forever to open the pic, so I
just quit Konqueror. A pic that big shouldn't kill your machine, though.
Sounds like a kernel problem? Since you're dealing with a beta, I'd let
RedHat know...
Russell
On Sunday 21 April 2002 16:25 pm, you wrote:
> be careful opening that large earth image. I tried to open it in the
> gimp and next thing my PC was rebooting!
> I have 256MB of ram and a gig of sswap space.
> Now I know the image was larger than my ram but I thought it might crash
> the gimp, maybe even kill X but to just suddenly reboot is a bad thing.
>
> I using RH7.3 beta2 any advise? (besides dont open such big images?)
>
> Seth
>
> On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 13:42, Seth Hollen wrote:
> > ftp://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/EARTHVIZ/
> >
> > the two pics are
> > land_shallow_topo_east.tif
> > land_shallow_topo_west.tif
> >
> > I thought they were neat.
> > --
> > Take care,
> >
> > Seth
> > seth@hollen.org
> > 727-919-1598
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