In article ,
Mike Tullett writes:
On 19 Dec 2004 18:00:37 -0000, Adrian D. Shaw wrote in

Felly sgrifennodd
Johnathan Hatherleigh-Smyth John :
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...32000.250m.jpg

Never before has a web page caused me so much grief. This one crashed my X
server. Did anyone else have such problems?

It is a huge image and requires about 140 MB of RAM just to show the image
as the jpeg is uncompressed.
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Perhaps people posting links to images that are very large could
remember to include a warning that they are only suitable for those with
broadband. Not that that was what was causing Adrian's problem, but had
I tried to download the image using my dial-up connection I wouldn't
have got very far.
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John Hall
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early
for anything you want to do."
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