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Mixed feelings, Eh!

Quite mixed. It's actually been a great project. This thread was at the begining of it. I work at the International House at UC Berkeley, and the idea was that a donor wanted to create a display to get students interested in news and newspapers, by displaying the front pages of many newspapers as conversation pieces. He had approached two other departments on campus, who had told him such a thing couldn't be done. The project got passed down the ranks and eventually reached me, and I said I thought I could, give me a day to research it.

By combining ghostscript and imagemagick and PDFs from the Newseum, I convinced myself such a thing could be done, said "sure, give me a week and a 24" monitor, and I'll give you a prototype. The donor liked the protootype, and we suggested 30" displays instead of the 24", as you can't actually read the print on the 24" monitor.

A lot of cash later, we've got three Dell 30" monitors mounted on the wall in our cafe displaying over 100 newspapers daily from around the world.

Unfortunatly, the G5 and the three 30" displays filled out my work area nicely, and I was sad to see them go. I have said that I'd need a prototype system if they want any major changes made to the code, but I don't think they're going to go for it.

Matthew