Sam McKittrick wrote:
> That seems like a lot of work for someone who just wants to render some
> images.

Not ... really.  You fire up the computer, copy some files onto it with 
ssh, render them, copy the results back, and turn off the computer. It 
takes about 10 or 15 minutes to set things up, less if you're using 
Linux already.

I'm working on a program that automates much of this for you. 
Eventually, I'll put it in a public image that you can just put your 
scenes in a directory on your machine and say "store it, launch it, 
watch it, fetch the results", and be done with it. (Right now, the 
program works, but the "launch it" part isn't implemented yet. With the 
new version of ECC supporting REST calls, it should be relatively easy 
to make work.) Once you have everything set up with it, you wouldn't 
personally be interacting with Amazon at all, other than signing up for 
the service and configuring your identities.

> In any case, would you buy such a service, from either me or from
> Amazon?

I already do, as you might have guessed. I was providing the link more 
as a price point (as you asked) than anything else - $0.20/hour for 
1.7GHz and 160M of disk, 1.75G RAM. Plus a stable and branded service.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
You're drinking too much coffee when you buy brown
blotchy rugs and countertops to hide the stains
of coffee sloshed from the mug in your shaking hand.

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