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  Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 6 Nov 2008 00:03:25
Message: <49127a9d$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:59:34 +0200, Eero Ahonen wrote:

> 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.
> 
> It's here:
> http://www.zbxt.net/~aero/xplayer.tar.bz2

Snagged it.  Like I said, probably won't have time until the weekend to 
do much with it.

> Yes, it's hasn't got even version number, so it's definedly something
> like beta ;). It works, but still has a lot to do (tracefiles (which is
> ment to keep the file-db up to date) gives continous errors, there's a
> lot to implement, init-scripts are really bulk, skipping a track won't
> work is something else than mplayer is playing it etc etc etc).

OK - good to know.  I had figured alpha-to-beta quality probably at this 
stage, given that you were still doing coding.

>>>> (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).
> 
> Update on the image also.
> 40:18:44 Rendering line 491 of 544, 14398 rad. samples, current status
> can be seen on the same URL.

Moving along pretty well. :-)

Jim
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