POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Frustration : Re: Frustration Server Time
4 Sep 2024 05:15:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Frustration  
From: Darren New
Date: 28 Apr 2010 11:58:04
Message: <4bd85b0c$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Apparently you have to delete the word "set" on line 4. And then it 
> works perfectly. WTF?

Yes. "Set" assigns objects. "Let" (or nothing) assigns non-objects. Welcome 
to OO BASIC. ;-)

> 2 hours to figure that out. Fantastic. >_<

That wasn't too bad.

>   CN=Andrew, OU=Information Technology, OU=Departments, OU=Regular 
> Users, OU=UK, OU=Sites, OU=Managed, DC=foo, DC=com

Welcome to X.500.  (OR is it X.400?)

> I much prefer referring to my user account by username. It's only 8 
> characters. :-P

And you can, until you want to know the *distinguished* name of the user. 
That's why they call it that. It's distinguished from all other users.

That list of names at the top will normally walk up the heirarchy of naming 
authorities, so it'll be you, at your department, at your company, as seen 
in Windows, in the UK, in the World.

> (WHY is this not in the GUI in the first place??)

Don't you start.


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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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