"omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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> That's funny!  Got to watch out for scheduled tasks
> like defragging too, unless it's told to wait until all
> programs are idle a certain amount of time.

I did have all other programs shut down... even my auto-answer fax program,
even tho it probably uses very few clock cycles checking to see if the phone
is ringing.

> Hey, don't you have a disk drive detection there?  I just
> use that to keep the computer from going to sleep.  It's
> set to 90 minutes of disk inactivity before thinking all is
> okay to stop everything and I never have a render writing
> to the drive at longer intervals than that.

I have power management set to shut everything down after an hour, but I'm
not sure if a hard drive access starts the clock over or if it takes
mouse/keyboard input to reset it.

> That's a very good render you have there, what's showing
> of it anyway.

Thanks.  It uses focal blur, area lights with fade distance and photon
mapping, so I knew it would take a while to render on my old P133.  I'm
going to make "before and after" pictures of the same scene and put them on
my web page to demonstrate various POV's features.

Eric
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