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Hey all,
I woke up this morning to find this on my PC screen.
Eric
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"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
- Thomas Jefferson
- First inaugural address, 1801
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http://www.ametro.net/~ericfree
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It's now 15 minutes after my last post. It's made it to line 52. I knew I
should have rebooted after turning off the power management. The stupid
computer turned itself "off" an hour after I went to bed. I HATE WINDOWS!!!
Eric
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"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
- Thomas Jefferson
- First inaugural address, 1801
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http://www.ametro.net/~ericfree
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"Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] ametro net> wrote :
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> I knew I
> should have
In many situations it is instructive to ask , "Is it the mule or the
mule driver?"
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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. 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.
That's a very good render you have there, what's showing of it anyway.
Bob
"Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] ametronet> wrote in message
news:38848bb1@news.povray.org...
> It's now 15 minutes after my last post. It's made it to line 52. I knew I
> should have rebooted after turning off the power management. The stupid
> computer turned itself "off" an hour after I went to bed. I HATE WINDOWS!!!
>
> Eric
> ---------------
> "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
> another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
> pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
> labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
> - Thomas Jefferson
> - First inaugural address, 1801
> ---------------
> http://www.ametro.net/~ericfree
>
>
>
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Yes the top of the glass looks very nice and rounded.. Like blown glass rather than
a cut CSG top of flat cylinder top...
omniVERSE wrote:
> That's a very good render you have there, what's showing of it anyway.
>
> Bob
>
> "Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] ametronet> wrote in message
> news:38848bb1@news.povray.org...
> > It's now 15 minutes after my last post. It's made it to line 52. I knew I
> > should have rebooted after turning off the power management. The stupid
> > computer turned itself "off" an hour after I went to bed. I HATE WINDOWS!!!
> >
> > Eric
> > ---------------
> > "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
> > another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
> > pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
> > labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
> > - Thomas Jefferson
> > - First inaugural address, 1801
> > ---------------
> > http://www.ametro.net/~ericfree
> >
> >
> >
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"omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:388490d4@news.povray.org...
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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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"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
- Thomas Jefferson
- First inaugural address, 1801
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http://www.ametro.net/~ericfree
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Windows 98? You can disable that Task Manager BS altogether. Run the
'msconfig' program. It allows you to turn off startup programs. Like that
useless FindFast that comes with office. Or one of the two copies of your
power profile that insist on running. It's an easy way to get a hold of the
running procs, and save some RAM.
Dirk
--
Derek Stark
Systems Administrator
EZ Web-Tech
Eric Freeman <eri### [at] ametronet> wrote in message
news:3884b263@news.povray.org...
> "omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
> news:388490d4@news.povray.org...
> >
> > 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
> ---------------
> "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
> another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
> pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
> labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
> - Thomas Jefferson
> - First inaugural address, 1801
> ---------------
> http://www.ametro.net/~ericfree
>
>
>
>
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> Windows 98? You can disable that Task Manager BS altogether. Run the
> 'msconfig' program. It allows you to turn off startup programs. Like that
> useless FindFast that comes with office. Or one of the two copies of your
> power profile that insist on running. It's an easy way to get a hold of the
> running procs, and save some RAM.
But FindFast allows Windows to find files faster! ;-)
(Yeah, find them scattered between the fragments of the swap file...)
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:59:00 -0500, "Bill DeWitt"
<the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
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>"Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] ametronet> wrote :
>>
>> I knew I
>> should have
>
> In many situations it is instructive to ask , "Is it the mule or the
>mule driver?"
The mule's consistence in refusing to recognise CPU activity as
activity for power saving purposes made me, its driver, completely
disable power saving (the monitor takes care of it hardware-wise). I
really hated it when, during slow renders, the HDD would hush or the
CPU would go to stand-by (sheesh)
Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:38:13 -0600, David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet>
wrote:
>> Windows 98? You can disable that Task Manager BS altogether. Run the
>> 'msconfig' program. It allows you to turn off startup programs. Like that
>> useless FindFast that comes with office. Or one of the two copies of your
>> power profile that insist on running. It's an easy way to get a hold of the
>> running procs, and save some RAM.
>
>But FindFast allows Windows to find files faster! ;-)
>(Yeah, find them scattered between the fragments of the swap file...)
There's an option in Descent 3 to disable FindFast while running the
game, and believe me, it's for a good reason!
Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700
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