Inanis.net

I wish my brain was binary.

I’m a computer technician by trade, and a computer technician by hobby. I love computers. Here is the good stuff. The real stuff. The Techie Stuff.

Hardware

• My Computers – For those of you with a morbid fascination with my hardware.
• The Computer Museum – I collect old computers.
• Windows 3.11, On Steroids – Win311 never looked so good.
• Windows XP, On Life Support – Frozen molasses doesn’t come close.

Software

• Programming Projects – They may be crufty, but they work… sort of.
• How to Install Windows 95/98/ME From Scratch – Because anything more than Windows 98 is unnecessary… maybe.

Networks

• Net Stumbling – Free Internet? No, seriously?
• Link Speed Test, 500KB – Check your link speed.

Humor

• ShatteredWindows.com – Your life will never be the same.

Miscellaneous

• Retro Gaming – Take me back, Deja Vu.

Websites I’ve designed:

• Check out the website portfolio.

POVRay Distributed Rendering

All the models rendered on my Lego Page and the SPID were done in the following fashion:

• Most models were first built by hand with real Lego
• Models assembled on the computer using LDraw/MLCad
• Models converted from MLCad drawings to POVRay scene files using L3PAO, with the LGEO library
• POVRay scene files hand-edited to add special effects, camera angles, lighting, and glowing stuph
• POVRay scene files rendered on multiple Windows computers using POVRay 3.61 with the aid of SMPOV
• Final files converted into JPG for web viewing and drooled upon by the masses
• Step 3: Profit

Render Farm

Currently, the render farm consists of:

• “The Beast”: an Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
• the File Server: a Pentium D 805

The Lego renders are output as 1600×1200 24-bit 0.3 Anti-Aliased BMP files. On average they render in about 4-6 minutes. On one machine alone, it takes upwards of 20-30 minutes.