Re: Driver for 9600GT

Sam Noble wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 21:33 -0600, Steve Browne wrote:
>   
>> A new blender-generated animated short (10 minutes) is out: Big Buck 
>> Bunny. The animal characters could be from Pixar (not so innovative), 
>> but you can't expect everything at once.
>>     
>
> Hey Steve,
> I pre-ordered the DVD for peach project, (now Big Buck Bunny) and it
> arrived last Wednesday.
> We had sort of scheduled last Thursday's Santa Fe meeting as a
> quasi-release party. But I got held up at work and missed the meeting.
> Anyway, if you're interested in any of the content from the DVD's let me
> know and we'll figure out how to get it to you. (It's all available from
> the peach.blender.org site I believe, but I remember you ordering
> distros from ebay, so maybe bandwidth is an issue?)
>
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Hi Sam:

There is no landline broadband in my area of Santa Fe County (east of 
Tesuque Village), so I use a Wildblue satellite link which imposes 
monthly usage quotas. The speed is good but this precludes me from 
downloading entire Linux distros - particularly Debian Etch with 3 DVDs 
full of goodies. Instead I order distros from Frozentech 
(www.frozentech.com, named after Tux, I guess) with $1.99 First Class 
Mail shipping, which is the way to go.

Ah, Big Buck Bunny. Thanks, but I've seen some clips, which is enough 
for me for now. At least it is coherent, unlike Elephants Dream. I'm 
most looking forward to Plumiferos, an animated feature from Argentina 
(http://www.plumiferos.com/index-en.php). They don't have to worry so 
much about Hollywood conventions.

I though last year's top animated feature was Surf's Up, although Oscar 
disagreed (politics!). Sony Pictures Imageworks won't say specifically 
what software they use,
but their animator job recruitment blurbs require knowledge of Linux.

BTW, I don't know about the 9600GT, but the 8800GT (around $150 now) can 
be turned into a Quadro FX4600 ($1250 and up) with a bios trick and 
substituting Quadro drivers. Much faster rendering, same GPU; price 
difference is marketing BS.

Steve

Steve

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