Render Farm Build 10

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. Well, the build FAILED. I forgot to take out ALL the already compiled stolen dylibs out of the /opt […]

Render Farm Build 9

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. You may remember that I manually placed the GIMP GTK2 libs in the /opt folder.  I found that the deinstalling […]

Render Farm Build 8

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. PDC on Leopard I was still trying to get the PDC worked out.  I’ve realized that there are so many […]

Render Farm Build 7

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. Despite a lot of reading and cogitating I’m still just flailing about.  Why is GTK2 not already there?  I […]

Render Farm Build 6

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. I was still on the Mac Mini, still trying to build Dr. Queue.  Dr. Queue needed GTK2 to build. […]

Render Farm Build 5

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. Still on the Mac Mini, still trying to make it into a PDC with the Open Source “Dr. Queue.” […]

Render Farm Build 4

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. Today I choose as my PDC an old PPC Mac Mini, because it is the weakest computer I have […]

Render Farm Build 3

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. While the GTK2 build was happening, I decided to turn my attention to the first worker unit. That first […]

Render Farm Build 2

DISCLAIMER: This is a continuing series detailing the painful story of a DIY render farm build.  It is terribly technics and somewhat frustrating.  Those who are unprepared for such “entertainment” are advised to ignore these posts. PDC on the Office iMac To prepare the office iMac to be the PDC, I needed to establish the environment for […]

Render Farm Build 1

Introduction This is a build log for a render farm.  It is unbelievably technical, so if explanations of mechanical devices and computer code are boring to you, feel free to pass on the entire thing. It’s easily done; these posts are tagged as “render farm” and may be easily skipped.  I’ll continue to use this test […]