Dave Remba

OK, I will try the gfont command and send you info
via support@sidefx.com. BTW, this was an install to
a new out of the box HP laptop with factory
installed Vista. I hadn't installed any fonts,
although I did install firefox and iTunes.
Thanks for your help-

-Dave Remba

I just bought an HP dv9743cl laptop
which comes with Vista Home/Premium,
and installed Apprentice.

The machine config is
Intel T7250 (Centrino Core2 Duo) 2.0 GHz
3070 GB RAM
GeForce 8600M GS 512 MB RAM

I found that Appentice 9.1.124 VC8 fails installation
during the gfont.exe step, and that all SESI
tools and programs fail after install (hkey,
Houdini, etc.) with a “idialog.exe” failed message.

I tried the VC7 version and installation proceeded
normally, and all tools work properly.

I am sending a copy of this info to support@sidefx.com

-Dave Remba

Hi,

Just a quick update on the new open source render queue manager
for Houdini on Linux - “ROXAN”

We've been testing it in production for a few weeks now, getting
the kinks out, and added a few new features by request

* ability to retry failed frames
* start mplay to play the rendered frames by clicking on the thumbnail
in the browser, or a “Play Frames” button in the DA
* pause/resume jobs
* schedule by round-robin or priority-sequential
* move jobs to a new render server group
* move jobs to a new prep (IFD/simulation) server
* checkpoint/restart the queue system for maintenance
* detect and reduce workload or restart overloaded servers

Timeline update for release/posting on the Exchange

probably two-three more weeks to finalize and finish
HTML documentation.

-Dave Remba