On 2/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Campbell</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@cpfc.org">dave@cpfc.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Stroller wrote:<br>> True enough it may take some time to re-emerge half the world, but<br>> leaving the computer running overnight shouldn't trouble the user in<br>> the same same way as an I've-done-this-to-fix-it-and-I-don't-
<br>> understand-why-it-still-doesn't-work problem.<br><br>At the risk of taking the thread even more off topic - what on earth do<br>you do if you need to use your workstation whilst this is going on?<br></blockquote>
</div><br>Use it. With a fairly modern machine you probably won't even notice the difference for most purposes. My Myth box has Gentoo and it'll happily simultaneously record, playback and compile without any glitches (though I am not using a software encoder).
<br><br>Steve<br><br>