Unfortunately, GLFW versions 2.6.1 and 3.0 will both likely be severely delayed, as Zepto Computers, the manufacturer of my laptop (a 6214W) refuses to pay for the repair and is asking for about $800 to complete it. As a recipient of disability pension, I don't even have $80 to spare, so even if I wanted to let them get away with this I still couldn't pay for it.
Their claim is that I should have blown compressed air into my laptop more often, and that the damage to the GPU due to supposedly clogged up fans (which were so enclosed that I could neither see nor access them) is my fault. Of course, they never mentioned this bizarre requirement in either their advertisements or their user's manual and the laptop was prone to GPU overheating even when it was brand new. With a GeForce Go 7600 with 512 MB VRAM in a smallish laptop, this is perhaps not so odd, but it's still their responsibility to make sure the unit is properly cooled.
Needless to say, I'm going to fight them over this, but it's going to take a bit of time, and in the meantime all I have is a five year old iBook with far too little RAM.
Also, if you have a Zepto 6014W/6214W/6314W and have had or are having similar problems, please contact me.
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Is there a way people can donate you? I know a few people who would happily contribute.
Including me.
Really? Oh, uhm, hmm, cool ^^
I'll look into it. I need to make an update post about this anyway.
I would be happy to contribute, too. Your simplest option is probably to enable donations through SourceForge.
I'd happily donate too. :)
I am glad I came across your site. I have been having problems getting glfwInit to initialize properly on vista. It returns GL_FALSE when I call it however, if I compile the same program on WindowsXP I do not have a problem with glfwInit initializing correctly and my program runs flawlessly(ok not flawlessly but a man can dream). Anyways if you have any idea on why this might be please contact me.
Remove the _ && change at to @. raymond_chandler_iii_at_google_m4i1.
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