diff --git a/src/client/distren.c b/src/client/distren.c
--- a/src/client/distren.c
+++ b/src/client/distren.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
   char *input;
   char *output;
   char *jobid;
-  
+
   char curopt;
 
   distren_t distren;
@@ -73,19 +73,19 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	  */
 	}
       else if(curopt == 'i')
-	/* 
-	   TODO: is strdup good or bad? what about 
+	/*
+	   TODO: is strdup good or bad? what about
 	   the idea that all libs should allow plugging different
 	   malloc/free implementations in?
 	 */
 	input = strdup(optarg);
       else if(curopt == 'o')
 	output = strdup(optarg);
-    } 
+    }
 
-  /* 
+  /*
      give this error after the general arguments parsing so that
-     the general help from options_init can have effect 
+     the general help from options_init can have effect
   */
   if(!input
      || !output)
@@ -95,19 +95,19 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     }
 
   fprintf(stderr, "reading from %s\nwriting to %s\n", input, output);
-  
+
   if(distren_init_mf(&distren, &malloc, &free))
     {
       fprintf(stderr, "error initializing distren handle\n");
       return 1;
     }
-  
+
   if(distren_submit_file(distren, &distren_job, input))
     {
       fprintf(stderr, "error submitting file\n");
       return 1;
-    } 
-  
+    }
+
   if(distren_job_getid(distren_job, &jobid))
     {
       fprintf(stderr, "error retrieving job id\n");
@@ -123,10 +123,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
   /* if these following lines fail, it'll be reported as a core dump ;-) */
   distren_job_free(distren_job);
-  
   distren_free(distren);
-  
 
+// !!! Killed for now because I'm doing other randomness !!! //
   // Please find a better way of doing this :( you can't strcat multiple strings.. meh
   // use something like sprintf
   //char *username = cfg_getstr(cfg, "username");
@@ -135,6 +134,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
   //strcat(username, hostname);
 
   // SSH's to client machine with the username speficied.
+  /*
     char buf[10];
     struct execio *testrem;
     char *execargv[] =
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     fprintf(stderr, "execio madness is occuring!");
     fprintf(stderr, "execio_open returns %d\n", execio_open(&testrem, "ssh", execargv));
     buf[9] = '\0';
+*/
+
     /*
     while(!execio_read(testrem, buf, 9, &readlen))
       {
@@ -169,8 +171,37 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
   // We need some code to ssh, and if the SSH fails, tell the user to register.
   // Killed the user reg code, as the php interface will take care of this. Although it should check for users...
 
-  
-  return 0;
+
+
+  // ------------------------------
+  // Ok, this is just to do something to keep distren aliveish... Kill if needed/wanted/meh'd. Borrowed some code from matt's blender.c
+
+    // We need calls to populate os. This is pretty rudimentary. Should be moved to shared, or use bultin something. Change on compiletime?
+    char *os = "nix";
+    if(os == 'win32'){char *bin = 'blender.exe'}
+    else{char *bin = 'blender'} // mac/*nix
+
+    // Placeholders? figure out what the last one is...
+    char *format = "%s -b \"%s\" -o %s -f %d -F JPEG -x 1",bin,input,output; /* the format string to pass to sprintf */
+
+     unsigned int frame_to_render; // initialize this somewhere else...
+     size_t blenderstrlen;
+     frame_to_render = 10; // temporary, the number 10 will be replaced with a function call
+
+// This seems pretty ridik. Just sayin'. We gotta switch this up.
+     blenderstrlen = strlen(format) - 2 * 2 /* format string minus placeholders */ + strlen(filename) + intstrlen(frame_to_render) + 1 /* NULL terminator */;
+     blendercmd = malloc(blenderstrlen);
+     snprintf(blendercmd, blenderstrlen, format, filename, frame_to_render);
+
+     fprintf(stderr, "will run job num. %d ``%s''\n",jobid,blendercmd);
+     free(blendercmd);
+
+
+  // -------------End cruddy code that will eventually compose blender.c-----------------
+
+
+
+ return 0;
 };