This is my first attempt to build a house:

Do you love it?

poster: Invader ZIM

where does Alt print screen go when executed?

To the clipboard. Should work. I just tried it.

-G

P: Gully Foyle

Pretty nice. I've gotta say that this is my favorite section of the forum. I love seeing the renders you guys come up with. Even when they're flawed, they're still pretty amazing (and better than we'd all likely do by hand).

Original Poster: AcousticGarden

utiler,

Something that most folks aren't aware of is that Alt-PrtScrn (in Windows) captures just the current window, not the entire screen.

Personally, though, I like the screen capture utilities that come with PaintShop Pro and CorelDraw. The one in Corel is probably more powerful--more options for capturing specific screen elements like menus and child windows and cursors and so on. It's a stand-alone utility with a taskbar icon and can save images to the clipboard or to disk. However, I prefer the one in PaintShop Pro; it's simpler, with fewer options, but still fairly capable. It pulls images directly into a concurrent session of PaintShop, where you can crop them, enhance them, resize them, and export them in the image format of your choice.

-Gully

Well, in the last paragraph of the mail, it says "These days we are dealing with it", and apparantly, it sounds like a non-us speaker anyways.

After I deleted the message, they've never gave us any other e-mails regarding it.

Well, if you need the domains, i suggest registering the domains that you need but I only need one. The domain extensions, I have no use for the other countries even if I should operate in those countries.

As somebody else posted many postings earlier, registering domains are first come first serve and the registrars never ask anybody if another person wants to register similar domains like the one you have.

If somebody wants to notify the government, you can go from the FTC.gov 's website and file a complaint by sending an e-mail to mailto:SPAM@UCE.GOV. or look at the below web page that has this info and decide for your self.

ServiceNow

(rn.ftc.gov)

posted by: Benjamin

%(#000080)[Hi, I also got a very similar message today, and thanks to your postings that I found in Google this is more clear to me now that this is not for real.
The company in China even replied to me with the two possible reasons why the company or had decided to try to get the same domain name as my company has (it's funny how they spell the company differently in the same message, though...):]

Dear Rosario
Thank you for your letters in reply .
If you have no relationship with Aomeixin Holdings Limited, what they applied to register these domain names. According to our working experience, there are 2 possibilities:

1. Omsing investment corpis a domain names grabber. They want to grab your domain names and sell to you when you need in future.

2. your competitor let Omsing investment corpto register your domain names, let your customers feel confusion.

because Omsing company had submitted through our website. I also don't know about the background of Omsing ,I guess they maybe a domain name investment company in HongKOng.

If you have any further questions, pls contact me.

Best Regards,
Mark Zhang

Shanghai NET Network I T Co.,Ltd
Tel:+86-21-6229-6886 | Fax:+86-21-6229-6899
Website: http://www.shnetnic.cn/

Mark Zhang
2007-10-25

发件人： Rosario Cano -ACP-
发送时间： 2007-10-25 17:06:14
收件人： mark.zhang@shnetnic.cn
抄送：
主题： RE: Acptechnologies-Intellectual propety rights(TO CEO)

Dear Mr Zhang,
Thank you for your message.
It is not clear to us what field the company Omsing investment corp is in.
Any further information in this extent would help.
Sincerely,

RC

De: Mark Zhang [mailto:mark.zhang@shnetnic.cn]
Enviado el: jueves, 25 de octubre de 2007 09:28
Para: sales
Asunto: Acptechnologies-Intellectual propety rights(TO CEO)

Dear CEO
We are Shanghai NET Network I T Co.,Ltd which is the domain name register center in China.
We have something need to confirm with you, we formally received an application on Oct 25 2007.
One company who called Omsing investment corp company are applying for following:

Domain Names:
acptechnologies.org
acptechnologies.biz
acptechnologies.info
acptechnologies.cn
acptechnologies.com.cn
acptechnologies.ws
acptechnologies.cc
acptechnologies.com.hk

Internet Brand Keyword:
Acptechnologies

These days we are dealing with it, so we hope to get the affirmation from your company.
Please let someone in your company who is responsible for trademark or intellectual property rights contact us.
If there is any question, please contact us as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Mark Zhang

Shanghai NET Network I T Co.,Ltd
Tel:+86-21-6229-6886 | Fax:+86-21-6229-6899
Website hppt://www.shnetnic.cn[/size]

posted by: Rosario_C

Hi everyone.
I just got this e-mail that is very similar but uses different names.

----- ----- ----- SCAM MAIL STARTS HERE -----
Dear CEO

We are Shanghai NET Network I T Co.,Ltd which is the domain name register center in China.We have something need to confirm with you, we formally received an application on Oct 16 2007.One company who called Aomeixin Holdings Limited company are applying for following:

Domain Names:
xxxxxxxxxx.biz
xxxxxxxxxx.cn
xxxxxxxxxx.com.cn
xxxxxxxxxx.hk
xxxxxxxxxx.info
xxxxxxxxxx.mobi
xxxxxxxxxx.net.cn
xxxxxxxxxx.tw

Internet Brand Name:
xxxxxxxxxx

These days we are dealing with it, so we hope to get the affirmation from your company.
Please let someone in your company who is responsible for trademark or intellectual property rights contact us.
If there is any question, please contact us as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Kim Che

Shanghai NET Network I T Co.,Ltd
Tel:+86-21-6229-6886 | Fax:+86-21-6229-6899
Website: http://www.shnetnic.cn

Kim Che
2007-10-17

----- ----- ----- SCAM MAIL FINISHES here -----

I xxx'ed the url that i got but is very similar, where i googled and found your page.

The information that you and everyone else has brought up in this posting is very interesting and very helpful.

Everyday, we all get many mails of smilar kinds from scammers to these kinds of annoying mails. I hope they all get caught and go to jail.

Today, many scamming and internet related attacks to various companies and computers/servers around the world comes from China. They say that it doesn't come from us(China) but to how many people behave in China, I don't like many of what they're doing.

I got chinese friends that are good people. But many chinese people does not behave well. It's very sad that they are educated like that or in other words, NOT educated to international standards. I wonder how the Beijing olympics will come, as their manners are very bad.

BTW, where do you report these kinds of scamming? Please tell me if you don't mind.

posted by: Benjamin

Hi,

I am a newbie and just posting here as I have came across the same scam today from the same company, different person. As Global Safe Technologies is dealing in China and we just happened to appoint a new Chinese distributor, I've responded and also sent it back to our canadian head office, BEFORE, I've started to do a bit of checking where I've came across this site as well as another article, thanks to Google.

I reported the entire thing to the relevant Australian Authorities as this scam could effect several genuine businesses who are dealer or in the process of start dealing with China and other countries in the region.

I personally wish these scammer would be caught and put behind bars for 10 years or more as they cost so much money and time for businesses it is not funny. I call this electronic terrorism and somehow I do not believe that very far from the truth.

The email I got looks like this;
Dear CEO:

We are Shanghai NET Network Information & Technology Co.,Ltd which is the domain name register center in China.
We have something need to confirm with you, we formally received an application on September 20 2007.
One company who called Goldplanet Holdings Limited are applying for following:

Domain Names:
globalsafe.hk
globalsafe.net.cn
globalsafe.org.cn
globalsafe.tw

Internet Brand Name:
Globalsafe

These days we are dealing with it, so we hope to get the affirmation from your company.
Please let someone in your company who is responsible for trademark or intellectual property rights contact us.
If there is any question, please contact us as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Henry wang

Check Domain Name dept.
Shanghai NET Network Information & Technology Co.,Ltd
Oversea Internet Domains Accredited Registry
Tel: 86- 21-6229-6886 | Fax: 86- 21-6229-6899
Website: http://www.cnnetcom.org.cn E-mail: Henry.wang@chinasps.net.cn

Hope some action will be taken and this scam can be stopped.

Best regards,

posted by: globalsafe

We got an email from the same company and i just want to confirm this scam for the following reasons:

1. after our attorney contacted them, they still sent their emails to our press office and ignored the attorney's email

2. since our press office didn't answered the emails, they started being impolite

3. we registered a domain of their list with another register in the meantime and guess what... they sent the same email again but without the newly registered domain (.info). therefore I suppose this first email with domainslist is just an automated message

4. we contacted an attorney in Hong Kong and found out that Goldplanet Holding Limited is a dormant (non trading) company.

5. their website doesn't look professional at all

6. they asked us if we want to register these domains several times

Funnily enough they asked us for the trademark certificate but after we told them to contact our attorneys for that, they didn't ask again. That was pretty professional but for the rest it's obvious that they want us to register expensive domains to rip us off.

Hope this helps....

Btw, to have a good basis for winning a future copyright-lawsuit, it also helps to register a private limited company (UK, ltd - dormant, costs about $40) with the name you want to protect instead of paying thousands to a tradmark registration office...

regards,
billy
:100k:

posted by: billy

I'm yet another saying "Thank you so much for having posted this!" I was thisclose to sending them a reply - and I was quite worried. You've done the world a favour! :thup:

posted by: AnnB

I just received the same email. I thought it looked a bit strange, so I Googled the company name. I found your posting and immediately deleted the email. There was a read receipt on it too. I am very sorry for your misfortune, but know that your posting is definitely helping many people. It definitely helped me, so thank you.

posted by: candrso

Neck of the woods, hmmmmmmm. Terms right out of my youth, rather like the truck stop called BOONDOCKS Iowa with the zip code 00000. But where does it all lead, down the road of life, i would guess.And posting querys? 18 years ago, give or take a few, mozaic poped out of U. of Illinois and poof, we could browse, seek and exchange beyond fax or a cumbersome satellite uplink............so I am out of the studio and at my desk, with all the tools to speak with anyone, anywhere, pretty much 24/7

i Recently downloaded the basic SketchUp software to review for a friend.I type very slowly and rarely even use chat boards.
As a communication guy, text is a bit slow. I use msn messenger with my studio web cam and exchange image files.

The open query is the result of a travel meeting with a Boeing Tool design engineer. The module model would be a wider version of the existing bulkhead mounted one in most 737's. Wheelchairs or assistants don't really fit inside current off the shelf designs.

if this interests you, contact me at my Censored to protect your privacy.
It is an ongoing project admidst several others in the universal access design field alon with Universal Design or UD smart homes,offices, electric vehicles, voice access to CPU and so on.

Thankyou for responding and so long indeed from the Rainforests of the pacific northwest,my neck of the woods
MB posted by bozilla

i have been looking at redesign model of airliner bathrooms. is anyone in this forum working with interior modules the size of an LD3 freight container or bigger. Airbus or Boeing. Did not find any commercial jet interior models in the warehouse. Thanks bozilla

posted by bozilla

No wonder you got such a splendid interior shot- slow shutter speed! Yes, the hanging lights are nice indeed.

But for the table lamps and that bag...

Please could you keep us posted about your progress, Gaieus? I'd be interested to see how your project works out. I had a meeting yesterday with a colleague involved in making a model of a Roman villa for a museum display, and am getting interested in the application of reconstructive modelling in various branches of historical and archaeological studies.

Best regards,

Matthew.

Poster: MCN2304

I agree: creating an overall impression of size and grandeur is a useful aim, and I'm sure the big Rome model will do that very well. As long as an explanation is available to viewers that sets out the basis on which the model was made, imaginitive interpretation can really help them visualise a site. If I were you I might make an 'accurate' model and also your 'as if it were finished' model, and allow visitors to compare them.

Poster: MCN2304

@jenujacob said:

@unknownuser said:

I am thinking I might do a 1/4 scale model of it...just so I can see it get built!

oh thats nice.. a doll house table.. goody goody... please post pics when ur done!

U busting my chops?

original poster: Fella77

Thanks for the link. This is an interesting project. It's connected to a very detailed, super-realistic reconstruction of the Roman Forum that the same team has been producing for a while - see here:

http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/search

This is a fine piece of work, rigorous, scholarly, and no doubt producing huge models made by teams of researchers and modellers.
The link seems to be describing something different, a simpler model of the whole city made from scans of Gismondi's plastico which, as you say, is now getting elderly.
As it happens I've been trying this week to make a city-sized Rome terrain within which to set detailed models of individual buildings. If I had the resources of this team I'd be tempted to solve this challenge in the same way; the Gismondi model is ready-made, and based on accurate topographical data and much archaeology, and it does give a great impression of the city as a whole. But it is only an impression; beyond the rough road layout not much is known of the vast majority of day-to-day buildings in Rome, and among the great monuments of which decent archaeological remains survive much has been done in the decades since this 'plastico' was made to alter the reconstructions it offers. The new excavations in the imperial fora, for instance, are turning up all sorts of major and minor alterations.
So it's a starting point, and I'm sure Prof. Frischer's team has done and will do a lot to update it, but it must involve reconstructive guesswork.
I love the applications they predict for this. I've heard Prof. Frischer lecture on the same subject - the potential for study material, virtual tours, even one day some sort of immersive VR experience on-site via a hired headset or handheld device is enormous.

All best wishes,

Matthew.

Poster: MCN2304

Thanks for all the comments everyone! I would love to build this table, but I dont have the room in my house....and the wife, although she loves the table design says it dosn't "fit" with our decor...women! I am thinking I might do a 1/4 scale model of it...just so I can see it get built!

original poster: Fella77

Thanks Eric - I've moved it there.

Matthew.

poster: MCN2304