Asus' Eee Keyboard, with capacitive display pad.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/04/asus_keyboard_update/

Looks like latest VLC has fixed the Windows 7 issues.

A on screen UI (Fredo style), sounds nice.

Jeff, that was great.

Miguel, about BSOD, do you have also a on-board display adapter? If so, make sure that it's not enabled.

@ecuadorian said:

Small update:

After formatting it in Windows 7, the hard drive now works perfectly from both XP and 7. I'm currently copying again all my stuff to the drive.

I'm also faced with some decisions: Which RAR program should I install? Which media player should I use? For media player, I decided to forgo the native one and install VLC instead. After the VLC install finished, I double-clicked on a movie to open it, and... Zap! my second Windows 7 Blue Screen Of Death. I guess in 7 you always have to restart after installing something new, so I'll try to keep that in mind.

UPDATE: I keep getting Blue Screens every time I try to access screen options or open a video with VLC, so I guess the nvidia driver provided by MS via Windows update is buggy. I'll try installing the one from nvidia's page. Oh, and the keyboard mapping is wrong, I'll have to solve that soon.

VLC do have some serious Win 7 issues. So far Media Player Classic Home Cinema, seems to work fine with Win7 64bit.
For archive, 7-Zip is my favourite. It do have a 64 bit version.
nVidia divers are always best to download from nvidia (there might be some beta divers too to solve some particular problems). Have to say you have got really strange problems with nVidia. Have you made a search if there generally some issues with that display card and Win 7, just to eliminate that the display card is not broken.

Here is one
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gob9PPCFLoE

Good reminder! I have used The Film & Stage plugin time to time, too. Adding lights to the component is a nice idea.

People are easy to trick install someting; for curiosity (funny screen savers, gags & porn), greed (pirated programs) or fear (antivirus scams). How would UAC prevent against it, if user want's to install something.

@ecuadorian said:

Guess what the name of the first update in the list was? "Windows x64 malware detection tool". And I thought I would

Why would malware go away with 64bit? Looks like MS own malware protection is in need http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2009/10/27/msrt-october-release-case-study.aspx

Seems that mileages can vary... Why to get rid of Aero, for me it's one of the best features in Win7.

If finding suitable large texture is difficult, one option is to use procedural textures. Many renderers can use a procedural wood, that picks colours from a texture sample and generate a wood texture. That usually is good enough if you wont do a close up render.

Perhaps some ruby guru will get a inspiration of this. Pinwheel tiling has been used in the architecture.

Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia (image by Paul Bourke)

Did made it by hand, some years ago. Original paper http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/radin/papers/pinwheel.pdf
Easy to understand explanation http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture_colour/nonperiodic/

You could take some garden textures or even low poly plants and patch them to a large surface using pinwheel tiling and SU components.

PinwheelAperiodicTiling.zip

This is more a inspirational source
http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/mainen.php

Sure you can do that in renderer, if the renderer supports layer weights or similar. You could blend two ground textures with a procedural weight.

404 - File or directory not found.

(www.neilblevins.com)

Quite freaky. Had a bit similar configuration, but I connected the data disk after Windows 7 RC (64-bit) was fully installed. Worked fine. Perhaps if you try to connect that disk to a different sata port...

@solo said:

...he noticed I had a USB powered scanner that was not being used as it does not work with Vista (Visioneer onetouch) anyway he plugged it into his USB jack and it was recognised and worked straight up without even needing the driver disk. Just that compatability alone is amazing (Visioneer does not work on a Mac)

I have one usb dvb-t stick, that was never working properly in XP nor in Vista. It did not have a driver for any 64 bit win. Best of all, the manufacturer got buyed out and the product line was closed.

Guess what - it works just fine in Win7 64-bit, just stink it in and enjoy the show

@pichuneke said:

And yes, it's a nightmare of memory for my computer. Kerkythea doesn't allow to render it; the entire model is too complex

I seen quite complex models in KT and rendered them (models that where impossible to even rotate in SU or display fully). I would say that if you can load the model in SU and export it, you most likely can render it. Try MLT, but for first run keep resolution under 1000x1000.