Posts made by Stu

Thanks Dylan, sounds good!
Dell have a bundle deal where the monitors are a couple of hundred dollars cheaper if purchaced with a lappie.

Dylan,
Sounds like your just the guy to be talking too
My guess is that most new monitors these days can run VGA or DVI.
At this stage I need the occasional portability of a laptop but was hoping not to have to buy a workstation as well...so the projected use of the monitor would be with the laptop only.
And, out of interest, how do you find the 24" Dell?
Stu

I'm looking at getting a 15.4" laptop [probably an Assus or Dell Vostro,with Win XP] and using it mainly connected to a new 24" monitor..again probably a Dell. All the laptops in my price range seem only to have a VGA [rather than a DVi option] connection to an external monitor. So, is it worth spending good money on a monitor if the image via VGA is going to be just average?

Im also watching the thread on the nVidia 8600GT...rather depressingly, just about every new laptop, running Vista seems to have a 8600GT card.

TIA

Stu

From Coens 'quote for the day'

'Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. – Leonardo da Vinci'

I'm sure Leo had a bit of a giggle about this one as he watched his students struggling to become the next Renaissance Man.

What I like about this forum is it's......SCALABILITY........[gee its good to learn new words ]
A more personal and chummy scale here

Coen,
This is all a bit weird. I learnt Chen style for a while until I pulled a groin muscle [too many high kicks, if anybody is wondering]. When I mentioned it to a chinese Chi Kung [another variation] expert he just rolled his eyes and snorted....'you are too old, Chen style is for young people'
And I have practiced Chi Kung. I was a little sceptical at first but it is quite amazing to experience the effects of chi circulating in the body. Real, undenialable physical effects.
I have got a lot of my info on Chi Kung from the books of a Thai/Chinese guy, Mantak Chia.
Stu

And a note on us Dummy-Spitters and Attachment Pullers.
The positive side is that the strength of feeling exhibited regarding the 'migration' [strange choice of words] has probably resulted in this
http://forum.sketchup.com/showthread.php?t=81454
Interesting that Google is now talking about registration by user licence.......remember how many of us begged for something like this after the freebee came out?
Regardless of what happens over there I am out, gone, finished.
Very happy here thanks

Steven it would be great to have Jim drop in but I guess he is off fishing or something.
I dont think Jim's influence in setting the tone of the original forum can be over-estimated. Apart from being very helpful and knowledgeable his patience and civility was great, particularly with new chums.

Mike,
You are so right.
All we need now, to make it really authentic, is for Grant and Frank to turn up
Ed.
Actually, if somebody could convince 'Gentleman Jim' Holman to join up, the deja vu feeling would be complete.

Hi All,
And thanks very much Coen.
The new member list, since yesterday, is worth looking at.......a veritible roll-call of SU forum regulars!

You know,
One day they could get really big......buy out Google........realise that they have a sad, under-developed, once was great, 3D app. as part of the buy-out.....see its potential.....re-hire some ex-@last programers......and give Coen a heap of money to maintain this forum.
[and we all lived happily ever after]

Kris,
How is the Nvidia Verto 8500GT 512 Meg. going?
I'm probably not too far from getting a new machine and while most of your technical talk goes over my head I was thinking that a 512Mb card was a bit excessive. I dont think Oz is too far behind when it comes to things like this but its very hard to find configurations for sale with 512 cards.
And then I read http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36208
It seems that Google are recommending a 512Mb card as optimal!

Just how common are they at the top end of the world?

And just how much of an improvement are they?......at the moment I'm using a 128 FX 5200

Stu

Make Faces, every time I start a new model with an ACad drawing.......SU2KT, most times I finish a SU model and something I find absolutly indispensible.....Nudge rb.....for moving any group or component in x,y or z direction, for a distance I specify, independent of any snapping or inference.

Thanks Guys,
I'll try a system restore....in a couple of days, after I get a current job finished...eh, just in case

Tom, thanks Mate [but skip the prayers, OK? ]
I've never done a restore but it seems to make sense if I restored to a point after the inital, succesful connection of the x-hard drive and before I had the trouble?
Would I need to back up work done after the restore point? [before I do the restore]

Susan, thanks but I'm using the newer USB2.
Lewis, thanks a lot for that effort but it didn't fix the prob....still won't recognise the drive. The memory stick was G and, if I'm not mistaken the x-drive was originally F. I did however change the stick to Q....but to no effect.
bummer
Stu

Ok, what seems like a curly one
I purchaced a Lacie external hard drive with a USB connection, last week.
It worked fine and I loaded files and folders onto it.
I struck a problem though when I connected a memory stick to an adjacent USB port.
I got a message saying there was an unknow USB device. I thought this was refering to the memory stick...but it was actually the external hard drive. It is now impossible to get the computer to recognise the Lacie...[ I've tried different ports].
I connected the hard drive to another computer and it was recognised.
My computer still recognises my memory stick....so it seems the hard drive is OK...the USB connections are OK....but my computer doesn't want to recognise this external hard drive.
Could it possibly help to re-format the Lacie on another computer, and start again?.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Stu

I'm not talking about the software I'm talking agout how Google have handled it.

Leaving aside the old chestnut of Google devaluing our expertise in SU by turning it into a hobyist freebie.

But how about V6? It would seem Google [rightly] felt that V6 was so average that they couldn't actually charge people for the upgrade. And Layout which, in some form, was demo-ed at the @Last bootcamp convention, was still in Beta form 18 months later. And then there was the melt down when they actually released the upgrade. And then there was the the very real fiasco of moving the forum to Google groups. And then there was the most recent service release stuff up.

And please let me make it clear that I'm not bashing the SU people who work at the coal face....they all sound motivated, dedicated and working their bums off....but its the bean counters and string pullers that we never hear of, that worry me.

Guys,
Thanks for the responses.
Carl I'm tending towards the LaCie and its good to hear you have had not trouble.
320Gb. sounds ridiculous, but then you can never have too much storage.....as the man who sold me my first computer,[512Mb hard drive] said.
Stu

I'm planning to get an external hard drive.......to save me from the inevitable blue screen of death but am also running out of room.
I'm thinking of getting a 320 Gig. Lacie 300968A.
Does anybody have an opinion on this brand or on external HDs generally?
Thanks,
Stu