Martin,

I tried that, and the ruby console returned;

0

Nought. (or zero)

Martin, yes.

> Dir;;chmod( '..' )
Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `chmod' for Dir;Class>
(eval);16
> Dir;;pwd
/

Apparently Bill Gates, after initially been blown away by the iPhone, is less impressed with the iPad. "I want a stylus and a keyboard!" says Bill. Apple replies, "Sorry Bill, no can do".

However a company from Korea may have the solution;

iPhone under sausage control!!

do I get a stroke, because the root directory is disabled by default on a Mac?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528

Hi Martin, completely out of my depth here, but I am interested in code...

all i get after typing

Dir::pwd

is;

/

That's it!

@unknownuser said:

I just don't understand the need for this approach ??

You're still not being clear to what approach you mean.

The portable approach or the pirated approach?

Oh dear, Sorry Thom, this wasn't really anything to do with your question or your office for that matter, and that's why you have given strange answers!!

My fault. I should have asked the question in a new topic, but I found the link to Tom's Hardware (not our hardware!! ) rather interesting.

@thomthom said:

Thank you. Just the kind of info we needed!

Is it? I'd really like to find out, once and for all, which card is better, in say a Mac and a PC. Most Mac's come fitted with Geforce types, or in the case of the Mac Pro at the high end, an ATI Radeon HD 4870- which despite the brilliant claims, is still classed as a "gamer" card. In no Mac is there a Quadro FX type card- not even in the high end models. But I find the performance better on this Mac which has an ATI X1600, and I stopped using my HP workstation, because the Macbook was far better in displaying models, despite the HP being fitted with an NVidia FX1400 with an equal 128mb of VRAM.

And if SU only really uses one single core, what is the point, apart from rendering, of a high-end graphics card? I've got two NVidia Geforce 8500 512mb cards here- ready to be stuffed into a new PC I'm making for home, but when I tried swapping out the Quadro FX 1400 128mb card in my old HP workstation, I noticed absolutely no difference in performance.

Ideally there should be two identical architecture machines running side by side, Mac and PC, but what CAD would you throw at them? Solidworks' eDrawings I suppose, because eDrawings runs on both Mac and PC, but I guess they would have to be reading from a 100mb + file or whatever? SketchUp too. I would choose these two apps, because the PC version has been written in the .NET framework, and Cocoa Objective C++ for the Mac.

Hmm.... I wonder?

Sorry Rich, I don't quite understand? You're pissed off with pirated SU software, or pirated software as a whole? You don't have to use a pirate version of SU just to make it portable!

I've given up on putting my foot down on pirating, because I just conclude that it is going to happen irrespective of what measures you take to stop it. I have 2 LP's both released on worldwide record labels. I don't think anyone who has expressed an interest in them have actually bought copies, they've just downloaded them from torrent sites. I suppose it's like using cassette tape in the old days- I used to tape records, then later on, if I liked them enough, go out and buy them.

Primarily I'm anti-krack'd software, because I believe in shareware (or freeware, if it is good- like SU free). Using kracked software does nothing but support the main players, Autodesk, Adobe, MS Office etc etc. Kracked software keeps these dinosaurs in power- which is wrong, because in turn that also stifles competition and more importantly, innovation.

Well, that's it, I haven't (had the problem). I was primarily interested in the thread, because this was an apple issue that I was interested in seeing the outcome of what happened.

However, like you guys, the assistive option checkbox was ticked on my computer.

@gaieus said:

I know this may sound too liberal compared to that paranoia over there and even I was a bit surprised but if that is the pace schools are advancing with modern computer technology, the students graduating there will always be a couple of years behind.

There's a Hungarian chap Atilla, who used to work where I work (I also work in a school), who could never work out why in England all wash basins have two taps instead of one mixing tap, and that the hot tap is always either as cold as the cold tap, or is so hot that you end up just using the cold tap after all, so to avoid scolding yourself. And of course, there is never any soap.

Like I said, this is 'Great' Britain

@mitcorb said:

While I agree in part with what HonoluluDesktop says, an intolerant network is counter-intuitive.

We ARE talking the United Kingdom here. We are also talking mid school term. IMHO, HonoluluDesktop is absolutely correct in his assumption. British IT departments within educational establishment will not, under any circumstances, install software, until it has been fully cleared with upper IT management. It is as simple as that. I am absolutely sure that if Matt wants SU installed on the school PC's it will happen, but not until the summer break (vacation to you guys on the other side of the Atlantic ), and after it has been agreed to (It took 2 years of me asking at Wolverhampton University before they finally had SU installed, and then that was in the following year, after I left). Basically the whole of British state education today, runs on Microsoft XP, and the last thing IT managers want, especially in an establishment such as a school or university, is a system that is broke.

Yes, it's utter madness. But it's also very British.

Hey guys, I just checked preferences and also found this box checked (I didn't check it!).

Perhaps this is a bug in Snow Leopard, that it gets switched on after upgrading?

(I don't have either V-ray or that other app)

Yes! Two steaks for me, two for you too!

You know what though, I don't know what is a longer distance away, From Birmingham to Ireland, or the Journey from Birmingham to Hollyhead, North Wales! As for that ferry too?

better make that 6 pints!

By finding that there was a depressingly small amount of decent CAD on the Apple platform, and having to make do with what was available. Then getting thrown in at the deep end and having to do a 'live visualisation' in front of a load of church goers on a Sunday morning (I'm not a believer btw, so that experience was quite awkward! ), using SketchUp, and then having to make a film (movie) of it all, complete with music, all in about 6 weeks, AND, while also looking after my kids! PHEW!

@dedmin said:

How about a some kind of BOM?

[flash=425,344:wgsogdnk]http://www.youtube.com/v/SXn2QVipK2o&hl=en_GB&fs=1&[/flash:wgsogdnk]

Why is it that whenever I see the word BOM, I think of Inspector Clouseau?!

Apart from that, very good suggestion dedmin

@mike lucey said:

SketchUcation is more than just a SketchUp Forum. I would like to think that we are open to discussing all kinds and types of applications. To limit discussions just to SketchUp would be a mistake in my opinion. The advantage of using a totally independent forum like SketchUcation is that a user will never have to worry about saying exactly what is on their mind. Heck, even SketchUp has been 'cussed' on this forum on many occasions and that is the way it should be if its justifiable.

Mike, we must get together for a pint or two sometime!

Smoking? Mac OSX of course! it's hot shit dude!

I used to smoke (both tobacco and occasionally, funny tobacco). When I reached 40, I quit. I could perhaps do with a smoke these days- as it might calm me down a bit? (in case you hadn't already noticed!?!

Howard, I'm sorry, but that's nonsense about AutoCAD. that's exactly the kind of marketing BS that Autodesk would love everyone to believe! I have no problem whatsoever opening and exporting DWG files to and fro from AutoCAD to Highdesign for example (and on a Mac!). Yet HighDesign costs a fraction of the price of Acad LT. Hell, I even fooled my lecturers at university into believing that I'd used ACAD, when in fact I used a £13 shareware application called QCad to do the drawings- I still got an A!!

Don't believe the hype! Make a profit, not a loss!!!

Matt,

install SketchUp on a USB stick. It works. I did this when I was in my finals at university- it worked a treat. SketchUp isn't supposed to be portable, but it can be done. I think you point the installer to the USB stick that you have plugged in to your own computer. You can also do the same with QCad (which I also use a lot, as qcad is multiplatform )

Do a google search on SketchUp and portable, and you will get a whole load of info. Please tell me how you get on!

Tom