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Monthly Archives: October 2008

AutoCAD 2009 – An outsider’s look at the Ribbon

30 October 2008 at 2:41 pm » Comments (0)

Kirill Grouchnikov is a developer who has a blog called Pushing Pixels. This wouldn't normally be of particular interest to AutoCAD users, but he recently wrote a piece describing the ...more »

Autodesk discussion groups – signs of life?

30 October 2008 at 10:58 am » Comments (0)

After an extraordinarily long period of total silence about the dreadful state of the appallingly-updated Autodesk discussion groups, it seems that the sleeping monster has raised an eyelid. Although it ...more »

Autodesk University buddy offer for existing registrants

30 October 2008 at 9:23 am » Comments (0)

There can never be such a thing as too many Autodesk University buddy offer posts, right?* So here's another one. This time, I won't mention the year so I can't ...more »

The three Fs of customer service

29 October 2008 at 8:57 pm » Comments (4)

I had another interesting customer service experience at the weekend. We had booked an electrician well in advance to service our air conditioner and change a bunch of light fittings. ...more »

Autodesk University 2008 two-for-one offer

29 October 2008 at 11:59 am » Comments (2)

Although Autodesk University registrations passed 7000 a while ago, the financial crisis is likely to have slowed registrations considerably, so it's not a huge shock to see Autodesk trying to ...more »

Rate Autodesk, vote once

27 October 2008 at 10:43 am » Comments (2)

I've added some new polls that ask you to rate Autodesk in five specific areas. I've seen some criticism of Autodesk in these and other areas, but that doesn't mean ...more »

Ways in which the crash could be good for Autodesk

24 October 2008 at 12:48 pm » Comments (2)

No, I don't mean the sort of crash where AutoCAD stops working. The current financial crisis, I mean. I must preface these comments with a disclaimer. I have no qualifications ...more »

A true AutoCAD teaching story

23 October 2008 at 9:57 am » Comments (2)

Reading Ralph's post about going back to teaching reminded me of a time some years ago when I taught some AutoCAD evening classes at a technical college. As Ralph points ...more »

Customer service – filling a hole

22 October 2008 at 9:29 pm » Comments (2)

Two weekends ago, I bought a cheap plastic outdoor table and chair set from Clark Rubber. It came complete with an umbrella hole for which I have no need, but ...more »

The Autodesk discussion groups are awful

21 October 2008 at 2:38 pm » Comments (3)

Yes, the Autodesk discussion groups are still awful. In other breaking news, the Pacific Ocean continues to be wet. I seldom visit them any more, but I just hopped on to ...more »

Why I won’t buy another Canon all-in-one printer

21 October 2008 at 1:10 pm » Comments (7)

Last year, I bought a Canon MP830 printer/scanner/copier/fax/tea maker/whatever for my home office. I chose this particular device because it had all the features I was after, including CD printing, ...more »

Happy Birthday, LISP

20 October 2008 at 11:59 pm » Comments (0)

Here in Australia it is well into the 21st and I raised my own glass last night, but for John McCarthy and most of my readers, it is the 20th ...more »

What is a reasonable amount of time to wait for license codes?

17 October 2008 at 1:23 pm » Comments (2)

Software companies use a variety of differerent methods in their attempts to prevent piracy and restrict use of their software to legitimate paying customers. Yes, these attempts are generally futile. ...more »

My autodesk.com site survey experience

13 October 2008 at 10:12 pm » Comments (3)

I just tried out the new discussion groups to see if anything has been fixed. After entering my password (yet again), instead of placing me back in the discussion groups ...more »

50 years of LISP

13 October 2008 at 12:51 pm » Comments (1)

It is difficult to find an exact date for LISP's birthday. It wasn't so much born in an instant as it was gradually dragged out of the primordial slime during ...more »

How complete are most new AutoCAD features?

13 October 2008 at 11:05 am » Comments (0)

You may have noticed the poll on the right asking "How well cooked is the average major new AutoCAD feature these days?" Despite the rather frivolous nature of the question ...more »

Slight improvement in discussion group search

8 October 2008 at 5:55 pm » Comments (2)

While almost all of the problems with the Autodesk discussion groups remain, there are some signs of movement in one area at least. The search facility, which until recently refused ...more »

AutoCAD performance and productivity

6 October 2008 at 3:37 pm » Comments (8)

I have closed the performance and productivity polls as described in my posts here and here, and the results can be seen in the Polls Archive. As with most of the ...more »

The John Walker interview, and other observations

4 October 2008 at 9:22 pm » Comments (1)

I have been thoroughly enjoying Kean Walmsley's interview of Autodesk co-founder John Walker, which he has now finished. Kean's link to part 4 is currently broken (edit: now fixed) and ...more »

Here’s a couple I didn’t mention earlier

3 October 2008 at 4:15 pm » Comments (0)

The Autodesk discussion group editor inserts spaces into URLs longer than a certain size (about 70 characters, it seems). It will insert spaces in one place for the URL that ...more »
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