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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Bartz the blogger

27 February 2009 at 1:17 pm » Comments (1)

Autodesk's Executive Chairman of the Board (who has one or two other little jobs, too) has made a Yahoo! blog post in which she promises to kick a donkey, or ...more »

A gaggle of geeks

27 February 2009 at 12:38 pm » Comments (6)

Time to lighten things up a bit, I think. While attending the AutoCAD 2010 product launch in San Francisco on 5 February 2009, I conducted a series of micro-interviews with ...more »

Cadalyst lives!

26 February 2009 at 9:14 am » Comments (0)

I was happy to receive an email from Nancy Johnson this morning informing me that Cadalyst is going to continue. From March onward it will be published by Longitude Media, ...more »

Autodesk answers – 4 of 4

26 February 2009 at 7:51 am » Comments (8)

The final question is from metis: Q: why is program size increasing and performance dramatically decreasing as hardware specs dramatically increase? as features “improve” and are added functionality should not be ...more »

Autodesk answers – 3 of 4

25 February 2009 at 1:16 pm » Comments (0)

The third question, courtesy of Earl Kubaskie, is: Q: I would ask why there seems to be so little cooperation between the development teams. Vanilla, Map 3D, Civil 3D, each seem ...more »

Autodesk answers – 2 of 4

24 February 2009 at 12:03 pm » Comments (2)

In a comment on the first of these posts, Ralph G raised the possibility that these answers have been edited by marketing people. I have checked with Eric Stover and ...more »

Autodesk answers – 1 of 4

23 February 2009 at 10:10 pm » Comments (16)

At the end of January, I asked for your questions to put to Autodesk product managers. My intention was to pose your questions in a video interview format while attending ...more »

Older AutoCAD loses (part of) the plot

23 February 2009 at 11:58 am » Comments (21)

I know there are plenty of people still using AutoCAD 2007 and earlier, so this bug warning may save some of you some grief. I have no idea how widespread ...more »

Vernor v Autodesk – why I think Autodesk is right

21 February 2009 at 9:56 pm » Comments (20)

Well, there's a statement I wasn't expecting to make. Let me preface these comments with a disclaimer. I have no legal qualifications whatsoever. I make no claims of knowing who ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Will you miss the Menu Browser?

20 February 2009 at 2:48 pm » Comments (4)

I've closed the poll that asked AutoCAD 2009 users about their MENUBAR setting. It's very clear that pull-down menus are still very much in use in the Ribboned world of ...more »

Blogging = arrogance?

18 February 2009 at 10:22 pm » Comments (13)

Here's a quote from somebody I know: Blogging is an inherently arrogant concept. It implies that your opinion is worth more than that of other people. At the risk of offending all ...more »

A year of nauseam

18 February 2009 at 10:17 pm » Comments (1)

This is one of those awful self-indulgent blog posts you hate, so just skip it and read the more interesting stuff a bit further down instead. It is now a year ...more »

I see no ads

18 February 2009 at 9:48 pm » Comments (2)

I have removed the advertisements from this blog. Not because I worried about people not liking them (they were fairly unobtrusive). Not because they were slowing down the page load ...more »

I’m supporting the New Zealand blackout

17 February 2009 at 4:07 pm » Comments (4)

Thanks to Robin Capper for bringing this to my attention. http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html Disclosure: I'm a software developer, artist (of sorts), copyright owner and part of a company that sells software to allow copyright ...more »

Gravatars – how to get a picture next to your comment

17 February 2009 at 1:11 pm » Comments (4)

After some recent site maintenance here, you may have noticed that the comments look a bit different, and that some people's comments have a little picture next to them. This ...more »

Interesting times ahead for Cadalyst

17 February 2009 at 9:30 am » Comments (6)

As many of you may know, I've been writing for Cadalyst since 1995. Yesterday, I read in David Cohn's summary of the history of Cadalyst that in 1991, Lionel Johnston ...more »

Site maintenance

15 February 2009 at 5:00 pm » Comments (0)

I am currently moving the site from http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com to http://blognauseam.com while attempting to avoid breaking any existing links to pages on the old site. There may be some disruption to ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 release date

13 February 2009 at 2:45 pm » Comments (3)

After my recent attendance at the AutoCAD 2010 launch, I have a few dozen subjects I'd like to blog about, lots of video editing to do, and not enough free ...more »

Autodesk not listening? The response, part 2

8 February 2009 at 7:06 pm » Comments (6)

In this second part of the interview, the Autodesk trio continues to respond to the question about listening to customers. YouTube link. more »

Autodesk not listening? The response, part 1.

6 February 2009 at 7:04 pm » Comments (5)

While attending the AutoCAD 2010 launch today, I took the opportunity to interview three Autodesk people: Eric Stover, Jon Page and Shaan Hurley. I raised the issue of Autodesk being ...more »
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