Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Jens Lindgren
...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Davidson *Sent:* Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:13 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? ** ** Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom) Like you said, the review is not great. And it's

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Matt Lind
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Davidson Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:13 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Nice that it has a pressure

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Eric Turman
Of *Jens Lindgren *Sent:* Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:55 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? ** ** The Samsung Galaxy Note II will be announced August 29th and I think it will be more targeted to the artistic people as you can see

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? ** ** Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom) Like you said, the review is not great. And it's Android OS which does not support Photoshop. I don't know of any decent paint program for Android

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Davidson
:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Griswold *Sent:* Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:45 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? ** ** Actually the one device I'm very interested

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-23 Thread Matt Lind
, 2012 6:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? After seeing your post about not being able to switch off the touchscreen while you are using a pen, I did some research, and found this YouTube link that not only shows off how well the tablet works, it also

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Nic Groot Bluemink
There's the new Galaxy Note with a Wacom pen. Underwhelmed a bit in the review though- http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3243546/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-review -Nic On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.netwrote: Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Davidson
Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom) Like you said, the review is not great. And it's Android OS which does not support Photoshop. I don't know of any decent paint program for Android Thanks for trying, though. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Nic Groot Bluemink

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Dan Yargici
I've made Soft work on 12.04, but if you were to now ask me how the bottom line is that if you go through all the Linux related posts on Stephen's blog you'll get it running totally fine in the end. As an aside, I have to say that I love Gnome Shell (just called Gnome now in 12.04). Unity

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Dan, cool - have you actually done any production work on this install? Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you read/write icecaches? I personally haven't spent any time trying to get it to work because I've read all these reports about these show stopper type problems

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
: Windows 8 - anyone? Dan, cool - have you actually done any production work on this install? Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you read/write icecaches? I personally haven't spent any time trying to get it to work because I've read all these reports about

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Hi Martin, No production work no. Opening and Saving definitely worked! I don't recall having had to merge and I wasn't doing any caching with ICE (but I was using ICE extensively)... I didn't encounter any issues at all and it seemed very stable to me. I've used 2011 and 2013 with Ubuntu

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Martin Chatterjee
Hi Dan, awesome, thanks! :-) I just dug out the old thread I vaguely remembered - if you want you can check it out here.https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/xsi_list/ubuntu$20segfault/xsi_list/OgyvRv4X22w/yQOE9qb5UxsJ That was a year ago on Ubuntu 11.04 - keeping my fingers

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Dan Yargici
Hmmm. Nope, seems I have those exact same issues! Even the batch issue that Patrick mentions in the last thread. Sorry for creating the false hope! :/ DAN On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dan, awesome, thanks! :-) I

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Tim Thorburn
1:06 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Dan, cool - have you actually done any production work on this install? Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you read/write icecaches? I personally haven't spent any time trying to get

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Griswold
Well, for grins and giggles I installed Windows 8 RTM on my laptop. Softimage 2013 SP1 runs ok from what I can see. There's some interface weirdness, such as the top menu bar is pure white and Softimage 2013...etc etc. is centered at the top of the screen instead of on the left. I loaded a

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Blair
You need to disable Face Robot. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: August-21-12 12:44 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Well, for grins and giggles I installed

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Matt Lind
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Nice that it has a pressure sensitive pen (Wacom) Like you said, the review is not great. And it's Android OS which does not support Photoshop. I don't know of any decent paint program for Android Thanks for trying, though. On Tue

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Davidson
Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my tablet, but there is no reason to use it on my workstation, unless they force me to, by dropping support for Windows 7, like they will, for XP, on April 8th 2014. I have a laptop/tablet pc that I use for drawing (it has a Wacom pressure

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-20 Thread Eugen Sares
Am 20.08.2012 19:56, schrieb Stephen Davidson: Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my tablet, but there is no reason to use it on my workstation, unless they force me to, by dropping support for Windows 7, like they will, for XP, on

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-20 Thread Rob Wuijster
Asus EP121? Rob \/-\/\/ On 20-8-2012 20:11, Eugen Sares wrote: Am 20.08.2012 19:56, schrieb Stephen Davidson: Bottom line, for me, Windows 8 is fine to use on my tablet, but there is

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-20 Thread Len Krenzler
NO. On 8/18/2012 12:44 PM, David Gallagher wrote: Mobile is so overrated. Does anyone actually get anything done on a mobile device? -- _ Len Krenzler - Creative Control Media Productions Phone: 780.463.3126 www.creativecontrol.ca -

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Andreas Bystrom
. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. hmm, it's not april did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan jones writes

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Tim Leydecker
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Is this latest news? The late 2012 MacPros are, umhh, not impressive but apple mgmnt has promised something really great for next year... I wonder how much this is a result of Jobs gone (r.i.p.) and Intel not feeling

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Paul Griswold
Sam is right on the money. I heard an interview with Paul Thurrott and he said according to the Windows team, Windows 8 is much like the first version of OS-X. It's not Windows 7 with some bolt-on UI elements, it is a new OS that has a Classic mode to maintain compatibility with non-Metro apps.

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Stefan Andersson
When I think of operating systems today I think of the death scene in Toy Story 3. Perhaps we should just hold hands and face the facts. Maybe there will be a giant claw out there that can save us all... /Stefan On Saturday, August 18, 2012, Paul Griswold wrote: Sam is right on the money. I

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Rob Wuijster
I don't think there will be any pro-friendly OS's out there in a few years time. Like people already said, everybody is jumping on the mobile train, and the 'pro's' get the leftovers on the desktop. As more and more apps move to the web and cloud (Office 2012 e.g.), we'll slowly start too see

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Paul Griswold
It seems like the market might be ripe for some enterprising new company to come along and develop some specialized pro-level hardware software. Of course it would be Silicon based hardware, specialize in Graphics and would need to be Incorporated... ah, but that's a crazy idea! On Sat, Aug

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Paul Griswold
Depends on what you mean by getting things done. With my iPhone iPad + Growl and Boxcar I can have Deadline send me a message when renders finish. I do a lot of general-purpose office work while sitting on the sofa with my kids in the evening on my iPad. I'm not doing modeling, etc., but it's

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Thomas Helzle
Wasn't I supposed to be all gloomy about newfangled stuff ;-) Well, I currently work on audio related things and just read an interesting article about Windows 8 and some benchmarks: http://blog.cakewalk.com/windows-8-a-benchmark-for-music-production-applications/ I can't see any reason for doom

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
Minor correction: It doesn't render on the iPad, it receives a streaming progressive render in realtime and the client is just a GUI to it. ;) On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: Depends on what you mean by getting things done. With my

OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Griswold
My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-17 Thread Stephen Davidson
I haven't tried Windows 8, yet, but I do have Windows 7 64 bit Pro. My machine was acting flaky, also, so I reformatted the drive and re-installed Windows and all my APPS. It took me an entire day, with all the Windows updates, and drivers, but it was worth it. Much more stable, now. I had heard

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-17 Thread Thomas Helzle
Check out the Wacom Intuos 5 Touch tablets, should work great with Win8, I use it with Win7 and OSX. I too don't intend to grab at my monitor all day but with the Wacom it's quite natural. My only gripe is, that it doesn't act like a tablet with absolute coordinates (where you touch is where your

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-17 Thread Alan Fregtman
For the record you can click on Desktop and get the standard Windows desktop you know and love. It does show the Metro UI by default at first though. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirko.janko...@aeonproduction.com wrote: it seems to be shame that they create OS that works a

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-17 Thread Matt Lind
@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? I tried out the release preview on my laptop and windows 8 is crap. The only reason this exists is so Microsoft can leverage their desktop OS to get people you use their extremely unpopular Phone OS. They have literally removed everything

Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-17 Thread Sylvain Lebeau
this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly --