Hi Sam,
here´s a pretty good download database for all sorts of Apple related tools,
beware it´s in german. Fortunately, lot´s of english teminology anyway:
http://www.heise.de/download/apple-50002505000/
I tend to go there first if I need a misc. tool, as the site belongs to a
german computer magazin and the tools found there can often be assumed save
to start with.
Has linux and windows stuff, too. Even stuff for smartphones.
Cheers,
tim
On 19.08.2012 23:48, Sam Bowling wrote:
One of the big surprises when I started working at this company that uses a lot
of macs was the complete lack of free utilities available on a mac. You can get
almost any kind of
converter/utility for windows for free, but EVERYTHING on a mac will cost you
money and most of them don’t even have demo versions so you can see if it even
work. Hopefully they
will continue to allow people to downgrade to earlier versions of windows, but
with the way they are pushing their cell phone OS they probably won’t allow it
on this version.
*From:* Martin yara <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:53 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: Windows 8 - anyone?
We gained stability directx and some other things with winXP so it was a good
change from win98 and 2000. It felt like a 98 and 2000 mixed and with the SPs
blue screens were pretty
rare.
XP 64 and Vista never felt like a finished product so Win7 64 was a huge change
for designers. 2 or 3Gb per application was just not enough.
This time, I just don't see any reason to upgrade. Not yet at least. It seems
that the upgrade price will be quite cheap so it may be worth to give it a try,
specially if there is
a no Metro GUI option.
Linux and OSX are quite limited in software and plugins library so I don't
think they are a valid option for a designer / generalist.
M.Yara
On 2012/08/19, at 8:22, Andreas Bystrom <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
"You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running
windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but
most other people
didn’t)."
ofcourse, there are still people using win2k/nt even.
also i did not forget vista, i ran it myself for years and was quite happy with
it, win7 is better but overall vista wasn't that terrible either.
also having used Linux for almost 2 years at work I've realized you can get
used to and be quite happy with anything, its just a matter of using it long
enough really, even
though I still would never bother using linux at home..
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sam Bowling <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running
windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually
liked, but most other people
didn’t).
*From:* Andreas Bystrom <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?
". 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 something like that will be the day hell truly freezes over..
on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come out
since win2k I've heard the same exact thing "this will be terrible, I'm staying
with win xxxx
forever" yet those same people somehow upgraded throughout the years and
found themselves quite happy...
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards
tablet use. But what boggles me is that... how can the developers themselves
stand it?
On a side note.
I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy
wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. 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.
Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty.
And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a "side-note". They are already
talking about Windows9.
regards
stefan
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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
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Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM
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 it.
I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine & start over
anyway.
Thanks,
Paul
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