He was and I dont think there are many folks on the list he didnt help during his tenure at AD or after ;)
________________________________ From: Sebastien Sterling [[email protected]] Sent: 01 April 2014 06:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Softimage v7.0.1 USB dongle driver on Win 8.1? Bring back Stephen Blair +1 he really is, so helpful in fact that the first time, i didn't realize he was actually official AD support. :P. On 1 April 2014 08:44, Doeke Wartena <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yeah Stephen Blair is awesome! 2014-03-31 23:06 GMT+02:00 Leoung O'Young <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: + 1 for Stephen Blair, AD should bring him for the remainder 2 years of Soft, he goes out of his way to help people, He is what support is all about. I can't named the number of times he came to the rescue. Leoung On 31/03/2014 4:58 PM, Robert Kjettrup wrote: thanks all for the comments. Just a small update on my progress on this. Stephen Blair mailed me with some help, and as always he is the best support AD ever had for Softimage even when he is not working for them :-) My problem was that the SPM installer didnt install correctly and windows 8 was blocking the install of the USD dongle driver. Forcing to run the installer as administrator (even when my user is set up as a admin already) made the driver to install correctly, and after this the License manager did see the USB dongle and i got it to work with the key file i already had. Then opening Softimage i got contstant crashes just when the UI had loaded, every single time. Setting Softimage to always run as administrator also fixed this, so now im up and running, hopefully without too many unknown issues that i will discover along the way. ... now i just wish i had a newer version with more ICE goodies.... but that will never happen now :-/ - Robert 2014-03-28 23:38 GMT+01:00 Cristiano Policarpo <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: We have XSI 7 running on Linux and Windows 7 with dongle license. In windows 7 the dongle is recognized without any driver installation. I believe you need to put your license file in SPM folder. Best, Cristiano Cristiano Policarpo BaloOm Animation Studios www.baloom.co<http://www.baloom.co> --- PoustEx - CG Animated Short Film www.poustex.com<http://www.poustex.com> On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Robert Kjettrup <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi I know i am a bit behind on my softimage license, v7.0.1, and from today i even cant upgrade it anymore... well havnt been able to for a long time :-( My more pressing problem though is i want to keep using this fine version, but im moving to a new workstation running windows 8.1, and im having trouble to get my USB ibutton dongle to be seen by the license manager. I have installed the 64bit drivers from here: http://www.maximintegrated.com/products/ibutton/software/tmex/download_drivers.cfm but the license manager just wont see the dongle. I can see on my former workstation that it is also a totally different USB device driver that is installed on that, so maybe it is just the wrong driver i have installed. so... Does any of you here on the list have the driver that was supplied by Avid for the dongle, i just cant find it in between all my softimage installer files. ...or is there some issues with softimage v7 and windows 8? I really dont hope i have to give up this nice software just now, although i only have an aging version, it is still nicer and more fun to use than most other 3d apps. Robert <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
