This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Kate; >> One question: where did you read this warning? Well……, I hate to mention it, but it is in a copy of the October issue of "Key Solutions" which is Cadkey's newletter. On page 4 is a Large Red "WARNING!" message that stated that PKWARE is aware of the…
#Bogus files erase HD
Message #197078
I just read a notice of WARNING about a bogus version of (pkzip/pkunzip) PKZ300.zip and PKZ300b.exe. It states that, PKWARE says someone on the internet is distributing files under the pretext of being an upgrade to the pkzip/pkunzip file compression program. The item further states that it is NOT a…
Jim; >> I've had a pvr/2500 sitting in a box since siggraph, but have never >> found the time to install them. Good to see you here. This is the first I've noticed you on CIS. Thanks for all the tips in Greg Pyro's class. Dennis Fenske
Javier; >> (meat balls for thousends!!) Thousends and thousends of meat balls!! ROFL! Wow! Dennis
Dave; >> I/O error accessing boot sector file Glad you are back up and running. I had a similar problem after using the NT Disk Manager. It said I needed to at a header at the beginning of the Hard Disk so I could access it in the future. I…
Francisco; >> distancia entre las metaballs) I busted up laughing. Not at you, but at my wife who has no clue to what Metaballs are. I asked her to come read your spanish note to me and decipher it. She said she didn't know, exactly what it said, but it…
David; >> Latest version of LenZXF is 2.0. Thanks, Dennis
Aaron; Thanks, Dennis
#LenZFX
Message #194814
David; What is the latest on LenzFX?/Inferno? Is it/(are they) shipping yet? Dennis
Dave; >> I'll upload it if anyones interested in seeing it. I believe it is free for you to upload (at least it used to be). If you do upload it, everyone will have a chance to see it (if they feel they can afford to download it). If not,…
Larry; >> NT can't see a Disk Manager translated partition. Well, that's not very nice for NT to do. 😉 Dennis
Mark (or anyone), BTW, do you have any idea why in NT, I cannot locate my second 1 Gig partition, while in DOS with Disk Manager, it is there? Any help on this is appreciated. Dennis
Mark; >> you weren't clear about you config. Do you dual boot (Win and NT)? I am dual booting to DOS /NT. I was able to get it to work. I found someone else with the same problem on the WINNT forum. It explained to just turn off the Atdisk…
#NT 'Atdisk' problem,help
Message #192249
Help! I am having a problem with "Atdisk" not starting in Windows NT. What is it? What does it mean? How do I fix it? NT starts and appears to be functioning ok, except a program I need to run says "Bad Display Configuration". I have an ATI Graphics Pro…
Tim; >> Anyone remember the story where Apple tried to have people pronounce >> SCSI as sexy? They didn't want their machines to have anything associated >> with scuzzy. What about SECS and SECS2. It is pronounced sex and sex2 all the time. I don't recall what it stands for,…
David, >> It must be parallel system running it's own specialized operating >> system. I don't even want to ask how much RAM they ordered with that >> little baby! Here's what the article said. Subject: DOE Buys Massively Parallel Supercomputer From Intel 09/08/95 Posted: 8 Sep 95 19:23:52 GMT…
David; Did you also hear that Intel just sold a multi-processor system to a government agency (I think it was Sandia Labs, but not sure) for many millions of dollars. It is supposed to be the fastest computer ever designed. It uses 9,000 (nine thousand) Pentium Pro's. I wonder if…
Rainbow or gradient lost
Message #191243
I saw a "easy way" to make a rainbow type of effect a while back. I saved it to my hard disk for future reference. Then I had problems with my hard disk, and some files were cross-linked / corrupted. It appears to be gone. Did anyone else save that…
Terry; >> Thanks for the public domain guideline, Your very welcome! I wrestled with this myself a few years back. The other thing to think about is "Are you portraying them in a good light." If you are, it is less likely that they will mind. But again, this pertains…
Terry; The guide I was instructed to follow was that if it was in a sales brochure, it was fully available to the public, therefore the information in it was usable. Otherwise, it was not to be shown. Dennis
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#Industrial Meshes
Message #190931
Terry; >> "Industry" type meshes? I was asking one of our part vendors if we could get 3D Solids of our suppliers parts for use in designing our equipment. Unfortunately, the response was something like, "We are lucky to get (accurate) 2D drawings. I don't believe anyone has 3D anything…
Bill; What are you asking for Yost #4. Dennis
Terry; >> continental order from top to bottom is Canada, US, Mexico then woops. >> You are correct. As I mentioned, I haven't seen the animation in question. I looked at the NASA flic, and "I" cannot determine where the continents are. There are a lot of clouds on it.…
Bob; >> How absolutely prescient of you. Oh, yeah, uh right! What does prescient mean? 🙂 OK, I looked it up. Not really, just couldn't figure NASA would be wrong, and wondered how it could be that way. I found the flic at http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/earth.html","Earth" It is black and white, but…
Kevin; >> Also, the board is at the end of its life I thought so, but that should make them less expensive I would think. At least a used should be. Thanks, Dennis
>> You're absolutely right – the globe is spinning the wrong way. No! No! It is correct, and you knew it and did it that way deliberately! Right!!! I haven't seen what you are talking about, but……. I just downloaded a "flic" (fli file) off the Internet that consists of…
Greg; >> the AT- Vista is that it will show me a 720×486 image That would be a VERY GOOD reason. If I did purchase this card (or any card), do I understand correctly that I can just plug it into a slot, and plug my NTSC monitor into it,…
Greg; >> However, you can have a _framebuffer_ in the machine to show your >> renderings. Is a Targa card the typical/only type card one can use to do this? Are there other options? Thanks, Dennis
Kevin; Thanks! Dennis
David; I purchased Lenzfx just after Siggraph. I thought I heard I was to received Inferno free. Is that correct? Thanks, Dennis
Greg; >> Will the real sync connector please stand up? :^) LOL! >> with the PAR you have to add an external terminator yourself when you >> supply sync Would this be the same type/value as for the network? Thanks, Dennis
John; >> Stacker is only used to compress data on the hard drive. I have stacker 3.0. I have been using it for at least one to two years, and have had absolutely no problems with it. I thought I remembered reading in my manual that you could use stacker…
Don; >> The easiest way to do this is hook up the composite video output from >> the PAR to the sync input of the betacam deck. Thanks for clarifying that Don. Video is a whole new wonderful world to explore! When I borrowed the BetaCam deck, I had never…
Michael; >> "RAM Doubler" That is an interesting thought. I have wondered for years if Stacker would allow one to get double the RAM. I'm interested in input on this one too. Dennis
>> it's possible for any graphics company in Russia to successfully >> manage a CIS account. That ought to ruffle some feathers!
Greg; >> FYI, the RCA connector is a GPI trigger. The sync is a BNC on the >> board itself. Thank you for correcting me on what that cable was, and where to find the real Sync connnector! As I look at my manual, I am still confused as to…
#Another wish
Message #188934
Would it be possible to provide a % complete window in the rendering screen that would give you a better feel for how long a particular rendering is going to take? This could be on a switch so the user could use it during testing, and turn it off during…
David; >> So now I get a call from a good friend who's compnny just rented him a >> BETA deck for an animation Our company did a similar thing last year and this year for me. I had a big horizontal bar across the screen last year when I…
#PAR help
Message #188792
Ray; I just recently got an SVHS monitor for my PAR. Prior to that, I was using an old Commodore computer monitor. The new monitor is obviously better, but only in colors, and crispness of detail. If you have some strange images, maybe you have a bad chip on the…
Jim; >> My BBS gives subscribers a copyrighted program called SVARY (super >> VARY) Please provide the phone number and subscription price (specifics like other benefits). Thanks, Dennis
HD's go bad
Message #188764
Gus, and all, I just wanted to thank you and everyone for your help on my hard disk problem, and all the other information you shared about hard disks in general! It finally turned out to be a HD Controller card doing intermittent stuff. Of the two drives I had,…
Garry; I am not that experienced in this, but since no one else has answered, and I have not been online since the 25th, I will share what I know. You need to put down a 30 second "Color Bar" image with your output. You don't need to render 30…
Gus; Thanks for your suggestions. I could probably format the disk and start over, but I wouldn't learn anything that way. I grabbed my Norton Disk Explorer manual and away we go. Thanks for your continued help. I may request clarification if I don't understand something if you don't mind.…
Gus; This will be a long one, but I believe it may be beneficial to all if you would consider responding to this further. Maybe some lessons can be learned and save others from a possible similar fate. >> plus the fact you run mirror (as far as I can…
John; >> (not too many drive bay's though, only 2 internal, and the second one >> covers a few ISA slots.. Could you change cases on it and have internal drives? I know, it wouldn't seem quite right to have a new machine and put it in a different box,…
Kevin; >> you can't have a directory name that's the same as the device driver >> name, or DOS won't let you CD to it. Thanks for your help. Gus' comment about >>"More likely, you have some program trashing system memory." messing things up made me think about this further,…
Tom; >> Sorry to ask this of you, but message 185717 has already been deleted >> from my message archives in ozcis. Can you post the relevent portion of >> the message for me. This is the complete message. >> As Jonas said, Intel is the only _announced_ platform at…
Gus; I have had a problem recently with a Micropolis 2217A 1.6 Gig HD. On boot up, it would be doing a chkdsk (DOS 5.0), and say stuff like "cannot cd to (some directory)", and it would do this over and over and over. Then autoexec was set up to…
Paul; >> use of the tag function I totally forgot about it. I just tried it, and it would have worked even better than manually selecting as I was doing. Thanks for the reminder! I guess I should have asked sooner(for my sake), but I figured the Yost group was…
#Hide/Unhide Alphabetical
Message #186071
I recently completed a 2400 frame animation. It had 394 objects in it. I named objects I would be "hiding" and "unhiding" frequently in the 3D Editor to have names beginning with "Z" or "Y". This way I could use Display/Hide/By Name and find objects very easily. Unhide was also…
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