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Rebuilding all or all out of date Corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D 2010

November 12, 2009 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D

If you’ve ever needed to frequently rebuild multiple corridors in Autodesk Civil 3D because they are out of date but don’t want to go hit the rebuild menu item for each single corridor then here’s the solution. The following microscopic addon/plugin for Civil 3D 2010 allows you to rebuild all corridors or rebuild all out of date corridors, at once. Unzip the DLL to a location of your choice and you can use netload and load the Civil.RBC.dll (or if you want the functions available, hook it up in the acad2010.lsp file like this…

Filed Under: Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Addon, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Engineering, Free, Freeware, Plugin, Software Development

MaxiVista version 4, revitalising multi-monitor heaven!

September 21, 2009 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
MaxiVista

As many of you already know, I’m a big fan of MaxiVista and that it’s a product that has proven to be essential to my home office setup. I’ve written about this wonderful application before and you can expect some more about it in the next weeks. Since most of the office is getting an overhaul (just operating systems, a few new systems, but not a complete overhaul in layout) I will be putting the new version of MaxiVista through some heavy usage. There are many crucial aspects to the new version 4, the biggest of which is no doubt the full support for 64-bit (the virtual display drivers installed by MaxiVista 4 are digitally signed) and WDDM graphics cards.

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: MaxiVista, Microsoft, Monitors, Multi-Monitor, Network, Screens, Software, Windows

StarWind Server: SAN Made Simple

September 11, 2009 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
StarWind iSCSI Storage Virtualization

I have very little need for a SAN (Storage Area Network), because every single system is already loaded up with many terabytes of fast RAID storage. A SAN, regardless of the size, speed, and cost, would always be slower than the local storage of each system. However, if I wanted to centralize the storage for the systems in the network, whereby the systems themselves were smaller, less top-heavy computers, I would certainly be looking at something like StarWind Server or StarWind Enterprise Server (probably the latter because I like the replication features).

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: iSCSI, RAID, Review, SAN, Servers, Software, StarWind, Storage, Virtualization, Visualization, Windows

Windows 7, booting from VHD, converting between VHD and VMDK

September 9, 2009 by Stefan Didak 3 Comments
Harddisk

Virtual Machines are great. I rely on them for my work every day and most of my home office network depends on several Virtual Machines (VM’s) for the core infrastructure (SMTP, DNS, AD, backup management, centralized automation, build farms, continuous integration, etc.) but sometimes you just want the abstraction and ease of use of a Virtual Machine while having full support of the host’s hardware (graphics cards, drivers, etc.) and often you don’t want to mess around with the, often complex or entangled, multi-boot scenarios. If you’re in need of that, Windows 7 (and 2008 Server R2) and their native support for Virtual Harddisks (VHD’s) will come in extremely handy. Especially now that you can install and boot your system from a VHD, directly. The following is a bit of a quick start to using VHD’s, some additional details on how I’ve been using them, and a quick look at Starwind’s free V2V conversion application.

Filed Under: Lengthy, Software, Windows Software Tagged With: Booting, OS, StarWind, Storage, VHD, Virtualization, VMDK, Windows

Bye Bye Synergy, Hello Input Director!

September 8, 2009 by Stefan Didak 17 Comments
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 6

There are numerous websites and blogs out there that highlight Synergy while linking to my site and the pictures of my home office as an example. I am happy that I’ve been able to point out this incredibly useful software keyboard/mouse switch but the time has come to start pointing out the utility that is eclipsing Synergy and that tool is called Input Director. Development of Synergy has been on a long hiatus since April 2006 and there’s no sign of a new version. Combined with my experiences where Synergy randomly stops working when a Windows 7 slave system is part of the configuration has led me to give Input Director a try.

Filed Under: Software, Windows Software Tagged With: Experience, Free, Freeware, Input Director, KVM, Multi-Monitor, Review, Software, Synergy, Windows

Windows Layout Manager 1.0 (WiLMa) Officially Released

August 25, 2009 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
Windows Layout Manager (WiLMa) by Stefan Didak

The Windows Layout Manager I mentioned on my blog and subsequently described in more detail has been officially released. Quite a few people have already been using it for the past months and while I planned to give it a proper download location on a new site I’ve been working on I’m putting it on this site instead. The domain of that new site is still physically linked to a server that makes it a lengthy process for me to move the domain and because I don’t think I will have the time to dedicate to that I figured why not just host the download on my own site. You can download it from the bottom of this page. There is some basic documentation included in the download but if you wish to check the docs prior to downloading you can check the Windows Layout Manager online documentation.

Filed Under: Software, WiLMa, Windows Software Tagged With: .NET, Free, Freeware, Layout, Manager, Multi-Mo, WiLMa, Windows

Expert maker of Sazeracs

June 30, 2009 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
The Sazerac Cocktail

In 1940, the Official Sazerac Cocktail recipe was modified to use Herbsaint as the absinthe. Finally, in 2000, the Official Sazerac Cocktail recipe was modified to use Sazerac Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey. In 2009 I had to change a few things because it was impossible to get hold of a bottle of 18yr old Sazerac Rye Whiskey. Instead I substituted Rittenhouse Rhy andOld Overholt Rye. While not as smooth as the Sazerac Rye it gets the job done and done well! If you need bar supplies and some of the finest ingredients and liquors you could find, you definitely have to try Cask in San Francisco.

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: Cocktails, Drinks, Mixology, Peychaud, Sazerac

Photography gear, travel, transport, heavy and hell

May 25, 2009 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
What's in my camera bag

Those of you that know of my past week’s hunt for a suitable transport solution will wonder what I settled on. It’s the Lowe Pro Rolling Computrekker AW Plus. Gee, isn’t that a mouthfull for a product name, eh! The previous Slingshot 200 was just too small and my other Computrekker AW backpack managed to barely fit everything and as a result it was just too much to carry around on my back (especially with airports and scanners and also traveling with a laptop bag with the HP8710w and assorted other bits in there). The Rolling version, which is also larger and has a bit more space is definitely the better solution. Still heavy but I don’t have to lug it around on my back.

Filed Under: Personal, Photography, Travel Tagged With: Gear, Lenses, Lowe Pro, Nikon, Photography, Sigma, Think Tank, Transport, Travel

Transworld International Youth Organization Scam?

March 16, 2009 by Stefan Didak 16 Comments
Transworld International Youth Organization IS A TOTAL SCAM

What strikes me as really funny, and is perhaps related to someone not paying attention. The www.stefandidak.com URL is part of the office photo because it links directly to one of the images on my site. If you’ve come to my site with questions about Transworld International Youth Organization or Prof. William Kim Higgins because you saw my URL in what they claim is their “head office” picture then I’m afraid I can’t help you. I have no idea who that is or what that organization is trying to do but I can tell you, it isn’t anything good and you are likely to lose information or money to this organization and the scam they are running. Needless to say, I have absolutely nothing to do with these crooks.

Filed Under: Infringer Tagged With: Copyright, Exposed, Exposure, Fraud, Home Office, Impersonation, Infringement, Legal, Misrepresentation, Money, Scam, Theft, Thief, Thieves, Website

Looking for ultra high resolution wallpapers?

January 13, 2009 by Stefan Didak 4 Comments
Panedia Wallpapers

Anyone using dual or multi-monitors knows it isn’t always easy to find nice high resolution background. Often we need to resort to creating our own or altering one we’ve found but isn’t quite ‘it’. The more monitors you add, the higher the resolution of your desktop becomes, the harder it is to find really high res backgrounds that will run seamlessly across your array of screens. If you have found yourself in the same situation then be sure to check out Panedia!

Filed Under: Home Office, The Web Tagged With: Hardware, Home Office, Images, Multi-Monitor, Photographs, Wallpaper
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