What Revit Wants
If you would like a free tool that gives you a very quick, concise summary of your system specifications, you can download one from here:
System Spectrum Analyser
Please see the related posts below if you are interested in other Revit hardware related issues.
Found some very interesting information on Wikipedia about 32 bit and 64 bit processor architecture – check it out (italics by me):
AMD licensed its x86-64 design to Intel, where it is marketed under the name Intel 64 (formerly EM64T). AMD’s design replaced earlier attempts by Intel to design its own x86-64 extensions which had been referred to as IA-32e. As Intel licenses AMD the right to use the original x86 architecture (upon which AMD’s x86-64 is based), these rival companies now rely on each other for 64-bit processor development. This has led to a case of mutually assured destruction should either company refuse to renew the license. Should such a scenario take place, AMD would no longer be authorized to produce any x86 processors, and Intel would no longer be authorized to produce x86-64 processors, forcing it back to 32-bit x86 architecture. However, the agreement provides that if one party breaches the agreement it loses all rights to the other party’s technology while the other party receives perpetual rights to all licensed technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
If you want to read more about MAD, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction
Found this guide at http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/07/11/how-do-i-back-up-my-signatures.aspx
Basically, hold the ‘Ctrl’ key when clicking the ‘Signatures’ button and you will be redirected to the folder the signatures are stored in. Nice!
I had a weird issue wherein I could join our office VPN using XP and Vista with no problems, but Windows 7 would not connect to the VPN and would trigger an error. (Please note that I was trying to connect to a Small Business Server 2003 computer).
The following fix worked for me:
Reboot the computer, and see if you can now connect to the VPN.I found this fix at http://thenonapeptide.blogspot.com/2009/09/solving-pptp-vpn-error-720-on-windows-7.html
(whispers) There is a secret way to enable a advanced user feature in Windows 7 and Vista, and it is extremely simple.
Just make a new folder, and give the folder the following name:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
You will find that when you open this folder, it is like a Super Control Panel.
Apparently this does not work in Vista 64 bit, but it does work in 32 bit.
Thanks to PC User magazine and William Archibald for writing this tip in a letter to the magazine.
While using Autodesk Product Manager, or the Autodesk Asset Locator, you may come across an issue where certain remote computers are ‘unreachable’. Assuming you have the correct permissions, the problem here is that the Remote Registry Service is not running.
I would like to recommend the following blogs, specifically relating to I.T., keeping up to date and ‘how to do things’.
A couple that I forgot to mention:
Also, I recommend that you check out http://blog.giveawayoftheday.com/
As I go about my day-t0-day, I come across some very good free programs (some of which I have posted about before – see links at bottom).
Most recently, I have come across the following free utilities:
Hope you find these helpful!
https://wrw.is/2009/11/free-cutepdf-writer-setup-and-settings.html
https://wrw.is/2009/09/these-are-few-of-my-favourite-things.html
Just came across this search engine for PDF, DOC and PPT files. It is called http://www.osun.org/
For example, lets say you wanted to see what PDF files are available that include the words ‘ revit families’. Have a look at the results by following the link below:
http://www.osun.org/revit+families-pdf.html
This could be a very useful site for quickly searching for quality data. If Google can’t find what you are after, give this site a go.
