We initially ran an old DOS Cadd program called "Generic Cadd" using Dosemu. Then we ran a Windows cadd program called Visual Cadd using Wine. Both of these will create DWG files - just not the latest version.

There are now a number of very highly functional clones of Autocad that run natively on Linux.

These include Bricscad, ARES and a 2d free version of ARES called Draftsight. They will read DWG files from the current version all the way back to V 2.2 and will write any version back to V 12.

ARES has all the 3d stuff. It's sweet. Bricscad is about 1/2 the cost, and will read the 3d model but won't create one. They are in the process of fixing that now.

Kurt.

I run an architecture firm entirely on Linux. All our workstations have two reasonably big screens and use Gnome. I have used Gnome since its earliest inception in various flavers of Redhat, Fedora and Ubuntu.

I have to say that as much as I don't want to, we are going to have to change to Xfce or some other alternative. Gnome shell is a disaster for the way we work. I can't believe that the developers and UI designers have completely failed to take into account those of us that are actually using our workstations to do heavy duty computational, graphic and design work.

We have spent the last 20 years moving to ever larger and multiple screens because we need the real estate. Now we are supposed to work as if we were using a cell phone? What a joke.

The developers need a good whack will a clue stick. As does Redhat. The least they could do is have a fall back to the Gnome 2 series.

  We don't want to be the subject of an experimentet about how we "should be working."

This is serious business to us and has a big effect on our bottom line.

Kurt

How can you be "non partisan" if you are a Libertarian leaning political organization? Just askin'.....

Kurt

In this same book, I believe LL also goes back in time and has sex with his mother.

Well I say self publish AND fuck the radio stations too.

The real reason that the RIAA and the media groups are going after p2p and internet streaming is that they would like to abolish/control a much more flexible and cheaper method of distribution than CDs and radio.

So make your own music. Play it in the park. Share with your friends stream it on the internet and do it for free.

Kurt

I agree about the importance of privacy regardless of where you register on the something-to-hide-o-meter, and I agree that Google really dropped the ball on Buzz's privacy settings, but at the same time you really need to question the wisdom of using a "private Gmail account" for anything other than Gmail. Google's been ladling the social sauce on to all of their services over the past couple of years, so it's not like that person didn't have the opportunity to see this coming.

Its not about "shutting the fuck up" or even being introspective (which one should be able to do without a computer/mobile device in their hands). Its about being able to handle yourself without some sort of on demand self-determined audio/visual stimulation.

I am genuinely concerned that kids are living in a world where they are almost always able to distance themselves from the here and now. They are not as empathic, not inclined to listen or engage in, or with, the unfamiliar when its not self-directed. Not that kids aren't 'bored enough' but its being able to genuinely think and act creatively in an otherwise blank slate of time that kids are missing out on. /plus I like to think, "what happens when the bombs fall and we don't have technology to coddle us every single second of our lives?" Power outages become truly devastating when kids are emotionally tethered to their devices.

Grown ups cannot help you deal with a bullying problem. I am not a big supporter of violent responses, but in my experience, the only thing that works is to punch the bully in the nose. This is unfortunate, but true.

This I agree with but for one thing: Verify that the binaries you are given correspond to the code you are given. I've seen it too many times where they release a binary, then go back and do 'minor' bug fixes and don't recompile before handing it off to you.

Save the binaries you've been given, then do a clean recompile and compare the two versions as well!

Interesting slip.

Wrong. Wrong, And Wrong!

Originally PirateBay published economic trends. They used the price of Four'n'Twenties as a cost of living indicator.

Hence the name - "Pi Rate" which translates into English as "cost of a meat pie".

There is no city in this fine and fair land called "Boozer City". You fool! (perhaps you've just come back from BongBong - hopefully Mount Camel was not on the way)

All the towns are called "Boozer Town". The cities, going clockwise from the bottom-south, are Shooter City, Underbelly City, City of Colour and Movement, PartyCrash City, Big Stubby City, Bundaberg City, Ice City, and (my city) Tired And Emotional Politician City.

Don't listen to the talking Polar Bear on the bottle - he studied at the school of Tallho Rolling paper trivia.

Wrong again! You are watching the dishwasher (and that is a mouse in your hand).

Make sure your GRUB shows the new 2.6.31 kernel. When I upgraded, the kernel installed, but it didn't run update-grub, and so my GRUB menu didn't show the new kernel. When it booted into the old kernel, I had the same problem as you, where it showed that no audio devices were installed. Merely booting into the proper new kernel fixed it.

You've got to factor in the bias of the poll - the people likely to be looking around on the forums and especially at items related to the upgrade are likely to be those who have issues. A user who has updated without any hitches is likely to get on with whatever they want to do with the computer, not go to the forums and respond to a poll.