In an article on the latest release of CINEMA 4D, the reviewer wrote something I found kinda interesting:

CINEMA 4D … [is] now up to version 11.5, which is just as many versions, if not more, than the older Maya, Max, and Houdini (I’d mention Softimage, but that went through some weird period akin to the Dark Ages after the destruction of the Library in Alexandria, so its timeline isn’t accurate).

via MAXON’s CINEMA 4D | Animation Magazine.

Actually, this picture shows a video tutorial of Softimage 😉 on my 11″ MacBook Air.

You can run Maya on a MacBook Air, so I think I’ll be able to get Softimage to work.

According the Apple support, you need an optical drive to install Windows with Bootcamp. But I did find this post on reviews.cnet.com that shows to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Air from a USB drive, so I’m going to try that. As soon as I decide whether to spend yet more money and purchase Windows 7.

I compiled these numbers by copying and pasting from an Outlook message list view to Excel, and then creating some pivot tables.

There were 365 posts on threads with “Lagoa” in the subject.

Gear/StudioNest threads came in at positions #11 and #12.

The “test” thread came in at #23, with 39 posts.

Top 10 threads (by number of posts)

Top 10 Posters

The performance of a support specialist at Autodesk is measured and tracked in many ways: customer satisfaction scores, net promoter scores, case audit review scores, number of cases closed, average time to resolution, number of backlog cases, and more…

So recently I started tracking my own “performance” in an area that management has no visibility: my activity in the user community.

“Other” includes si-community, cg-talk, and other forums such as the Autodesk install and licensing forum.

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 67,000 times in 2010. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would have performed about 3 times.

In 2010, there were 136 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 243 posts. There were 128 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 60mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was April 7th with 610 views. The most popular post that day was Installing Softimage 2011.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were softimage.wiki.softimage.com, usa.autodesk.com, xsibase.com, si-community.com, and area.autodesk.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for flexnet licensing error:-125,147, softimage lagoa, flexnet licensing error:-1,359, softimage 2011 lagoa release, and flexnet licensing error:-1,359. system error: 2 “no such file or directory”.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Installing Softimage 2011 March 2010
13 comments

Face Robot workflow tips for combining heads with bodies October 2009
1 comment

FLEXnet Licensing error:-125,147: A PACKAGE component must be specified January 2010

Lagoa & the Autodesk Subscription Advantage Pack for Softimage 2011 August 2010
5 comments

rctools compiled for 64-bit Softimage 2011 June 2010
19 comments

I had to put my dog Tamu down today. Tamu is Swahili for “sweet”, and she was that.

I’ll always remember her like this:

Picasa album

Here’s a Picasa web album of a few pictures I took while riding to work.

I notice the SR number for my last service request was 1-10019581901.

Has Autodesk really had 10 billion service requests?

I checked out the SRs (service request) for today, I see that the SR numbers aren’t sequential:

1-10003606461
1-10003606471
1-10003606481
1-10003606501
1-10003606521
1-10003606541
1-10003606560
1-10003606566
1-10008631466
1-10010742572
…and so on

So “no”, we haven’t handled over 10 billion service requests.

Sometimes when you’re editing your custom property code,
you’ll have to refresh the PPG to see the changes.

Just right-click beside the property name (“MyProperty” in the screenshot)
and then click Refresh.