Conference in Progress
Chris Horvath, visual effects supervisor at Tweak Films, presented some very impressive demo video clips of some of his experiments leading up to final products that made their way into recent big ticket films including LOTR3, Hero, and The Day After Tomorrow. While he did talk lots of technical jargon about 3D graphics engineering, he made it pretty clear that he isn’t an engineer, but his team more “hacks” their way through solving problems. It was in The Day After Tomorrow where there’s a scene of ocean water flooding into the streets of Manhattan, and he was explaining how he was putting sink holes in the pavement behind buildings to influence the flow of water without extra engineering. In the end, I found his talk quite interesting.
That was yesterday. Today, I got up at 7:00am for a 7:30 breakfast (donuts, bagels and OJ!). Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures and former Apple Fellow, talked about the essentials that a young aspiring entrepreneur would need to know to get started. He was quite informative as he shot down paradigms suggested by others as being bad ones, and explained some new ones that many of us probably hadn’t heard of before.
And now I’m here watching a pretty hardcore CSE lecture about the technical aspects of solving problems using parallel processing technologies. Probably the least interesting and driest of them all so far, but that’s okay. I’m blogging instead.
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Found your site while searching for Threadbox, a software for sewing people.I have a problem you might can tell me how to fix. When Iupgraded to XP pro my primary hard drive letter went from c to I. I have been thru all the things that I can find to fix this and none of them work. "you cannot change the drive letter of the system volume or boot volume" is the message I get. Some of my sewing software defaults to C and when there is not one, that it..zip.nada.
Can you help out tech granny?
BTW…enjoyed seeing your day!
Hey, thanks for stopping by! I found this page that seems to answer your exact question. If that doesn’t work, I’m afraid I can’t help you.. I’m not much of a Microsoft geek.
http://www.dougknox.com/tips/xp_drive_letters.htm