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Comment on Project Tablet: Reusing the RTAB910 Tablet PC by Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:35:27 +0000

Hi Ian – I’m still working on and off with this, next step is to try out the new Ubuntu 9.10 distro and see if that fixes my graphics corruption issues. If not, it’ll be a case of trying 8.10 as Jason has suggested

I have an external 5.25″ USB HDD case left over from my old media center project, and I keep meaning to try stuffing a DVD drive in there to make installs easier (I’m installing Ubuntu from a memory stick atm)

Comment on Project Tablet: Reusing the RTAB910 Tablet PC by Ian McLeod

Ian McLeod — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:01:25 +0000

I recently got one of these (labelled RM RTAB910-T02). It came with a 30GB HDD, 256 RAM, Wifi etc. and I’ve upped the RAM to 768. I found your page when searching for ways to get a linux distro onto the tablet. I mainly use it for looking up TV programs on the internet, e-mailing from my armchair and for sucking recordings off my PVR (Topfield TF5800). I’d be interested if you have got any further forward with this. Saw this site – http://tuxmobil.org/tatung_ttab_b12d.html – which might help with any pen problems.

Comment on Project Tablet: Installing Ubuntu by Project Tablet: Installing Ubuntu | Adobe Tutorials

Project Tablet: Installing Ubuntu | Adobe Tutorials — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:35:03 +0000

[...] Step Two: Ubuntu Desktop on USB I’m usually a server person: I like to know my install is free of “desktop toys” before installing a minimal gnome plus whatever I want. However, this time I needed an install that would boot directly into a desktop environment once it had finished, so I could ditch the USB keyboard and start using the stylus and a onscreen keyboard. See more here: Project Tablet: Installing Ubuntu [...]

Comment on Project Tablet: Reusing the RTAB910 Tablet PC by Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:05:50 +0000

Hey there,
I managed to get hold of a 900mhz RTab910-T01 with docking station plus a few other accessories: stylus, mouse, usb keyboard etc. about a year and a half or so ago..

I soon got annoyed with how slow XP was on it (especially after installing SP3), so back in June/July this year I had a very similar idea to yourself!

I’ve upgraded the RAM to 768Mb, replaced the old 20Gb/Windows XP hard drive with a 150gb drive and installed Ubuntu 9.04 on there. Initially just the default install of ubuntu, but I’ve inevitably added/installed loads extra bits (Blender, Wings, CodeBlocks etc..)

From the outseet, I’ve had no problems with the wireless networking or security (it connects fine with WEP/WPA). Everything just works…Well, almost everything!

The only minor annoyance is the intel graphics driver problem in 9.04, which I’ve taken steps to partially fix (upgraded the Kernel and some other bleeding edge bits I found on the net).

The system is more stable than it was before, video works ok without crashing like it did, but some GL programs (most notably and disappointingly Blender and Wings3D) are still pretty much unusable, which is a shame!

Other than the GFX problems, the tablet runs really well on Ubuntu!

Going back to the partially resolved Intel GFX issue. I’m half thinking of perhaps creating a custom version of 8.10 (with Blender installed) and sticking it onto a USB stick to see how the tablet performs when booted from the USB!

If Blender runs ok and the rest of the system (WiFi etc) runs smoothly, then I might consider downgrading the system to Ubuntu 8.10 and then wait until the Intel graphics problem has been completely resolved before upgrading again!

Cheers for now,
Jas.

Comment on DAZ Studio > Poser by Matt

Matt — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:49:57 +0000

Now, if I can just figure out how to write a Poser addon that reads my Studio content db….

Which I’ve now done…

Comment on DAZ Studio > Poser by Matt

Matt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:03:40 +0000

Sounds so familiar

I do have to say that Poser 8 is a HUGE improvement, both in the UI and stability. The new content library is a bit… meh, but if like me you’re happy with your existing content it certainly makes the choice between Poser and Studio a lot more difficult. The only real thing I miss in P8 is my nice organised content database from Studio, but the favorites tab helps out there. Now, if I can just figure out how to write a Poser addon that reads my Studio content db….

Comment on DAZ Studio > Poser by Dasque

Dasque — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:28:50 +0000

I found this when I was actually searching for a way to use Poser’s render engine on a DAZ creation. My reasoning: I would rather go do that amount of trouble than use Poser by itself.

In Poser my work usually goes something like this:

1. Start Poser
2. Load figure
3. Angle camera
4. Go make sandwich while waiting for camera to decide what it’s looking at
5. Restart after crash
6. Load figure
7. Dress figure
8. Restart after crash
9. Steps 1-7
10. Cloth room
11. Restart after crash

You see what I mean.

The ONLY strength Poser has over DAZ is it’s render engine, which unfortunately, good enough for me to keep trying with the program.

Comment on Project Tablet: CIFS Mounting by Whispers of R’lyeh » Project Tablet: Testing Media Playback

Whispers of R’lyeh » Project Tablet: Testing Media Playback — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:01:26 +0000

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Comment on DAZ Studio > Poser by Whispers of R’lyeh » I Bought Poser 8…

Whispers of R’lyeh » I Bought Poser 8… — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:56:26 +0000

[...] everything I said against Poser before, I took one look at the screenshots of the new Poser 8 UI and was sold. Obviously if it turned [...]

Comment on DAZ Studio > Poser by Matt

Matt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:54:27 +0000

Wow, someone actually read what I was writing. The value of that far outweighs the fact that it shot down everything I said

On the WordPerfect argument, I know people who say vi is by far the best option for editing text files. That may be true for the 1% of people who edit text files that actually *know* vi, but for the other 99% of us the best option is something that has menus and doesn’t require us to know what the keyboard shortcuts are

Yes, I’m heavily biased towards DAZ Studio. It lets me do what I want to do as one of the majority who are still learning about this stuff. I just see that as a counter to the heavily-biased longtime Poser users who keep telling everyone the answer to their problem is to jump ship. Personally I’ll choose the new, experimental, unfinished option over the slow, clunky proven one and wait for the designers to fill in the missing parts by the time I need them. Obviously that isn’t the answer for people who are already using those advanced features in Poser.

Currently, the only thing I’m unhappy with in DAZ Studio is the lighting, and that’s more a problem of me having to learn how to do it properly. In the future, my next hurdle will be the lack of an assembly room, but I reckon the Figure Setup Tools should tide me over. I’d like to be able to pin limbs in position in global space too, but I think I’m close to having a handle on that by the time it becomes more than a minor irritation.

Oh, and sorry, but when Poser 7 can’t keep up with what I’m doing when I manipulate a single figure with no props on a three-month old quad core machine with 4GB of RAM I figure it isn’t my PC thats the problem. It looks like the programmers were more concerned with drawing a pretty custom UI than a fast, usable one.