The H-Factor

Reducing Entropy

Month: April 2007

  • It is possible (and quite straightforward) to access your work computer from home or a job site these days, and you don’t have to pay a monthly service to do so. What you need is a network, VPN software and Microsoft Remote Access (comes standard with Windows) and an IT person to put it all…

  • This past weekend was spent splitting and stacking firewood for next year. I was hoping for close to 3 cords, but alas, 2.07 was what we have… I am going to cut some more this week and get to 2.5 cords, which is what we used this past year, more or less. The good news…

  • In AutoCAD 2008 some of you might have noticed that you do not get a Startup dialog box and there is no longer a setting for it in the Options. Great, huh? In their wisdom, AutoCAD removed that ‘feature’ and now we are relegated to typing it at the command prompt, so type in STARTUP…

  • Sometimes after you AutoList you might find that your listing tags look rather underfed. The main reason for this is that the Style BOLD has been redefined (or was defined differently in the first place). The solution is to define BOLD using the STYLE command, make it look like below and pick Apply:

  • A common complaint from users of the newer versions of AutoCAD is that hitting the Up and Down arrows now show coordinates instead of the last distance typed in. If this bugs you as much as it does me, try this: Type in INPUTHISTORYMODE and Enter 0 – You will now be able to recall…