Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:55:15 PM
I often moan about the University network and the license server to people so I invested in Matlab Student copy for my open network PC in Uni, this made sense at the time since I aim to get away from the reliance on computer support that as always are over worked and students sit quite low on the ladder. When I originally got this i was over the moon I thought it was great £70 for a copy of Matlab for me to work with and I merrily went on my way.
Well as all good stories do things went terribly wrong I didn't think about it at the time but the only available version of Matlab available to students is 32bit now I am starting to move into video processing more my memory requirements are ever increasing wanting to store the hole few hundred frames in memory and do processing on it and why not I work on machines that have 6-8gb memory so its not unreasonable for me to want to really use that. So hense my new predicament.
Well sadly this story doesn't have a happy ending after contacting Matlab Support they may of responded rapidly (same day) but were unable to help the only version available to students is 32bit and thats not likely to change.
So its back to the University computer for me, and my opinion of Mathworks / Matlab has dropped considerably