RE: I've added some text ... to the manual ... (about the case sensitivity of call signs)
AWESOME! RE bugs/features: I'm a software engineer and way back in the 80's someone showed me a (paper!) cartoon that showed a anthropomorphic bug with the caption "bug" and next to it the same bug dressed up in a tuxedo with the caption "feature" :-) (Not that I'm saying the case sensitivity is a bug. I just thought this was apropos RE you're bug/feature comment) On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com> wrote: > Peter Hackett <peter.hack...@cal.berkeley.edu> writes: > > > BTW a friend of mine thinks that this feature is a bug. > > Someone once told me that the only difference between features and bugs > is that features are documented... ;-) > > The objective of requiring the ground station to be configured with the > callsign of the flight computer to successfully command the flight > computer is to avoid accidentally commanding the wrong flight computer > at a launch where lots of people are flying Altus Metrum products. It > won't prevent malicious attacks, but it goes a long way toward reducing > accidents... and was specifically requested by several of our early > customers. > > > My take: case sensitivity should be more prominently featured in the > > manual (or noted if it isn't currently in the manual.) > > Really appreciate your mentioning this. I've added some text about the > callsign matching and case sensitivity to the manual sources. Will be > in the next release. > > Bdale >
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