Hi Brian I have a couple of concerns with this logic. The largest concern is that Windows should never be used to run anything in production or anything to do real time processing. It is just not designed that way from the ground up.
That being said, we, as a group, need to come up with a list of required services. Those that need to be run when you are a single box, not connected to the internet and known to work. If there is such a list that is bullet proof and works, I would love to see it. Another list of services would be those that would be for a box that is internet connected, but behind a firewall (not run on the box) and that firewall would also do stateful packet inspection (like Astaro www.astaro.com). As a home user, you can get that for free. You can very safely run without AV as long as you don't connect/browse. If you do, only to those few web sites you trust. Many Trojans are installed as scripts that come with the web page, and only packet inspection will reliably find them. Once we get a solution that is linux based (a real time OS), then I think you will see the ability to run much better on less hardware. Lastly, we are headed to the point where the only way this will run reliably is if you buy the box and rf deck from the vender and you are not allowed to modify it at all (sort of like every other HF rig). :) Mike VA3MW http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -----Original Message----- From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:brian-wb6...@lloyd.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:22 To: Lee A Crocker Cc: Flexradio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CW Transmit Problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Lee A Crocker <lee_croc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Sounds to me like you have some external program that is taking over the interrupt every 2 seconds long enough to hose PSDR or something like that Probably windows phoning home to the mother ship or some seti calc program or something like that Try some of the KC info about optimizing windows and shutting down all the extra cra... err enhancements I watch these same questions/comments/problems appear here over and over. You know Lee, this just keeps pointing back to the same advice -- don't run anything else on the machine that runs your radio. If it's not there it can't screw things up. This goes for firewalls, antivirus, web browsing, email, etc., etc. If you are worried about your machine getting hacked, unplug its network connection. Plug it in only when you are downloading new PowerSDR bits, windows updates, and updating your logbook at LoTW or eQSL. When done, unplug again. Here is the basic formula for running PowerSDR happily-ever-after: 1. Install WindowsXP; 2. Install only the programs necessary to run the radio, e.g. Flex driver, PowerSDR, VAC, com0com, and your favorite logging/rig-control/digital mode program. 3. Turn off all the unnecessary functions of windows. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to va...@portcredit.net _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
