On 11-04-2010 17:28, Neal Campbell wrote:
Dave
The idea of a class at a hamfest is a great one, I am not sure we could get
enough participants to get facilities. The negative to it is that since most
will not be at their own computer, they will forget a lot (or misinterpret)
when they get home.
This is a real conundrum for me though. I don't think people will read a 40
page document on it, nor just blindly follow the number of steps I go thru
to set up a computer. I have thought about a Camtasia video but again it
will be pretty long.
A wonderfull idea Neal
Thought about writing a tuning program but you cannot do some of it via a
program.
Would appreciate that too.
Then there is my own business, being a poor overworked, greying soul and
mama needs new shoes.
Yes many things to worry on
Any ideas that work better than the KC? Its small bites of info and while
you might need to go thru a few of them to get it done, there is a lot of it
there.
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
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Erik OZ4KK
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:30 AM, David R Wilson<da...@wwns.com> wrote:
Hello Fellows,
I have a Flex 5000 running on Windows. I do have some minor annoyances
with dealing with Windows, it is far from my choice. I have to deal
with many Windows boxes every day as part of my job. I found many years
ago (and today) that having to deal with huge registries, closed APIs,
anti virus, anti trojan programs, operating systems that can't run real
time were all not a good idea. Eventually there will be cross platform
software to allow running the hardware on other operating systems. I
only plan on keeping my Windows box (last remaining one in my
collection) to run software that won't run on anything else. Other than
that I have been doing 99.9% of the things I need done on another
operating system and intend to keep it that way. If I needed a job I
can always switch to an operating system that I have to defrag the hard
drive (my boxes have done that automatically for the past 15+ years). I
also have been running something that handles file system journaling for
quite a while. Is that in Windows yet?
No matter what the underlying OS is, trying to write software for a time
sensitive application like SDR is a difficult task. Keeping the
computer running is not a trivial task. It would probably be a
worthwhile endeavor to have a class on preferred setup for SDR software
available (beside the knowledge center) at some of the hamfests. It
would probably be best to have a fee charged to make it possible to
spend the time for the instructor and any support materials. Beside the
setup of the software there needs to be a substantial amount of effort
devoted to system maintenance and preferred practices. There are good
reasons you don't want to be running things like mail programs in the
Windows world while using SDR software.
Dave
KU4B
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 15:12 -0400, Neal Campbell wrote:
Since we are offering free advice (and its worth every penny you pay for
it), another pet peeve of mine are these "registry cleaners". This sounds
like a great idea but I bet more people have screwed their machines up
running them than anything else.
Stay away from registry cleaners, period.
Stay away from those annoying website ads that say "Your machine needs to
run Registry Repair" as its just more junk.
I have read somewhere on the net (after a series of head-to-head tests0
that
they neither do what they claim and they often do damage. Another telling
sign is that if Microsoft thought you really needed a registry cleaner,
they
would have put one in the OS but they haven't.
A periodic disk defrag, a periodic system backup, staying current on the
MS
patches (but no driver updates!) and a periodic malware scan and you are
being a good PC citizen!
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER
Amateur Radio: K3NC
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Neal Campbell<nealk...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Try them and let us know! The more people reporting their experiences,
the
more we all learn. What does DPCLat report when you run it?
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Michael Tondee<
mat...@netcommander.com>wrote:
Thanks for these post. All of this sounds very encouraging to me as I
plan
on using my HP AMD duo core when I get my Flex 5K. As I've stated
before, I
inherited it from my XYL when she got a new Dell from Best Buy. I've
added
an Nvidia based dual output video card with 1 GB of DDR3 memory and
Windows
7 32 bit OS. I plan on using the onboard firewire which is also a VIA
chipset. The flex firewire driver reports no issues with it so we
shall see.
I do have an extra regular PCI slot available should I need to add a
firewire card. The only thing I've found to dislike about this PC so
far is
the placement of the PCI express slots. The PCI X 1 slot is right next
to
the PCI X 16 slot so that when I put in my new video card with the
large fan
and shroud it blocked all access to the PCI X 1 slot. I cannot recall
the
manufacturer of the mobo but I know it's not Foxcomm. Hopefully I will
have
no issues. Now if the ship confirmation on the 5K would just get here.
The
target date I was told was next Wednesday so I'm keeping my fingers
crossed.
BTW, I use AVG Free antivirus and Spybot Search and Dest5roy for
adware
protection. Are there any known conflict issues with these programs?
Tnx,
Michael, W4HIJ
On 4/10/2010 10:35 AM, Neal Campbell wrote:
Just to reiterate, an AMD-based system has an order of magnitude
chance
of
success than an Intel-based system. A simply-configured motherboard
has
less
competition for IRQs.
You mentioned Foxcomm as the mobo manufacturer. Foxcomm probably
makes a
large percentage of the of systems out in the world, just as a
supplier.
For
instance, they make many of Apple's motherboards (in both of my Mac
Pro's
at
least they did).
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER
Amateur Radio: K3NC
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Michael Walker<
va...@portcredit.net
wrote:
I was wanting to replace my old xp box and move to a new quad core.
The Acer M5811 was a great deal with the Intel I5-650 and on an
Intel
motherboard (I never could find the board number). However, as most
of
you
know I was getting not so random crashes if the radio was powered up
and
without any Flex software running. Acer technical support
essentially
said
that they warranty the firewire port unless you plug something into
it.
Go
figure. They wanted $2/min to do additional debugging.
I'm sure we could have solved the Acer problem if we could get W7 to
actually produce a dump when it crashed. Even adding another
firewire
card
did not help as you could not turn off the onboard firewire port in
the
bios.
After 3 weeks of testing, I took it back to Best Buy for a full
refund
(well past their return date--but they aren't that fussed which is
great
customer service). It helped when I complained about Acer's tech
support.
Next purchase was an HP p6302f with the AMD Athlon X4 Quad at
2.6ghz/core
on some no name motherboard (Foxxconn). It came with 6G or DDR3
Ram.
The
bench marks I ran were pretty good, except for the video, so I added
an
ATI
hd2850 video card (1G ram). That took care of the video problems.
I'm
running with 2 monitors on the box. This is on a W7 x64 box. Even
with
the
1G video card added, it was still cheaper than the Acer M5811.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=uk&product=4120648&lang=en
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=uk&product=4120648&lang=en
Based on Neal's recommendations, he said to keep the board simple
with
not
a lot of on board add-ons. This seemed to fit the bill and was on
sale
to
boot!
It has an onboard VIA firewire card which I was willing to start
with.
I've been pleased to report that it works great. My antivirus is
Microsoft
Security Essentials (which is free). I'm confident to use that AV
as
the
Security gurus (outside of Microsoft) actually like it. It has not
seemed
to add any load and my latency numbers are really low.
DDUtil is running fine and I am now using HRDs DM780 for my digital
work.
I would like to thank Tim, Dudley and Neal for all their support and
help.
Hopefully I will get to meet some of you in Dayton. I'm looking
forward to
going as I haven't been since I left Atlantic Ham Radio to move on
to
another career back in 1997.
My hats off to Flex radio who truly understands what Customer
Support
is.
many 73... Mike VA3MW
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