Hi, I was using two examples. My software and the telescope software are completely different. My software was written in visual studio so could probably be ported. Unfortunately I am using a windows API for the military bus protocol which would not work.
matt On 10/10/2007, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew > > No gripes from me, just a bit of curiosity. > > The data sampling protocol you referred to, was it re-coded to work in Linux > using a Linux IDE, or did you use something like the Mono Project to make it > transportable? > > E > > > E > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Holder > Sent: 10 October 2007 21:41 > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Operating System Observation > > > Hi All, > > Please note, I am merely telling you all about an observation I have > made, I do not mean to cause a flame war. > > I am currently visiting one of the largest satellite building > companies in Europe. I work for a large University in the UK on the > same satellite project as the company I am visiting. > > When walking around the buildings every room has PCs running windows. > All of the documents they produce are using word. This amazes me. > Every four years all of the PCs are replaced (thousands of them), and > the deal goes to a rather well know company. > > I can kind of understand using windows and office for office usage. > Personally I don't do this, I use Ubuntu on my office PC and I also > write all of my technical documents using LaTeX as I cannot abide the > cross referencing tools on either Word or openoffice.org writer. > > I suppose in a way I have spat in the face of the people I work with, > they all recommended I used windows and word, yet I have ignored it. I > do not believe that I have caused any problems with document > collaboration because some word docs do not open correctly in > openoffice (they also dont open correctly on my VM using office), so I > have to ask the original creator to make changes. > > I have written some software using visual studio and visual c++, this > software acquires data from some hardware and dumps it to a binary > file. My work is not particularly time critical. However, there is a > piece of hardware we use that needs to convert from RS422 to another > standard. Data is generated on the RS422 every 10ms, and conversion > needs to take place within 30ms. > > The timings here are quite tight, and windows just cannot keep up. The > amount of duff data we receive from the conversion unit because one > never knows what windows is doing is unbelievable. The software for > this unit was also written in visual studio using c#. > > The person writing this software uses Microsoft IDE, Microsoft > Programming language and even a Microsoft Access database to store > configuration information. It appears that his Uni degree was somehow > linked to microsoft. I cannot understand why a simple text file would > not be better to store the config data. There are not SO many fields > that a database file is needed and if the format changes in future > versions of Visual Studio, then this work could become useless. > > I also know of similar timing problems from a linux system. A > telescope would not track correctly due to linux polling USB. The > advantage though is that the solution was easier to find in Linux. > > I think the EC idea of unbundling windows from new PCs is a good one. > I have shown at work that I can produce documents on a daily basis > that are as good or better than those on windows with office. I wish > more people would give it the chance, and also that they are allowed > to give it the chance! > > Sorry for such a long message. I hope I do not cause arguments, this > was not my intention! > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- Matthew Holder University of Birmingham - Graduate Technologist (Physics and Astronomy) Personal Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Website - www.mattmole.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
