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According to the manufacturer of the software and the spectrum analyzer their software is guaranteed not to work with a G33 chip because of lacking Open GL level. I need this to work in Windows since their SW will only run with Windows 7 or 10, not in WINE and not in a VM.

I don't think I'll ever need more than 2.0. And not in Linux because that's all pretty mundane software.

Aside from the noise the other issue is dog hair. We just rescued an Entlebucher Mountain Dog and he sheds really fine hair. Gets into anything that has fans. So, one less item to clean on a regular basis. Labrador hair is a bit easier (we have two).

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You got the Low Profile bracket on full height PC. However, i usually got the reverse problem, people send me full height bracket for my Low Profile PC.

RX550 is 14nm vs. NVS300's 40 nm. If i can't destroy it running 24/7 100% mining, nothing you can do to destroy it. The fan is really there for piec e of mind for some people. The heat sink, with copper spreaders, is actual ly good enough without the fan, as long as you remove the heat near it fast enough. Or in my case, just leave the case cover open.

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On a sunny day (Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:16:51 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

I wonder, maybe it is me, but I see the new Raspberry Pi (that actually also runs a debian derivative)

4 GB RAM, OpenGL works (sure it must be the latest version), 2 micro HDMI outputs, WiFi.. Maybe it would be all you need (the 1 GB version is 35 $). Micro sdcard and some cables ..

I need to order one some day but have plenty to do I run 3 older ones all day. Plug in a cheap keyboard and mouse .. or simply connect via ssh to it from some other PC (what I do). My old ones are very reliable so far.

As a hardware man you can design and build all sort of things controlled by its GPIO (header). Maybe even your beer system.

And with a simple 5 V stabilizer it can run from 12V.

For sure the Raspberry Pi 4 is compatible to a decent low end PC. For things like a scope and just to get you power bill down ...

? Very much plug and play. Make a backup of its sdcard (I do) and you can always go back to when it was still working ;-) And YES I did that too, saves time,

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PS come to think about it your scope thing software likely will not run on a Raspberry ARM processor, but you could ask them for a Raspberry version (big market for them!). If they release source you could compile on ARM yourself.

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Yeah, I missed the little comment where the seller said to send a request if I need a long bracket. So I just made one. _With_ grounding flange, of course, and mine is real copper :-)

That would not work with our dogs.

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Won't work because Signalhound Spike requires native Windows 7 or 10. Will nit run in a VM and definitely not with WINE.

That's the goal but only if Linux starts to behave less buggy. Else it'll be a Windows 7 netbook plus Labjack down in the brew chambers.

Not if you must run a hardcore Windows-only software. In my case probably just one but that one is crucial.

I always make backups.

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On a sunny day (Sat, 31 Aug 2019 07:10:33 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Yea, I amended that, ask them for a Linux release for Raspberry.

It all depends, again, my 3 raspies work great:

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panteltje12: ~ # ssh -Y pi@192.168.178.73 pi@192.168.178.73's password: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Linux raspberrypi 3.6.11+ #371 PREEMPT Thu Feb 7 16:31:35 GMT 2013 armv6l Last login: Thu Aug 29 22:12:19 2019 from panteltje12 root@raspberrypi:~# uptime 16:16:57 up 32 days, 18:39, 10 users, load average: 3.44, 3.16, 3.08 root@raspberrypi:~# logout Connection to 192.168.178.73 closed.

That raspi runs a lot, including AIS rx via DVB-T USB stick, GPS / GLONASS via its serial port (GPIO pins), attitude sensor uing a 6 axis accelerometer via i2c, water sensor (haha for other poster), magnetic compass via i2c, temperature, humidity via POE, air pressure via i2c, etc etc, control loops for steering. reliable? The basic OS / kernel is reliable, I wrote the GUI directly in X, everything is multithreaded, Wifi works too.

My clock

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panteltje12: ~ # ssh -Y pi@192.168.178.71 pi@192.168.178.71's password: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Linux raspberrypi 3.6.11+ #456 PREEMPT Mon May 20 17:42:15 BST 2013 armv6l Last login: Sat Aug 31 07:42:35 2019 from 192.168.178.159 ... starts in the moring, is off last night

My router, the whole LAN hangs on that, has a Huawei 4G USB stick. panteltje12: ~ # ssh -Y pi@192.168.178.1 pi@192.168.178.1's password: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Linux raspberrypi 3.12.35+ #730 PREEMPT Fri Dec 19 18:31:24 GMT 2014 armv6l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Last login: Sat Aug 31 10:17:52 2019 from 192.168.178.159 root@raspberrypi:~# used

rx / tx / total / estimated ppp0: Jul '19 3.50 GiB / 308.50 MiB / 3.80 GiB Aug '19 2.81 GiB / 252.35 MiB / 3.06 GiB / 3.09 GiB yesterday 64.79 MiB / 8.12 MiB / 72.91 MiB today 37.79 MiB / 4.23 MiB / 42.02 MiB / 59 MiB

I would rewrite that scope app I guess, not your thing. Or just do it this way:

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That is fun PIC asm.

There are no limits.

Copying a whole SDcard is a cool backup way, much more easy than tar gz a whole partition from an other live system, and then restoring it on some other disk. dd if=/dev/sdcard of=./mybackup.img

and back dd if=./mybackup.img of=/dev/newscard where /dev/sdcard could be anything like /dev/sdb or whatever device name 'dmesg' shows when you inserted the card. So far for simple lessons in Linux. Reliable? Yes But a car is as good as its driver,

I will leave it at that.

You would probably use some RAM FIFO and hang a fast ADC on GPIO to make a much faster scope.

When you are retired you have plenty of time to learn doing. Give it a 30 years or so... ;-)

Or you could go to hawaii and sip nice drinks and watch the hula girls. The way the weather here is now I do not need to go far,

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XP/7/8/10 all run fine for me in a VirtualBox/VMWare sandbox under Ubuntu too so you can jump in for a bit if you really need it for something. The USB pass-thru even lets me keep a couple pieces of USB-connectivity hardware useful even though only XP drivers were ever made available for them

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bitrex wrote in news:L5waF.108932$GI3.81382 @fx03.iad:

The best Ubuntu version is Ubuntu Studio.

The daily builds are fine...

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It would but for teh Signalhound analyzer that wee bit of extra USB latency causes device disconnects.

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The Raspberry is too weak for this. I asked them whether a Linux release could be in the cards but it ain't. Linux just has too little market share in the PC world and that won't change anytime soon.

The kernel is reliable but sometimes updates break software packages because of all those dependencies. I'll have to see how far snap would reduce that problem.

That is one of the reasons why Linux isn't used much on business PCs. Not any warranty but the risk that one sunny day the OS updates and an application or two no longer work. Happened to me several times.

If you are married, there are :-)

I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I've got several scopes here and some can easily pipe data into a PC. Not sure how to do that in Linux yet but I am sure it'll work.

Depends on what you are doing. For me that means a lot of volunteering and that reduces available time. Wrestling 2h to get something to work that takes seconds in Windows is frustrating but right now I chalk that up as "education". As long as this doesn't continue for long.

But don't get too cozy with them, else ...

Similar here, it's nice.

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