Interesting data transfer solution

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- Paul E Bennett
  
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10 years ago

Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:14 AM

While others have gone with trying to come up with something that would meet your stated aims, the question has got to be asked.

At some point, probably sooner than they would like, this aged PC is going to fail and you will not be able to operate the quality control device (whatever that is). So, no matter how taboo upgrades or modifications might be, they would need to find a solution to the upgrade of this device at some point. If production is relying on this PC it will need to consider the update path sooner rather than after it fails, when months of work might be ahead of them.

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10 years ago

Tue, Jan 21, 2014 1:12 PM

Is the aged laptop old enough that it doesn't even have USB, or has USB 1.0? If this is a security issue then how is it that a USB connection doesn't violate that? Two different message threads in sed just touched on the recent discovery that all flash drives contain a processor and could potentially be a security liability. Are you trying to connect this laptop to the in house network on an outgoing only basis? How is it you think that the network is a security risk yet connecting a raspi isn't?

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- Fred Bartoli
  
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10 years ago

Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:58 PM

Just write an iranian friend, in an enough encrypted email, that you'll use the fab to enrich uranium. Let the NSA have some words with the CIA and then tap on to the CIA computers access the files that they'll make from your screen EM field. Or cheat and wait for them to be publish on wikileaks.

Now that's really good use of your taxes.

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10 years ago

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 6:31 PM

Buy something more modern. But until then no invest is granted. Industrial reality all over the world. Sometimes one is tempted to make something happen to obsolete equipment...

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10 years ago

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 6:33 PM

Hi Jon, thanks for the helpful hint! I'll definetely check that out.

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10 years ago

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 6:37 PM

Changing settings inside the software is allowed. Do I really have to spell it out? This is a practical question, not a philosophical discourse on what constiutes a "change".

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10 years ago

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 6:40 PM

They will once it fails. Quickly. There are more identical units installed, so failure doesn't put an immediate stop to operations but there are, of course capacity constraints.

robert

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10 years ago

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 10:05 PM

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Once again I ask: "How is the data the elderly computer collects 
handled presently?"

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- Robert Baer
  
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10 years ago

Sat, Jan 25, 2014 3:26 AM

I have two HP Vectra 286 computers that might be comaptible...