Best Linux newsgroup?

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Joerg

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For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Later more fun will come up, such as how to get a Labjack plus SCADA
setup going in Linux. The Labjack is hardly known in Europe so I'd need
a more local North American newsgroup.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:51:28 -0700) it happened Joerg
<news@analogconsultants.com> wrote in <gsikguFt449U1@mid.individual.net>:

For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?
Click to expand...

The way I operate is that if I have a problem I google
(for example)
ubuntu this_problem ..
Ubuntu has a lot of activity for support (I have Ubuntu on one partition
of one laptop).

But let's see, on my newsserver listing all groups wit 'buntu' in it finds only one english one:
alt.os.linux.ubuntu
is an active english group with recent postings.

But there are many forums for Ubuntu
For example to find those type
how upgrade xine in ubuntu?

first link is
ubuntuguide.net

second link is
www.linuxhelp.com

third link
www.ubuntugeek.com

etc etc

Usenet is not always the best way to go.
Just ask google, be as specific with your question as you can.




I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.
Click to expand...

Google
signal hound spectrum analyzer does not like it's Intel G33 graphics

shows:
https://signalhound.com/support/forums/topic/win10-spectrum-analyzer-software-has-stopped-working/


google is the greatest thing since 'the invention of the wheel???'
same of course for startpage.com and bing.
 
On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:50:55 -0700) it happened Joerg
<news@analogconsultants.com> wrote in <gsio0dFtsrgU1@mid.individual.net>:

shows:
https://signalhound.com/support/forums/topic/win10-spectrum-analyzer-software-has-stopped-working/


I read that thread a few days ago, doesn't pertain to my problem very well.


google is the greatest thing since 'the invention of the wheel???'
same of course for startpage.com and bing.


They are good but do have their limits. On Usenet you have the chance to
meet people who have a similar hardware, never bothered writing how they
got it going but then chime in. You won't find that with search engines.
Click to expand...

No, but the seach engine will find the forums,
and in the forums you can ask, are often just like a Usenet group,
sometimes with a lot more expertise
https://stackexchange.com for example.

In a way it all depends, if you do not know in depth then you cannot ask the right question
(right keyword perhaps).

Sometimes I get weird error codes from some compiler or program,
typing those codes in google usually shows others with the same error codes
and often what the probem is.
 
On 2019-08-26 11:48, George Herold wrote:
On Monday, August 26, 2019 at 1:51:31 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Later more fun will come up, such as how to get a Labjack plus SCADA
setup going in Linux. The Labjack is hardly known in Europe so I'd need
a more local North American newsgroup.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Joerg, I know nothing of Linux, but maybe a stack-exchange site.
so this maybe?
https://askubuntu.com/
Click to expand...

Thanks. If I don't get farther via Usenet I could become a "club member"
there. Though Usenet is by far more effecienct than any "modern" forum
because of better threading et cetera.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
On 2019-08-26 11:27, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:51:28 -0700) it happened Joerg
news@analogconsultants.com> wrote in <gsikguFt449U1@mid.individual.net>:

For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

The way I operate is that if I have a problem I google
(for example)
ubuntu this_problem ..
Click to expand...

BTDT, didn't help much.


Ubuntu has a lot of activity for support (I have Ubuntu on one partition
of one laptop).

But let's see, on my newsserver listing all groups wit 'buntu' in it finds only one english one:
alt.os.linux.ubuntu
is an active english group with recent postings.
Click to expand...

Thanks, maybe that one works. I'll post there.


But there are many forums for Ubuntu
For example to find those type
how upgrade xine in ubuntu?

first link is
ubuntuguide.net

second link is
www.linuxhelp.com

third link
www.ubuntugeek.com

etc etc

Usenet is not always the best way to go.
Just ask google, be as specific with your question as you can.
Click to expand...

My main question is whether the Nvidia NVS 300 card works with Lubuntu
18 LTS for mundane jobs (no gaming or other fancy stuff). Preferably
before I buy one. Search engines typically find the same two threads
about it but they are really old.

I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Google
signal hound spectrum analyzer does not like it's Intel G33 graphics

shows:
https://signalhound.com/support/forums/topic/win10-spectrum-analyzer-software-has-stopped-working/
Click to expand...

I read that thread a few days ago, doesn't pertain to my problem very well.

google is the greatest thing since 'the invention of the wheel???'
same of course for startpage.com and bing.
Click to expand...

They are good but do have their limits. On Usenet you have the chance to
meet people who have a similar hardware, never bothered writing how they
got it going but then chime in. You won't find that with search engines.
Because it ain't there yet. For example, when I had to repair an older
model Artemide Tizio designer lamp. I chimed in after I saw a post from
someone who could not fix his lamp (not a trivial job). To this day I
receive inquiries based on that really old Usenet post of mine where the
Italian link in the post has gone dormant.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
On Monday, August 26, 2019 at 1:51:31 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Later more fun will come up, such as how to get a Labjack plus SCADA
setup going in Linux. The Labjack is hardly known in Europe so I'd need
a more local North American newsgroup.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Click to expand...

Joerg, I know nothing of Linux, but maybe a stack-exchange site.
so this maybe?
https://askubuntu.com/

George H.
 
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.
Click to expand...

You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.

I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good medicine.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs
 
Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:51:28 -0700) it happened Joerg
news@analogconsultants.com> wrote in <gsikguFt449U1@mid.individual.net>:

For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

The way I operate is that if I have a problem I google
(for example)
ubuntu this_problem ..
Ubuntu has a lot of activity for support (I have Ubuntu on one partition
of one laptop).

But let's see, on my newsserver listing all groups wit 'buntu' in it finds only one english one:
alt.os.linux.ubuntu
is an active english group with recent postings.

But there are many forums for Ubuntu
For example to find those type
how upgrade xine in ubuntu?

first link is
ubuntuguide.net

second link is
www.linuxhelp.com

third link
www.ubuntugeek.com

etc etc

Usenet is not always the best way to go.
* Mint?
Click to expand...

Just ask google, be as specific with your question as you can.




I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Google
signal hound spectrum analyzer does not like it's Intel G33 graphics

shows:
https://signalhound.com/support/forums/topic/win10-spectrum-analyzer-software-has-stopped-working/


google is the greatest thing since 'the invention of the wheel???'
same of course for startpage.com and bing.
Click to expand...
 
On 2019-08-26 16:17, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
tirsdag den 27. august 2019 kl. 00.56.15 UTC+2 skrev Joerg:
On 2019-08-26 14:22, pcdhobbs@gmail.com wrote:
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer
does not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if
a Nvidia NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in
Linux but that maybe just isolated cases.

You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make
the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.


It doesn't work because of USB latencies. Many people have tried, failed
and even the Signalhound engineers said it can't be done. Those guys
leave a very knowlegeable impression.


I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen
distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good
medicine.


I might do something similar, maybe Virtual Box because I've used it in
the past, if it turns out that I can't get the scanner part of my office
printer going via WINE. The Linux driver does not support that part of
the machine. Then it seems Linux has a problem with various microscope
cameras and such. Cheese as well as Webcamoid either do not recognize
any of them or just one and then no data transmission. So that may need
Windows in a VM. Probably XP because then I don't have to buy another
Win 7 license. I got lots of XP licenses. Seems MS wants to charge extra
if it runs in a VM in addition to dual-boot.

Then there is the Labjack, SCADA and so on. I opened a large can or
worms with this Linux transition but now I am committed. Because I am
not a computer guru I started well before the big precipice in January.


a refurb lenovo with 8GB ram and a windows license is few $100
Click to expand...

I rather not have a laptop at the lab bench. What I have now is really
space-saving. A desktop deep under the bench, no chance to even bang up
a knee, the monitor hovers 10" above the back of the table on a special
"crane" post. The very flat keyboard and mouse slide under the lowest
level of an Ikea rack, totally out of the way. There is even space for
2-3 dogs under the bench.

Plus I try not to needlessly throw stuff away. The purchase of a used
Nvidia graphics card should fix this once it gets here in a few days.
$12 including shipping. Nice thing is, this comes with a splitter cable
so I can hook up a 2nd monitor to, for example, watch some slow moving
measurements. Or maybe a mountain biking video on Youtube.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:51:28 -0700, Joerg wrote:

For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Later more fun will come up, such as how to get a Labjack plus SCADA
setup going in Linux. The Labjack is hardly known in Europe so I'd need
a more local North American newsgroup.
Click to expand...

Lubuntu is using the upstream Ubuntu kernel so if the card works with
Ubuntu it should work with Lubuntu.

--
Chisolm
Republic of Texas
 
On 2019-08-26 14:22, pcdhobbs@gmail.com wrote:
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer
does not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if
a Nvidia NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in
Linux but that maybe just isolated cases.

You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make
the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.
Click to expand...

It doesn't work because of USB latencies. Many people have tried, failed
and even the Signalhound engineers said it can't be done. Those guys
leave a very knowlegeable impression.


I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen
distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good
medicine.
Click to expand...

I might do something similar, maybe Virtual Box because I've used it in
the past, if it turns out that I can't get the scanner part of my office
printer going via WINE. The Linux driver does not support that part of
the machine. Then it seems Linux has a problem with various microscope
cameras and such. Cheese as well as Webcamoid either do not recognize
any of them or just one and then no data transmission. So that may need
Windows in a VM. Probably XP because then I don't have to buy another
Win 7 license. I got lots of XP licenses. Seems MS wants to charge extra
if it runs in a VM in addition to dual-boot.

Then there is the Labjack, SCADA and so on. I opened a large can or
worms with this Linux transition but now I am committed. Because I am
not a computer guru I started well before the big precipice in January.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
On 2019-08-26 16:14, Joe Chisolm wrote:
On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:51:28 -0700, Joerg wrote:

For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Later more fun will come up, such as how to get a Labjack plus SCADA
setup going in Linux. The Labjack is hardly known in Europe so I'd need
a more local North American newsgroup.

Lubuntu is using the upstream Ubuntu kernel so if the card works with
Ubuntu it should work with Lubuntu.
Click to expand...

That is my hope, though some problems with it have been reported. But
what's the old saying? "Strong timber does not grow in idle places". Or
as our drill sergeant said "If it doesn't lead to immediate death it'll
make you tough".

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
tirsdag den 27. august 2019 kl. 00.56.15 UTC+2 skrev Joerg:
On 2019-08-26 14:22, pcdhobbs@gmail.com wrote:
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer
does not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if
a Nvidia NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in
Linux but that maybe just isolated cases.

You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make
the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.


It doesn't work because of USB latencies. Many people have tried, failed
and even the Signalhound engineers said it can't be done. Those guys
leave a very knowlegeable impression.


I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen
distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good
medicine.


I might do something similar, maybe Virtual Box because I've used it in
the past, if it turns out that I can't get the scanner part of my office
printer going via WINE. The Linux driver does not support that part of
the machine. Then it seems Linux has a problem with various microscope
cameras and such. Cheese as well as Webcamoid either do not recognize
any of them or just one and then no data transmission. So that may need
Windows in a VM. Probably XP because then I don't have to buy another
Win 7 license. I got lots of XP licenses. Seems MS wants to charge extra
if it runs in a VM in addition to dual-boot.

Then there is the Labjack, SCADA and so on. I opened a large can or
worms with this Linux transition but now I am committed. Because I am
not a computer guru I started well before the big precipice in January.
Click to expand...

a refurb lenovo with 8GB ram and a windows license is few $100
 
On Monday, August 26, 2019 at 6:56:15 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-08-26 14:22, pcdhobbs@gmail.com wrote:
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer
does not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if
a Nvidia NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in
Linux but that maybe just isolated cases.

You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make
the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.


It doesn't work because of USB latencies. Many people have tried, failed
and even the Signalhound engineers said it can't be done. Those guys
leave a very knowlegeable impression.


I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen
distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good
medicine.


I might do something similar, maybe Virtual Box because I've used it in
the past, if it turns out that I can't get the scanner part of my office
printer going via WINE. The Linux driver does not support that part of
the machine. Then it seems Linux has a problem with various microscope
cameras and such. Cheese as well as Webcamoid either do not recognize
any of them or just one and then no data transmission. So that may need
Windows in a VM. Probably XP because then I don't have to buy another
Win 7 license. I got lots of XP licenses. Seems MS wants to charge extra
if it runs in a VM in addition to dual-boot.

Then there is the Labjack, SCADA and so on. I opened a large can or
worms with this Linux transition but now I am committed. Because I am
not a computer guru I started well before the big precipice in January.

--
Regards, Joerg
Click to expand...

Huh, hire some local smart kid? Labjack came out with a python update
to 3.x or something. (That was probably several years ago. :^)
George H.
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Click to expand...
 
On Monday, August 26, 2019 at 11:21:31 PM UTC+5:30, Joerg wrote:
For people who are switching to Linux, in my case Lubuntu, what is the
best English-speaking NG for software and which one for hardware related
stuff?

I participate in two German groups. The software group is great though
not many there who use Lubuntu. The hardware group has only little
traffic left.

Right now I'd like to migrate my lab bench PC to Linux but that gets
complicated. It also will need (and now has) Windows 7 in dual-boot.
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer does
not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if a Nvidia
NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in Linux but that
maybe just isolated cases.

Later more fun will come up, such as how to get a Labjack plus SCADA
setup going in Linux. The Labjack is hardly known in Europe so I'd need
a more local North American newsgroup.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Click to expand...

As a linux user for years, I have found the following very helpful:
www.linuxquestions.org

if you sign up as a member, you get monthly newsletters by email.
 
Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> wrote:

You can't get there from here
 
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 2:15:56 PM UTC+10, John Doe wrote:
Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> wrote:

You can't get there from here
Click to expand...

John Doe is a truly useless troll - he snips all the context so the reader has no idea what he is responding to. Of course, with John Doe it doesn't matter.

The response would be no less useless even if we did know what he was reacting to.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
tirsdag den 27. august 2019 kl. 01.37.01 UTC+2 skrev Joerg:
On 2019-08-26 16:17, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
tirsdag den 27. august 2019 kl. 00.56.15 UTC+2 skrev Joerg:
On 2019-08-26 14:22, pcdhobbs@gmail.com wrote:
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer
does not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if
a Nvidia NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in
Linux but that maybe just isolated cases.

You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make
the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.


It doesn't work because of USB latencies. Many people have tried, failed
and even the Signalhound engineers said it can't be done. Those guys
leave a very knowlegeable impression.


I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen
distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good
medicine.


I might do something similar, maybe Virtual Box because I've used it in
the past, if it turns out that I can't get the scanner part of my office
printer going via WINE. The Linux driver does not support that part of
the machine. Then it seems Linux has a problem with various microscope
cameras and such. Cheese as well as Webcamoid either do not recognize
any of them or just one and then no data transmission. So that may need
Windows in a VM. Probably XP because then I don't have to buy another
Win 7 license. I got lots of XP licenses. Seems MS wants to charge extra
if it runs in a VM in addition to dual-boot.

Then there is the Labjack, SCADA and so on. I opened a large can or
worms with this Linux transition but now I am committed. Because I am
not a computer guru I started well before the big precipice in January.


a refurb lenovo with 8GB ram and a windows license is few $100


I rather not have a laptop at the lab bench. What I have now is really
space-saving. A desktop deep under the bench, no chance to even bang up
a knee, the monitor hovers 10" above the back of the table on a special
"crane" post. The very flat keyboard and mouse slide under the lowest
level of an Ikea rack, totally out of the way. There is even space for
2-3 dogs under the bench.
Click to expand...

not a laptop, something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkCentre-M82-Professional-Refurbished/dp/B073GVZTSQ
 
On 2019-08-26 21:15, John Doe wrote:
Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> wrote:

You can't get there from here
Click to expand...

Not even if I strap on my jet pack or fire up the DeLorean?

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
On 2019-08-26 17:15, George Herold wrote:
On Monday, August 26, 2019 at 6:56:15 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-08-26 14:22, pcdhobbs@gmail.com wrote:
Long story short the software for the Signalhound spectrum analyzer
does not like its Intel G33 graphics chip. So I have to find out if
a Nvidia NVS 300 would work. There are reports that it's tough in
Linux but that maybe just isolated cases.

You could maybe run Windows in a VM--that way you can probably make
the virtualized HW something Signalhound can cope with.


It doesn't work because of USB latencies. Many people have tried, failed
and even the Signalhound engineers said it can't be done. Those guys
leave a very knowlegeable impression.


I mostly run Qubes 4.02, which is a privacy/security-oriented Xen
distro with VM support for Fedora, Debian, Whonix, and Windows. Good
medicine.


I might do something similar, maybe Virtual Box because I've used it in
the past, if it turns out that I can't get the scanner part of my office
printer going via WINE. The Linux driver does not support that part of
the machine. Then it seems Linux has a problem with various microscope
cameras and such. Cheese as well as Webcamoid either do not recognize
any of them or just one and then no data transmission. So that may need
Windows in a VM. Probably XP because then I don't have to buy another
Win 7 license. I got lots of XP licenses. Seems MS wants to charge extra
if it runs in a VM in addition to dual-boot.

Then there is the Labjack, SCADA and so on. I opened a large can or
worms with this Linux transition but now I am committed. Because I am
not a computer guru I started well before the big precipice in January.

--
Regards, Joerg

Huh, hire some local smart kid?
Click to expand...

Good luck with that. Finding a programmer for a client was already a
challenge and the person we found is my age. Meaning close to retirement
age ...


... Labjack came out with a python update
to 3.x or something. (That was probably several years ago. :^)
George H.
Click to expand...

I'd rather like something plug-and-play like Azeotech DAQFactory but
that's only for Windows.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
 
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