Re: R: rigctld on a windows box

On 15 May 2012 at 15:42, Jeff wrote:

> As a last ditch effort and to apply the weekly round of Microsoft
> "security updates", I rebooted.  Lo and behold, .15 is now working
> like a champ.

It happens sometimes, not just Windows either...

Weekly updates!

MS only issue security updates once a month (the second "Patch" Tuesday 
in each month.)  Unless you've something on there that is preventing an 
update from sticking (not uncommon) then I'd expect it to winge all the 
time, every day, after each boot..   (Out of cycle "Emergency" patches 
notwithstanding.)  Or, are you seeing third party SW updates, Adobe, 
Firefox etc..?

FYI, the last few months I've been using Ubuntu (11.10) for some light 
coding in Flrig, that OS has updated itself 2 or 3 times a month, instead 
of once a month on the Winders boxes.  So that dispell's that myth.

And I still can't find out why Ubuntu 11.10 (and also Linux Mint 12 I 
found earlier, yes I know they are "related") slow to a crawl after some 
time of running Fldigi.  Something to do with PulseAudio it's thought, 
but no one seems to realy know.  (There's a huge thread or two, on the 
LinuxHam list.  And it's not just me who's seen the problem either.)

While I'm here, any clues why the "built in" version of Hamlib in Fldigi 
works great on Linux, but dies a nasty death on Windows?  Or at best, if 
it run's at all, it's real clunky.  (Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit.)

I can confirm however, that the TS-870S backend, or at least what 
functions Fldigi makes use of it, works fine.  Running on Linux anyway 
that works well, until PulseAudio (or whatever) strays into a tarpit.

73.

Dave G0WBX.

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