[WriteLog] Windows XP

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

Yep...No single point of failure.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dyer" <sdyer@interlogue.com>
To: "Dave L Thompson" <k4jrb@juno.com>; <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 22:12
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Windows XP


> The correct way to network WL in a M-M environment is to run WL on each
PC.
> WL uses peer networking to synch the databases on each machine. This
> provides the most resilient environment if one of the PC's crashes, the
> others keep on going. WL will then synch up the data on the failed machine
> when it comes back up.
>
>
> Steve, W1SRD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Dave L Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:17 AM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Windows XP
>
>
> The XYL just upgraded the family PC to a compaq running Windows XP.
> While this has some trappings of Windows 9X when you start looking inside
> its really Windows NT.
>
> The wife is, among other things, a certified microsoft NT administrator.
>  She set the PC up as a windows NT with separate log ons for all of the
> family and two of us have passwords. But only she has permissions to load
> new software.   I was working with the PC and started  to install Norton
> Anti Virus 2002.  I did as the software told me and stopped to shut down
> any other software running and not only did the norton desktop short cut
> disappear but so did the software.  The wife starting searching for it
> and found it in the systems area which only the systems admin can get to.
>  While looking thru the systems folders she ran across the main XP folder
> which calls the Windows NT folder.
>
> Compaq and other PC vendors are now only loading XP. The tech at compaq
> says the merger of Windows 9X into NT is 90% complete.  The main
> advantage of XP is that it runs
> 9X software without requiring conversion to NT.  There is no DOS there so
> you have to load Dos 6 (Dos 7 was the limited version under 9X).  Guess
> the DOS software gang are in for tough sledding!
>
> Being NT this should make for much easier networks as NT has (so does W
> 9X) has networking built in. The difference is that NT fully supports the
> break apart of server and client even if they are on the same box.  We
> had a contract with a major airport where software was written for NT but
> tested on W9X.  It took almost another conversion to move fully to NT.
> After the first phase we put the development PC on NT and made life
> simpler! The easiest way is to make one PC be the server and attach a
> number of clients at each station (for multi ops).  The question is how
> much of writelog should remain on the server and be shared by each
> client.  The wife thinks the logging software for sure but perhaps each
> client should have all the interconnect for keying, rig control, and DVK.
>  Plug in modules may be on the server or the client although the RTTY and
> PSK31 types lend themselves to the client.  You still can run keying on
> the LPT port if the clients are all W 9X. The current wireless networks
> run on 2.4GHZ.  They claim they can run in very hostile RF environments
> (multi op stations??).  Hopefully this is true.
>
> The next shocker is that Micro soft is planning to support only two
> operating systems in the future.  Some version of NT and the clients will
> all become CE thin client.
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
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