What could go wrong?

[Alex Fraser]

No use trying to kill 2 dead horses with a a single stone.  I guess I 
worded my hazy idea wrong, hazy mis wording is going around these days.  
When I said "keeping a digital station running on the same machine I 
social network on" I meant having the software on the same machine 
available by opening the programs when I wanted to use them, not 24/7 
service.  My original fear was having a radio connected to the computer 
being an invitation to having lightning ruin my Facebook experience.  I 
might have been able to deal with that problem, but as I get older I 
sure as hell get worried by talk of a jittery clock.


On 6/29/2020 9:54 AM, Howard F. Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Today’s Windows rarely needs to be rebooted, if only Windows is 
> running.  What you are running into is a program that is not playing 
> nice and creating problems.
>
> A thought on the unlimited amount of data..  You could try running a 
> scheduled task to delete the data.  Keep in mind that I do not know if 
> this data is needed or what happens if the data is deleted while wispr 
> is running.  If wispr needs that data while running, you could try 
> using a scheduled task to shutdown wispr, delete the files, and 
> restart wispr (assuming that wispr does not require any keyboard 
> interaction to start)
>
> WD5DBC
>
> Howard Cunningham, MCP
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> *From:*Tacos [mailto:tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *kf4hcw
> *Sent:* Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29 AM
> *To:* tacos at amrad.org
> *Subject:* Re: What could go wrong?
>
> On 6/28/20 11:47 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
>
>     I have some hazy ideas about keeping a digital station running on
>     the same machine I social network on. What could go wrong?
>
> I have (up until the recent storms) been running wispr on my daily 
> driver in a windows VM in the background w/ my flex 6300 -- band 
> hopping with my virtical loop.
>
> I have learned that one must reboot windows at least once per day or 
> it will eat itself and lose the ability to maintain good timing - 
> producing hash in its output and input.
>
> I have also learned that the wspr software will generate an unlimited 
> amount of data in the background that must be deleted once per day 
> (about the time I reboot it) so that the disk doesn't fill up and 
> break things.
>
> So, that could go wrong, but it's easily mitigated with a small 
> maintenance routine.
>
> Best,
>
> _M
>
> -- 
> kf4hcw
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