What could go wrong?

[Jacek Radzikowski]

Most  modern machines are powerful enough to be able to run at least one or
two VMs. You can have an isolated environment on your desktop to use with
whatever risky experiments you want to try, and be able to restore it to a
safe state after you're done.
Most Linux distros come with virtualization tools, on other systems (and
Linux) you can use VirtualBox.

Jacek
kw4ep


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:46 PM Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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>
>
> Howard Cunningham, MCP
>
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> *From:* Tacos [mailto:tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org
> <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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