<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Most Linux distros come with virtualization tools, on other systems (and Linux) you can use VirtualBox.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Jacek</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">kw4ep</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:46 PM Alex Fraser <<a href="mailto:beatnic@comcast.net">beatnic@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="+1" face="Comic Sans MS">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
"</font><font size="+2"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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. <br>
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<div>On 6/29/2020 9:54 AM, Howard F.
Cunningham wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">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)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">WD5DBC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Howard
Cunningham, MCP<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="mailto:howardc@macrollc.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">howardc@macrollc.com</span></a>
- personal<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Tacos
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>kf4hcw<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org" target="_blank">tacos@amrad.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: What could go wrong?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 6/28/20 11:47 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I have some hazy ideas about keeping a digital
station running on the same machine I social network on.
What could go wrong?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>So, that could go wrong, but it's easily mitigated with a
small maintenance routine.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Best,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>_M<u></u><u></u></p>
<pre>-- <u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>kf4hcw<u></u><u></u></pre>
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