<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Mike-2007 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike-2007@elp.rr.com" target="_blank">mike-2007@elp.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-2759626455701210244WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365d">Won't argue with a thing you said.....<span> </span>EXCEPT..... ham radio isn't my only hobby, and I have some software for another hobby that just will not function outside of windows.<span> </span>Tried on a MAC, tried on Linux, tried some other thing my friend locally has.<span> </span>Nothing worked.<span> </span>And this other hobby is more important to me than ham radio.<span> </span>So I'll just struggle along on Windows-7 (64 bit) and hopefully with the RT Systems cable I won't have the troubles others seem to have here.<span> </span>Heck, I'd still be using XP if they hadn't quit supporting it!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365d">Perhaps someday someone will write good software for Android, and I'll take my tablet instead of the little Net-Book I carry out now.<span> </span>But until it happens, I'm on Win-7.<span> </span>Funny, but I've had no problems on my end.<span> </span>In fact, this E-mail address was first used in Dec of 2006, and I don't feel a need to change it either, still no SPAM, no virus, no update problems.<span> </span>I must be doing something right!<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365d">Vy73 -- Mike -- KD5KC.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365d"><u></u> </span></p></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes I have one like that too, CPS for the MD-9600, it will not run under wine</div><div>and when it runs under windows if you want to load the contacts list you also</div><div>have to have Excel installed on your computer, for a stinking csv file at that.</div><div><br></div><div>For that I have a virtual machine running Win10 (I want to get a copy of Win7</div><div>that was the one I liked. Win10 I really am getting a real dislike for)</div><div><br></div><div>The thing I like about my Linux boxen is they never give me issues, they just</div><div>run, the updates are fast and never intrusive, I do not have to reboot the</div><div>machine every time it does an update (that is one of the reasons I do not</div><div>like to run the VM, first thing it does is complain about needing updates as</div><div>I run it about every Feb 29th on a blue moon) At least with running Win10</div><div>in a VM I can give it some additional protection in the host system.</div><div><br></div><div>Well if you get a Raspberry Pi you can do almost what you want, you run</div><div>the RPi headless and access it from your tablet/phone whatever. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a spare tablet I am going to put Linux on to see if I can run Chirp on it.</div><div>That would be neat to not have to carry anything more than the tablet and</div><div>cables... </div><div><br></div><div>I also have 4 Thinkpads (I LIKE Thinkpads) that I can use for that sort of thing</div><div>one of them is a small 12" screen running Ubuntu Mate has an i7 processor</div><div>and a SSD, it boots very fast and moves very fast. That is my little field machine</div><div>when I need more than the Pi. </div><div><br></div><div>Ham radio is not my only hobby either, and there is some other stuff out there</div><div>that falls in the same area as the MD-9600 software, but I would say that I</div><div>have found 98% of what I need in some form for Linux. </div><div><br></div><div>I used to have a rr addy when we lived in Tampa, but it got so loaded with</div><div>spam that I got this gmail addy (2004) and it has stayed with me ever since.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course now having lived in 3 places where there is no TW, I would not</div><div>have one anyhow. </div><div><br></div><div>Ciao...</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Chirp + Editcp + MD380Tools on Linux</div><div>Celestial!!!</div><div dir="ltr">Chuck -- KP4DJT</div></div></div></div>
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