Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Windows Based Solutions and Linux Developer Hostility

[Rob Judd]

Hi Josh,

It's fairly simple really. Microsoft is the Evil Empire and Bill Gates
is really Darth Vader. Thanks for the offer of help, btw.

Rob (with a 'b')


Joshua Hayworth wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Just a thought...
> 
> First, read the post below.
> 
> I am a 23 year old independent Microsoft developer and started my own sole
> proprietorship called Hayworth Software Development.
> 
> I just got my FCC Amateur Radio Technician license maybe 4 or 5 months ago.  I
> haven't eaven purchased my first radio yet.  I'm looking very closely at that
> SDR-1000 as my first purchase.
> 
> I primarily use C# on the .NET platform, but I am slowly learning the inns and
> outs of C++ using both Visual Studio.NET 2003 and Gcc on the Linux platform.
> Needlesss to say, I haven't gotten that far yet.  I hope to help Mr. Rodd Judd
> out in the process of converting GNU Radio to the win32 platform and maybe 
> even
> write a wrapper for .NET use.
> 
> I realize that this is a Linux based list and I may be starting a huge flame
> war, but can somebody help me understand this massive hostility for Microsoft
> and the Windows platform?
> 
> <shrug>
> 
> Maybe I'm just young and nieve, but I'm just not understanding how developing
> for one platform can be any more difficult that developing for another.  It's
> not like you don't have the documentation that you need
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com, http://www.codeproject.com/, ... Et all).
> 
> Joshua Hayworth (KD7USN)
> Camano Island, WA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of John
> R. Ackermann N8UR
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:57 AM
> To: Alberto di Bene; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RE: gnuradio based spectrum analyzer
> 
> Hi Alberto --
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.  I'm not insistent on a gnuradio solution, but
> having spent last Sunday at the Digital Communications Conference listening
> to Matt's seminar on SDR and gnuradio, I thought it might give me the
> building blocks to do what I need.
> 
> Re Spectran, I'll definitely look at it, but I am hoping for a Linux
> solution as all my fast computers run Linux rather than Windows these days
> (I have an Win2K box that I use for the Flex-Radio SDR-1000 console
> software, but having to keep that machine around makes me mad.  That's
> another story, though :-) )
> 
> 73,
> John
> 
> --On Friday, September 26, 2003 6:32 PM +0200 Alberto di Bene
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > "John R. Ackermann   N8UR" <address@hidden> wrote :
> >
> >> This is both a query for information, and a bit of begging for help.
> >>
> >> I want to put together a sound-card driven audio spectrum analyzer
> >> for a very specific purpose (measuring the frequency delta between
> >> two closely spaced RF carriers that have been brought down to audio
> >> via a receiver).
> >>
> >
> > John,
> >   give a look at the Spectran program available at :
> > http://www.weaksignals.com to see if it fits your needs. It is not
> > gnuradio based (sorry) and it runs under Windows, not Linux. If you
> > can accept these two limitations, maybe it can be of help for your
> > purpose. Also the Argo program there has been successfully used in the
> > past for the frequency measuring ARRL contest.
> >
> > 73  Alberto I2PHD
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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