[Discuss-gnuradio] Latest trunk on my new dual-core machine

[Marcus Leech]

I have a new machine, based on a Pentium D 940 at 3.2Ghz with 1GB of 
533Mhz DDR2.  I installed the x86_64 FC6 distribution
 on it, and then Gnu Radio and its dependencies.

I ran into small problems with my gr-radio-astronomy applications, that 
were easy to fix.   It turns out that Numeric.zeros() is
 now fussy about type correctness in the "number of elements" argument.

Also, in two places, I inadvertently used a "C" idiom:

d *= 0.1

Which caused no problem previously, but caused Python to barf in the new 
FC6 environment.  I replaced it with:

d = d * 0.1

The new machine is working out quite well.  I can process a full 8Mhz of 
bandwidth, doing both spectral and Continuum
 modes.  I was able to double the FFT length, as well as double the FFT 
rate, which should make my spectral analysis
 more sensitive.