RE: Waiting for a good Control Program

["Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

I think having online access in the way you are indicating (driver testing)
would be difficult.  Chris has the right idea by having a common source
repository where someone can download and test, or a login to a machine
which has the hardware, and where the hardware is not in 'production' use.
But once it hits production, I'd be leary of having someone test new driver
code, unless there were obvious deficiencies with the existing drivers.

That said, I'm running over a sattelite modem, which means when you press a
key, you get the echo back in about 1/2 second.  Also, I'm running XP as my
entry point, as I get 10x speed increases by having Starband software
running.  That said, I'll have to look into doing port forwarding from my XP
box to Linux.  But I've no problem doing this.

But, what is needed/desired for online access?  I would presume that once we
get some drivers everyone is happy with (ok, maybe satisfied with), that
we'd just need the ability to submit requests to the site running the
telescope, and have some means of getting data (raw or reduced) back.  This
can be accomplished through direct access, e-mail, etc...

Later,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege2@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:37 PM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: RE: Waiting for a good Control Program
> 
> 
> Rob and all,
> 
> I am struggling with what to do about this.  I had hopes that 
> Rob could 
> send me code that I could test on ROB before he came and got 
> it.  I now 
> think that will not work very well.
> 
> What might work is for one of the system owners to put their 
> system on 
> line.  The hope is that then everyone will be able to get at 
> it and test 
> code.  This was part of the purpose of sending the test boards to 
> Chris.  But this did not really work out.
> 
> Once ROB gets shipped, then there will be 4 field locations.  ARNE, 
> MICHAEL, MIKE and ROB.  I really hope that one of these 
> locations will be 
> able to put their system on line.  I suspect that this is not 
> possible for 
> ARNE.  Possibly it is also awkward for MICHAEL.  So the prime 
> candidate is 
> probably ROB, since Mike is running Windows on MIKE.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
> At 10:47 AM 5/6/02 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> Hey Tom,
> 
> I hate to disillusion you, but the last time I wrote assembly was in
> college.  With linux, they even wrap the common assembly 
> instructions in
> macros and functions.
> 
> What I will use is C, or inline C (you can put C inside your 
> Perl programs,
> with the appropriate CPAN module of course) to accomplish 
> some of the items
> I need (like grabbing the data from the memory card).
> 
> If I can be of any assistance with the memory tester thing 
> (like the tester
> interfaces with a pc), let me know.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob
> 
>