8 Apr
2007
8 Apr
'07
1:23 p.m.
I'm still concerned about what documentation and
resources there are out there
for the cat though - I mean quite a few must have been sold, and owners must
have thrown together quite a bit of code to drive them - but every time I've
dug around on the 'net it's been unclear as to what kind of user community
exists to actively share code and experiences.
Yeah - I've noticed that too. And a lot of what I have found seems incomplete..
Just enough to read this one particular format etc...
(Plus I really don't want to be driving the thing
under a heavyweight OS like
Windows - and God knows what the resources and docs are available for the
alternatives)
Main reason I haven't gotten one yet. PCI card with winblows drivers...
Soon as you have to go into that "complexity for the sake of complexity"
environment, things go a LOT slower - and I just don't have time (or
desire) to deal with it.
I don't mind hacking code together if I have to -
but I really don't want to
be hacking the same code together that every other single owner has also had
to hack together; that's just a waste... :-)
Agreed - I'm surprised someone hasn't put together a good "image/restore
anything" package for it ... Or is such a beast available? I admit I have not
looked all that hard yet...
Dave
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