8 Apr
2007
8 Apr
'07
3:26 p.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Yep. Whenever I've dug around on the 'net there seems to be lots of "friend
of
a friend did this" type info, but very little first-hand. It worried me to be
honest, because it gives the impression that people buy the cards and can't
get them to work properly.
I hear ya. I don't recall there being much in the way of online documentation
for the card at all from the people who make the thing; again, it doesn't give
a lot of confidence. My only reason for getting one is that there isn't
currently an alternative.
<cynical>
You'll probably find that a friend of a friend of a friend wrote one once, but
they didn't document it, didn't release it into the public domain, and it
never worked right anyway :-)
</cynical>
That may be unfair, but that's what the level of user community surrounding
the thing feels like.
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...