From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Douglas Cole" Subject: Re: [ANN] Hamlib 1.2.5 released Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:28:53 -0800 Message-ID: <9923fd660603011028ic7baae6g728f855083504d2d@mail.gmail.com> References: <4403823C.2090603@yahoo.es> <9923fd660602280739j7feda442ofb1315bf5d748bc9@mail.gmail.com> <20060228210401.GA12763@flying-gecko.net> <4404D447.2050609@yahoo.es> <9923fd660602281603l24acbb0dqdad4d2899a3ac734@mail.gmail.com> <20060301164033.GA10291@flying-gecko.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Curt Mills, WE7U" Cc: Linux HAMs On 3/1/06, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Patrick A. Ouellette wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:03:03PM -0800, Douglas Cole wrote: > > > > > > Thanks very much for the ideas, this may come to some useable end > > > after all, if I can just glue it all together in some useable form :) > > > > > > > If you do get it all working together, and can tear yourself away from > > the radio long enough, you may be a good person to draft a HOWTO for > > those who come after you..... > > > > Just a thought :-) > > Better write notes _as_ you do it, else all the nitty gritty details > will be forever lost in what we laughingly call human "memory". Thanks Curt, I am trying to get into the habit of doing that, since I tend to "burn" my way through a project and end up trying many different ways to get my goal accomplished, some things work, others don't, and I tend to forget which ones did, and didn't, so keeping notes as I go has been one of those things I am trying to force myself to do, otherwise, yes, I lose it to my 'memory'... Three foot by four foot 'post-it' sheets that I stick to the wall, help me write down the flow of things, and I can see how I go about doing something, but I am far from good at it, but I am trying... Maybe back in the 70's when I was first exposed to programming in Fortran and Cobol, if I had stuck with it rather than giving up in frustration, maybe my mind would have a better handle on structuring flow in my head, but I do have a hard time dealing with complex systems that have many pieces all working together, unless I can draw a diagram on the wall to keep me in check... And yes, Patrick, documenting is one of those things I am trying hard to improve upon, in my line of work it is one of the least attended to by those I work with and have worked with, we are truly overwhelmed to the point of not being given time to document what we do, and our work suffers because of it. Ok, end of break (yes I gave myself a break today!)... 73 -- Doug N7BFS