Windows XP and WiFi on the shop floor.
 

On Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:55:20 PM UTC-7, F. George McDuffee wrote:
Just hit my inbox



Two emails from Belden about the continued use of Windows XP

and the increasing WiFi communications on the shop floor may

be of interest.



http://view.email.globalspec.com/?j=...d=59975741&r=0



http://view.email.globalspec.com/?j=...7d7414 71&r=0



FWIW -- if your boss, or you if you're the boss, have had

enough of the cyber version of "planned obsolescence*" for

open source [free] operating systems and apps at least equal

to the commercial ones, see below, and make *ONE* more

change/update.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://www.xtuple.com/

http://sourceforge.net/directory/sys...ently-updated/

http://www.datamation.com/open-sourc...oftware-1.html

and a bizillion more on google

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence





--

Unka' George



"Gold is the money of kings,

silver is the money of gentlemen,

barter is the money of peasants,

but debt is the money of slaves"



-Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millenium"


Most modern CADCAM will no longer will run on Windows XP.

Window XP is ****.

Windows 7 professional 64bit is the only way to go for modern CADCAM.

Time to get some clues "wheezy".