On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:42:41 +0100, Bernard Burton
wrote:

Slowly recovering from a major loss of files after a hard drive failure.
Still awaiting a part (wrong one came today, so more delay), then can get
the second drive, with much of my data on, back in operation. Its been a
struggle trying to get old copies of XP to work properly, and have had to
reformat and start again 3 times before I could get stable running.
Advice
to any other XP users in a similar predicament., do not attempt in
upgrade
an old XP (SP2 fo instance) to SP3, and turn off automatic upgrades,
otherwise you will get a file from MS that runs every couple of minutes
and
which blacks out the screen for about 5 seconds. B

For what it's worth and probably too late now, you can make your own XP
install disc with SP3 pre-applied. I have done this, but it's so long ago
now I cannot remember the steps. I believe the tool was called "nLite" and
the buzzword for this trick is slipstreaming.

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On Friday, 22 April 2016 20:05:58 UTC+1, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:42:41 +0100, Bernard Burton
wrote:

Slowly recovering from a major loss of files after a hard drive failure.
Still awaiting a part (wrong one came today, so more delay), then can get
the second drive, with much of my data on, back in operation. Its been a
struggle trying to get old copies of XP to work properly, and have had to
reformat and start again 3 times before I could get stable running.
Advice
to any other XP users in a similar predicament., do not attempt in
upgrade
an old XP (SP2 fo instance) to SP3, and turn off automatic upgrades,
otherwise you will get a file from MS that runs every couple of minutes
and
which blacks out the screen for about 5 seconds. B

For what it's worth and probably too late now, you can make your own XP
install disc with SP3 pre-applied. I have done this, but it's so long ago
now I cannot remember the steps. I believe the tool was called "nLite" and
the buzzword for this trick is Tiny XP.
FTFY

Wouldn't it be nice if the makers of weather stations got off their fat arses and produced ISO standard equipment so that the user can have a free choice of operating system.

Or have they already though of that?

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:12:38 +0100, Brian Wakem wrote:

Roy the Beard wrote:

I back my data and operational program installation files to
Onedrive and
my local 1Tb server every few minutes.


Be careful backing up that often. If you overwrite a file by accident
the
backup will be overwritten before you even notice.


Nonesense, you are not doing it correctly .Any respectable Imaging S/W
lets you keep as many Image copies as you want .Normally the Image
filename contains the date/time plus any name you give it .Each image
will not be overwritten unless you have mis-configured the program .

It is also worth remembering that Image S/W can fail, so always best
to have at least two different Imaging Programs and create Images
inline with your workload schedule / Data collection .
I've never had to revert back to the original Installion CD/DVD etc in
the past 10 years .

Weatherlawyer wrote:

Wouldn't it be nice if the makers of weather stations got off their fat
arses and produced ISO standard equipment so that the user can have a free
choice of operating system.

Or have they already though of that?


Data can be read from a Davis console from pretty much any OS. They only
sell Windows software as far as I know but you can use WeatherDisplay for
Linux for example - but it's very buggy.

I wrote my own software to read the data from my VP2 using a Perl module
called Device::VantagePro (http://search.cpan.org/~abeverley/De.../VantagePro.pm) and write it a mysql database on
my remote centos server.

It only took a couple of hours start to finish and about a day to write a
charting wrapper around canvasjs (I used googlecharts originally bit it is
slooowww).

A bit of jquery and I have live updates and graphs on my website updated
every 2 seconds.


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Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey
http://www.brianwakem.co.uk/weather

"Brian Wakem" wrote in message ...

Data can be read from a Davis _logger_ from pretty much any OS.

Indeed.

They only sell Windows software as far as I know

Davis also sell Weatherlink for Mac (but most Mac users seem to prefer
WeatherCat).

but you can use WeatherDisplay for Linux for example...

And many others, eg CumulusMX or weewx, which are probably the preferred
options for Linux users.

JGD