Contesting & SDR

Compiling PowerSDR with Visual Studio 2008

I decided to have a deeper look into Flexradio’s SDR Software PowerSDR. PowerSDR is published as open source under the GPL license and was written under Visual Studio 2003 against the old .NET 1.1 Framework. Unfortunately, the code was never migrated to a higher Version of Visual Studio. The last couple of days I had enough time to dive deep into the source code and finally make it compilable under Visual Studio 2008. In this post I’ll share the details with you.

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Useful Utility: Scroll partially hidden windows

I’m a fan of Microsoft’s Windows, but I must admit that in some cases, Linux and MacOS outperform good old Windows. In Linux (Gnome) and MacOS I enjoy the freedom to scroll in partially hidden windows without having to click on them. I was missing this possibility for a very long time on my windows based computers. Recently I stumbled upon a free software tool which finally solves this problem. Katmouse is a tiny application which allows you to scroll in windows without having to click on them. This Video reviews the software and illustrates its advantages!

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My personal data backup strategy

Have you ever heard about Drobo? Drobo is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) from the Silicon Valley based startup Data Robotics. Last week I implemented a Drobo in my backup strategy. With this step I finally added a significant level of data safety to my IT system.

In a previous article, I presented the principals and best practices to create an individual data backup strategy. In this article I will describe my individual backup and data storage strategy and discuss the advantages and weaknesses

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How to create a data Backup Strategy

Have you ever lost pictures, logbooks or the source code you have worked so hard on during the last few nights? Then you have already experienced how painful the loss of data can be. If you want to avoid this unpleasant experience, it’s definitely the right moment to think about a data backup strategy. I’ll split up this topic in two separated posts. In this post I would like to present you the most important factors you need to consider when defining a backup strategy. In the second post I’ll present you my backup strategy and how I implemented it.

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