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From: Bob Peterson (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 13:46:48 EDT
Right on, Phil. I second your thoughts. I run everything imaginable on a
single HP Pavilion laptop, including Nobeltec, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Have never had any problems what so ever with Nobeltec on the machine. But
then I run the most up-to-date Antivirus, Anti-Spam and Firewall from Norton
and get updates for it on an almost weekly basis. People seem to have no
idea how many assaults their PC's receive on a daily basis, with worms,
viruses, etc. To not protect their valuable data with a comprehensive
security package is sheer folly. When you get advice from one of the
listees about running an ENC (electronic Nav package) on a barebones PC due
to problems they've had in the past, it's typically due to inadequate virus
protection.
Bob Peterson
"Lopaka Nane"
47' Lien Hwa CPMY
San Francisco
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On Behalf Of trawlerphil
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:28 AM
To:
Subject: Re: T&T: Furuno NavNet vs Nobeltec Glassbridge (Admiral)
(SNIP) When you get the PC, do a clean install of Windows XP (home or pro
seem to work fine) put your nav stuff on there and not much else. Keep it
clean and simple and do all your other stuff on another laptop.
A well crafted navigation program that conforms to the Windows API does not
need to run "alone" in the machine. I run constant mail, browsing,
navigation and WiFi without any problems on an old A31 ThinkPad. Quality
navigation software is just another application, no special handling is
required. Excel is extremely important to a creative stock analyst but you
don't see them running it alone.
Sometimes application programmers get co-opted by their own technical
elegance and write marginal code. If your Navigation program breaks enough
to warrant running it alone, my advice is to get a new navigation program.
Regards....
Phil Rosch
Old Harbor Consulting
M/V "Curmudgeon" MT44 TC
Currently lying Bond Creek, NC
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