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RE: [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA (8/23/99) Michael David Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:43:06 -0400

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Hi David, Dan, et al,

OS: NT4 SP5, SMP Kernel
PC: IBM PC Server 32
CPU: Dual PII 333Mhz Processors
RAM: 256MB EDO
SCSI: Adaptec Ultra SCSI Wide chipset on-board
Video: S3 onboard chipset
Serial: COM1 and COM2 onboard
Additional Serial: Digi International ClassicBoard 8 (ISA)
Sound: Creative Lab's SBLive Value
Modem: Zoom Comstar 56K, Model 2818
Drive: Seagate Barracuda 9LP 7200RPM
CDROM: IBM model 203
Floppy Controller: on-board Chipset.
Floppy: IBM 1.4M 3.5"
Ethernet: 100BaseT chipset on-board

External Interfaces:
Caller ID: Yes Telecom MLM-8X
I/R: Dancraft Model 100
Security: Inovonics FA403 Receiver/Decoder
I/O and X10: Applied Digital Redac 16 (x3)
Thermostats: Enerzone Statnet Model 600 and Model 450
Weather Interface: TDB (possibly Peet Bros. Ultimeter 2000?)

Other Software running on the ECS server:
Ace 32-bit Server (for ACE touchscreen clients)
ACE-MS (ACE 32-bit email program)
MS Speech SDK 4.0
Norton Antivirus 4.0

Other Software occaisionaly used on the ECS server:
MS Internet Explorer 5.0
ETV Television Guide
Norton Utilities NT
Edisys eZip Wizard (32-bit)

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com



-----Original Message-----
From: David Schwinck [mailto:Schwinck@prodigy.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 2:26 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: RE: [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA (8/23/99)


Michael:
Could you send your hardware list to the list server please?  I am
considering switching to NT also.

David Schwinck


-----Original Message-----
From:	Dan Carrington [mailto:dc_grafx@microworks.net]
Sent:	Friday, August 27, 1999 8:41 AM
To:	ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject:	Re: [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA (8/23/99)

Michael, can you send me a list of the hardware you are using that works ok.
I
have NT on one of my machines at work and I find it much more stable.  I am
seriously considering it for my automation when I upgrade in a month or two.
Any special considerations that I should know for setting up ECS on it.  I
think
I can live with the unaligned columns for the benefits of NT.  How is the
text
to speech and the voices and things.  Are you doing VR?

Thanks for the info
Dan



Michael David wrote:
>
> Hi Dan!
>
> I've been unnung ECS under NT for a while now.  All works well except:
>
> 1) The text from events in the event page don't line up into easily
readable
> columns.  This is because Mark had to display that text in a proportional
> font.  For some reason that excapes menow, he had trouble with mono-spaced
> fonts on that page.  So, it's messy to read, but otherwise works ok.
> Because of this, I generally look at my events in a text editor.
>
> If any of you are NT programmers, and have any thoughts on how Mark could
> get around this, please speak up!  :)
>
> 2) The "About" button on the group page doesn't work.  I haven't mentioned
> this earlier because it is insignificant.  Mark, if you are ever bored and
> want to track it down, let me know, and I'll send you the error message.
>
> Otherwise, It works great under NT, and is MUCH more stable than Win98.
> Once I worked out the driver problems when I migrated to NT, I have yet to
> see a crash.
>
> In short, NT is a much better operating system for mission-critical
> applications.  And, ECS is a much more mission-critical application than
> anything else in my world.  :)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carrington [mailto:dc_grafx@microworks.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 2:14 AM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA (8/23/99)
>
> Me too!!!!!!  Now I have another reason to finalize that upgrade into the
> windows version....
>
> NT maybe??
> Dan Carrington
>
> Michael David wrote:
> >
> >         >BEGINIF and WHILE statements may now be followed by additional
> >         >AND/OR conditional statements.
> >
> > Ooo!  Ooo! I've been wanting that for years!  Thanks, Mark!  :)
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Michael David
> > michael@michaeldavid.com

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