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Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 16-07-2015, 06:35
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Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

This sounds to me like advice for Linux users???
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 14-07-2015, 19:00
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

I spent 3 months trying to use it but I did so while trying to get work done and it was an exercise in frustration.

The thing to understand is that I killed my main machine (unintentionally of...
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 14-07-2015, 16:41
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

ROTFL. Listen, I use my computer to get work done, not surf the internet. I am a programmer / analyst. When Windows 8 came out it completely broke the way that windows always worked. If you have...
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 14-07-2015, 07:40
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

I am reading about "ini" files for Windows versions, but I am not seeing any Ini files other than CrashReport.Ini.

Where do adjust the cache levels?
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 14-07-2015, 07:31
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

I was playing with OpenCPN last night and on my pretty powerful dell development laptop (with SSD) the performance moving from map to map was not great.

To be fair I do not really know what I am...
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 06-07-2015, 21:56
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

And AFAICT Windows 10 is Windows 8 in a new dress so if you will not gain much by waiting.

I just happened to download and install OpenCPN on my Windows 7 dev machine today, plus all of the charts...
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 06-07-2015, 20:59
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

There is a parallel world that loves it, folks who started on it, and in particular folks who started on tablets and moved to it. If you have never used windowed apps, i.e. a windowed notepad and a...
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 06-07-2015, 19:02
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

I feel your pain. I bought a toshiba laptop just after Windows 8 came out and tried for 3 months to use it. I ended up wiping it and going back to Windows 7. Which was a PITA because I had to...
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 06-07-2015, 13:48
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

I have a dell laptop but it is my work machine, so I would be buying a new laptop for the purpose. Which leads to the question, what kind of demands does OpenCPN put on a laptop? I have read the...
Forum: Vendor Spotlight - Great Deals for CF Members! 06-07-2015, 08:42
Replies: 52
Views: 12,161
Posted By jwcolby54
Re: Free PC Navigation Software - OpenCpn

Does OpenCpn run on Linux? Specifically will it run on the little Raspberry Pi B+ and clones? Those are now way powerful and darned cheap, so cheap that having "backups" would be a no brainer.
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