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[Vesa Solonen <vsolonen@...>]

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Lorenzo wrote:

> My main developing machine at work is a VIA C3/800 running in remote X on a 2200 AthlonXP (well, the server has
> 4GB RAM... the bottleneck is in the drives :()

Are you sure it's just drivers with Kicad?

> I don't follow those two... pcb learning curve is too steep for me (one of the best PCB layout was the old OrCAD
> PCB386 running under dos... EVERYTHING done with the keyboard... the new Orcads sucks like a whole company
> making vacuum cleaners :D:D)

I'm not using them neither as I think Kicad's integrated workflow is nicer 
and Kicad has more modern file format support, etc. Also my guess is that 
C++ is better here than C, but I'm not someone to believe on that. Time to 
time I do check what has been going on on that side and buid Peter 
Clifton's tree to see the results. Their Cairo based schematics do look 
nice and perform quite well too, because of extensive glyph caching.

> It's EXACTLY my kind of product... it makes antibacterial fog for car sanitizing :P If/when you see the Henkel
> Terosept machine, that's my baby :D:D It's fun during burn-in, about 50 fog makers running... you can't see a
> thing :P

Well yeah it sounded familiar ;) Practical chemist would also propose 
direct evaporation of hydrogen peroxide from a wad of glass wool or open 
container if there is no danger of spilling. Dilute hp would probably work 
very well in foggers too. Numerous moldy cellars are revived thet way. 
Just remember to spray some dilute copper solution to brick walls too to 
poison the mold.

> I admit that's a HUGE hack but at least it works :D

Most of the time it won't pay to do everything by the book as long as it 
works. Cheap-Good-Fast, pick the two or make a triangle diagram :D

-Vesa