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I'm starting to think about a fallback strategy for our current test report storage. We subscribe to a service that has been fairly reliable and offers some great statistics, but their support levels combined with our smaller size may not survive the budgetary process. I've used and like DropBox as a personal service and think it's great. I read that DropBox is based on Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service) and I wondered if anyone has experience using S3 with LabVIEW and/or TestStand.

It looks like my attachment to this thread was lost during the LAVA site redesign. Here it is again (saved in LabVIEW 8.6). -D Get Class Hierarchy from Disk.vi

Quoting myself: Is that acceptable? I read this article this morning and though of this post. Paper companies want us to print more! I also recently got to experiment with my sister-in-law's iPad. It was actually quite nice. She had downloaded several of the free classic books and they were quite readable. You can view single pages or turn the unit sideways and view two pages at a time. There's a 'lock' at the top of the device to prevent it from matching the orientation of the iPad (vertical or horizontal). My 9 year old daughter said "Dad, it's a big iPod touch! Can I get this instead of an iPod for my birthday?" I have to give the iPad the nod over the Kindle or Nook; it's more expensive but is a true computing device. I think I would rather have one device over three or more (laptop, ebook, music/vid player and handheld game player). Last year it was netbooks; this appears to be the year of the tablet. A dual core Pine Trail Atom tablet with an SSD and a 7" OLED screen will be very nice. You could even run LabVIEW on it!

Does your theme editor maintain the inherited icon layer behavior? You might already know this but I figure it is worth mentioning... Suppose class Parent has a template icon that is 32x12 (aligned top). If you give the Child a template icon that is 16x12 (aligned top right), then when you add a new VI to the child, the resulting VI icon will use the Parent icon for the left half and the Child icon for the right half. This gives you a way of having a theme in the parent class with each child class adding a glyph to that original theme and then you only have to update the parent class if you want to change the theme across your whole hierarchy.

Yes, and your PCMCIA-USB comes with drivers that install a raw USB driver in the system (because Windows 95 certainly didn't have USB support on board, it was an addition to the Win95 OEM SR2 that was rather unstandardized). Raw USB is just that, raw. many different USB devices have many different requirements and therefore there exist many different USB device classes, such as mass storage devices, human interface devices, still image capture, printers, serial communication devices etc. Each of them has a different protocol on top of the USB bus and therefore needs different drivers to allow Windows or any OS to do something with them. Your PCMCIA driver CD likely will install a USB mass storage device driver that makes such devices available to Windows as volumes. It most likely also comes with a human interface device driver, that allows mice and keyboards to be recognized by Windows. It may not come with an USB communication device driver, which would be needed to make a USB COMM class device appear as an additional RS-232 port in your computer. And it will most likely not come with more specialized drivers such as still image class devices or printers or network devices. All that said it will be very difficult nowadays to find a PCMCIA-USB interface and even more difficult to find one that still supports Windows 98 or even worse Windows 95 since Windows 95 had no USB support in any of its standard releases.

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