Windows build availability
I've received quite a few requests for the Windows build of SBS-1 Utilities. Unfortunately, I am not able to provide it at the moment as I am not at home and I do not have a working Windows development environment on my laptop. Please give me some more time until I come back to Krakow and I will try to provide it asap.
Another bug fixed in the SBS-1 utilities
There's a new build available for Linux, it fixes wrong byte order in the internal timer output in both HEX and decoded mode.
To download please go to SBS1 Utilities
C code optimization by Felix von Leitner
Felix von Leitner has prepared an interesting presentation about C code optimization with a few different compilers and the bad habit of writing less readable code in hope of producing faster binaries. I must admit I have changed my mind about manual optimization after reading this presentation. Below is the abstract and link to the presentation itself:
People often write less readable code because they think it will produce faster code. Unfortunately, in most cases, the code will not be faster...
http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/compiler_survey_felix_von_leitner.pdf
Moving to a new server, some downtime expected
I'm moving my website and a few other services to a new server. It won't take long, but it might be a while before the DNS records get updated. The TTL of DNS records was set to 1 hour, so hopefully it will be back on in no time.
Update: The migration was finished more than 48 hours ago, I think all DNS records are up to date now!
Two more bugs fixed in the SBS1 Utilities
I have prepared a new build of the SBS1 Utilities for Linux. It should fix the longitude decoding issue for the Western Hemisphere as well as a minor issue in clearing the AC table which was not revealed before.
Update 1: Colin has reported a bug in the BS30003 compatible feed, the line endings were not sent correctly. This has been fixed and the latest build is available for download.
New version of SBS1 Utilities finally available!
It's been more than a year since I promised the next release of SBS1 utilities. I know most of you are disappointed, but I hope some will still be happy to eventually get it. There are a lot of improvements especially with stability of the application and better thread management, but also a few new features which I will describe in the project description.
The code was almost entirely rewritten so it obviously still requires testing. More information in SBS1 Utilities.
Old utilities no longer supported, new coming on Friday
I have recently received a few email with questions about the sbs-utilities. I would like to announce that old utilities are no longer supported so please do not send questions about them.
I am currently working on a short document with parameter description and usage information for the new utilities. Once this ready, I will publish the new tools. This is planned for Friday ( 22.01.2010 ).
Update 1:
I need a few more days, sorry.. I've been busy with other stuff.
Update 2:
I have fixed two more bugs, testing it right now.. If nothing goes wrong I will publish the Linux build tomorrow ( 2010-02-03 ) and the documentation will be added later.
SBS1RT patch no longer needed, KA removes the delay!
On November 16th Kinetic Avionic released a new build of Basestation (1.2.3.145) software which removes the 5 minute delay. I'm glad this finally happened as there was absolutely no sense in that. You didn't even have to patch the application with my utility to get a real time feed, you could also override some WinAPI calls and get the data. Anyway, this means there will be no RT patches for SBS-1 but we are still unsure about ANRB.