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  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Anybody running iBeat on a Mac?

Mike-AK

Mike-AK

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Looking at installing an older version of Windows on my MacBook using BootCamp to create a Windows partition on my hard drive so I can run iBeat. Looking for someone who has been there/done that to share their experience. Thanks.
 
You´ve hit the bull´s eye. That´s exactly what´s been putting me off using iBeat to analyse my "flashing green neutral light". (And, I´d have to get myself a laptop)
 
I tried it but could not get the interface to work right. Could never see the bike via comm port, so I just got a cheapo netbook with Windows and ran it on there.
 
firebolter said:
I tried it but could not get the interface to work right. Could never see the bike via comm port, so I just got a cheapo netbook with Windows and ran it on there.
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That's exactly what I am worried about. What version of Windows is on your cheapo notebook?
 
I use parallels to run Windows 7 when I need to use solidworks at home. Haven't hand any issues with that so I don't see why running IBeat's would be that difficult.
 
Comm port? Sheesh. Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1986... Attn: Semco, the world uses USB now. And has for well over a decade.
 
mnb said:
Comm port? Sheesh. Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1986... Attn: Semco, the world uses USB now. And has for well over a decade.
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They do use USB, the issue is when you run a "windows" environment on a MAC, you have to work the come port to the USB which is in the iBeat software, it still gives you 16 ports and I could not get the MAC to auto detect. Once I switched to a Windows machine, no issue. The iBeat software is rather crude and simplistic as diag software goes.
 
mnb said:
Comm port? Sheesh. Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1986... Attn: Semco, the world uses USB now. And has for well over a decade.
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Occasionally some of the stuff you hang onto remains worthwhile. Sister in law gave us an old Windows lap-top. Same model George uses. probably cheaper to go that way than Windows and Parallels software for the Mac.
 
Question for you computer smart guys. We have a little cheapo Windows laptop without a CD drive, but it has USB. Do you think I could copy the iBeat software to a USB thumbdrive using my Mac, then run it on the cheapo machine?
 
Can you hook a peripheral CD drive to it via usb? Shouldn't be hard to borrow one of those.

I would think if you had the disc image of the iBeat Software on the thumbdrive you would have no trouble installing it.
 
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