Hi, The stress of midterm is over (at least, for now, but I need to work out how would I play around with C++ and perform calculus experiments.). I couldn't go out to get some candy because I am sick (well, you know what I mean, which occurs around this time of year.). Anyway, here are some comments and answers to some recent posts on this list:
. Battery life: I think a good time to replace the battery is once a year or about twelve to fifteen months. Last time I heard, it costs 87 dollars. As for battery life in general, it depends on what you are doing. If you use more and more features of BrailleNote, more power is needed - thus leading to shorter battery life. Some suggestions include turning off wireless devices - Bluetooth and WiFi off when you are not using it, removing external storage or accessory devices when not using them and so forth. . DLL's and EXE's: DLL is short for Dynamic Link Library, a form of shared library (where multiple applications use it for various tasks). A library can be thought of as a representative or a worker that provides necessary services or tasks that a standalone applications need, such as device drivers, dll's for specific tasks e.g. media playback tasks and so forth. Even though one can replace a DLL, if done at wrong times, it could render the programs that depend on it "crash" or unusable. This is especially important for device drivers - how could an operating system or a program use hardware if it does not know what to do with it, and if the representative that tells the program what the hardware is (in this case, a device driver) is not present or is different from what it was used to? I can tell you (especially for Dominique) that changing anything in Windows folder on the KeySoft System Disk carries some risks - especially if KeySoft does not work or behaves in an odd way. This is the reason why I always put "cautionary notes" to tasks that involve files in this folder - otherwise, you have a keyboard and a display with no functionality at all (in worst case scenarios). Hope it answers some questions for you - let me know if it did not or if it was either incorrect or not simple enough. . Some book recommendations: Some suggestions for further invesztigation using books. For anyone who is interested about embedded systems development, such as BrailleNote, check out "Programming Embedded Systems using C and C++" (O'Reilly Books, 1999), available at Bookshare website. For an easy-to-understand book on writing C++ programs, check out "C++: A Dialogue" by Steve Heller or "Practical C++ Programming" (Oualine, Steve. O'Reilly Books, 2003) (the latter is located at Bookshare website). I hope those books would serve as a handy resource for you. Hope these helps. Cheers, Joseph ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
