10 Nov 2000 backtick   » (Observer)

So, the new Fluke DSP-4000 is in for cable testing (yet another tool in the uber-toolbox of ethernet/fiber/coax destruction/installation *grin* we do here), and it comes with the serial cable and software to dump your reports to a Windows machine for printing. EWWWW!

Now, I think Fluke did some REALLY neat things; they gave all the pinouts in the manual, and the format of the reports makes me think it's just some normal ASCII. Wonder how hard it'll be to make a Gnome applet for reading data off the Fluke? Heh, a little Fluke-meter in the toolbar...

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