Greetings all;
First, I guess we start a round of wishing everybody a merry Christmas.
Second, the diffs in user number basing between normal systems with the
first user at 500, and *buntu system with a first user at 1000 is killing
me since all the system utils that one would use for copying
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 11:57:00 AM andy pugh did opine:
On 22 December 2011 16:01, Roland Jollivet roland.jolli...@gmail.com
wrote:
These guys are on your turf too;
http://www.precisionmicro.com/
This is an interesting process I hadn't heard of before:
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 04:33:44 PM Anders Wallin did opine:
I have been given a quote for electrochemical machining of an encoder
for my project.
http://www.photofab.co.uk/index.php/services/chemical-etch-photo-etch/
There is a £95 setup charge, then another £100 for a sheet of
On Friday, December 23, 2011 02:44:33 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 22/12/2011 16:33, gene heskett a écrit :
Greetings all;
First, I guess we start a round of wishing everybody a merry
Christmas.
Second, the diffs in user number basing between normal systems with
the first user
On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:07:02 PM Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine:
On Dec 23, 2011, at 14:04 , matthew venn wrote:
Hi all, anyone know how I can make a shape in openscad and then turn
it into gcodes?
PyCAM http://pycam.sourceforge.net/ can read 3d shapes from STL files
and make
On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:11:28 PM Mark Cason did opine:
On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den
gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene
to modify a user, you must use usermod:
sudo usermod -u 500 gene
I haven't
On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:18:29 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this
box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene
is also the first user 1000, so when user 500 tries to copy a file
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene@coyote ~]$ ssh shop
gene@shop's password:
Linux shop 2.6.32-122-rtai #rtai SMP Tue Jul 27 12:44:07 CDT 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:14:41 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene@coyote
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:45:10 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 9:04 AM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:55:49 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 9:05 AM, gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos
(this box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On
ubuntu, gene is also the first user 1000
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:56:52 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 12:22 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:14:41 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:18:41 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
[and a lengthy argument snipped]
I do. But that is so all encompassing on pclos, that all paths then
have to be cd'd to from the /root account. Even when using it in a
script, a cd to do something in a subdir
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:48:17 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
Probotix equipment
40VDC 10Amp Linear Power Supply
PBX-RF RF Isolated CNC Breakout Board
3 - Uni-polar Stepper Motor Chopper Drivers
Specs on this driver board please?
3 - 280 OzIn 8-Wire Stepper Motor
I have
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:59:00 PM yann jautard did opine:
[overdue chomp]
I think here we are talking about another problem. The point is not to
use root account to make all your admin stuff (even if it may be a
better choice than sudo), but use it only the time needed to change
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:26:16 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:48:17 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did
opine:
Probotix equipment
40VDC 10Amp Linear Power Supply
PBX-RF RF Isolated CNC Breakout Board
3 - Uni
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:50:57 PM yann jautard did opine:
well, I just see something a lot simpler : when using the users-admin
GUI from gnome, you can change the UID...
Who is using gnome? I'd pay that nagging nanny to stay in Peoria. :)
Cheers, Gene
--
There are four boxes to be
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:56:23 PM matthew venn did opine:
Thanks for the tips!
Will try pycam. Anyone heard of skeinforge? I got recommended that too.
Apparently it has a milling profile as well as 3d printing. Have yet to
try it...
Matt
Interesting, downloaded it. What cad for
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:57:51 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 20:18, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:59:00 PM yann jautard did opine:
[overdue chomp]
I think here we are talking about another problem. The point is
not to use root
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 03:38:50 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can get
into
grub, show the default boot command, and add the option to go
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 03:43:00 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:26:16 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did
opine:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:48:17 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 05:03:49 PM Fox Mulder did opine:
Am 24.12.2011 20:57, schrieb gene heskett:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:56:23 PM matthew venn did opine:
Thanks for the tips!
Will try pycam. Anyone heard of skeinforge? I got recommended that
too. Apparently it has
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 04:41:00 PM Rafael Skodlar did opine:
On 12/23/2011 08:08 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:18:29 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos
(this box) gene is the first
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 05:34:07 PM gene heskett did opine:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 05:03:49 PM Fox Mulder did opine:
Am 24.12.2011 20:57, schrieb gene heskett:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:56:23 PM matthew venn did opine:
Thanks for the tips!
Will try pycam. Anyone
Greetings;
Yes, I suppose this should be a function of loading a full described tool.
I'm trying to visualize, with emc running without motor power, what the
encoder wheel I am playing with will actually look like by making it use a
path line in the backplot for the metal being cut away, so
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 09:21:09 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
On 12/24/2011 3:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can
get into
grub, show
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 09:36:22 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
On 12/24/2011 3:34 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Luis Antonio de Andrade wrote:
I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a prosperous new
year.
Yes, especially to all the tireless developers who work many
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 09:49:11 AM Tomaz T. did opine:
Hi everyone,
I installed new pci express card with two parallel ports, and I can't
get any signal out of it. I am trying to connect it to two c10 boards
which are working fine with mach. lspci -v feedback is:
Communication
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 10:11:27 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 03:43:00 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did
opine:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:26:16 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 11:09:41 AM Andy Pugh did opine:
On 25 Dec 2011, at 03:46, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
y current .ini base_period values are in the 35-40 u-
second range. Is there enough processing time on a 1400mhz athlon to
process that w/o any skips? Or would
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 11:51:20 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
On 12/25/2011 9:35 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Anybody remember the Alt-somethingorother key combo to bring up
the running of the startup scripts rather than the Ubuntu splash
screen during boot? I thought I had
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 11:53:35 AM Tomaz T. did opine:
Hi everyone,
I installed new pci express card with two parallel ports, and I can't
get any signal out of it. I am trying to connect it to two c10 boards
which are working fine with mach. lspci -v feedback is:
Communication
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 12:08:02 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 10:11:27 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 03:43:00 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 04:11:06 PM Viesturs Lācis did opine:
2011/12/25 kqt4a...@gmail.com:
From integrator manual
SCALE = 4000 ( HAL ) Speciï¬پes the number of pulses that corresponds
to a move of one machine
unit as set in the [TRAJ] section. For stepper systems, this is the
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 04:22:56 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 12:08:02 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 10:11:27 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 08:09:04 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
[...]
40VDC 10Amp Linear Power Supply
I missed that in the original posting. That translates to your being about
to run, all other stuff equal, at about 135% of my best speeds.
Thanks for the pointers, I think you have
Greetings;
I've about worn out that 7x10 I have, and its rubber tool post prevents me
from doing anything resembling a fine finish regardless of the sharpness of
the bit. When cutting threads I have to, before reversing the spindle to
back away reset to deepen the cut on the next pass, back
millisecond hangfire. Bullet off the paper...
BH209 is so hard to light, I'm told it doesn't need a hazmat warning or
fee, but its still $10/oz. What the heck ever happened to BP being cheap
to shoot?
Thanks.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 8:00 AM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Greetings
On Monday, December 26, 2011 10:36:04 AM Dave Caroline did opine:
The tool cutting brass is one I found amongst some cutters at a clock
and watch show
It just suited the job, you can also use commercial thread mills
eg
http://www.kennametal.com/en-US/products_services/metalworking/tapping/t
On Monday, December 26, 2011 10:43:05 AM Igor Chudov did opine:
I had, recently, a couple of instances of electronics failing,
seemingly, from cold weather.
1. Netgear GS-108 8 port gigabit switch failed when I left on vacation
and let the house cool to 52 degrees F.
2. Saitek USB
On Monday, December 26, 2011 12:19:25 PM Steve Stallings did opine:
The tool cutting brass is one I found amongst some cutters
at a clock
and watch show
It just suited the job, you can also use commercial thread mills
eg
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:32:26 AM charles green did opine:
60 degree included angle double angle cutter, such as
http://www.use-enco.com/cgi/INSRIT?PMAKA=367-7100PMPXNO=948041PARTPG=I
NLMK32
might work. not too too spendy, and can be ground to get within a full
thread of a step.
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:52:23 AM Mark Wendt did opine:
On 12/26/2011 12:34 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I guess I've finally reached that age where everything I like is
either illegal, fattening, or immoral. Sigh...
Or broken... ;-)
Well, with my sugar, I'd prefer to call it worn
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 01:46:39 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 27 December 2011 17:53, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Not having any really effective way to speed adjust this induction
motor so the spindle can be effectively stopped in the last 1/4 turn
to the end point, from
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 05:35:46 PM Dave Caroline did opine:
Its a 10 Dewalt, decent shape, runs fine smooth but probably 35 YO,
somebody make me an offer and help me carry it to your vehicle,
please!
I used one of the DeWalt over arm saws way back in the early 1970's
post it to
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 08:49:15 PM Steve Blackmore did opine:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:48:43 -0500, you wrote:
I've had the table saw throw it harder. Unforch, I was in the way,
took about 6 weeks to lighten up the color of the bruises on my ribs
too. 1x4, 2 feet long.
Yup - my
Greetings all;
I managed to score some double sided blank pcb today, enough to make a few
boards to hold the ABX photo-interrupters (Honeywell HOA2001's) 3x per
board for making encoders.
But these encoders have an extra .05 hole pattern spacing, so the whole 3
pin socket pattern for the
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:21:24 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
I have a 40v 10amp power supply from Probotix
I asked this question of supp...@probotix.com
I have used your 40 volt 10 amp power supply for over a year with 3 of
your yellow motors (3 ammps each) I just added a 4th
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:05:13 PM Dave Caroline did opine:
I assume all my steppers are using all the amps I want them to, which
would be 12A if I was using 4 steppers at 3A ea.
Not so Dave. For modern chopper stabilized current controlling drivers,
the power supply is only
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:20:36 PM Andy Pugh did opine:
On 28 Dec 2011, at 15:52, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote:
Would someone elaborate on this just a bit
I am not questioning their response I just do not understand it
I suspect that the 60% might be a diversity factor.
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:24:02 PM Tim James did opine:
I have downloaded and burnt the Live CD 10.04.
It has worked on one desktop I tried but not on another or my laptop.
I only have the laptop with me at the moment so I would like to install
Ubuntu and EMC to find out more in
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:10:54 PM Steve Stallings did opine:
Sorry, but a different opinion here
Gecko publishes the 67% number based on
real world experience with a large number
of motors and power supplies tested.
The reality of calculating the current
needed is
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 01:36:19 PM Clint Washburn did opine:
What type of transformer would someone use to connect to the American
Split-Phase 240 volt system to get 100-110 volt output? Would one like
this work?
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 09:13:26 AM Ed Nisley did opine:
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 12:03 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
There are hall effect based ammeters
A while back, I mooched a Tek Hall-effect current probe from my buddy
Eks to take some interesting pix:
http://softsolder.com/2011
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:08:23 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 09:05:54 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did
opine:
Just in case y'all run out of something to ponder
I do not have one of those fancy meters Gene
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 01:10:20 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:08:23 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did
opine:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 09:05:54 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 09:05:54 AM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
Just in case y'all run out of something to ponder
I do not have one of those fancy meters Gene mentioned but I do have a
Kill-A-Watt
118.7 volts ac
3 motors at rest - 1.15 amps
3 motors running - 1.6 amps
4 motors
.
Now, if the main motor is a variable speed DC motor, it still shouldn't
care, but the development of that DC supply could require a transformer.
-Original Message-
From: gene heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:42 AM
To: emc-users
I have installed as much inkscape as the package manager can find, and I've
install the gcode-tools so the export as gcode option at least show's up.
I haven't fooled with inkscape in probably 5 years, but back then I could
compose dots and bars and place then, however with NDI what the scale
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 09:01:51 PM Jim Coleman did opine:
Gene, was it you I read about building edm power supply from re-wound
microwave oven transformers? Or was it somebody else who was into the
edm discussion a couple/few years back?
Nope, 'twasn't me. It was probably Ed
On Friday, December 30, 2011 09:56:25 AM Ben Jackson did opine:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:00:50PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
I haven't fooled with inkscape in probably 5 years, but back then I
could compose dots and bars and place then, however with NDI what the
scale was, it appeared
On Friday, December 30, 2011 01:31:37 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, gene heskett wrote:
I have installed as much inkscape as the package manager can find, and
I've install the gcode-tools so the export as gcode option at least
show's up.
I haven't fooled
On Friday, December 30, 2011 01:42:36 PM Ed Nisley did opine:
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 21:14 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
pointers to the articles
That was a series on transformers triac triggering, with a resistance
soldering setup as the McGuffin. CC doesn't put articles online (if you
know
. My gawd, that is nearly 50 years ago now. Getting old isn't for
wimps...
From: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Probably Dumb questions of the week, about
On Friday, December 30, 2011 08:44:08 PM Frank Tkalcevic did opine:
Just out of curiousity Gene, why are you trying to use Inkscape for
PC boards when you could use Kicad, gEDA or the free version of
Eagle?
Can you say learning curve, combined with best utility? Inkscape,
with
On Friday, December 30, 2011 09:07:31 PM Frank Tkalcevic did opine:
Or, once you have your gerber file, you can use Line Grinder
(http://www.ofitselfso.com/LineGrinder/LineGrinder.php) to generate
the isolation milling GCode. I haven't tried it yet - still on my
todo list.
Oops!
Greetings;
Lots of editing to no avail, but I believe I have a clue to the G41-42
problem. The preset radius is for a .230 diameter circle, but if I use a
.125 mill, it errors out and will not load the code.
So, switching to the G41.1 Dnn.nn mode, the error is triggered even by a
g41.1
On Saturday, December 31, 2011 01:48:48 PM Terry Christophersen did opine:
.125dia tool cutting a .230dia ID will leave you .0525 move
if you are starting in the center of the hole and moving to the edge
This is I believe the crux of the problem. This code generator does not
start at the
On Saturday, December 31, 2011 03:38:48 PM Terry Christophersen did opine:
Your New Years eve sounds as exciting as mine
ROTFL! But, I can remember 50 or 60 years back, doing New Years Eve up
right. But for the life of me, I can't remember why...
I am running some small parts on my
On Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:57:46 PM dave did opine:
Hm! Maybe half that ... 0.0525 center to center. :-)
And precisely the figure I used when I said to heck with this and wrote it
by hand. But I used a g3 for a climb cut, worked perfectly. Then I put an
engraving bit in, set it
Greets everybody;
I had gone back to an older $config because it had all the A axis stuff it
it, and of course had to do a bit of fine tuning in the .ini file.
But when I fired off a proggy that used the M3-4-5 spindle controls, I
wrecked the first piece of pcb material I put in the jig. Very
On Sunday, January 01, 2012 08:37:16 PM gene heskett did opine:
Greets everybody;
I had gone back to an older $config because it had all the A axis stuff
it it, and of course had to do a bit of fine tuning in the .ini file.
But when I fired off a proggy that used the M3-4-5 spindle
On Monday, January 02, 2012 01:57:46 AM Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 1/1/2012 8:41 PM, gene heskett wrote:
...
Thanks guys sending wishes for Happy Prosperous New Year to all.
Further thought: How do you folks arrive at those logic diagrams
shown at several locations in the Integrators
On Monday, January 02, 2012 12:23:13 PM andy pugh did opine:
I have some surface-mount opto-sensors which have pads on the
underside, but no pins as such.
Can anyone suggest how to solder them to PCB pads? I currently have a
soldering iron, blowtorch, gas cooker and a hairdryer, though I am
On Monday, January 02, 2012 12:44:51 PM Kirk Wallace did opine:
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 02:11 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
... snip
As for debugging your hal file, that's the problem I was working on
in the fall with my attempts to graph the hal network. The feedback
I got here suggested
On Monday, January 02, 2012 01:47:39 PM gene heskett did opine:
[...]
With regard to a bad hal file killing the machine, I am now beginning to
lean toward a flaky psu, its not liking 50F ambient temps in the shop,
and has crashed with grand and goriously colored confetti on the screen
On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:07:53 PM Kenneth Lerman did opine:
On 1/2/2012 1:16 PM, gene heskett wrote:
lots of stuff snipped
Maybe I'll even buy a whole new box. If I could find one of those
compact models with a usable parport no built in video. Is anyone
actually selling
On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:29:55 PM Peter C. Wallace did opine:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012, gene heskett wrote:
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:06:25 -0500
From: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
To: emc-users
On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:31:38 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 2 January 2012 18:46, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com
wrote:
That will be the third such machine I have. It does have built-in
video, but you don't have to use it.
However, there is no reason not to use the built-in
On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:34:16 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 2 January 2012 19:12, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
MBD-I-D525MWV 1 D525MWV Mini-ITX Motherboard85.00
Does that include the lpt breakout kit?
No need, the D525 has the LPT on the back panel, it's
On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:50:10 PM Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 1/2/2012 2:06 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Monday, January 02, 2012 01:47:39 PM gene heskett did opine:
[...]
With regard to a bad hal file killing the machine, I am now beginning
to lean toward a flaky psu, its
On Monday, January 02, 2012 04:02:42 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 2 January 2012 19:59, Mike Payson m...@dawgdayz.com wrote:
Skillet/hotplate soldering works great for those situations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uov0SPHKcnk
How do you spell Solder in the US? All the videos seem to
On Monday, January 02, 2012 04:53:35 PM Dave did opine:
On 1/2/2012 2:58 PM, andy pugh wrote:
On 2 January 2012 19:32, gene heskettghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:31:38 PM andy pugh did opine:
However, there is no reason not to use the built-in video with that
On Monday, January 02, 2012 06:26:30 PM Kenneth Lerman did opine:
On 1/2/2012 2:12 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Stuff that I deleted
Subtotal 230.25
Shipping Cost (UPSGR) 13.22
Total $243.47
Does that include the lpt breakout kit? And is it time I bought a
portable
On Monday, January 02, 2012 11:40:59 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
Is anyone running emc on this? How is the latency?
I've tested the Intel D525MW motherboard, and put it in the database.
The servo thread jitter was 15595, the base thread was 11921.
That's pretty good
On Monday, January 02, 2012 11:49:36 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
On Monday, January 02, 2012 02:31:38 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 2 January 2012 18:46, Kenneth Lerman kenneth.ler...@se-ltd.com
wrote:
That will be the third such machine I have. It does have built
On Monday, January 02, 2012 11:52:14 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
How about this one? $219
http://www.directron.com/extremevalue.html
only needs an optical drive for installs.
I am tempted to get 2, one for the lathe.
Yup, looks mostly OK to me. It has
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 05:06:21 AM Viesturs Lācis did opine:
2012/1/2 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com:
I've found a barebones box with a D525 board in it, for $120, claims
to have the lpt on the back panel already. Needs a couple sticks of
ddr2, a smallish sata drive and a dvd reader
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:14:42 AM Viesturs Lācis did opine:
2012/1/3 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com:
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 06:00:47 AM Viesturs Lؤپcis did opine:
2012/1/3 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com:
I do not currently have a machine that can boot from either usb
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:00:18 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Viesturs Lؤپcis wrote:
2012/1/3 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com:
I do not currently have a machine that can boot from either usb or
network, and that includes this $300 Asus mobo with a quad core
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:10:31 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did opine:
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controls and electronics of the machine are in the usual ATX PC case.
What I wanted to say with all this - PC mainboard does not matter that
much, but D525 has a lot of advantages, when compared to other
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 01:44:42 PM gene heskett did opine:
http://www.directron.com/extremevalue.html
I just bought one of these. Genuine Intel board, but Not fanless but 2G of
ram a 250Gb HD 300 watt supply, $246 shipped. It's in Houston, he
wanted some of my snow, said he was 80
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 02:41:08 PM Kent A. Reed did opine:
On 1/2/2012 11:24 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
On 1/2/2012 10:35 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
Is anyone running emc on this? How is the latency?
I've tested the Intel D525MW motherboard, and put
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 08:27:52 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
I put the better PSU in, but had problems getting a clean boot, and
once I did get one, uptime was in minutes, 2 more times. Going to my
IR thermometer because gkrellm said the hard drive was pretty warm, I
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:58:17 PM Kirk Wallace did opine:
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 19:26 -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote:
... snip
The jury still seems to be out on the question of SSD reliability,
partly because there are so few data points compared to rotating
disks.
... snip
I
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:33:10 PM Jon Elson did opine:
Kirk Wallace wrote:
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 19:26 -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote:
... snip
The jury still seems to be out on the question of SSD reliability,
partly because there are so few data points compared to rotating
On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 02:45:54 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
Can some of that perceived resistance be credited to us linux folks
generally being more likely to have a decent UPS that shields our
boxes from a lot of that stuff?
Nope, no UPSs here or at work. our
On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 08:28:20 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
This house, with a full basement, has I believe shifted upwards,
floating if you will, at least 2 in the 22 years I've been here.
Well, I guess we have been real lucky here. The shop is in my basement
On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 08:41:42 PM andy pugh did opine:
On 4 January 2012 23:48, Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu wrote:
do you have any pictures of it set up?
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CQTCSBXP42w4qc8viPm_ztMTjNZETYmyPJ
y0liipFm0?feat=directlink
(In that picture is the
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 08:01:43 AM Mark Wendt did opine:
On 01/05/2012 05:05 AM, andy pugh wrote:
I recently got some Avago AEDR8300K encoder sensors. These have two
detectors in a small SMT package for quadrature in one device.
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