Hi Jon I'm with you on the "not broke don't mess with it." I also understand the pain associated with upgrading when it finally does break. I've had to discard the old a lot more often than you have probably because I deliberately break 'em to test. I've found the Ubuntu/EMC2 to be much more robust than older systems.
Rayh On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:15 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > Ray Henry wrote: > > >Great work, Jon. And it only hurt a little. IMO we have reached the > >end of an EMC era. Your reports of that machine, STG, and RedHat 5 on > >RCM were what attracted me to this project. > > > > > > > Well, I still don't know why that system started acting oddly. It > doesn't really matter, > 7 years must be past retirement age in "computer years". I've got > another Dell box > coming from eBay, and I'm going to try bringing up an ubuntu system so I > can be > fully up to date with you guys. I have been updating the minimill computer > about every 2 weeks. > > Only hurt a little? You don't know what a ball of twine that CNC > control box has > become. Parts of it used to be inside the cabinet with my A-B 7320 > control, then > refitted a couple of times for the EMC system. It looks like one big > knot now, about > 19" wide and a foot high! > > I'd like to see if I can get homing working on at least one axis this > weekend. There's > something funny on one encoder's index signal, so far I haven't figured > out whether > it is the encoder or the PPMC encoder board, but I suspect the latter. > That board has > been used for bench testing for 6 years! > > So, does that mean I'm the LAST of the Mohicans? I'll bet NOBODY else > is using a 1999 > version of EMC. Hell, nobody else, with the possible exception of Matt > or you EVER > ran the 1999 version, outside NIST. Do we have any idea how many EMC1 users > are left? Most of my customers that I am still in contact with have > migrated to EMC2 > or certainly sounded like they planned to do it soon. > > Do we need to hold a wake? Maybe in June? (I think Chris and Jeff were > threatening > to do it for me, last year!) > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
