On Monday 23 May 2016 12:12:21 W. Martinjak wrote: > On 2016-05-23 17:28, andy pugh wrote: > > On 23 May 2016 at 13:40, W. Martinjak <mats...@play-pla.net> wrote: > >> It's right that the off-topic stuff quietens, but if you are the > >> "wrong one" not just the off-topic stuff. Then suddenly there is > >> silence for hours. > > > > That often happens anyway. The IRC can sometimes be the absolute > > best support channel. Or, if you get unlucky or it is a quiet time, > > it can be entirely useless. > > Yes, or someone treats you as a complete fool and you find yourself > online with a helpdesk like Al Bundy. And this cronyism is weird. > > http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~tom-itx/irc/logs/%23linuxcnc-devel/2016-0 >5-23.html#10:01:32 > > My fancy to develop for lcnc is lowering to sea level. > Wasted time. > I am sorry to hear that. And it makes me sad.
I personally think its the Bees Knees, particularly since it runs on a free os (with kernel patches), that is a heckovalot more secure, and the developers are right here ready to answer your questions the next time they are near a networked computer. You cannot do that with Mach, or anything else that runs on windows, a closed source platform I have never allowed on the premises except for an XP laptop I bought for on the road use about 3 months after XP shipped. That install was wiped and Mandrake installed when I found the winsows driver for the radio in it could run that radio chip that was in it. So installing Mandrake wasn't a loss when it could run a bcm-4318 chipset either. That freedom to play, all by itself, was reason enough to stick around and help, if nothing better, by running the next versions pre-issues on your own machinery and reporting bugs or strange behavior as soon as its noticed. The recent spate of running into a following error and having that destroy your co-ordinate system in use by resetting it to a g54 that is NOT g54, but you have to go to the MDI entry after restarting the machine and set it again to g54, than back to the system in use at the time of the error before you can make the machine do anything that makes sense. I first thought it was me, but I sure confirmed it in 2.8-pre when it was noted that 2.7.current was similarly effected. I don't mind playing the canary in a coal mine bit as long as it doesn't kill me, and it makes me think that my reporting is helping to make LinuxCNC better. If that helps make LinuxCNC better, its definitely worth my time to hunt-n-peck sometimes long winded msgs to these 2 lists. But, one, even I needs reminded at times of TANSTAAFL as it is a basic rule of the universe. So stick around, if for no other reason than to see what happens tomorrow. It might even be funny! Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
