On Monday 23 May 2016 13:50:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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 windows driver for the > radio in it could NOLT run that radio chip that was in it. So installing > Mandrake wasn't a loss when it could NOT run a bcm-4318 chipset either.
My fingers go on strike when I ask them to type couldn't, so change all could above to couldn't, lr could NOT and it will make a lot more sense. > 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 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
