On 8/16/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > Many people on PLUG aren't getting you. But two years ago neither would > I. I think one needs the pain of experience to appreciate where you're > coming from.
jijo, i hope you don't mind my CC'ing this to PLUG. Oh, say, 7 or 8 years ago, I wouldn't "get" me. :P I think it's part of the natural evolution of the geek. hahahahahahaha. the funny thing is, i still do a lot of these duct-tape solutions. for example, a friend of mine wants to make a CNC machine *for engraving tombstones* (you know, the thing over which a priest says "dearly beloved." i've done the design already (farming out the mechanical fabrication to another friend..) but the electronics and CNC software is my area of expertise. and i make no excuses, it really IS a duct-tape solution -- Linux-based of course, software is EMC driving a primitive stepper motor driver attached to the parallel port -- in other words, the epitome of duct-tape. BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING I COULD DO CHEAPLY IN WINDOWS. Not to mention i wouldn't know where to start.. (and commercial X-Y CNC devices which a 1m x 1m workspace start at $15000 and go up at a frightening rate) and that's how it goes. for a geek, particularly a well-evolved geek, it's easy to cobble together something to do ANYTHING using linux and Free software. but when the time comes to productize that.. it's something i wouldn't wish on Mr. Berris. :) _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
