Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Mark Wendt
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Greg Bentzinger skullwo...@yahoo.com wrote: snippage There may be many different ways to skin a cat - but first I'm told I have to kill the thing 9 times. You're in trouble with radioactive cats though. They have 18 half lives. ;-) Mark -- One Man, One

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Les Newell
Don't use Schrödinger's cat. It's both dead and alive at the same time... Les On 08/07/2015 10:11, Mark Wendt wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Greg Bentzinger skullwo...@yahoo.com wrote: snippage There may be many different ways to skin a cat - but first I'm told I have to kill the

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Mark Wendt
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:22 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 July 2015 at 11:16, Bertho Stultiens ber...@vagrearg.org wrote: You're in trouble with radioactive cats though. They have 18 half lives. ;-) Do they have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_fleas -- atp Not

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Mark Wendt
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Bertho Stultiens ber...@vagrearg.org wrote: On 07/08/2015 11:11 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: There may be many different ways to skin a cat - but first I'm told I have to kill the thing 9 times. You're in trouble with radioactive cats though. They have 18 half

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 July 2015 at 11:16, Bertho Stultiens ber...@vagrearg.org wrote: You're in trouble with radioactive cats though. They have 18 half lives. ;-) Do they have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_fleas -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 07/08/2015 11:11 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: There may be many different ways to skin a cat - but first I'm told I have to kill the thing 9 times. You're in trouble with radioactive cats though. They have 18 half lives. ;-) And then you still have (2^-18 =) 3.8 micro cats left. Those beasts

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-08 Thread Marcus Bowman
On 7 Jul 2015, at 02:30, andy pugh wrote: Can anyone suggest a Mini-ITX motherboard with decent latency and a full-size PCI slot? 12V power input would be nice but not essential. Passively cooled too, if possible. Not being a GA-J1800N-D2P is also important. Those have a BIOS so poor

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 July 2015 05:11:54 Mark Wendt wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Greg Bentzinger skullwo...@yahoo.com wrote: snippage There may be many different ways to skin a cat - but first I'm told I have to kill the thing 9 times. You're in trouble with radioactive cats though.

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 07/08/2015 02:54 PM, Mark Wendt wrote: A radioactive Shrödinger's cat will have 18 half lives and deaths. ;-) Oh man, watch where you are going. You are inviting between 2^-18 and 2^18 living corpses. I'm surely not gonna clean up that zombiepocalypse mess in the shop. (ok, we've

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Mark Wendt
A radioactive Shrödinger's cat will have 18 half lives and deaths. ;-) Mark On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Les Newell les.new...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Don't use Schrödinger's cat. It's both dead and alive at the same time... Les On 08/07/2015 10:11, Mark Wendt wrote: On Tue, Jul 7,

[Emc-users] Just In Case, Fanuc MPG

2015-07-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
In case it might be of interest, I posted some pictures of a Fanuc MPG I got from eBay: http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/fanuc_mpg/ I thought the detent mechanism would be some fancy magnetic system, but is a simple gear running against a roller and spring. I thought this would wear

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Les Newell
On 08/07/2015 14:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle. And I've always wondered, with the shortage of cat skin products on the market, just what DOES get done with all those cat skins? ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfM23iChzs Les

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-08 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Gesendet: Dienstag, 07. Juli 2015 um 23:22 Uhr Von: Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com An: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? On 07/07/2015 02:03 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote: ... I'm also thinking about upgrading the computer for my desktop mill,

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 July 2015 12:32:23 Les Newell wrote: On 08/07/2015 14:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle. And I've always wondered, with the shortage of cat skin products on the market, just what DOES get done with all those cat skins? ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfM23iChzs Les

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Component

2015-07-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 July 2015 at 22:17, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: tonight is actually quite a good time to look at it Not-working Mac problems now. I am starting to feel unlucky. No progress today, but I am away from home for the next two weeks working in Granada, Spain, so might have nothing else

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Component

2015-07-08 Thread andy pugh
On 8 July 2015 at 19:50, Rick Lair r...@superiorroll.com wrote: Just wondering if you made any headway on the carousel component? None at all, I have been distracted by not-working motorcycles, not-working parental legs (putting in a downstairs bathroom) and not-working CNC mills. Currently I

Re: [Emc-users] Screen ratio Q

2015-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 July 2015 21:36:26 Jack Coats wrote: It 'should' auto detect, but you might need to reset either in the monitor or in your system values to display a 4x3. Right now I am running Linux Mint as my daily desktop but it is a Ubuntu derivative. I go to settings - display - and can

Re: [Emc-users] Screen ratio Q

2015-07-08 Thread TJoseph Powderly
Jack xvidtune can implement custom video modelines I used to have to make a new one with every linux release and every new monitor not for the faint of heart you can find it in the package 'x11-xserver-utils' HTH TomP tjtr33 On 07/08/2015 09:07 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 08 July 2015

Re: [Emc-users] Screen ratio Q

2015-07-08 Thread Jack Coats
Gene, Go to the K Menu, then click on SYSTEM, then DESKTOP APPLET, and finally KRANDRTRAY. It may also be called Screen Resize and Rotate. When you click the KRandRTray icon (mine is different here - look for the icon shown above), you will see a list of resolutions. You can apply any of these

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 July 2015 19:25:11 dave wrote: On 07/08/2015 09:32 AM, Les Newell wrote: On 08/07/2015 14:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle. And I've always wondered, with the shortage of cat skin products on the market, just what DOES get done with all those cat skins? ;-)

Re: [Emc-users] Screen ratio Q

2015-07-08 Thread Jack Coats
It 'should' auto detect, but you might need to reset either in the monitor or in your system values to display a 4x3. Right now I am running Linux Mint as my daily desktop but it is a Ubuntu derivative. I go to settings - display - and can check the resolution (and format 16:9 or 4:3) that I

[Emc-users] Screen ratio Q

2015-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I replaced the elderly tube monitor on the toy mill a year or more back, but the monitors today are 16/9 wide screens. Whats the procedure to make it reset for wide screen so that circles are round again, rather than obviously squat. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- There are four

Re: [Emc-users] How to lie properly in CNC programs.

2015-07-08 Thread dave
On 07/08/2015 09:32 AM, Les Newell wrote: On 08/07/2015 14:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Chuckle. And I've always wondered, with the shortage of cat skin products on the market, just what DOES get done with all those cat skins? ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfM23iChzs Les The low tech

Re: [Emc-users] Carousel Component

2015-07-08 Thread Rick Lair
Hey Andy, Just wondering if you made any headway on the carousel component? I am still working on a bunch of other stuff on the machine, but was just wondering if you had a chance to take a look at it. Thanks Rick On 6/15/2015 12:40 PM, Rick Lair wrote: No problem Andy, Good things come