Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Kim Kirwan
Hi Jon, Sorry to hear you're having trouble with Thunderbird. I am almost finished moving my email, address books, etc., out of my old Win2K/Mozilla-suite system and onto my newer (if unremarkable) Ubuntu 10.04/Thunderbird system. Like you, I have a lot of email that goes way back that I wanted

[Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Cason
First, the prerequisites: 1) Downloaded ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.iso, and it passes md5sum. 2) Installed into a 4GB partition in VirtualBox 4.0.0 r69151. 3) Additional software installed: wget, and vim, and VirtualBox Guest Additions. 4) Installed emc2-sim as per instructions in the wiki

[Emc-users] Specifications for EMC

2011-01-16 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear Emc users, Would you please help me find specifications for something like : emc.stat.settings[0], [1], [2], etc. I am new to emc and sorry for low level questions. I am trying to get stronger on both Linux and emc. Thanks, Farzin

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Kim Kirwan
Hi Jon, Sorry to reply twice, but I found these two comments on Slashdot: The problem is Mork. It's a stupid old database that Mozilla products are saddled with. When you have a big one, the whole damn thing needs to be loaded into memory to be parsed. Big folder? Bam, there goes a hundred

[Emc-users] Strange offset on rotary axis

2011-01-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I have created a module for a puma arm on a linear slide. I have customized scarakins module to handle all the kinematics of the arm. And I have encountered strange behavior. The wrist has 2 rotary joints - one (joint[3]) is attached to lower arm and revolutes around A axis.

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Igor Chudov
I use mutt at home because I ssh to home a lot. At work, I use Evolution. I moved to gmail for most personal use. i On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Kim Kirwan k...@kimkirwan.com wrote: Hi Jon, Sorry to reply twice, but I found these two comments on Slashdot: The problem is Mork. It's a

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread David Winter
Hello All, Please excuse my ignorance, but why would you want to install EMC2 in VirtualBox ? I would have thought, with my admittedly limited knowledge of Linux, that doing that would be like playing Russian Roulette with a loaded machine gun? David Winter.

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Sven Wesley
In 3.1 there's an Archive-function, test if that helps. Or maybe the SmartSave-plugin could help you as well: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Archiving_your_e-mail 2011/1/16 Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com I use mutt at home because I ssh to home a lot. At work, I use Evolution. I moved to gmail for

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:06:46AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: That has got to be a 20+ gigabyte email corpus Jon. And its likely that with only 2Gb of ram, its swapping like crazy. Is it possible to do with TB what I do with mutt?: Here also, fetchmail and procmail deliver to half a dozen

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Maximilian H
Hey David, I use emc2 inside virtualbox myself for compiling emc2 and building deb packages inside the guest os for myself with the tweaks I need. That way I can do this on my work laptop in a stable environment even if I have other versions of Ubuntu (like 10.10 amd64) running as the host.

Re: [Emc-users] Kearney and Trecker Milwaukeematic IIIb progress

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Schweet! How much more do you have to do before you put it in production? Mark On 1/15/2011 6:51 PM, sam sokolik wrote: so - here is a video with it all coming together. This is a short gcode program that spots, drills, taps a hole. At this time emc pauses motion when the tool prep is

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
On 1/16/2011 1:10 AM, Jon Elson wrote: Well, this is quite off-topic, but I just went through HELL with my Thunderbird email client. It has been acting flaky for a while, with about 2-minute hangups every now and then. When it does this, the CPU utilization goes to 100% for the duration.

Re: [Emc-users] Kearney and Trecker Milwaukeematic IIIb progress

2011-01-16 Thread sam sokolik
It is actually a little easier than that. Each tool has a mechanical barcode. So I call the tool I want - it spins the chain until it reads the right number on the tool and puts it in the prepared location. You can see the rings on the tool (the reader is behind it)

Re: [Emc-users] Kearney and Trecker Milwaukeematic IIIb progress

2011-01-16 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 16, 2011 09:54:57 am sam sokolik did opine: It is actually a little easier than that. Each tool has a mechanical barcode. So I call the tool I want - it spins the chain until it reads the right number on the tool and puts it in the prepared location. You can see the

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Sven Wesley wrote: I would say that TB is the best e-mail client there is. Did you try to turn of Tools-Options-Advanced-General and the option Enable Global Search and Indexer? Yes, this has been turned off on Ver 3.x, but there is no such option on Ver 2.x This was a problem that came

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Andy Pugh wrote: If it comes to less than about 7GB then you could set up a GMail account. I already own my own domain name, and have an SMTP server sitting a couple feet away. I could set up a web mail server on that, but there's really nothing wrong with that end of things. I have reasons

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: That has got to be a 20+ gigabyte email corpus Jon. No way! I back it up to DVD with everything else on my system, and it all fits on one DVD, without compression (just barely). So, it is maybe 650 MB now, for the entire Thunderbird directory. (It only keeps the headers

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Kim Kirwan wrote: I am running Thunderbird 3.1.7 with some plug-ins (Lightning, Enigmail, and four minor ones) and have not had any of the kind of problems you are describing. But I did check into the address book format (I have five address books left to move) and I learned about the mork

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
Erik Christiansen wrote: Is it possible to do with TB what I do with mutt?: Here also, fetchmail and procmail deliver to half a dozen mailboxes, including one for each subscribed list. Yes, I do this. I think even Netscape could do this, but certainly TB can. I set up a bunch of folders

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Cason
On 01/16/2011 04:10 AM, David Winter wrote: Hello All, Please excuse my ignorance, but why would you want to install EMC2 in VirtualBox ? I would have thought, with my admittedly limited knowledge of Linux, that doing that would be like playing Russian Roulette with a loaded

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Payson
John, I'll second Andy's recommendation of gmail, and try to address some of your concerns. I am a recovering Unix geek. I worked in the tech industry during the dot com boom. I am know longer in the tech business, but I am still a geek at heart. I never dreamed I would switch from a real email

Re: [Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-16 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: It looks like autotrace from sourceforge might do what you want. If used with Gimp and Sodipod it looks like a nice interface. I have not used this, and sodipod may be Japanese, but it still looks promising. Sodipodi is the

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Sven Wesley
I use Gmail, even for corporate e-mail. It really is a good client. All my private mail goes via Gmail. Though, I have to be a part of an Exchange-based office, and then Thunderbird is the best client. At least if you ask me. :) 2011/1/16 Mike Payson m...@dawgdayz.com John, ... Gmail's

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread Ian W. Wright
If you decide to go with Gmail, you can have Thunderbird see it as just another mail account and download messages as they come in - that's what I do with my Gmail account - and with my free webmail accounts at mail.com which allow you to choose from a whole load of domain names ... I have one

Re: [Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Coats
Lori, Could you be kind to us and write down the steps you have gone through, and possibly post a picture somewhere of your results? :) ... Thanks, ... Jack -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn

Re: [Emc-users] OT - email recommendations

2011-01-16 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 16, 2011 03:44:25 pm Jon Elson did opine: gene heskett wrote: That has got to be a 20+ gigabyte email corpus Jon. No way! I back it up to DVD with everything else on my system, and it all fits on one DVD, without compression (just barely). So, it is maybe 650 MB now,

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:34:13AM -0600, Mark Cason wrote: NOW, the problem. I'm trying to use the sim/axis.ini file, but I cannot get it to finish loading. I'm assuming that the RUN_IN_PLACE=no, shown below is the problem? No. When you install a package version, it's expected that

[Emc-users] emc2: jog axes with keyboard - swap x y keys

2011-01-16 Thread Nik
this might sound a bit silly, but on my setup with emc2 when i push the up/down keys the y-axis moves and left/right will jog the x-axis. This seems to be standard for emc2. I would prefer exactly the opposite as this would correspond to the real setup. Can I change that somewhere? Or do I have

[Emc-users] Fwd: Re: EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Cason
Sorry Jeff, the reply was sent to you, instead of the list. Original Message Subject:Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:49:53 -0600 From: Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com Reply-To: farmerboy1...@yahoo.com To: Jeff Epler

[Emc-users] undo touch off?

2011-01-16 Thread Ries van Twisk
hey All, today I was working on my machine with Axis and I touched of my Z location, but ps... by accident I touched of my Y location. Is it possible to undo a touchoff, or is there a 'list' in Axis of latest touchoff location so you can go back to a previous location? I am sure this is

[Emc-users] Control offsets or variables from Hal pin?

2011-01-16 Thread Ted Hyde
Is it possible to control offsets from a Hal pin? I'm looking to change the x,y, and z offsets dependent upon a tool change, without using the tool table. I need absolute tooltip offsets, not radial left/right sets. At the moment, I'm putting G92/.1/.2 commands in my post file, but would prefer

Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Jeff Epler
axis uses pretty standard opengl, nothing too esoteric. axis has always required opengl. I don't know why 2.3 would run and 2.4 would fail. It's possible that you're hitting a genuine axis bug, albeit one that doesn't manifest any of the opengl implemenations I run axis on (from time to time I

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 10.04 sim problems

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Cason
On 01/16/2011 05:20 PM, Mark Cason wrote: On 01/16/2011 03:24 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/axis, line 3951, inmodule make_cone() File /usr/bin/axis, line 1395, in make_cone gluCylinder(q, 0, .1, .25, 32, 1)

Re: [Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-16 Thread Loren Card
Lori, Could you be kind to us and write down the steps you have gone through, and possibly post a picture somewhere of your results? :) ... Thanks, ... Jack I don't think I'll be cutting until next Saturday. I'll put up some images of the job after I run it (as long as you stop calling

[Emc-users] bldc comp

2011-01-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
I'm a little confused about the bldc comps. My study of bldc so far indicates that the top and bottom of three half-bridges need to to be controlled, so I though the comps would need six outputs instead of the three (3 digital top, 3 PWM bottom). What am I missing? -- Kirk Wallace

Re: [Emc-users] bldc comp

2011-01-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:20 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote: I'm a little confused about the bldc comps. My study of bldc so far indicates that the top and bottom of three half-bridges need to to be controlled, so I though the comps would need six outputs instead of the three (3 digital top, 3 PWM