Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Mark Cason wrote: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:15:04 -0500 From: Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

Re: [Emc-users] Counting and saving to file

2012-09-15 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/9/14 Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe check if the file exists, and if it does, open in append mode; otherwise open it normally for writing. Yes, that would be nice. Can You share some

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Cason wrote: Just found this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/intel-declares-clover-trail-atom-processor-a-no-linux-zone/ A sad day for Linux... And a good one for VIA ... http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/processors/1830/1/VIA_QuadCore_E-Series.html

Re: [Emc-users] Counting and saving to file

2012-09-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 September 2012 08:26, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, saving to csv would be nice, but I think that I have a solution - put in the rows some special characters, like semicolon, and then use text to columns function in spreadsheet. That is what CSV is, comma separated

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Igor Chudov
I read a similar news article, and I think that it is a big misunderstanding. i On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.comwrote: Just found this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/intel-declares-clover-trail-atom-processor-a-no-linux-zone/

[Emc-users] Service manual for MAHO mill

2012-09-15 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello! I would appreciate, if somebody could advice me, where can I find service manual for this mill: Manufacturer: MAHO Model: MH400P Serial no: 41041 Year of production: 1980 Country of production: West Germany I am particularly interested in service instructions of hydraulic pump, and to be

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Eric Keller
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/intel-declares-clover-trail-atom-processor-a-no-linux-zone/ The likely alternative is it'll be a proprietary curiosity that it'll peter out in the

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 9/15/2012 11:13 AM, Eric Keller wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/intel-declares-clover-trail-atom-processor-a-no-linux-zone/ The likely alternative is it'll be a proprietary

Re: [Emc-users] Counting and saving to file

2012-09-15 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
snip We agreed that saving to a file will be done, when operator explicitly presses save button. So they are taking a risk that powerfailure will cause a loss of unsaved data. I just cannot figure out, how to create a reminder for operator to save data in case he/she is trying to close

Re: [Emc-users] Counting and saving to file

2012-09-15 Thread Jack Coats
This might be a little obtuse, but consider putting a small UPS on the computer and the monitor. Set the software that monitors the UPS to shut down the computer after a reasonable time automatically. The operator would have enough time, if they are around, to get to the computer and save the

Re: [Emc-users] Counting and saving to file

2012-09-15 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote What is the syntax to put current date in the file name. In Your example the file name is xyz. import datetime open(xyz.+datetime.date.today().isoformat(),a) And how can I specify the folder, in which the file is saved?

Re: [Emc-users] Counting and saving to file

2012-09-15 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/9/15 Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote What is the syntax to put current date in the file name. In Your example the file name is xyz. import datetime open(xyz.+datetime.date.today().isoformat(),a) And how

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Igor Chudov
I want to mention something that is analogous to the old naked king adage. I think that the Linux world is in big trouble. Despite the multitudes of distros and projects, there is not a viable, relatively bug free and usable desktop available among the currently supported projects (in the

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill w/ encoder on knee

2012-09-15 Thread Karl Cunningham
On 09/14/2012 12:47 PM, Stephen Dubovsky wrote: This all comes from thinking about manual machines w/ DROs. There are combiner boxes avail that take a scale on both the quill and knee and add/subtract them to feed into the DRO display. Some newer ones can do it internally I think. So it

Re: [Emc-users] Knee mill w/ encoder on knee

2012-09-15 Thread Igor Chudov
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Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Jon Elson
Igor Chudov wrote: I think that the Linux world is in big trouble. Despite the multitudes of distros and projects, there is not a viable, relatively bug free and usable desktop available among the currently supported projects (in the post-Gnome 2 world). Gnome 3, Unity, and pretty much

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Igor Chudov wrote: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:20:22 -0500 From: Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users]

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Eric Keller
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: Hmm Ive been using Ubuntu 12.04 at home for about 6 months now and I find it very nice. I have not had a single crash, and pretty much everything works as expected. (Unity takes some getting used to and unity friendly

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Igor Chudov
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Eric Keller eekel...@psu.edu wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: Hmm Ive been using Ubuntu 12.04 at home for about 6 months now and I find it very nice. I have not had a single crash, and pretty much

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread cogoman
On 09/15/2012 01:26 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: If there will be a well-designed and/or inexpensive hardware with this chipset, it'll likely get reverse-engineered. Years ago I worked on an in-circuit test for a device called a bus monitor chip. It was supposed to be able to monitor memory

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread Chris Morley
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:02:22 -0400 From: eekel...@psu.edu To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months. On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: Hmm Ive

Re: [Emc-users] For anybody considering upgrading their motherboard in the next few months.

2012-09-15 Thread John Stewart
Eric; I think your point about the desktop is well taken, and somewhat problematic for people that like to do things with computers. I think that mobile devices are very good for checking email, but that's as close to work as you can get. Disagree. Have an Android app. that displays

Re: [Emc-users] Counting and saving to file

2012-09-15 Thread cogoman
On 09/15/2012 06:17 AM, andy pugh wrote: That is what CSV is, comma separated variables. The special character is a comma. It is also a really bad choice, as a large proportion of the world use the comma as a decimals separator. I used to think it meant comma separated values, and I think that