[Emc-users] 64 Bit

2012-09-17 Thread Kirk Wallace
Are there any issues or special procedures for using the 64 bit version of LinuxCNC? I don't have a 64 bit machine so I can't find out for myself. The documentation seems pretty sparse too, unless I missed something. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecom

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

2012-09-17 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:20 PM, 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 w

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

2012-09-17 Thread Joseph Chiu
Not sure about the tablet side of the equation -- but if you want to give exploded diagrams, you might consider 3D PDFs which can be opened by Adobe Reader. My version of Alibre Design Professional, for example, supports exploded diagrams. I think the licensing may have changed around, so I'm no

Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread samco
I have a f1a55-Mlx plus with an A6 processor that I had tested recently. I was not as happy with it as the previus asus motherboards/amd processors I have used (sub 10k).. Latencies in the high 30k. screenshot http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=228756 I goofed around with the bios

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

2012-09-17 Thread Moses McKnight
I have started using XFCE since ubuntu 12.04 came out, and it find it quite usable. Easiest way to get it is Xubuntu. Linux Mint has and is actively developing Cinnamon and MATE that are very nice options. I suspect that Gnome3 will die, and Unity may wind up adding back features that make i

Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 September 2012 12:25:26 Peter C. Wallace did opine: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:39:57 -0400 > > From: Gene Heskett > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > > > > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re

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

2012-09-17 Thread John Stewart
Viesturs (and others) Now while I have not implemented the CAD profile in the FreeWRL rendering engine, you *may* want to have a look at it for your tablet-based 1495 parts CAD model. The CAD component is quite simple to implement, just never seemed to have the time and/or inclination. Other t

Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Eric Keller wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:00:20 -0400 > From: Eric Keller > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: Joe Spanier , > "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option? > > On Mon, S

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

2012-09-17 Thread yann jautard
Le 17/09/2012 17:15, Les Newell a écrit : > I am afraid I gave on on Gnome a long time ago. KDE works quite well if > you turn off some of the more silly animation stuff such as wobbly windows. > > Les KDE 4 is now working quite well, but after how long since the 4.0 realese ? And in my opinion

Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread Eric Keller
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Joe Spanier wrote: > Hey Guys! > I found another motherboard for a great price and I was curious on your > opinions. Heres a link : > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=0cJiSgDVEeKnXe4ky_MqHA0_Ic8B3_0_0_0&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&

Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Gene Heskett wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:39:57 -0400 > From: Gene Heskett > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option? > > On Monday 17 September 2012 11:1

Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 September 2012 11:19:30 Peter C. Wallace did opine: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Joe Spanier wrote: > > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:47:53 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Joe Spanier > > To: "emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > > Subject: [Emc-users] AMD based > > Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option? > > > > H

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

2012-09-17 Thread Les Newell
I am afraid I gave on on Gnome a long time ago. KDE works quite well if you turn off some of the more silly animation stuff such as wobbly windows. Les On 17/09/2012 15:21, Eric Keller wrote: > I have been using both Fedora and Ubuntu, and the desktop decisions that > they have forced on us are

Re: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Joe Spanier wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:47:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Spanier To: "emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: [Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option? Hey Guys! I found another motherboard for a great price and I was curious on your opinions. H

[Emc-users] AMD based Mini-ITX Mobo, Good option?

2012-09-17 Thread Joe Spanier
Hey Guys! I found another motherboard for a great price and I was curious on your opinions. Heres a link : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=0cJiSgDVEeKnXe4ky_MqHA0_Ic8B3_0_0_0&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16813128561

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

2012-09-17 Thread Eric Keller
I have been using both Fedora and Ubuntu, and the desktop decisions that they have forced on us are really annoying. Of course, Windows has done the same thing. You are definitely removed from the file system more than I like. On Ubuntu 12.04, I am using the 2d desktop, which does improve the ex

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

2012-09-17 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/17/2012 6:12 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > In other parts of the Linux biosphere this hasn't been such a bad > thing but in the matter of graphical desktop environments, the > underlying complexities and the inter-dependencies with > applications are

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

2012-09-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 9/17/2012 6:32 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > There are perfectly good > reasons for a lot of what we do, but because it does not fit is someone's view > of how THEY think things should work we have to bend to that view! KDE4 and > Gnome3 are a case in point. Technically absolutely no reason that a '

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

2012-09-17 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Wendt wrote: > Marvelous rant! Feels good to get that kinda stuff outta your system, > doesn't it?;-) And I've had something of a good weekend as well, as I now have a framework for my web hosting for the next few years ... a clean machine install and everything I need in their current ver

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

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Mark Wendt wrote: >> Yah, I figgered that. I was just teasing a bit.;-) >> >> Fun stuff, ain't it? > > :) > > > What really pigs me off here is that XP is supposed to be getting 'security > fixes' only, but is NOW giving the same problem. Th

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

2012-09-17 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Wendt wrote: > Yah, I figgered that. I was just teasing a bit.;-) > > Fun stuff, ain't it? :) What really pigs me off here is that XP is supposed to be getting 'security fixes' only, but is NOW giving the same problem. There are perfectly good reasons for a lot of what we do, but because

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

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Mark Wendt wrote: >>> Getting the monitors working when they are not directly plugged in is still >>> >something of a problem though. >>> > >>> >-- >>> >Lester Caine - G8HFL >> Lester, >> >> Generally, I've found monitors tend to work much bet

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

2012-09-17 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Wendt wrote: >> Getting the monitors working when they are not directly plugged in is still >> >something of a problem though. >> > >> >-- >> >Lester Caine - G8HFL > Lester, > > Generally, I've found monitors tend to work much better when they're > plugged in... The problem here is 'directl

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

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Wendt
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Mark Wendt wrote: >> Yeah, the desktop took some getting used to, but I kinda like it now. > Gnome classic works well ;) > And I can even get the task bar back on the bottom of the monitor where > personally I need it. > Getting the monitors w

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

2012-09-17 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Wendt wrote: > Yeah, the desktop took some getting used to, but I kinda like it now. Gnome classic works well ;) And I can even get the task bar back on the bottom of the monitor where personally I need it. Getting the monitors working when they are not directly plugged in is still something

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

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Wendt
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Igor Chudov wrote: > I am worried about both. I cannot upgrade any of my 10.04 boxes due to the > mess with 12.04. In addition, I am afraid that Linux will soon lose enough > developers to become a wasteland. > > i Interesting. I've been using 12.04 since it was