Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC Integrator meeting Germany?

2013-07-22 Thread propcoder
Christian, could you please provide more info about accommodation possibilities near your workshop? Marius 2013.07.16 22:42, Christian Stöveken rašė: If there are no objections I would reserve my workplace/workshop in Stuttgart, BW for the 19./20.th October for our integrator meeting so we

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.5.2 is released!

2013-07-22 Thread andy pugh
On 21 July 2013 18:03, charles green xxzzb...@yahoo.com wrote: yeah, i got it to work - switched everything to numbered varibles, and broke things down to one operation per block with brackets every which way. sheesh. There shouldn't be any need for any changes to your code other than the

Re: [Emc-users] Persistent tool number

2013-07-22 Thread propcoder
I added one line to my .ini file like this: [RS274NGC] RS274NGC_STARTUP_CODE = M61 Q2 And it does not start: Print file information: RUN_IN_PLACE=no LINUXCNC_DIR= LINUXCNC_BIN_DIR=/usr/bin LINUXCNC_TCL_DIR=/usr/lib/tcltk/linuxcnc LINUXCNC_SCRIPT_DIR=

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread andy pugh
On 21 July 2013 23:21, Marcus Bowman marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I don't think Systime had a presence in this neck of the woods. I admit I was speculating from the .co.uk. My local Air Cadets group had a tour of the Systime factory in Leeds where they seemed to be doing

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 22.07.13 12:07, andy pugh wrote: My local Air Cadets group had a tour of the Systime factory in Leeds where they seemed to be doing everything including IC artwork. The thing that impressed me most at the time was the wide-carriage lineprinter with a rotating band of characters and a hammer

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread Marcus Bowman
On 22 Jul 2013, at 12:07, andy pugh wrote: On 21 July 2013 23:21, Marcus Bowman marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I don't think Systime had a presence in this neck of the woods. I admit I was speculating from the .co.uk. I'm in Prestwick, Scotland. DEC were in Ayr, at

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread Marcus Bowman
On 22 Jul 2013, at 12:43, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 22.07.13 12:07, andy pugh wrote: My local Air Cadets group had a tour of the Systime factory in Leeds where they seemed to be doing everything including IC artwork. The thing that impressed me most at the time was the wide-carriage

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 22.07.13 13:47, Marcus Bowman wrote: Anyone know of a source of similar pictures? I lost the books years ago. Nope, but somewhere I still have printouts of Obelix, a naked girl on a stool, and maybe one other - if the silverfish haven't eaten them, given they're forty years old. We can pretty

[Emc-users] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
The July meeting will be at 1600UTC on 2013-07-27 The agenda is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Meeting201307 General information about the meetings is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MeetingsOnIRC I'm going to freeze the agenda on Wednesday so we don't have

Re: [Emc-users] Persistent tool number

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 21.07.2013 um 11:43 schrieb Andy Pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 21 Jul 2013, at 09:19, propcoder marius.alks...@gmail.com wrote: tried to add #5400 (tool_in_spindle) to .var file. It does update the tool number on the file, but it does not take this value on start-up. I don't know

Re: [Emc-users] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread John Kasunich
By default, the tabled items from the last meeting should be copied to the new agenda. Tabling an item should not cause it to disappear. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Chris Radek wrote: The July meeting will be at 1600UTC on 2013-07-27 The agenda is here:

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread Jack Coats
There were both band and chain type line printers. The chains and bands were changeable, but had to re-load controllers with new code if/when you changed them for alternate chains or bands. The chain printers (like the venerable IBM 1403N1) I spent many hours feeding while in college. We had

Re: [Emc-users] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Chris Radek wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:47:36AM -0400, John Kasunich wrote: By default, the tabled items from the last meeting should be copied to the new agenda. Tabling an item should not cause it to disappear. I don't agree this should

Re: [Emc-users] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:47:36AM -0400, John Kasunich wrote: By default, the tabled items from the last meeting should be copied to the new agenda. Tabling an item should not cause it to disappear. I don't agree this should happen by default, since if an item is tabled because there was

Re: [Emc-users] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:58:21PM -0400, John Kasunich wrote: I do feel somewhat strongly that items should remain on the agenda until the membership explicitly either approves or rejects them. I just added that to the agenda. Good, then let me spell out my thoughts too. In the June

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread Bruce Layne
I still have one of those ASCII posters. My office is a mess, and the poster is so old that I had to dig deep to find it, like in archeological digs where the deeper you dig, the older stuff is. I couldn't remember which poster it was, and was surprised to find that it's American Gothic,

Re: [Emc-users] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:02:15 -0500, you wrote: The July meeting will be at 1600UTC on 2013-07-27 The agenda is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Meeting201307 General information about the meetings is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MeetingsOnIRC I'm going to

Re: [Emc-users] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 7/22/13 13:11 , Steve Blackmore wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:02:15 -0500, you wrote: The July meeting will be at 1600UTC on 2013-07-27 The agenda is here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Meeting201307 General information about the meetings is here:

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, at 01:35 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: Someone should write the LinuxCNC version, where a CNC router is loaded with a large panel of MDF and a V bit is plunged to a depth determined by each pixel's darkness. Paint it all black and sand the top to reveal the MDF

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread John Kasunich
Missed a couple: http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01109080625 http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01109006010 On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, at 03:48 PM, John Kasunich wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, at 01:35 PM, Bruce Layne wrote: Someone should write the LinuxCNC version, where a CNC router is loaded

Re: [Emc-users] USB Pendant (XHC HB04)

2013-07-22 Thread Frederic RIBLE
Le 2013-07-21 19:19, Sebastian Kuzminsky a écrit : (I'm replying to a private email from Frederic Rible, and i'm putting emc-users@ back on the delivery list because i think others may benefit from our conversation.) On 07/21/2013 03:30 AM, Frederic Rible wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2013

Re: [Emc-users] USB Pendant (XHC HB04)

2013-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 7/22/13 15:02 , Frederic RIBLE wrote: Le 2013-07-21 19:19, Sebastian Kuzminsky a écrit : In brief, what you should do is this: 1. clone the git repo at git://git.linuxcnc.org/git/linuxcnc.git 2. create and check out a new branch off master 3. add your new driver to your new branch 4.

Re: [Emc-users] Old Computer War Stories

2013-07-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On Mon, 7/22/13, Marcus Bowman marcus.bow...@visible.eclipse.co.uk wrote: As for the PDP series: not much wrong with a computer that still does a useful job. I have boxes of old kit here, mainly because there is often some simple but irreplaceable bit of software, long superseded, that runs