Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/8/28 Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com On 08/27/2013 06:11 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: Amazingly well written. If ripping someone's blog posts in their entirety counts as flattery, then I'm honored by their LinuxCNC Touch Probe writeups: items 1, 3, and 4 in that section seemed *very*

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Anders Wallin
Compare: http://www.vdwalle.com/Norte/EMC2%20%20Ugliest%20Tool%20Length%20Probe%20Station.htm with: http://softsolder.com/2010/04/14/emc2-ugliest-tool-length-probe-station-ever/ On the other paw, link rot being what it is, that's a good way to ensure they've got the information

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 August 2013 09:52, Anders Wallin anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com wrote: hah, entire jogwheel-page copied from my blog also: http://www.vdwalle.com/Norte/Jogging%20EMC2.html And several pages are exact copies of the LinuxCNC Wiki. I am not sure how I feel about it, we do claim to embrace

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Dave Caroline
As I see that page he has fully documented the build by copying all the references in to one place, I bet we all do something similar when we print pages out to use on a build/retrofit and keep them in a folder. His mistake in the open source world is missing the attributions. Dave On Wed, Aug

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/8/28 Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com As I see that page he has fully documented the build by copying all the references in to one place, I bet we all do something similar when we print pages out to use on a build/retrofit and keep them in a folder. His mistake in the open

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Belli Button
Gentle persons, (contributed by K. Reed) Please let's not get carried away, many people have contributed enormous time and effort and have done so silently. To take the trouble and write all the information of a retrofit into a single site is a lot of work but for many of us on the fringes it

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Ed Nisley
On 08/28/2013 04:27 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: But link rot is a dead link. That's what I mean: if they'd just put a link to the pages they ripped, when those pages go away, they've got link rot. Although I'm not planning to Go Away any time soon, they don't know that, which means ripping the

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Ed Nisley
On 08/28/2013 05:07 AM, andy pugh wrote: we do claim to embrace Open Source after all. Or, perhaps, Free Software. The license terms differ significantly between the Open and Free models, but I know what you mean: standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. Me? I'm about a millimeter

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] cinci control

2013-08-28 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:37:54 -0500 From: Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Kim Kirwan

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 August 2013 11:52:07 andy pugh did opine: On 28 August 2013 09:52, Anders Wallin anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com wrote: hah, entire jogwheel-page copied from my blog also: http://www.vdwalle.com/Norte/Jogging%20EMC2.html And several pages are exact copies of the LinuxCNC

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 August 2013 12:15:01 Dave Caroline did opine: As I see that page he has fully documented the build by copying all the references in to one place, I bet we all do something similar when we print pages out to use on a build/retrofit and keep them in a folder. His mistake in

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Greg Bernard
Very well said, Gene.   +++ Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.         -Kenneth Boulding, economist “How unfortunate that the Earth’s first

Re: [Emc-users] [Emc-developers] cinci control

2013-08-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
yes - 3-531-4370A On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Peter C. Wallace p...@mesanet.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:37:54 -0500 From: Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Sven Wesley
Den 28 aug 2013 18:19 skrev Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com: On Wednesday 28 August 2013 12:15:01 Dave Caroline did opine: ... His mistake in the open source world is missing the attributions. Dave Something that should not be ignored, ever. Ok, my view is pretty simple. If you post

[Emc-users] All info together

2013-08-28 Thread Joe
As a newbie and someone that has been trying to understand LCNC for sometime I am very very happy to see all the info in one place. Please do not fix it so that it does not work. Thanks for your time John Pearson --

Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever?

2013-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On Wed, 8/28/13, Ed Nisley ed.08.nis...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Best write up ever? To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 6:40 AM On 08/28/2013 05:07 AM, andy pugh wrote: we do claim to embrace Open