Steve Blackmore, I am a machine shop owner. You cannot get any denser or dumber than that (this reply may just prove it). Just ask any machine shop employee. I seem to get along fine reading the docs and instructions. This is just too good to let go. So, here goes.
facetious/on :) :) :) :) I am typing this really, really slowly so you can understand it. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:58:16 +0100 > From: Steve Blackmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6 > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:55:11 -0500, you wrote: > >>I'm pleased to announce the next release of the emc 2.2 series, emc >>2.2.6. This version contains many bugfixes, a new unified >>driver for the Mesa PCI and parport cards such as 5i20 and 7i33, and a >>sample configuration for the Tormach PCNC 1100. > > Yea - great....sigh BUT > > Is there a bootable ISO anywhere? If you would look on http://linuxcnc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=4&lang=en you would find some bootable images (ISO) there. In a very short period of time the website will have the latest version's image (ISO) file on it. If you read that page very carefully you will be able to download the image (ISO) you prefer, burn it to a CD and boot your computer from the CD. You will need to burn the CD as a bootable image (ISO). As you read watch for the sentence that says to click on the install icon on the desktop. The desktop is a page on the computer screen it is not the table the computer sits on. It really cannot get much easier than that. Be careful though, if you click on the install icon the script that runs will write to your hard drive. > > I'm a computer professional, but I don't want to be a linux guru in the > secret circle. Those instructions mean nothing to me, they tell me how > to upgrade, but from what? I am a machining professional FWIW. I've been working with EMC2 and the list for a while now. I have never once heard of the secret circle. I have seen no secret circle instructions so I cannot help with those instructions. > > "Updating to 2.2" > > but what am I upgrading from??? Typical EMC page... Windoze? > > The major reason EMC isn't as popular as it should be, is, you guys talk > a different language than the rest of the planet. Sorry guys, Nurds > springs to mind! Is Nurd different than Nerd? Maybe more like a Turd? I think we all have a little nerdy streak within us. Some more than others. Some of us MAY have a little Turdy streak in us. If not in us - maybe in our shorts. > > If only you could step back and consider how others see EMC you would > understand. How far back? 1970? You remember those days don't you? > > You all assume everybody knows Linux, you talk pure shop, and you write > your docs that way, they mean absolutely nothing to Joe Public. > > I've been a lurker for a long time here, I can write SCL, JCL, Cobol, > limited VB and odd bits of C+ and I still think you guys talk down to > me. What chance somebody who simply wants to run a CNC machine!!! Too bad we don't have some MS doc writers to clarify the EMC documentation. Having never read COBOL docs I must say I cannot compare them to the EMC docs. Somebody that just wants to run a CNC machine will not be looking for instructions on how to put a control on a machine, they will be asking a shop owner for a job. > > Steve Blackmore > -- > facetious/off :) :) :) :) thanks Steve - I hope you read this and enjoy this with the same smile I had while writing this. having some fun now :) Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
