For newcomers, my vote goes to usb sticks. No messy networking to figure out, username/passwords to remember and they are miles ahead of floppies from a reliability standpoint. You do, however have to remember to take them out of the source machine and to the EMC machine ;^) In our case, the house has aluminum siding preventing wireless from working and we haven't made the time and gone to the trouble of running CAT5 to the shop. And as was mentioned earlier, copy the GC files from USB to the EMC hard disk and remove the stick when cutting.
-- First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Emory On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:42, Mark Wendt (Contractor) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:38 PM 10/26/2008, you wrote: >>Dave Houghton wrote: >> > Hi Jon >> > Thanks very much, Chris Morley sorted it out for me, the floppy is up and >> > running. >> > I have no idea what fdisk is or what it does, so unless some one told me to >> > use it I wouldn't. >> > >>It allows you to change the partition table on the hard drive. Fairly >>easy to corrupt the whole disk. >> > I only use 3.5" because they are there, mainly use for Gcode files. What do >> > you use in stead of floppies? I thought about using the usb ports do you >> > think that's a better idea. >> > >> >>USB works fine, probably a lot more reliable in the shop environment. >>But, I use the network exclusively, unless it is enough stuff to require >>a CD, >>like a whole system update. Linux knows Samba as well as FTP. >> >>Jon > > Ubuntu also knows sftp which is a secure ftp based on the secure > shell daemon. I gave up using regular ftp years ago both at home and > at work to move files around because it passes the username and > password in clear text. sftp encrypts the username and password exchange. > > Mark > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
