On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 04:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: ... snip > This is after all, a hobby to me, with only a very slim > chance of ever making a dime from it, just something to keep me out of the > bars as they say.
Can those that have a keg installed in the shop refrigerator, that end up drinking alone, use that saying? :) > I have an older version that has been installed and looked at when installed, > but unused for about a year now, so I loaded it up and tried to open an > example file, but all I could get was the 30 day advisory and the > intersection markers. Not even a wire frame was rendered. The software key has to match the particular PC that you have Synergy on. If you change PC's you need to call Weber Systems to get a new key code. I've had to do this a few times. Because I live off of dumpster PC's, I am constantly "upgrading" my PC's, so this key code can be a pain. > There is paranoia, and then there is REAL paranoia. When you charge this much for software, there is a keen incentive to copy it. It would be nice to have a version of 3D CAD/CAM targeted to the hobby/education market with a relaxed software key or even a USB dongle. I would not mind a $200 price range for a well supported product. > Interestingly, now the context sensitive help works, which I do not recall > its > working when first installed. That is/was surprising as its very helpful and > I'm sure I would have had much better luck learning about it than I did. If you mean the interactive help side bar (pane) that changes depending on the mouse pointer focus, there is a button that turns the interactive help on and off. Off-hand I forget which button it is. > Apparently they have no intention of allowing a new bee to install it and > learn enough about it to do anything productive with it in that 30 day time > frame. That is sad, because if I had actually been able to do something > productive with it in that time frame, I might have wasted a phone call to > check the pricing for an old fart who might fall over yet today. I don't > intend to, but I am now on my 75th trip around this star and I seemed to have > miss laid my warranty papers. :-) ... snip Printing out and analyzing the demo scripts (/usr/weber/http/playbacks) helped me allot. (for more see: http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Synergy/ ) > >Next time I promise to talk about something completely different :-) > > > >Cheers, > >Kent > > A good rant, thanks. Personally, I think sharing anything that is in the vicinity to on-topic is a good thing. You never know where a hair-brained idea, shared among hair brains might go. This missing CAD/CAM part of the Linux CNC work-flow is something I think about a fair amount. I can't help but think that all of the basic building blocks are already done and that it is a matter of the right mix of people deciding that it is worth getting done. What happened to make today's EMC2 from the base code developed at NIST? Can this process happen again? I wonder if a Mach-like model is a better way, being non-free but with semi-open development and community supported? Kirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
