In documenting all the wiring around linuxcnc for the lathe, I had started a libreoffice-base session and had about half of the C1G wiring all laid out so it would be in a format I could easily use to complete the .hal file configuration.
But of course in starting and stopping linuxcnc so many times while I verified that what I wrote was correct, the &^)*&%#@ system went away on me and I had to hit the hdwe reset to reboot it. The latest version of LO-Base had been running for perhaps 1.5 hours at that point, so if it did do an automatic save, it had yonks to do it in and I should have been able to do a full recovery as I hadn't made a new entry in 45 minutes or more due to chasing down a broken wire that stopped the Z motor steps from getting through. Which it did attempt, but the only thing it could recover was the filename.odt. About 3kb of mostly binary that did not even include the column heading text. Not even the empty form view could be recovered when it tried, and no errors were reported when it tried so I had assumed it was successful until I tried to view it & drew a blank. This is pure BS. Needless to say, I won't appreciate ringing all that stuff out again, but I will do it so I can trace it 6 months down the log when something quits working. Does this so-called database program have an auto-save and I didn't have it turned on because "on" is not the default? Shame on LO-Base in that event. If I do this on a pad & stick there is a lot higher chance for mistakes as my hand writing needs a translator most of the time. If the LO-Base can't do this, can the OO-Base do it? Or should I just fire up vim & see if I can build my own table of wiring? Vim does lousy gfx for row/column marking in case no one has noticed. So, what do I use that doesn't stick me in an infinite loop of losing it all when this POS crashes again, which it will, exactly like cement? Are the BIOS defaults less than optimum for this board perhaps? I had a feeling I was in trouble when Jameco sent me the wrong parts for the 2nd time. When I called, and said these solder cup connectors were worthless to me, I asked them to find me somebody who, like me, could tell the diff between an IDC connector for ribbon cable, and a solder cup connector from at least 40 feet away. I think they found the right one this 3rd time, maybe its a charm? But I will not be convinced till they get here again and are correct, he did ask what size the wire was that I was crimping. Has anyone seen a ribbon cable that wasn't 28 gage? Sigh, me neither... Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
