On Thursday 09 October 2014 12:57:43 David Armstrong did opine And Gene did reply: > try a new cellular phone , top of the range model , 10 months in > ...wont switch on > so i sent back under warranty ,, got it back in bits after 4 weeks > ... > > their not able to repair it ... un economic to repair ! .. > and they say although it's in warranty they cant cover it .. > > i'd stick with your saw and other metallic objects , tech stuff if far > to volatile to touch
I'd lay 99.9% of that right in the laps of the BBLB fans used for cooling. Decent ball bearing fans will run 10 to 50x longer than a 47 cent sleeve bearing bought in thousand lots from a street vendor in Shanghai or even farther west. > > On 9 October 2014 17:33, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > > I can still get parts for my Sears Drill Press purchased in 1983. > > I'm pretty sure I can fit new bearings and other pieces onto my 1935 > > Delta Band Saw. Granted my South Bend 10L is no longer made it's > > still repairable and it was originally sold to the Ordinance Officer > > Edmonton in 1942. > > > > The concept that a tool sold in 2001 and can no longer be repaired or > > perhaps safely used after 2014 is a modern concept that bothers me a > > lot. > > > > I read somewhere that this century will go down in history as the > > most 'undocumented' century in human history when historians look > > back 500 or 1000 years from now. If you think that's silly try and > > read an 8" floppy disk or even an quad density 3.5" disk that is 15 > > years old. The usual result, especially from Win7 is "This floppy > > is not formatted. Would you like it formatted now?" > > > > CD ROMs have a life. The information does degrade. When was the > > last time you pulled out that CD with pictures of your children's > > birth or 1st birthday and rewrote them to a new CD. The sheer > > volume of photographs makes organizing them tedious and therefore > > unlikely. When you die will your kids methodically go through them > > all and re-organize into their photo albums? Or will the CDs, and > > the plastic jewel cases be tossed into recycling. > > > > One of the advantages of Windows over the Apple is that with every > > revision change they maintained a certain amount of backwards > > compatibility. With Apple an new revision will often 'break' > > existing applications and if that software company is no longer in > > business too bad. And traditionally you cannot roll back a revision > > on Apple hardware. Linux is even worse. Just recompile the source > > code is the mantra. The moving target of Linux distributions is > > laughable for the longevity of any product. Were it different and > > not geek programmer oriented the IBM PC hardware and Apple hardware > > would both be running Linux distributions. Android may still win > > this battle but it's hard to say if it's linux underpants will be > > soiled by the runs at some point too. > > > > John Dammeyer > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: October-09-14 2:51 AM > > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Oscilloscope + logic analyzer (PC based) > > > > > > On 9 October 2014 07:02, Erik Christiansen > > > <dva...@internode.on.net> > > > > > > wrote: > > > >> Just an observation that these little pocket scopes and logic > > > > analyzers > > > > > have > > > > > > >> a very short lifetime. > > > > > > > > Yup, when the host is M$-based, that's particularly true. > > > > > > That seems a little unfair. How long did MS support XP for? It was > > > released in 2001 and support ended in 2014. > > > > > > -- > > > atp > > > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > > > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
