Re: [Emc-users] 2 "X" axis profiles.

2011-07-25 Thread Greg Bentzinger
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:32:52 -0400 From: Dave Subject: [Emc-users] Machine re-control with two "X" axes To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4e2e1944.7090...@dc9.tzo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I am looking at re-controlling a machin

Re: [Emc-users] Machine re-control with two "X" axes

2011-07-25 Thread Andrew
2011/7/26 Dave : > > I am looking at re-controlling a machine that has two parallel "X" axes > - one is called X and the other is U. > > The machine consists of two parallel sliding tables beneath a single > head.   The head is mounted to an overhead Y axis and Z axis. > > Only one sliding table is

Re: [Emc-users] Trying to understand EMC's operation

2011-07-25 Thread Neil
Pretty neat stuff. Thanks. During initial setup, we visually "saw" what worked for speeds/accelerations, then backed off about 20%... for now. But yes, we have to officially work out max values. Cheers, -Neil. Quoting Dave Caroline : > See http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?TrajectoryC

Re: [Emc-users] OT -- Ethernet thermometer?

2011-07-25 Thread Jon Elson
dave wrote: > The AD592 ( analog.com ) should be relatively noise free over reasonable > distances. 1.0 uA/degree K. Bias it with something between 4 and 20 V > and use a current to voltage converter near the computer. The time > constant is pretty good if in flowing air and even better with a smal

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Jon Elson
Mark Cason wrote: > Doing whois on the various IP's finds this little gem. Does anybody on > this list live in Latvia? > > [Sun Jul 24, 21:48:57][~] > [mcason@laptop]$ whois 95.68.95.168 > OHHH, so it is X-originating-IP that is the IP of the original sender! Thanks for finding that, I compl

Re: [Emc-users] Trying to understand EMC's operation

2011-07-25 Thread Dave Caroline
See http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?TrajectoryControl for explanation As discussed on the page you can use the exact path mode so it goes to the full extents. but it probably means your acceleration times need looking at. Dave Caroline On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Neil wrote: > Hi all,

[Emc-users] Trying to understand EMC's operation

2011-07-25 Thread Neil
Hi all, We were diagnosing a Z-axis missing-steps issue, and noticed something interesting ... in the midst of this, we wrote some quick G-code to cycle the Z-axis up and down 10 times, and noticed that as we increased the speed, the Z-axis did not actually travel all the way to the top an

[Emc-users] Machine re-control with two "X" axes

2011-07-25 Thread Dave
I am looking at re-controlling a machine that has two parallel "X" axes - one is called X and the other is U. The machine consists of two parallel sliding tables beneath a single head. The head is mounted to an overhead Y axis and Z axis. Only one sliding table is used while cutting a part.

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Dave
Steve, Seeing that this is the first spam message I can recall on this list, perhaps it is worth discussing just how this one got here? I am on other lists and it seems like the amount of spam making it onto lists is increasing. Dave On 7/25/2011 3:49 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Mon, 25

Re: [Emc-users] OT -- Ethernet thermometer?

2011-07-25 Thread Dave
Igor, Just to follow up on this... I was at Sam's Club yesterday (a US based membership store that is part of Walmart).I just happened to run into a weather station type device they are selling made by Sharp that has a remote temperature and humidity sensor that links to the base unit via

Re: [Emc-users] OT -- Ethernet thermometer?

2011-07-25 Thread Alfredo Sola
> I need to monitor compost pile temperature and thought the above might > work. Wireless with a solar panel (and irrigation control) would be good > too. Hacking a GPIO pin or two, or a serial port might take some effort > so its lower on my vast todo list. I'll be interested if someone comes > u

Re: [Emc-users] OT -- Ethernet thermometer?

2011-07-25 Thread dave
The AD592 ( analog.com ) should be relatively noise free over reasonable distances. 1.0 uA/degree K. Bias it with something between 4 and 20 V and use a current to voltage converter near the computer. The time constant is pretty good if in flowing air and even better with a small Al heat sink. H

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Cason
On 07/25/2011 02:49 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:12:52 + (UTC), you wrote: > >> hello! http://www.laratonda.net/winter.html?veaolID=axkf > Come on guys give it a rest - 23 emails all regarding some spam?? > > That must count as spam alone ! > > Steve Blackmore > -- So

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Cason
On 07/25/2011 02:26 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2011/7/25 Mark Cason: >> Doing whois on the various IP's finds this little gem. Does anybody on >> this list live in Latvia? > I do! > Please don't tell me that You suspect this place as the main source of spam > :)) > Do You want to check some info

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:12:52 + (UTC), you wrote: >hello! http://www.laratonda.net/winter.html?veaolID=axkf Come on guys give it a rest - 23 emails all regarding some spam?? That must count as spam alone ! Steve Blackmore -- --

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Gary Fiber
Could be Sam as the original email appeared on the comcast.net web interface sent list. I have scanned this system using malware bytes and Microsofts anti virus and nothing found. I'll have to change my comcast password. On 7/25/2011 8:31 AM, sam sokolik wrote: > What most likely happened (if t

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/7/25 Mark Cason : > > Doing whois on the various IP's finds this little gem.  Does anybody on > this list live in Latvia? I do! Please don't tell me that You suspect this place as the main source of spam :)) Do You want to check some info in header of email that is sent from LV? Viesturs --

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Cason
On 07/25/2011 07:35 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 25 July 2011 13:07, Gary Fiber wrote: >> I did not send that earlier message with the link. I'll do a full system >> scan, sorry about this as I have only been on a laptop since last >> Weekend and it does have virus protection on it. > There is every

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Jon Elson
Gary Fiber wrote: > I DID NOT personally send that earlier message with the link It looks like SourceForge preserves the full message headers of posts, so you can check where the message really originated from. It may be the message was not sent from your computer at all, but was sent by forging t

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Jon Elson
Peter Blodow wrote: > Don't look at this web page - its an advertisement. Isn't there a way to > keep those crooks out of this list, a firewall, a spam checker or similar Somebody has to check each join request and decide if the proposed member looks legit or not, and then decide whether to let t

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:55:43 PM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 07/25/2011 12:33 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > Humm, do you have the usual suspects as plugins too?, I have at least > > 10. > > I have the typical ones - Flash, Quicktime, etc. Adobe Reader is also > installed as a plugin. > Copy th

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:52:29 PM Kirk Wallace did opine: > On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:20 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > ... snip > > > I simply could not find a use for XP or anything that came with it. > > ... snip > > I had to fill out some government (USDA) forms a while back using > Forma

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On 07/25/2011 12:33 PM, gene heskett wrote: > Humm, do you have the usual suspects as plugins too?, I have at least 10. I have the typical ones - Flash, Quicktime, etc. Adobe Reader is also installed as a plugin. > > And before I would delete about 20 lines of pdf related hits in > about:config

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:35:38 PM andy pugh did opine: > http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6638_102-400029.html > > Suggests that the problem might be that someone has gained access to > a webmail contacts list. If you don't use the webmail then deleting > all the contacts there might be worthwhile

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:20 -0400, gene heskett wrote: ... snip > I simply could not find a use for XP or anything that came with it. ... snip I had to fill out some government (USDA) forms a while back using Formatta Filler which only comes in Windows or Mac: http://www.formatta.com/page_Downlo

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:22:56 PM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 07/25/2011 12:05 PM, gene heskett wrote: > >> Gene, > >> > >>I don't have an entry for acroread, but the about:config line for > > > > pdf > > > >> is thus: > >> > >> dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nppdf.so default boolean false >

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread andy pugh
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6638_102-400029.html Suggests that the problem might be that someone has gained access to a webmail contacts list. If you don't use the webmail then deleting all the contacts there might be worthwhile. Or perhaps add a single address to another email address then see i

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 12:06:46 PM sam sokolik did opine: > What most likely happened (if the pc isn't infected) is someone figured > out the email password. My wife had this happen with her yahoo mail > account. Someone in china figured out her email address password - got > in and emailed e

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On 07/25/2011 12:05 PM, gene heskett wrote: >> Gene, >> >> I don't have an entry for acroread, but the about:config line for > pdf >> is thus: >> >> dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nppdf.so default boolean false >> > And mine was set true. And despite filtering on pdf, I have about 20 more > lines

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 11:14:21 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 07/25/2011 11:02 AM, gene heskett wrote: > >> Huh. When I open a pdf through my browser (Firefox 5.0 on Ubuntu > >> 10.04 LTS) it opens it in Acrobat reader (Acroread V9.4.2) > >> > >> Mark > > > > I thought I fixed mine, but when

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread doug metzler
I don't think that's the case here, though because the spammer would have had to have known that Gary was a member of this list. Most likely his password got compromised and his address book was used to send the message. That's been the case for most instances of this that I've seen lately. Alth

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:19 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > I hope that Gary can fix his virus infestation. I am not at all an expert, but my understanding is, e-mail messages are basically simple text. Spammers using a simple text editor could type in whatever addressee they want, without the address

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread sam sokolik
What most likely happened (if the pc isn't infected) is someone figured out the email password. My wife had this happen with her yahoo mail account. Someone in china figured out her email address password - got in and emailed everyone in her address book. (it wasn't as bad as it could have

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Igor Chudov
I hope that Gary can fix his virus infestation. I also want to mention that my biggest fear regarding viruses is not that they would send spam on my behalf, but that they would go to my bank account and steal the money. On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM, gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, July 25,

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On 07/25/2011 11:02 AM, gene heskett wrote: >> >> Huh. When I open a pdf through my browser (Firefox 5.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 >> LTS) it opens it in Acrobat reader (Acroread V9.4.2) >> >> Mark >> > I thought I fixed mine, but when I filtered about:config on 'pdf' one line > did say '/usr/bin/acroread',

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 11:04:19 AM Gary Fiber did opine: > I I rarely use Comcast's web interface. I use Thunderbird for almost > all of my email except for yahoo and gmail. > Since this is a work computer no Linux allowed on it by our IT > department. He/she/them, is/are an idiot, and have b

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 10:57:47 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 07/24/2011 05:33 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Sunday, July 24, 2011 04:32:28 PM Steve Stallings did opine: > >> Aside from the boatload of Acrobat PDF issues common > >> to all web sites when using Firefox, I have no problems > >> r

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 10:54:34 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 07/24/2011 01:49 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Sunday, July 24, 2011 01:46:39 PM Christopher Purcell did opine: > >> stepperworld.com does not have anything useful, and no tech support > >> to speak of. > >> > >> Yes. Nothing on EMC

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 25, 2011 10:44:48 AM Peter Blodow did opine: > Don't look at this web page - its an advertisement. It might also be an attack vector Peter. I don't look at such out of place crap even if I am running linux. It gets manually moved to a 'spam,' folder, and cron runs sa-learn --s

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Gary Fiber
I I rarely use Comcast's web interface. I use Thunderbird for almost all of my email except for yahoo and gmail. Since this is a work computer no Linux allowed on it by our IT department. I'll keep an watch on it if it persists I remove myself from the list to see if that stops it. Gary K8IZ

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Igor Chudov
The usual case for those spams is as follows: 1) A windows PC is infected with malware 2) It sends spams from the user's webmail accounts Since I am using Linux for everything, I never have been infected, but it happens to some of my friends. i On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:35 AM, andy pugh wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 July 2011 13:07, Gary Fiber wrote: > I did not send that earlier message with the link. I'll do a full system > scan, sorry about this as I have only been on a laptop since last > Weekend and it does have virus protection on it. There is every chance that the message never went anywhere nea

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Gary Fiber
I did not send that earlier message with the link. I'll do a full system scan, sorry about this as I have only been on a laptop since last Weekend and it does have virus protection on it. Gary K8IZ On 7/25/2011 1:25 AM, Peter Blodow wrote: > Don't look at this web page - its an advertisement. I

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Gary Fiber
I DID NOT personally send that earlier message with the link. I'll do a full system virus scan, sorry about this as I have only been on a laptop since last Weekend and it does have virus protection on it. Gary K8IZ On 7/25/2011 1:25 AM, Peter Blodow wrote: > Don't look at this web page - its an

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On 07/24/2011 05:33 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, July 24, 2011 04:32:28 PM Steve Stallings did opine: > >> Aside from the boatload of Acrobat PDF issues common >> to all web sites when using Firefox, I have no problems >> reading the EMC WIKI using Firefox 5.0 on W2K. >> >> Steve Stallings

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Wendt
On 07/24/2011 01:49 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, July 24, 2011 01:46:39 PM Christopher Purcell did opine: > >> stepperworld.com does not have anything useful, and no tech support to >> speak of. >> >> Yes. Nothing on EMC2 wiki other than an empty entry. >> >> By the way, the EMC wiki is no

Re: [Emc-users] Stepperworld FET4 timing and EMC2 Wiki

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Wendt
Hmmm, Firefox v5.0 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS on this machine here at work. No problems with the EMC2 wiki page. Perhaps you have an old version of Firefox on your Ubuntu 8.04 machine? Safari on Mac always seems to have problems out of the chute on new versions of the Mac OS. Try downloading

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread Peter Blodow
Don't look at this web page - its an advertisement. Isn't there a way to keep those crooks out of this list, a firewall, a spam checker or similar? Peter Blodow gfi...@comcast.net schrieb: > hello! http://www.laratonda.net/winter.html?veaolID=axkf > > ---

Re: [Emc-users] hello!

2011-07-25 Thread gfiber
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