[Emc-users] Trans-Pacific sailboat race that Andy is involved in

2012-04-01 Thread Dave
Looks like Andy's boat made in to Oakland, CA ok, he was on the Derry-Londonderry http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/ But the lagging boat ran into some hard weather and is disabled at sea! http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/01/us/pacific-yacht-rescue/index.html Dave ---

Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory planning and other topics from a, EMC(LinuxCNC) newbie (TheNewbie)

2012-04-01 Thread Dave
On 3/31/2012 1:43 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Dave wrote: > > >> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:20:19 -0500 >> From: Dave >> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> >> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory planning and ot

Re: [Emc-users] Trans-Pacific sailboat race that Andy is involved in

2012-04-01 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, April 01, 2012 11:21:18 AM Dave did opine: > Looks like Andy's boat made in to Oakland, CA ok, he was on the > Derry-Londonderry > > http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/ Good. > But the lagging boat ran into some hard weather and is disabled at sea! > > http://www.cnn.com/2012/

[Emc-users] Difficulty defining jitter, was Re: May be of Interest

2012-04-01 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 3/31/2012 4:45 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > I found this: > http://www.bitmuster.org/projects/emc.html > > the thing that comes to mind, considering the rev date, how it seems > fairly significant, and recent questions on the list, it's a little > surprising that this hasn't hit the wiki or been on

Re: [Emc-users] May be of Interest

2012-04-01 Thread Jan de Kruyf
Thank you for that link Kirk. the link looks a bit stale but at the same time it is very much worthwhile to investigate further. So I send of an email and downloaded the patches to see what is cooking. Also I must google the lists a bit because there seems to have been trafic about it. By the way

Re: [Emc-users] Difficulty defining jitter, was Re: May be of Interest

2012-04-01 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: > > With a preempt_RT enabled kernel 2.6.33.7.2-rt30 and an appropriately > modified EMC2.4.4 [patches from Michael Büsch and Jeff Eppler] running > on an IBM Thinkpad T40 with a 1500MHz PentiumM cpu, the author measured > the following: > - > 1) the EMC2 latency-test > >

Re: [Emc-users] Difficulty defining jitter, was Re: May be of Interest

2012-04-01 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 4/1/2012 2:03 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Kent A. Reed wrote: >> With a preempt_RT enabled kernel 2.6.33.7.2-rt30 and an appropriately >> modified EMC2.4.4 [patches from Michael Büsch and Jeff Eppler] running >> on an IBM Thinkpad T40 with a 1500MHz PentiumM cpu, the author measured >> the following:

[Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread Chris Radek
LinuxCNC 2.5.0 is released! You will not get an automatic update from EMC 2.4 to LinuxCNC 2.5. To update your Lucid or Hardy machine to 2.5, you need to take a few steps, documented here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.5 Be sure to check the "Changes to your configurat

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread PAUL LIEBENBERG
great to hear!  Can someone do a video of the Touchy interface with all the new features please? Paul - Original Message - From: Chris Radek Date: Sunday, April 1, 2012 12:09 pm Subject: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0 To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > LinuxCNC 2.5.0 is rele

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread Kent A. Reed
As ever, a sincere tip-of-the-hat to you, Chris, Seb, and everyone. Regards, Kent -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure __

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread Dave
I agree. Thanks for the effort! Dave On 4/1/2012 3:41 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > As ever, a sincere tip-of-the-hat to you, Chris, Seb, and everyone. > > Regards, > Kent > > > -- > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Wi

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread dave
MANY THANKS to all those that worked on this. I looked over the changes and saw several that may change things I've been grumpy about. Dave On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:08:35 -0500 Chris Radek wrote: > > LinuxCNC 2.5.0 is released! > > You will not get an automatic update from EMC 2.4 to Linux

Re: [Emc-users] Difficulty defining jitter, was Re: May be of Interest

2012-04-01 Thread Jon Elson
Kent A. Reed wrote: > > As an aside, it was interesting to me that while the author of the > bitmuster article made note of the fact that different tools reported > different numbers, he/she seemed indifferent to the actual numbers reported. > > Uhhh, why bother making a measurement if you hav

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread Mark Cason
On 04/01/2012 02:08 PM, Chris Radek wrote: > LinuxCNC 2.5.0 is released! > > You will not get an automatic update from EMC 2.4 to LinuxCNC 2.5. > To update your Lucid or Hardy machine to 2.5, you need to take a few > steps, documented here: > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.5

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread Jon Elson
Chris Radek wrote: > LinuxCNC 2.5.0 is released! > Thanks so much for this effort! If you could add a note in the release notes about PPMC, that velocity estimation on the UPC board is added, I'd appreciate it. The instructions for the update is great, average users should be able to foll

Re: [Emc-users] Difficulty defining jitter, was Re: May be of Interest

2012-04-01 Thread Jack Coats
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Kent A. Reed wrote: >> >> As an aside, it was interesting to me that while the author of the >> bitmuster article made note of the fact that different tools reported >> different numbers, he/she seemed indifferent to the actual numbers reported. >

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0

2012-04-01 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 06:25:07PM -0500, Mark Cason wrote: > >is the sim version going to be available soon? There are 2.5.0 packages for 6 sim platforms and 3 realtime: lucid/linuxcnc2.5-sim/binary-amd64 lucid/linuxcnc2.5-sim/binary-i386 lucid/linuxcnc2.5/binary-i386 hardy/linuxcnc2.5-si