Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-26 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:37:43AM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: I recommend using zsync to download it: % sudo apt-get install zsync % zsync http://www.linuxcnc.org/binary.hybrid.iso.zsync FWIW there is a Windows port of zsync. It works as a console application, just like the Linux version, so

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:08:00 -0400, you wrote: I can understand your frustration. However, maybe a differences in our characters - and this is not a complaint or put-down. I ponder and dig and experiment and learn. My wife's always saying quit pondering and just do it - and many times she's

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread andy pugh
On 25 July 2014 07:56, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: Anyway - I'll leave you Linux guys to prevaricate and dither and get on with actually making things. Yes, please do that. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 July 2014 02:56:58 Steve Blackmore did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:08:00 -0400, you wrote: I can understand your frustration. However, maybe a differences in our characters - and this is not a complaint or put-down. I ponder and dig and experiment and learn.

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread Ed
On 07/25/2014 01:56 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: big snip Anyway - I'll leave you Linux guys to prevaricate and dither and get on with actually making things. Steve Blackmore -- Sorry Steve, I've been making things since the BDI 2.X days with my mill. What are you waiting for??? Ed.

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread Stuart Stevenson
On Jul 25, 2014 1:59 AM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:08:00 -0400, you wrote: I can understand your frustration. However, maybe a differences in our characters - and this is not a complaint or put-down. I ponder and dig and experiment and learn. My

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread dave
On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 07:56 +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:08:00 -0400, you wrote: I can understand your frustration. However, maybe a differences in our characters - and this is not a complaint or put-down. I ponder and dig and experiment and learn. My wife's always

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 07/25/2014 06:50 AM, Ed wrote: On 07/25/2014 01:56 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: big snip Anyway - I'll leave you Linux guys to prevaricate and dither and get on with actually making things. Steve Blackmore -- Sorry Steve, I've been making things since the BDI 2.X days with my mill.

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-25 Thread Bruce Layne
On 07/25/2014 02:56 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: Lathe's a different story, Bert's stuff wont take an encoder input, so lathes no better than Mach. LinuxCNC has it own problems. I'm unaware of the problems with LinuxCNC and lathes. I have a tiny precision CNC mini-lathe that I built. I kinda

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:57:36 +0100, you wrote: On 23 July 2014 23:33, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: Sorry - but if it aint as simple as Go to web page Select release or latest beta (with explanations of differences) download double click downloaded file There is an

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:48:50 -0500, you wrote: Would it be possible the LinuxCNC group doesn't care that much about non linux users converting to some flavor of linux? I think it would be very possible. Hi Stuart I think it's absolutely certain they don't. Hence it rightly has a reputation for

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:29:45 -0400, you wrote: Steve, you've helped me on occasion, so I am somewhat puzzled at the negativity of your recent posts. Is there a reason for that? Hi Gene - frustration at the current lack of usable cnc controller software. Steve Blackmore --

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Marius Liebenberg
On 2014-07-24 08:41, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:48:50 -0500, you wrote: Would it be possible the LinuxCNC group doesn't care that much about non linux users converting to some flavor of linux? I think it would be very possible. Hi Stuart I think it's absolutely certain

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 July 2014 02:45:51 Steve Blackmore did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:29:45 -0400, you wrote: Steve, you've helped me on occasion, so I am somewhat puzzled at the negativity of your recent posts. Is there a reason for that? Hi Gene - frustration at the

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-07-24 9:41 GMT+03:00 Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net: A non linux user not wishing to get his 'hands' dirty in the software probably will not want to get his hands dirty wiring a machine or fixing a ball screw. Perhaps, for the LinuxCNC group, having a not insignificant hurdle to jump will

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread John Thornton
Steve your negativity just amazes me... closed shop? far from it, lets see we have this mailing list for people who prefer that method of communication, we have the forum for windows users who don't know anything else and we have the IRC. How much more open than that can you get? Each area

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Steve, HEH My first experience with the 'coven' did not elicit a positive response. I wanted a toggle button. I tried to get the 'coven' to understand what I wanted - NO positive response - almost no answers. I submitted my idea of a toggle file I could not get the compile. The plethora of

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread dave
snip Golly Gee Gene: The buck is a bit of exaggeration ...not long after you were born a letter cost 3 cents to mail, I'm guessing gas was 18 cents/gal and we got electricity for something like .5 cents/KWh. A scale factor of approx 18 would make sense. Which suggest that your two cents,

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
the factor is slightly ~ 50 for austria, giving the official statitics of statistics austria. that makes a good dollar :-) Nik Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2014 schrieb dave: snip Golly Gee Gene: The buck is a bit of exaggeration ...not long after you were born a letter cost 3 cents to mail,

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 July 2014 10:12:52 dave did opine And Gene did reply: snip Golly Gee Gene: The buck is a bit of exaggeration ...not long after you were born a letter cost 3 cents to mail, I'm guessing gas was 18 cents/gal and we got electricity for something like .5 cents/KWh. A scale

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-24 Thread John Alexander Stewart
Steve - I can understand your frustration. However, maybe a differences in our characters - and this is not a complaint or put-down. I ponder and dig and experiment and learn. My wife's always saying quit pondering and just do it - and many times she's right. I know that I'm in the vast

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:45:22 -0500, you wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:06:43 -0600, you wrote: The new trajectory planner is not in 2.6. It's in the master branch and will be part of 2.7. Why? The most recent bugfix in

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 07/23/2014 12:55 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote: Just searched for it in Wiki --- Buildbot page errors with Service Temporarily Unavailable Good start. I took it down this evening for an upgrade, to add more disk. It's back now. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 July 2014 07:55, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: Is there an up to date list of bugs or bug fixes anywhere for anything? You can view all commits to the various branches here: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master If you click on Robert

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2014-07-23 9:55 GMT+03:00 Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net: Buildbot? - Where, How? If nobody is testing it still must be too difficult to download/install. Seriously? Since I do not remember anyone else complaining about this, do you still think that everybody else are fools and you are the

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:20:05 +0300, you wrote: do you still think that everybody else are fools and you are the only smart guy around here? Do not be so helpless! I know that you are on this list for at least 4 years and this link has been mentioned here numerous times:

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 July 2014 23:33, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: Sorry - but if it aint as simple as Go to web page Select release or latest beta (with explanations of differences) download double click downloaded file There is an alternative method to use the buildbot (and I just know

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread Stuart Stevenson
On Jul 23, 2014 5:35 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:20:05 +0300, you wrote: do you still think that everybody else are fools and you are the only smart guy around here? Do not be so helpless! I know that you are on this list for at least 4 years and

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 July 2014 22:48:50 Stuart Stevenson did opine And Gene did reply: On Jul 23, 2014 5:35 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:20:05 +0300, you wrote: do you still think that everybody else are fools and you are the only smart guy around here?

[Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I just pushed a new pre-release to the debian archive at www.linuxcnc.org: 2.6.0~pre5 The big news here is a new RTAI kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Debian 7 Wheezy. (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid is not affected by this kernel change.) If you were running the LinuxCNC 2.6 pre-releases on Precise or

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Churms, Cecil
(EMC) Subject: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5 I just pushed a new pre-release to the debian archive at www.linuxcnc.org: 2.6.0~pre5 The big news here is a new RTAI kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Debian 7 Wheezy. (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid is not affected by this kernel change.) If you were running

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:09:18AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I just pushed a new pre-release to the debian archive at www.linuxcnc.org: 2.6.0~pre5 The big news here is a new RTAI kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Debian 7 Wheezy. (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid is not affected by this kernel

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 07/22/2014 02:44 AM, Churms, Cecil wrote: Does this include the new trajectory planner? The new trajectory planner is not in 2.6. It's in the master branch and will be part of 2.7. You can get debs of the master branch from the buildbot: http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ How do I find the

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Churms, Cecil
Perfect! - Thanks -Original Message- From: Sebastian Kuzminsky [mailto:s...@highlab.com] Sent: 22 July 2014 04:07 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5 On 07/22/2014 02:44 AM, Churms, Cecil wrote: Does this include the new trajectory

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:06:43 -0600, you wrote: On 07/22/2014 02:44 AM, Churms, Cecil wrote: Does this include the new trajectory planner? The new trajectory planner is not in 2.6. It's in the master branch and will be part of 2.7. Why? Time and effort wasted getting yet another 2.6 out

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Chris Radek
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:06:43 -0600, you wrote: The new trajectory planner is not in 2.6. It's in the master branch and will be part of 2.7. Why? The most recent bugfix in the new trajectory planner was yesterday. It looks

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread jeremy youngs
thank you chris jeremy youngs On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:06:43 -0600, you wrote: The new trajectory planner is not in 2.6. It's in the master branch and

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC 2.6.0~pre5

2014-07-22 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Ditto On Jul 22, 2014 3:59 PM, jeremy youngs jcyoung...@gmail.com wrote: thank you chris jeremy youngs On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:06:43 -0600, you