Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-16 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 16, 2012 02:37:43 PM gene heskett did opine: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 09:20:33 PM Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp did opine: You know you have a problem when you first have to explain what the thing was before you can explain why what you did with the thing was so cool

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-16 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
are pure crap with horrible run outs. Does anyone know of a source for .125 collects for the HF die grinder? Hopefully that run truer than their 1/4 supplied collect? Let me know if you find a source. I gave a burned out grinder to a machine shop locally that advertised no job too small

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-16 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, January 16, 2012 04:56:19 PM BRIAN GLACKIN did opine: are pure crap with horrible run outs. Does anyone know of a source for .125 collects for the HF die grinder? Hopefully that run truer than their 1/4 supplied collect? Let me know if you find a source. I gave a burned out

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 14.01.12 23:25, gene heskett wrote: But what I now see in the strace output is a fail of a FUTEX that could have been there all along, whatever the heck that futex is. Well, t'aint so different from a mutex (which is just a semaphore, or mutual exclusion flag, normally used by threads

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 04:09:35 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: On 14.01.12 23:25, gene heskett wrote: But what I now see in the strace output is a fail of a FUTEX that could have been there all along, whatever the heck that futex is. Well, t'aint so different from a mutex (which is

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. What I was doing was looking at the strace output for the first instance of each library etc that it

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 4:31 AM, gene heskett wrote: It may, when I'm awake for the day, turn out to have been the clue to find it, so don't beat yourself up about it. I find I get lost in the information overload and my eyes glaze over about the time I made the last link. Getting a fresh start on

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Georgi
...@wdtv.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Januar 2012 05:25 An: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. What I was doing was looking

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. What I was doing was looking at the

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 18:35, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away.

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:47:18 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 4:31 AM, gene heskett wrote: It may, when I'm awake for the day, turn out to have been the clue to find it, so don't beat yourself up about it. I find I get lost in the information overload and my eyes glaze over

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: gene heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Januar 2012 05:25 An: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 01:19:59 PM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 18:35, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:59:22 AM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 05:25, schrieb gene heskett: Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using a script that never forgets the many ./configure options so each succeeding alpha release is built with all the same options each time. All of this of course is my attempt to

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 02:27:41 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using a script that never forgets the many ./configure options so each succeeding alpha release is built with all the

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 02:27:41 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 1:41 PM, gene heskett wrote: I also play the canary in the coal mine part on the amanda list, using a script that never forgets the many

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Fox Mulder
Am 15.01.2012 21:50, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: I just found 2 bugs in visolate.jar 1. The F speeds output I had entered as 4.0ipm because my spindles max rpms is 2500. But it is multiplied by 60 in the gcode to F240 etc, so feed

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread andy pugh
On 15 January 2012 20:50, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Now, what do most of you folks use for converting an eagle's 'excellon' drill file to gcode? If you install Octave, you could use this that I wrote for the job: function Excellon2Gcode(filename) i = 1; C = []; f =

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/15/2012 2:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: But I cut my computer teeth on an RCA 1802 without an assembler, I looked Gene: I think I had more genuine fun with the 1802 than with any other microchip I've ever used. I still have one somewhere in my last-in-never-out stack. As for working without

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
You know you have a problem when you first have to explain what the thing was before you can explain why what you did with the thing was so cool and still you get a blank look. This perfectly sums up the loss tech dilemma :-) Nik

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 06:35:11 PM Fox Mulder did opine: Am 15.01.2012 21:50, schrieb gene heskett: On Sunday, January 15, 2012 03:38:17 PM gene heskett did opine: I just found 2 bugs in visolate.jar 1. The F speeds output I had entered as 4.0ipm because my spindles max rpms is

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 08:51:58 PM andy pugh did opine: On 15 January 2012 20:50, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Now, what do most of you folks use for converting an eagle's 'excellon' drill file to gcode? If you install Octave, you could use this that I wrote for the job:

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 08:55:19 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: On 1/15/2012 2:48 PM, gene heskett wrote: But I cut my computer teeth on an RCA 1802 without an assembler, I looked Gene: I think I had more genuine fun with the 1802 than with any other microchip I've ever used. I still

Re: [Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-15 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 15, 2012 09:20:33 PM Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp did opine: You know you have a problem when you first have to explain what the thing was before you can explain why what you did with the thing was so cool and still you get a blank look. This perfectly sums up the loss tech

[Emc-users] New thread, visolate

2012-01-14 Thread gene heskett
Hi all; I just spent 2 hours ogling strace output while trying to get this visolate.jar to do something even if it was to tell me to go away. What I was doing was looking at the strace output for the first instance of each library etc that it wanted to open, did a mkdir -p to that location,