[Emc-users] Well, cancel THAT encoder index idea

2016-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
I put the bracket in, with 3 of the AT-667's in it, and tried to put the cover on. Very big mistake, the right front corner bolt boss is 2x bigger than it is in the base casting, leaving zero room for the alu bracket. Took cover to mill and as they say in a hot rod shop, bore till you find wat

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-07-28 Thread dave
When you think about it the chip is cheap. Consider instead how much time/$$$ you are going to have to invest in software to configure that many gates. Scary to even think about. It is little wonder that NSA, etc may be the only ones using that chip. Jon- a whole board covered with those chips

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me (OT warning)

2016-02-02 Thread TJoseph Powderly
nicklas hahaha i understand very well but dont be sour all women love you.r money as they say here in thailand ;-) tomp On 02/02/2016 01:16 AM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:27:42 -0800 > Steve Traugott wrote: > >> Interesting. My wife and I run an electroni

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/01/2016 12:33 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 1 February 2016 at 18:02, Dave Cole wrote: >> I'd still like to understand how China goods can be shipping and >> imported into the US for virtually free, but I can't ship the same item >> across the country for anything close to the same cost. >> If a

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/01/2016 12:02 PM, Dave Cole wrote: >Although Nafta was > suppose to grease the skids between countries. From personal > experience, and a small biz owner I can tell you that it only greased > the skids for big companies to transfer large quantities of goods and > assets across the borde

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/01/2016 12:01 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 1 February 2016 at 17:40, Jon Elson wrote: >> The US was the ONLY developed country that was not left in >> total ruin in 1945. (Well, Britain wasn't all that bad.) > Britain had intact government and institutions, but the major > industrial centres h

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 February 2016 at 18:02, Dave Cole wrote: > I'd still like to understand how China goods can be shipping and > imported into the US for virtually free, but I can't ship the same item > across the country for anything close to the same cost. > If anyone knows, please enlighten me. I have heard

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Rafael
On 02/01/2016 09:42 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/01/2016 12:44 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: >>So the deck is stacked against Canadian companies in all sorts of >> directions. >> > Well, the only hope is to find a niche so small that the > Chinese copycats can't be bothered to copy what you are doin

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me (OT warning)

2016-02-01 Thread Evan Foss
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:27:42 -0800 > Steve Traugott wrote: > >> Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. ... > > Interesting wife and business seems exciting. One of my teachers once asked > why women prefer

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Dave Cole
in all sorts of > directions. > > John Dammeyer > >> -Original Message- >> From: Jon Elson [mailto:el...@pico-systems.com] >> Sent: January-31-16 9:29 PM >> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexp

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 February 2016 at 17:40, Jon Elson wrote: > The US was the ONLY developed country that was not left in > total ruin in 1945. (Well, Britain wasn't all that bad.) Britain had intact government and institutions, but the major industrial centres had been heavily bombed and we were flat-out brok

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread John Dammeyer
troller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me > > > On 02/01/2016 12:44 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > So the deck is stacked against Canadian companies in all sorts of > > directions. > > > Well, the only hope is to find a nic

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/01/2016 12:44 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > So the deck is stacked against Canadian companies in all sorts of > directions. > Well, the only hope is to find a niche so small that the Chinese copycats can't be bothered to copy what you are doing. Jon -

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/01/2016 12:44 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > Hi Jon, > I can buy 100 pieces at $8.622 each in Cdn. which is about $6.15US or > $862.20 Cdn total ($615.00 US). > http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/DSPIC30F5011-20I%2FPT/DSPIC30F5011-2 > 0I%2FPT-ND/691581 > > The US site lists 100 pieces at $5

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/31/2016 11:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/31/2016 11:10 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: >> In Canada we pay in Canadian dollars and the prices of the parts are >> suitably inflated past just the exchange rate. There is no minimum and >> shipping is a flat $8. I'm on Vancouver Island and FedEx del

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me (OT warning)

2016-02-01 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:27:42 -0800 Steve Traugott wrote: > Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. ... Interesting wife and business seems exciting. One of my teachers once asked why women prefer gold it does not corrode but I answered it's because gold is expensi

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Mark
On 02/01/2016 11:27 AM, Steve Traugott wrote: > Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. We > tend to prefer mouser *because* their parametric search works so well -- > I've always thought it was better than Digikey's. > > I think it probably comes down to getting the

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Steve Traugott
Interesting. My wife and I run an electronics manufacturing business. We tend to prefer mouser *because* their parametric search works so well -- I've always thought it was better than Digikey's. I think it probably comes down to getting the hang of a particular web site's parametric search. Fo

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 February 2016 at 05:10, John Dammeyer wrote: > Digikey stuff overnight unless there's been some sort of weather delay. > There is no shipping charge if the order is over $200. RS used to offer free shipping for any order size, then changed it to free for orders > £20. It looks like that was

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Marshland Engineering
Farnell Newark Element 14 Joke All the same company. Joke It is cheaper for me to order parts from the US plus shipping by (1/3) than buy locally from the Newark in New Zealand and this was on a $800 order for multi turn pots. I now only buy from the branded houses if I need next day else eBay or

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Marshland Engineering
I had a Chinese migrant who worked for me here in New Zealand and her comment was, Aliexpress is just EBay. It is not a one big shop selling everything. It is many many sellers with their goods. Check their feedback first. Best thing is when you receive the goods open a dispute and then let Alie

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-02-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Aliexpress is just a site for vendors to sell through. AFAIK, Aliexpress sells nothing themselves. So if you get bad packaging from one vendor, it's not the fault of Aliexpress. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus --

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread TJoseph Powderly
yes the search is great, the delivery is quick & selection very good CAVET make sure you have all the parts ordered then wait a while and see if the list is still complete several times i found one small item missing and ended up paying a second shipping charge hard to do when its a rush fix for a

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread John Dammeyer
anadian companies in all sorts of directions. John Dammeyer > -Original Message- > From: Jon Elson [mailto:el...@pico-systems.com] > Sent: January-31-16 9:29 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me > >

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/31/2016 11:10 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > In Canada we pay in Canadian dollars and the prices of the parts are > suitably inflated past just the exchange rate. There is no minimum and > shipping is a flat $8. I'm on Vancouver Island and FedEx delivers the > Digikey stuff overnight unless the

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread John Dammeyer
lly left with a few parts for the next prototype. John Dammeyer > -Original Message- > From: Jon Elson [mailto:el...@pico-systems.com] > Sent: January-31-16 7:33 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/31/2016 06:34 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > A question about pricing on FPGAs, and just out of my curiosity. Why is it > the most expensive ones cost over 50k dolars? I know they have great > paralelism capabilities and a lot of IOs but god those are expensive! > > Well, seems their only cu

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/31/2016 05:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Both of the above have minimum orders for me that are quite costly for a > 10 pak of anything in the transistor 10 cent to 5 dollar price range. Hmmm, I guess I order enough stuff at a time that I totally forgot there's a minimum order! But, if you hav

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 31 January 2016 19:10:14 Dave Cole wrote: > On 1/31/2016 6:51 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 06:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:43:50 Jon Elson wrote: > >>> I can't imagine why you'd buy commodity semis from a Chinese > >>> source when

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 31 January 2016 18:51:22 John Kasunich wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 06:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:43:50 Jon Elson wrote: > > > I can't imagine why you'd buy commodity semis from a Chinese > > > source when there are great distributors like Digi-Key a

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
I second that love for Digikey. It's easier for me to buy from them 9.000 km away from them, than going to a local store here in my country. I usually have the parts in 4 or 5 days and everything is well packed. Also the search engine and order placement is great. A question about pricing on FPGAs

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Dave Cole
On 1/31/2016 6:51 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 06:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:43:50 Jon Elson wrote: >> >>> I can't imagine why you'd buy commodity semis from a Chinese >>> source when there are great distributors like Digi-Key and >>> Mouser,

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread John Kasunich
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 06:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:43:50 Jon Elson wrote: > > > I can't imagine why you'd buy commodity semis from a Chinese > > source when there are great distributors like Digi-Key and > > Mouser, that are quite happy to serve small orders.

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
t; Sent: January-31-16 6:51 AM > > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > > Subject: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me > > > > > > Greetings; > > > > I had asked about them prior to ordering some hexfet transistors > > from th

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 31 January 2016 13:43:50 Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/31/2016 08:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The cro-magnun filling the order has no clue about the care and > > feeding of mosfet transistors, so the 10 pack I ordered were > > arranged as 2 rows of 5, with the legs interdigitated, bound in

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread John Dammeyer
nuary-31-16 6:51 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me > > > Greetings; > > I had asked about them prior to ordering some hexfet transistors from > their site. > > The cro-magnun filling the or

Re: [Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/31/2016 08:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > The cro-magnun filling the order has no clue about the care and feeding > of mosfet transistors, so the 10 pack I ordered were arranged as 2 rows > of 5, with the legs interdigitated, bound in scotch tape as a slab to > fit nicely in a China Post envelo

[Emc-users] Well, thats the end of aliexpress.com for me

2016-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I had asked about them prior to ordering some hexfet transistors from their site. The cro-magnun filling the order has no clue about the care and feeding of mosfet transistors, so the 10 pack I ordered were arranged as 2 rows of 5, with the legs interdigitated, bound in scotch tape

[Emc-users] well

2011-12-14 Thread alice
yes all the info would be appropriate i neglected to state that i had tried reordering boot sequence, other than that im clueless and i would really like to start with my vm. thanx oh by the way www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/category/760/test-equipment/1.html cat # hps-10 189.95. they hav

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-13 Thread Lester Caine
Ben Jackson wrote: >> > Looking atwww.senderbase.org (Cisco's IronPort Security portal), I find >> > their reputation rating forwww.linuxcnc.org is "poor". Why? It doesn't >> > say, specifically. > I'm surprised this list was unaware that linuxcnc.org had been hijacked. > When I was first sett

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-13 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:42:30PM -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > Looking at www.senderbase.org (Cisco's IronPort Security portal), I find > their reputation rating for www.linuxcnc.org is "poor". Why? It doesn't > say, specifically. I'm surprised this list was unaware that linuxcnc.org had bee

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/12/2011 5:10 AM, andy pugh wrote: > No more checking the forums / docs pages from work for me any more: > > "Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( > http://www.linuxcnc.org/ ) has been blocked because it has been > determined to be a security threat to your computer or the

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-13 Thread Eric Keller
Most companies that have web blockers have a fairly strict policy against using proxies. I wouldn't want to try to find out if it's on the list or not. Eric On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Dave wrote: > On 10/12/2011 5:21 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 12 October 2011 22:13, John Robinson > wrot

Re: [Emc-users] Well thats a pain

2011-10-12 Thread schoone...@tiscali.co.uk
Have you tried http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml IT depts cant always keep up with all the web proxies out there. There may be some on the list they dont know about yet! Sent from my HTC -- All the data continuously

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Dave
On 10/12/2011 5:21 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 12 October 2011 22:13, John Robinson > wrote: > >> See how they like this... >> >> https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en >> > I suspect that if they found that on my company laptop I would be > going home early. > > Ther

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 22:13, John Robinson wrote: > See how they like this... > > https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en I suspect that if they found that on my company laptop I would be going home early. -- atp "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wi

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread John Robinson
See how they like this... https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Bryce Johnson wrote: > If you look at this > > http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qG2QvQpF3zoJ:www.linuxcnc.org/+linuxcnc&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us > > This is Goog

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Bryce Johnson
If you look at this http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qG2QvQpF3zoJ:www.linuxcnc.org/+linuxcnc&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us This is Google's cache of http://www.linuxcnc.org/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Oct 8, 2011 08:36:07 GMT. The current page

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Dave Caroline
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:35:18 -0500, you wrote: > >>Maybe be related to whatever malware or bug seemed to get on the server >>changing some of the page titles.  My corp filter doesn't seem to be >>blocking it yet (websense). >> >>http://www.

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:35:18 -0500, you wrote: >Maybe be related to whatever malware or bug seemed to get on the server >changing some of the page titles. My corp filter doesn't seem to be >blocking it yet (websense). > >http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinuxcnc.org&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=939&nu

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Bryce Johnson
Maybe be related to whatever malware or bug seemed to get on the server changing some of the page titles. My corp filter doesn't seem to be blocking it yet (websense). http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinuxcnc.org&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=939&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs= 1. git.linuxc

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread John Thornton
Andy, I have a mirror of the docs on my web site. John On 10/12/2011 4:10 AM, andy pugh wrote: > No more checking the forums / docs pages from work for me any more: > > "Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( > http://www.linuxcnc.org/ ) has been blocked because it has been > d

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 12.10.11 10:47, andy pugh wrote: > I have no idea who the network admin is, and EMC2 is most decidedly > not a part of my daily work, so it is actually difficult to think of a > reason to approach them without admitting that I use the web for non > work-related things. The theoretical considera

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 12.10.11 05:28, gene heskett wrote: > Since emc is part and parcel to your daily work, I think I'd take the > above, and a suitably sized attitude adjuster when I went to talk to your > network admin. Tempting as it is to march in with a very large spiral flute tap in fist, it can sometimes b

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 10:28, gene heskett wrote: > Since emc is part and parcel to your daily work, I think I'd take the > above, and a suitably sized attitude adjuster when I went to talk to your > network admin. I have no idea who the network admin is, and EMC2 is most decidedly not a part of my

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Jan de Kruyf
For what its worth, this is googles idea of your problem http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.linuxcnc.org maybe you need an old lady detector in your company?? j. Safe Browsing*Diagnostic page for* www.linuxcnc.org *What is the current listing status for www.linuxcnc.org?*

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 05:23:01 AM andy pugh did opine: > No more checking the forums / docs pages from work for me any more: > > "Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( > http://www.linuxcnc.org/ ) has been blocked because it has been > determined to be a security threa

[Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
No more checking the forums / docs pages from work for me any more: "Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://www.linuxcnc.org/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been associa