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Re: Pics and files
Mike, PDF is a multi-page format, while JPG/JPEG is not. The former is typically used for documents, while the latter is obviously used for images. Certainly, a document page can be converted to an
By fred_dot_u@... · #94467 ·
Re: Pics and files
No. Only attachments included in the posts pose a problem for dial up connections. Photo and file storage areas are a separate concern. 7x12minilathe@...> wrote:
By mario mohl · #94466 ·
Re: Pics and files
Maybe a bit of an understatement. ;-) Thanks for the Hobby Machinist tip though Dick. Somehow that wasn't one of the places that shows up a lot on Google. Looks good! Signed up yesterday. Take Care
By soffee83 · #94465 ·
Re: Pics and files
This is actually a interesting thread. The poster who said they were still on dial-up internet access really got my attention. Obviously for such a user they cannot tolerate embedded images so they
By Ralph Hulslander · #94464 ·
Re: Pics and files
The only thing I would like to say about that is that with every external provider ( dropbox google and so ) there is the risk to loose images and so on. As it has happened with flickr photobucket and
By pigifly · #94463 ·
Re: Pics and files
I've done this myself for single images that fit on the visible screen. But what do you do if, say, you want to turn a 20 page pdf document into a jpg? I'd that what GIMP can do? Mike Taglieri
By Miket_NYC · #94462 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
You have figured out why it is not good to use proprietary tools for open source projects. But in the author's favor this was not intended to be open source until the software became so old that it
By Chris Albertson <albertson.chris@...> · #94461 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
I've done this in testing. I have a bunch of motors and drivers and power supplies. It takes about 15 minutes to connect an Arduino to the driver and a variable resister and then the software creates
By Chris Albertson <albertson.chris@...> · #94460 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
You should be able to download Visual Basic at no cost. Sent from a fancy digital leash...
By Jose M. Sanchez <opjose@...> · #94459 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
I just tried downloading CNCZeus from GitHub, and all that's there is the source code. ?Does anyone know if there's an executable available for download, or do I need to buy a $100 compiler just to
By Tim Iafolla <iafollatim@...> · #94458 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
If all one wants is to run a stepper motor back and forth with no programming, there are a couple of shortcuts. ?First, a simple variable speed pulse generator with remote control:
By Tim Iafolla <iafollatim@...> · #94457 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
You can buy parallel port PCI (or PCIe) cards for about $10 to $20. Add a printer port to any brand new computer with an open PCI slot in about 10 or 15 minutes cheap.
By OneBike2Ride · #94456 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
Wow, thanks Chris and everyone for this great recompilation of things I have learned and thought about over the years. Now I am actually getting closer to having motorized table(s), not at the point
By Ralph Hulslander · #94455 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
Thanks to all those who tried, but I am so far behind, I got lost at MS-DOS !!! Rgds. Ellis Ok Ellis, I speak American, not English 8-) and it still makes little sense in the machinist's world.... At
By Ellis Cory · #94453 ·
Re: Pics and files
whatever, to get moves, These groups could go away tomorrow as well. They've been on the chopping block for a while. The bulk of the images that people share have a limited lifespan or just not that
By Tony Smith · #94454 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
I'm not sure where the below email was, but it is 12 hours later, I just got up, and it arrived here at 4:38 AM. Yahoo Magic?? Warren L [snipped]
By Warren LeMay · #94452 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
I worked for many years with a determinant ¡°soft PLC¡± program for MS-DOS. (Universal Automation Inc¡¯s ¡°FLOPRO¡±.) It actually allowed running a second application program for a user
By Charles Kinzer · #94450 ·
Re: Pics and files
The problem with hosting these things on third party sites like Dropbox, Google, or whatever, is that over the years, that hosting may go away, so people comeing here later and trying to understand
By david lang · #94449 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
I really hate going this far off topic (yea - I know "Don't") MSDOS is an OS. Not really bare metal programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
By WAM · #94448 ·
Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
Kind of on topic. Many people would like to convert a mini-tool to CNC. Anyone doing that today would NOT write their own code. They'd install this: wiki.linuxcnc.org
By Chris Albertson <albertson.chris@...> · #94447 ·