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  1. I was checking a 5-wire stepper out yesterday,...

    I was checking a 5-wire stepper out yesterday, and according to my resistance readings, it's like a 6-wire, except the 2 center-taps are tied together. I don't know that you can use a normal 4-wire...
  2. I've played with both moving table and hybrid in...

    I've played with both moving table and hybrid in school, and looked at a couple moving gantry types, and I really like the moving gantry types.

    There are five reasons why:
    1. If you are machining...
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    Poll: Inconsistant Experiences with Vista

    The one thing that's constant about all the reports, is that they are inconsistant. Some have great luck with it, and some consider Hara-kiri with a plastic spoon a kinder fate.

    There are some...
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    Poll: Why expect Vista to be perfect? NO OS is ever...

    Why expect Vista to be perfect? NO OS is ever perfect or totally secure, except for maybe FreeBSD :)
    As for quality control, meh.... the general attitude in the industry is that it is better to be...
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    Poll: Something like Basic? Hmmmm.....

    I've been looking into Python. It comes on dang near every flavor of linux, I'm pretty sure it's on MacOSX, and it's easily installed on Windoze. It's interpreted, like java, but it is fully open and...
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    Poll: It's about control

    This is an interesting discussion. Myself, I run linux (Zenwalk) on a fairly nice 64-bit AMD, (swmbo and my boy run XP just for their games). Cruises along with barely any load at all on my system....
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