A radial drill press made from spare parts – Instructables – DIY, How To, craft, tech
My radial drill press cost about the same in materials as small, cheap ones you can buy, and it isn’t much bigger or stiffer than those, but it has more freedom of motion than some more expensive machines. It’s made from some parts I found and other parts I made. It ended up so the maximum extension is about 73cm – I guess this makes the swing 57″ – and the head has about 28cm vertical travel, and it can swivel, rotate, and pivot 360°; it has a 3/8″ chuck, the quill travel is up to 8cm, and with the temporary “Hi-Power” gearmotor runs at something like 1000rpm with no load.
Neat! Gives me some ideas for sure. Got a floor standing model in the field that needs a new motor and bunch of other stuff, and an old cheap china made one with a bad motor. Think I will look at combining the two so the china one is the radial feed on the floor model post. Much more in my head right now than I can get on the computer in words. Having a bad day with words for some reason. Must be the histamine reaction from the pollen. Or something. More as I get it figured out and done.
Bert P. Krages Attorney at Law Photographer’s Rights Page
The Photographer’s Right
A Downloadable Flyer Explaining Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography
The Photographer’s Right is a downloadable guide that is loosely based on the Bust Card and the Know Your Rights pamphlet that used to be available on the ACLU website. It may be downloaded and printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may make copies and carry them your wallet, pocket, or camera bag to give you quick access to your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography. You may distribute the guide to others, provided that such distribution is not done for commercial gain and credit is given to the author.
If you take pictures in todays world, might be a good idea to get, print out, and carry a copy of this page. The author also has a book on the subject that is available for sale from the page.
Not too bad over all. Just one of the pollen days that I could do without. Spent part of the day getting info from a new client to add to their website. Another part working on bits and pieces of a couple of sites. Just wish I felt more like doing any of it. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Calling it a night and will hit at something tomorrow. till then.
Adobe Spry framework for AJAX
Spry is a JavaScript-based framework that enables the rapid development of Ajax-powered web pages. Not a JavaScript guru? No problem. Spry was designed to feel like an extension of HTML and CSS, so anyone with basic web-production skills can create next-generation web experiences by adding the power of Ajax to their pages.
Another link mainly for my reference. Though I must say Spry does look interesting from a website developers/designers point of view. Gonna have to download the package and try it out. Not sure what use I would have for it but as I once again seem to be getting more and more into building and maintaining websites, knowledge of new tools and technologies do tend to give one a bit of an edge.
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Believe it or not, there’s an Internet petition sponsored by InfoWorld to save Windows XP.
The PC Weenies is really good today. I absolutely love the last frame!
Elemental – Cup Of Brown Joy on Vimeo
Elemental. The quintessential English fellow, explorer, scientist, exotic dancer and some might say raving lunatic.
An interesting and very steampunkish video. Good stuff!
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Trying ScribeFire out for standard posting to the blog(s) too. One nice thing about it is the ability to post to several different blogs. Not at the same time but it does allow you to save a post and post it again and again. Tis quite handy that. Several irritating things too. Whereas with a right click on a word Firefox will gives you the ability to check and correct the spelling of a word but ScribeFire doesn’t. It underlines the words but as yet I can’t find a way to check and correct the spelling. Just installed a dictionary but have to restart Firefox to get it to work so am going to finish this post and then restart it. Looks like I can save it as a draft so will try that and see if I can edit it after the restart.
And it works great! I’m liking this more and more. Seems that you can even edit existing entry’s, though I haven’t tried that yet. The spell check thing still isn’t working/or I can’t figure out how it is supposed to work. Will look into it more later.
Have got it configured at present to post to 3 different blogs and need to add several more. Not just mine but the 3 or 4 that customers sites are built with, so I can edit them too.
Added another blog (customers site) today with WordPress 2.5.1 and it seems to be working fine. The problem yesterday may have been something other than just WordPress but the timing sure was good if it was. Both times. Course like I said in an earlier post, I did replace all the files with a newly downloaded version and also updated the config file.
Been a long day. Gotten some things done, and put some off till tomorrow. Got a pile of stuff to go pick up to get put into a customers site. And still got one more to install a e-commerce program in that I haven’t gotten to yet. Seems like it’s either feast or famine.
Gonna make one more post and then call it a night. Till tomorrow…
Linux.com :: Writer’s Café: An IDE for writers
Legend has it that a Moleskine notebook and a pen were the tools of choice for Chatwin and Hemingway — but that’s because they didn’t have Writer’s Café. Designed specifically for writing professionals, this application suite includes a few clever features that make it a must-have tool, whether you write for a living or for fun. Although the Writer’s Café developers state that it’s most suited for writing fiction, novels, and short stories, you can easily use it for all kinds of writing activities.
Not that I am much of a writer (blogging not counting) but I’m going to have to download this tool suite and give it a try. Sounds quite useful.
Linux.com :: Writer’s Café: An IDE for writers
Legend has it that a Moleskine notebook and a pen were the tools of choice for Chatwin and Hemingway — but that’s because they didn’t have Writer’s Café. Designed specifically for writing professionals, this application suite includes a few clever features that make it a must-have tool, whether you write for a living or for fun. Although the Writer’s Café developers state that it’s most suited for writing fiction, novels, and short stories, you can easily use it for all kinds of writing activities.
Not that I am much of a writer (blogging not counting) but I’m going to have to download this tool suite and give it a try. Sounds quite useful.
Linux.com :: Writer’s Café: An IDE for writers
Legend has it that a Moleskine notebook and a pen were the tools of choice for Chatwin and Hemingway — but that’s because they didn’t have Writer’s Café. Designed specifically for writing professionals, this application suite includes a few clever features that make it a must-have tool, whether you write for a living or for fun. Although the Writer’s Café developers state that it’s most suited for writing fiction, novels, and short stories, you can easily use it for all kinds of writing activities.
Not that I am much of a writer (blogging not counting) but I’m going to have to download this tool suite and give it a try. Sounds quite useful.
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Linux.com :: Writer’s Café: An IDE for writers
Legend has it that a Moleskine notebook and a pen were the tools of choice for Chatwin and Hemingway — but that’s because they didn’t have Writer’s Café. Designed specifically for writing professionals, this application suite includes a few clever features that make it a must-have tool, whether you write for a living or for fun. Although the Writer’s Café developers state that it’s most suited for writing fiction, novels, and short stories, you can easily use it for all kinds of writing activities.
Not that I am much of a writer (blogging not counting) but I’m going to have to download this tool suite and give it a try. Sounds quite useful.
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods, strolling hand in mittened hand along the edge of the Baltic Sea, off-season tourists from Germany stop openmouthed when they see a tall, well-built, nearly naked man running up and down the sand.
Interesting article, well worth the read.
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods, strolling hand in mittened hand along the edge of the Baltic Sea, off-season tourists from Germany stop openmouthed when they see a tall, well-built, nearly naked man running up and down the sand.
Interesting article, well worth the read.
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods, strolling hand in mittened hand along the edge of the Baltic Sea, off-season tourists from Germany stop openmouthed when they see a tall, well-built, nearly naked man running up and down the sand.
Interesting article, well worth the read.
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods, strolling hand in mittened hand along the edge of the Baltic Sea, off-season tourists from Germany stop openmouthed when they see a tall, well-built, nearly naked man running up and down the sand.
Interesting article, well worth the read.
45+ Resources That Will Make You An Inkscape Pro – Jon Dyer’s Blog
If you’re looking to create professional looking graphics and don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend on programs like Adobe Illustrator or Correl Draw, I highly recommend a a free, open source vector graphics editor called Inkscape.
First time/place I have heard of Inkscape, so I check out the Package Manager in PCLOS and there it is. Install it. Opened it and played a few minutes and I am amazed at what it can do! Am going to have to spend some time with it and with the links on the page linked above. Truly a different world from the last time I used Illustrator, which now that I think about it has been about 10 years ago. But from what I have seen in the 10 minutes I’ve played with Inkscape, it will do for anything I would need to design or draw. This one get two thumbs up AND 5 stars!
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 and after a couple of posts the database crashed or there were too many connections or some such. Came back up and I made a few more posts and then it went down again. I submitted a trouble ticket but no joy so far. So I came over here to get my blogging fix for the day. Tis a lot easier than fighting it over there and getting nowhere…
Got several links to post and may just post them over here rather than wait till Technoprimitive.org is back up and in operation. Will have to sleep on it and see what happens in the am.
For now am about done in, so am gonna close and start again on the morrow.
Till then…
Dave
HOWTO kill/block an RFID – Boing Boing
-The last (and most covert) method for destroying a RFID tag is to hit it with a hammer. Just pick up any ordinary hammer and give the chip a few swift hard whacks. This will destroy the chip, and leave no evidence that the tag has been tampered with. This method is suitable for destroying the tags in passports, because there will be no proof that you intentionally destroyed the chip.
Just trying out the toolbar link mod I just did to see if it would allow me to post to this blog and it looks like it works.
Though the bit above tis an interesting thing to know, just in case… 😉
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