On Friday 11 August 2017 10:54:22 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:48:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have a 5 or 6 machine home network, most of which are running > > linuxcnc to carve wood or metal. Linuxcnc, generally needs realtime > > support so that when a machine needs direction as to what to do > > next, linuxcnc has at the most 10 microseconds to respond. > > So why do you run a *web browser* on this machine? Put it in the work > shed or wherever, and control it like a server or an appliance. > Chuckle. 2 of them are in fact in a 12x16 shed in the back yard, and occasionally I might need to step over to the other idle machine and look something up, so both have FF installed, but with the dram shortage FF causes, I don't run LCNC and FF at the same time on either atom powered machine. Ditto the garage and its currently 2 machines.
> Put your web browser on your desktop computer, and upgrade it to > something that is supported. That I have in the planning stage, starting with a fresh HD. But wheezy is an old friend and I have excised the majority of its warts over the years. First off, I have some scripts that greatly simplify things for me, and which depends on dbus, which I read is deprecated, so what replaces it? Thanks Greg. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
