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By Lesley | March 22, 2012
Hey folks. It's been awhile.
Obviously I've been elsewhere… since October. I'm vaguely embarrassed by this, as historically I've gotten peeved with bloggers I liked getting too busy to blog — and here I've received what can only be described as a well-deserved comeuppance.
If you've been following me on xoJane you'll know I haven't been idle, bringing the good news of self-acceptance, rampant fattery, and my unabashed weirditude to the wider population. (Can I just take a moment to note how nice it is to write a series of concepts like that and know that nobody's going to steal my Oxford comma because this blog doesn't fucking keep to fucking AP style? Ahhhh.)
Also, I have this book coming out. Have you heard about it? I need to put a thing in the sidebar that goes HEY BUY MY BOOK, WHICH COMES OUT ON APRIL 10, 2012. Amazing-but-true bit of trivia: they had to stop the presses, literally, when a last-minute blurb from Camryn Manheim came through. WILD, RIGHT?
Self-promotion has never been my strong suit; I do the tiniest amount and immediately assume I'm being way overbearing. But I'm also learning that a huge part of writing for a living is cultivating one's fucking hustle.
Also also, I'm saying fuck a lot because I'm used to having curtail it. Fuuuuuck.
So. Until I get that sidebar business resolved, here are an enticing array of pre-order links:
If you're in New York City, I will be in your area on April 17th and 18th! On the 17th I will be at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side with the excellent Diana Cage. On April 18th I will be at the legendary Bluestockings bookstore.
If you're in Boston, you're gonna give up your Friday night for me on April 20th, when I descend upon the Harvard Book Store, with a little help from Women, Action, & the Media.
If you live somewhere else, then tell me where and why you want me to show up there. I'm gonna try to make this shiz happen.
There will be other cosmetic changes around this joint — I'd like to get some damn cakes in the header — and I really do intend to get back to blogging on a regular basis, I just need to let go of my need to always turn everything into a meticulously researched two-thousand-word epic.
Anyway, how have you been?
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I am casting my vote for you to visit the ATL! I know Marianne Kirby visited Charis when she was promoting "Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere," and I think it would be an awesome venue for you to visit!!!
Yes, please come to atlanta (or athens, ga).!!!
I think you should come to Seattle because I want to be BFFs. Unless that's creepy. Which it probably is, in which case: FLEE!
SEATTLE x2
Seattle x100!
please come to seattle! we have seriously delicious cupcakes, and mountains, and rain.
LONDON :p (pipe dream, I know. Once you've made a gazillion dollars and are on your next book, we can talk)
Well done though, I just pre-ordered. Can't wait!
Not a pipe dream! I live in Boston, and a short-notice flight to Buffalo (only 500 miles away) last week cost me only a little less than a flight to London.
Oxford comma FOREVER. Thankfully they let us keep our precious commas in the history discipline.
I am telling myself I will wait for the Kindle edition, but if it's too long to wait I'll just buy the good, old-fashioned paper version.
So lovely to see you back here, although I have enjoyed following you over on xojane. Congratulations on all the exciting stuff in your life: new book, xojane, transcontinental travels etc!
Now onto the real reason I'm writing. How about coming to Halifax? That's Nova Scotia. Um, you know? Canada, eh? Just a hop, skip, and jump through customs and here you are: the great white north, except, you know, not nearly as great or white or northern as you might expect. :). Seriously, Halifax is a college town, with no less than 3 major universities. Plus, it's a port town, so pubs galore! And it's Canada, so at the very least you'd get some great poutine. C'mon! Come to Halifax! Puleeeeeeeeeese!
The Rio Grande Valley of Texas would be a good place, since the health care community has been shaming Latinas for their size and has been going on about the obesity epidemic here. I think you coming down and promoting your book would allow these women to love themselves and take control of their lives without being pressured into bariatric surgery. Plus I live here and would love to see you.
Looking forward to reading your book. More fat positive books on the market can only be a good thing.
I think you should come to Minneapolis because I think you're rad and want to take you out to tea.
Already pre-ordered. Would you think about swinging through Chicago?
Wow. I think I should use this as an excuse to come to Boston (not that I need one, but it doesn't hurt.)
On the other hand, if you wanted to come to Omaha, that would be good too.
Also WHO DOESN'T LOVE OXFORD COMMAS? THEY ARE SILLY.
Oxford commas and an irreverent, excessive number of fucks, ftw. Now, off to Amazon to pre-order your book, look at the pretty things, and see what Harlan Coben is up to these days.
See what I did there? 😉
You should totally come to Chicago! It's nice this time of year… Lil chilly (well….normally) and the city is beautiful. Plus I'd looooove to come to your book signing!! Pretty please?? Btw… Heart your stuff on xojane!
I like a woman who appreciates the Oxford comma (long may it separate). I think I will try to get into the city from Jersey to see you. That would be fabulous. Maybe I'll play hooky from work.
This is the most exciting thing in the history of ever! I love the space-age-ness of your book's cover. I will be at the Harvard Book Store event with bells on (well, not bells, because that would be noisy).
You should come to DC! I will try to come up with a more compelling argument than that, once I have a chance to check in with WMST folks at the University where I work, and see what the speaker situation is.
I've never gone to a book event or anything, but I would TOTALLY GO to something you did if you came to Vancouver. If you were in Seattle I would find an excuse!
I third the suggestion that you come to Seattle! Because I, too, would love to be BFF's with you. 🙂 And I am very excited that you are back on the blogging! Does this also mean that the podcast will reemerge as an active project? I have been listening through the old episodes because they are continually educational and re-affirming, and because I just love listening to you and Marianne talk!
Welcome back!!! Of course, I've been reading regularly on xo-jane, but I also check in periodically to the blog and I've gotta say, I've missed you here. Can't wait to read the book and will pre-order on Amazon. I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to have you come to Mid-Michigan, but all our independents have closed and there's only the one Barnes and Noble left around these parts, but I would totally make the trip to Ann Arbor were you to pay a visit. 😀 And congrats on getting your book published–that's a huge accomplishment! Bravo.
Lesley you're back a blogging yay! I've been following your XOJane posts and it's great that you are spreading the word of size acceptance to new people who may not have come across the concept before (along with articles about other great stuff like tea!). I've been really happily surprised reading the comments to your articles on XOJane, there is a lot of positivity towards size acceptance and I didn't expect that. I think the way you write and put forward the issues has really made people think and possible change their attitudes. You are doing a great job and I have your book on order at Amazon! xx
PS. Are there going to be any new Fatcasts coming up? I miss them in my life!
The book! The book! The book! Can't wait to read it!:=)
Come to Norway? Okay, so there really isn't much of a FA community here, but you could help me get one off the ground!!;):)
Guess what? I just ordered Lesley's book from Adlibris (www.adlibris.se), which you can use as well if you live in Norway. Yay!! It is slightly confusing though that it has already come out here, when Lesley wrote that it comes out April 10?
And: we should start a scandinavian FA-chapter! I'm from Sweden.
Listening to reruns of fatcast could only get me so far without missing you. I just recently had checked up on your twitter feed and saw that the book was done. (YAY!) and I thought to myself, hey she should be coming back to her blog now. . . And you did! (MORE YAY!)
A hearty congratulations and a giant thump on the back. 🙂 If anyone deserves the success it is you.
I am missing your posts here. I am so going to read your book, can't wait.
DC! Come to DC! Because I want to meet you and possibly hug you if that is okay and have my book signed!
Just added it to my Amazon Wishlist! Woo hoo!
I'm going to second you coming to Michigan, mid, or west. Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids are both great cities that don't get enough love from tours of any kind.
Also, you know, the whole "you changed my life and I'd like to thank you in person" bit.
Hurray for the book and the Oxford comma!
Can I add another plea for More Fatcasts? I know it must be time consuming and fiddly, but it's still just so damned much fun to listen to you two talk…
Do you have any more details for the NYC dates? Specifically, the times and maybe the address of the B&N?
I was annoyed for a while that this blog was dead, until I realized that it was cuz you were blogging on xojane, which has now replaced the hole in my heart that Jezebel left.
Also, if I preorder the book from Amazon, will you get less money?
If you're going to end up in Seattle, I think it's only fair that you show up in San Francisco. We need some Lesley on the west coast!
Come to Los Angeles! It is and will be warm and beautiful here and we are in desperate need of the gospel and presence of Lesley!
Also, welcome back.
Bit late to the party, but seconding this! Come to LA! I would be there and probably bring several friends.
Iowa City, Iowa. Sounds weird? Maybe, but the U of Iowa is there and home of Prairie Lights Bookstore, a nice independent bookstore that does a lot of author readings. Please, I'd love to meet you and get an autographed copy. 🙂
My heart is full with the many shout-outs to the Oxford comma.
i ordered the book on amazon. yeah!
if you are going to seattle you might as well come to portland too! its pretty rad here!
Yes! If you're selling through Powell's, you ought to visit the mothership!
I'm with Erin, you should come to Vancouver! Seattle would be an acceptable substitute. 🙂
Yay! Congratulations! I can't wait to read it!
Just pre-ordered your FABULOUS-I'm-Sure book from Amazon and shared the fabulousness of this experience on fb…..you are a joy to the world!
Yay! *Adds to cart in next tab* Any hope of seeing you in the DC area? It's not so far south of Boston or NYC.
Los Angeles. Please come. We need you.
Come to San Diego, pleasepleaseplease!
Yay!!! Can we get an audiobook version too? I miss your voice from Fatcast, and there is very little fat-positive stuff (or any social justice for that matter) on Audible.
If you would like to visit Philadelphia, we would love to host you at The Spiral Bookcase! Congrats on the book! I'll be stocking some copies here. 🙂
The Spiral Bookcase
I know it's in the ass-end of nowhere but I wish you could come to Ithaca 🙁 Can't believe I'm missing you in NYC!
Which is to say: COME TO ITHACA!! We have cute bookstores and coffee shops and everything real live civilization has 😛
Dearest Leslie, I'd love to see you in the Buffalo, NY area. Bonus Leslie poses in Niagara Falls? 🙂
PLEASE come to Philly!! I would so love to see you!
I was so thrilled to hear that you have a book out. You are truly a gifted writer and I have enjoyed reading you here as well as on XO Jane. I loved the podcasts you and Marianne put out. They made me laugh and think. I would love for you to come to Baltimore, Maryland one day and grace us with your awesomeness because we could definitely use some awesome here.


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A local pizza parlor advertises on TV and inside and on their windows any pizza $10. But takeout only.
I ordered an extra-large meat lover's pizza. The cashier said they do not sell extra-large pizzas for $10. I would have to pay full price.
Wouldn't you call this false advertising? I sure would. I bought the large pie for $10 but had only eight slices instead of 12 slices.
The pizzeria is falsely leading customers on with false advertising!

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What does this relate to? It is a scientific term - one definition is this:
The bounding envelope is a probabilistic limit on the surface between the known endpoints.
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Does anybody know the meaning of bounding envelope? Must be something technical. This is the context:
Although an error may vary spacially and temporally (up to here everything ok), usually the only estimate will be a bounding envelope and perhaps an approximate frequency of variation.
What does this relate to? It is a scientific term - one definition is this:
The bounding envelope is a probabilistic limit on the surface between the known endpoints.
In what science field does this sentence fit?
This is difficult stuff.
I think it could be something like this
We won't be able to measure individual components, the only measurable thing will be changes in the envelope which contains these components and perhaps .........
My best guess.....
I'm sorry, still no clue.
What is envelope in science?
An envelope is a container that spans several individual units.
So that only the main dimensions can be seen.
Which makes it easier to introduce it into calculations.
Dear Mathematician
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Another example paragraph:
For example, many robotics and automation applications such as collision checking require only the simple bounding envelope of a complex set of nested CAD models. In contrast to approximate graphics rendering, these applications require that the simplified envelope be conservative: that the true CAD model be strictly contained inside it. One conservative bounding envelope is the bounding box.
Do you understand this ?
Hello Heidita, Actually this is to do with Physics/Applied Maths not Pure Maths but practically it means that it is similar to when we talk about a mathematical error.We say it's 5,621 plus or minus 0,004 for e.g. There's a range , an upper and lower limit which form the 'bounding envelope'. How it actually relates to what you're doing, that's for you to say.Good luck and goodnight.
P.S. bounding envelope because the upper and lower limits 'enclose' the other value.
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Thx Queenbu
Good night
So, the idea I had about a bounding envelope differs totally from the mathematical one.
I came across a similar expression in Flemish during my carrier, it came from the people who did complex stress calculations for me.
When I had a totally irregular body that had to be stress tested they asked for an envelope.
This meant a mesh laid over the 3D model. This grid went into their computer model which calculated- and made stress visual in every single area of the body.
Sorry for the nightly disturbance Queenbu. I saw you were still online, so I yelled in despair.
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Up-to-the-second coverage will be available when the event begins at this link at live.appleinsider.com. There is no need to reload the page, as ScribbleLive will automatically update throughout the event.
The main focus of this year's event is expected to be iOS 6, which Apple revealed last week will be unveiled at this year's conference in San Francisco. The next major update to Apple's mobile operating system will be available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
One of the biggest features of iOS 6 is expected to be a new Maps application built in to the software. The updated mapping solution is believed to replace data from Google with Apple's own software and data developed in-house.
Apple is also expected to provide updates to iCloud, its cloud-based service that launched late last year. Recent leaks have suggested that Apple plans to add Notes and Reminders as well as banner notifications to its iCloud website.
On the hardware front, Apple is also prepared to introduce a number of new Macs powered by Intel's latest Ivy Bridge processors. AppleInsider last week revealed a leaked list of part numbers that suggest the company will revamp nearly its entire Mac lineup.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has claimed that Apple will introduce a new MacBook series that it intends to replace the MacBook Pro brand by 2013. The new MacBook is expected to be thinner and lighter than the MacBook Pro, but will offer the same performance, without a built-in optical drive.
Recent rumors have also suggested that Apple will update its all-in-one iMac desktop, along with the high-end Mac Pro, with newer and faster hardware in the near future, likely at this week's WWDC.
This year's conference is also noteworthy because it is the first to be held since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs late last year. At the 2011 WWDC keynote, Jobs helped to introduce iOS 5, OS X 10.7 Lion, and iCloud.


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What happens if you take a couple hundred programmers and hackers and fuel them with caffeine, pizza, beer and Wifi for an entire weekend? The Music Hack Day series, which stopped off in New York City this past weekend, attempts to find out.
The answer is clear: As they did last time, these music technologists self-organized into groups to build a truly remarkable range of functioning digital music technologies — everything from Valentine's Day music players that build playlists based on your beloved's name and interests to an app that plays the ideal music for any group gathered at a venue using FourSquare check-ins.
It's hard to say how long it would take actual companies to conceptualize and build these technologies, but it would surely take longer than one weekend — such is the power of the crowd, especially when that crowd is made up of the talented scientists, engineers and builders who gathered at Manhattan's General Assembly for Music Hack Day New York.
The official judges (including every single attendee, in classic crowdsourcing style) chose three winners to receive top prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $1,000. In addition, sponsoring companies awarded prizes in categories listed below. We'll get to some of the other hacks, which were no less fascinating, later in the week, but the following hacks stood out from the field:
First Prize: Invisible Instruments
With a Nintendo Wii controller in his left hand and an iPhone in his right, Tim Soo wowed the crowd with his collection of invisible musical instruments, including a violin played with (of course) an invisible bow, a phantom drumset, and a literal air guitar.
Soo presented the guitar at Music Hack Day Boston, but he has made lots of progress since then — just listen to the gasps from the crowd as he bows the violin, above — so attendees awarded him the top prize anyway. His system takes the physical inputs from the Wii controller and iPhone and applies them to a custom Max/MSP program to create the resulting sounds. Stradivarius himself would have been impressed.
Second Prize: djtxt
The next time you throw a party, try Dan Aminzade's dj.txt, which lets people request songs using their cellphones' SMS or Twitter client, displaying the queue on a computer or computer-connected television for all to see.
The interface is quite slick, and partygoers can request songs by simply texting the artist and song name, which dj.txt understands. But there's a lot going on underneath the hood of this deceptively simple app:
- Twilio to send and receive text messages,
- Grooveshark to play the music,
- TinySong to look up songs in the Grooveshark catalog,
- Last.fm to display album covers,
- MusiXmatch to display lyrics for the current song,
- The Echo Nest to display stats about party playlists on the recap page, and
- Twitter, to receive song requests via tweet in addition to SMS.
In addition to requesting songs, attendees can text the word "skip" to move on to the next song. After the party, djtxt lets you hear every song that played at the party via Grooveshark while displaying their energy levels, hottness and danceability ratings as determined by The Echo Nest.
Third Prize: Stringer
Stringer allows the user or the programmer to paint invisible lines in 3D space that can be plucked like strings. The longer the invisible line, the lower the note — just like with a real string instrument.
We caught an early glimpse of this project, created by Alex Chen (designer, Google Creative Lab, featured in the video above), Aiden Feldman (web developer, LimeBits), and Tyler Williams (developer, The Echo Nest), some of which is based on Chen's widely-acclaimed work on MTA.me, which turns a map of the New York subway system into playable strings. This installation adds integration with Microsoft's Kinect device so that strings can be drawn and plucked by movements in real space.
As the above video indicates, possible applications include sidewalk installations, multi-player games within the home, and live performance.
Company Prizes
In addition to the main judges' awards, Music Hack Day New York sponsors gave out prizes to hackers who used their companies' products or just plain made something cool.
Best band publicity tool: Jam.ly
The Orchard awarded $1,000 to Eric from Jam.ly (no information yet), an SMS music discovery service.
Best uses of the MOG and Roku APIs (multiple winners)
MOG and Roku awarded free MOG subscriptions to Visualizer.fm, a neat music visualizer; Musical Zeitgeist (Google Trends for music); and Find You Some Vinyl (a way to bypass badly-designed interfaces and search multiple stores when shopping for vinyl). They awarded a Roku box to MogDedication, which lets you dedicate songs to people using MOG).
Best living room hack according to Boxee: AutomaticDJ
Boxee awarded a Boxee Box to AutomaticDJ, which creates an appropriate playlist for any venue based on the people in the room.
Best hack according to TekServe: Invisible Instruments
TekServe awarded the choice of Ableton Live 8 or a $500 gift card to Invisible Instruments, which also took home top honors from the attendee judges (see above).
Best uses of the MusiXmatch API
MusiXmatch awarded a Windows 7 Phone to /a/valentine/for/you, which finds songs for your sweetheart based on their name; accommodations for the next Music Hack Day to Callaboroake, an online karoake collaboration service; and a one-week vacation in Italy to Valentun.es, which generates custom playlists for Valentine's Day based on your significant other's name and interests.
Best music collaboration hack according to Indaba: Gigbeat
Best use of the SongKick API: Gigbeat
Songkick awarded $250 in concert ticket vouchers to Gigbeat, an Android app that helps music fans figure out which shows they should see based on their digital music collections, a search function, the concerts their friends are going to, their location, and their favorite artists.
Best Use of the SoundCloud API: Screaminator
SoundCloud awarded a flight to any of the upcoming Music Hack Days to Screaminator, an iOS app that lets you record a scream, and — if the program decides that it's a good enough scream — upload your scream to SoundCloud for easy sharing.
Best use of the Ex.fm API: Chris Carella (Updated)
Chris Carella won a set of AudioEngine2 speakers from Ex.fm for an unpresented app called SubJot (the only Ex.fm hack created at Music Hack Day NYC) and Miguel Senquiz, who wore an Ex.fm T-shirt while presenting Patternsketch, a browser-based sequencer and drum machine.
Any use of the Last.fm API (multiple winners)
Last.fm awarded free subscriptions to every team that used the Last.fm API to create a hack: Tunes for Web-based IM Clients, Scrobbyl, Snowball, Milestune, Find You Some Vinyl, and possibly more.
Best uses of The Echo Nest's API (multiple winners)
The Echo Nest awarded $500 checks to Video Nest, which builds a Pandora-like service out of YouTube videos; Heartbeat (no information), which selects songs to increase or decrease the listener's heart rate; Gridsong, which displays a matrix of similar songs based on any starter song; and Vib Riboff, which turns any song into a fast-paced line-art rhythm game. (The Echo Nest publishes Evolver.fm.)
Best use of the 7Digital API: Musicality
7Digital awarded the business card of their U.S. head of operations to Musicality, which lets the user text message a lyrical fragment to receive an SMS with a clip of the song in question.
Best use of Rovi's API: Boxee Music Quiz (Updated)
Rovi's prize, a Boxee Box, went to John McCann for Boxee Music Quiz, which quizzes music fans and their friends on the music in their iTunes music collection using metadata from Rovi and sound snippets from The Echo Nest. (Thanks for the update, Twitter – our recording didn't catch this one the first time around.)
Watch the presentation of the judges' prizes:
Watch the presentation of the company prizes:
Expect more Music Hack Day NYC coverage in the days or possibly weeks to come, as we work our way through the 72 hacks that were created over the course of the weekend.
Photo courtesy of Flickr/thomasbonte
See Also: ———
- Music Hack Day NYC: Web Browser Controls MOG on a Television
- Music Hack Day NYC: 'Strings' Draws a Playable Harp in Thin Air
- Midem Music Hacks Part Two: Trump Cards, Imogen Heap, Data-Driven Album Art and More
- Midem Music Hacks Part One: Robot Dance Fights, Lyrical Hangman, Instant Fandom and More
- Record Number of Hacks at Boston Music Hack Day; Winners Announced


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15-06-2018 #1
The items in cause are Nema 34 motor 5.6A, 1200oz-in, and driver DQ860MA.
Dip switches set as OFF OFF ON ON OFF ON ON OFF , which sets the thing to 4.9A Peak, 3.5A RMS, Full Current from SW4 (i don,t really know how to set this), and 2000 pulse/rev. The next current setting is 5.7A peak.
In mach 3, in ports and pins, motor outputs, checking only the enabled column does nothing, as I,ve seen in some tutorials. Checking only step low active will get the motors running, and also checking both dir and step low active, seems to work.
In config, motor tuning, I,ve set a few different speeds and acceleration just to see the difference. What exactly should I set in there?
Now, I,m new to this, and I,ve surely missed something, as the motors get relatively warm after a 1-2 min of running a test gcode from the default mach3 folder.
The motors are not connected to the ballscrews, so there isn,t any load to carry.
What have I done wrong?
15-06-2018 #2
I can not see any thing wrong with how the stepper driver is set up
with stepper motors the motor current depends on what you set by the DIP switches - sw1 to sw3
not the mechanical load on the motor
so the current does not go up when you mechanically load the motor as you may of expected
depending on which manufactures data sheet you look at
the motor can safely run at 70 to 80 degrees C - too hot to touch !
a quick look on line did not find clear instructions for the setting of sw4
but going by a photo of your DQ860MA driver
I expect sw4 sets the current reduction when the switch is set to OFF and the motor is idle ( not being stepped )
set to ON the motor will run hotter but should be OK
setting the motor current to 4.9A instead of 5.6A will do two things
1) reduce the motors temperature
2) reduce the motor torque
if the room temperature is not too high
then I expect you can safely set the motor current to 5.7A
the extra 1.7% current should not be a problem
especially with sw4 OFF
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15-06-2018 #3
Hi John,
Thank you for the reply.
It seems the problem then is my lack of experience with how this equipment runs in normal conditions. Besides others which might come in the near future.
I,ll adjust the settings a bit then, as you,ve recomended, and proceed to mount the motors on the machine.
16-06-2018 #4
General recommendations for stepper motors on CNC routers - set the DIP switch to reduce current when motor is stopped. You do not need as much torque to keep the motor in position when not moving, so you can safely reduce the current and therefore motor heating. Then adjust the motor current based on the motor temperature. Select a current setting, and check the motor case temperature with your hand after, say, 30 minutes. If you can hold it comfortably, try increasing the current. If it is too hot to touch, reduce the current. Aim at a motor temperature of about 60degC, which is about the maximum you can hold. Stepper motors are designed to run at these kinds of temperatures. Current ratings, specification sheets, etc, give you a first guess, but in practice you just want as much current as possible without the motor becoming too hot.
16-06-2018 #5
Hi Neale,
Thank you for the info.
As soon as I,ll get the machine going, I,ll post some photos, and some detailed info about it, to get some feedback and advice.
For example, the gantry weighs apx 250 lbs (100 plus kilos), and even if the motors are capable of moving it fairly easy, and the ball screws 2005 seem ok, surely there is an ipm limit, to avoid any problems from the inertia. It,s a wood router design, 5x5 feet, steel tubing frame.
I,m reading as much as I can online, but surely there will be some things which I.ll not be able to figure out and I,ll have *to contact someone who knows what he,s taking about* as someone from youtube nicely put it.
All the best,
16-06-2018 #6
According to the photo of the drive at http://www.wantmotor.com/product/dq860ma.html SW4 changes between full current and half current.
As has been said, stepper motors can run pretty hot. If they're getting too hot to touch within a couple minutes, something is wrong, but 80deg after an hour or so of running is perfectly acceptable.Avoiding the rubbish customer service from AluminiumWarehouse since July '13.
17-07-2018 #7
Hi again,
Here are the photos I.ve promised 4 weeks ago.
It is a 5/5 machine (1.5m/1.5m) made of 2.3 inches (6cm) steel tubing, and aluminium plates.
Rails and ballsscrews of 20 mm. Nema 34 motors (overkill for z axis, but i.ve bought a kit of 4 a few years ago, I.ll get a nema 23 kit sometime in the future). The part of the gantry moving left and right weighs apx 65 pounds (30 kg), while the whole gantry apx 240 pounds (110kg). I did not have any problem so far with the supported rails and bearings, or screws and motors, just a limitation in speed, as a hard stop at a high speed will shake the whole thing. Adjusting each motor to a certain speed seems to work fine.
The project was designed at first with 2 motors on the y axis, and it weight apx 200 pounds, but the fact that I could not mecanically sync the two ballscrews involved, had me worried and I.ve decided to go with one screw in the middle, as any kind of failure does not have the potential to break or bend something.
It is this large, as I need this mainly for carving soft and hardwoods, for cabinet making, and this size let me fit 6 door panels at once on the table.
This is where i.ve got so far with the project, and once again I ran into an issue which I.m not able to fix. Everything was going fine, until I.ve wired mains for the vfd, then I had a surprise when I almost crushed the z axis as it did not stop when I released the keybord. After I.ve wired the spindle, evrything went nuts, as the steppers make a strong noise, and move back and forward quite fast. It.s a chinese 1.5 kw air cooled kit.
As it can be seen in the photos, my idea was to put eveything in one box, including the pc.
I.ve decided to make another enclosure for the vfd and move it a bit further away, and it did not fix the problem. When I turn on the power for steppers (with a contactor) and the vfd (cam swith), even if the pc and mach 3 are off, or even if the vfd is off, the steppers go mad until i hit reset in mach 3, then they stop and work fine, until i turn on the vfd and/or the spindle.
The wires are shielded, 4 wire cable for all steppers and spindle (18 and 14 awg). I did open the cap of the spindle and connected to the case a ground wire (the 4th one) and connect it to a steel rod in the ground. I did this because it says in the manual to avoid having a common ground with a welder. And I do use one quite often. I did not connect the shielding to anything. I.ve only tried yesterday to connect one end of the shielding at the vfd end to see if it makes any difference, and it did not, and also disconecting the spindle ground from the vfd did not do anything (as by default there is not a 4th wire available). No shielding it connected at any end for the steppers or the limit switches. The only non shielded wires are the mains for everything, pc, sources, drivers, breakout board and vfd.
All the wires go togheter in a cable drag chain.
So this beeing one issue, the second is how to wire and configure the limit switches. From what I know so far, I can wire all of them in series, normaly closed, and connect then to the breakout board (DB25-1205 in my case), to one pin from P10 to P15, and to GND. Well, I did something like that, only that I.ve separated each axis 2 limit switches to separate pins. So P10,11,12 to X,Y,Z and P13 to Probe, P15 to Estop, and all grounds together. And it does not work, as the RESET button from mach 3 stays on emmergency limit swicth all the time, when I enable the pins in cause.
So 3 issues,
1. How to fix the stepers issue? I though I.ll ask first here, and then call an exorcist. (it looks a lot like in the movies) :P
2. How to wire and setup the limit switches?
3. Opinions, reviews, criticism, potential problems and solutions for this particular design, if you may. :)
It.s a long post, so before anything else, thank you for taking the time to read it.
nd. I did this because it says in the manual to avoid having a common ground with a welder. And I do use one quite often. I did not connect the shielding to anything. I.ve only tried yesterday to connect one end of the shielding at the vfd end to see if it makes any difference, and it did not, and also disconecting the spindle ground from the vfd did not do anything (as by default there is not a 4th wire available). No shielding it connected at any end for the steppers or the limit switches. The only non shielded wires are the mains for everything, pc, sources, drivers, breakout board and vfd.
All the wires go togheter in a cable drag chain.
Only ground one end of the shields. Also make sure the various mounting plates are also grounded to the star point.
With a gantry that wide I think you will need two screws to stop it racking this can be done with one motor and a long belts or two motors one each side...Clive
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17-07-2018 #9
Hi Clive,
Thank for your reply.
What do you mean by a star point?
So I should connect all the shieldings at one end for the spindle, the steppers and the limit switches, to a common point in the case. The frame has a common ground/earth with the spindle, which goes into the vfd and from there into one iron rod in the ground. Everything else, has the ground wires sent into the main electrical grid.
After all the shields are connected to this star point, where should this star point be wired to?
In your case I think I would connect the shield of the cy4 core going to the spindle to the star point at the control box end only. Ie don't connect the other end to the earth in the VFD.
Thee start point is connected to the main ground (if that is a earth rod then that)
What you are trying to achieve is not to get any ground loops.
Do you need to take the mains for the VFD into the control box...Clive
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Baby Dylan has arrived, and my heart is bursting with ♥!
I wanted to share a few of my fave vegan mommy goodies that have gotten me by these past few weeks.
Kalencom diaper bag – I got this as a baby shower gift from my sister-in-law who was on a mission to get me a diaper bag that didn't look like one. She done good! This bag is hella chic and has room for everything! It's also eco-friendly (AZO, Phthalates/DEHP and DBP-free) and is of course 100% vegan!
New Wave Enviro Water Bottle – LOVE this frickin' water bottle! I used it throughout labor and while I was recovering the following weeks. The built-in straw is what truly sets this water bottle apart from the rest.
Moby Wrap – I'm all about baby-wearing, and my Moby Wrap is such a comfy and easy way to tote my babe around with me wherever I go. Dylan loves being wrapped inside (I'm assuming it feels womb-y), and I enjoy being so close to my munchkin while having my hands free. There are so many styles to choose from and they carry a nice selection of organic wraps, too!
Earth Mama Angel Baby Nipple Butter – I had heard nursing was rough on the nips, but I had no idea just how ouchie "rough" could be. Just imagine your worse case of chapped lips and imagine that on your beloved ta-tas. Most nipple creams/butters on the market are made out of wool grease called lanolin (not vegan, and ew, right?). That's why I was super stoked to find this vegan brand at Whole Foods. It's soothing and smooth (not sticky at all), it smells sweet, and you don't have to wash it off before nursing.
The ingredients: organic olive oil, organic cocoa seed butter, organic shea butter, candelilla wax, mango butter, and organic calendula flower extract
What are some of your fave vegan baby goods?
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Belated congratulations, Sunny!!! So happy for you! And Dylan is adorbs!
Haven't personally tried it, but when I worked at LUSH I had new moms rave about Ultra Balm as a nipple moisturizer – only has three ingredients and it's super moisturizing. Also the buffy body butter on post baby bellies is a miracle worker!
I'm from El Paso and I LOVE your posts. Thanks for being an inspiration. 😀
Aww, how cute! Congratulations!!
Congratulations! He's beautiful and I'm so happy for you. 🙂
Congrats Sunny!! He is beautiful!!
congratulations.. Dylan is such a nice baby. ( Nice Blog )
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Congrats, mama! What a gorgeous guy! 🙂
He's so cute! Congrats 🙂 I hope you can make another Favorite Things video soon as well. I love them!
He is too adorable! I love cuddly little babies. Then they turn into toddlers who either love you to death or want their own independence (or both, which is the case with my nephew). Breaks my heart (my nephew will be going to head start, I'm going to cry!).
I know Moby is on my list of "must have" for when I have a kid. Earth Mama Angel Baby is also on said list (I have a super long list of things).
Aww, congratulations! Dylan is such a beautiful baby! My favorite vegan product for postpartum healing was Earth Mama Angel Baby Mama Bottom Balm (that's a mouthful!) It felt amazing to put on the sore areas, and really helped me out!
Also, coconut oil! Obviously vegan, but I use it for almost everything! Nipple pain/healing, baby rashes, cradle cap, and now that Alma's weight dipped a bit and we started solids (vegan of course!) we are spoon feeding her a bit of coconut oil to boost her weight gain. She loves it!
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Selenium in very low concentrations is necessary for the normal development of insects and humans but becomes toxic at only slightly higher concentrations when it replaces sulfur in amino acids. In soils, particularly in Pacific Rim countries and near coal-fired power plants worldwide, it occurs most often in soluble forms, such as selenate.
Wondering what effect selenium concentrations in plants has on honey bees, John T. Trumble, a professor of entomology, and Kristen R. Hladun, his graduate student, performed controlled greenhouse experiments in which they documented the selenium amounts that three plant species two kinds of mustards and one weedy radish plant incorporate into their nectar and pollen after the plants had been irrigated with low to moderate levels of the trace mineral.
They then allowed honey bees to visit the plants. They found that the bees fed on food sources, such as flowers that contained selenium at even very high concentrations.
Nature has not equipped bees to avoid selenium, Trumble said. Unless the rates of concentrations of selenium were extremely high in our experiments, the bees did not appear to respond to its presence.
Two of the rates of irrigation water Trumble and Hladun tested had selenium concentrations 0.5 and 0.7 parts per million that were well below concentrations considered by the US government to be of concern.
We found, however, that in weedy radish plants even these low rates produced selenium amounts of 60 parts per million in the nectar and 400 to 800 parts per million in the pollen, Hladun said. But despite these high amounts, the bees would not avoid the selenium.
The researchers also found that bees that had been fed selenate in the lab were less responsive to sugar (as sucrose).
The selenium interfered with their sucrose response, Hladun explained. Such bees would be less likely to recruit bees to forage because they wouldnt be stimulated to communicate information about sucrose availability to the sister bees.
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Sometimes, the best thing that you can do creatively is to give yourself limitations. For filmmaker Jason van Genderen, that meant putting down his camera and picking up his smartphone.
Van Genderen (@Jasonvangenderen on Instagram and Twitter) prides himself on being a "pocket filmmaker." Living in Terrigal, Australia, van Genderen spends his days running a creative agency and whenever he gets a chance, he uses smartphones to create films.
Recently, he gained notoriety when his documentary Red Earth Hip Hop that he made for a Nokia competition was featured at the Sundance Film Festival. He also gives advice on smartphone filmmaking for CNET and is constantly uploading his latest work to his own YouTube channel.
We spoke to van Genderen via email about his work on the documentary and his experience using the Lumia 920 for filmmaking.
Connect: How did you get started using the Lumia 920 as a filmmaking tool?
Nokia put out a global challenge via Talenthouse to invite filmmakers all over the world to submit a 60 second 'pitch' for an unheard underground music story from where they live. From there, I was lucky enough to be one of two finalists selected to make their films come alive and we were both supplied with a couple of Lumia 920s, and a production budget of $5,000 U.S. It was an amazing opportunity and a huge challenge all rolled into one!
Connect: Briefly step me through how Red Earth Hip Hop came to be. How did you learn of the subject? Was it created with the contest in mind?
I heard about indigenous hip hop on a local radio interview, and started looking up archived articles online about musicians collaborating with indigenous communities. What really intrigued me was how a relatively new music culture could be helping a 50,000-year-old race preserve both language and it's own storytelling structure, through the mounting challenges of an ever encroaching modern culture gradually distilling traditional indigenous story and song. Australian Aboriginal culture has so many other influences threatening to water-down its rich history… if there was an opportunity here to document a process reversing that trend, then I wanted to shine a light on it.
Connect: Do you use the Lumia 920 as your daily phone as well?
I tend to switch between a number of smartphones as I try out their features, the Lumia 920 is one of my favourites, as is my iPhone 5 just because of the app support of its iOS. I think it's good to stay on your toes and experiment with new models as they become available, otherwise my pocket filmmaking style could stagnate too.
Connect: I often hear from smartphone photographers that using a phone instead of a big camera makes subjects feel more comfortable. When shooting the Red Earth Hip Hop documentary, did you feel like you had an advantage by using the smartphone over a more traditional recording device?
Without a doubt, people feel far more comfortable in interview situations when they don't feel like they're being recorded. The smaller the camera, the less intrusive the process and the more natural the responses we get. Larger cameras mean more crew to operate them, and that whole introduced environment can be very off-putting to the person being filmed (unless they're an actor of course!) In my line of documentary filmmaking, smartphone and DSLR cameras fit the bill perfectly. I choose the camera dependent on how much manual control I need over the vision, aperture, lensing, etc. Sometimes it's a smartphone, other times it's my Nikon 1 or D4, all depends on the end 'look' you're after.
Connect: Did you use any other tools during the shoot? Other cameras, a tripod, microphone, anything? Where did you edit the footage?
Yes, I accessorized the Lumia 920 with add-on glass lens fittings, introducing both a wide and fisheye field-of-view. They're very inexpensive lenses I purchased off eBay, and simply attach the the smartphone body with a simple magnetic stick-on ring. I also used a small field tripod to keep the interview shots nice and steady, and to keep the camera rock steady during the time-lapse pieces I recorded.
Regardless of the smartphone, getting good audio quality for movie recording is always a challenge so you'll need to have a way to record audio via a microphone to a digital recording device, that's pretty imperative I think. I used a Zoom digital audio recorded and a small radio lapel kit for my interviews, and that worked perfectly once I synced it with the vision in edit.
Connect: What was it like showing at Sundance? What was the reaction of viewers when they learned it was shot on a smartphone?
Having the opportunity to show my film at London Sundance was truly a dream come true. To sit in a cinema watching films shot on everything from 35mm film to RED cameras, and then have the two Lumia 920 finalist films play – was just mesmerizing. The quality totally held-up on the big screen and to be honest, the audience had no clue which film was shot on which camera so that was incredibly affirming of the whole exercise. In the end of the day, a brilliantly captured story is far more powerful and impressive that the capture tool used to film it.
Being able to use smartphones for this level of filmmaking is just indicative of the massive leaps in quality and functionality we now face. The old-fashioned high barriers to entry [to filmmaking] have largely dissolved with this kind of technology. It's really helped democratize the art of storytelling and empowered millions of people worldwide with the ability to capture and share an amazing story. Creatively – we're entering a new age here. It's so exciting.
Connect: Are you working on any current projects?
I have about six documentary projects that I'm working on, however, one thing I'm hoping to invest lots more energy in is expanding and sharing my pocket filmmaking experiences with people everywhere. I've set up a 'Pocket Filmmaker' Facebook page and if anyone reading this article is in any way keen to follow that technology and learn, I'd encourage them to like the page and I'll keep making content to share. In this age of user-generated content, I'm hoping my skills can help inspire many more to get out there and start making great little films, wherever they are.
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Posted: Mon 03 Aug 2009, 18:53
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What makes Linux safer than Windows?
Subject description: Running as root: dangerous, or not?
It's well known that Puppy Linux is single-user, running as root by default. There's nothing really novel about this, when you think about it; Windows XP Home runs as admin by default as well. (Yeah, it does have the System user which is more powerful than admin, but so what?)
However, one of the major benefits I've heard toted about Linux is that most distros do not use root as the default user, which means that, if for instance an infected website hacks your browser, it will have a harder time installing a rootkit or trojan since it can't freely modify or install system files.
On the other hand, you've got distros like Puppy and Slax that use root by default and are proud of it. Users of such distros generally claim that Linux is secure enough to use in such a fashion on home desktops - even when not using AppArmor or whatever.
(That would actually be a whole other matter, since under AppArmor or SELinux, processes spawned by root wouldn't necessarily have root privileges. But I digress.)
What I'm asking is,
about Linux makes it more secure than Windows even when running as root (if that is actually the case)?
- We know Linux isn't immune to buffer overflows, they happen all the time.
- The idea that simple lack of use makes it more secure is ridiculous, we all know how well "security through obscurity" worked Apple.
- Unlike Windows, Linux doesn't try to hide stuff from the administrator (by default anyway). That's nice, and it can help you find infections, but it doesn't
- Package management is cool and helps you keep your software up to date.. But it does jack against zero-day vulnerabilities. Plus, similar things (like Secunia PSI) exist for Windows.
- Well-written code is good. But not everything running on Linux is well programmed; for that matter, some applications just don't focus strongly on security. Even "secure" programs like Firefox are often riddled with vulnerabilities.
So what is it that you Puppy users know that I don't? What makes you confident that you're not likely to get hacked, even running as root? I'd really like to know...
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Posted: Mon 03 Aug 2009, 20:57
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Apart from the obvious:
Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said today that finally Windows 7 will be more secure than Linux and OS-X.
A few thoughts:
It's much easier to go in to a Linux system and simply shut down the entire windowing system, RPC daemons, and so on - you can get a Linux or BSD based system down to one or two open ports with a minimum of installed packages and still have a very useful system very easily. This probably has more to do with the UNIX heritage as a developer's OS; everything was built to be modular, not overly interconnected. This leads to a much more configurable system where you can simply remove things that are not relevant. I don't think its as easy to harden Windows servers in this way. (in fact it's not easy)
There is one very important reason why Linux and OpenBSD have the potential to be more secure than windows. That is the ability of the operating system to firewall itself from network attacks.
On Windows, incoming network packets have been exposed to significant parts of the operating system long before a windows firewall can reject the packet. On linux, using IPTables or on OpenBSD using PF you can isolate rogue packets much earlier in the process of the OS receiving a new network packet - reducing the exposure.
Linux, like all Open Source, is transparent. Everybody sees the code. There are far more eyes with good intentions looking at the code than those with bad intentions.
Why would you try to exploit a vulnerability (perceived or real) in Unix/Linux when the fix for the flaw spreads faster than a virus...
Just a few thoughts, there are many more....
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Posted: Mon 03 Aug 2009, 21:11
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Had another couple of thoughts that get to the heart of the matter...
What makes Linux safer than Windows?
1.) The people who use it....
And I guess really the question is spurious, Windows is a homogeneous OS, Linux is not, it's a kernel and each user has the right to change it to suit his/her particular security needs, and as far as Puppy is concerned, with regard to root access...who cares if there are no ports open to exploit from outside...your choice
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Try this. Do a Web search for Gibson Research Corporation and from their page select Shields UP.
It will run a test to try to access the ports on your PC as well as file sharing and ping.
It will work with Linux (Puppy) as well as Windows.
I tried it with Puppy and the report said all ports were slealth (good), it could not access file sharing, and also could not find a port to connect remotely. It was able to ping my PC and have it answer, And also get a reverse IP address.
Given that info, I was impressed as compared to running Windows and doing the same test.
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Posted: Tue 04 Aug 2009, 01:19
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Tin hatted penguins
These are the individuals so paranoid they wear tin hats to stop 'the government' controlling their brains.
They sniff out potential exploits even when they are not there.
Meanwhile Microsoft has documented agreements with the NSA to offer backdoors into Windows. It is part of their policy to have exploits.
The only exploit for Puppy that I am aware of is that of rogue javascript that can redirect to spammers sites.
I also use gmail (with its excellent spam reduction) whose servers are open to potential abuse
Cloud computing is being supported by the intelligence community because it is transparent to them. Which means it is also transparent to criminals and corporate spammers.
My last memories of Windows involve a security nightmare, where the very viral like virus protection schemes were being compromised by crackers. In other words they were using the protection schemes updates to run keyloggers and other nasties.
I run from DVD so runnable programs secure from interference. Then I run the Puppy firewall. Job done.
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Post subject: Live-CDs and Root
Subject description: Maybe not so secure now
Originally Puppy was a live-CD only. By definition you can't alter stuff on a live-CD - so running as root was never a problem with early Puppies. The situation is now more complex.
You can have a frugal install or a full install. I would guess both of these are potentially vulnerable when running as root.
You can have a multi-session DVD. I would guess this is potentially vulnerable as well.
You can save a session on closedown. Information stored in there is potentially vulnerable.
If you mount USB sticks or hard-drive partitions information on them could be modified.
So, if you use Puppy as a live-CD, don't mount partitions or USB sticks, don't install it to hard-drive and don't use multi-session you're pretty much invulnerable! Doesn't really matter whether you run as root or not. I guess you might be able to pick up some password stealing trojan during your browsing but it would disappear next time you rebooted (of course your passwords could be all over the web by then.)
Since many scripts in Puppy assume you are root changing Puppy to a system with multiple users may not be that easy. It's not as if people haven't tried!
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Now that proof-of-concept virus is only Windows only (though it can infect anything from XP to Windows 7 - a duration which spans 8 years).
Please read the technical process of how it infects Windows - and someone please tell me that Linux is not vulnerable.
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Well...full stand-alone hd installations of Unix/Linux don't use mbr and a linux volume does not even need to be active to be booted, so in the strictest terms this bootkit has no relevance to us. Obviously a read only kernel implementation like Puppy would be even further removed from the scenario.
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The idea that simple lack of use makes it more secure is ridiculous.
Not at all. If I'm the only one using an operating system, it would for that very reason, be quite immune from viruses.
What I'm asking is, what about Linux makes it more secure than Windows even when running as root (if that is actually the case)?
Well, there is not a Linux operating system, there's a thousand, I won't speak about all Linux OSs, but for puppy:
*There's no activeX type apps running in the web browser. Ok that goes for all Linux Oss.
*Puppy is intended to be ran with a virtual file system. The system files are really read-only. Running as a non-privileged user protects these files (again which are read-only) and not the users files.
* There's countless viruses for Windows, I'm still looking for one that will infect Puppy, If you can point me to a web site please do, because It's so ridiculously easy to fix/reinstall puppy and I'd like to see how that would work.
* There's countless trojans for Windows. Sure someone could post a pet package with a trojan, but I haven't read about any. All operating systems are vulnerable to trojans, because they tend to be installed by users. If you're installing software and you need to su or sudo to root, or enter the admin password, that's what you do, because you've already decided that the vendor is trust worthy.
Puppy does of course have multiple users. If you install a web server it usually runs as user nobody. In Puppy non-root users can't su to root even if they know the password. You can run the browser as another user if you want.
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Simple go here on your windows machine and then go here with puppy
and do a port scan.
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Posted: Wed 05 Aug 2009, 11:12
Post subject: Re: Live-CDs and Root
Subject description: Maybe not so secure now
drongo wrote:
Originally Puppy was a live-CD only. By definition you can't alter stuff on a live-CD - so running as root was never a problem with early Puppies.
Multisession Puppy is basically a live CD or DVD, with the settings and changes to the base OS saved in sessions on the CD or DVD. Barry has provided a boot option for multisession Puppy to ignore the last n sessions, for instance where malware may have been saved, at boot. After booting, Puppy can mount the DVD and the blacklisted sessions can be safely inspected for malware. Since nothing can be erased from a multisession DVD, malware has no way to erase its tracks or even do any damage. AFAIK, no other way of running Puppy offers this forensic capability.
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Subject description: New use for multisession
I think I knew that but the implications for forensic analysis had never sunk in before. Would a honeypot puppy be of use to anybody?
I had always thought that the best use for multisession would be an audit trail. If you were writing a book or doing some complex coding you could always roll back to a previous version.
So are you still the only person using multi-session?
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I have no idea how many other people use multisession. I can't believe I'm the only one.
I've heard of malware that encrypts everything on your hard disk, leaves a note about where you can buy the encryption key, then deletes itself. Since everything in multisession Puppy happens in RAM, the executable itself might not necessarily have been saved on the DVD to be played with. In any case, it could not encrypt anything that had already been saved to the multisession DVD, so you'd only lose what was in RAM.
I've also heard of a program that supposedly puts kiddie porn on your hard disk drive, somewhere you can't find it, then threatens to call the cops on you if you don't pay a ransom. I don't know if it can really do that. The ransom note could be only a bluff to gouge the gullible. Still, since multisession runs entirely in RAM, all you'd have to do to erase anything like that would be to turn off the computer without saving anything.
AFAIK, these programs only infect Windows at the moment, but there is nothing to keep the a**hole* who write them from trying to port them to Linux. If they do, multisession Puppy would be a tough nut for them to crack.
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Posted: Wed 05 Aug 2009, 17:40
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an infected website hacks your browser, it will have a harder time installing a rootkit or trojan :
very unlikely
with firefox because secure
and with linux because few trojans or rootkits exist for it.
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Avast provides free antivirus protection for Linux.
Never tried it. Avast on windows does a pretty good job.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Maughansilly Basket Maker
We stopped in the middle of a farmyard inhabited by chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and a teenager with a weed whacker. Bunches of willow withys were soaking in metal troughs. A man hailed us from inside the open doorway of a stone barn, where he sat inside making baskets.
I sketched a quick portrait as we talked. His name is Martin O'Flynn. He is one of only ten master basket makers in all of Ireland. The knowledge almost died out in the 1980s, when cheap plastic ware came in, but he was able to learn from a few of the older men.
If you'd like to meet Martin and Yvon and see their handmade baskets, just drive up the Coomhola River from Ballylickey and head over on the single lane road toward Carriganass Castle, or follow the road up the mountains from Kealkill. Don't try to drive up the path from Dromduff unless you have high ground clearance.
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11 comments:
- Terry said...
What a wonderful serendipitous discovery - I bet you felt like you could stay right there for a month and never get all the potential paintings you saw. Thanks for sharing your adventure!
- August 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Charles Valsechi said...
What were you drawing with in this piece? It looks as though some of the lines are colored.
- August 14, 2010 at 11:54 AM
- James Gurney said...
Terry, yes, I wish I could have spent more time sketching there.
Charles, I was using a brown and russet Caran d'Ache watercolor pencil with a water brush.
- August 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM
- Daroo said...
Great sketch.
Did you take lots of other reference photos? His workshop would make an interesting painting -- I love that door.
- August 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Charles Valsechi said...
Ah, I think I have some of those somewhere. I should give them a shot again. Definitely agree with Daroo, that workshop could make for a nice painting. Seeing your drawing reminded me a bit of the Bouguereau paintings in which the girls are knitting.
- August 14, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- Super Villain said...
that is the largest fanny pack i have ever seen?!?
did that master basket maker make you a master fanny pack as well? haha, ONE FANNY PACK TO RULE THEM ALL!
- August 14, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- jeff jordan said...
Looks like somebody got a little too much sun.........
- August 14, 2010 at 8:23 PM
- Mary Bullock said...
Your directions to the basket maker's house sounds like a beautiful Irish song.
- August 15, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- James Gurney said...
Mary, agreed. The only place names in the world that rival Irish names for musicality are those from Africa. Timbuktu and Ouagadougou are as good as Kilkenny and Tipperary.
- August 15, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Dave said...
Love the water colors and the quick sketch guy---wonder if he could help people in the States meet deadlines.?
- August 16, 2010 at 2:48 PM
- Richard Smitheman said...
This is a great sketch.
- August 16, 2010 at 8:34 PM