Recent content by aarggh

I have the BF16 and no way would I sell it! Having a small manual mill is so unbelievably useful even with owning a CNC!

Data mining and people as products is just absolutely everywhere now, even clothing chains use off the shelf telemetry products that scan peoples mobiles as they walk by and retrieve all the data they can, and then map them in databases so they can target advertising on screens nearby. It's...

Wait till they eventually do away with cash to make things "easier and more convenient" for the masses!

They are insidious!

And mass! Can't understate those two criteria enough!

I've seen that sort of thing on a lot of channels, and have always wondered what it is I'm doing wrong, as my clean tops seem to get dirty when I just walk past my shed, let alone do any work! Drives my wife nuts cause practically every top or shirt I own is in some sad state of disrepair!

Thanks for that, lot of good info there!

Completely agree about the Sherline, exceptional machine! I have some Proxxon gear and they do make beautiful and generally very well designed tools, but the really big letdown for me is the ridiculously useless motor duty cycle on most of them. Do the PD250 and 400 suffer the same design...

With a good quality venturi the best I could pull was around 25-26 on a good day. With the rotary vane pump I could pull a fraction over 29 from memory.

I think Gentoo as painful as it was years back, to me made more sense when PC resources were expensive and underpowered, thus tailoring the OS to get the most grunt and least package overhead, now the crappiest machine available could easily run any distro for multi tenanted websites, databases...

None of our Ubuntu systems, or in fact any of the other distros we've run over many years, have ever forced upgrades of any kind at any time, so that's a bit weird you've experienced that? Even critical patches for every distro I've used are only ever installed after manually running update...

Hi Steamchick, you may find Centos 7, OpenSuse, or most likely Ubuntu more to your liking. Although we don't use GUI mode in any of our servers, I do find from command line use that Debian can be a bit tough on newbies IMHO (maybe the GUI's different?). The others are a bit more intuitive, (or...

What really annoyed a lot of people is that for the pre-releases MS wound back TPM to 1.2, so a lot of people bought supported compatible hardware thinking it would be supported, only to find out that for the general release that 2.0 was now the minimum! And to the Linux remarks, yes it rocks...

Funnily enough a lot of the people being hassled to upgrade to MS 11 won't be able to as their PC/laptop may not support it. It has pretty stringent requirements for TPM 2.0 being supported and enabled, otherwise the pre-install check fails. There's current model laptops being sold on the market...

Firstly, annular cutter are just brilliant! They simply chew up the metal no matter how thick. I use TCT ones and they pretty much last forever. The HSS not so much, especially as with annular cutters they get a bit more sideways movement. I always drill with the center pin, it not only allows...