The Foxfire books have an excellent explanation of the process. The scraping took many repeated passes, raising the cutter minutely on each pass. The spiral block was the key to repeatability.
If you are unfamiliar with the foxfire series, here is some information:
I use cross-sectional area, but I just hold it between my thumb and forefinger and eyeball it. It's too bad this thing doesn't work so well because my Mk1 eyeball isn't so repeatable and so we often end up with too much spaghetti.
My Italian aunt was quite good at it. But I knew she'd make me eat a LOT of spaghetti.
She'd probably get along with Hack's grandmother.
Sounds good. All you need is to find a news feed for a selected number of newsgroups. (Or set up one of those download the full newsgroup from your server and then apply the filters programs -- assuming that your server allows such.)
I can imagine that *I* am glad to not be paying for that. A single T1 is already too expensive. :-)
I remember the alt newsgroups used to be described as "Gigabytes of copyright violations". (Terrabytes now? :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
She got along with a lot of people. I have no idea who you're talking about, but then, neither do you.
I'm using newsguy.com and am quite pleased with their (non-free) service.
Perhaps they are killing anything cross-posted (as his start out), or perhaps they simply have a very short expire time (sub 1 day), so by the time you get to it, his postings and the early replies have already expired.
Note that the "eternal-september" does not fill an old usenet user with comfort. I don't know whether you know the origin, but if not (or if other do not) it came from the earlier condition of most news servers either being on systems connected to government contractors (though usenet itself was at first spread via UUCP and modem, not ARPAnet or the internet when it came into being), or associated with schools.
The contractors had a fairly stable base of people so they rather quickly learned "netequette" and became good "netizens". However, every September, the schools had a new influx of freshmen, who dived into posting without taking time to learn the normal practices. It took a while to beat them into submission, after which things were fine until the next September brought in a new flood.
Then -- AOL started carrying usenet newsgroups for their subscribers, and the number of subscribers were a continuously growing flood (thus an "eternal September"), and it became a lost cause trying to convince people that netequette rules were good things to follow. Then they started posting in HTML and the end was there. AOL has since dropped usenet totally (as have quite a few other ISPs -- probably because of the offenses that their users were constantly committing), but others have come in to replace them.
Then comes a place which actually *calls* itself "eternal-september". :-(
Probably they turned the expire time down to deal with the growing number of binaries in other newsgroups. (Plus, if I were not following rec.crafts.metalworking, and were a news admin, I would probably turn down the expire time on rec.crafts.metalworking anyway, because of all the politics and other off-topic and flame-war inducing topics. :-)
Go to a paid news server. As I said before, I am happy with newsguy.com (check them out at
The measure I use is plastic, about 3.5 x 3 x1 inches with channels across marked 3, 2 and 1 portion(s). According to this measure, a portion is 2 ounces of dry pasta. Normally I consume 2 portions and SWMBO gets a single. Gerry :-)} London, Canada
I use eternal september org, too, and I've been missing RH's initial posts for several weeks. I see we use different news readers, so that's not the source of the problem.
Earthlink only allows a partial header download, which requires the whole messages to be downloaded for proper filtering, anyway. I planned on downloading the few groups I read (~217) of which most only have a few posts a week, or month. Then filter the spool into a second file that is availible as a local news server. I have plenty of old hardware laying around that will run a lightweight Linux OS and the required software. I have a lot of 1 to 10 GB hard drives that no one seems to need, so I can use a pile in a RAID.
I get a better rate on broadband cable. Around 1.5 Mb up, and 8 Mb down for $50 a month.
To paraphrase Carl Sagan: Billions and Billions of Gigabytes. ;-)
Sigh. HAWKE!
Do you have a relationship with Hawke's grandmother or something? I've never even met her, myself.
I thought I had replied to this thread, but it's not showing. Nothing new has shown, for me, for any topic since the 29th, which I think is wrong.... I would suppose, by now, Rob has posted the answers. I'm not sure why newer posts/replies are not showing for me. Anyway, this is more a test, than a reply. Maybe this will update my link or prompt me to re-sign in, in order to engage in,/have access to updated posts. Nothing else I've tried seems to be working.
Sonny
I never got the answers either. I looked again through all of the messages the NewsGuy server sent me. It wasn't there.
Bill
Yawn.
Oh, it must be time for Michael's little power nap...
No, but your 'comedy' is enough to put most people to sleep.
Fruufru!!! Several spaghetti makers _print_ the measuring circles on the box.
*EASILY* reproduced in something more durable (like "wood" -- to stray back 'on topic' :) with, say, some appropriately sized forstner/auger/speed bits.It's been a while since I looked at one, and I don't have any on hand right now, but, as I recall, they're all _real_ close to a 1/16" multiple for the diameter.
Robert Bonomi wrote: ) Fruufru!!!
What does that mean ?
SaSW, Willem
2308 - It is clearly a SPHINCTER! Comes with the job of cabinetmaker....
Philski
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