Taking a little time away from midterms, budgets, etc. to just say,

Hello World

and, um that's it...


No, actually yesterday I went to the Westec show , representing my self and MACT@SDCC, at the LA convention center. I was rather sorrowed by the fact of how slow the show was. The obvious exceptions were Fadal, HAAS, and Mori Seki. The CAD/CAM companies just did not seem to be pulling in the crowds like in some years past.

Later that day, due to how quickly the show went by so quickly, I stopped by the DLR for some food (and most notably COFFEE). I have to say that the changes that Lasster has implemented are pushing through very rapidly.

Ok, now something serious-er. Intel has released the core2duo processor chip set. Through much head pounding we have learned that this processor when combined with Windows XP will not allow certain DOS based programs to operated, at all! Most notably for me was the use of the DOS based Fadal Emulator we use here at work. This program was written in the golden days of DOS and will not function at all under the current XP environment. This led to a difficult challenge due to the fact that the software is used for the verification of Fadal based subroutine's. So far the only fix that I have been able to implement is the use of DosBox to emulate the DOS environment. I know that in XP DOS is emulated any way, this has still been an uncomfortable transition. Up until DosBox release 0.70 the 0.65 release caused the emulator to sometimes display the Bolt Pattern Sub to not represent itself properly graphically. Also a problem with 0.65 was that all drive letters A through Z were always displayed. Release 0.70 has seemed to fix this issue however it is no longer compatible with the SynchronEye's software.

As I learn more on this issue I will post the results.