CNC conversion

I’m now in a position to actually start the CNC conversion of my milling machine.

CNC4PC site has a  LOT of great stuff to get. Between it and the Keling site, I should be able to get all that I need for the conversion.

What I should need:

3 x KL-5042 or KL-6050 : $41 ea
3 x KL23H2100-50-4B : $55 ea
1 x KL-350-48 : $50

Total = $338

And From CNC4PC

C35 Breakout board : $39
Limit Switches : Mechanical or Optical : $78
E-Stop button : $10
3 x Ethernet to Keling driver adapter : $4 ea

Still need: cable for power from controller to motors.
Also posted a question on CNCZone.com to see if I’m missing anything critical to my parts list.

So far by my calculations, the total is US$569

Bacula and webmin setup

Tried to install Bacula on webmin. After a bit of fussing, got everything squared and working. Shame there’s no list of dependencies; anyway, here it is for OpenSuse 11.4.

Assuming Webmin is working.
To install bacula, need to add a new repository

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/11.4:/Contrib/standard/openSUSE:11.4:Contrib.repo

Install the packages bacula, bacula-director-common, bacula-storage-mysql, bacula-console

The bacula package is faulty (source). in #/usr/sbin need to replace the zero size files bacula-dir, bcopy, bscan and dbcheck with their .mysql counterpart by doing something like this for all the files:

#ln -s bacula.mysql bacula

Add mysql by installing these packages mysql-community-server,  mysql-community-server-client

Also need DBD::mysql perl package. for which we’lll need another repository installed:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/perl/openSUSE_11.4/devel:languages:perl.repo

Install the package perl-DBD-mysql

Now need to configure mysql. Set my mysql root password with this:

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password <choose your password to put here>

Then while logged in as root, run

#mysql –password=<password set above>

and create database in mysql by typing “create database bacula;” while in mysql.

In Webmin, add the root sql password to the bacula config screen. Change the user from bacula to root.

 

 

Still not working.

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onsendesigns photo blog and gallery

Deciding how to manage my photography blog/gallery is not easy, however I think I may have found a theme that will do it all.

The theme is Portfolium by WPShower. The theme provides a capability to add and manage a portfolio set of pages. This is independent of Posts and Pages.

The setup I will use is:

  •  Main landing page is the blog page. Each blog entry will contain a group of photos from an event, which will then be assigned to categories and tagged. There will be one drop-down menu for the category structure.
    All the images on the blog will be managed by NextGen gallery.
  • There will be the customary About and Contact pages listed on the top menu.
  • The portfolio part of the site (which is integrated into the theme) will be handled by the theme.  Apparently the Portfolio pages are nothing more then a different “type” of posts, so changing themes doesn’t destroy them. Once switched back to Porfolium, everything is back.