Member postings for dcosta

Hello MichaelG, good evening!

Also off-topic for this particular thread and asking David Clarck to delete this post if so he wants...

MG: I am delighted to report that your post, above [16:20:26] displays well on the iPad.
DC: For a while and every time I will remember I will take care to change the font of my writings to this forum out of respect for you and the other few iPad users participating.

MG: Thanks for whatever you have changed.
DC: For that post (and this one also) I edited it as usual in the LibreOffice Writer and at the end converted to the Arial font prior to copy and paste it to the forum.

This is only a workaround to colaborate with a surprised Apple iPad user and, in my opinion, not the correct one because can't be guaranted and certainly also not generalized.

The world of IT has run a long way trying to standardize fonts (as well as other items) and has achieved an acceptable status of conformity.

Apple should not expose its customers to dependent situations like this.
After all, the Comic Sans font in the Windows environment is too old to be ignored so daringly. Only to catch a greater market share...

In the bellow URL which I suspect is owned by Apple I can understand there are fragments of a continuing “war” known by me from long ago and I'd like to say that if I don't like Microsoft I am even lesser fond of Apple ***LINK*** .

There,
Somebody asks:
I am using ipad ios 5.1.1 and when i view a website with Comic Sans MS it does not recognise it. Does this font not come as standard on the ipad ?

And someother person answers:
Comsidering that's a Microsoft font, why would it come standard on an Apple device? ***LINK***

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 08/12/2012 23:21:49

Hello Gareth.

Using ME_Index free application  ***LINK*** and the criteria STUART or TURNER  (too broad a criteria) in the article title field I found 512 articles (please remember there are more than 178000 articles in the database). If you are interested I can send to you the articles found in an Excel format file. In case you are interested please send a personal message to me.
The search can be more refined if you have some additional elements to add to the criteria.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 08/12/2012 16:22:56

Hello John Shepherd.

Thank you for calling my attention to this.

I also don't know if other people has the same difficulty to read my messages using that font.
I know can read it without difficulty (and I have vision problems...).

I use that font in my messages because I write my messages in LibreOffice Writer (part of a Open source and free package) and then copy and paste it to the forum editor. And I configured LibreOffice to use Comic Sans MS font by default.

I can, however, and ever I remember it, use the same font with a little larger size like I do in this very message.

Please let me know if this benefits your reading.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Stuart.

I'm sorry in my previous message I failed miserably to explain myself to you what I meant.

If you hit the Return key somewhere in a line, the next line will be written after a blank line.
If you want to create a new line without a blank line before it, please press simultaneously the keys Shift + Return.

The editor in this forum used to work that way.

Best regards
Dias Costa

P.S.: To create each of the blank lines you see in theis message I pressed Shift+Return twice.

Hello Stuart.

At the end of this line there is a Return that creates a blank line.

At the end of this line
there is a Shift + Return that creates a new line for this text.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Bob Perkins!

Have you received the file I sent to you yesterday?
If so was it of some help?

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 02/12/2012 22:47:40

Hello Bob!

I have the ”SOBA operation and service manual” for my 6” SOBA rotary table.
I think it is dedicated to other sizes of SOBA rotary tables.
If you are interested please let me know and I'll send it to some electronic address.
If you intend to use the address made available by Chris, please take care to know, first, if the executable file necessary to make the download of the document you want doesn't let some kind of spy or something in your computer.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 01/12/2012 20:34:36

Good luck Neil !

Dias Costa

Hello Pekka!

Using MEW_Index free application  ***LINK***  applying the word “thread” as criterion for the title field, I find 50 articles. If I use the criterion “acme” in the keywords field I find 2 articles.
I think the article you are looking for is one of these two.
Year: 2002; Issue: 82; Author: Loader; Title: Screw Threads are not just for Fastening; Keywords: Square threads Acme Buttress Multi start
Year: 2010; Issue: 171; Author: Brymer; Title: Lathework, A Beginners' Course Part 6; Keywords: Square Acme and Multiple Start Threads

In case you are interested in the 50 other articles, please send me a personal male and I'll send the list to you.
Alternatively I can post only the issue number for the 50 articles.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 20/11/2012 14:27:38

Hello Andrew!

Here ***LINK*** and here ***LINK*** you can find examples on how to keep a Unimat 3 lathe hidden and one of them even provides a good swarf tray.
I remember I saw somewhere a lathe on a box mounted on a sewing machine stand. I searched for it but didn't found.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello all! Good day.

I was, for more than thirty years of active life, a professional in information systems and went through almost all the specialities that make up the profession.
I was an early adopter of micro computers. I started with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and then went through Atari, Amstrad, IBM and later by many other computers with Intel or AMD processors and, for several years in parallel with my work on mainframe and followed since 1992 on mini computers. I knew Windows in all its "incarnations" except some of the last because I'm still happy with windows XP sp2.
Although retired I keep working on developing, pro bono, for two NGOs at home and have 3 computers that run some Linux variants and 4 micro computers which runs windows XP. In none of the computers that runs windows XP I allow the ill-fated updates since they were installed around 2005.

As protection, I have installed an anti virus named Avira and an anti malware called STOPzilla (scareware!) which, when finished the license, will be replaced by MalwareBytes.

Some products on the market that promise protection use scareware (they use fear to market their product). StopZilla is an example more or less blatant and Microsoft, perhaps more subtly, uses this technique. Apart other techniques with the same effect, such as the incompatibility between files of different versions.

I am a very assiduous frequenter of WWW and never had any problem that was not due to my voluntary action.

I use (still) professional criteria to chose software to install or update.

Just out of curiosity I searched, using Google, the criteria of the combined words windows auto updates stability and found 4730000 occurrences . Searching for instability windows auto updates I found 711000000 occurrences. Interesting ...

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Grayham!

Have you considered the small auxiliary wheels for the children bikes?
The ones applied either at one or at both sides of the bicycle?

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello everyone.

This is one of the manifestations of a relatively old problem, created by Microsoft (MS) which, with its strategy of market dominance, from inception of Internet Explorer (IE), never accepted subordination to the standards to which all other producers browsers do. The very existence of buttons with features - such as the compatibility button - are only just workarounds to not completely lose the boat (read market) of the WWW.
This workaround was imposed to Microsoft by all the people producing pages that respect the WWW Consortium standards (please refer to: ***LINK*** ) and don't buy the MS strategy.

To say that, in my house, the page in question is interpreted correctly by the browsers Firefox and Chrome on Windows but not by IE 7 (all on Windows XP).

There's also another sign on the quality (or lack of it...) of the IE: the great difference with respect to the elapsed time between the moment when reading of a page is triggered and the moment it is presented to the user.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 06/11/2012 16:40:02

Hello Chris.
I'm sorry I forgot to complete the link in my previous message.
Happily Stick did it!

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Chris.
May be HPC,   here: ***LINK*** ?

Best regards
Dias Cosra

Edited By dcosta on 03/11/2012 15:46:06

Hello John Stevenson.

You are right. Than you for correcting me.
I used a too narrow criteria in the search.
However the issue you found is among the 18 I found.
I should have been more carefull.
Also not having the entire collection of MEW discourages me to look into the pages of the magazine.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello joey.

Using the MEW_Indexes ***LINK*** free application I found 18 articles referring the word hobbing.
There's only an article referring both words hobbing and attachment.
It's in the issue 95 the year is 2003/4 and the article's author is Mr. Whalley.
If you are interested in the other articles, please let me know and I'll post information about them.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Chris.

You can find here **LINK**, here **LINK**, here **LINK** and here **LINK** three pictures of the clamps I use to clamp the vice to the milling table.

My first vice is a very good Vertex clone but since I started using this precision vice I never used the Vertex clone again.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 23/10/2012 14:37:42

Edited By dcosta on 23/10/2012 14:38:10

Hello Terry.

Please see the profile of the Mr. L and you'll know that the name of the gentleman is E Clark.

Not being as fluent as you are in your mother tongue I can only second you (if you allow me...), making your words mine, in the question of the frequently badly written English in this forum.
Foreign participants in the forum, like me, somewhere along their life made a great effort to learn English in school and then, when that knowledge could be of some utility to them, the people who should be the keepers of that language do not use it correctly as they should...

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello all,

Lets suppose I want to buy a car.
Either a Mercedes or a Mini. The Mercedes price is 100 and the Mini price is 50. Both are cars.
I chose the Mini, pay 50 for it and when it arrives at my door I find it has some scratches and a wheel is twisted.
Then I reclaim about the defects and the seller (or someone in his place...) tells me: you should have bought the Mercedes (or, in other words: you only get what you pay for...).

Strange, but somehow understandable, philosophy...

Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 14/10/2012 12:18:00