Recent content by jcdammeyer

At least you figured out what happened. Pull the electronics apart and see what smoked. Might be a simple FET that is toasted.

And given that it's a long weekend one pretty well has to book a ferry or possibly wait 4 to 6 hours in the line up to get on.

Exactly but normally I've used the windows start icon on the bottom left and then selected that user icon at the top. That's what is getting the brown dot and then clicking does nothing other than get rid of the brown dot. Then I have to select the start icon again. Turns out the Windows-L...

Ah. I googled it. The Windows key + L locks. I'll try that the next time the brown dot is there. I haven't figured out yet what makes it come back. It's not there at the moment.

I uninstalled one drive after the dot started showing up. It's possible that there is something lingering where the system tries to log into onedrive and can't so it puts up the dot. Touch the icon and that column of stuff vanishes. Click on start again and the icon now doesn't have the dot...

Oh gawd. You described my thought processes and methods. Scary.

Thanks. That makes sense. I'll let you know what I find.

The only indication I saw online was that OneDrive was causing the problem. So I removed OneDrive as I wasn't using it anyway. But that didn't make it go away.

I have this little brown dot when I click on the start button. Googling this says it's something to do with one-drive except I don't have one-drive on this laptop. When I click on the icon to sign out or sleep the screen just goes back to the regular background. Click on the start button...

No idea. But there are(were?) trade barriers between provinces where it might be cheaper to buy oak veneer for example from the US than from Ontario or Quebec.

Don't forget too there is this pesky little detail called "Fiduciary Responsibility". The board and CEO of a company are required by law to maximize profit for companies over their own interests. So for example if increasing the pay for workers to a more reasonable living wage which reduces...

Welcome to the bottomless pit. Get the biggest lathe and mill you have space for after you've bought your welder, arbor press etc.

The problem with both UPS and FedEx and I'm not sure about DHL is that they use the concept of Hubs to create efficient transfer of goods. So you may ship something FedEx from Victoria to Ontario. It leaves the FedEx Hub office here and goes to one of their distribution Hubs in the US...

I installed the 14 day demo. Not impressed. It didn't like that I already had a Rev 27 of Alibre Atom installed. So that part of the install didn't work. I was able to import the part shown previously in this thread. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to set up the G-Code to make...

Installing EZ-CAM mill trial now.