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Bill, not necessary, I took it in the humour you intended.  Just thought that I would post the exerpt for those unfamiliar with the quote.

You and the Missus doin OK?

Don't over-stress and keep smiling!

Your Friend;
Doug

Pleased with the updates Bill !!

Give Dondra a big Chordie Hug, and y'all rest up & Take Care;

Doug & Janet

"RED LETTER DAY"...... alrighty then, it was memorable.  In a good way, or??? 

Hope your first session went as well as Grah1's did, and look forward to additional details.

Welcome to Chordie!

You might wander down to the Chat Corner section and introduce yourself to the Community.  We have a fair number of Uke players in the congregation (although most also play the larger brother instrument as well).

You might spread the word among your groups that everyone is welcome here at Chordie, and we'll do our best to make you all feel Welcome!

Doug

Hi Dino,  It seems that the new stuff out there is pre-loaded with the "latest build" and will be updated automatically when the final release is official.

There are still changes being suggested, and little things going on in the backrooms up in Redmond, so it will be a bit different than the pre-final, but pretty close.   Haven't heard any mumblings about a delay, so things are expected to be on schedule.

As an aside; New Egg is selling the retail W10 online now for those of us who are not eligible for the free upgrade..... specifically we who are not currently running Win7 or newer, or hobbyists (like myself) who build their own hardware.  Kind of like buying tickets to a concert...... money now, enjoy when the gates open, we'll save a seat for ya'.

Juat goes to show, my sound card is dolby 7.1 with a whold slew of plug-ins stacked on the backplate.  Some in, some out, some amplified, some line level and such.

You are correct though that most laptops will have a common jack for mic & line in, which would be dual channel....... and some of the newer ones have only one that shares mic in with monitor out requiring a "special" headset or an adapter.  Have not got my head around that setup yet.... like what do you do if you want to record something and monitor it at the same time, or feed in a backing track and record along with it.  Guess we will have to get an audio interface and route everything through that via usb.  One more chunk of hardware I guess.

Take Care;
Doug

It has been awhile since I wandered away from Windows to Linux.  With that change I also lost Audacity (although I do have it installed on my Desktop pc).  Audacity is certainly adequate for most things that we are likely to be doing and there are plenty of add-ons (vst) that work well with it.  Jerome is partial to Reaper, I have been playing around with Ardour, but not doing much in the music recording end for awhile, so am just rusty.

For the most part they are all similar (in the free catagory), so it's kinda up to you to pick one...... just a whole lot easier to hang with one rather than deal with the learning curve of something different.  They are constantly getting better and adding functionality, so .......

Of the bunch Audacity was the easiest to master when we were checking out software to recommend for Chordie Recorders, so it has likely the most users here in the community (not counting the garage band appl;e folks).

Outstanding Postings Liz !!!

I for one would like to say that everything you have added to the Forums has been of exceptional value, and would like to Thank You for taking the time to share and add your voice to the Community.

Very pleased you have joined the discussions.

THANK YOU !!

Doug

B E A D F# B,  Light guage sets start at .013" so not that different than regular strings.  Chord fingering is the same as usual, but the voicings are lower.  Open E voices B etc. and naturally you still have a capo to make the change if you  don't want that "darker" tone.

It's all good!

Sounds like a "Keeper" to me...... so brag on her all you want Buddy, you chose well!

Now why she picked you, is still one of life's little Mysteries though. 

Take Care;
Doug

Phill, I cheated.... I have a "Beta-Geek" in da haus!  My eldest, Devon has been sidelining in that capacity since the Vista debacle.  Anyway, he says "it's gonna be Awesome!"...... but I should add that to me "Awesome" is a double edged sword to mean either it is going to be Grand, or a steaming pile of (fill in the blanks).

We have been conditioned to expect MS to release something that "kinda works as expected" only to spend the next few years patching all the stuff that didn't, until the next iteration comes out that is supposed to do all the stuff the prior version didn't & repeat ad-nauseum.  The philosophy seems different this time, and much effort has been spent in getting it right  via 8 & 8.1, and actually "listening" to those subjected to using it.

I have 8.1 on a notebook, and fiddle around with it.  To me it seems cumbersome and intrusive in the way it assumes that every time I open my browser I "want" to continue my previous session exactly where I was when I exited (like there are only a couple of places I want to visit in the web-verse) which may be true, but I certaainly don't like some chunk of hardware making that decision for me (so few of the big decisions are up to me anymore, I take umbrage to having the little ones taken away too!).

Be that as it may, I would generally say that if you Love 8.1, you will be pleased with 10..... if not, then you should try it, as an improvement seems likely. I will upgrade mine (if only to see if it fixes that darn Synaptic Touchpad driver!) and join in the discussions as they emerge after.  Here on this side of the Pond the date is still the 29th for "fast-track" folks (like the Testers) and 31st for the rest of us (within limits of the servers).

Just my $,02

Take Care;
Doug

For you folks interested, the link is:  http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10316

It may be due for resurrecting the idea again, but I think it kinda lost steam due to the available time required to complete a project of this magnitude, with a mojority of us having jobs etc. that make it difficult to devote large blocks of.