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Oh yeah that's it.... grind in a little more salt if you please, you sitting in the warm-sunny while the rest of us shiver in the rain and cold (not even going to mention the late snows some have had of late).
Nice to know you are home safe and enjoyed your visit to the other Island.
Take Care and have one for me;
Doug
Looks Great Russell!
Likin' the gold hardware with the seafoam green classic color combination, AND the Maple fretboard. Is that a "skunk" neck?
Five hours is good time for a project, it's really surprising how much goes into the little final touches. Only about 20% of the effort goes into refinishing the wood... the rest is all in the details as you mentioned.
Enjoy;
Doug
Seeing as how this thread got "bumped" and I haven't added my firsts to the list... here ya go.
I grew up in the middle east, and Mom played piano, so we wound up with this lovely Kimball baby Grand that moved with us for the eight years Dad was stationed over there. My sister took lessons, and I would have liked to... but she hated it like some kind of child torture, so I thought better of expressing any interest. When we returned to the States, Yup that huge piece of musical furniture came along and occupied the major part of our formal dining room in Palos Verdes. One spring break, I decided to at least give it a whirl... so I opened up the bench and pulled out this song book about half the size of the Los Angeles phone directory and opened it to a random page, that would stay open while balanced on the music stand. Beethoven's 5th Symphony as I recall and over the next week taught myself to not only read music, but bar by bar, the entire piece until I had it down.... with both hands! Thus began and ended my first music career.
Until.... I happened to hear Mason Williams' Classical Gas. Which started this on/off love affair with the Guitar, and was the first tune I taught myself on the slightly used Alvarez classical which I picked up at the age of fourteen for about $35.00 plus $6.00 for a new set of strings and the sheet music.
Been finger pickin' ever since, although the music selection has changed towards simpler things. Did the hard stuff while I was still young and stubborn.
Doug
Hi Zurf, I'm on new anti-depressant drugs so I guess I'll toss in my .02 on this thread for whatever it's worth.
Forty year RV Technician experience (Think big spendy Motorcoach) house on wheels.... truck wheels. and State Building Inspector familiar with all the codes, so I think I know how things should be, but aren't always.
Waste plumbing... yeah you likely have a restriction somewhere, good advice so far so good.
Exterior faucet... new seal kit or replace, it's just a "pipes" thing.
Dishwasher.... you stopped mentioning that, so I assume it is related to the drain issue.
Truck window... if the other one works, power is not the problem. If the offending window goes down and not up or vice-versa, the motor is fine, you have a switching problem. If it does neither, you have a switching problem OR a motor, or a connector unplugged. My first suspect is the switch, but you likely have two switches that operate that window, the master at the driver's door, and one in the door panel on the passenger side. What do you suppose the odds are that both would fail at the same time? Power feeds the driver's side switch panel first and then the harness jumps over to the passenger side switch, and then plugs into the motor harness. The switches just reverse polarity to make the motor run one direction or the other.... so following the power path, I would start at the driver side switch (it gets the most cycles) and check for power and function at that location. Sometimes a shot of WD and a blast of air will clean the contacts and cure all your ills at once.
Good Luck;
Doug
Howdy Dave, and Welcome to Chordie from the Great NorthWest!
You have a couple of good options out there depending on the format that you want to upload your music. Old time semi-pros like Russell Harding (our esteemed Alien Moderator and Recording Guru) have pretty much mastered the fine art of getting their stuff out there for all of us to enjoy.... in video-land via a personal you-tube channel. Pete Benson, dirty Ed, Mekidsmom (Amy) and others (sorry Wayne I almost forgot to mention you, and there are lots more if my brain was working right this evening). Of course one or more of our membership will be along to offer suggestions, but here's mine for the "what it's worth department".
Sounds like you are not doing video (yet but you will one day), so I will direct you to a site that others here on chordie have used to host their audio music projects... www.reverbnation.com
You can set up a Basic account (FREE!) and the only limit is that you have to keep your upload file size below 8Mb. Unlimited up and down and a fair amount of space to store them on their server. Then you just post the link in a forum posting under my local band, and stand by for comments and encouragement.
Chordie is not a hosting service so really it is not possible to just upload your stuff here for general consumption. Original Lyrics and music (paper) can be posted in the songwriting section and you can also link to your audio rendition so folks know what you really had in mind when you wrote it.
Hope that is helpful, and Again WELCOME to the Club!
Doug
Dig a little deeper, there is a lot more to Chordie than the Homepage. Search by title or Artist/Group, browse the Public Books... don't be shy about asking. There are lots of good folks out there that will try to point you in the right direction if they know.
Welcome to the Forum!
Doug
Beamer, when migrating from one version to another..... it' s ALL about the drivers! Identify all the hardware that is specific to your machine, Sound, video, wireless, network, printer, camera, you know all that stuff that goes into it that might need a vendor specific driver to operate properly.
Download the drivers and put them all in a specific folder on a thumb drive labeled something like; "Win7ToshibaDrivers" or what ever your brand is.
Get the Microsoft certified drivers for the version of Windows that you are moving to... from Microsoft if at all possible.
That way when your PC "wakes up" hunting down the periphals and you get that darn "driver not found, installation failed" message you can just point it at the repository you made and it can gather what it is looking for from there.
Use the Windows Migration Tool (it is part of windows and should already be in your running system, OR get it while you are at Microsoft rounding up drivers)!!!!! All of your old files, documents, music, stories ,photos, backgrounds, network settings, and personal preferences will be seamlessly transferred to your new installation in the proper locations so you can find them easily. AND backup all of the above to external media (portable drive or DVD) before you start the process just in case that "Murphy" fellah decides to visit your house while you are in the middle of this. This is what the cloud was meant for!
Have at hand all of the Installation discs for any "outside" software you run. Those that the migration tool don't move for you may have to be reinstalled, there is usually some legacy support for older programs, but once in awhile something just won't run right in the new version. Use the 32bit install version for the older machines especially single core processors or those with 2Gb or less RAM, 64bit needs more overhead.
Brace yourself for a few hours of automatic updates unless the upgrade you have is fully patched... and even then there will be some. So pop a cold one (or 6) and vatch der blinkin lites.
Take care All;
Doug
Particularly liked the "minimum order" quantities of 34-200.... how many dozen would you like?
Doug
Amy, That's a good thought and would have been an option if Phill had not reinstalled windows. There is a slim chance that putting Windows back on the drive did not do a full format, and only erased the directory (quick format). Then the files would still be on the drive, but the locations would be lost and some data could theoretically be recovered forensically. That however is time consuming and frightfully expensive... you send off the drive and it is dismantled down to the "spinning rust" and examined bit by bit.
The other scenario I was expecting was that the drive would not boot. In which case you could pull it out and dock it. boot the system from an external drive and OS, read the directory and extract the files you wanted to save to other media and move it back afterwards. Even a failing drive can usually be persuaded to give things back with patience in this manner.
Phill, as for your portable drive... don't format that puppy yet! Like Amy suggested, most of your stuff MAY still be on there in one of the older backups. search it for the most recent backup you have and browse through that. Depending on it's age, the bulk of your data may be resident and that stuff you can surely get back!
Good Luck;
Doug
Sorry Phill,
It may be too late to recover what files you might have had on that drive. Your re-installation of windows likely did a reformat of the c: partition which would have overwritten anything still on it. You mentioned that you had avast running, and you would have thought that it would have alerted you that you were about to run a malicious update. But even Avast is a few days behind and if it is a new virus in the wild, it can miss them from time to time. Avast makes a "mirror" copy of your drive on initial installation that can in some cases be used to recover files that are lost or corrupted... but I'm thinking that was destroyed as well with the new windows installation.
Sorry to say, but this is the best argument in favor of backing up your data on a regular basis, even on a moderate sized thumb drive (or to the cloud). I use a USB portable hard drive myself, but then I have like 6 computers to maintain and need that half terabyte to cover them all.
Please accept my condolences;
Doug
Greetings Phill,
Sorry to hear you are having issues, a bit more info would be helpful though:
Does it wake up at all?
Can you get it to run in Safe Mode?
If you can get it open in Safe mode, you can run MSRT (malicious software removal tool from Microsoft)and then try a system restore to like some date prior to your "oops". Your stuff should still be in there hiding on the drive, but the directory may be corrupt. Restore should put things right in most cases.
Please advise;
Doug
Dino, Your boy is right... Linux rocks! The learning curve is very shallow and just about all the applications you could want are free to download. Add the WINE application, and even Windows applications will run on it.... including Netflix.
Mostly it is kinda cool because it doesn't need the overhead in hardware resources, and pretty much loads a brand new version of itself every time it boots. Viruses have a hard time dealing with that because if you should pick something up, it's not saved on the drive, and can't execute without an administrator password and okey-dokey.
Take Care;
Doug
No Problem Russell,
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
You can download it onto a 4Gb thumb drive and run it directly from that if you set your BIOS to boot from USB. That way you can give it a try for awhile without doing the install or changing your current Windows installation.
Doug
PS: be sure to read the FAQs etc. for specifics AND back up anything in the way of photos music videos and documents beforehand just to be on the safe side.
Darn, I forgot to mention that my favorite flavor of Linux is currently 12.0.4 LTS (long term support). I tried Mint, but it defaults to a higher video resolution on install than most older monitors will handle, and it is a bit of hassel to rewrite the defaults down to 768X1024.... you just get this weird kinda grey screen of nothing readable. Ubuntu is a bit more friendly.
Either way you can download it onto a "thumb drive" and run it off of that without tossing your Windows install. Kind of a try before you buy thing, but it is a free open source operating system at a price we all can afford... FREE!
Doug
TwangTown, Howdy.
If you've got a 1Gz processor, 1Gb of RAM, and 16Gb of hard drive space, and a video card that will run Direct X 9 or better, you should be able to migrate to Windows 8 without having to invest in new hardware. If that makes you feel any better.
Take Care;
Doug
Good news Russell!
After update one comes out (around April 8) you should be able to run Windows 8.1 on older hardware.... update one will reduce the memory requirements and other hardware down to a level that a good percentage of the older PCs out there that have been running XP will be able to handle the new operating system. Devon has deployed the beta on several school district machines with no issues, but he has access to the pre-release development version of the update as part of his association with Microsoft as a de-bugger.
As for Vista... it's still broken. Not so much the operating system as much as the drivers that were provided by third party vendors who didn't write their contributions according to the API. I'd go to 7 Pro myself, although 8 is good and 8.1 better. Sadly I've migrated most everything I use regularly to some flavor of Linux, and would likely have "withdrawals" if I had to revert back to a Windows product as my main workhorse.
There is hope however... in the interim if you want something FREE, you might check out the Chrome OS, it's a Linux derivative and if most of what you do is web based (like: e-mail, browsing the web, you-tube, news & entertainment, AND you have a stable Web connection) it's pretty much secure, simple and virus free (nothing executes on the local machine).
Take Care my Friend;
Doug
Sounds pretty "splattered" and painful to me!
There's always the lap steel alternative if the slide on finger don't work.
Doug
We are here with you on that... how does the NHS feel about MRIs? Your Physician should have a good look at what's going on in there and make recommendations on that basis. I wouldn't be where I am if not for some good training by a crack physical therapy team following surgery, and that is an ongoing thing maintaining flexability and strength in something that is only held together by tendons and muscle.
If you've pulled something, there is always a good single malt and a long soak in a hot tub to ease the pain, but if that doesn't work... Tramadol might. But as with all drugs, consult your medical professional before starting any kind of chemical therapy.
Take Care & get feeling better;
Doug
Is we being neglected? Not so much, life gets in the way sometimes. For the most part I still check in and browse the posts, but no real reason to comment when I've nothing to add... of value anyway. I do have to agree that the social media portals are likely responsible for the drop in participation in the forums. Why post a question on chordie when you can toss it out on a tweet and get 35 thousand worthless responses in a couple of seconds.... and spend the next 60 hours of your life squinting at a tiny screen filtering through the garbage for the good stuff, and filtering out the rest of your world at the same time?
Indeed times are changing.
Take Care All;
Doug
Howdy and welcome back! I see you registered awhile ago and this is your first post. If I follow you correctly, when you open a page for a particular tune you are looking at, you are having the upper right window of "five songs" over the chord diagrams that are usually displayed on the song page (?). I don't seem to experience that issue, and tried several just to see.
Just a guess here, but is it possible that your screen resolution is too low to display all the page without compressing it to fit?
You might try increasing it slightly and see if that is the issue. Some applications modify your settings automatically, and sometimes they don't revert after closing the application responsible.
let us know what you find, and I'm sure someone else will chime in with other thoughts as the day progresses.
Welcome Back & Take Care;
Doug
Quite the celebration for sure! Made the news down here and good stroke for letting the kids off school to attend as well. Sadly we are likely to have another "snow day" or two (real soon), so hopefully there have been enough scheduled in so the young'uns don't get it tacked to the end of the year.
Congrats again to the "Hawks" and the "12th Man" for all the good effort leading to the Championship Victory!
Doug
Well, there's been much said in the last 24 hours on both sides of the street. I sat and watched the entire thing end to end, which is saying a lot as I'm not THAT much of a football fan.....But....
There's a new eight letter word in the dictionary meaning Domination;
SEAHAWKS
Nuff Said.
Doug
Yes Russell, Java can be a problem child. Even with the updates, it can install poorly resulting in "script failed to run on this page" or similar and browser "freezes"... Granted you need java for some webpages to display properly, and it can be a bother when they don't, the best way I've found to get a java update to "take" on the forst go-round is to go into installed programs, and remove (uninstall) all previous versions before installing the newest version. It's almost like the new one corrupts the old one and then doesn't replace that corrupted bit when it installs leaving you with Java that's broken out of the box.
For that matter, with the exception of Windows itself, it is almost better to uninstall anything that needs updated and just install the latest clean version rather than letting it just build the new on top of the crumbling foundation of prior "patches".
Good on ya for getting the fix figured out and Take Care; Doug
+1 But then again if the Bieber don't get his together & start behaving himself.... likely to become a Canadian resident in perpetuity. "can you say DEPORTED as Personna non gratia? Yeah part of that is Latin, but you get the idea.
I'm sure glad my kids had better role models.
Sorry to hear you are having problems Russell... Devon suggests:
step1: run system restore to get back to whatever was working BEFORE you "updated" to what doesn't.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind … em-restore
Step2: reinstall adobe flashplayer from the official site.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
step3: let us know if that works... or doesn't.
Take Care; Doug
PS: Beautiful day at the Beach today, Sunny with good surf....
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