The Steel Guitar Forum

Thanks for the help, everyone! It did turn out to be (initially) related to the amount of travel on the lever. I was compensating without realizing it and it got to the point where the nut wouldn't stay on. I addition, something was getting hung up in the changer so that I was able to tune it while ...

What I think is that it started out as just being the high E, but the changer on that one is messed up in such a way that it's affecting how the lever travels.

Hey all. I'm on the road right now and having a couple of issues with my LKR / E-to-Eb. It's an MSA Semi-Classic that appears to have had some custom work done on it. It's hard to describe the design of the changer, but one symptom I'm experiencing is that in order to tune to an Eb, I have to back t...

It's not my intent. I certainly wouldn't ever tell someone to "get computer educated." If I looked down on people who hadn't spent as much time on a computer as I have had to, I wouldn't visit the computer section of the board so much, or in general try to help people with computer issues....

Well it sounds like you already fixed it, right? But I guess you could say there isn't a "right" way to get rid of all of the traces, since good software should keep track of its changes and undo them when asked. If you can find Foxit's installation log you'll be in a better place to look ...

Whoops, somehow I jumped over the part where you said it was solved. In general now I stay away from tweaks, not because I don't like them but because most of the time I'm on Windows I'm fixing someone else's computer so it's easier if I don't get too comfy with alternate looks. I usually install th...

They're called overlays... here's something specifically for that. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-shortcut-icon-arrow-overlay-in-windows-vista/ And from what I can tell Ultimate Windows Tweaker that Jack linked will do it as well. You guys know the GodMode trick? http://news.cn...

If that's Adblock Plus, note that you can turn it off and on pretty quickly without disabling it from the add-ons menu: http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_basics I sometimes want Adblock Plus to be disabled. How can I do this most easily? You can click on the arrow of the Adblock Plus icon in the toolbar...

From http://www.h-i-r.net/2010/04/clever-phishing-attempt.html : My phone just rang. It was a call from +1-817-688-7853. The other end was an Interactive Voice Response script. Me: "Hello?" IVR: "Hello. For security purposes, your Visa debit card has been deactivated for debit and ATM...

I think we were able to open one of those files with Thunderbird's open menu, right? Does that still work? It's a strange problem. I've never seen it before and have set up a lot of clients, which leads me to (still) believe it's the sender's fault. Now, one thing that can happen is your antivirus (...

Usually the driver for wired LAN is key to the whole thing, because if you don't have that one you can't download the rest. In fact, these days Windows Update should be able to figure out most of what you need once you're on the internet. But having the CD is nice too.

Bob, I have a split deployment where a few users have Google Apps accounts and a larger number of them have a more traditional hosted mailbox with SpamAssassin + ClamAV. It's amazing how different the spam rates are. Similarly, my school used to use something in-house and recently moved to Google Ap...

So everyone is catching up to Gmail, then :) My understanding is that typically spam scores are assigned based on IP address, that is "how many emails from this IP address do our users immediately mark as spam?" But certain domains implement DKIM, so mail originating from them has cryptogr...

Chip, running as admin and running as standard user are very similar, post-Vista. That's what UAC does, it sort of neuters the admin account. These days, if you want to run a program as admin, you have to right click and hit "run as admin," which triggers a UAC prompt. This is true whether...

It's hard to know without knowing the specific hardware. Best thing is to go into Device Manager and look up some things you typically need drivers for: mainly sound, video, motherboard chipset, and network card, and go to the manufacturer's sites and see if XP drivers exist. Generally the answer is...

I don't agree. I like to know when my programs are doing admin-level things. If they're doing those things to the point of annoyance, it's time for new software. Fun question: how do you know your ports aren't open if you are granting silent access to programs to open them as needed? (Not that open ...

Not everything with the same KB number is the same patch. The cumulative ones (for instance, Malicious Software Removal Tool) get pushed out every month with the same KB number. I wouldn't be concerned about the updates unless they're failing. edit: whoops, Mitch just said as much. Think of the KB n...

the underlying vulnerability still exists in the operating system

Ain't that the truth

That's too bad about the printer. You have to go through UAC every time you want to print something? Mine would be through a window after a few of those...

Believe it or not, it's supposed to bug you. Then you're supposed to go bug whoever made the software, then they rewrite it so that it doesn't require admin rights to run. My understanding is that there isn't a way to disable UAC per-application. If you disable it, it's for everything. Now as to whe...

You might want to turn them off to save electricity.

Mitch was taking about the fact that LED flashlights can have multiple LEDs in them. Usually there's a circle of 15 or so. The cheap car key ones only have one.

The only one I really looked at was kJams. I don't know if it can open the files though. I figured you'd have to mount them first because it didn't explicitly say it supported them. But you can play around with it. If you really need that Windows program you can run it in Crossover.

Very true

I'm not a big fan of using the hosts file to block more than a couple of things, and I forget that people have long ones.

Best of luck, Calvin.

In general you can see where keeping a list of every bad program ever written is going to be fruitless. This is a pretty interesting article: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ I'm thinking of part 2, "Enumerating Badness" Even though they only use signatures ...