I ordered a new Variax yesterday from Guitar Center. A lot of “talkback lusers” seem to have a problem with GC, but I never have. Plus I have a friend who works there who got me a deep discount price. ? Hopefully I should see it in a few weeks; …
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I played one of the Variax guitars this weekend at Chuck Levin’s in Wheaton, MD. The physical report is that they are a very good value for their cost ($909), especially considering the cost of the electronic components that do the guitar modeling. This guitar feels more solid and playable …
When, o when will the Variax army arrive at my local music store? Confound this tiresome waiting!
A new piece of Linux knowledge today: Compiling your kernel with devfs support will kill your ability to use “LABEL=” in your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf files. Make sure CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=n in your kernel .config when you build, or alternately fix your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf files to change the offending lines to …
Happy 2003! We had a wonderful NYE, with friends visiting from Richmond and Charlottesville. My wife and her dance troupe performed for First Night, and Evie really enjoyed seeing them as well. She also liked being wheeled around town after dark, with all the streets lit up with holiday lights …
Many folks complain about not being able to mount NTFS partitions (such as on Windows 2000/XP) with their newly-installed Red Hat Linux systems. Red Hat does not ship with NTFS as a supported file system because there is not currently any reliable write support. Customers who think they have full …
Christmas treated me pretty well — a Line 6 GuitarPort, and a bunch of books, including Chuck Palahniuk’s new book Lullaby, Umberto Eco’s new book Baudolino, a beautiful HC, slipcased Lord of the Rings trilogy, and an equally beautiful HC, slipcased The Hobbit. Plus some Best Buy GC’s which I …
All right, although I haven’t caught up with getting all my pictures of Evie uploaded, there are a bunch of them in the site now. The unfortunate part is that I have to build pages for them, since the Mac server where this page is sitting doesn’t automatically deliver index …
I just got back from Raleigh, and Red Hat HQ. Their new building on Centennial Campus is lovely! I had a seminar with my old instructor Randy Russell, for Red Hat Certified Examiner (RHCX) training. It was a great class and well worth the trip. I got back late Friday …
It looks like Line 6 is about to unleash their newest revolutionary creation on the world of guitar-slingers. Check out the Variax — as if your life depended on it! This will undoubtedly be my next major axe purchase, if it comes anywhere near the hype.