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Lifer
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I was having a problem with a new record skipping yesterday . I was going to send it back and had initiated a return. Today, I recalibrated the cartridge alignment and tracking force. No issues now!
 

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Lifer
Apr 6, 2002
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I accidentally tripped into my AV rack last week and the glass shelving collapsed. I cleaned it all up and put it back together. It seems a more fragile. I've looked into new AV racks and boy are they expensive (for me). I was worried I may have damaged the stylus or the turntable. I had to put the belt back on. I had tested a record last week and it sounded fine. Yesterday, went to play Peter Gabriel's third album and it kept mistracking on that weird (weird even for Peter Gabriel) first track. When I later tried to play back Peter Gabriel's fifth album, So, I heard mistracking on the first track I decided that I needed to attempt to recalibrate the cartridge alignment and tracking force first before I returned the album in question. I enjoyed listening to both albums in their entirety.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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My bank has been down for the past 3 days for a full IT systems upgrade. I do not envy the IT people working on that right now, deployment days are always so stressful I can't imagine a multi day one - and with financial data involved. :eek:

I just hope the new system doesn't do anything dumb that won't work in Firefox or Linux. At one point they used to require the adobe PDF plugin just to view messages, and that didn't work in Linux. So dumb. They thankfully eventually got rid of that and made it use regular html.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Speaking of IT upgrades, this is super impromptu but I decided to fix my local domain situation. When I originally setup my network I didn't really know any better but each server got it's own domain, so appserver.loc, mailserver.loc, firewall.loc etc... I had recently read that you should use appserver.home.arpa, firewall.home.arpa etc... essentially everything is a subdomain under one domain. Another option is a subdomain off a real domain you own so that's what I did. appserver.int.myonlinedomain.com etc. So my internal domain is int.myonlinedomain.com.

All this is way longer to type than .loc though.... but it's a better convention. Also it allows me to use letsencrypt SSL certs locally, since I can validate them. On my public facing DNS server *.int.myonlinedomain.com is a wildcard and just goes to a default holding page on my web server which is where the cert validation script runs. This allows me to get a letsencrypt cert for anything at that domain level, and it will work on my internal network. This is going to stop all the annoying browser warnings for local stuff.

Actually weirdly excited about this new change lol.

Getting a -48vdc power plant setup, now a cleaner domain setup... my network is finally getting some TLC.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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Rage! Rage against the dying of the light!

Today, I removed the fax number from my email sig. I think the fax might have stopped working a few years ago but I just noticed it still listed on my sig.
 
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Ajay

Lifer
Jan 8, 2001
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Rage! Rage against the dying of the light!

Today, I removed the fax number from my email sig. I think the fax might have stopped working a few years ago but I just noticed it still listed on my sig.
LOLZ! I remember when I thought faxes were the coolest thing.