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Subject: The "Duh" Factor
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Original Message 1/14 20-Jan-04 @ 11:16 PM - The " duh " factor
I have a friend, he's been making industrial-ish electronic music since the early 90's. He's pretty proficient, knows how to program, engineer, etc. So he bought a Roland XP30 3 years ago and it worked wonderfully for the first year he had it. Then he moved to California, got his synth out of the crate, and the MIDI wouldn't work. I had a look at it, hooked it all up, went in and played with all the settings etc, nothing! another friend looked at it as well... we all agreed that the MIDI port was screwed up and likely came loose in the move, a little solder and he's solid. Now, he's been on some hard times, no money for 2 years now to get it fixed, and he's not comfortable doing the soldering himself. Last night he brought it over (he plays quite well, and doesn't need MIDI for recording, etc...) and as he takes it out of the car he notices this little switch...
You know how some synths can be set to work off of a USB cable? well, the ol' XP30 is one of them! And if you set the little switch to PC instead of MIDI, the MIDI won't work at all! Hehehehehe... so, um, this guy's been without MIDI for 2 years on this synth because a little switch got moved and we were all too stupid to look at it!
Just thought I'd share!
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Message 2/14 20-Jan-04 @ 11:27 PM - RE: The
two years without midi because no one remembered to look behind the synth?
Message 3/14 20-Jan-04 @ 11:59 PM - RE: The
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I have a day job working as a programmer developing mainly windows software... the 'duh' factor seems to be present all the time in software development. Or actually in 'technological' stuff in general.
A couple of weeks ago I bought an external enclosure for an ide hd with usb connection. I couldn't get it to work at all... must have spent more than 10 hours trying different drivers, options, jumpers on the hd, even flashing my bios and installing windows xp (last resort... I know).
So I take it back to the shop complaing, they hook it up and it works.
So my mate comes round with another type of external usb hd, which also seems to work without problems. After trying some really bizarre and far-fetched stuff I accidentally hook up my drive with his cable and kboom! It works!!!
Turns out my (included) cable was just ed and at the shop they just tested it with a good cable allready connected to a machine.
Message 4/14 21-Jan-04 @ 12:00 AM - RE: The
"start from the bottom" and all that
Message 5/14 21-Jan-04 @ 12:22 AM - RE: The
Message 6/14 21-Jan-04 @ 04:17 AM - RE: The
Message 7/14 21-Jan-04 @ 07:34 AM - RE: The
garbage disposal hasnt been working for 6 months now. thought I was moving out so I never fixed it. Finally bought a new one, so pops comes over to help put it in.
I say "dunno, it just stopped working"
"did you check the reset switch?"
"the HUH?"
get down underneath, and...sure enough. something caused the switch to pop.
heh
Message 8/14 21-Jan-04 @ 08:38 AM - RE: The
Message 9/14 21-Jan-04 @ 09:34 AM - RE: The
heh. man...I dont know jack shit about garbage disposals
Message 10/14 21-Jan-04 @ 02:48 PM - RE: The
Fucking cost me $75 to find that out, but at least I can fix it myself next time.
-Craig
Message 11/14 21-Jan-04 @ 05:50 PM - RE: The
The blower for the AC in my car (a beater - 1986 Chevy Cavalier) went in late Summer of last year. I thought it would be too expensive to fix, Fall's around the corner, and I'll be buying another motorbike next year, so I think, "fahget about it, I ain't spendin' no more dough on dis beater".
I went to Maggie Valley, NC (smaaaaaall town) two weeks ago where it was in the teens temp wise and the windows wouldn't unfog with just the heater and no blower. I finally got it to a local shadetree type shop after it warmed up a bit. The guy tests the circuit and replaces a relay switch for $15.00US.
Message 12/14 21-Jan-04 @ 07:50 PM Edit: 21-Jan-04 | 07:51 PM - RE: The
And this happens about once a year. I open something in Sonar and hit play. Sonar's running but no sound. I close and reopen, same thing. I turn the volume up but nothing until I'm like "what's that?". I track the sound to my headphones and that's when I remember I turned my monitors off the night before. You'd think I'd learn but about every year it catches me by surprise all over again.
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Message 13/14 23-Jan-04 @ 05:55 PM - RE: The
bathroom sink faucet didnt work--it just dripped water. Just before I moved out, my
parents had to reappraise the house, so they called in a plumber to fix my sink. Plumber
comes in, 5 minutes later he's back out and my sink is working. Appearently the faucet
was just clogged and was easily fixxable. An entire year with no Bathroom sink--now
that I think about it It seems pretty goofy that I used my shower as my sink for so
long...DER!
-Mike
Message 14/14 29-Jan-04 @ 05:50 AM - RE: The
another DUH
asking about where to find a fruityloops website and demo.
when the website is: www.fruityloops.com !!!
and the demo is: on the FRONT PAGE
duhh
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