Posts by Malleus

How to help a user who can't find the Start button or the keyboard?

It's the 90s *puts on floppy hat, smiley t-shirt and wallabies*

Ok, its 9am, the phone rings, its Angry Lawyer, and they are angry at me, IT guy in the legal department.

Cue a 5 minute rant about PC is not working, they are late, they are busy, the PC never works and they hate all this new technology.

Walk to office, greet glowering lawyer. Screen is indeed blank. Monitor shows green light and is working.

Check the PC, and the PC is ... PC isn't switched on. Switch it on, smile at red faced lawyer, walk out.

Walk back to office, open my little A-Z of IT jargon, flick to P

PEBCAK.

Problem

Exists

Between

Chair

And

Keyboard

As relevant now as it was then.

Guitar maker Gibson thrashes out more robo-axes

Do all the negative posters understand what this means?

Your guitar is in standard tuning. Hit a switch, 2 seconds later its in Drop D, switch it again, 2 seconds later its in Open A, or a modal tuning like Dsus4, switch again and you are tuned to C, 2 steps down, etc. etc.

Play a note or a string, or tune a single string to the pitch you want, hit the switch and 2 seconds later the guitar has tuned all 6 strings to it .

I'd like to see someone change tunings on the fly with a Floyd Rose. You know, rather than spending ages with a battery jammed under the bridge, the back open and fiddling about with spring tension v string tension.

If you play live, and not all your songs are in same tuning, you can change your tuning of your guitar in the time taken to announce the next song.

There's more to guitar tuning than standard tuning (E A D G B E)

There's more than one tuning for a guitar, the Robot can instantly change to a preset tuning (i.e an open chord, or a drop tuning), it can also tune the entire guitar to a reference note, and you can design your own presets. It's a great bit of tech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tunings