Conference napalm::guitar

         You may have noticed some clean up going on in the past
         week.  There's a reason; Rick Marshall has graciously
         appointed myself and Bill Buckley as moderators of this
         conference.  Neither Buck or I are really into heavy-handed
         moderation, and we both have jobs to do, so I feel that
         most conference moderation will be pretty much as it has
         been: "hands off".  However, we will strive to keep the
         conference well organized and running smoothy.  Also,
         initially, Buck and I will be cleaning and consolidating
         a lot of topics and discussions.  For instance, there is
         no reason to have 22 topics on "Brand X Amps" or "Brand 
         Y Guitar". 

         Some of the rules we would like to state, and ask for our 
         fellow guitar_noters help on are:

         1) Keep the chatter down to a minimum and in the proper
            topic (1954 - "General Discussion").  

         2)  Keep replies in line with the topic you reply to.

         3)  Keep in mind the DEC Personnel P&P's and guidelines
             on noting and proper ettiquette.

         4)  Please post ALL For Sale & Wanted: notes in Topic 2.*.
             Also, please delete your "For Sale/Wanted" ad entry (entries) 
             after the items are sold.

         Buck and I are both open to suggestions and ideas and welcome 
         your comments and suggestions on the content/course of this
         conference...After all, this conference is what we (all of us) 
         make it.  

         jc/Buck  

         (Jeff Cooper and Bill Buckley - Co-Moderators)

    The following memo from Corporate Personnel has come to my attention. 
    I thought I would share it with all of you, so that we may have some
    "food for thought" when noting...it can only keep out happy
    guitar-noting home in tact (if you know what I mean...)!
    
    Regards,
    Bill Buckley, Co-Mod
    
                          **DIGITAL INTERNAL USE ONLY **
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                 Message from Ron Glover Corporate Personnel     OCT 1990
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    Over the last several months Digital has been contacted by a number of
    individuals and business entities that were angry about negative
    comments made about them in our Notesfiles and Conferences.  As the
    Personnel Policy Manager for Digital I have been the recipient of many
    of those notes.  I thought I should take the time to post this note to
    inform employees that it is not appropriate for them to make negative
    comments or references about any person or business entity in any of
    Digital's employee interest notesfile or conferences.

    There are several reasons why we are establishing this rule.  The first
    has to do with fundamental fairness.  It is simply not fair for an
    employee to make a negative comment about a business when we don't
    provide those businesses an opportunity to respond and defend
    themselves.  This is particularly true given the fact that we have no
    way of determining whether the comment is honest, fair or accurate.
    Clearly Digital has no intention, or desire, to open up its notesfiles
    to third-party businesses so that they can engage in a debate about
    whether they provide quality services.  The only logical solution then
    is to ask our employees to refrain from using the Notesfiles to air
    grievances they have with individuals, vendors, or organizations.

    In addition to out concerns about fairness, we are concerned about the
    potential damage that these kinds of comments may cause to third-party
    businesses.  In that regard, employees should understand that they may
    be personally liable if the statements they make cause harm to any
    person or business.  Moreover, there is some possibility Digital may be
    held liable for such comments as well.  Stated more simply, comments
    made in a Notesfile or conference are in no way privileged or immune
    from claims of liable, slander or defamation.

    We are asking all of the users of Notesfiles to exercise discretion and
    judgement in the comments that they make in the system.  We are also
    asking moderators to go back and review the notesfiles they moderate
    and to remove any notes that include derogatory references to
    third-party businesses.

    Please feel free to contact your moderator if you have any questions on
    this subject.

    Ron Glover
    Corporate Personnel Policy Manager

    I've moved the instrument/insurance discussion to note 2459.
    
    Please-please-please do a dir/title before you start a new
    topic.  KDX200 has 300K blocks of notes conferences on it, and
    I'd like to keep them close to tidy.
    
    :-)

    I've cleaned house a little - 1954 and 2 specifically.
    I wiped everthing to 1, or 15 August....Plus I'm doing
    a compress of the conference tonight.
    
    

    I moved the PV Bandit (new nickname, I'd say) string to 1954.last
    

    Please welcome our new conference moderator, Sam Lambert.  Sam brings
    us years of experience in conference moderation from the CYCLES
    notesfile and is a very fine bass player and geetar picker to boot! 
    Coop's out of the office on business a lot these days and my work
    responsibilities and priorities are (um...) changing, so I thought we
    might need a little help in here.
    
    Greg

    Hi Sam...
    
    :-)

    My most sincere apologies - I was at a customer site yesterday and
    KDX200 developed some network/hardware problems (over the weekend, I
    think).  I came in early this morning to fix it.   I know that since 
    the net was DOWN on KDX200 yesterday and H_M, GUITAR, COMMUSIC, and
    MUSCLECARS were unavailable, half the companies productivity was in 
    the crapper.  
    
    Hope all is well now (it appears to be).
    
    jc (Who doesn't LIKE being away)

    FYI - The system device on my workstation ran outta space, and the
    audit server did it's thing and shut down all sorts of handy things 
    (like logins :-).
    
    I'm back in The Springs now, and all is well, we hope!
    
    Sorry for the inconvenience.
    
    jc

    Hey mods -- doncha think it's about time you updated the mod list and
    removed greg house?

    Ok...
    :-)

    Anyone mind that I changed the conference title??
    :-)
    
    Clapton AND Petrucci suck.  I alone, am the god of all guitarists.
    You folks should chill out and learn how to play repeating box-blues
    scales like me and CC DeVille.
    :-)

    
    OK...   I won't like it Coop, but for YOU!
    
    
    	Jerry Garcia
    

    Now that we've all had a good laugh, howzabout changing the
    conference name back to something appropriate. 
    
    IE: Guitarnotes, The kinder, gentler conference. 
    
    Mark

   Done and done.  Better?

   -- Sam (co-mod)

    Ayup. Tanks!

    Opps - forgot to put it back.  Thanks Sam!
    

   Rumor has it that KDX200, host to GUITAR, COMMUSIC, HEAVY_METAL and other
conferences, will be vanishing soon.  If true, has anyone stepped forward to
host this notesfile?

        Thanks, Andr�

   It's possible I could take over ::GUITAR, but not the others.  I'm on a 
   lowly workstation, so disk space, etc, is at question.  We'll see how 
   things go.

   -- Sam (::GUITAR co-mod, who also knew about this...)

    Actually, I may still have homes for all the conferences - It will just
    be on a non-workstation (i.e. 6640).  Stay tuned!
    jc

What kind if disk space requirements are we talking about?  It's possible
that I can help with some of them.

-Hal

Directory DISK$KDX200_USER2:[NOTES$LIBRARY]

COMMUSIC.NOTE;1        18342/18342    26-AUG-1994 15:55:43.81  (RWED,RWED,RE,)
COMMUSIC_V1.NOTE;1     94986/95628    29-AUG-1994 08:58:50.97  (RWED,RWED,RE,)
GUITAR.NOTE;1         104601/104601   28-AUG-1994 12:52:15.07  (RWED,RWED,RE,)
HEAVY_METAL.NOTE;1     77337/77337    17-AUG-1994 16:46:48.06  (RWED,RWED,RE,)
HERETIC.NOTE;1           435/435       6-JAN-1995 11:33:03.90  (RWE,RWE,RE,)
MUSCLECARS.NOTE;1       9909/9909     30-AUG-1994 17:49:23.02  (RWED,RWED,RE,)

Folks - KDX200 is MOVING from CXO1 to CXO3 musical machines...  This will 
require a DECNET address change - The name will be the same, just a 
different address (8.719 is what it is now), it's moving to area 28 
(28.mumble).

I hope to do this sometime this week; I'm trying to coordinate it so 
we'll only be off the air for an hour or so, hopefully late Friday
afternoon (mountain time).  I'll post the new DECNET address BEFORE I 
move the machine, so everyone can find it.  :-)  Those of you who do
not have sufficient privs will need to pass the info along to someone
who does (send mail to system?), and ask them to update the decnet 
database.

Stay tooned!

Jeff

    Sometime either late this afternoon or late tomorrow afternoon, 
    KDX200 will be moved to:
    
    28.166
    
    Stay tuned!

Opppss - Well, I've got an opportunity to move the gear now, so KDX200
is going away in a few minutes - buck up as 28.166 in a little while.

Stay tuned!!

Jeff

	Okay!!

	We're back on the air at 28.166 (28838).  The machine has a new cube
 	at CXO3.  Thanks for your patience!!

	Jeff

    Heeellooooo?!?????
    

re: .71

>    Heeellooooo?!?????
    
Don't panic, Coop! :-)   Not everyone has figured out what happened yet.
There's already been an enquiry in MUSIC about what happened to KDX200
(don't worry, I answered it).   It always seems to take a bit for a 
conference to recover after a move.

-Hal

    
    
     SEEN IT - DONE IT - DOING IT!

    ....GOT THE T-SHIRT!!

    I found you. Thanks Rick C.
    
    Mark

    Grrr...
    
    I was in Seattle for two days and someone took it upon themselves to 
    *move* KDX200 to a new location.  :-(  Worse, they didn't set anything
    up, boot the thing, and managed to bust up one of my disks in the
    process.  Double worse?  I was up in Seattle working on a big-$$ 
    presentation for a customer and couldn't get to my files.  Double-grr.
    
    Anyway- sorry we were off the air kids.  :-(
    
    jc

                    -< VMS v7 upgrade tomorrow morning... >-
    
    
    I gotta be the first kid on the block, so...
    
    ...I'm gonna upgrade KDX200 to VMS v7.0 - so if it shows up 
    unavailable, you'll know why.  FTSV tells me I won't have the 
    kits until 8pm, so it'll probably be in the morning...
    
    FYI/FWIW/Like_anyone_cares,
    jc

    Hey ... I'm just glad there are still enough people left in VMS
    engineering to come up with a V7 !!!
    
    

    
    :-)

    All done.
    
    Only gotchas were DNS/IP stuff...  3.3B didn't wanna work.
    If anyone wants to see my notes, lemme know and I'll shoot
    'em to ya.

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    re .-1
    
    Are these really DEC engineers or are they poseurs?

    Someone in another notesfile seems to think Ken Steinhardt is behind
    this.

    
    
    I thought Ken Steinhardt left the company?
    
         

   And how come we never see/saw him in here?

    
    	Probably because he plays keyboards.
    
    	8^)
    
    	I know, I know ... that doesn't matter.  But I wouldn't want
    	to disappoint anyone by NOT being a wise guy.
    

    FYI - former GUITAR noter and blues great Edd Cote has a new e-mail
    	address on Ultranet:
    
    			[email protected]
    
    

    
    	Is he still working here, or did he leave?
    

he's back under contract..

He also broke his leg pretty good this winter, and
was out on STD for a while...


well called him Forest Gimp...

    
    	Yeah, I knew all that ... I was just wondering if he'd left
    	again recently.  He's next door from me at MRO2.
    

                  -< Sorry for the short notice down time... >-
    
    Pardon me folks - I had real-short notice to bring down KDX200
    and reconfig the scsi busses for more drives...  Sorry for the
    inconvenience...
    
    jc (Host/Mod)

                      -< This conference MOVES tonight!! >-
    
                             *** Important!! ***
    
    Folks,
    
    I've recently finished building a high performance cluster for my team
    that I think would make a better host than my workstation (KDX200).  
    Actually, I was thinking I might have KDX200 boot from that cluster 
    later ANYWAY...
    
    Tonight, I'm going to move these notes conferences to it.
    
    The reasons for this move are as follows:
    
    1.  NAPALM is a high performance, two node VMS Cluster with redundant
        members including HSC's, disk drives, and a high capacity tape drive.  
        It's configuration (for the propeller heads among you) includes two 
        VAX 6430 processors with 192mb of physical memory, redundant 
        intelligent disk controllers, SCSI buses, connection to dual-rail 
        ethernet, connection to a massive UPS system and PolyCenter Console
        Manager (PCM) system (with auto-paging).  
    		
    	The Result?  These conferences will be available nearly 100% of the
        time via these most righteous, high-zoot resources.
    
    2.  There are six users on this cluster, most of whom are NT weenies
        and use OpenVMS for file/print services only.  :-)  These machines
        are WAY-faster than KDX200 (a little VS3100).
    
    	The Result?  Improved file access speed via load balanced and much
        faster processors/members.
    
    3.  Reduntant XMI-based ethernet controllers.
    
    	The Result?  Improved noting performance via load balancing and a
        (much) higher speed network adaptor.
    
    3.  Blah-blah...Yada,yada,yada.
    
    So;
    
    Sometime tonight, I'm going to shut down notes access to KDX200, and copy
    the files over.  These conferences include:
    
    COMMUSIC.NOTE
    COMMUSIC_V1.NOTE
    GUITAR.NOTE
    HEAVY_METAL.NOTE
    HERETIC.NOTE
    HOME_STUDIO.NOTE
    MUSCLECARS.NOTE
    MUSIC.NOTE
    MUSIC_MAKING.NOTE
    
    When the move is complete, I'll create dummy conferences on KDX200 to
    point folks to the new location.
    
    What do YOU need to do??
    
    Well, most of you know this, but I'll say it anyway:
    
    To retain your unseen maps, go into NOTES and issue the following
    command:
    
    NOTES>modify entry entry_name/file=napalm::new-file-spec
    
    Example:
    
    NOTES>modify entry heavy_metal/file=napalm::heavy_metal.note
    
    Please contact me with any questions or concerns,
    
    Thanks,
    
    Jeff - Host to *ALL* the *COOL* conferences   :-)

    |    Jeff - Host to *ALL* the *COOL* conferences   :-)
    
    almost all of them. ;-)

    Okay, if you're gonna pick nits...  :-)

    I wasn't even aware of some of those cool conferences. 
    -ss

                        -< Move completed!!  Thanks!! >-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Looks like the move was cool...Especially if you're reading this.
    :-)
    
    Thanks for the patience!!
    
    jeff (Who also converted all the files and saved a BUNCH!)

Jeff, I think you forgot to make the dummy conference for MUSIC_MAKING.

-Hal

    Thanks Hal, I got it this time.  :-)
    
    jc

    Hey folks,
    
    I don't get in here (GUITAR) that much these days but I thought you
    might like to know:
    
    Just got mail from Edd Cote...
    
    He's ba--acck...
    
    Or, really, coming back.
    
    He's being rehired as a fulltime Digital employee.  Should be here in
    another month or so.
    
    	db

I've been in touch with Edd all the while he's been outside..
not much changes, he's still crazy, and wont listen to
anything other than Fagen/Becker/Steeley Dan,, somethings
will rarely change...  8^)...


He'll be starting sometime in early July,,  if anyone wants
his Email to send the obligatory Hatemail his way so he feels
back at home,, lemme-no..