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Mason Bernard Guitar: Hands on Part 1

scothiam — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:56:11 +0000

After seeing a friend of a friends post on facebook, a picture of two guitars- one a vintage/high-end looking BC Rich, the other one I did not recognize. The mutual friend showing me the post mentioned that this person probabaly wouldn't buy a garbage guitar.

Les Paul wiring Part 2

scothiam — Sat, 10 May 2014 17:40:03 +0000

Okay, now I'm good.

I've just finished updating the wiring job from the other week... Swapped out the Blusebucker for a vintage Lawrence L-500. As much as I like the Blusebucker, it is not versatile at all. It's also much easier to clean up a hot pickup.

Les Paul wiring, 5way + 3way!!!

scothiam — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:32:28 +0000

Initially, I wanted to wire up my `91 Gibson Les Paul (Studio Lite) as Bill Nash does, which is basically two humbuckers with the tone controls set to split each when turned past 8... But I wanted more options ;)

Super Strat custom wiring

scothiam — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:00:26 +0000

A while back, I finally decided on the pickup set for my old fav `91 Ibanez RG570: Dimarzio PAF Pro in the neck and Evolution in the bridge, with a Wilde L-298sm in the middle (designed/built by Bill Lawrence). Similar to Steve Vai's setup, I thought it'd do this guitar justice.

Linux is calling me back

scothiam — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:16:18 +0000

Way back in 2006, I "switched" to Linux from Windows Xp (even had a nifty tri-boot setup with WinXP, Ubuntu 7, and Marklar), but it was a half hearted switch: I was still using Windows apps (like Dreamweaver) within *nix. In late 2007, I switched to Mac.

DETOUR!!! Develop for Android... hmmmm

scothiam — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:22:07 +0000

With all my items on the TODO list on the go, going on a bit of a detour tonight... I just found out about the different ways of emulating the Android OS on a mac for development, and you know I'm all about emulation! Downloading a VM here http://virtualboximages.com/Android+OS+2.6.29+x86+Virtual+Appliance and the SDK etc here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Facebook commenting!

scothiam — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:21:04 +0000

now visitors can comment on my blog entries with their Facebook credentials, no registration or user account required!

Twitter!

scothiam — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:42:54 +0000

Dusted off my twitter account, which I signed up for back in 2009 and did nothing with at the time... now to integrate it with this site! There's got to be a Drupal module for that... Added to the TODO list!

PearPC on Ubuntu

scothiam — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:14:56 +0000

NOTE: This is from the previous version of this web site and may be wholly outdated. Originally published in 2007...

Eclipse PDT setup for Drupal Developement with SVN

scothiam — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:16:02 +0000

Eclipse for Drupal Development

There are lots of posts on getting Eclipse setup for Drupal development, I'm just providing the links to the ones I found, found most helpful, and some notes on things that have changed in those articles or points that I found to be different.

Start with: http://blip.tv/file/3253369 A great video that walks you through setting up Eclipse PDT on Os X... I noticed that in the video, Eclipse is version "Galileo", whereas I've used "Helios". This probably accounts for some of the discrepancies.

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