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... because Oct 31 = Dec 25 
I'll get my coat...
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Because someone has to post this joke at least once every October. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And again every December...
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I heard it as "Why do developers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?"
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That version makes more sense.
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don't forget your hat
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Here is a very cool white-paper written by students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
It's done so well that I am impressed with the entire institute even though I've never heard of it before.
https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-090208-113049/unrestricted/MQPFinalReport.pdf^
Summary
It's a great narrative of a group of students who undertook the challenge of building a guitar effects pedal which includes a 10-band equalizer and distortion unit.
Numerous Great Parts to the White-Paper
1. Very nice explanations of fundamental concepts (see 1st quote below for my favorite example.)
2. Reverse engineering of numerous effects pedals currently on the market.
3. Complete schematics for those pedals (and the students' final project).
4. Very nice illustrations including pictures and charts, etc.
5. Comparative analysis of the effects pedals.
6. Lessons learned notes
white-paper: how the basic system works - NICE! Guitar signals are created by metal strings of specific tensions being picked causing them to oscillate, which induces an electric field in the inductive magnetic coils of the guitar, called pickups. The electric field induces a sinusoidal current in the coils of wire around the pickups, which travels through the coiled wire inside the pickups through a network of volume and tone potentiometers and out the output jack of the electric guitar. From there it is approximately between 140mV and 1.4V in amplitude, and changes frequency depending on fundamental frequencies of the notes played and their accompanying harmonics. This signal flows through a
guitar cable to a series of signal processing circuitry and then is sent through the speakers of a guitar amplifier.
white-paper: summary of lessons The task undertaken of building a distortion pedal with a ten band equalizer, with functionality comparable to existing pedals on the market today is one that is undertaken by teams of specialized and experienced engineers, with resources far exceeding that available to our group as students. A WPI education provides the foundations for continued learning through practice in the workplace. This project represents our abilities and our research to this point, and serves as the culmination of our education and our transition from students to engineers.
Knowledge necessary to build a functioning and marketable distortion pedal is not contained in any lecture or textbook.
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Ron Anders wrote: Pedals are cool man.
For sure!
And if you're additionally interested in the electronics behind them then this white-paper is extremely cool. That's why I was so interested in this. Really great stuff.
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The British are the best sound engineers in the world, what do you expect? 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: The British are the best sound engineers in the world
I believe you. But these are the New British because I believe the institute is located in Worcester, MA (not the Worcester in England).
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Damn, close!
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Well, according to the British, the British are the best in the world
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We are. We invented the industrial revolution. Rock music. Beer. The E type Jag. Concord (OK, you helped a bit with the paint scheme  )
The Beatles, Stones, Led Zep, Floyd.
The only reason the US is so successful is they branched from the UK you know. 
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Why do it yourself if you can take it from someone else .
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I prefer to use IDE optical drives to avoid dedicating an internal SATA port to a device I almost never use. I was shocked at how expensive they are - 2X more than a SATA drive.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I think the problem is that motherboards have a limited number of SATA ports built in. Using one up for an optical drive means you can't use it for something else, like a hard disk or SSD.
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Ah, well that makes sense.
Then would an external optical drive be a viable solution here, thus not using up a SATA port (have it run off of USB)?
modified 26-Oct-18 8:28am.
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External USB drives are pretty pricey as well - and some require their own power connection. I have an old xbox HD-DVD external drive. I'm tempted to take it out of the case it's in and put it in a box (if it's IDE inside).
I also have an USB Blu-ray drive I could to the same thing with.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's been something like a decade since new mobo's stopped including IDE cable plugs, I'm honestly mildly surprised that such drives are still available new at all.
I'm guessing the prices you see are a combination of reflecting what they cost to make a number of years ago + cumulative warehouse costs for storing them for a number of years vs SATA drives whose inventory turns over rapidly.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: It's been something like a decade since new mobo's stopped including IDE cable plugs
I didn't authorize that change... I'm going to find out who's responsible, and "take care of the problem".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Let's see:
Intel and AMD for dropping it from the chipsets. All the mobo makers for deciding that adding a few dollars to the cost to include an extra controller for it after most users were full SATA everywhere.
If you still really want an IDE port you can get cheap expansion cards to add one, otoh if you're trying to cram as many HDD's into a box as possible you could get a SATA card with 4-8 ports instead and use all but one of them for HDDs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I found a motherboard with eight SATA ports (and an eSATA connector), but I don't really feel like re-building my file server (because CPU and RAM as well).
OTOH, rebuilding the server would be cheaper than buying an 8-bay SATA enclosure by about $60 - and wouldn't require YAWP (yet another wall plug).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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At the point of being even in cost, I'd lean toward full replacement if your old server's more than a few years old just to buy more time before an expected failure as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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