By Todd Smith -
There's a newer line that Fender came out with called the "Modern Player" line. These are Chinese made guitars built to higher specifications than the Squier line and all of them are priced at $399. Many of these are remakes of classic Fender bodies - Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Tele Strat, and some more hybrid approaches like the Maurader which is somewhere between a Strat and a Jag.
Very cost effective and very well made, these are causing a bit of disruption in the Epiphone line, because many have used and complained about the Squier line over the years.
Long and McQuade has locations all over the place and they have trade in programs, I tend to use them the most because there's one up the street from me.
Cheers,
Todd Smith
Head of Information Technology
soho vfx |
99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8
office: (416) 516-7863 fax: (416) 516-9682 web: sohovfx.com
-gthanks !VM: yes I'll be limiting each connection to 5 megabits during peek hours and dynamic rate limiting on off hours. It does seem a bit odd to run a firewall in a VM but not that uncommon. Cisco does it with the ASA and ASR stuff I believe.. anyway no inbound connections to the host itself.... new way of thinking I guess..where are the good used guitar stores Scott? 8)well your post just totally blew the wind out of my sails. 8( Thought I was gonna haz me a geeetar tonight! I already sent him a 'when can we meet' message... I'll play the "wife said no" card!!!!I was in a few music stores looking at strats, new they cost 800 for an American one, and 600 or so for a Chinese/Mexican one. I went for the Jackson as they use to be all the rage back in the day when I lived with musicians going to school.. but truthfully for the music I'd like to learn and listen to, a strat is a better fit, or perhaps a Gibson SG.On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Todd Smith <todd@sohovfx.com> wrote:RE: guitar - the frets look tarnished and the fretboard doesn't look well kept. Also playing guitars with tremolo lock nuts makes play 1st fret barre chords a little harder, also that guitar shape is terrible for playing sitting down, it slides all over your leg and makes positioning more difficult. I wouldn't buy a guitar these days without hearing it first hand ESPECIALLY an electric with older pots and pickups.Do yourself a favour and go down to your local music shop and see what they have for $300 that you can try while you are there. There's a lot of really amazing guitars in the $400-$500 range right now and the Fenders that sell for $200 - $300 have very good action for a Chinese made guitar (better action than some of the guitars I paid two to three times more for in the early 90's). In many shops they have consignment and resell for trade-ins and I've seen some nice Epiphones and Fenders that would normally retail for $600+ on those racks for $300-$400 and best of all, you can try them for hours before making a decision.RE: Firewall, router - with a machine that beefy I don't see running into many problems, unless you give the student cart blanche on the network, then they will run that connection into the ground. My only concern would be to make sure you can write logs to disk fast enough.Todd SmithHead of Information Technologysoho vfx |99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8office: (416) 516-7863 fax: (416) 516-9682 web: sohovfx.comTo unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe-gbut really, i just wanted to ask about my guitar....Sounds crazy but its an idea i'm considering... I'm thinking it would be neat to run ESX then install a pfsence firewall within. if not i'm just going to do bare metal pfsence install.I've done it before but only to protect other VMs which were hanging off a 10 megabit circuit. This is 100 megabits, with about 120 students.I wanted to ask if anyone is running a firewall within a VM and what your experience has been like. latency issues or otherwise.The ISP has assigned me a boat load of IPs.I recommended they buy a new server to act as the firewall/router. They did, which ended up being a Dell 420 with 32 gigs, E5-2420 6C @1.9 dual PSU unit.First off, I signed up for guitar lessons and am looking at a Randy Rhoads RX10D Jackson guitar, dude wants 300 bucks Canadian and it comes with a rectangle road case. Think thats a good price? (here is the ad: http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-musical-instruments-guitars-Jackson-Randy-Rhoads-RX10D-W0QQAdIdZ516768866 )Recently they had a 100 meg optical circuit installed and will be moving from their old ISP to this new one.There is a residency here in town i help from time to time.
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