Hi all. Wife and I are taking Oasis in early September from NJ to Florida and Nassau. We’ve been on Symphony so we know the ship layout and are wondering what it’s like to be on during rain or even a big storm. Are Central Park and Boardwalk open? I’d guess the Aqua shows would be out. Any other info or tips for cruising during hurricane season?
Hi. I'm trying to move my email hosting to iCloud. My domain is actually registered with Network Solutions, but it looks like I update the records on my current mail/web service. When I go into the Manage Advanced DNS Records, there's a ton of them in there: 12 A, 4 CNAME, 3 MX, 17 TXT, 5 SRV. Should I leave all of those in and just add the ones the Apple shows? Also, when I go to add a record, my only choices are A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, SRV, NS, CAA. There's no option to add SPF or DKIM!
What's going on? Any better directions that actually match what I'm seeing?
Everything works fine with media stored on external drives on Mac Mini accessed from iPhone or iPad but not from AppleTV. I put on support request Monday and still no reply ( other than auto-reply). Tried calling them and it’s just a message saying no one is there. Well, that’s damned obvious!
This is what I get for $99/year? Have they always been so horrible?
Hi all.
For many years, I've had my own family domain and email hosting. The registration is currently with Network Solutions and the email with Bluehost. I've had issues with both and already subscribe to Apple One with 2TB iCloud+ so I want to move everything to Apple.
I've read the info on setting up my email and it shows for both setting up a new domain and using my current one. However, I can't find anything about moving my registration from Network Solutions to Apple. How do I do this?
Thanks!
I hope this isn't too repetitive but I didn't see any recent posts that helped.
I had Infuse all working a few years ago with files on my MacBook played from my Apple TV 4K. And, the old files still play/work! However, trying to add my updated setup is getting nowhere.
I have a ton of videos on a WD 4TB external drive. They're in an APFS partition and I added it to Sharing and made sure they were READ-ONLY everyone (also tried READ/WRITE) recursively on everything. When I tried Infuse on the MacBook, it worked fine.
In Infuse on my Apple TV, I added the MacBook share as SMB with my username/PW and it connected ok. I then added the shared folder to favorites which appeared ok. But when I went to select the favorite, I get the popup: "An error occurred. File/Folder not found". I checked the permissions several times and tried different partition/volumes but just get this error!
I even tried creating a new used on my MacBook just for Infuse but when I try and add the MacBook share to Infuse, I keep getting errors saying the username and PW combination isn't right. I know I'm typing it correctly.
Again, I set all this up several years ago so MacOS has changed a lot. Does Infuse have some issue with recent versions of MacOS (I'm running Tahoe 26.6)? Some issue with an APFS volume on an external drive?
Much thanks in advance for any help on this!
Hi all. Can people please let me know which markets in the area have salad bars? Sprouts used to but never put them back after covid. I saw that the new Baron’s in Carlsbad has one and Frazier Farms also had one but they’re a little far for me (Vista, off Sycamore exit of 78) to run to for a quick meal.
Thanks!
Hi all.
I'm thinking of building a big box-o-knobs for sending MIDI CC/NPRN to control various synths. All the ones I've seen use some kind of rotary encoders - which is understandable. I was thinking that it could be a better interface if, instead, I had a bunch of essentially mouse wheels in a row since you could use them with just a single finger. Instead of an LED ring, I could just use an LED bar graph.
Anyone seen anything like this? Comments? Problems? The electronics would be almost identical to rotary encoders. I could even make it modular and be able to switch out groups of knobs/wheels.
Thanks!
Hi all. My old 5N is still working but….
My needs:
5-10TB net storage
Simple to use
Support 2 drives failing
Supports Time Machine
Doesn’t cost a fortune
Media server like Plex or at least easy to access files from Macs and iPhones at home - extra points if remote access.
Every few months, I look at what Synology and others are selling but they all seem much more expensive and complicated.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Hi all. I’m a guy in my early ‘60s in Vista and slowly getting back into tennis after a 17-year break. My serve is coming back and I can practice that by myself. However, my forehand and backhand are all over the place. I’m looking for a local coach for two or three months of lessons to get me back in shape.
I’m not trying to be great - just competent for casual play.
Thanks!
Hi. We need a new vacuum that will be used 90% for cleaning up scattered cat litter. We have zero carpet so I don’t want to spend a lot on models for their carpet performance and attachments. Don’t really care corded or battery. Suggestions?
Thanks!
Hi all!
Just started on Ozempic yesterday. I'm researching lots of info on protein and exercise to minimize muscle loss. From what I've read, I need to do resistance training - especially of large muscle groups (i.e. legs!). Can I do this at home without lots of special equipment or do I need to join a gym to have access to all the machines?
Thanks for any help/advice!
ps - after one day I've had zero side-effects. Fingers crossed!
Crap. I was in the mood for crispy duck. My wife doesn't like the smell but she's out for the evening. I called my favorite local Chinese restaurant - Panda Garden - and am told that they're out of duck! Damn. So, I go to Yelp and check a dozen Chinese restaurants from Carlsbad to Vista to San Marco to Escondido and none of them even have duck on their menus! I found one place in Rancho Bernardo that has duck but not crispy duck and I don't want to drive almost an hour for take-out!
Maybe we don't need 10,000 Mexican food places around here and can get a little more variety without having to drive down to San Diego!
Hi again. After playing with the PB12 and looking at the manuals for both keyboards, I have a couple of questions about how the ribbon controllers work. I'm a long-time, on-and-off CS80 owner so this is important to me.
First, is the physical feel. Both are pretty poor compared to the Yamaha which used a special metal coil suspended over the variable resistance strip and covered by the wonderful "velvet" material. Oh well, can't win them all.
Next is touch mode and pitch bend range. The CS80 is always in what the others call Relative or Auto mode so wherever you first press it is zero. This works fine on both. However, the bend range is very special on the CS80 since it uses linear analog VCOs (Hz/v, not V/Oct). If you touch the left end of the ribbon and slide all the way to the right, it bends up an octave. This is multiplying the oscillator frequency by 2. If you touch the right end first and slide all the way to the left, it bends down infinitely to 0Hz/DC - multiplying the oscillator frequency (not pitch!!!!) by zero. It's a great effect that I can't see how to do with either the ASM or Arturia keyboards. The Hydrasynth can definitely physically do this since the digital oscillators are always linear. But I don't know if the settings allow this. Anyone know a way in their mod matrices to do this?
One, final issue. A great effect on the CS80 is to hold a key/note/chord, then bend it wit the ribbon, and while holding the ribbon with one finger, add a trill by tapping another finger on and off the ribbon to the right of the first finger. The Hydrasynth worked perfectly for this. However, the PB12 appears to ignore multiple fingers pressing on the ribbon. That is a problem! Anyone know a work-around or anyone to contact at Arturia to see if they might add this feature?
One more CS80 feature while I'm here: The CS80 has a great ring-modulator with its own LFO and envelope generator to sweep the LFO. The important detail is that this EG is legato-triggered. That is, it only triggers if a key is pressed while no keys had been pressed - like a paraphonic mode. Do with the ASM or Arturia have a way to trigger an EG this way while other EGs are triggered independently?
Any chance Behringer's CS80 clone might come out this decade and do this right?
Thanks!!
Hi all. I’ve been trying to research the differences between the Waldorf Iridium and Quantum but am getting confused with the different versions. The Quantum Mk2 looks like it came out a couple of years ago and includes a poly-aftertouch keybed. The Iridium appears to have a desktop version and a keyboard version. Looks like there’s a new Mk2 version of that but I’m not sure if that includes a keyboard model. I keep seeing that their synth engines are compatible.
So, what’s the quick comparison of the latest and greatest Iridium and Quantum? Number of voices? Multitimbral? Keybed/aftertouch? Effects?
Thanks!