TubeNexus

Read this WikiPedia Entry, come back, and we’ll talk. Continue reading »

Hope the title didn’t send you fleeing!

I was first introduced to Pentode Press and Richard Kuehnel when I was searching for some detailed design information on the Fender 5F6-A. Continue reading »

Frequency response tests were conducted on five speakers which are popular for D-style amps. Each speaker was mounted in a TL806 type cabinet and driven by the clean channel of a 50W non-HRM D-clone amp. In order to minimize tone stack effects and approximate a flat response, the amp tone controls were set to Treble-0; Middle -10; Bass-0. All effects were off. Continue reading »

I just got everything working this morning and overnight the good folk at WordPress.org made a new major release available for download… I’m going for it, now or never, before the blog gets established/populated.  Wish this newbie luck! Continue reading »

Sorry for all these off-topic posts… hopefully they’ll get buried in the avalanche of relevant DIY Tube posts to come!  But, there have been several frustrations in getting wordpress and the WP link directory working properly on SME Server with ibays and I want to capture the latest epiphany for all the other poor souls out there. Continue reading »

Most of the really great tube/valve books, both theoretical and practical, have passed into the public domain. Excellent scans of these books are available online for free! There are a number of sites… to be captured in the link directory, but one in particular stands out: Continue reading »

After fighting all evening with getting emails to be sent through my ISP I gave up on the Authenticated SMTP and fell back onto the old SMTP server that my ISP still allows for sending… this is an SME Server configuration problem (nothing related to WordPress this time) and I couldn’t locate any relevant support to help resolve the issue.

At least the core functionality is working, but it seems to me a lot of compromises are being made along the way.

UPDATE: I’ve also made the changes to fix category support in Postie… detailed in this post.

O.k. my first successful php debug!

The Postie plugin provides much more flexibility in posting from email, but gmail and my own ISP insist on POP3-SSL and that just wasn’t working.

cat /var/log/messages | grep PHP

showed an error message: Continue reading »

UPDATE: all was fixed when I used the necessary command-line directives to get .htaccess, etc. working properly in the template-driven SME Server environment.  See: this post. Continue reading »

UPDATED UPDATE: all was fixed when I used the necessary command-line directives to get .htaccess, etc. working properly in the template-driven SME Server environment.  See: this post.

UPDATE: I spoke too soon… it seems introducing the google analytics changes to the php has broken my permalinks and the link directory contents too.  I’ve gone back to default (ugly) permalink structure and turned off the SEO Friendly mode of the Link Directory plugin too.  It seemed too good to be true…

It was almost trivial to:

1. sign up for Google Analytics with my existing gmail account
2. download the Google Analytics plugin from Semiologic and activate it Continue reading »