Please make your selection or the Member of the Month for March 2021.

This vote is to recognize members for their contributions for the month the award is named. In this case, a user's contributions for the month of March 2021 led to their nomination for the March Member of the Month.

The poll is anonymous, and no one will see your vote. Poll ends 6 April.

Member of the Month candidates:

@Kyng 
@tc4me
@zoldos

NOTE: Partly because I am a slacker and wasn't around for the last week to post nominations, and because its been a slow month in general, I just pulled the 3 most-active users to choose from.

Discord and Microsoft Said to Discuss Deal That Could Top $10 Billion

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/techn...-deal.html

Good Morning, I was busy with the Myalert notification today, and what bothers me is the display in the Alert (0) header, there shouldn't be a bracket and number, and if there is a message, then not such a stupid bracket with number
That's why I found some things in Mybb and changed them to that

You need to look at the template in ACP> Templates & Style> Templates (left bar)> * YOUR THEME *> MyAlerts Templates> myalerts_headericon.

replace content by this

Finally decided to make a new Project Journal since I came across what should be an interesting challenge.

I recently got for free an ADC S-1 MKII, vintage circa mid to late 70's, maybe early 80's.

was pretty beat up, but was intact otherwise.

side note, this unit goes for anywhere between $40 and up to $70 working.



it's not even a full featured one as it has only 5 rather than 10 sliders per channel but it'd be a fun restoration nonetheless.

Here's the unit as I got it.





Pretty beat up but the internals are hopeful and the potentiometers for the frequency adjustments slide smoothly, likely just need a good cleaning and a bit of silicone grease to lubricate them.

part of my plan is to replace the wood part of the case by fabricating a new one, it's just a simple 3 sided box with a lip on one side to attach to, should be able to come up with something and either paint it or leave it with a nice wood grain finish.





also going to change a couple minor things to update it a bit and make it easier to service in the future.

here's the power supply which I'll likely need to replace due to it's age.



so a few things of note.

several capacitors have started leaking though the traces are not on the capacitor side so that's good news, means there may not be any damaged traces.

(edited, yes there's no obviously damaged traces, it's a single layer board, hand drawn too by the looks of it).

at least 3 resistors are damaged, and all components are still available except for the transistors but I can get them pretty easily on ebay if needed.

when I get the chance to go over everything I'm going to write up a component list and try to reverse engineer the circuit as I go along with my multimeter as well as note which components are faulty, that'll be the next update.

I'm super glad I didn't plug it in to test it first given the state the components are in, but I can fix it for less than it's worth

oh! and it has all the slider knobs btw!



they just need a good soak in some warm soapy water and an air dry.

Update:



the wires are fairly short so I'm going to need to note which ones go to which pins (which are numbered!!!!), De Solder them, Then Remove the board

The great news is, it's a single layer board, the components are mounted opposite the traces so nothing was damaged by the leaky capacitors near as I can tell.

Definitely 1970's.

the traces are not electronically drawn, they're curved instead of straight angles which is a pretty solid indicator.

The good news is, that makes reverse engineering it easier since being single layer and hand drawn means you can visually connect what pins on what components go where.

the pins themselves are marked on the side they sit on so this should be pretty easy once I de solder the wires holding it in place.

Somebody should say again, Trump is and was an idiot, Biden is no better! Quote News

In an interview with ABC News broadcast on Wednesday, Biden said he thought Putin was a "murderer". In addition, the Russian head of state will “pay” for trying to undermine his 2020 presidential candidacy.

Biden was asked in the interview if he believed that Putin “is a murderer” - the new US president replied: “I do.” Biden did not provide any further details and did not make it clear whether he might be dealing with it referred to the case of the attempted poisoning of the Kremlin critic Alexander Navalny.


Moscow: "Attack on Putin is an attack on our country"
On Tuesday, the US authorities published a new report that Russia interfered in the 2020 US presidential election. Moscow reacted immediately and sharply to Biden's statements. "Putin is our president and an attack on him is an attack on our country," wrote the President of the Russian House of Commons, Vyacheslav Volodin, in the Telegram online service.

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Does the woman grabber want a world war?

Hy Darth-Apple, Hy Admin and bosses of all kinds, unfortunately it seems to me that the make-station design is degenerating, none of the design works properly, Shoutbox is displayed as only the header and not at all in the default design, the default status Box displayed twice, and Selenium is a total disaster ;-(, neither shoutbox nor status box works properly, people people people, disaster !!! am I not used to you ... can I help with anything? I'm zero professional but extremely ambitious


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Hi all, 

We just completed emergency updates on our forum software and server. These sorts of updates *usually* break things (we've seen some serious wreckage in the past), so we normally test them to make sure everything is good before we put them in place. This time, however, they had several critical security patches that we had to run immediately to prevent any breaches. Not to worry, we patched them very quickly and the community is safe. 

That being said, there are almost always bugs after one of these is run, and we had to push this one very quickly. We will be fixing any issues in the coming hours, so please report anything you may encounter! 

Regards, 
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So Lockpicking in concept is simple, in fact the basic design of a standard keylock hasn't changed in centuries, only gotten more complex.

I recently learned to pick basic locks and it does occasionally come in handy when a friend or family member locks themselves out of their house, their shed, or in my case, finding an old box without a key but with a lock.

there's a few things you need to know before you start lockpicking

the first is that locks are very simple, you have the core which rotates to unlock the door.

you have the pins which slide into the core and act similar to a deadbolt on a door preventing it from turning, what lock pickers call binding.

and you have the key which pushes these pins out of the core allowing it to rotate.



now the sharp eyed among you might notice the pins are actually in two pieces.

this is because the pin stays both in the core and the lock mechanism separating at the core's rotation point.

Now that the basics are out of the way, the art of lock picking is really an art form rather than just a skill, it takes finesse and is done more by feel than anything else.

lock picking is done in two steps.

the first is using the tensioner bar.

this is usually a small piece of metal which you apply a very light tension to and place in the bottom of the keyway (where the key goes).

when you successfully set all the pins this is what turns the lock open.

the second is the lock pick it's self.

this has exactly one job, to reach into the keyway and push the pins up as the tension bar turns the core slightly thus setting them into the same state as when a key is in the lock preventing them from coming down.

if you put too much tension on the lock, the pins won't move, put too little and they won't set.



here is a transparent practice lock, it allows you to see what's going on until you get the feel for picking them since you normally can't see what's going on inside.

and that's basically how lock picking works, you're just setting the pins one by one until the lock either opens or binds forcing you to reset it.

there are other methods but this is the basic theory and one that has worked since people have been picking locks ages ago.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible with what you do with this knowledge, lock picking is legal in just about every state in the US but having lockpicks on your person without a valid reason is considered possessing burglary tools so I wouldn't carry them around with you in case you get searched.

always if you're opening somebody's door, have them sign a waver legally giving you permission to do so.

if you live in virginia you need a license to posses lock picking tools.

I do not know what the laws are in other countries but make sure you read up on what your local laws and ordinances are.

and as always, have fun with it!

Please make your selection or the Member of the Month for February 2021.

This vote is to recognize members for their contributions for the month the award is titled. In this case, a user's contributions for the month of February 2021 led to their nomination for the February Member of the Month.

The poll is anonymous, and no one will see your vote. Poll ends 10 March.

Member of the Month candidates:


@tc4me 
@zoldos