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Making Cat5/6 LAN Cables April 22, 2008

When making small cables from a reel/ longer cable, following these steps will tell you which plug is bad when a lead doesn’t work.
The only time there’ll be the possibility of 2 bad plugs is in the first step, once that’s sorted the bad plug will be obvious:

1. get it working with a plug either end of the whole length first
2. mark both of the working plugs
3. cut the desired length off
4. put plug on new ends
5. test both the reel and the short cable
6. if either don’t work you know it’s the unmarked plug that’s to blame
7. put a plug onto the now plugless end of the reel
8. test & replace unmarked plug if bad
9. repeat from step 2 for subsequent cables

SAYNOTO0870.COM – Non-Geographical Alternative Telephone Numbers April 8, 2008

0870 numbers are a rip off. Most of the time the companies are making money off you sitting there on hold, so there’s not much incentive to shorten queues and deal with you quicker. Help put an end to this by using an alternate, regular phone number. These should come out of inclusive minutes on your mobile or landline, unlike 0870 numbers. Just do a quick search on the site to find what you need:

SAYNOTO0870.COM – Non-Geographical Alternative Telephone Numbers

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TeeScott – DJ and Remixer Extraordinaire April 1, 2008

Tee Scott commented on his first nights at “Better Days”: “I went into the deejay booth, and it was real, real, crude. I had to climb up onto this thing; it was unbelievable. There was no such thing as a pre-cue. What they had was a Sony amplifier with a Phono 1 and Phono 2 button, and that’s how you switched fram turntable to turntable. No fading, nothing. It was a large dancefloor; the lights were very basic at the time. They had this automatic light panel, and lights over the whole ceiling. You could change it to, like, 6 or 8 different patterns: a red ring, a blue ring, and a green ring, like a bullseye. And there was a big board on the wall inside the deejay booth, but it wasn’t working when I first started working there.

While adding a new entry for the Whodini Magic’s Wand 12″ that I found in the States into Discogs, I looked up more info on the remixer of side B’s extended mix. Turns out Tee Scott was a pretty amazing guy who was a pioneer in the dance music scene. Read to the end to find out how he gave Frankie Knuckles his first job.

TeeScott

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