Finally!
I got my shiny new Diezel VH4! Let me tell you this is THE very guitar amplifier I was always dreaming of. This monster has got four(!) completely independent channels. Which means, four completely independent pre-amp sections.
http://diezel.typo3.inpublica.de/vh4.21.0.html
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/product/Diezel/VH4/10/1
Of course I bought it because of its great sounds and tone, but it has also got so many cool features and extras, it really is worth the fu*** money.
Built in MIDI with phantom power, one extra insert per channel, serial loop, parallel loop, mute function, etc, etc, and you can even drive this baby with different or even mixed power-tubes. Like e.g. 2xEL34 and 2×6L6 if you want to soften the raw tone of the built in TAD EL34B-STR a bit… 
Now I´ve to figure out how to effectively hook up my T.C. G-Major to the loops of the VH4 and work with it properly. Probably I have to RTFM this time 
If anyone has some suggestions, pleeease gimme some input! I´ll add some pics of my current rig and our sweet new rehearsal room next week I guess. Be prepared
cheers
~ Gerrit
Edit: I think I´ll add an extra page where I list/document my equipment for interested gearheadz
In case anyone of you nerds out there ever wanted to run an own jabber server: This is a quick guide on how to set up the openfire (formerly known as wildfire) jabber-server on debian etch with mysql as the datastore-backend.
I assume that you have a working installation of the Java-VM somewhere on your machine. The openfire startup-script searches for a JVM in some common places on your system like /usr , etc. If you have a custom installation like I have, you should put the JAVA_HOME variable in your shell-environment.
- Download the most current package from the Ignite Realtime site.
The version I refer to in this guide is openfire 3.3.2
- Unzip the package to a folder where you want the installation to live in. In my case this is /opt
cd /opt
tar xzvf openfire_3_3_2.tar.gz
This will create the subfolder “openfire”.
- Now you should create a non priviledged user and group the service will use to run as and assign him the base-dir of the openfire installation as homedir:
groupadd jabber
useradd -d /opt/openfire -g jabber jabber
- The home-dir should also be owned by the newly created user and group:
chown -R jabber:jabber /opt/openfire
- Create a mysql-database for openfire:
mysql -u root -p yourmysqlrootpw
create database jabber;
grant all on jabber.* to jabber@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "pwfornewuser";
- Change to the new user and start the server:
su - jabber
cd /opt/openfire/bin
./openfire start
- Now, if you run
you should see a java-process listening on ports 9090 and 9091 after a few moments.
Server up and running.
- To set up the basic configuration, you have to open the admin-interface in your browser:
http://<iporhstnameofyourjabberserver>:9090
- The basic setup is pretty staight forward. You have to choose a language setting, provide the connection-string (e.g.: jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/jabber) and user+password for your mysql-db, a password for the admin-account of openfire and that´s it.
- Of course you also have to make sure that the ports 5222 and 5223 (for ssl client-connections) are not firewalled since then you won´t be able to connect your client to the new server For server to server connections and file transfers you also need to open port 5269 and 7777. Server to server connections are necessary if you want to be able to communicate with people who are not logged on to your jabber-server.
If I find time, I might add some screens in the next couple of days.
If you have any questions or like to comment, feel free to do so
cheers
~ Gerrit
Hi everyone out there!
This is my shiny new WordPress-blog. Stay tuned to read some comments and dangerous smattering on various topics of my interest, like linux, music, guitars and equipment, recording, studying, etc. pp
And be sure not to take every word too seriously …
cheers
~ Gerrit
