They would be top of the list but I fear that this time round, getting tickets would prove almost impossible but some new recordings would be nice.

I wonder if the Ramones fit the bill even better. Loads of people have bought the t shirts but I wonder how many know the songs.

In country, at least, there are lots of artists that appear on the surface to be solo artists, but they still need a hand to play live and they are often the same band for a long time. I’m not sure of the […]

I’m not a New Yorker subscriber but I do flick through it fairly regularly…. mainly the cartoons though and very rarely the longer articles!… I’m more a Smithsonian man myself!

I have a second filter cone at work. Each day (when I actually go to the office!) I put a couple of carefully folded up filter papers that I’ve preloaded with coffee, in my bag and I get coffee at my desk just the […]

I was with you with Melitta but you lost me at ‘machine’! All I use is a Melitta drip cone, a mug and a kettle. Nice clean tasting hot coffee every time and very little clearing up afterwards. Spend the rest of […]

I was right up at the stage for that Talking Heads gig. I had bruises on my arms the next day where I’d been drumming on the edge of the stage! It was also to first time I’d seen Space Invaders played […]

Growing up in Watford, my gig going years started in the late 70’s. I never understood why there were no gigs in Watford! I can now assume it was partly due to the apathy of the previous wave. Apart from pub […]

I was at a Carter Family gig at the Mean Fiddler where (eventually) the stage was shared by Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe & Joe Brown. I’ve mentioned this a few times on various forums over the years but […]

I know this is moving a little further from the OP but, as you say, drives fail. Even Samsung SSDs – I recently had a 2TB data drive die in under a year. More important than the monetary cost is the data that’s […]

The main thing is the CPU. All these beelink boxes have enough memory. I only have two applications running most of the time and it’s nowhere near as fast as my 8 year old i7 laptop that has less memory.

Just for benchmrking… I bought one of these last year https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09V81NML4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It does everything I want it to but that is frankly not very […]

There appears to be an M.2 slot on the motherboard so it would probably support 2 drives but I can’t work out if they can both be used at the same time.

I agree but it’s easier said than done with a laptop. I’m about to replace my 8 year old HP Envy which has an M.2 drive and a SATA drive. I can’t find a modern equivalent.

You Can’t Beat a Boy That Loves The Ramones by Helen Love A fairly standard start to the track then suddenly at about 50 seconsd in, there’s a rising scale of tubular bells and it kicks into joyous top gear and […]

Last time I did it, albeit ages ago now… laptops last much longer than they used to.. I managed to use a free version of Laplink. It made the process fairly easy and lots of stuff got moved over and organised as […]

I’ve been a happy Synology owner for over 13 years now. I’m now on my second one because the first one started to feel a bit slow. I’ve probably had 3 drive failures in that time but you just buy a new one and put […]

This is one of those tasks where you can make life easier by spending some money. Personally I would get a NAS drive that supports something like Plex. It’s dead easy to set up and you then just load the client […]

I’m not sure there is any problem with ‘the Internet’. This problem seems to only effect Windows computers. The infrastructure of the Internet is largely based on Linus & Unix computers. The ‘outage’ yesterday was […]

I think in England there are several types of bus pass. London is a special case. I think the most common one is the ENCTS card. If that’s what you can have, there’s a gov.uk page that details it.