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I am finally getting round to buying a new PC but what do I need? It will be used for:1. MS Office applications especially Excel and Access2. Web surfing (hopefully using ADSL)3. Editing/printing digital photos4. Copying CD'sSome questions, bearing in...

Hi.Usually it doesn't last long enough for me to find out, but following a couple of years of purchases from places like SMWS, I'm a bit worried about whether an opened bottle or eight might go off. I mean, I don't drink it every night or anything, so...

guys I have been recently interested (new year and all that) in purchasing a bike.I feel that throwing money at gadgets which enable me to sit on my arse more is gradually doing me no favours.The distinct lack of off road in the area and the fact I...

in hushed tone "Mr B. Fritz has not posted since Tuesday!"Anselmall art is contemporary; it is the way we look at it that changes...

After spending Christmas with my parents-in-law in Bretagne, I've come to the stunning conclusion that I prefer 20yr old wine to 2yr old wine.........Its filtered through my crack-addled brain that if I start buying and storing wine now, then in 10yrs...

Not only is he, whatever the idiots at FIFA say, the best footballer in the world he is now in the coolest advert ever.Excellent work by Animal on the drums as well.MatthewPS Crap cars though.

Over the last few days or so I've been subjected to a plague of Spontaneous reboots on my XP Pro system. The error log points to trouble with the TrueVector engineTrueVector engine: File "C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs\ABC123.ldb" was corrupt and has been...

Now where would Liverpool be without Mark Delaneys bum?!!!!

I was considering replacing my VHS with a DVD recorder. I don`t really hire/buy films much.....mainly interested in recording off air.My one concern is the reliability of DVDRW discs, having experienced one or two problems with CDRW with my PC...they...

I have replaced my hard drive 3 times in the last 3 months. My new Maxtor 80Gb is now making those dreaded clicking noises and failure is probably imminent.Surely there must be a reason for this. Hard drives aren't normally this unreliable surely?Any...

Hi folks.For my last birthday (one with a zero at the end ) my wife planned to buy me my first new bicycle - and I rather fancied a hybrid, as whilst I've no interest in careering down the side of a mountain, I wouldn't mind being able to trundle...

Took my son James yesterday (17 Dec) to see ROTK, and we were both pleased that the journey has been completed in such an awesome manner!If you enjoyed the Fellowship and The Two Towers, you should not be disappointed.RegardsGeoff

I really want one of the classic Eames chairs for the music room however they only seem to be avaialble on line at not cheap prices - £1600 with footstool. Has anybody out there bought one of these and could recommend a good retailer? Many thanks.

On BBC2 at the mo' is Property People, and it's a deliberately touching on similar themes, with Tim from The Office doing the narration. This week, the key character was Richard, an older salesman who is being eaten alive by nasty younger ones, and...

Walked into the office after getting my hair cut, to be greeted by the receptionist with "Oh, you've had your hair cut"!So...was I supposed to act surprised? Did I not know that I just had my bloody hair cut? Was she thinking to herself out loud? So I...

Here's to Villa stuffing Liverpool at Anfield (got to get it right one week!)

I want one. Who makes/sells them? Which are the best?

Hi to all the computer experts - again!Having recently bought my new pc (running Win XP) on the advice of my ISP, I installed NortonAntiVirus software. After three weeks of the computer failing miserably and numerous expensive calls to Virgin net I...

The other offerings have been worth watching and as I'm a fan of her I though others might be intrested.The Big Question with Susan Greenfield (Scientific Documentary)Time - 19:30 - 20:00 (30 minutes long)When - Thursday 8th January on FiveWhy Am I...

I'm THIS close to buying a new Civic Si hatchback as a somewhat impracticle present to myself for getting into med school (and whose purpose it will be to wisk myself to and fro said school each day in low-to-the-ground bliss). I love the way it...

So come on - are they any good? (say) a 300E, 1990-ish. Cheap enough to own/run? What goes wrong? Solid and reliable as one would expect? Safe? Boring?Should I really be looking at a BMW E34.Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Apparently not serious, thankfully.Ray Davies in The Big Easy

Recently I find myself making more 'music' (pretty loose term this!) than listening to it, and I do the mixing through my 82/hi/140/S100s. Two questions are on my mind:-What's the difference between this and a studio monitoring set up? (Is the...

A quick question: Are people who live with their 'other half' schizophrenics?

Can anyone recommend a forum containing the film equivalent of this forum's "The Music Room"? [i.e. matching it in quality and quantity of contributions]. TIA. On the other hand, now that a Naim DVD player is more than a rumour perhaps the Naim forum would be a good place to introduce such a room?