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Forum: Technology 20-11-2017, 10:09 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 867
Posted By Calcio2
only 2 years left in windows 7

yet another year nearly over,just to remind everyone that on january 14 2020,windows 7 will go the way of windows xp and vista before it,I think it might be wise to start looking at alternative...
Forum: Technology 10-11-2017, 10:00 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 653
Posted By Calcio2
Question Last windows 10 upgrade offer to end soon

It appears Microsoft is ending the last opportunity to avail of a legit free windows 10 licence on December 31 .The official deadline expired on July 2016 but Microsoft kept the door ajar for any one...
Forum: Technology 10-11-2017, 09:29 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 406
Posted By Calcio2
Question Last windows 10 free upgrade offer to end soon

It appears Microsoft is ending the last opportunity to avail of a legit free windows 10 licence on December 31 .The official deadline expired on July 2016 but Microsoft kept the door ajar for any...
Forum: Finance & Banking 06-11-2017, 12:00 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,019
Posted By Calcio2
DB pension buy out offer

My company has just closed down our defined benefit pension scheme, and put all of us into a defined contribution scheme,now the employer contribution going forward I believe is by industry standards...
Forum: Car Forum 30-10-2017, 11:43 PM
Replies: 2
Lpg
Views: 929
Posted By Calcio2
Lpg

Just seen a lot of LPG pumps popping up around the place, and some fairly new cars filling up on them too.Can remember my father getting a ford cortina converted in the 1970s ,think he used to start...
Forum: Technology 30-10-2017, 11:01 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 815
Posted By Calcio2
Internet tv

Any one using pure internet TV ?. Got vodafones offering installed a few months ago,I live in Ireland so don't know what's on offer in the uk ,read somewhere that they (vodafone)pulled out of...
Forum: Technology 30-10-2017, 02:13 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 486
Posted By Calcio2
Two for the price of zero

More freebies,2 xp era laptops being dumped by a school,neither had hard drives,512 mb of ram ,also got one original charger with them, decided to get one of them to a reasonable functioning...
Forum: Technology 30-10-2017, 12:32 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 433
Posted By Calcio2
Another day ,another free pc

Don't know what it is,that we've become so wasteful,just look at what I was given, it was destined for landfill,this is a HP Compaq small form factor PC from 2009,Its a business class PC so it will...
Forum: Technology 25-06-2017, 01:59 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 604
Posted By Calcio2
Price of PC parts

Just checked and the parts like these can be had for a fraction of what you would pay for an already built PC in say PC world.It isn't so hard to put it together .For instance that apu comes with...
Forum: Technology 21-06-2017, 11:50 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 444
Posted By Calcio2
Before you throw out that old computer

Remember that first PC you got ,was fine for a couple of years ,then as technology advanced on ,you moved on to bigger and better things,and that first PC was relegated to the attic ,or worse...
Forum: Technology 15-06-2017, 11:28 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 604
Posted By Calcio2
It lives

Check this one out, my son upgraded the CPU,motherboard and power supply in his gaming PC .I was left with an amd a6 apu( that's a CPU and graphics chip in the one unit,who knew) ,a gigabyte...
Forum: Technology 14-06-2017, 11:11 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 927
Posted By Calcio2
Windows 7 end of support

I think that people think that when Microsoft cuts support for an operating system it still continues along as normal.Just look at windows xp now ,internet explorer,google chrome and firefox are no...
Forum: Technology 14-06-2017, 04:41 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 927
Posted By Calcio2
Windows 7 end of life

As of January 14 2020 windows 7 will be cut adrift just as xp and vista have been .It might be no harm for anybody to activate windows 10 on their computer while they can.they can revert...
Forum: Technology 14-06-2017, 11:09 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 927
Posted By Calcio2
Windows 10 still available for free

Just to let anyone know who missed the chance to upgrade to windows 10 last year.it is still possible to do so.Just google"windows 10 free upgrade for customers who use assistive technologies",and...
Forum: Car Forum 13-06-2017, 08:03 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 2,855
Posted By Calcio2
The end of the diesel car is nigh

Just reading the papers in the last few weeks it appears that diesel car sales have fallen dramatically. It seems people are being put off them by health worries from emissions and possible tarrifs...
Forum: Books 13-06-2017, 12:08 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,032
Posted By Calcio2
TV series books

Just having a clearout recently and came across several book that accompanied TV series from the 70s and 80s.namely civilisation Kenneth Clarke,life on earth David attenborough,cosmos Carl...
Forum: Music 12-06-2017, 09:11 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,642
Posted By Calcio2
Vinyl In attic

Sure I have a load of vinyl In the attic .used to collect it avidly I the 80s.Neil young ,dylan ,jimi hendrix, rolling stones, pink floyd,pretty sure there is some Beatles albums there too.There is...
Forum: Music 11-06-2017, 09:20 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 423
Posted By Calcio2
Monterey pop festival

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Monterey pop festival,which saw jimi Hendrix ,the who ,Jefferson airplane,canned heat ,Ravi Shankar and others performing.it was the first big rock...
Forum: Your Introductions! 11-06-2017, 06:44 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 634
Posted By Calcio2
Hello everyone

Hello everyone ,been on this site over a week apologies for not writing this earlier,anyway,really like like the site.just love posting points and subjects of interest and seeing peoples opinions and...
Forum: Technology 10-06-2017, 01:31 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 544
Posted By Calcio2
Reusing old pcs

In the last while I have taken ownership of 5 xp era desktop PCs all were destined for the skip (they are all dell optiplex business type computers gx 280,gx 620,210l) .I must say it is great fun...
Forum: Travel and Holidays 08-06-2017, 07:28 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 771
Posted By Calcio2
Alpharooms

Anybody ever use these to book rooms online,and the punitive cancellation fees they charge if you pull out of the deal,I paid 1 euro to books a room in Madrid for 180 euros but if I cancelled they...
Forum: Technology 07-06-2017, 11:58 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,863
Posted By Calcio2
Latest windows 10 build

Just installed the so called creators update (build 1703) on a few old PCs I have without issue.now two of these are 10 years old with pentium 4s with unsupported graphics .I can see a definite...
Forum: General Chat 05-06-2017, 08:05 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,150
Posted By Calcio2
Death of peter sallis

I noticed with great sadness the passing of peter sallis .beloved as clegg in last of the summer wine.what a chemistry there was on screen between him and compo and foggy(bill Owen and Brian...
Forum: TV & Film 05-06-2017, 12:08 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,427
Posted By Calcio2
Time team

Been watching re runs of timeteam lately .just wondering have channel 4 any plans to make new episodes.used always wait with baited breath on a Sunday evening for the latest episode. Think tony...
Forum: Sports 03-06-2017, 11:09 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,178
Posted By Calcio2
Golf grip and stance

Have played this game on an off for decades have always struggled with being consistent in hitting the ball all the time . until I came across an amazing 30 min video on YouTube from the 1950s by...
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