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strange to think some of us probably were at the same place, same time but had no idea …

Anything that you buy from a dealer be it a car, instrument, watch, antique clock is going to cost more than from a private sale. The reasons have already been listed. I don’t think musicians have any reason to grumble about prices of instruments. If you’re not looking at the vintage or premium end of the market then prices and quality are still fantastic compared to most other periods in history. G&L tribute series, Harley Benton etc etc are still stonking good value for money.

A couple that are broadly goth: Old New

Simon Gallup, Hooky, JJ Burnel, Jah Wobble and Aston Barrett have already been mentioned. This leaves me with this fine gentleman: Horace Panter

🔔🎬 I have nearly recovered from my decades old irrational loathing of this bloke and you post this 😀

The reality is that £1500 for a bass is not necessarily mad. £100 for a bass is and reflects a unique period in history when interest rates, inflation and economic co-operation were very favourable.

I would hazard a guess that the cost of living/standard of living is also going up in all of the countries you mentioned. The far east is no longer as cheap as it once was. If anything their GDP and wage growth is outpacing the west. The era of low interest rates and rock bottom prices is pretty much over.

Last year I was criticised on here for saying I always thought Eurovision was a bit of light entertainment. A big spectacle of camp theatrical nonsense. Allegedly this is British arrogance and Europe takes this seriously and enters their best songs and entertainment. So I watched a bit this year and can say I feel as the French or Italians might if this was an international food festival and a chance for the nations of Europe to showcase their finest local produce and everyone turned up with processed cheese and boil in the bag fish curry.

I enjoyed it. It’s a romanticised tale set in an era many of us grew up in. It’s neither gritty drama nor black comedy. A bit of a pastiche. Don’t expect too much and it’s entertaining nonsense.

how about that tone wood or tailor swift folks …. zzzzz

Yep they are clinging on to existence thanks to all that legacy software. I will leave it here as I am far from a Microsoft fanboy but just recognise that they are far more than the Windows operating system.

In your circumstances I would most likely create a guest account in our tenancy and add sort out your PC so it goes into an exception group for the various policies you need to bypass.

Increasing those that don’t provide a human being to speak to and hide behind layers of automation. Most companies have issues and go through rough patches. It’s how they deal with them that counts. Usually there is an explanation and solution. It’s getting to a human that is empowered to help you that is the problem. Since Covid this is getting worse and some companies are now horrendous which is a shame as their products are actually pretty decent (not going to name and shame) but in the tech and services sectors it is getting worse. Edit: Stubsy would be a happy camper if he was using systems set up by my place of work and using our support:) Things would work and if they didn’t we would make them work.

What you are experiencing is the difference between software run in a corporate environment and bound by the policies and security settings of that environment versus software that is not tied down by any restrictions. If I set up Teams for you on a bunch of managed desktops I can guarantee it would work fine, similarly I could hamstring zoom so that any legacy product would have to update to the latest version before running, block access for people who don’t have up dates or no anti virus, i could prevent people from specific countries joining your meeting etc etc. These are the kind of policies and restrictions that are running in the background and causing issues when you use Teams on a work machine or attempting to join meetings in a managed tenancy. These things are not designed to be awkward, they are designed to stop the kind of embarrassment that the german military experience recently. Your private meetings may not be as private as you imagine. In addition Teams is way more than just for meetings. Teams voice is replacing VOIP and call centre services, it’s a far more user friendly front end to share point, it is replacing shared mailboxes and distribution groups. It is an incredibly powerful tool that when deployed correctly can save companies a lot of time and money. Anyhow I am not a Microsoft evangelist. I run macOS at home, use an iPhone, use Linux for most web applications and it’s the backbone of most the firewall and monitoring software I use. At work we are advocating the use of iPads and Chromebooks for people that don’t need a PC and use Macs for most design work. There are benefits and use cases for most devices and software.

No idea- I would imagine this has something to do with compliance and conditional access policies rather than exchange but not much to go on. Personally email and printers are tech I loathe and would put in room 101. The functionality of Teams (or slack or whatever else you like) is infinitely preferable than email and printed copies).

Sounds like they are running physical infrastructure from the dark ages. I haven’t dealt with an on premise exchange server for nearly a decade…

This is most likely not down to Microsoft. We support about 2000 laptops and have a whole bunch of remediation running in endpoint for issues like you are describing. They range from switching off elements of Dell optimiser through to opening ports on firewalls. The end user never sees the impact. I would clarify again I don’t use Windows at home and it’s the last OS I would recommend any home user to run.

I run office 365 on a Chromebook and a Mac? Physically installed software is no longer required for office applications (and a whole heap of other SaaS applications).

The thread is about companies that are dead to you. The idea that Microsoft should be included because people don’t like the OS is for me silly because a) the OS is a tiny piece of what they do - particularly for the domestic market and b) if the OS is causing woes in a corporate environment then it is the sys admins that are at fault not Microsoft.

If you know what endpoint (intune), modern authentication (app registrations), CA, Entra, Purview, Sentinel etc are it would make sense. Physical infrastructure is even slowing becoming obsolete. Pretty soon a couple of switches and a router is all that most sites will need. You don’t need phones or servers, maybe just a few printers. Run whatever OS you want, on whatever device, from wherever you like and it can all be centrally managed including app deployment, SSO to the applications you want with remediation of software failures or security issues. Its pretty powerful stuff.

I also work in IT and what people run as an OS is becoming less and less important to us, nor is the device they are using whether it’s an iPad or a PC. Microsoft are supplying the glue to hold all of this together and make it secure. CA, modern auth, Ark, sentinel, intune(endpoint), office 365, team’s voice etc etc etc Btw a properly implemented auto pilot deployment with a sys admin that knows how to use endpoint will solve all the problems you have listed.

Microsoft has moved a long, long way from a PC operating system. I can’t explain just how much an E5 license brings to an organisation. Microsoft has been phenomenal in reading the direction of travel in technology.

Just to complicate matters I prefer Birchwood Casey Tru Oil Used mainly for gunstocks but find the finish nicer than Tung or Danish. From the smell I would say it contains Tung but isn’t as thick to apply.