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Spotted on Facebook, £150 . https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1724614328036845/ (I didn't know they had aluminium necks and a search brought me to this thread.)

Looks like two ghosts waving.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/j-munday-jazz-bass-electric-bass-guitar-japan-vintage-project./1466545396

Yep - I wouldn't buy a new one for that reason.

Well, I can't unsee it.

All of this Squier malarky - anybody who pays £590.00 for that is a fool.

Just imagine rehearsals, or sitting in the van going to a gig.

(Squier.) You can check the necks are the same scale length by putting them face to face and confirming that the frets and end of fingerboard align precisely. As to fitting, it just depends whether the screw holes line up. A word of advice (as much to myself as you!) always make sure you have the exact right size screwdriver for the neck screws or you will mash the screw heads.

It was equivalent to something like a 50% price increase (ie. you would need to by one and a half bars to get the same amount). I've never bought a Toblerone since; I didn't know they'd reverted the change.

Yep - totally hacks me off; it's like they're looking you straight in the eyes whilst they're ripping you off! I've taken to shopping at Costco, where things are BIG! It may or may not be cheaper, but try finding that size in the supermarkets. (I haven't bought a tin of those, BTW.)

The bars have about halved in size too - halved in size & doubled in price = 400%, so really not worth buying.

I think mine may have been a 286 - I'm needing to have a clear-out, so will see what I find. I've still got some hard disks, keyboards, mice, cables in need of sorting out too.

Ah yes - I had one of those cards; might still be somewhere around.

Sun purchased another company (begins with a I but can’t remember)(searched - Interactive) for the PC product and then rebranded it. I’ve still got a set of SCO on floppy disk media in a box somewhere.

Amusingly, Micro$oft used to take a royalty fee on every PC-based UNIX (SCO & Solaris), because it was part of their deal in producing Xenix.

Yep - Linux seems to be fine supporting older kit. Incidentally, I have a couple of VMs on my Linux box running older versions of Windoze for obsolete kit.

I've got a couple of pedals which do it, though: the HX Stomp and a SansAmp

These "top 10" studies are great as talking points, but are very subjective. I think it's impossible to generalise; I like rock/metal/prog/jazz-rock and have a number of US and UK bands in my preferred listening. Synth-pop was OK, new wave had some decent acts, grunge had some standouts, but whether "the UK" liked them or not wasn't me - I was going to Rainbow, Rush, Yes, Judas Priest, UFO, Scorpions, Schenker, etc. gigs at the time. I couldn't tell you what is in the charts at the moment, but I can't be doing with autotune as an effect and the awful oversinging, regardless which country it's from. (And as for country, my achy-breaky dawg divorced me is meaningless to me.) I'm in my lane and I like what I like. I'm sure there are lots of Yanks and Brits who like similar music, and a heck of a lot more who don't!

Since different brands of Hi-Fi sound different, I don't think there is an absolute; some Hi-Fi systems strive for tonal perfection whilst others lean towards pace and dynamics. The only thing I can say for sure is that low-fi is easier to identify. If you ever plug in an instrument and think it's lost something of the sound, then it's low-fi; I have one or two pedals like that.

I sold an Itanium HP-UX server in Novermber; it had been sitting under my desk for years. I've still got a HP workstation and a Sun 1U server. My first job was writing Fortran on a PDP-11 running RSX-11M. Ah - happy days...

I’ve just been cleaning my bath with Cillit Bang; stupid name, but it beats any of the other domestic cleaning products.

I've had good and bad at Kwik-Fit. I had the Bracknell one do my tracking; it took several hours and they didn't do a good job of it. I've been to the Reading one and there is one bloke there who really knows what he's doing, but he's been promoted so you have to make sure you get him and his full attention; the 2nd time I went there it took 3 attempts before I made sure it was him and he really did it.

Hewlett Packard - now there's a company that went from hero to zero. I used to work a lot with their kit and then the Carly Fiorino person took over and things got all wobbly. They then made the mistake of firing one of their execs for expensing a "good time" in Vegas, but unfortunately he was a pal of the Oracle boss man who said Oracle were no longer supporting HP so their customer base disappeared. They acquired one of the consultancy companies and made a stab at it, but I don't think people were buying. What was their offices in Bracknell has now been demolished and I think a warehouse or storage facility has been built in its place. Oracle then went on to buy Sun Microsystems and killed that product, then they restructured their pricing (again) to fleece their customers, so the customers stepped away. I don't know if the Sun brand still exists. Oh, and talking of database companies, Informix was one who got it completely wrong: they had a great product but then decided that they were going to tell all of their customers that they were doing fundamental changes which meant they had to completely re-think their strategy and architecture; well, the customers went elsewhere (ironically to Oracle!). IBM bought Informix at some point, but I think they just let it fade away into oblivion. ICL - I did some work for them, but the place was just full of grey people straightening paperclips. When my contract was approaching the end I said I was going to move on and they said "but we need you to stay"; I pointed out that I had done about 3 days work in the 6 months I had been there, so I didn't think they really did need me. They were later taken over by Fujitsu. And no, I wasn't on the Post Office side of things - I was working on a system pulling call records from telephony networks.

I saw Blackmore's Night a few years ago - they were quite good and Mrs Blackmore is a fine singer. Blackmore got bored towards the end and turned up and started playing songs the rest of the band didn't know, so that was a bit naff.