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Germanium diodes and all thats needed are on ebay/aliexpress, complete kits too, built one with my grandson about four years ago. There is a very active group on Facebook.

This week I've had messages from five young blond women from Eastern Europe who are so impressed with my profile photo that they want to be my friend and talk to me...am I being scammed ? ;)

Still swimming in tomatoes of various varieties and the cucumbers/chili/peppers are still fruiting. Made a start cutting back in the greenhouse ready for the winter close down.

Not recently, but a few have moved there. This is one of mine

You can install W11 on old machines if your prepared to do some registry edits et al and I have do just to see if I could do it. That said there's no real benefit and it won't run faster than W10. I remember reading an interview with Alan Solomon who launched Dr Solomon's antivirus in the 90s...

Apple machines without doubt are stylish to look at and can perform very well but they are very very expensive and you can't work on them plus the intel i9 outperforms the Apple M1 cpu for a lot less of your hard earned dosh.

Touch wood (touches head) W11 has been pretty much plug and play. I use Whatsapp, teams and zoom and had no issues to date apart from my phone ringing at 05:30 for a whatsapp vid call from my nine year old granddaughter who'd woken up and fancied a chat and mommy and daddy were asleep so she...

Been a great year in the garden, I'm made a five year supply of tom chutney, got about 8kg of cherry toms (Veranda Red) in the freezer to pop in to sauces/stews/curry, pickled cherry toms and more toms to come...yes its been a great year for the red balls of versatility. Tried peat free compost...

Very handy it is to. Part of TPTV Encore service, the red encore logo appears on screen and you just push the red button on your remote. Well spotted izzy

A new book is coming out, 'Apollo Remastered' by Andy Saunders and he's done a wonderful job of remastering a lot of the Apollo missions photos, there are some previews online if you Google it

I mess around a bit with Linux, run ham radio software through it on an old i5 Thinkpad and it works fine but Windows is my daily OS of choice. I'm leaving W10 on my main PC but W11 is running fine on some others. I've installed W11 on a couple of older PCs just to see if they run, they do.

I made challah bread yesterday and my breakfast this morning was strong Assam tea and a slab of toasted challah smothered in butter and home made jam...simple...stunning...lovely :)

Good evening all, I've not been here in a while, stupid things like having covid and other stuff has kept me busy but I'm back on track ;) I've got a lot of 'treasure' in boxes that I'm going to sort through and get rid of including early computers/PCs/consoles. My daughter is not...

IIRC they were made in Aston, brum was the stove/lantern centre of the UK. If anyone is interested on old stoves such as Primus then this is the place to go, its reference section cannot be beat https://classiccampstoves.com/ If you into old lanterns then its sister forum can't be beat, both...

This is a small Windows programme thats been around for years, its very simple to use and will work on Windows 10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/image-resizer Download here https://download.cnet.com/Image-Resizer-for-Windows/3000-12511_4-75937402.html

Talking of Windows, I was having a clear out over the weekend and came across an old laptop running XP. The battery is shot but the machine works fine and because all the software on it is simple by W10/11 standards it runs very fast. I've loaded ham radio software on it (much written for XP)...

Computer generates phone numbers and dials then if you answer you get the "push to speak to...." and they transfer you to scam central. When you pick up to a dead line your number is marked as active and passed to the scam team. Three things I use for security and touch wood have not had a...

Blimey, Yate's ...thats a blast from the past and I remember the Australian white wine ;) Pop in there on a Wednesday night (when a nipper) because my wages would be running short by Weds then the Greyhound for scrumpy on Thursday night with my last pennies and then payday Friday to start the...