Thanks for the comments guys... @squonqdm - great suggestions on the cooling/quietness issue @patrick bateman - good idea about the solidstate system drive However, I'm now looking at this http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06a/12454-12454-3329740-64546-64546-4162190.html with a view to modif...

Just about to take the plunge and get a new desktop PC. Long overdue and a rather large undertaking for the wallet. Any opinions or comments on this setup before I go for it? Am I making good choices or wasting money anywhere? Quite a beast i reckon: PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7-860 COOLER: Arctic Cooli...

Cool thread... John Carpenter, absolutely... in fact, he usually, if not always, does his own soundtracks. Great filmmaker!! How about Stewart Copeland (from The Police). He did the theme and soundtrack for The Equalizer. I've been enjoying some old episodes recently, very techno sounds. Midi drums!...

Very very sad. People should be brought to account over such shoddy organising. Bottlenecks and enclosed spaces should never feature at such events. Having read some of the eye-witness comments, it sounds like the police and the organisers have a lot to answer for. Clearly they had no control over t...

I'd ignore the vinyl option completely - at his age he's completely missed the boat on that one. Comparable to traditional photographic techniques in this day and age. And of course requires enormous future expenditure. Best to set him up for the future: For me, the most convincing digital-computer ...

fck me, what a load of sh!t gets chatted about here these days... and i only read the first couple of pages. why dont you all just get a life. techno music and parties were a lot better before a bunch of whiney little kids started taking an interest

i always thought psytrance was nonexistent in the UK until i went to a psytrance rave. that was bigger than any techno party i have ever been to. it was in northwest London, which is completely the wrong side of the city. this is true. i hear of massive psytrance parties/raves every now and again. ...

listen to the sounds around you - tune your awareness and perception, meditate on it!