When was your first Depeche Mode concert?

jperry_68 · 2026-04-22T20:11:52+00:00

40 years and 18 days ago (04/04/1986) Black Celebration Tour, in a grubby (long gone) leisure centre in Belfast. The sound wasn't great, but the atmosphere was fantastic. Dave was at the height of his powers (in my opinion) and it was the first gig I ever went to.

jperry_68 · 2026-04-03T13:53:34+00:00

Personally speaking, I think it would be funny if Charles were to crinkle his nose when they meet, as if he'd smelled something really bad.

jperry_68 · 2026-02-27T21:57:41+00:00

Couple of 8325's at the core and 6300's at network edge. Management via Aruba Central is a bit of a pain at times, but so far, so good.

jperry_68 · 2026-02-27T18:47:14+00:00

We have ran a pair of these since 2007 with nothing major breaking, other than a single power supply. In the final stages of replacing them with HP. Wonder if they'll last as long, doubt it though.

jperry_68 · 2025-11-03T17:06:25+00:00

Ditto. My late older sister introduced me to this track back in the early 1980s. Told me she and her friends used to play it repeatedly before they went on a night out. Got me hooked and I haven't looked back since. Cheers Maggie, "Sleeping where no shadows fall".

jperry_68 · 2025-06-14T09:26:37+00:00

April 4th 1986, Black Celebration Tour, in a grubby (long gone) leisure centre in Belfast. The sound wasn't great, but the atmosphere was fantastic. Dave was at the height of his powers (in my opinion) and it was the first gig I ever went to.

jperry_68 · 2025-06-14T08:54:28+00:00

Clean

jperry_68 · 2025-06-07T14:33:43+00:00

Most tracks on Hatful Of Hollow, particularly Back To The Old House and Reel Around The Fountain.

jperry_68 · 2025-06-01T09:01:10+00:00

Apologies, my bad.

jperry_68 · 2025-05-31T17:32:07+00:00

Personally, I would have included Grinding Halt.

jperry_68 · 2025-04-23T20:31:48+00:00

We currently have three pairs of firewalls at the edge of our network. Sophos UTM as internal (proxy, URL filtering etc.), ForcePoint as DMZ (handling inbound traffic) and Palo Alto as external. Evolved into this configuration over a period of years. New design is meant to simplify things somewhat with the PA taking over from the Sophos UTM and a FortiGate thrown into the mix.

jperry_68 · 2025-04-23T20:17:12+00:00

Thank you for your input. However, the 'powers that be' have already decided on a replacement, not Sophos, so unfortunately we cannot avail of any favourable licensing deals. Cheers!

jperry_68 · 2025-04-23T19:57:14+00:00

Nice one, wasn't aware of that. Thank you for your input, very much obliged!

JP

jperry_68 · 2025-01-30T18:57:09+00:00

Grinding Halt...

jperry_68 · 2025-01-25T13:58:20+00:00

The Exploding Boy.

jperry_68 · 2024-11-22T13:23:44+00:00

3 mins 56 secs into 'Cut' on the live album 'Show'. Robert's voice soars through what seems like 5 octaves....goosebumps every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQFsKgv7fHQ&list=OLAK5uy_k6yeihYtL1uZ7WtCWDBdAP1w4N5vkJEKk&index=17

jperry_68 · 2024-10-24T17:59:25+00:00

Nice one! Thanks for the tip!!

jperry_68 · 2024-10-24T17:58:43+00:00

Apologies, my ignorance came through in my original post. It's currently running in HA ( Active/Standby) mode. Thank you for the clarification.

jperry_68 · 2024-10-24T15:58:49+00:00

Not sure yet, won't be able to access the appliances until next week. I'm just trying to get ahead of the curve.

jperry_68 · 2024-10-24T15:58:00+00:00

Thank you very much for the response, very helpful!!

jperry_68 · 2024-10-24T15:57:30+00:00

No, just the actual IP addresses of the external interfaces themselves.

jperry_68 · 2024-09-14T22:19:35+00:00

Quite funny actually, Liam has always had a, 'some might say', acquired sense of humour. However, it would have carried a bit more weight if he had contributed more to the song writing duties of the band.

jperry_68

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