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  1. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    Were these the saccharin guys or the cyclamate people?
  2. sechs

    Samsung 2TB

    The cable shouldn't matter... unless it's bad. But, in that case, there should be other errors.
  3. sechs

    Opinions on Google Chrome? APPS?

    PDF? That's it's raison d'être. Well, if you don't want Merc to violate your exit port with gas-powered lumber cutting tools.
  4. sechs

    Power DVD 10? Anyone used it? Reason to upgrade?

    I don't have a drive, but it appears to support both HD-DVD and Bluray.
  5. sechs

    Nichia Develops 60 Lumen Per Watt White LED

    I agree, but if they've managed to lick the issues with colour and narrow beams, then they're a heck of a lot closer. Maybe I could stick one in the fridge. It's really hard on my CFLs.
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    photoshop witchcraft

    Doesn't that decompose into hydrogen fluoride, AKA hydrofluoric acid, the stuff they use to etch glass?
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    Hardware RAID Enclosures

    I am looking at this and just wondering why on earth you might think that you might need a RAID 5 setup. I'm with the RAID 1 crowd. One drive is fast enough, and two is redundant. Handy's idea of hotswap is good. Get the two drives on sleds, and alternate taking one out at the end of the day.
  8. sechs

    Power DVD 10? Anyone used it? Reason to upgrade?

    I'm still on 7. Was there something worthwhile in 8 or 9?
  9. sechs

    Favorite quiet fans??????

    Still, 2007 was three years ago. That's old data by technology standards.
  10. sechs

    3TB hard drive from Seagate

    I ain't putting a SAS controller back into my machine just for this drive.
  11. sechs

    Do Family Values Weaken Families?

    I haven't read the original paper, but something strikes true about the "families form adults" - "adults form families" divide.
  12. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    Halon is heavier than air. How was this supposed to work?
  13. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    That seems like a dumb place to put the cylinders. I've always seen them recessed in the ceiling and/or walls.
  14. sechs

    Favorite quiet fans??????

    This feels awfully not up-to-date....
  15. sechs

    Apple smacks Adobe

    U.S. mulling antitrust look at Apple http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0323291320100503
  16. sechs

    Do Family Values Weaken Families?

    http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/st_20100501_5904.php
  17. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    It's fun to need to evacuate your workspace during fire alarms in order to keep from being killed by the suppression system....
  18. sechs

    Signs That Your Discount Retailer...

    That's amazing timing. Here's the synopsis from one of the blogs: http://www.forevergeek.com/2010/04/the_costco_prank/
  19. sechs

    Apple smacks Adobe

    Apple's gotten stupid on this no Flash thing. According to some iPhone developers, the rules changes that they recently enacted also ban some third-party tools used in applications which they've already approved. If they don't want Flash, just disallow stuff made with Flash. How hard is...
  20. sechs

    HP buys Palm

    Death to the iPaq!
  21. sechs

    Nvidia problems

    I don't know about elegant, but, as I understand it, the ATi design is more modular. This means that they can make a low-end part far more easily, but that a very high-end part would have a lot of modules, and, therefore, take up a lot of real estate. As far as I can tell, nVidia took the...
  22. sechs

    Nvidia problems

    AMD Also uses GlobalFoundries, but I don't get the feeling that they rely upon them heavily for GPU manufacture. nVidia won't use them on general principles.
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    Signs That Your Discount Retailer...

    ... is a little too low-cost.... http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/costco/costco1.php
  24. sechs

    PALM

    They only make Palm products....
  25. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    "Real beasts" have halon fire suppression systems.
  26. sechs

    eComstation 2.0

    A little life? OS/2 has been running ATM machines and cash registers for years. Certainly, I'd trust it more than some of the Win2k systems that I've seen out there (guess how I know that they run Windows). These systems working with money don't tend to change quickly. So, somebody figured...
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    Nvidia problems

    I thought that ATi was falling behind again this cycle. Where did nVidia go wrong?
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    eXPert PDF Reader

    Merc, when did you become a fount of misinformation? Even you should know that, if PDFs had a built-in JavaScript interpreter, then they would self-executing. They're not. PDFs just hold the scripts. Like all of the other information in the file, it's just text. You can check the PDF...
  29. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    Does it sit on your desktop, or could your desktop sit on it?
  30. sechs

    Firefox 3.5 is out.

    I've been using it for a few days, since it's drop-in on regular Fx. The only difference that I've noticed is that it seems to be using more memory. Maybe I need a slower computer or some more crapily coded web sites to look at....
  31. sechs

    eXPert PDF Reader

    That's a patently ridiculous statement. JPEGs can carry malicious code, but people aren't all up in arms about Paint being installed on every Windows machine because it doesn't allow the code to execute. You might as well blame Seagate because Windows has security issues.
  32. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    This is possible, in general. I've seen people working on algorithms to, more or less, fill in an area on a photograph based upon what's there and comparisons with similar pictures. It's currently well beyond the scope of Photoshop. Possibly beyond your desktop computer to do in a meaningful...
  33. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    No, but we do have some fine parting gifts....
  34. sechs

    Firefox 3.5 is out.

    Has anyone tried Pale Moon before? http://www.palemoon.org/
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    600GB Velociraptor

    I think that's because, at a point, your SATA infrastructure is SAS infrastructure. On the othe rhand, there's no such thing as a reliable Western Digital drive. For data storage, at least.
  36. sechs

    Gigabyte X58A-UD9 sneak peek

    Agreed. Other than a bit of flash, I'm not even sure what the EVGA board would get for you.
  37. sechs

    Building a home NAS - feedback on build

    Get Prime. They'll overnight replacements to you.
  38. sechs

    Date for cheaper 6 cores i7?

    I've upgraded my current computer three times -- and I'd have done it again, if these S940 chips hadn't become so bleeping expensive after AMD switched sockets. I think it's nice to have a stable platform to make upgrades on. Who wants to start of scratch every time you want to get the latest...
  39. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    I think it falls under "convincing people to use it properly." At any rate, if you came to such a site, it would bother you.
  40. sechs

    600GB Velociraptor

    As long as you don't use TCO, yes.
  41. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    It turns out Adobe has yet to endow Photoshop with artificial intelligence.
  42. sechs

    1 TB SSD

    I've only used 31GB on my 60GB drive.
  43. sechs

    Date for cheaper 6 cores i7?

    I knew there was a reason I kept picking AMD chips....
  44. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    Perhaps you've never visited a page which automatically plays sound *and* has no mute option. I don't patronize those businesses (and they're always businesses).
  45. sechs

    PALM

    Correction: Palm is *officially* for sale. Let's not pretend that, if a good unsolicited offer had come along, Palm wouldn't have taken it.
  46. sechs

    It's Real

    It's Here http://www.salon.com/food/francis_lam/2010/04/12/kfc_double_down_taste_test http://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2010/04/kfc_double_down_live_blog.html
  47. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    Agree on the first part, disagree on the second. If they'd just fix all of the comcastic things that Flash does *and* convince people to use it properly, it'd be great. I've been using the 10.1 RC, and it's a lot better. It hasn't crashed my browser yet.
  48. sechs

    600GB Velociraptor

    Seriously, this seems like a product without a market. Need space? Buy a 1TB cheapie -- maybe even just 5400RPM, to save more. Need speed? Buy an SSD.
  49. sechs

    Socket G34, 12 cores @ 1.9 GHz or 8 cores at 2.4 GHz?

    Nonetheless, their headquarters are still in Santa Clara. Unlike the Microsoft ski lodge in British Columbia, I've been there.
  50. sechs

    128GB Pen Drives

    Reasons to use credit cards when buying stuff....
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