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  1. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    Since you're going to pay full price eventually, I won't bother offering it to you at a discount. Thanks for helping pay the bills next quarter, tho'.
  2. sechs

    photoshop witchcraft

    Guess what you're going to be doing?
  3. sechs

    It's Real

    Tried tofu and lard?
  4. sechs

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

    BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE. On the other hand, Microsoft really is a ski lodge in the Canadian Rockies.
  5. sechs

    It's Real

    I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem to come in extra crispy. http://consumerist.com/2010/04/kfcs-bacon-sandwich-on-fried-chicken-bread-kills-people-everywhere-on-april-12.html
  6. sechs

    English Is Our Language... Learn It

    Yes. The apostrophe police have been resting on their laurels.
  7. sechs

    Opera 10.5: a PR disaster in progress

    I stand corrected. People are trying to sap and then purify you bodily fluids.
  8. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    God is dead!
  9. sechs

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

    You'd be surprised to learn that Intel is based in Oregon. Microsoft is a ski lodge.
  10. sechs

    English Is Our Language... Learn It

    The government really has failed these people.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/
  11. sechs

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    Actually, it was supposed to be a false dichotomy. Since you say it's not that, it must be a true dichotomy.
  12. sechs

    Opera 10.5: a PR disaster in progress

    Might I suggest using the aluminum foil to cover leftovers rather than your head? Nobody here is trying to sap and then purify your bodily fluids.
  13. sechs

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

    http://tinyurl.com/yermngw
  14. sechs

    Who runs this place?

    There's also DeSales and Dominican.
  15. sechs

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    Is the tea bag tied too tightly around your neck, or have you just sunk from ignorant to stupid?
  16. sechs

    UPS Help

    Once upon a time, I ran the business edition, and there were no issues running it with a Back-UPS unit.
  17. sechs

    UPS Help

    This is old information. The only difference between the models is the sales channel. The premium for the RS is because it is part of an entire line from APC. Check the product pages: http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1500LCD...
  18. sechs

    Who runs this place?

    There are 189 according to the National Catholic College Admission Association. But only four of those are universities with names starting with "D."
  19. sechs

    Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution premier

    http://www.babybites.info/2010/03/03/1-year-happy-meal/
  20. sechs

    PALM

    Possibly, but a number of names floated as possible suitors would be buying for the operating system, as well as a number of patents which Palm holds. Foreign hardware manufacturers such as Samsung and HTC have been mentioned. Even Nokia could gain with a Palm purchase. In general, Palm is a...
  21. sechs

    Who runs this place?

    As we all know, it stands for "Catholic university."
  22. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    I suspect that this was due to a DOCSIS version upgrade. If I were to upgrade to two tiers up, I'd need a DOCSIS 3 modem. Where I am, this DOCSIS 2 modem (should) work fine.
  23. sechs

    Who runs this place?

    Work smarter not harder... sort by join date.
  24. sechs

    UPS Help

    Not that this is really getting me anything, but I can choose 88-136v. What software are you using?
  25. sechs

    UPS Help

    Actually, there's the RS LCD series, available in a range of at least 1100VA to 1500VA (but all appear to use the same battery); and the RS LCD Master Control series apparently available in a range of 450VA to 800VA, and, presumably, also share a battery. Other than size and some cosmetic...
  26. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    Technician came out, saw that the cable was running through my UPS (for surge protection) and said that was the issue. Except that, when he took the numbers, it didn't make much of a difference whether the signal passed through it or not. Strike one. Then he tried to blame my splitter. He...
  27. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    I really dislike Comcast, but I really like a good deal. Another "you get what you pay for" situation. I'm not really sure that they're being helpful so much as looking to collect that $50 fee for it somehow being my fault. They obviously haven't noticed the number of truck rolls in my...
  28. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    Actually, it has to do with how they don't pose questions, come across with an attitude, and if they get lucky....
  29. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    The problem of course, is that it's intermittent. Bigger, perhaps, is that the modem is obviously crapping out trying to lock onto an upsteam channel. I can't get S/N information on that, because it's measured at Comcast's end. It happened again, and the fix was the same: call in, follow...
  30. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    Actually. "lots of techs on this forum" simply told me to replace my modem without much additional inquiry into the situation. That's Comcastic!
  31. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    They've basically become the way IBM was thirty years ago -- except that they make consumer rather than enterprise products.
  32. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    I'm wondering if it will play DSi games, as well. If so, I'm sold.
  33. sechs

    Thunderbird 3

    Merc's wrong and the rest of us are right. So, let's get back on topic. I'm expecting that the next version of Eudora will actually come out of infinite beta this year, and it will be based on Thunderbird 3. Is Thunderbird really such a turkey?
  34. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    I don't know about clean power, but, like practically all of my equipment, it's plugged into a UPS. I only have basic monitoring of that particular UPS through my NAS, but another UPS plugged into the same outlet doesn't show any problems on a regular basis. Sometimes, when I turn on the floor...
  35. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    Here's a signal levels reading from before the technician visit: Downstream Signal to Noise Ratio 39.8 dB Power Level 9.9 dBmV Upstream Channel ID 7 Frequency 30600000 Hz Ranged Power Level 48.9 dBmV And here's one that I just plucked: Downstream Signal to Noise Ratio 39.4 dB Power Level...
  36. sechs

    Cable Modemery

    I know that a number of folks here use cable Internet, so I'm hoping for some insight into my problems. A couple of months ago, I switched to Comcast for a then-current promo. Initially, I had problems with general slowness and lots of dropping. The modem was showing lots of issues with...
  37. sechs

    OCZ's Vertex Limited Edition SSD: $399 for best-in-class write speeds, only 5,000 ava

    I used to live near their office in Sunnyvale. I've used their non-enthusiast memory for many years without issue. I have four sticks of OCZ ECC RAM in my machine now.
  38. sechs

    Firefox 3.5 is out.

    Well, except that Firefox 3.6 isn't implicitly compatible with extensions from previous versions. So, you'd have to say that your extension is the incompatible bit.
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    Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown?

    So, government guaranteed loans couldn't cause the "mortgage crisis." Great. Maybe it had to do with the fact that those making many of these bad loans had no skin in the game. They had no incentive to make a good loan. And once you package up those loans, slice and dice them, then you can't...
  40. sechs

    Home NAS

    I've had a ReadyNAS for some years, and it does. Unfortunately, since Netgear bought the outfit, they've put a lot of effort in adding whiz-bang features rather that fixing bugs and imparting useful functionality. Unless you need something particularly compact, I think that rolling your own is...
  41. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    I really do think that is the case here -- except that, by default, phones come locked to a carrier. And there are at least two incompatible cell technologies in play here. One can unlock any GSM phone, and the carrier should provide the appropriate codes for free. CDMA phones, as far as I...
  42. sechs

    Firefox 3.5 is out.

    Is Firefox incompatible with the extension, or the extension incompatible with Firefox? I use Mr. Tech Toolkit to force compatibility with new versions, and haven't run into trouble yet.
  43. sechs

    Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown?

    A bit of a hyperbolic title, but the sentiment is there. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/could-cars-have-caused-the-mortgage-meltdown/#ixzz0ehYd6VnD Read the original paper here: http://www.nrdc.org/energy/files/LocationEfficiency4pgr.pdf
  44. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    At what point should I expect the Macintosh to devolve into an iPad that is simply too big to hold?
  45. sechs

    Windows 7 nonsense

    You can't even install a third-party stack? Or do they all rely on Microcrap now?
  46. sechs

    iPod>iPhone>iPad

    So people using the iPad Mini... err, iPhone should also be able to use iPad applications?
  47. sechs

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    I also mentioned in one of my posts that one of the problems is that SSDs have revealed many other parts of my setup as the bottleneck. There's nothing like seeing a processor core nailed while a program loads. Frankly, this has me considering a full-scale upgrade. Considering that your...
  48. sechs

    Eneloop Alternatives (or Cracking The Battery Lingo Codewords)

    I think that you mean that some of us have more exotic needs than others....
  49. sechs

    Bluray software puzzle...

    Personally, I'm waiting for QDR support before upgrading my motherboard. Just because there's little possibility of me actually needing it doesn't make me look really stupid for requiring it.
  50. sechs

    PCI-X SATA 2.0 Raid controller?

    Guess who's wrong and unhappy about it....
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