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  1. sechs

    Measure Twice, Cut Once

    From the forward chain... All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear ... and be misread. 1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is...
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    A good tool to work with NLite

    I'd think you'd be better off just with the drivers you need....
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    A good tool to work with NLite

    Doesn't nLite already slip drivers?
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    Free Tickets to "An Inconvienient Truth" via Fandango

    Boys, I don't want to know about your receptacles.
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    You Make The Call: Is It Grounded?

    Just so that folks know... I don't have or use either a curling or soldering iron. The electrician came by this afternoon and basically proved what I already know. He went on to say that, yes, our breakers are probably beyond their useful life and, yes, it was a code violation to replace the...
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    Free Tickets to "An Inconvienient Truth" via Fandango

    It's not my fault you people live in such loserly locations 8)
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    More Vista nonsense

    There is no sense in planned obsolescence.
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    Free Tickets to "An Inconvienient Truth" via Fandango

    No. It simply means that you are not among those with a Fandango-enabled theater showing the movie. The movie is definitely still showing.
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    More Vista nonsense

    Is there any sense in Vista?
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    You Make The Call: Is It Grounded?

    The landlord here doesn't have any real obligation to upgrade the electrical system, as long as it is safe and works correctly. In new revelations... I spoke to the "handyman" this morning, who said that the plugs should be grounded. When his electrical guy (nee nephew) called to setup an...
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    Free Tickets to "An Inconvienient Truth" via Fandango

    For those of you with Fandango-enabled theaters showing the movie: http://www.fatwallet.com/t/22/636798/
  12. sechs

    Draft-N 802.11

    What did you get? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1992140,00.asp
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    750GB for $225

    Mmmm... arbitrage. I wasn't planning on getting one, but if someone is interested, I'd be happy to exercise my option... for a small fee....
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    You Make The Call: Is It Grounded?

    This is a rental, so I'm not at liberty to make a lot of changes to the electrical system. I have brought up the grounding issue to the landlord, who is totally clueless about even what kind of wiring is in the wall. There was obviously some work done in the house ten or so years ago, as all...
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    Seagate Evaluation Units

    I wonder what those correct answers are. I know that some of you folks integrate a lot more drives than I do, and I see them.
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    You Make The Call: Is It Grounded?

    I recently moved into an older house (World War II to early 1950s vintage). Anywhere that I plugged-in a UPS, it popped up the wire fault light. Presumably, this is because the three-prong plugs aren't actually grounded (which isn't a surpise, considering the vintage). Due to some vagueries...
  17. sechs

    Fix a scratched LCD?

    Your only option is to fill the scratch with either an appropriate filler, or by melting the existing nearby material into the scratch. Most of the scratch repair products attempt to do one or the other.
  18. sechs

    CNN: AMD + ATI = Pure goodness

    As of late, I don't think that they were the reasonable-shipping-time leader either. This is why they were using ATi chipsets.
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    CNN: AMD + ATI = Pure goodness

    I guess Intel is going to have to go back to making their own chipsets.
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    Car RANT

    What did you do with banana peels before the Mr. Fusion?
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    Car RANT

    Seriously. Their cars still run on gasoline. What were they thinking?
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    Draft-N 802.11

    Convincing the Intel wireless card in the Thinkpad that it was in Europe was far more difficult than getting the AP to think it was in Japan.
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    Draft-N 802.11

    I've found that use of channels 13 or 14 often solve these problems. It's also possible to up the output on a number of APs, to the effect of overpowering other devices.
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    installed Ubuntu, now nothing will boot

    True. But Windows is not. That's often the problem.
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    Draft-N 802.11

    It seems like you're taking your life in your own hands with draft equipment. Not only are there compatability issues, but it's quite possible that some of that pre-N/draft N equipment may not be upgradeable to the final standard with ease. I'd suggest saving your money and getting a nice B/G AP.
  26. sechs

    It Runs In The Family

    This is to say that "philosophy" comes well before the actual well-being of people. If the tourists don't like the rental car tax, they can vote their feet right out of the state. That's direct democracy.
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    installed Ubuntu, now nothing will boot

    Why not use the NT OS Loader rather than GRUB or LiLo? Windows like to be in charge, irrelevant as to what's best for you, and, in this case, you can let it.
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    It Runs In The Family

    Florida Governor Jeb Bush vetoed a bill that would have added a $2 surcharge to rental cars for the purpose of paying for transportation enhancements. While Bush acknowledged the need for the funds, he called the proposal “taxation without representation.” The funds would have been used for...
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Until you mentioned it, I had never noticed the the arrows (here or elsewhere), which, I think is a credit to the interface design. Perhaps we should replace the icons with little blue arrows?
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    Full R/W NTFS support under Linux

    To answer my own question: http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#can_i_write_to_an_ntfs_volume
  31. sechs

    Full R/W NTFS support under Linux

    Hasn't full read/write of NTFS been available, but extremely buggy, for some time?
  32. sechs

    Windows *Vista*

    Why do we have to wait so long for Microsoft to properly copy the best elements of the MacOS?
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Perhaps this has been covered already, but I am having a lot of trouble telling the difference between threads with new posts and those without. The icons (1) aren't different enough and (2) don't say "has new posts" or "no new posts here" to me.
  34. sechs

    Anyone use freeNAS

    ...resistance is futile
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    It's one of those hidden features 8-)
  36. sechs

    Some good news for a change...

    Wasn't this on some PBS show over a year ago?
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    VirtualPC to be released for free, suck

    At least the price is right....
  38. sechs

    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Either I don't know what you're talking about, or I don't see it either. Could someone enlighten me on this?
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Exchange the vBulletin logo on pages.
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Isn't it the first thing under edit options in the user control panel?
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Perhaps you should disable those views, as well.
  42. sechs

    I made a few changes...

    If you have a bored moment, maybe you can go through the four menus at the top of this thread and tell me why they are there. I've had several other boards of which I am a member switch to this newer version of vBulletin, and none of them were better afterwards. Some were distinctly worse...
  43. sechs

    TrueImage v. Ghost

    I just don't see how it could be a true image of a volume. File-wise back-up is no problem, but an image?
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    TrueImage v. Ghost

    If you're deploying, I'd seriously suggest using the enterprise version of Ghost. It has a lot more doodads, as well as Ghost32, which allows you to run Ghost in a Windows environment. I've always been a bit skeptical of any program which purports to make an image of a volume while running in...
  45. sechs

    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Make it so that I can mark a forum as read in one click, rather than two. Make it so that I can quick reply without having to click on a non-sugestive icon.
  46. sechs

    I made a few changes...

    I have to say that I really dislike vBulletin. It has too many functions, and hides pretty much all of them. It adds complication where it is unnecessary.
  47. sechs

    Symantec has security holes, Oh the horror.

    Is this the one where there are no known wild exploits?
  48. sechs

    New way to erase hard drives

    Considering that people survive the magnetic field of an MRI, I wouldn't be worried about sudden morphing in people....
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    Speculation.....

    It would kind of defeat the point if it wasn't fail-safe.
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    Seagate Evaluation Units

    Here's the direct link: https://spp.seagate.com/na/promos/eval Presumably, you'll have to sign in first. May still not work based upon your preferences.
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