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  1. sechs

    Water Cooled by Intel

    Somebody will copy it for proper processors. There's money to be made.
  2. sechs

    Quicktime (Mac vs. PC)

    Happen to know what this product is? Last time I checked, Adobe used Visual Studio on Windows and CodeWarrior (!) on MacOS.
  3. sechs

    Verizon Phone suggestions???

    It's not a cell phone; it's a PDA. That's the problem.
  4. sechs

    Intel's new microarchitecture: Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest

    But can I cook eggs on it?
  5. sechs

    Even 500W ain't enough for SLI.

    In my experience, I can't say that this limitation has imposed any kind of limit. Then again, I use quality power supplies.
  6. sechs

    Performa 550 Data xfer

    I'd suggest: 1. Charging more. 2. Telling the customer that this *isn't* an on-site job. Take the machine, pop the drive, retreive the data, and give them a CD with a copy of all of their data on it.
  7. sechs

    Video cards: AGP vs. PCI 256 vs. 512mb ram

    It was only a few years ago that getting a computer with 512MB of RAM was pretty extravagant....
  8. sechs

    Wireless adapters and routers supporting enterprise WAP.

    Thanks to someone at Belkin failing to put an asterisk on their packaging, I just setup a Linksys WRT54GL. It supports WPA2. Any reasonable router/AP should be able to support it via a firmware upgrade. Client encryption really has to do with drivers and having an appropriate supplicant, and...
  9. sechs

    Switching to VoIP service

    Doesn't the "device" usually go on the WAN side of the router, taking care of all QOS issues?
  10. sechs

    What I'm not going to do tonight

    ... with Iran and North Korea.
  11. sechs

    What I'm not going to do tonight

    As they say, piss-poor prior planning causes piss-poor performance. This administration is king of it.
  12. sechs

    What I'm not going to do tonight

    Well, if you can declare someplace a disaster area before there's a disaster there, maybe you prepare for the results before they occur. This *is* the guy that said that the government was prepared. Shoot, if Dick Cheney had been running the country that day....
  13. sechs

    New Intel-based Mac Mini.

    How much of that price is for the OS?
  14. sechs

    Paint.Net - Alternative to Photoshop

    If you applications support it, I'd suggest skipping .NET 1.0/1.1 and going straight for 2.0. Doesn't Google have a free graphics tool?
  15. sechs

    Logitech = ~Evil

    I can't say that I've ever had a problem at either of those distances. In a quick test that I just did, my keyboard transmitted at about seven feet through me, a wall, and my solid oak desk. I guess mileage varies.
  16. sechs

    Scanning Baseball cards

    I'm not familiar with for what card collectors look in online sales, but I'd want to see the item in it's holder. Particularly as these are just pieces of paper, minimal handling is likely prefered. Also, depending on the age and value of the cards, you probably want to minimize exposure to...
  17. sechs

    Where are we?

    Obviously, you're just not important to Google. Maybe Microsoft loves you.
  18. sechs

    Logitech = ~Evil

    How big is this room?
  19. sechs

    Where are we?

    I interviewed at Google last month. The Google Maps directions that they gave put the building that I needed to go to across the street.
  20. sechs

    Logitech = ~Evil

    Apparently, you didn't get the memo. Logitech + Bluetooth = bad Why did you go with bluetooth rather than Logitech's reliable RF technology?
  21. sechs

    Current video card recommendations

    Not only has every ATi chip since I can't-remember-when had dual monitor support built-in, properly wired DVI-I ports on ATi cards can be split with dongles to DVI-D and VGA outputs.
  22. sechs

    Italy

    Do we care?
  23. sechs

    Photo Scanning Help

    If you are scanning these for archival purposes, I'd suggest using a high resolution. On non-colour photographs you should experiment with scanning in grayscale, as well as colour; I have found that this sometimes leads to better results.
  24. sechs

    Make Word-to-HTML less sucky?

    Can you cite a couple hundred of these? I have someone who might be interested.
  25. sechs

    [news] - Free VMware Server?

    Beyond the management tools, how different is GSX server from Workstation? Sounds to me like they're going to be giving away one product and undercutting sales of another.
  26. sechs

    Firewhybother

    I guess that it's good to know that Tannin's humour removal was successful. Did the doctors say anything about when this crankiness would wear off?
  27. sechs

    Firewhybother

    Why does Tannin bother? He's a closet Firefox user. He can't get enough of it. But has made a public stance against it, and cannot admit that he was wrong. So, he must keep up this polemic to save face. How can we blame him? He lives in Australia, a country with cities like "Fairy Meadow."...
  28. sechs

    Make Word-to-HTML less sucky?

    Dreamweaver used to have a filter that cleaned out a lot of the stupid tagging and CSS crud that Word would create. I'm not sure if it's still there.
  29. sechs

    Adobe ImageReady vs. Photoshop? Differences?

    ImageReady will eventually go away. Unless you're doing serious preparation of images for web pages, I'd stick to Photoshop.
  30. sechs

    Migrating from OSX to XP, help?

    I might suggest hiring a typist familiar with both platforms. That'll be easy and, most likely, fast. 8) Quickbooks may go straight across (contact Quicken), but the others will have to go through a third format, for extra mangling. Expect problems.
  31. sechs

    SeaMonkey 1.0 released

    So, if they start calling it "WetApe," they have to start at 1.0 again? Sure, that makes sense. Maybe I've done too much work with logic, but it *would* make sense if Ubuntu started with 3.x. It's not as if it is some kind of new product with no history. Like Windows NT 2.0.
  32. sechs

    What I'm not going to do tonight

    You should know. He's your president.
  33. sechs

    SeaMonkey 1.0 released

    Shouldn't this be "2.0?" Or are we playing the version number game?
  34. sechs

    Tie Your Shoes *or* "Oops!"

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/30/britain.museum.ap/index.html
  35. sechs

    T-shirt Folding Machine

    Isn't the problem that you need to be handy enough to make the thing first?
  36. sechs

    Drop My Rights

    Tried it yet?
  37. sechs

    Guerilla Marketing

    We don't know anybody who happens to give glowing reviews of Western Digital drives, do we?
  38. sechs

    Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

    In general, no.
  39. sechs

    [NEWS] - Western Digital 500GB Caviar : WD5000KS

    Western Digital will catch up to next year yet!
  40. sechs

    Helluva Deal! (Serial Attached SCSI Bundle)

    I haven't done anything serious yet, but, as much as I can tell, it doesn't perform any worse than a 15k.3. It *does* seem to make a more disconcerting startup noise, reminiscent of the Atlas 15k.
  41. sechs

    Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

    In my opinion, fixed-width is lazy. If you can't be bothered to build a site that looks good on my computer, why should I bother?
  42. sechs

    Helluva Deal! (Serial Attached SCSI Bundle)

    FYI, my drives arrived yesterday. I hope to take them for a spin today.
  43. sechs

    I-RAM Review

    So why isn't this PCI universal?
  44. sechs

    ATI officially launch Radeon X1900 lineup

    I just upgraded to an X850 XT which has a similar looking two-slot cooler. Except for at startup, the fan is really quite quiet -- and I've run the GPU above 55C. And it doesn't dump all of that heat inside my case. If this new card has the same setup, I don't see that as an issue. The...
  45. sechs

    We're back

    I can't really complain about a free service, but considering the history here, I'm wondering if there isn't a better deal out there. Perhaps there's a host out there that checks that the source is the source, and the target is the target?
  46. sechs

    Another SF Milestone

    ööps!
  47. sechs

    Another SF Milestone

    If it was easy to type in diaresis, I'd spell "coöperate" correctly all of the time.
  48. sechs

    Canadians will elect Bush-like prime minister.

    I think I'm behind the curve here. Don't you need over 150 form a government?
  49. sechs

    Audio-extraction tool of choice?

    I use CDex 1.60. It doesn't have the accuracy that EAC offers, but is considerably easier to use. If you're going to be ripping a good disk to a lossey format with a reasonable drive, then you're unlikely to notice any difference between the two.
  50. sechs

    Red birds, green birds and 3DMark06

    How many 2.5GHz AMD processors are actually out there?
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