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  1. sechs

    Intermittant site not found

    I am *not* experiencing this issue. So, it's likely towards your respective ends.
  2. sechs

    StorageForum Statistics page

    I'm getting a 404 on this page now... I presume it has something to do with the new server.
  3. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas. - Napoleon
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    Copying from one location to another

    Not really. A set of commands to the effect of copy these sectors on drive a to these sectors over here on drive b is all that the controller needs; it would probably be in the form of a large series of commands, read sector x on drive a and write to sector y on drive b. A lot of bus traffic...
  5. sechs

    Looking for a bulk Mail App

    HTML content alone shouldn't be enough.
  6. sechs

    Looking for a bulk Mail App

    As I originally said... it's your content. The question is, what are you sending in the messages that makes it look like spam?
  7. sechs

    Copying from one location to another

    I might be satisfied if my controller could be given enough information to not have to drag data in and out of memory for a disk-to-disk transfer.
  8. sechs

    NCQ

    Didn't some review show that it may *hurt* desktop performance?
  9. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme. - Jean Racine
  10. sechs

    Games and Some Other Stuff

    Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition + Secret Weapons of WWII - $35 Medal of Honor Allied Assault Deluxe Edition + Breakthrough - $30 All games were used exactly once; backup disks that I have will be included. Everything is in perfect condition. 12-port Cat5e patch panel - $5 Laptop shipping...
  11. sechs

    Looking for a bulk Mail App

    This is why you send it to yourself and BCC everyone to whom you actually want the message to go.
  12. sechs

    Looking for a bulk Mail App

    I'd say that it's your content that's at fault. If you BCC everyone, no recipient actually appears -- so, the number of people to whom you send the message isn't an issue.
  13. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    Cogito, ergo sum. - Decartes
  14. sechs

    Maxtor Warranty

    Is the game up? Is everyone going to go back to three years?
  15. sechs

    I found a way to get a free 4GB/20GB IPOD MP3 player..

    I like to use the Telemarketing Sales Rule against unsolicited calls, as many ignore it: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/rulemaking/tsr/ Among the requirements is transmission of caller ID information.
  16. sechs

    Walmart's $598 ECS Wonder-Laptop

    I think the point here is that you're generally *not* going to get them similarly equiped.
  17. sechs

    Walmart's $598 ECS Wonder-Laptop

    The T series are "thin and light." R series are more or less "standard" laptops.
  18. sechs

    HL2 is avail. for steam preLoading

    This is better than shipping a piece of crap in a box and patching it. Now people download crap that can't even remotely run and wait for the "patch" to make it work. I was at the last "company" meeting for EA.com before it was assimilated back into the rest of the company. One of the...
  19. sechs

    Should I buy a Seagate HDD?

    According to this link, "Retail" = "OEM, BAREBONE"
  20. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. - William Occam
  21. sechs

    Walmart's $598 ECS Wonder-Laptop

    Wow. Paid less than $1300 for the R51 with a bigger monitor and smaller harddrive. Is Dell including a gold necklace or something?
  22. sechs

    Who's using Mozilla?

    I still use Mozilla (over Firefox) mostly due to entrenchment. I used Netscape when it had the pulsing N. I switched over to Mozilla when they were still naming builds by milestone number. I have Firefox installed on my machine at home. I installed it at work to use instead of IE. It's just...
  23. sechs

    WD HD question which are FDB?

    Super fast? Not in my experience. My 7k250 whips it up pretty good. Fast enough? Definitely.
  24. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    Das Weib war der zweite fehlgriff Gottes. - Friedrich Nietzche
  25. sechs

    Should I buy a Seagate HDD?

    That's a surprising link for sure!
  26. sechs

    Changing drive letters?

    Don't bother changing the drive letter. There are no negative consequences of leaving it as-is.
  27. sechs

    WD HD question which are FDB?

    Honestly, if all computer parts were purple, I think that the world would be a better place.
  28. sechs

    Walmart's $598 ECS Wonder-Laptop

    I think that you mean to say that they *have* engineering. Everyday, I wonder more and more why anyone would buy something other than a Thinkpad....
  29. sechs

    Quietest HD for HTPC

    Yes... I think that you have that backwards. They're relatively expensive and horribly slow. Of course, if you're going to blow money for as quiet as quiet can be, just set up a dumb terminal and put the real computer in a closet.
  30. sechs

    Quietest HD for HTPC

    Baloney. My 180GXPs never made a peep. If they weren't hot and giving data, I might have thought that they weren't working.
  31. sechs

    Drive Storage

    White foam sleaves? Obviously, I've never received one of these....
  32. sechs

    Should I buy a Seagate HDD?

  33. sechs

    Quietest HD for HTPC

    If you can find a Hitachi 180GXP, that would be a good choice. The newer 7k250 is a bit noisier, but performs better. A Samsung P80 is also a possibility.
  34. sechs

    WD HD question which are FDB?

    I wouldn't use a Western Digital drive. But that's just me.
  35. sechs

    Should I buy a Seagate HDD?

    Just to stay on topic, I will cast another vote against Western Digital. For the price, it not a bad deal. Fry's had been running deals on 7k250s which I would say were better. While it's hard to touch Seagate's SCSI drives, it's pretty easy to so do on the ATA side.
  36. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    «Gott würfelt nicht» -- Albert Einstein
  37. sechs

    27 hours

    I have been on a Coast Starlight running twelve hours late. The issues with this train (as well as the Sunset Limited) are all with Union Pacific and rarely, if ever, with Amtrak. The states of Washington, Oregon, and California have made sure that Amtrak's end of the deal is up and running...
  38. sechs

    Another reason I like AS/400s

    You pay more, but, then again, you get more.
  39. sechs

    27 hours

    Considered taking the train? Yes, it's twelve hours, but it's overnight to Portland.
  40. sechs

    [NEWS] - Maxtor boosts SATA HDD cache to 16MB

    Is this actually useful, or just more fluff?
  41. sechs

    Semprons now available

    Sempron? That's not kind of female sanitary product?
  42. sechs

    Best Acrobat Reader

    I use Acrobat 6 myself. The next version will address the load time issues....
  43. sechs

    Roxio's got a brand new pig bag

    Roxio was a doomed company from the start... but this is just ridiculous.
  44. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    From the Actual Calls to Internet Technical Support home page, a real call as told by the tech who took it... The Netscape History List Strikes Again! Tech: Internet Technical Support this is so-and-so speaking. May I have your username please? Female Customer: Yes I want to speak to the person...
  45. sechs

    United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement

    It's a lot easier to work on the premise that Australia is a trade gateway to Asia than that Canada or Mexico are....
  46. sechs

    SF vs. SR

    I like San Francisco too. They have little trolleys that go, "Ding! Ding!" 8)
  47. sechs

    Doom 3

    Well. thinking about games *is* part of my job. That's pretty real to me....
  48. sechs

    It's a small world

    Hardly. You pay for good service, you get good service. The difference, these days, is that you use your laptop on your couch, instead of your phone in your kitchen.
  49. sechs

    Doom 3

    Keeping in mind that it's just a game and utterly not real, one might realise that it *can't* be realistic or have realism.
  50. sechs

    United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement

    Australia is the English-speaking part of Asia. And New Zealand is too small.
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