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  1. sechs

    6500K (Daylight) CFLs......

    The ROI is huge. There's not reason to not do it.
  2. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    I know that zephyr started sometime in the late 80s, as the first recorded revision of its man page is in 1990.
  3. sechs

    Separate Apps Partition - Worthwhile?

    Uhhh... ditto.
  4. sechs

    [NEWS] - Command queuing at Tom's

    So you can't compare? That's Tom's for you!
  5. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    Unix Zephyr. That's the original instant messaging system.
  6. sechs

    [NEWS] - UnitedLinux not united anymore

    The fact of the matter is that UnitedLinux is mostly SuSe anyway.
  7. sechs

    [NEWS] - Command queuing at Tom's

    Was there some measurement with queuing on versus off, or did I miss it?
  8. sechs

    What about Howard Dean?

    I hate the idea of a brokered convention. It just seems like such bullshit.
  9. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    If there were any games for the IBM Selectric, I might consider it.
  10. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    Punch cards, 8-track tape, one foot floppies... yes, those were the days when you needed a special room for a computer and one guy who just mounted and unmounted tape reels....
  11. sechs

    SR Dead?

    It's definitely jacked. As least four times in the last hour, I've gotten the PHP script rather than the page....
  12. sechs

    What about Howard Dean?

    And we'll be just as clueless as to who might be/should be the Democratic nominee. Maybe we can at least shake out those with absolutely no chance....
  13. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    I'm glad that I went to a computer geek school. We had Mosaic on our DECstations. And when you could get a hold of one witha colour monitor!
  14. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    PCs! My school had mostly Unix workstations in the computer labs. Try explaining "finger" to the unitiated.
  15. sechs

    Beef

    Insulin has little directly to do with fat. It causes the uptake of glucose by cells. Yes, cells in your liver will make glycogen with some of the glucose they take up, but they will only make so much of this -- it is regularly used to certain extent. Unless you are on an unusual diet, your...
  16. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    Did it ever do that?
  17. sechs

    Most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life

    You'd be surprised what people think about their game consoles....
  18. sechs

    Onboard vs. PCI sound and LAN

    Sounds right. I recall reading some review of various ethernet NICs with the determination that performance was more dependent upon the driver implementation than the use of any particular chipset. So, as long as you get reasonable drivers, there's no reason to not go with the onboard.
  19. sechs

    Beef

    Actually, it's pretty difficult to take sugars and other carbohydrates and convert them into fats. Your body uses enough energy on a regular basis to use most sugars that you ingest; extra often comes out in sweat and urine. What can and does happen is that you don't burn fat, and end up...
  20. sechs

    FS: SCSI Setup, Cordless Mouse, Fans, and More

    It is posted here: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33737455 There's a reasonable chance that I'll be breaking up that SCSI stuff, so, if you're interested in anything, just let me know.
  21. sechs

    Beef

    I think that you need to do a little more research. Fructose is a simple structural isomer of glucose. Most cells in your body have as enzyme to convert between the two sugars. Sugar, as always, is a fat free food.
  22. sechs

    Beagle2 website

    So Spirit has a storage problem. Looks like it's not reading its flash memory correctly. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
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    Beef

    And what's wrong with using fructose instead of glucose as a sweetener? Fructose is sweeter, so you don't have to use as much of it...,
  24. sechs

    Beef

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/ They'll be replaying this episode next week where I am. Some additional interesting material.
  25. sechs

    Jan '04; your PC specs.

    I stick mine in the PCI slots. Solves that problem with the fans.
  26. sechs

    What theme is this

    Who has the mail app installed? http://themes.mozdev.org/themes/graymodern.html
  27. sechs

    [NEWS] - It's about damn time

    I'll tell you that there is a major difference in watching Finding Nemo in simple two-speaker stereo and in 5.1 surround.
  28. sechs

    What theme is this

    It might be Nautilus, but it just doesn't look like it to me. We need someone to install these themes and see if the mail client looks like picture.
  29. sechs

    Beef

    First, you presume that fish think about this a lot. They *are* fish-brained. Second, I'm not so sure that spending my life in a 20 by 20 by 20 pen with a hundred or so other fish is really the life of luxory.
  30. sechs

    Beef

    Who cares about cattle, what about people? There are hundreds (perhaps more) breeds of cattle which have or are on the verge of disappearing, and we have know idea what they might do for us. You think that keeping a couple samples in zoos is a good idea? It might be more cost-efficient to...
  31. sechs

    Beagle2 website

    Maybe we can get some rock stars and billionaires to pay to go.
  32. sechs

    Beef

    So, cattle will go extinct.
  33. sechs

    Beef

    http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Duales+System+Deutschland&spell=1 You may want the English only option.
  34. sechs

    Beef

    We need something like Duales System Deutchland. That's just damn smart thinking.
  35. sechs

    Beagle2 website

    And in additional Mars-eats-probes news, JPL is having problems communicating with Spirit.
  36. sechs

    Beef

    Since they are stuck in one place, farmed fish tend to soak up whatever the local nasty chemical is. I think that salmon is probably the best example of this. Furthurmore, fish farms are just about the worst thing for the water. Most farms siphon off water that the wild fish need, dump a...
  37. sechs

    What about Howard Dean?

    How long was Spector your senator?
  38. sechs

    Sony Support at its finest

    Takes out pad of paper. Marks Sony off of list. Returns pad of paper.
  39. sechs

    [NEWS] - Dual Opterons in a keyboard!

    They'd easily fit underneath.
  40. sechs

    What about Howard Dean?

    Come on! The rich still get richer, and poor stay poor!
  41. sechs

    Beef

    There aren't enough fish in the sea for people to be taking so many to eat. So, I do my share, and don't eat them.
  42. sechs

    [NEWS] - Dual Opterons in a keyboard!

    Wow. Who needs this kind of power in a musical instrument?
  43. sechs

    Beef

    I lived in Kansas for a while. I've seen feedlots like that. While I've always known about slaughtering (and never had a problem with it), I didn't know that raising cattle had become so unnatural. Ten or so years ago, cattle spent two to three years eating grass before being fattened at the...
  44. sechs

    Windows XP Pro Login Debacle

    Forget this hacking crap. Make them pay for their mistakes!
  45. sechs

    Digital Copyright Protection Error

    Unfortunately, I'm kind of limited to using PowerDVD and WiMP (using the PowerDVD codec), as that is what I have.
  46. sechs

    My mom's a senior citizen today

    67? I thought that you had to be 72 to get full benefits....
  47. sechs

    What about Howard Dean?

    No, Eisenhower was the general. Nixon just ran the country while Eisenhower was looking like he was. Or, at least pretending. Something that has occurred to me: Bush wants to run the country like a business. He picks able managers and makes broad strokes on policy. Isn't that how Enron and...
  48. sechs

    My mom's a senior citizen today

    I thought that you were a senior citizen at around 55. Has this changed?
  49. sechs

    Digital Copyright Protection Error

    The drive is RPC1 and I tried DVD Genie. Is there some other utility that I should perhaps try?
  50. sechs

    HD read/write question

    The fact of the matter is that tracks no longer sit so neatly in alignment to think of the cylinder as geometric concept.
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