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Anybody know how to use Photoshop? I'm putting together an online class, and I've got some banners for section headings, but I need a couple of headings that I don't have. The person who made the banners sent me the Photoshop file, but I've just got GIMP on my computer and I don't really know how to use it too well, yet. I can figure out how to delete the layer that has the text, but I can't figure out how to just change the text that's there. This will probably take about five minutes for someone who actually knows what they're doing. Can anyone help?
Edit: never mind, I figured it out.
I have gone through five pairs of earphones in the last year.
Six pairs of earphones in the past 15 months. Sigh.
You're really Lightning Lad, right, visiting us from the 31st century? That would explain it. Or Harry Dresden.
(Sorry, Tom, that sucks. It is always the same device?)
Good news! My phone did
not
explode.
It has now been replaced by a phone which is (in theory) less likely to explode.
Yay for non-explody phones.
Just used the GreaseMonkey extension to add something to a website I use. I was able to add a new handy feature with seven lines of javascript. Why have I never used GreaseMonkey before?
Can anyone explain this difference in download/upload speeds to me? I have Comcast cable internet and also DSL from the phone company.
On DSL, my connection is adequate, and about the same whether I'm on VPN or not.
On cable, my connection is blazing fast without the VPN but when I'm on VPN it's not much faster than the DSL.
I don't understand why the VPN matters to cable but not to DSL.
This makes it a toss-up between the two as far as work.
I haven't tried streaming with my Roku on the DSL yet.
DSL is much cheaper, of course, but I can't decide if I should drop cable.
It sounds as though the VPN is the bottleneck. Are you using something terrible like SonicWall or something a bit more reliable like Cisco VPN?
Ah okay. Well the answer is going to be that the VPN speed is going to dictate your speed while in use. It's a pain but it would be so much slower if you were on SonicWall!
