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Get (Un)Bent

Here’s a quick and easy way to straighten out pins you’ve bent: Just take a plastic card and use it to straighten pins. Just gently wedge the card in every row, both directions, to straighten slightly misaligned pins. The thicker

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2.8 Not Great?

There’s an item here which claims that very high speed PIVs and Athlons make Windows 2000 and XP go gaga. Allegedly, this has something to do with the OSs handling I/O packets. Since other statements from the source seem questionable

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Get the Leash

MS is at it again. In a nutshell, here’s the situation: There are two major video graphic standards nowadays: DirectX and OpenGL. DirectX is owned and operated by MS. OpenGL isn’t. Well . . . . Recently, at a meeting