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Hacks. Reference. Apps to Check Out. Practice Exams. Tips and Tricks. Antivirus and Maintenance. Achievement Unlocked! Achievement Unlocked! 175 comments I had a little fun with an online achievement generator (and stole some from a Something Awful thread). If you work in IT for any period of time, I’m sure you can relate. P.S. If you like these, you may get a laugh out of “You know you’re a computer security guy when …” and “10 Things Your IT Guy Wants You to Know” also. Completed In Progress Someday? { 174 comments… read them below or add one } Next Comments → Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } [Website] Achievement Unlocked Copyright © 2008–2015 Null Ventures LLC.

Disclosures • Terms of Use. How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day You Bought It. Support Details | Tech Support Management. Double-Sided Design Solves Painfully Universal USB Problem. Sometimes something begs for a simple solution. The nearly-ubiquitous USB port is perhaps the technological poster child for an obvious failure to work both ways (right-side-up or upside-down) despite looking perfectly symmetrical on both sides. Thankfully, and finally, this has been tackled from two directions (appropriately enough): one more idealistic, one more realistic, but both ingenious.

Ma Yi Xuan is a student designer who has solved the problem in theory, and in reality by UltraTek‘s new Flipper. These answers have been a long time coming. This author, for example, has bend more than one USB plug (and port), though fortunately only destroyed one to date. In the student version, there is a piece on either side of the interior that slides out of the way to reveal a data connection – which half moves depends on what way the plug is placed into the accepting slot.

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