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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. How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day You Bought It. Tech Support Management. Double-Sided Design Solves Painfully Universal USB Problem.

Sometimes something begs for a simple solution.

Double-Sided Design Solves Painfully Universal USB Problem

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.

Performance & Security for Any Website. How to Use a Jump Drive Like a Super Geek. So you fancy yourself the technical advisor out of your clique?

How to Use a Jump Drive Like a Super Geek

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