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<oerjan> # Stolen from Roger9//`learn Bureaucracy (from French bureau, "burrow") is a political system in which squirrels rule the nation, and burrow their nuts.
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date Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:43:46 +0000
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ATA is the new name for what old-timers know as IDE, a bus connecting the motherboard to hard disks or CD/DVD drives. ATA has a 40 pin socket and a 80 wire ribbon cable connecting up to two drives to a motherboard socket.