Lot's of data-sheet for components, and tech. papers, these days, are avail=
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in pdf format. my average daily new/old pdf readings (e.g. Digikey, Mouser,=
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etc.) changes from 10~15, sometime, it can be up to 150, e.g.  when We rece=
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renewed our SAE annual web subscription, there are over 40 pdf downloads ju=
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get the documents up to date (those were downloaded in about an hour). Some=
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paper I will read very slowly and carefully, for the rest, I only search wh=
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am looking for (e.g. critical component parameters). Once you got what you =
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looking for (components, idea, application notes, etc.), you won't feel so=
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badly.

I probably will uninstallFirefox and do a fresh install after I reboot the=
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computer.

 Funny N.
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http://www.AuElectronics.com/products
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From: Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 2:26:34 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]Firefox recent update issue with PDF file download.

Funny NYPD wrote:
> I am currently use Firefox V3.6.13. And set it up for auto-upgrade.

Auto-update of any software is generally a bad idea for exactly this reason=
..

> I can manually rename the file to a *.pdf, but with tens~hundreds pdf
> files downloading/day,

Hundreds of PDF files a day!?  Either you've got a strange job or you need
to get a life ;-)

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