What's this Tips Section?

Tips are suggestions. Tips are ideas, opinions that you can take or leave. But Tips can be very useful, especially for beginners. Tips can also be useful for oldtimers too.

There is no room in the FAQ for long, drawn-out discussions of the merits of various software or hardware items. We try to be hardware and software agnostic in the FAQ. We can't clutter the FAQ with detailed techniques, even those practiced successfully by experienced members. There just is no way to archive detailed opinions, ideas, and techniques in the FAQ without the risk of making it too hard to read and understand.

Note: Older information has been archived. Check out the Archives links at left if you are looking for older information that used to be in this section.

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