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...13th to 11th centuries B.C.) you may have seen, the memory of them will pale beside the massive ting, or tripod pot, in the first room, with its swollen bronze belly and deeply incised decoration. And when, in a nearby case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk--a circle of translucent greenish stone with a hole cut in the center, like a harvest moon rising, whose austerity reveals its maker's deep understanding of its material--the notion of progress in art seems more than normally fatuous...
...Although disk caching speeds up the browser, the directory can get as large as 100 megabytes. Be sure to use the "Clear Disk Cache Now" option under Network Preferences every few months...
After removing old files, you should probably "defrag" your hard disk. A defragmentation program resorts the data on your hard disk to speed up its performance...
Windows 95 users will find a defragmentation program in the System Tools folder. Better, yet, the Microsoft Plus! pack contains System Agent, which can automatically tune up your hard disk at a scheduled interval...
Macintosh users on the Harvard network can access the popular Norton Utilities package of disk tools via General Software, giving you access to a solid defragmentation utility...