I am using a pic16f877a for a project and I noticed that there are two VDD and VSS pins.  I wanted to know weather all 4 pins had to be connected to power or just one VDD and one VSS pin.  A circuit I was working on seemed to work fine with just one connected but I wasn't sure if it was a good idea.
Take a look at this example schematic:  The chip in question is the  and as you can see power is provided on both sides (with a 100nF cap to smooth noise I guess). Is this strictly required or could you put power into one side and just ignore the other? I know that I have just put power in one side and everything still seems to work fine but I feel uneasy with doing that. I feel that they would not waste pins that could be doing something useful by having an extra pair of power in/out pins. For what purpose does this PIC MCU (and others like it) have multiple power pins?
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I have almost everything working except for a check for if they have too little xp. If they have 7 or less xp, I would like to remove one bottle of enchanting from their inventory and give them one glass bottle, because the function for removing xp is called after they've crafted one and a scoreboard has counted it. 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Presumably I would run a different command to remove the extra bottle if they didn't have enough xp, but I don't know how because there doesn't seem to be any type of if/else structure in commands. Finally, should a question like this be in two different questions or is one ok on this forum? Does "a couple" always mean two? How to select all faces with the same material? Install Windows 7 with Bootcamp on OS X Yosemite with USB Key I have an iMac (bought in 2011) and I recently upgraded it with Yosemite. I am trying to install Windows 7 on it via Bootcamp.  However, its optical drive does not work, so I chose the USB key solution using the trick of modifying the file info.plist of Bootcamp (type 'usb bootcamp youtube' in google to see a video of this trick).  So I follow the process religiously and end up with the classic and famous boring screen 'No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key'.  So I tried to use Unetbootin (  ) to make my USB Key bootable, and tried to boot on it through the screen that appears when you maintain the Option key (Alt button) while starting the mac. Result: I never managed to have my Unetbootin-formatted USB key appear on this screen :(  I read some stuff about reFit (  ) and GParted, but I just don't know how to use them...  If someone managed to install Windows 7 on his/her iMac with Yosemite using a USB Key, please help me understand why I can't see the USB as a boot option. IPv4 vs IPv6 priority in Windows 7 I have IPv6 connectivity through Hurricane Electric tunnel. Since IPv6 day this year, many services (google.com, facebook.com, etc.) enabled IPv6 on their main domains. On my Windows machine, IPv6 is preferred over IPv4. 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