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Take care copying commands from emails

Windows isn't always WYSIWYG and sometimes it will pretend. I'm talking here about how different characters are displayed on the screen to make the layout look nice. If you are typing away in Word then you can sometimes spot hyphens, for example, being

ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards

Thanks for everyone that voted for me in the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards this year. Unfortunately I was in a tough category - the winner was not only the best in the Company category but chosen as best blog overall. So congratulations to Steve Clayton.
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Get ready for Tech Ed 2008 in Barcelona

The Super Early Bird offer ends July 31st so don't leave it too late. Hopefully I'll be able to help out in the Ask The Experts booth like I did last year. If so, please drop by and say hello - I'll even try and answer your question too!
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Some words don't always mean what you think

Just noticed that "Queue" in French means a variety of things : A queue of people (as you'd guess) The tail of an animal (such as a dog) Slang for a man's sexual organ which puts a number of support cases I have worked on with French customers in a new
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RAID explained :-)

Saw this and thought it may come in handy for anyone trying to explain RAID and fault tolerance to their colleagues.
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