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November 2008 - Posts

Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:22 PM

Happy Birthday to Windows!

Windows 1.0 was released on 20th November 1985 hence it's twenty three years old today! There's a great write up on TheRegister which includes a link to the pcmuseum - it's a third party site which runs through a summary of the releases of Windows incuding
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Monday, November 17, 2008 5:03 PM

GetSafeOnline: providing advice for consumers to help them stay safe on the Internet without blinding them with science

It's the fourth annual GetSafeOnline campaign week whereby the team will raise the profile of consumer internet safety through a revamped GetSafeOnline website (containing a wealth of commonsense "how to" information) and a range of media activity. It's
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Friday, November 07, 2008 5:33 PM

How much data is CERN's Hadron Collider expected to generate? ** Edited to correct typo **

I stumbled across this earlier in an edition of Computing - apparently the Hadron Collider "is expected to generate 40,000Gb of usable information per day" - assuming it operated at this rate for a year that would be over 14 Peta-bytes of data! I wonder
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Friday, November 07, 2008 5:22 PM

How to sort a list of names into alphabetical order

You might be surprised just how easy it is to sort lists of text into alphabetical order simply using Microsoft Office's Excel as you can see from the screenshot below - the sort function works just as happily with text as numerals:
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Friday, November 07, 2008 12:46 PM

The VistaSquad are meeting again in London on the 19th - they have the General Manager of Visual Studio joining them

If you'd like to join the user group meeting then simply browse to the VistaSquad's website to sign up - it's free and will be a great opportunity for you to ask questions and learn from your peers. The following talks will take place during the user
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:38 PM

What do you think of Microsoft Security and Management products?

What are the first things that come to mind for you when considering "System Centre", "Forefront" and specific Microsoft security and/or management products? What's good? what frustrates you? Please comment to share your thoughts.
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