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After much study I'm pleased to announce that I passed the MCTS SQL Server 2005 exam on the first attempt. This means that Convallis now boasts a Microsoft Certified Professional in its ranks!
First a warning, this posting is a bit more technical than the usual variety.
A topic that I've butted up against on more than one occassion recently is that of open source software. So I thought I might devote a post to what it means to me.
It is an unfortunate truth that computer hardware fails. One of the most common components to fail is the hard disk, while modern disks are far more reliable than their early counterparts, they are still a mechanical device that spin many thousands of times per minute and as such there is a chance that it could fail at any time.