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Have you heard of ServerFault.com???

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009


If your a sysadmin, network manager, support technician or general server geek and you’ve not been to serverfault.com, I suggest you take a look.

Serverfault is a community Q&A site for sysadmins, its a great site to ask questions about your IT related problems, and get quick, useful answers from the sysadmin community. Its also a great place to share your knowledge with other sysadmins. I’ve been involved with Serverfault since the very begining of it’s beta and truly believe its one of the best IT Q&A sites out there.

Serverfault is designed by the same team that produced StackOverflow.com, a programming Q&A site, lead by Jeff Atwood (of codinghorror.com fame) and Joel Spoolsky(JoelOnSoftware.com) and was designed to be a non-evil alternative to sites like experts-exchange, and it does that job well. These sites provide an clean, intuitive interface for finding the answer to your question and encouragement to answer other peoples questions.

I vehemently believe that sharing knowledge is a good thing for sysadmins to be doing, you can be sure that if your not sure how to do something, someone else out there can help, and the feeling of being able to help someone with your knowledge when their stuck is hard to beat.

So if you’ve not done so yet, take a look at serverfault.com, and its sister sites stackoverflow.com and superuser.com, but be careful, you might find , like me, you become addicted to answering questions.

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XSL Citation/Bibliography Styles for Word

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009


After my post on getting Word for Mac to recognise new citiation styles, I got a number of requests for stylesheets to use for Harvard style referencing. I’ve found the stylesheet I used, plus a number of other ones Including ACM, IEEE etc.

I presume these are freely distributable, I can find no reason why they would not be, so here they are.

Styles.zip

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