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How to create multiple lines in a single cell in excel

I’m sure there have been many times where you wanted to insert a line in an excel spreadsheet. In Word you were used to using shift+enter to give you a once space line. For excel it is different. Use ALT + ENTER

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UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME Blue screen

The infamous blue screen of death (BSOD) is what appears when you turn on your computer. Immediately you suspect a hard drive failure or data loss. This is not necessarily true. Remember, a BSOD is given by windows. So it must have at least read the hard drive to get the BSOD to show. So [...]

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Embed FTP url

Sometimes you will  have a username for your ftp as user@domain.com. Now the problem with embedding this URL in a web site or email is that there are 2 @ symbols. For example, ftp://user@domain.com:password@ftp.domain.com. the fix? use the %40 which is the @ symbol replacement. So ftp://user%40domain.com:password@ftp.domain.com

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DELL E1420 CPU BUS PERR ERROR on front LCD

This has been going on for months. January to be exact. A server running Windows Server Datacenter 2003 x64 edition, A Dell PowerEdge 2950. Dell has NO clue why this is happening. i’ve called them probably on an average of once a week and each time they say it’s been escalated. Anyone else having this [...]

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