Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2016 March 30#MS Word: remove spurious dictionary entry

What is this character? A search through Google tells me that it's "latin small letter beta" and points me to a French Wikipedia article, :fr:Ꞵ, which uses it as its title. How is this different from the ordinary beta character, β? The voiced bilabial fricative article seems to distinguish between β and Ꞵ, saying that a certain sound can be transcribed β "or more properly Ꞵ", so I hesitate to redirect Ꞵ to Beta. Nyttend (talk) 03:49, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

:Interesting -- it seems to be used exclusively for some Bantu languages. Latin large letter beta appears to have a descender. I hope someone knows what this is about; I'm quite curious. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 04:37, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

:It's already mentioned in the beta article, so I think it makes sense to redirect there. [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12270-n4297-beta-etc.pdf The proposal to add it to Unicode] (which is linked from the French article) lists some uses and points out that it's likely to be rendered differently from Greek beta (more upright, and with a serif on the descender). Unicode has always distinguished letters of different scripts even if they look almost identical (like o, ο and о). -- BenRG (talk) 04:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

:Apparently it was added to Unicode in version 8.0. In [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA720.pdf the relevant code chart], it's in a section titled "Letters for African languages" --69.159.61.172 (talk) 08:18, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

In MS Word (2010 2011 Mac) I seem to have added lisinurad (a misspelling of lesinurad) to my list of accepted words. How can I remove it? —Tamfang (talk) 05:16, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

:{{re|Tamfang}} http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-remove-words-from-the-word-2010-custom-dict.html The Quixotic Potato (talk) 06:03, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

:: Thank you. —Tamfang (talk) 08:19, 30 March 2016 (UTC) {{Resolved}}

I have this rack mount R5400 Dell machine and my internal hard drive crashed. Now the data is recovered but I need to purchase a new drive. I want a 15,000 rpm, 3.5" (the old one was a VelociRaptor 10,000 rpm). Could anybody recommend something that will work for me a long time? Thanks, - --AboutFace 22 (talk) 21:47, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

:How big is the drive that you want?--Phil Holmes (talk) 11:07, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

300 GB.

:Hardly seems worth speccing a high speed hard drive for something that tiny. Get an SSD.--Phil Holmes (talk) 17:39, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

:[http://www.amazon.co.uk/HGST-Deskstar-inch-Internal-Drive/dp/B00HE7HG2C/ref=sr_1_1/280-9938742-7076223?ie=UTF8&qid=1459445938&sr=8-1&keywords=hgst+deskstar+3tb HGST IDK Deskstar 3.5 inch 3TB Internal Hard Drive] looks like a good choise. Some stat's are here: [https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/]. VelociRaptor may be OK in an enterprise system when it is going to be replaced in the 3 year hardware recycle. Whereas for your requirements Deskstar is probable better. However, I would welcome other comments. I take it that 300 GB was a typo. Can I take it also, that this for a small business that doesn’t want the hassles and cost of frequent hardware replacements. After all, I'm still using my Grandfathers slide rule and I haven’t had to change the batteries even once, yet it still delivers accurately, answers to 3 sig figs.--Aspro (talk) 17:52, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the answers. I am surprised. What is wrong with having internal boot drive of 300 GB. I checked Amazon and found that they don't even make 300 GB VelociRaptors anymore. They start with 600 GB. Am I so out of sync with modern times? As a matter of fact I've had half of my disk empty and the disk is full of software I either downloaded or created myself. I keep my SQL server on three external hard drives. Everything has worked fine until a month ago. I will look into your recommendations but large gigabytes scare me. --AboutFace 22 (talk) 21:39, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

@Aspro's joke about the slide rule is very much appreciated. A very reliable tool indeed. --AboutFace 22 (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)