QPROPS - Pension portability

I learned recently that since April 2006 it has been possible to move your UK pension rights offshore under a scheme known as QPROPS (Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme) so long as this scheme is approved by HMRC and you are either an expat, or can resonably prove that you intend to emigrate:


 I will publish more details as soon as I have them.

Windows-7

I have now installed it on several computers and the only failures I have had so far are Zonealarm which I cannot get to run at all, and AVGFree 9, which runs but has some but has some integration issues. I think it is early days for these kind of products and expect both companies to come out with more W7 friendly versions soon.

One interesting new feature is W7's ability to install some intelligent device drivers such as network printing, and I think that this really sets it apart from Vista.

Windows-7

As a Microsoft Action Partner I received my full copy of Windows-7 and can say that I am very impressed overall. There are a few niggles, but otherwise it is at least 100 times better than Vista.

Strange bug in AIX shell

Found a really interesting bug in the AIX shell today. If you run "ls -lrt /mydir/myfiles" from the shell prompt, you get the correct answer, however if you run it as part of a Korn/Posix shell script, you get a random answer?

Any ideas on why this happens would be gratefully received.