I received this error when I tried to automatically activate my Windows 2008 server today. I found the following in the past, and despite a different error code, the procedure worked flawlessly. Bear in mind here that I am using legit media, and keys. From Smokey's post

"If you see this failure (with Windows Server 2008 ):

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Windows could not be activated.

Error: 0xc004f039
The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated.

It used to be that I was a faithful Adobe Reader user and anytime I opened a PDF...there was my old friend. Then I found Foxit Reader from Foxit Software and found that I am much happier. It has a smaller footprint at install, and just plays nicely. I especially like the tabs view (though I am sure Adobe does that now). So you're thinking...who cares, right?

While deploying storage for my clients, I frequently have to mount storage assigned to hosts and have to follow best practices for aligning the partitions. If you don't know what partition alignment is, it is the process of including an offset when creating a partition so that writes to disk do not cross a stripe unit boundary. All of this begs for some definitions.

There has been great debate about whether on not you should add one or two spaces after a period in a sentence before starting the next. According to MLA (http://www.mla.org/style_faq3 ) the answer is that it doesn't matter. On a typewriter, all characters are monospaced, and so the second space makes reading easier. In a word processing program, the fonts we use are proportionally spaced so the extra white space is no longer required to make reading easier.