For whatever reason, windows 7 comes with the keyboard shortcut 'left shift + alt' switching the keyboard language. It is quite easy to without knowing it, switching the keyboard from US to Canadian French for example and getting weird characters like french accented e's instead of a slash, '\', for example
To prevent this, open up the control panel from the start menu.
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Today, the second alpha of drupal 7 was released. There is still no upgrade path from drupal 6.x to 7 supported. As well, this alpha version should not be used in a production environment. This release saw mostly security and bug fixes.
From the drupal.org site, "...The most notable change for developers is moving $form['#field'] to $form_state. This makes field forms more resilient to form_alters and debugging became a lot less tedious. Comment body became a field and new fields can be added to...
view from php.net manual page at http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.rowcount.php,
int PDOStatement::rowCount ( void )
PDOStatement::rowCount() returns the number of rows affected by the last DELETE, INSERT,
or UPDATE statement executed by the corresponding PDOStatement object.
If the last SQL statement executed by the associated PDOStatement was a SELECT statement,
some databases may return the number...