Foreign countries? Last time I checked, the USA was the clear leader in sending out spam. But indeed, this is not a problem with the servers. We are just trying to protect ourselves from spam. Blame the spammers. I report all unflagged spam to SpamCop, and by doing that I managed to make a few of them lose their accounts. It's kinda funny to see their responses, claiming they did not spam.

Man, you are talking about a company which sues their own customers! Pissing off should be second nature to them.

I'm kind of astonished to see so many people here running the flash plugin without a problem. Unless the definition of 'without a problem' changed somewhere.
I run it in Ubuntu (karmic, 64-bit) and it sure is the worst piece of shitware I got. Whenever I have a page with flash plugin, cpu stays fixed at 100% usage (well, at 25%, because luckily I'm on a quad-core). Also, the plugin segfaults more than my tests when I was learning assembly. After a few days turned on, last lines of my dmesg are always something like:

[562380.585402] npviewer.bin[8191]: segfault at ff999ed8 ip 00000000ff999ed8 sp 00000000ffe4d0ec error 14
[565094.972209] npviewer.bin[10145]: segfault at 1020000 ip 0000000001020000 sp 00000000ffc9727c error 14 in npviewer.bin[8048000+23000]
[572699.544263] npviewer.bin[11284]: segfault at ff999ea8 ip 00000000ff999ea8 sp 00000000fff58c0c error 14
[575806.593733] npviewer.bin[14840]: segfault at ff999ea8 ip 00000000ff999ea8 sp 00000000ffebc38c error 14

npviewer.bin is the flash plugin.
Really, am I the only one who has any problems with this? Sometimes, it even hangs firefox for several seconds before giving back control.

Not really... my point was the US messing with the whole world, not just latin america. Why do muslims (and lots of nations in the middle east) hate the US so much?

And then, when a group of terrorists come and destroy something, americans have no clue as to why it was done. The US keeps messing and bullying the whole world because of its economic and military power. I'm by no means saying it's fair or justified taking revenge like a few groups do, but let's face it... it's quite understandable why some nations hate the US so much.

Although 1.3 certainly has a smaller memory footprint without some features I don't need, I usually try to get the best from both worlds. For my applications, I normally use the latest apache, and leverage its memory usage by using any of the following:

• Offloading static content to a lighter web server, like lighttpd;
• Using a cache layer in the application itself, to avoid high memory consumption (in PHP or whatever language);
• Getting a reverse proxy in front of all of it (squid does a remarkable job).

Not all of them are required in every application, but if it starts to grow, staying with just apache isn't normally a good solution.

Seems Slashdot effect is playing its role:

6th most popular search in the past hour.

I have set up 2 keyboard layouts here at home (US English and Russian). I alternate between them using a combination of keys (running GNOME here).
All places on which I'm pretty sure I'll only want to access from home, I go and use a russian password or passphrase (yes, in cyrillic).
So, I guess my password most likely won't be found if all they search is for latin letters, numbers and symbols.

eBay must be run by the Ferengi.
In fact, they seem to be even greedier than the Ferengi.

Ahh, my friend, but never forget rule of acquisition #3:
"Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to"
I'd go for 2 bars of gold-pressed latinum at most

In which calendar??

Around here, we usually call them HTMLers.
Lots of people use this term here (I'm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

That's something I learned during my years with computers. Everytime I get my hands on storage I'll "never be able to fill", I usually find that my definition of "never" is not what we see in dictionaries :)

Indeed, that's what history has shown us. Software usually gets fatter and slower. All the achievements done by the hardware folks is normally negated by the software.