Comment Re:md5? (Score 1) 380
Yes there is, 2^56 bytes. See the algorithm.
Comment Re:xkcd? (Score 1) 699
Use Yahoo! instead?
Comment Re:Java is crap anyway (Score 1) 535
Meh. When I want to show people how bad perl is, I just open up a text editor. Mash my face against the keyboard a couple of times. Then point out that the resulting gibberish is valid perl.
Not only that, it probably does something useful too.
Comment Re:This just gave me a good idea! (Score 1) 186
here you go :)
Comment Re:wts? (Score 1) 274
If you're referring to the long s, you only use that one if it's not the last letter of the word (or syllable, usually). That just means the image is doubly wrong.
Comment Re:Q about Rhythmbox freezing (Score 1) 419
I have a large collection (>1TB, >150k files) and use mpd successfully to play large playlists.
Clients like gmpc or sonata may not be as slick as Rhythmbox but the ability to script things from the command line with mpc is a big plus for me.
Comment Re:Causality is wrong (Score 1) 483
If I was to say my biggest greatest annoyance with Linux, it's media plugins and flash in particular. If only Firefox would stop being so patent-freaky and decode H.264 when it is available then we could kill flash and live happily ever after. *buntu seem perfectly capable of shipping a video player that'll use the x264 codec if installed, so should Firefox.
Can they send the bill to you when the lawsuit hits?
Comment Re:Do not want (Score 1) 579
The flu is either incorrectly refered to as the "Swine Flu" or correctly refered to as the H1N1 flue. It is not refered to as the "Mexican Flu" by anyone other than yourself.
Actually this is a common name for this flu in
Comment Re:good idea but... (Score 2, Insightful) 269
It could be that your uploading is killing your download speed. See one of the other comments for instructions on how to limit upload speed if you hadn't already.
Comment Re:I'm not sure that either of you are correct... (Score 2, Informative) 583
Maybe because Ubuntu say so themselves?
Comment Re:Samsung Spinpoint anyone? (Score 1) 452
I take it you're being sarcastic? I bought two of them last year (HD103UJ) and both are already failing their SMART selftests. Feh.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 4, Insightful) 120
Quota is about money headaches, not infrastructure headaches. Google can't help you with that.
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Features Brian Behlendorf ( Apache ), Dr. Noam Chomsky (MIT), Dr. Dennis Dalton(Columbia), Dr. William Easterly( NYU) and a host of economists, programmers & venture capitalists."
