I agree. Everyone can learn to write basic programs. That isn't to say that everyone can become a good programmer.

100 byte chunks would work just as well, but with a smart raid card and 2GB raid cache the difference in execution time is fairly low actually. When creating this I did try 1k blocks first and it didn't have any noticable (i.e. wall clock) slowdowns in the long run and did give me a few false positives.

YMMV though, for my use case this was useful. For you that might be different

Indeed, I once created a dedup script which basically did that.

1. compare the file sizes
2. compare the first 1MB of the file
3. compare the last 1MB of the file
4. compare the middle 1MB in the file

It's not a 100% foolproof solution but it was more than enough for my use case at that time and much faster than getting checksums.

Unfortunately Ghostery and/or Adblock are not always an option.

My bank (ABN-AMRO) has recently updated their website and with that added Omniture tracking to all pages. If you use Ghostery (as I do) the site just stops functioning entirely and the entire Internet banking system doesn't work anymore.

So unless I permit Omniture to see everything what I am doing and effectively giving them access to my bank account including transferring money to other accounts... I cannot access my Internet banking system anymore.

BIG FAIL from the ABN-AMRO in my book. If you're going to use tracking/analytics software like this, make sure your website keeps working if it's not available...

And is not available in all countries.

I'd probably get series through Netflix (iTunes is really garbage, even on OS X) if I was in the US, but I'm not so I have to make do with alternatives...

I regularly drink Duvel and/or La Chouffe at bars like that. And those are definately not produced by Heineken.

Although it may be that they are not allowed to have different beers on tap or something. But bottled is definately a regularly occuring thing.

I guess you really haven't gotten the point then.

The Heineken logo (not sure what the point of the thing is) can be found on just about any bar. But 99% of them (at least in the Netherlands) will serve you a plethora of different beers. I personally haven't seen a bar/cafe where they sold Heineken only.

The only thing the Heineken logo tells me is that there is _a_ bar at that location. I'm sure not drinking that stuff..

He isn't saying that you should run on 10 year old hardware, he is saying that it runs on 10 year old hardware.

Basically, since it will run on 10 year old hardware you can just buy new low-end hardware and still get faster results than buying high-end hardware with Windows 7.

I have seen it happen quite a few times that the DE would just make a reasonable machine come to a grinding halt. My one-fast workstation with a dual Opteron was always blazingly fast using KDE 3.5. Since I upgraded to KDE 4 it has been horribly slow... but KDE 3.5 just isn't really an option anymore.

Those users don't pay money, but they help to remove the bugs and introduce new features. Or atleast... that's what I do with XBMC.

Personally I don't use Boxee though, I simply can't stand the Boxee user interface and bugs. Some bugs are ok but Boxee has had so many completely broken and/or missing features that it has never been a viable alternative for me. Too bad since some of the interfaces seem better than XBMC out of the box.

It all depends... Silverlight is a plugin too, will they block Silverlight aswell or will they somehow integrate it so it's not a plugin anymore?

Wheter this decision is evil depends on that imho

It's based on history. Every original internet provider provided you full access to the internet. So everything after that is unneeded degradation.

This has nothing to do with business class or not. You pay for an internet connection and should be able to use it to the fullest.

My ISP gives me the option in the control panel to let them filter the standard/dangerous ports for my connection if I want them to. But _every_ port and just about any protocol is available for when you need it. Including native IPv6.

Business lines should be about reliability and extra features like trunked lines, not about something as basic as having all ports available.

So OpenLeaks is actually less open than WikiLeaks? Now I'm confused...

Usually you can shift it into the gear you want, you just have to push a bit harder ;)
Most cars also try to prevent you from shifting to the 1st gear when you're still going 50 kilometers an hours while breaking for a traffic light. Just push a bit harder and you'll succeed easily.

62 million users can't be wrong, right?

from what I've heard, Farmville is very addicting and it constantly has new components keeping it interesting to play for quite some time. But most of the people I know that tried it got tired of it after about a week or so.