Well I see the rainbow effect when looking at such projectors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing.
And I also see the new cars backlight LED flickering which can be quite annoying while driving.

I can see when a CRT is set at 60Hz and even a faint flickering at 70Hz.
Same as these LED lights blicking everywhere.

And yet you fail to give an accurate example of something that breaks on multiple platforms because "char" is probably the most stable type in C.

And btw in C you have intXX_t and uintXX_t types now.

:x

Only if it's hand drawn !

Great now it takes over a minute to respond

Looks pretty close to shell for me

Longer answer: Yes unless your host is running suphp or other impersonating mechanism.

How to check? Just put var_dump(posix_getpwuid(posix_getuid())); in a php file, execute it and look if the user is the same as your ftp's user

Wow I played that game and didn't know it has become an open source game

Just wrote one function... One last to go !

From the article: "We dragged 16 people", I'm no stats engineer but isn't that far too low ?

Actually I'm pretty bored so I would have read anything remotly related to data centers.

But now I'm just disappointed.

Can someone explain me why is this article called "Data Center Overload" ?