I would have been happy if it used ethernet over power. The GuruPlug has WiFi built is, but it is only given an aside mention in the last page of the article. A shame too, because at the same price it has much better hardware.

They really are full fledged computers, with big possibilities. I have spent the last couple of days in the planning stage of a home automation / personal assistant project, and plan to use several guruplug computers to pull it off. Connect a mic and webcam to it, and I should be able to pull off voice and facial recognition in a system that can always be on. I'm glad the guruplug was eventually mentioned, it is the same price as the sheevaplug, but has 2 USB ports instead of 1, an eSATA port, and wifi builtin. The SheevaPlug is grossly underpowered in comparison, but it was the first.

I would like to take a moment, and point out the moderation category of funny... It was a joke. And believe me, I have seen plenty of bad code written in c#, I know. I once found an 80 line function which took a decimal, converted it to a string, chopped off part of the string, then converted it back to an decimal. I replaced the entire function with math.Floor()

I hardly think we should include all the high school students using VB.NET in the count.

God, I hope rule 34 can be broken

Increase the length of the school year, but completely eliminate homework. Let kids have their evenings, and they'll be more rested for the next day.

A big kudos to our system administrator, a good friend, who set me up with a special firewall rule to bypass our corporate filter, and thus I have access to non-work related sites such as /.

Not to give an alarmist answer, but a doctor visit can be prudent. I had a similar problem years ago, where I for the life of me could not write code. It was bad enough that I got out of programming for a period of time. After a couple of years, I was diagnosed with a medical condition that was more than likely the cause. Obviously, your case can be different, but coding requires a lot of mental fortitude, and it doesn't take much to turn a good programmer useless.

I had an old ASP developer position for a tiny company, and I was in the server room with temperatures in the low 60s programming all day. It actually ended up working out well for me though, because I like the cold

If you want to save bandwidth charges, there are much better ways to do it which will drop bandwidth by a lot more than the length of a URL. Move to AJAX calls, replacing only the parts of the DOM which need to be updated, instead of refreshing the entire page.

I more than suspect Verizon isn't involved. They have fought the RIAA every step of the way, and are even helping develop the next gen P2P (P4P) technology. I have been with them for years, and when I moved actually made it a requirement that the place I moved had to get FiOS

I would say this is pretty reasonable. If they'll do the data loss for free, that seems a fair cop. Problems happen, Seagate isn't quite down to maxtor quality just yet