Go figure .... I had my ID checked on my way into a bar in Texas .... the lady asked me what month the 16th was :-) In my world that is 10th of June.

I have been in the industry for many years, and I agree. The cover letter is really important. In the current economic climate, recruitment agents are receiving hundreds of CV's daily. They do not have time to go and decipher your job history to figure out whether you may or may not be suitable for the position.

Your cover letter should highlight the points in your CV that match the position being applied for. You should also make it clear that you are enthusiastic about technology, and prepared to learn. Also try and give examples if possible of how you have had experience with the requirements for the position, whether it was a project you worked on at college, or a paper or thesis you have written.

No bullshit either. I have interviewed many developers, and I can tell you now, that fake experience is easy to pick up on. Any garbage produced will catch up with you later. Always remember that even after you land a position, you are going to be on probation for some time afterwards, and other developers will be asked about how they view your skills.

Initially you are going to have to lower your expectations. I went through about 5 jobs in 3 years at the beginning as I climbed the salary ladder. Times are different now, but don't view the first Job you land as the one you are going to spend the next 20 years in. Realism is sometimes more important than optimism.

Go to your browser preferences - uncheck "enable Great Firewall of China". ;)

A quick google came up with the following website: http://www.ruggednotebooks.com/
They have notebooks with sealed keyboards, low reflectivity (especially greate for the desert conditions :) ).

Actually make Pi = 4. As Pi r square!

Unfortunately, software is base-2. Hence now we are going to have the following interesting things in documentation:

Max File Size: 2.199023255552 TB .... As the storage will always be in words, double words, etc. which are based on base-2.
It does not make sense to me to use KiB and kB, etc as it will not reduce the confusion with the average user.

Letting all the users of slashdot access my friends ... I see trouble in future :P

Oh this makes me sooooo grumpy. FFS, who does the International System of Units think they are. 1024 does equal 1 kilobyte ... always has been. That's what I was taught in school. If I had answered 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte, it would of been zero marks.

According to the Oxford Dictionary: noun Computing a unit of memory or data equal to 1,024 bytes.
According to Websters Dictionary: A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
According to Cambridge Dictionary: a unit of measurement of computer memory consisting of 1024 bytes
According to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kilobyte:

–noun Computers.
1.1024 (2^10) bytes.
2.(loosely) 1000 bytes. Symbol: K, KB

So until the guardians of the English language change .... 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes. Finished.

Ahhh young grasshopper ... you have much to learn about the world.

Of course you can write exploit free code ... see example below:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello World!\n");
return 0;
}

Well ... anyway, thats all the Anonymous Cowards understand about coding anyway :)

Use wget :P