Off coarse not. There is a router at South Africa. There the packets are routed to swallows (African ones off course. Everyone knows they are stronger than European ones).

But then, African swallows are non-migratory, aren't they? That explains your 100% packet loss.

Indentify me.

If you had asked me to indentify you, I would have guided you to a spot 4 (s)paces from the wall.

Aye. I keep telling myself to move on from slashdot, but it seems I have too much time to waste.

Please take a deep breath. I was simply pointing out that 100 Mb connection is not entirely uncommon, depending on where you live and what institution you are connected to. I happen to have 100 Mb at home and 100 Mb at work (a university). I was not intending to attack your reasoning in any way, and I apologise if that's the way I came across. You sound very cross with me now. Am I reading you wrong?

The "millibit" thing was just a jab at your lowercase "M" for mega. Again, no offence intended, though I can see that that could at least be interpreted as an insult.

Ok, thanks for the info. I'm assuming you are talking about the US, which is obviously very different in terms of both pricing and policy. I still don't know where the poster is from, though (statistically, the US).

Bottom line: AGH (Ain't Gonna Happen).

Dear Tom/Barbara: Ain't gonna happen, assuming your assumptions. I have a 100 Mb uplink, and still remember being happy when hard drives became fast enough for me to utilise that. I realise this is unusual for a home connection in most places of the world, but the poster may very well be trying to upload from his campus. I don't know how universities are connected to the net in the US or wherever else the poster may be from, but I'm guessing he (like me) could upload 500 GB in a workday or so.

Also, what is this "millibit" you speak of?

1) What keys do you type to search for text?

Searching is not possible.

2) What keys do you type to activate File->Save?

All input is written directly to disk.

2a) Is File->Save greyed out if there are no changes?

What is this greyed out you speak of?

3) When you hit shift-ctrl-end-del, does this take out the trailing CR/LF or not?

Not. It does however write two control characters to the file.

4) Where are the preferences - under "File", "Help", "Document", "Edit", "Tools"?

5) Are the preferences called "preferences", "options", "settings"?

There are no preferences.

6) Using the debugger - which F keys activate step-in/step-out/step-over?

There is no debugger interface.

7) When you click in a text box, does it insert the cursor or select the entire line?

CLICK? TEXT BOX? Hand in your geek card this very minute, young man!

That's no star.

It's a Death Moon!

Better summary: Two men lock a family member of one of them in a basement accusing him of stealing some rings. They let him out when they receive about the same value back. Since this little family fight involved an Xbox, you get to read about it here on slashdot. Coming up next: Man found out about his wife cheating on him by reading her phone bill. Her phone is an Android!

What planet are you from? Could you try to phrase that as a car analogy instead?

Fair enough, though I think wishing me dead is a bit of an overreaction. And if you re-read my very last sentence, I think you may realise that I wasn't being serious about anything I said. I was simply acting stereotypically British.

Actually, just forget I said anything.

No true Brit would claim that there are any questions to be begged in that statement. Or Scotsman, for that matter, now that we're on about logical fallacies. You may wish to google "beg the question" before using the expression again.

If you feel I'm being a top-hatted toff, or just patronising (which does not contain a zed in proper English), it's because you needed to hear it.

By the way, I apologise for any spelling mistakes in this post. English is not my mother tongue.

Breaking news here on Slashdot Science: Someone had a liver transplant! Two months ago. Stay tuned!

Maybe it's just me, but I feel /.'s been going downhill lately.

According to several blogs out there, the actual installation limit has been five a long time now. At least one guy called support to get more installations after three installs, and was told the limit was five and that he had two left (and that they would update their site to reflect that). I'm not going to dig out links, 'cause I'm lazy.