Comment mirrored on random.org (Score 1) 437
Seems that random.org is hosting the keys at http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randbyte?nbytes=16&format=h
Hopefully sony will not sue them!!!!!11
Comment Re:Fortune of Perl (Score 1) 220
The worst part about perl is that its difficult to look up how things work online.
Ehr.. there is something called perldoc and it ships with each perl installation.
having a $1 instead of a $l.
$ perldoc perlre
Arrays of arrays. Hashes of hashes. References to hashes of arrays... etc. Then pass them into a subroutine that is part of a class.
$ perldoc perlintro
Trying to understand someone else's regular expression
WTF? How is it perls problem that you did not spend some time to learn about regexpes? They are not a perl-only feature. As a scientist you should be able to understand/learn new things.
a mysterious $_ in someone else's uncommented code
$perldoc perlintro (again...) well: I'm stopping at this point because all of your 'problems' would be solved by *reading* and *understanding* 'perldoc perlintro' but wait:
Not understanding the difference between print and printf
You are joking?! Didn't you claim that you are a 'fairly skilled computer scientist' ?
Comment Re:It can't even talk http properly (Score 1) 217
He's returning Error 404 when a script crashes?
But he manages to send 400 Errors to valid HTTP/1.0 requests:
GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:51:49 GMT Server: G-WAN/1.0.4 Content-type: text/html Content-Length: 274 Connection: close
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