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Create your own - it's far cheaper (free!), and the level of security is the same. You never have to pay for an SSL certificate, only for a "trusted" one. Here is a guide to creating your own SSL certificates in a Unix-like environment. I'm not sure how you'd go about it in a Windows environment.

1) Unix-based operating systems are designed in such a way that it's nearly impossible to infect them with a virus. I don't know anybody who runs an anti-virus program on their Linux machines except on mail servers. 2) Yes. GRUB is amazing. Check out Ubuntu if you want a distribution that will automagically detect the other operating systems installed and configure the bootloader.

That might be the result of not speaking English natively. If you speak any other language than English, do you speak that perfectly? There is a difference between misspelling words on purpose and misspelling them because you are not fluent in the language. Still though, if somebody makes an otherwise grammatically correct post then I'd probably expect them to be able to distinguish between the words you mentioned as well. I have had the pleasure of being close acquaintances with people who have been speaking (and writing) English over their entire life, and just haven't bothered to learn the difference. Mistakes due to lack of practice are one thing, but making mistakes due to just not caring is a different situation entirely. And on a not-completely-unrelated note: I spend a lot of time communicating with people on the internet - in fora, IRC channels, and over various IM protocols. It seems that "where" is very commonly used in place of "were", so much so that I hadn't seen the latter in a long enough time to actually forget about it. :-\ I was typing a sentence that required "were", but I started typing "where", and realized my mistake; but it actually took me a few seconds to remember what the correct word was.

I can think of only one way to prove that it wasn't your password hash: Give us the string that you hashed to get cd07ddb17471e8ff66014578c8e93280. I hashed the string you said it was ("did you think i was going to give you my password"), but I got 31541c9de7f0ff00bfb41630772cad88.

I can assure you that your account was not deleted by myself, Thorpe, Barand, or AndyB, unless it somehow made it into the queue of accounts requesting deletion. If the hash you posted was indeed not the hash for your password, then we can attribute this to an act of a supernatural being, someone at your physical location using your computer while you were AFK, or something equally odd. However, if it was your hash, then it is entirely possible that you gave somebody the information required to hijack your cookie, log in as you, and request account deletion. I'm terribly sorry that this happened to you, but again, I assure you that none of the moderators deleted your account simply because you posted an MD5 hash, or for any other reason. That's hardly worthy of a ban.

I use v5 when I can, v4 when I have to.

Wikipedia knows best.

Saying Unix is a programming language is similar to saying Windows is a programming language.

I always love a good dose of xkcd, and that comic expresses my opinions on goto to a T.

You forgot the z. tar xzf extracts a gzip'ed tar file, the p just preserves permissions.

If you're looking for a guide to bash scripting, I suggest http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html. If you're hoping that script you typed will do anything useful, however, I'm afraid you're mistaken. All that's going to do is create (or update the mtime on) files called "file1" to "file100", and tell you the filename before it creates (updates) it. While I don't have any ideas for "guides to learn Linux", I can suggest tldp - The Linux Documentation Project - for general information on many, many Linux-related subjects.

They are different names for the same thing. URI stands for "Uniform Resource Identifier", and URL stands for "Uniform Resource Locator".

30,000 Japanese yen equates roughly to 275 USD - a much different value than 3,000. For shipping addresses in the US, I always recommend www.newegg.com, but since you're talking about prices in yen, I suspect that you're not in the US. Unfortunately I don't know anything about any world-wide shops.

You still haven't provided any specifics. How do you expect us to know what exactly is going wrong? There are probably a dozen kinds of "extracting" - plain tar, tar with gzip, tar with bzip, plain gzip, plain bzip, rar, 7z, zip, and those are just the ones that I can think of off of the top of my head. There is no universal command that will work with all types of these. You need to give us some specifics.

Check any of the other forum-software related threads in this board and in the Polls board. A simple search on Google (or here) for "forum software" will give you the information you'll looking for.

What type of file are you working with, and what command are you running to unpack it? What error message, exactly, are you getting?

I disagree completely.

I don't know... you tell us. What reasons did they give?

Yes, it's possible. I suggest using Ubuntu - it's pretty smart about picking out the Windows partitions and arranging your boot menu so it Just Works . You'll want a minimum of 10G if you want to do anything besides look at it, so keep that in mind.

On a slightly different note, Mozilla is taking a route with Firefox 3 that I approve of whole-heartedly. Instead of adding features, making things look prettier, etc., etc., they're going back to basics and improving in the security and functionality arenas. Where Firefox 2 regularly took up 280+ MB of memory on my laptop, Firefox 3 Beta 1 uses less than 50 MB. According to this review, the download package for Windows is smaller. On the Linux side of things, I haven't noticed much of a difference - the bzball for 2.0.0.9 is 9.2M, and it's 8.7M for 3.0b1. The menu system, preferences window, and add-ons manager are noticeably quicker, and it's much quicker to start up and close down. I've only noticed one oddity that I can't intentionally reproduce - at odd times, the cursor in textareas disappears, so the only way you can tell where you are is by typing or using shift-arrowkeys to highlight text. A refresh of the page fixes it.

i guess IE defeats FF in this case (nice roopurt ) thumbs up for IE in this case Um... no, IE loses. It behaves differently if you have two inputs than with one input. Since when is that intuitive?

I've personally overseen the purchase of a few dozen (25, to be exact) Sager machines, and they've all gone off without a hitch. We did a trial run of five machines, just to see what they were like, and then ordered the rest after they surpassed our expectations. They ran cool, had awesome displays, and the users had no trouble with the keyboards and touchpads. (The primary trouble areas in notebook machines.) I would buy from Sager without a second's hesitation. And while I don't have any experience with Alienware computers, they're very well known and reputable, so I figure they must be doing something right. And since they are now a subsidiary of Dell, I would think that they could be trusted completely.

I always recommend Sager Notebooks for big budgets like that. I've had the pleasure of working with a few dozen of them, and they're top-notch machines all around.

Out of curiosity, why are you installing 5.10 instead one of the much-improved 7.(04|10) versions?

I hate stickers. If there's a sticker on something, I peel it off, usually subconsciously. I have to use considerable self-constraint when I go grocery shopping, to make sure that I don't take the stickers off of everything I put into the cart. (Slight exaggeration.) I wear moccasins at every opportunity. I've always owned at least one pair of moccasins ever since I was about eight years old (almost 12 years), and I have grown so accustomed to them that if I wear shoes for an extended period of time (more than a few hours), I get so uncomfortable that I get a bit nauseous. I can never wear any less than two shirts. On a similar subject, I have dozens of t-shirts, and none of them are store-bought. They're all freebies from events I participated in. I think this is actually pretty common: I like to make things line up, or be separated evenly. As I'm walking, I try to place my toes/heels exactly on the cracks in the sidewalk, or I try to space my steps out so that the cracks in the sidewalk are exactly between the foot in front and the foot in back. In the case of the latter, I also use my steps to split the sidewalk into three pieces of equal length. If I'm sitting idly, I move my head and eyes so things line up - the edge of a window with the corner of a building outside, for example.