@maltesh: It also tells you jokes (well okay, just maths jokes) if you ask it.

@y0urm0msname: I absolutely love Hostgator. Competent and quick staff (most tickets are dealt with within 30 minutes, sometimes as low as 1 minute!), great packages at a bargain price. Been using them for years and I can't complain.

@audiophile8706: Never noticed it because I don't tend to upload more than a few gigs anyways, mostly text and such. Large files would be a little unwieldy online anyways, what with a slow upload speed and all that.

What exactly is wrong with a good old web hosting service? For a very low price you get unlimited hosting space, FTP access, HTTP serving and more. It might not have all the convenience of an integrated solution, but many backup tools can actually backup over FTP.

"His desk is clear accept for his computer" should read "except".

@unwallflower: I've been in just about the same situation, and I can offer a few tips. (Sorry for the long post)

@horizonguy: Have you tried the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combination? Be aware that it'll close all open programs without saving, but it could be faster than rebooting if only X is the problem. You'll probably need to restore the shortcut in Ubuntu, see [lifehacker.com] .

@jw: I don't exactly see what could replace RSS currently, so nah, it's there to stay at least for a good while more.

@csjo00: I think the usual consensus is either Western Digital or Seagate. LaCie does good external drives, but they tend to have high prices (probably partly because they don't actually make hard drives, unlike the other two).

@psychiccheese: Have you read the mozillaZine knowledgebase page on memory usage in Firefox? Seems to have a few helpful tips beyond turning off all extensions and switching them on again one by one.

@valmorphorize: It still means all your data is submitted visible to all. The Google van or the kid next door could quite easily read anything you transmit over the air.

I... I hadn't ever heard of this habit until this article. Nobody I know, both young and old, does it. Nowhere have I heard about this. It's as if this two spaces thing was very much restricted to specific people whom I have never been in contact with. Be it forums, emails, letters, assignments, essays, books, I've…

@Jonathan Assink: That makes me wish for an explanation of how things such as this:

@TheFu: Using Eclipse, you don't even have to be aware of such things. Get the default Eclipse distribution (which is geared towards Java) and as soon as you start a new project, you're ready to go. Eclipse will automatically populate the file with the default requirements (imports, class definitions, even a main…

@the_amazing_doug: Delegates gave me headaches for a while, even more so than pointers...

@SAfiftyseven: Computer science is about so much more. You learn everything from data structures (what are linked lists, hash maps, trees, why use a binary heap here and a red-black tree here) to operating system theory, with artificial intelligence, compiler creation, computer architecture and more in between.…

@TheFu: I strongly disagree. Languages such as Java are fairly easy to pick up despite not having such a simplified syntax. By using something so pared down, you also risk getting in the habit of not using semicolons (whern just about every language out there uses them) and you'd feel utterly lost when you end up…

@sandrewmorrison: I'm roughly 200km north of your location and I often do just that.

Sorry, I don't start it up ahead because I fear it'll get damaged, I start it up ahead because it's bloody cold outside and I want the car to be hot!

@infmom: Alternatively, download Stardock's Fences, take advantage of it to organize your cluttered desktop and then double-click anywhere on the desktop to make all icons disappear!