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This is where a good framework makes everything so much easier. CakePHP has a really nice way of setting up validation rules for you and all the regexs are done.

I never understood the style of interpolating code with printed text with PHP. I always think its much cleaner looking and easier to understand if you use print<<<X and X;

Best I have found so far is Landashop and they are based in Spain, can't get a quote on shipping though without signing up, which I haven't done yet. But I guess it'll be the same as the other european shops which is about $40. One place wanted a €150 charge for orders below €500!

I remember that, they used to be in the Woking area originally, I can remember buying 64MB of ram on a single module (that shows how long ago it was) and putting it in my computer, for it not to work. Took it straight back and replaced with 2x 32MB modules which worked perfectly. Thats the kind of service that is missing from most places now.

nVidia Cuda

If you thought about OpenCL but can't find enough, just go straight to nVidia Cuda, it has loads and loads of documentation and information out there, plus the advantage is that its easy to find loads of people actually using it. 5-7 minutes is a very very short presentation, you'll be surprised how quickly that time will go, especially if you are trying to convey something technical. I think it would be harder to find something you can't talk about for 5-7 minutes. Just remember that there is a difference between putting as much information humanly sayable in 5-7 minutes to how much information can be listened to and understood in 5-7 minutes. The difference is a very large gulf and good presentations don't drown the audience in information. The being said I have seen very good presentations that have 258 slides in 60 minutes, the speaker was knackered at the end of it, but the listeners actually remembered more at the end.

I'm still looking for a decent supplier, there aren't any in the UK really and it seems that hardly any of them stock a near full range. Plus searching through all the european shops is just painful with all of the languages and all the US shops want >$70 for shipping it seams. Anyone got any recommendations?

Not really anything new. There was a scare a while ago about wirelessly propagated malware which would infect linux based SOHO routers. It never really took off. The problem with taking over the router is that you can only look at the unencrypted traffic and due to the limited resources of the router you can't manage looking at lots of traffic and do anything interesting. Its simply just far easier to take over actual computers of people, which you can then get the personal information and credit card information off easily.

The routerboard, soekris and pc engines stuff is all very very nice, but they also have the price tag to match most of the time. So I try to get more general hardware which will work in multiple projects to save money and space. As for locked down hardware, that always sucks, still don't really understand why some vendors do it, I can justify Apple's stance with the touch and phone at a stretch, but something like the Fon has no need to be locked and would probably sell better if it wasn't

Yeah I saw that, but isn't it only valid in the US store and don't you have to order from your local store to get the shipping, or is it worldwide now?

I'd get a FON to hack around with, but they need to be a little bit cheaper for me to put the money down for one. £30 is still a little too much I think, still prefer the WRT54GL for the flexibility. Mini-ITX Atom board for £50, now thats a bargain.

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I think the July's have it! I meant July in my previous post, sorry about that, bit brain dead with all the revision that I'm doing at the moment, you can only make Systems Verification so interesting. Manchester's supposed to be nice (in places), but is there anything to do there?

Bought mine from eBay, does the job nicely, I find eBay the best for these sorts of things normally, especially in the UK. Best bargain was an IDE to 2.5" IDE adapter, £0.01 for the adapter, £1 for the shipping from Hong Kong! Online stores in the UK wanted >£8 at the time for them.

Some of the screens come out huge which kinda ruins readability. If you wrote it in OpenOffice, why not export to PDF, its pretty much the universal format now for the web with nearly all browsers opening it in tabs. Looks good otherwise.

I believe that google redirects you to your national homepage depending on the location of your external IP. Its most likely that, don't you have a radio button on the homepage to select searching the whole web rather than location based?

All I can see is that it looks like your variable 'text' is of type char not an array of chars which would make up a string. If thats the problem, your assigning a reference to that variable to a string in the switch statement, which it won't have any of. Can't see anything else. Making arrays of things is just plain horrible for this sort of problem! Especially having to use something like array sort on that, you'll be adding huge amount of overhead.

I don't know about the metrics that you can get from the torrent trackers, whether they are insufficient or just unreliable, downloads of .torrent files don't equate to downloads of the whole show. I can't remember perfectly, but I don't think the DVD had any advertising in it, which freed up to be torrented, also because of the size the bandwidth bill would have been horrible over the short term. I'm sure there are many places with torrents up of the show and there's nothing wrong with it, especially if it brings in new viewers, I was just always under the assumption that to help with the metrics it was preferred not to torrent them.

Speak now or forever hold your peace for any objections to the first weekend of July! EDIT: Meant July, sorry, changed from June for reference.

I thought it wasn't encouraged for the same reason why Hak5 never originally offered a torrent. It's because they don't get any metrics from the torrent for the number of individual downloads, metrics like that is what the sponsors and advertisers want to see before they hand over the money. Don't know how things have changed since the switch to Revision3 through, but that was the stance for the first couple of seasons. Of course there is nothing wrong/illegal with torrenting it in that sense as you said its CC, just the crew preferred if you didn't. Perhaps a current member would clarify what the current Hak5 stance on torrents of the show is?

Nope, thats not the problem, comparing characters with ==, != etc. is perfectly fine. You can't do it with strings because you'll compare the reference not the value of the string. Characters aren't stored by reference like strings because they are essential just numbers displayed in a different way. Have you tried printing out all the characters and checking that a '\n' is there? Because if there isn't one there it obviously can't trigger the if statement. What system are you running it on as well, Windows and Unix systems differ in how they handle end of lines and input.

I still like http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=f...m+Feeling+Lucky Although it looks a little different now, and I know that its not a real google search.

Well whether they are breaking the law or not, the police said that they aren't going to do anything unless anyone brings a complaint to them. Seeming the BBC did a "service" to the people infected and they were in other countries, I highly doubt anything will come through at all. I do think that what the BBC was wrong and probably illegal. Really the coverage should have been trying to buy the botnet, as in how easy it was, but stopping before exchanging any money. Then if they wanted they could have bought some botnet software and run it to show how easy it was to command that power. Given that it only took 60 machines to DDoS the backup site, I imagine they could have got 60 people to install some software for a limited time to so how little it takes to take a website down.

Register Coverage just came through, summarizing some of the information, looks like the BBC covered their butts more by not using computers in the US or the UK. My question then after that, is why did they bother to change the background, given that probably most of the computers used in that botnet were owned and operated by people who spoke very little english, and if they were part of the botnet, probably had been compromised before and had things like their wallpapers changed etc.

Your paying your ISP for the bandwidth, if they can't provide it then thats their problem, but if I pay for 50Mbps connections then I'll pump 50Mbps through that if I want (transfer limitations and cost aside). The problem is that ISPs supply a maximum theoretical speed to people that they can't give to everyone at the same time, this is the reason why some services have transfer limits for peak and off-peak times which are different. Given that a DDoS attack is easy for attacks to do, organizations have the right to test their defenses and contingency plans against them, even if it is just to see how much bandwidth they can soak up before they go down, so they can change their system appropriately.