IMHO it's a bad thing to do this. Same goes for putting UK and/or Canada at the top. Such a list should *always* be alphabetical. And you don't have to scroll btw, you can just type in the letter 'u'...

I see. Thanks for your explanations - I didn't think about the possibility of a small hack becoming a big project (having never been in that situation before), but I guess it's pretty logical :)...

Don't know if Python would be any better for such a project - but wouldn't a compiled language (C maybe) be better for something so big?
Don't know a lot about the sizes of projects as I'm not a...

No way man! 1'm 31337, 1 u53 t3h pr0x135!!!!!1111

I doubt it'd be easy to find an unbiased view about Python<->something, as most people are generally fond of one the languages they're comparing. However, here's a pretty good read on Python vs. Perl...

Nope, I seriously doubt you can. I've gotten pretty good at stalking in the course of years. It's an art, you know. You'll need to blame alc<insertsomenumbershere> for my being here though, as I...

I thought the same about download accelerators at first.
I've got prozilla installed now though, and it's excellent. What it does is create 4 connections (by default, that canbe changed though) to...

It's compiled, yep. It's based on Pascal, so it probably resembles it a lot.
It runs on many/most platforms, there's a GNU compiler for it which is pretty popular: gnat.

You didn't say what language it is...
This should really be in your manual though, as it's pretty basic stuff. Otherwise, I'd recommend finding a better one ;)

No idea, but installing an anti-virus (AV XP is pretty good) would probably help you out here.

Posting your code would help :)
It's really not the number of boxes which matters, you probably just have a small mistake in the large webpage.

On PlanetSourceCode, there are examples of 'VB Operating Systems' - they aren't realy OS's though. You can't make a true OS in VB....

I'm very interested... I know I need to pick up these languages some day anyway. I already started learning Python a while back, but I quit at some point. I just lack the motivation to read those...

Thanks *a lot* for posting that Perl example, Ben. I've been wondering for a while how hard system programming would be, and in Perl it seems fairly easy - I'm very much surprised that's all that's...

Well by now I suppose (s)he had to hand in the assignment already (if it was homework in the first place), so now the only people benefitting (speeling?) from it would be other readers (or so I...

IMHO you can keep it much simpler than liliafan's script, by using 'the right tool for the right job' as they say ;)

#!/bin/bash
echo Total: $(ls | wc -l)
echo Total files: $(ls -F | grep -v /$...