This happened to me while trying to install a system to boot off an USB stick, where I forgot to edit the partition table types.

Speaking of speeds, I'm currently seeding for the i386 and the amd64 versions of Ubuntu Server 7.04 ISOs, and it has struck me that the amd64 ISO uses on average 1.2 times the bandwidth of the i386 ISO; I had the impression that amd64 wasn't in that widespread use in the server domain.

P.S. The new server thinks that it's a vacuum cleaner...
P.P.S. The CD was borken, need to burn another - gah!

To be honest, the marriage thing has taken a lot more time and energy than we expected - at one time I joked that my vacations really started when my 2-week leave ended - but in the end it was all worth it. Expect photos to be available on our wedding blog sometime this week. The last week we've been recovering from the party, and I've only now got some courage up to write about it...

On another side, I'm now a full-time emnployee of Aristotle University, where I'm partially the sysadmin for a computer room/lab for students (oh, the joys of Windows systems). This also means that I can expect to retire as a public servant, holding the same position for the next 30 years (and doing the same stuff, too...).

On another note, it seems that there is also some traction in Greece for the OLPC concept, as seen in this call for participation.

In perl, it's about 60 characters:

perl -e '$i=$ARGV[0]+1;$i++while("."x$i)=~/^(..+?)\1+$/;print"$i\n";' 90

Of course, I believe APL will win that contest hands down...

P.S: There's even a perl competition to produce the shortest code for a given problem, with the name Perl Golf...

The name of the game is, predictably enough, Petals Around the Rose and it is played with five six-sided dice.

The name of the game is Petals Around the Rose, and that name is significant. Newcomers to the game can be told that much. They can also be told that every answer is zero or an even number. They can also be told the answer for every throw of the dice that are used in the game. And that's all the information they get.

Nifty, huh? You can view a more detailed explanation-cum-story, including answers, here. And there are several sites where you can play it online. Myself, it took me about 30 minutes spread out over 5 hours of work to figure it out. Of course, now I'm sworn to secrecy too, and cannot say anything more than the above...