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but then I saw this.

Building on the same idea

Trunc(Base64(MD5([Website subdomain or IP] + [master password])),[Maximum allowed length])

Here is a webpage with client side javascript that does just that. I suggest saving a copy, modifying it to allow variable length truncation, and make it your home page.

There is a bookmarklet of a similar script (no base64) here

I read this morning here (in french, sorry!) that it was Vivendi Universal Games which was supposed to help Ubisoft....


But "In /. I trust ..." :D

Here is one of the possibility: It is a FALSE CLAIM! Well, here is one of the link I have found. The false Mittring Claim

Well, at the end, who do you choose to believe? Your local newspaper or the Internet? I choose my intuition.

Are described here. Rest of the site is also informative and insane.

http://racine13eme.site.voila.fr/100digang.htm

-pvg

There is an interesting transcript of a chat with Jacques Le Marois, head of Mandrakesoft. Most of his 44 answers are predictable but I didn't expect that he would predict a 99% market share for linux on the PC in the next years !(with 20% or 30% for mandrake)

Yes 99 percent !

The text is in french but I used this excellent translation engine and mirrored the original translation.

From a french point of vue...

This morning I was very surprised to discover in my local newspaper, the Parisien (I live near Creil, 50 km north of Paris), that "L'instituteur qui fait plier Microsoft" (the teacher that wins over M$) was on the headlines...

I did not understand WHY would government take M$ to courts; last year, DSK (Dominique Strauss Kahn), our financial secretary, was on a photo with Bill Gates and his partners : Michel Bon, of France Telecom etc...
We use to say that France is late concerning new technologies... I thought at these times that we were REALLY late: Bill was the #1 ennemy in the States, with the DOJ case, and we were hosting him...

Now it seems that we are opening our eyes, and that (our greatly monopolistic!!!) France Telecom is going the Linux way, just take a look at their latest search engine, voila (there is a Linux logo on the bottom of the page)...
The consumers have just began to think of the forced selling of Windows with your PC... and so the Microsoft case is going to courts.

BUT, there are some things that you american geeks have not understood in the article (was it altavista's fault?)

1/ the french teacher who got its win98 refunded was not refunded by M$ : he just was lucky enough to buy a PC at the supermarket, and the representative was so dumm that the Win licence was refunded at a price of 649F (just the price of the upgrade in the shops).
Microsoft has never refunded anyone in France, and I bet that the supermarket lost 649F this day...

2/ France Telecom went partialy public (we say 'privatized' :) ) 4 years ago, not in the beggining 90s... It is very little time so they are still monopolistic : do you know that we pay for local calls, that we will only get DSL in november with severe limitations... cause of the monopole??? FT has competitors but we will never get flat local rates before the FT monopoly stops...

I hate monopolies....

Just to get some more names, a french portal called voila runs Linux (look at the icon at the bottom of the page near the IExplore one). And so does DejaNews.

But don't we just forget FreeBSD which has what might be the fastest tcp/ip stack for that kind of hardware. Just look at this nice bast*rd of ftp.cdrom.com who didn't let me in just because there were already 3600 users logged in. I guess this beast just explodes regularly most records and NT clusters Microsoft (r) can find.
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