I think Sequoia View is a must-have utility program.
“Why?” – you may ask.

Because it lets you actually see you hard disk hogs. With this program you will know exactly which files/folders occupy too much hard disk space to keep them any longer.

The program is free, latest version is 1.3 and it was released in November 2002. However, WinXP is supported (don’t know about Vista).

See this page for more information and the download link.

Alternatively, contact me and I’ll try to mail you the setup program (which is circa 500KB).

Update: SequoiaView appears to ignore files larger than or equal to 4 GiB. Please comment to prove or disprove.

Update 2: here’s a KDirStat-based alternative, WinDirStat.

HD-DVD AACS Processing Key number: 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0.

Personally, I have no idea how to use this number. However, below are some links which will give you more clues…

And, also, it should be easy to follow the events with the collection of links below.
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There was an excellent mod_rewrite cheat sheet at ILoveJackDaniels, but it is now gone.

I have been using it for over a year now, as from time to time there’s a need to try to remember how to use mod_rewrite (e.g. in the case of no-www Class B web-site).

To help preserve this useful bit of information, and for the cases of the original article being unavailable (which did happen a few years later), below is a link to the cheat sheet stored on my server.
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PrivatBank is one of the largest Ukrainian banks, and is very active in the field of e-commerce.

Today I came across their new blog, which is a WordPress-powered one.
From the first glance I’d say that it’s here where PrivatBank now publishes the news – before the blog launch, news were published on the privatbank’s website. The main and only difference appears to be in comments – now visitors can comment on those news, and even get response.

I wonder how many “comment-responders” PrivatBank had to hire to launch this blog :). Or is that tech-support which was given one more duty?

.. and Pentagon has a competition on liquid robots.

Why I hate frameworks? by Benji Smith. Recommended to anybody involved in web-development and familiar with the concept of web-development frameworks. (For the serious stuff, see my post on Why Zope 3 is just great.)

Information taken from: freedom.org.ru

1. www.zoneedit.com; 5 names; A, MX, NS; mail forwarding, web forwarding
2. www.everydns.net; 20 names; A, MX, NS; web forwarding, dynamic domains
3. www.dnspark.com; 3 names; A, MX, NS; web forwarding, mail forwarding, backup MX
4. www.domain-dns.com; unlimited names; A, MX; web forwarding, paid mail forwarding
5. www.xname.org; no limit; A, MX, NS (I keep several domains there; quite good as for a free service)
6. primaryns.kiev.ua (UA-IX only); unlimited names; A, MX, NS; primary only
7. secondary.net.ua; unlimited names; secondary only
8. ns2.trifle.net; unlimited names; secondary only
9. FreeDNS.ws (suggested in comments; looks promising – I now have one domain there)