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That really depends on where you are - I live in a semi-rural area, 40kms out of Perth, and right on the border of 2 ADSL exchanges. We're not in range for either of them, so we have to resort to wireless internet: $80/month for 3GB on peak, 5GB off peak. There is nothing else available here (including 4G wireless).

If I understand the grandparent correctly, there would be no way to determine which rows have a higher work factor. The work factor would be determined when the password is given, based on the password entropy - the correct password will always have the same entropy, therefore the same work factor. If the work factor is calculated on the wrong password (typo, etc.) it will not generate the correct hash anyway. Therefore an attacker has no way of determining which password hashes have a high work factor, and which ones have a low work factor.

Yes, I've been looking there, and there certainly is lots available. However, a lot of these postings are by recruitment companies, and I don't know how well they handle overseas applicants (although I have yet to try it).

It's a great site for finding what's out there, though.

Thanks for the suggestion - I certainly look into that.

> For a laugh, his facebook page - http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jthompsons

That's his LinkedIn page, not his Facebook page

Github actually offers support for svn, in a way - see http://help.github.com/svn-importing/ for a bit more info.

It is also possible to use git on top of svn - see http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html