Touch Typing and Programmers

Is touch typing essential for good programmers? Its a good question. But is it fair? I recently was surfing and looking for people's blogs about touch typing. After reading much about them , I decided to give touch typing a go.
Let me tell you I am really good with Hunt and Peck style of typing. Over the time I have developed a fast typing in HNP(around 80 WPM). But as I read about many people arguing that a programmer must know how to touch type, I decided to learn touch typing.
So I installed tuxtyping on my ubuntu box (yeah its a great application). started getting some lessons. It was great in about 3 days I was able to type without looking at the keyboard. If you have enough experience as a programmer , you will have a good knowledge of key positions. With practice you can remember all the keys very easily. I was touch typing, not at my own rapid speed of 80 WPM @HNP. But still around 15 WPM.
So did I continued? The answer is NO !!!
Why?
The fact I usually program in languages like C, HTML, java. It was really hard.
Touch typing is for writing text, but as it comes to code... well it becomes ugly. The very essence of touch typing is in positioning your hands and not moving them, that's how you can type fast. But in programming we need to use {}, () "" <>, -> & TAB / * like chars. Which will make your hand move. After moving your hand you need to position your hand correctly OR you gonna miss.
So after 3 days I stopped touch typing. But you know what? I realised that when I am coding I am already touch typing with HNP :)
Peace !!!

BackTrack5 and Windows XP Virtual LAN setup in Virtual Box

Well This post is for those guys who are trying to setup a virtual pen test lab on Virtual Box. I know Whole process of installing the two OS is easy, but How to get them on the same virtual LAN?
This process is Easy too, Just go to the setting section-> network setting and then choose VIRTUAL_BOX_HOST_ONLY_ETHERNET adapter for both the OSes.
Again You might have figured that already. :)

But here is where most people will get stuck. Most user will then try to ping the other OS to check if they are in LAN. Amazingly only windows system will be able to PING the Backtrack 5 System. But Backtrack won't be able to ping back.  The Ping command seems to stuck.

So How to make BACKTRACK 5 Ping the Windows System Ping?
Its your lucky day :)
--->>>turn off windows firewall . :) :)<<<---
Please leave comment if you were stuck at this point and this post really helped you go over :)
Cheers.

P.S. I really LOLED after I tried this on my virtual box windows installation and my backtrack was able to ping it :)

backtrack 5 in virtual box pinging another virtual windows machine