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I hear that they still plan to have a mechanism for patching zero-day vulnerabilities. Don't know how exactly, but a slide in one of Hanselman's talks mentioned it.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The ideal solution seems to be to encrypt traffic between all hosts on the local network. Are there any good resources for how to setup …

Isn't that exactly what DNSSEC is? Unfortunately not all that many domains are using it today.

And today most people I know who mention it keep saying XP when they mean pair programming. Not as if it's one of many practices in XP, but as if the two were synonymous. Please te…

There are degrees of brokenness with SSL. Even if certificate authorities are compromised by major governments, SSL is still enough for now to keep my credit card safe from the sha…

They also have a few other talks on youtube about similar topics and a book now: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018025.do

OpenVPN can be set to route only certain IP blocks to the tunnel. I sometimes do prefer to route everything over the vpn though, especially at coffee shops that filter specific por…

The standard sshd does not log failed passwords. A few years ago I was seeing a lot of brute force attempts and I was curious to see the passwords. The only way I could do it was t…

I used to start a lot of my sentences with "I think...", "In my opinion...", or "To me it looks like..." and I noticed my emails would commonly go unresponded to, or worse: the con…

I did it for a few months while moving to a new city before I had my own place. It wasn't too bad. I'd buy a basic coffee (and sometimes a cheap bagel) and find a corner to setup i…

In fact there's even a 1.10 beta out now, so they are not dropping support for IE6/7/8 anytime soon. It's true jQuery 2.0 can't be used with old IE, but if that's what you need to …

I end up with quite a few tabs open myself. I find if I bookmark a tab, add it to Pocket, or copy the URL into my notes that I'm far more likely to go back and actually read it. Be…

Double click on the tab at the top. It auto-hides the ribbon and you get most of your real estate back.