I do.

I want a small lightweight laptop, with a full keyboard (dedicated delete / backspace / pg up/ pg dn / home / end / INSert / PrtScreen / etc. keys!). So I have had Thinkpads X... machines for the last 10 years or so. (X31, X200s).

And I also want access to a Real Terminal with a Real Shell. So I install Linux on that Thinkpad, and a couple of WinXP virtual machines for a few special apps that only run on Windows.

Open WiFis seem to be really few and far between. Maybe 1 in 30 or less. And they are always terribly slow of course.

But then there are still a few WEP APs (around 1 in 20), most of which are very quickly cracked if not too far away.

Finally, there are the WPA APs which may have excellent passwords, but which support WPS without the need to press a button on the AP. Back in January, I could crack around 2 in 10 APs using reaver. In one neighborhood, it was even half the APs which were vulnerable. And not only did they support WPS, but most had the same PIN ("00000000" or "01235678"). Since then, most have had their firmware flashed by their ISP and are now secure. But there are still around 1 in 15 APs which can be cracked with reaver in a day or a few hours.

In short, for someone like me who is staying in many different places, it is getting much harder to get access, but in the places where I stay a while or return regularly, it is still possible to get a connection...

Whether you wasted your time depends on whether you can use what you learned occasionally, or whether you had fun learning it. But anyway, learning anything is seldom a waste of time.

If your coders know several languages, and happen to not like Perl, that's OK. But if they know only a single language and really never use anything else, they are just not very competent and probably also quite boring.

I hope I haven't lived all of it yet...

Indeed, I used photorec/testdisk to recover mp4 files after they had (all) been accidentally deleted from an HFS+ partition.

But when I first started it in it's default mode, it "found" only rubbish, breaking up the actual mp4s into a mess of .doc, xml, jpg, .whatever files, including totally broken .mp4s.

When I restarted it after configuring it to only look for .mov/.mp4, it did a fantastic job, and as far as I know, all files could be recovered. Of course, that was made easier by the fact that I knew that all the files which needed to be recovered were .mp4.

Maybe that's the problem?

No. Do it the other way around. I would create a new domain for the new guy taking over your site, or let him do it. Then transfer the web content to the new site, and set up a redirect on your site to the new one.

That way, people going to the old web site end up on the correct new site, but you don't have to change or worry about anything related to your personal email addresses.

If your web site also used email @yoursite, then YOU take care of setting up a redirect or whatever solution seems best.

You don't want to have your personal stuff at the mercy of someone else, or to have to call him to find out what the problem is if he made some configuration mistake or whatever.

Thank you. But I'm afraid I don't have the patience to watch a 12 minute video. What is this new trend of making videos for stuff which would be so much more useful in a written document? Doesn't this project have a web page which I can skim through to get an idea, read in detail if interested, and from which I can copy/paste relevant commands when needed?

I must be too old...

Do you mean that it would only affect .com domains? In that case, what's all the fuss about. If it only targets spammers, who cares?

I have a dozen domains on my own server. If I would like to use DNSSEC, is there a good practical how-to guide on what I would have to do to my bind configuration?

And would I need to buy a certificate? Currently I just use my own CA and certificates for encryption of my mail traffic and a few private web pages. I really don't want to give money to some anonymous foreign company so that they can "certify" who I am. After all, I should know who I am better than they would.

Originally, yes. But very few people use it in that meaning nowadays. It's quite vulgar. I can't remember hearing it in a conversation.

The current meaning became the norm after WWII. It's the standard word for that category of people and is very widely used. The Larousse translation seems to agree with others and with my Harap's. They don't mention "moron". Maybe "moron" is not strong enough? "asshole" may be a good translation, except I believe it is more vulgar: you can't use it in many social environments. "con" is a much more acceptable word, even if it's meaning can be strong. You can use it in just about any social context (if careful about whom it qualifies). Also, unlike something like "idiot", I feel both asshole and con can be used for someone with a normal IQ. It doesn't necessarily mean low IQ or "imbecile", even if it often does.

Maybe there are good forum threads somewhere about that? The precise meaning and usage of such words can be debated endlessly.