Except you're missing out on ABE and some of the more advanced features of NoScript. ScriptSafe also hasn't been updated in over five months. The last time I used it, it had some pretty frustrating bugs that made me go back to Firefox and NoScript. Maybe as it improves, I'll give it another shot, but not now...

Until Chrome gets a solid NoScript-ish plugin, I'm sticking with Firefox. ABE and a few other NoScript features keep me happy.

Simple. Archive mail by the year as it gets too big. Use mutt's search for the basic searching and maildir-utils for the heavy lifting.

To those saying keeping email forever is hoarding: not if it's done right. You'd be surprised how useful it is to go back and find an email from four years ago.

When are people going to learn that they have no privacy on their employer's computer systems? Geeks and IT folks seem to have the biggest problem with this. If you really need that privacy, go out to your car on your lunch hour and use your smartphone. At the end of the day, it's your employer's power, bandwidth, space, and equipment. If they want to monitor their systems, they have every right to do so. Now obviously, some monitoring is a huge gray area when it comes to moral and ethical issues. So why not simply side step the issue by using your own person accounts, devices, and access?

I went to college when technologies like Blackboard were just beginning to come to fruition. The problem I've always had with online courses is that they give you no added incentive to do to the work. Motivation may be its own reward for some people, but I still need that subtle "mental push" to succeed. A class set in an actual classroom gives my brain some reason to be there and do the work. Online courses just makes me think they're available "whenever." The concept of deadlines and necessity quickly goes out the window, usually along with my grades.

People don't drop these courses, because they don't remember them and/or don't think about them. The same goes for "hybrid" online courses, where you still spend some class time in a physical classroom. You're not getting enough cues to actually realize you're doing poorly. The instructor is also poorly interfaced with the class that they don't match a student's online progress with their physical presence.

Maybe working on your day's assignment in your PJs at 3 a.m. appeals to you. I still want to see and talk to the instructor. I need that "meat space" interaction.

Whatever happened to good ol' fashioned attendance? Back when I was going to school, it was done with Scantron forms. The teacher took attendance and sent a runner to deliver the form(s) to the attendance office where they were processed. Once it was determined that a kid was out that shouldn't have been, that office called the parent to ascertain where the kid was. Simple, effective, and hardly Orwellian.

Don't get me started on taking attendance in college courses, though...

I sort of think he should have kept a better eye on his properties, but that's neither here nor there.

Fundamentally, I think this is why we need some form of authentication that "only you know," but everyone can verify/authenticate against. Most places -foolishly- usually social security numbers here in the 'states. I think that's a terrible idea as the protections surrounding them are incredibly weak. I was going to suggest this fellow have some sort of PGP/GPG setup, but if the criminals got into his email, they'd probably have his passphrase(s) and key(s), too.

Sigh...

Annoyingly, I can think of two devices that can't cope without TKIP under WPA2. The older Apple Airport Express and a Linksys wireless bridge.

Without TKIP, these two devices have effectively become expensive (when they were purchased, at least) door stops. It's aggravating, because they both advertised support for WPA2-AES!

• Backups. Make them. Test them. Store multiple versions & copies of them.
• Redundancy. Disks fail. Servers crash. If your site goes down, you'll want to get it back in a hurry.
• If you don't want to roll your own admin with a VPS or a dedicated / colocation server, get cozy with the notion of shared hosting.
  • Shared hosting is a shared resource.
  • If your neighbor is crushing the machine, your site is getting crushed.
  • If your neighbor and/or admin's software/policies allow the box to get owned, your stuff can get owned.
  • Stuff can be changed at will, often without notice to you. Maybe another customer needed something. Maybe an update needed to be pushed...
• Price. There is such a thing as paying too much and there is such a thing as paying too little. Do not be a cheap ass, especially if you need support.
• Unlimited X. There is no such thing as "unlimited" anything in the web hosting business. Some limits are more finite than others. Figure out what they are...
• Storage. Storage can be cheap, but often it is not. Do not argue with your web host and say that you can buy a cheap ass 1TB drive for $X. If you dislike their prices, vote with your money.
• Chat with the sales, support, and billing departments. Do you feel comfortable with them? Are they robots, or real, live human beings? Is it a small company, or a corporation?
• Treat your support people with courtesy and respect. Your $15/month website is not worth $1,000,000/hour. If it was, maybe you should have bought better hosting/support/redundancy.

Finally, do your research and educate yourself! There are a lot of good review websites out there. Web Hosting Talk for instance...

I was with Slicehost for more than a year. The needs of my sites kept pressing me to upgrade my slice(s). I'd say they're no longer cost effective around (or above) the 1GB mark...