Isn't that precisely what is meant by "go the way of COBOL".

From what I understand, the proceeds are going to charity rather than Tim Berners-Lee's personal finances. Does seem like a lot of money to the point that I wonder if this is some sort of money laundering and not just somebody enjoying virtual stamp collecting with their crypto fortune.

Context Search is the main one I'll miss. I was able to replace all my other plugins so, e.g. Saka Key replaces VimFX and Cookie Autodelete replaces Self-destructing cookies.

Currently, they seem to be the best option If you want to avoid supporting google. Personally, I'm sticking with my N900. I wouldn't mind something newer but don't see a need to spend a lot of money when my N900 still works fine.

It does. If it's in use at the same time as the hacker connects with the MAC spoofed, you have two machines on the network with the same MAC. That causes enough problems that the victim will notice something is going on.

What's so totally stupid is that the open source world has to put up with NIH. There's a number of these big software groupings: KDE, Gnome, FSF, Apache, Eclipse and they're all fairly guilty of it. Apache should stick with producing a web server. I really can't see why they didn't decline the Oracle offer of Open Office.

Urgh. The "official" Brother Linux drivers are crap. You get a 32-bit x86 only binary. The visible parts of it such as the shell scripts are really badly written (and break if /bin/sh is dash and not bash). The .deb files are created by alien. They install files in strange locations such as /usr/local. I could never get it working with cups and ended up using lprng and manually configuring it. Then it really doesn't work well. For example, it always adds a huge margin to the top of every page so I have to adjust the margins to be 0 at the top if I actually want something to print how it is meant to be. And they don't maintain it at all. The driver I downloaded when I got the printer is still the latest.

Under my contract, my employer has to pay me for on call but what they do is have me on call for just 1 hour. If I need to come in, I'm expected to stay till the problem is fixed. It's especially annoying over Christmas because I'm stuck in the local area and can't visit family yet get paid virtually nothing.

I've got two monitors, keyboards and mice but only one computer (running two X servers). So my wife can use one while I use the other.

I've got an Thecus N2100 and the performance as a NAS isn't great. The CPU isn't powerful enough to take advantage of the gigE interface. For what you want, I'd get something more powerful which probably means an x86 box. For anyone who just wants a home server that doesn't consume too much electricity so can be left on all the time, a small ARM based box is great. I'm running Debian on it and it's really useful.