DavidHogue

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 IPSEC or something on a local wifi network?

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 tell me this isn't common.

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 shady guy in the back corner of the coffee shop. Or to keep my Google searches private from the techies at my ISP.

There are some upcoming workaround that will help too like cert pinning or DANE.

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 ports.

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 to edit the source code of sshd to add my own logging line and recompile the whole thing.

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 conversation would go directly opposite of the point I was trying to make.

Lately I've been experimenting with just saying "x is y" or "x is broken the fix is y". Things seem to be working out better for me that way. It keeps my emails from getting cluttered and the words are obviously my own perspective and opinions, which I will sometimes make explicit at the end.

It is irritating that facts and opinions and everything else can't be kept separate from technical discussions, but that's just how many people communicate and there's not a lot that can be done if you want to include them in the conversation.

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 in. At lunch, I'd pack up and find something to eat, then head to a different place and buy a coffee. Sometimes I'd go to the library instead. It wasn't any more expensive than going out with coworkers for lunch every day...

Most businesses did't seem to mind people hanging out, makes the place look busier I guess. I figure as long as there are other empty seats I'm not in anyone's way. That said, if I did it again I'd probably tip a lot more than I had been tipping.

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 support use the 1.x branch.

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. Before I would keep tabs open for weeks "just in case".

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