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Evernote. But don't get obsessed by technical details of what tool is best: Evernote, Onenote, Tiddlywiki, etc... Just make sure you have all work/private/short term/long term notes in one place. Preferably accessible via multiple devices so that you can always access them.

And depending on the note type go through them every day/week/month to see if they are still relevant. Some people like to go the whole GTD way but I like to pick just the parts that work for me.

I just installed the container add-on and I miss a basic function: how do I open a bookmark in a container? The "open link in new container tab" seems to be missing if I right click on a bookmark.

One thing I'm thinking about is about much is how money the Dutch (and their southern neighbors, the Belgians) are going to make once the rise in sea levels will have a direct impact on wealthy regions.

In the world top 5 of dredging firms 4 are either Dutch or Belgian firms. And once prime real estate, in for example Florida or the Hamptons, is in direct danger large amounts of money will change hands to reinforce the coastline. And those top 5 dredging firms have all the engineering expertise needed.

Moving extremely large amounts of rock & sand like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Jumeirah and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Suez_Canal are just warmup exercises for the amount of work that needs to be done in the next 50 years.

At this moment I'm a paying user of both Evernote and Dropbox and I do not like how they are focusing on extra bells&whistles instead of investing time in their encryption methods to make my data more safe.

From a business perspective you can get the money that I give to Evernote and Dropbox if Spideroak offers competing products. And for me the advantage is that my data is more secure because of the zero knowledge(1) idea and I do not need to worry about wild ideas from companies think about employees reading my notes "to make my experience better". Yes I'm looking at you Evernote.

(1) until 10 minutes ago I did not know that zero knowledge had a specific technical meaning that is different than what Spideroak implements. And I even have Bruce Schneiers Applied Cryptography on my bookself. I'll need to read that again. Maybe it should be called "Full stack encryption" because it covers everything from data transport, to storage, to metadata encryption, etc...

There was so much more to this hack then what is described in this article. Google for Foxit, Diginotar and Black Tulip for the complete report. It is interesting to read how the intruders navigated the separate networks and got full RDP access to the 8 CA generator servers in the secure room.

It was a comment from someone who understood that 2 digit year notation was bad and explained why he used the full year notation. At this time memory was still counted in kilobytes so it probably was an expensive use of two extra bytes.

Yes, indeed! As someone who also sat in a room (with many other people) watching the clock tick until the stroke of midnight I still get pissed off if people remember y2k as the event that "did not happen". Nothing happened because most of 1998 and 1999 was spent running around customer sites checking & patching software.

I work with industrial control systems and the oldest code comment that was found about the year 2000 problem was in code from the early 80s. The programmer long retired but that code was still running oil refineries.

There were very little large chemical installations in the pacific so we waited for updates from sites in New Zealand. After those sites rolled into the new year without problem everybody relaxed and we knew that our software installed in middle east oil&gas sites would work ok so people would have petrol and diesel in the new millennium. Then the rollover in the EU and US region were easy after that.

Just did a quick test with a clean profile and then I get the normal proxy window. I previously had several add-on installed to do some more advanced proxy settings, that probably bit me with the upgrade to Firefox 48.

Whoa! Firefox 48 opens the Windows proxy settings now! That is not good. I especially use Firefox so that in a corporate environment I can use different proxy settings than IE.

I use Seamonkey because it has sane UI interface elements like "buttons+text" that are actually larger than 15 pixels so that I can click on them without having to exactly aim my mouse on a tiny little button. My guess is that every Firefox developer still runs a 2007 Asus eeebook with a 7" screen. I got more pixels than I care to count, so I just want a UI that scales in proportion with the screen.

Just one example why Seamonkey is important (for me at least).

My hope is that they see positive pickup from their "developer" release and also start making a "power-user" release. Because all the good work that they have been doing with regards to speed/responsiveness & memory management is being undone by dumbing down the interface to Chrome levels or worse. And if I wanted my browser to look like Chrome, I've would have installed it already.

Why is it that in the year 2014 there are still buttons that I cannot move (back/forward/reload/etc..)? Why is it that there still is the obsession with making all button bars and menus smaller or even hide them completely? I needed that on my Asus eee netbook in 2007, now, in 2014, I have retina screens everywhere. The icons for home/bookmarks/reload are so small on my screen that I have problems positioning my mouse over them. no: I do not want to hunt for a 18pix target when I have at least 1440pix vertically available.

And don't even get me started on hiding parts of the url. WHY would anyone on purpose hide parts of the web address that I need to see, if only to check that it is correct...

Of course there are many things that can be configured by userchrome scripts and about:config settings. But I do not want to carry around my personal "patchset" just to make a browser usable.

But what size is the Millennium Falcon? Already for years I have this link with a very detailed explanation on the impossibilities of the internal & external dimensions in my bookmarks: http://web.archive.org/web/20010330140327/www.synicon.com.au... Too bad that the original page is gone, not everything was captured.