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Well it's kind of fitting if you think about it. Instead of choosing "none of the above", just don't choose any of the options ;).


Is it just me or are downvoted posts completely unreadable? It would be nice if there were an "unhide" button or something; it's extremely annoying to have to squint to read it.


That's intentional. Downvoted posts fade both to save people from reading them (presumably most are mistaken or nasty) and to damp the submitter's karma loss (the fainter they are, the harder you have to work to be offended by them).


You think to yourself in the third person?


I assume you meant "second" person. Surely everyone does this. "You don't really want X." "Dammit, Randall, that was a stupid idea."

You don't do this?


I think to myself in the first person sometimes, in the second person at others, and even as a group occasionally.

For example my thoughts look like, "I should work from home today", or "Bill, you're a genius", or sometimes like "Why don't we just go see if there's any ice cream left..."


I have thoughts like that all the time. My usual first one of the day is :- " You know Maggie, we really should get up now " :) xx


Yes, this is my mode as well.


I don't.


Sure. Who doesn't?

Isaac is always saying to himself, "You should really use the first person singular," but he knows how much we hate that.


No, we don't.


I've found 1Password (http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password) to be a great solution to this. It automatically generates passwords for you and saves logins on an encrypted file. The only problem I've found with it is that when you go to use a friend's computer or a public computer you don't always know your passwords. A web service version of it would be convenient, but the security implications are obvious..


For the sake of a working solution I also just store passwords in encrypted files (using encfs, though) and stop worrying about accessing everything from my non-main computers.

Script for new passwords follows, for the fun of it. I have stuff added afterwards to save the username, website, and password to encrypted files.

  #!/usr/bin/env python
  import string
  from random import Random
  okchars = string.letters + string.digits + "!@%^_&*+-"
  print ''.join( Random().sample(okchars, 40) )


something like http://www.angel.net/~nic/passwd.html (placed on your own server, behind ssl, of course)


What about lighttpd?


lighty is comparable in speed to nginx but has more stability issues.


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