IMO "running a server" means understanding server software. Anyone can run apt-get install apache (or nginx, or anything else), but that's not running a server. Configuring Apache? Getting closer. Understanding Apache log files? Almost there... Fixing a broken web application with some horribly mangled .htaccess…

Different banks have different rules, but generally it is less protection. If you are in the US you do have some guaranteed protection provided you report in a timely manner the lost card: http://www.usa.gov/topics/money/b…

I'd like to start off by saying PHP is probably the language I use more than any other language. That said (or possibly because of that), I would never recommend it to a newbie. PHP has one of the most unclear and weakest typing and type-protection of any language. There are many inconsistencies in the language. There…

There are many, many, many web-based IDEs that offer everything you said.

If you reason for recommending Javascript is for portability, I'd like to point out that there are many web-based IDEs, so many languages share this "advantage". Here's just some (you can google for more just by typing "Web-based IDE" with, optionally, the language you wish to program in):

I was just about to post the same thing. I'd like to point out that it's not just the US. I know Canada and other countries have similar warantless electronics searches.

If you're asking, I'd say your choice isn't what I'd choose still.

drag-and-drop aren't features of Visual Basic, nor is autocomplete syntax and other things that seem to be why you are recommending Visual Basic. Those are features of Visual Studio. Those are also features shared by many IDEs.

I'm not trying to dis Ruby or OOP at all. Nor is my decision to not recommend it based on "simple" code. The value of procedural programing is that it offers a different way of looking at code. Python allows not only fully procedural and object-0riented designed code, but you can even do functional code in it quite…

Vote: Python

It's already available with any NAS. Samba, ftp, dlna, etc. Simple enough to set it up on a raspberry pi using hostapd for something truly portable http://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-r… then just use any app on your device that can access the protocol you're using (and there's plenty for all those protocols).

For the math geeks out there, here's the math:

One pretty big drawback (at least for some people) of Deluge on Windows is the lack of µTP without a compiling of it to use the latest version of libtorrent. qBittorrent on the other hand, has µTP support out of the box.

I'd agree that generally speaking, tap water is fine to drink.

If you want authenticated logins and forms that actually do something useful (besides just emailing you something) then you need to learn a server-side language. There are many options to choose from. By far the most popular, and one fairly easy to jump into is PHP. Other popular options are C# via ASP.NET, Python via…

DNSCrypt protects you from snooping and Man-in-the-middle attacks. Unfortunately, it doesn't protect you from forged/poisoned DNS results up-stream. For that, you need DNSSEC, which, unfortunately, OpenDNS hasn't adopted.

SOCKS5 will route your DNS queries through the proxy to the server on the other end (who will then attempt to resolve) If any only If the program you are using with your SOCKS proxy supports it.

With the right port forwarding, you can access anything remotely.

Option 4: Greyhole http://www.greyhole.net/ — pools together Samba storage space offering redundancy as you see fit

I'm still in general disappointed with Windows backup software FOSS, free, and paid. There are some good options though.