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It'd be much appreciated if you stopped making things up.

Certainly not IPB. It ate my post twice yesterday because it doesn't save drafts, and breaks my form data recovery extension. XenForo and Discourse are nice.

It's even worse than that. Due to kernel modifications, it is apparently not even possible to use ChromeOS driver builds on a regular Linux distro, which would be the source of aforementioned switching-to-a-real-distro issues. Whether you can install a 'real' distro depends on whether the...

Okay, fuck IPB - it has now eaten my reply twice, doesn't save drafts, and even breaks my form data saving extension. I'm writing this in an external editor and copying it in - that means you won't have fancy IPB quotes, but e-mail style quotes instead.   --   > @vampireJ: It seems to be a...

 Professional users, sure. But that massive amount of people who dick around with media production in their spare time as a hobby? They do it on Windows, by and large.

I am certainly not forgetting businesses, but perhaps I should've been more clear that I meant long-term reasons for Windows usage. Business software is not specific to Windows - it is often tailor-made, for whatever platform the business happens to be running on. In other words: in the...

OS X is a BSD, actually. Other than being POSIX-y, OS X and Linux don't have terribly much in common.

As an aside, I'd explicitly recommend against learning PHP. It's a terrible language, the ecosystem is rife with low-quality code and poor advice, and while it seems easy to write and deploy PHP, it's actually really hard to write and deploy PHP correctly.

It is extremely likely that we will be seeing an open-source Windows at some point - it's going to be a necessity for it to survive in the long run, and Microsoft seems to realize that. They have recently been moving more and more towards selling services and support, rather than software, as...

There's nothing it's particularly good at, and several things it's outright bad at - data integrity being an important one. MongoDB has an extremely poor track record in data integrity - to the point where until fairly recently, it would quietly throw away any data it couldn't store, which would...

Nonsense. The idea that you can even know whether you've been hit by anything is ludicrous - the most profitable malware is that which you don't notice. The idea that "I don't open dodgy things, so I won't get infected" is laughably misguided - you're far more likely to get hit by a drive-by...

Right, that's only listed in the poll question, which I didn't look at because it seemed to repeat the post title (which doesn't say 'web'). I presume the same applies for others. EDIT: Oh, and please, whatever you do, don't use MongoDB. It's terrible.

Good to hear :)

You're missing Node.js in the list. But yes, it depends on what you're trying to do. For web-based and generally network-based stuff, I'd recommend Node.js. For other situations, other options may be better. Just, whatever you do, don't use/learn an unmanaged language (C, C++, ...) unless you...

So, some of my feedback. Please note that all is meant constructively - I'm not looking to just bash, but most of these are pretty serious/big points that really do need to be addressed. Also note that I've only grabbed some excerpts from the code - the same issues may exist in other places...

What makes you believe this is an attack?

That is indeed the correct approach, although I'd recommend having security on a (web) application level where possible, rather than on a HTTPd level. It's really easy to accidentally mess up otherwise.

The (original) MVC model is fundamentally broken for web-based applications. Anyway, the first post still (misleadingly) claims that the panel is "open source". Could @HalfEatenPie also fix that, perhaps?

Blocking useragents is not the correct way to go about that, and will not work. EDIT: I also don't see how any of this adds any "security" at all, other than the PHP bit.

Your definition of 'shady' being what? Such as?