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  1. Livejournal on What is Your Favorite RSS Reader? · · Score: 1

    I use Livejournal. It can act as a feed consumer as well as a producer (both for RSS and Atom).

    Any syndicated account behaves just like a normal account, so I get my syndicated people at :
    http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/syn peo ple/
    my comics at:
    http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/c omics /
    and my news at:
    http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/n ews/

    And I can access these from any web connection.

  2. Unfortunately on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    They've gone live when the most popular (and useful) extension - Tabbed Browser Extensions, doesn't work with the latest version.

    Well, _that_ was smart.

  3. Hey! on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    Some of still program in COBOL, you insensitive clot!

  4. Re:Missing the point on Software Livre, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    OSS is not being embraced because its zero cost, but because you have the freedom to do what you like with the source.

    Not by me. I've never touched the source of any OSS software. But I have been very happy I could download it for free.

  5. Re:No... on Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs · · Score: 1

    Um, what?

    To pirate XP you simply take an ordinary copy of XP from a corporate pack or MSDN subscriber bundle and copy the CD for you friends, handing out the serial number that came with it.

    No Hex dumps needed.

  6. I don't intend to buy on Napster Launches UK Music Service · · Score: 1

    it's 10 a month to stream all the music you can eat.

    I don't tend to listen to music on the move and my computer is plugged into my TV's speaker system, so that means I can have every album they sell for 10 a month, which actually sounds worthwhile to me.

    They are lacking some obvious bands though. Why no U2?

  7. Re:So why bother? on Firefox/Thunderbird Plugins: Is Less More? · · Score: 1

    Those are the extensions _you_ need.

    The ones _I_ need are different and the ones my girlfriend uses are different _again_.

    Choice - it's a good thing!

  8. Re:Ebola-Cold. on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 1

    It still takes _years_ to kill people.

    If it spread by air, nowadays, HIV would blanket the world before the first people died.

  9. Re:Ebola-Cold. on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It spreads very, very badly.

    Imagine HIV spreading by air.

  10. Long Time Coming on Cthulhu Lurks In Dark Gaming Corners, Heeds Call · · Score: 1

    I'd given up on this game, I'd assumed that as it's been in development for years and years that they'd given up on it.

  11. Livejournal on Best Weblogs for Personal Websites? · · Score: 1

    And no, I don't mean "just use their site"

    It's Open Source - download it and give it a go.

    That way you can host the journals of your 3000 friends too :->

  12. Re:I agree, but possibly for different reasons... on Is Experience in Programming Worth Anything? · · Score: 1

    Possibly better programming is the way away from programming?

    Knowing more APIs, more languages, more systems.

  13. Re:...when I see it on A Step Closer To The Optimum Solar Cell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All of which are incremental changes.

    In my experience things get slowly better - anything promising a vast improvement overnight tends to be a little less likely to appear.

  14. ...when I see it on A Step Closer To The Optimum Solar Cell · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to jump for joy whenever I saw things like this.

    But experience generally showed that Breakthrough X which would produce cheap power/double battery life/allow 5 terabytes in my computer never actually arrived at the market.

    I'm still waiting for holographic storage from 10 years ago!

  15. Wiki! on A Powerful, but Minimal Document Markup Language? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most wikis seem to do something like what you want - taking simple text and producing HTML from it.

  16. Re:BulletML on TUMIKI Fighters Takes Free PC Shmups Higher · · Score: 2, Informative

    Take a look in the folder for TUMIKI - all the bullet definitions are done in BulletML...

  17. Yes and No on Microsoft Clips Longhorn · · Score: 1

    The Registry has access permissions on different parts of it. They are set on a user basis.

    If I try to run software that updates the registry and _I_ don't have access to that part of the registry, then I can't update it - much the same as with the file system.

  18. Re:Through the rails or over the power lines? on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seen the huge sparks that fly about whenever a train goes over even slightly mismatched power rails?

    I suspect that there would be altogether too much interference.

  19. Re:Five of us in Redmond... on Microsoft Launches 'Channel 9' Blog · · Score: 1

    Because NNTP _is_ the most common way of communicating nowadays.

  20. Re:Thoughts on Gates on Gates on Winsecurity · · Score: 1

    I assume you've reported this bug to them...

  21. Jesus Christ on a Stick! on Apple's Rumored PowerPod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are we going to get _any_ actual news today?

    I mean, sure, have one or two spoof articles, but Jesus!

  22. Re:Palm (Sony) solution on A Handheld for a Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    The new Palm's can be very cheap. It's most impressive.

    And I have a foldable keyboard for mine - it sits in my jacket pocket and I used it whenever I'm on a train.

    WiFi would be nice tho.

  23. Palm solution on A Handheld for a Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    I use a Palm T2 with my GPRS phone via Bluetooth. I check email quite happily on it. Surfing the web is a pain, but for basic use (getting a bit of information) it's usable.

  24. Coming Soon on God Save The UK Developer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Black & White 2
    Fable
    BC
    The Movies

    And that's just from _one_ UK group....

  25. Livejournal is my social network on ICQ Universe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have friends all over the place who I keep up with via LJ. Sure, I also use email and MSN/ICQ/AIM to chat. But when I want to find out what they've been up to, I check my friends list.

    LJ supports RSS, FOAF and is intrinsically interconnected. To my mind it's much more of a social network than anything else I've used.