Soba, Soho

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

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But the margin is too small to contain it

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

Patching the patchmen

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

Phone boxes of doom

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

Bloomin’ Nora!

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

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File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

Nature ramble: Crap – 5t

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

Buy “stumbling”, get a “fall” free!

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

Why Atom doesn’t use RSS 2.0

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”

(Context references: Don Park, this Diego Doval)

I’ll say from the outset that I don’t consider myself in either camp, ophthalmologist as it were; I’m an external developer who wants a decent standard to code to, doctor and these are my observations.

The questions that I keep seeing thrown around this discussion are:

1. What can Atom Feed do that RSS 2.0 can’t?
2. Why don’t Blogger and MT use RSS 2.0?
3. Now that RSS 2.0 is under a CC licence, why not just make a fork that fixes its problems for Atom?
4. Why is the Atom development model so slow and messy?
5. This is all about politics, isn’t it?

Read the rest of this entry »

“… cheerfully out of obscurity, into the dream.”

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

File under Too Useful To Miss: SystemRescueCD – a free Linux distro containing loads of stuff to do what it says on the tin. Bootable from CD or USB key. Also see the Trinity Rescue Kit and the security/forensics-focused Plan-B. (Via this Slashdot thread)

“Flossie, buy information pills
the prettiest sheep in the world, first lady of Llamasoft passed on today into a field that is forever green, where the skies are always blue and there is a never-ending supply of McVities.”