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I haven't had any luck getting the Fn volume adjustment to work (unsurprising since I've had CrunchEee installed for all of four hours :P), but you can at least open the volume mixer quickly with Home Key + V

Would be more useful on my EeePC if it allowed resizing/removing the sidebar. As it stands, this is only usable on screens with enough horizontal real estate that they can probably run the Adobe Reader with no problems.

Will the Windows version support external devices (in my case, the iPod classic)? I'm almost salivating over on-the-fly format conversion.

Firing people for not working during their lunchbreaks? Jesus, he's lucky America has third-world labour laws. In Europe that would be a lawsuit at the very least.

The ONLY potential id theft issue with phone numbers is if you give out your home (ie landline) number. That's because some shoppings sites use match the phone number you give them against your cardholder address. Cell phone numbers present no more identity theft risk than giving out your website address (less, in fact, given the WHOIS database for domains).

To be honest I'd rather time was spent on making Wine work with more programs rather than making it use an Ubuntu-like theme.

Thanks for convincing me to give Google Reader another go. I tried it when it first came out and it was pretty bad, but now it's fantastic and has replaced BBC News as my homepage.

'No .NET apps, no Silverlight apps'

Sorry Scoble, but that's what happens when you rely on proprietary formats and runtime libraries, instead of open standards.

That's what Google does with ALL of its 'extra' services - YouTube, Gmail, Google Apps. None of these actually make any money, they are all aimed at increasing loyalty to the Google 'brand' and increasing/maintaining Google's market share in its main search business.

As much as I dislike Microsoft (why did the US Government chicken out of breaking them up a few years ago?), I have to agree with them on this one. Not so much in terms of the market share/antitrust issue - any business that seeks to pollute my screen with ads deserves any price gouging it suffers - but from a user privacy point of view combining Doubleclick's tracking cookies with Google's user database is something approaching 'evil'.

Tim O'Reilly was the one who started the incivility. The substance of the censorship charter, sorry, code of conduct, was bad enough, but Tim's choice of language only inflamed the situation further. Anyone who debates in a way he dislikes is 'pig wrestling', apparently (the code post). Anyone who uses words he doesn't like is 'potty mouthed, apparently (response post).

A word I used in my blog response to this was 'sanctimonious' - I think it is exactly the sort of attitude Tim is showing right now, and it is why I will never take part in any Code of Conduct which has his name associated with it.

Sure, you get sponsorship from Seagate. Whether those payments positively influence your opinions of Seagate products or not is a matter for your own conscience. What matters to me is that (unlike some less scrupulous bloggers), you have been upfront and routinely point out that you are sponsored by Seagate, to let us make our own judgements.

These are worthless automated messages - there are only about 10 in tota (they get reused) - written in a boring, commercialist tone which is just about as exciting as trawling through C# Express source code. Scratch that - the source code is much more exciting. Possibly the most worthless 'feature' of the X360.

Most of those are probably comment spammers!

The problem is that Microsoft being in the ad business presents an important conflict of interest. A good web browser developer will include decent ad-blocking facilities to their browser - which Microsoft has so far not done to Internet Explorer 7. Doesn't bother me anyway, I'm a Firefox user and always will be.

Bzzzt! That was the sound of my digicam's battery running out due to the strain of using Wifi. And why would I want to use wifi to view/transfer pictures on my PC anyway, when by definition I would be in front of the PC anyway? The two seconds it takes to plug in a USB cable is less than the 10 seconds+ it takes to establish a wifi connection.

The essential problem with U3 is that you MUST have administrator rights on any computer you want to use it with - therefore the users who would actually benefit from U3 (ie students, corporate employees using computer they can't install software on) are not able to use it.

Windows Vista? Oh yes the OS that requires 2Gb of RAM. It's the best thing that ever happened (to Apple).

Is there any way to make the translation bar display horizontally? It's just that the theme I'm using (Rin) doesn't display the sidebar on individual posts so I was going to put the translations in the footer.

According to the BBC, IE 7 also has RSS support (and adds some MSHTML-style 'additions' to the format)

So basically the W3C should screw the CSS standard just so that IE can pretend that its standards-compliant?

Have you actually used the new beta? Maybe it would be better to do so before tearing it apart since it is supposed to be significantly different from 1.x versions

Have you actually used the new beta? Maybe it would be better to do so before tearing it apart since it is supposed to be significantly different from 1.x versions