"Two weeks ago, we launched version 2 of the FriendFeed API in beta. Since then, we've watched how developers have been using the API and collected a lot of their feedback. We've implemented some changes, and now, we're ready to remove the beta label!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
A two weeks beta in the 2.0 era sounds almost blasphem! Congrats!
- Simone Ruffilli
Congrats to Ben and Gary for all their hard work getting this out the door. And thanks to all the developers who have been sending us great feedback the past couple weeks.
- Bret Taylor
Another word and the forces will abolish all forms of Cilantro on this planet called Earth, message received from Planet Janet
- Janet
Message to Planet Janet: you know you love it with cilantro, baby.
- Steven Perez
Now see this is the interesting thing: if anybody posts, then you have to. So if everybody keeps posting, you'll just have to keep up with us. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- caj
Debating tip: never try to get in the last word. Always give your opponent the opportunity to get in the last word. By some sort of mysterious karmic law, your persuasiveness will improve immeasurably. :)
- Sean McBride
Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh!!! As long as he doesn't respond.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
It's okay, he's got a Catch-22 now. Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh, so long as he doesn't respond. And we all know he refutes his Bunneh status.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
It was real hawt in the town that night! IF I EDIT 18 hours later like now - is your last still last if comments are disabled? A hawt question.
- Steve Cleary
Steven is a Bunneh!!! He responded when I said he wasn't. Bunneh's can win if they want.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
You did see where I said that I like my food scared and running, yeah? Mmmmm, ferret-ka-bobs ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
I do indeed see where this is headed, and no sir, I don't like it. *calls upon the forces of Voltron
- Tsali - el Rey de Reyes
from IM
Sadly, the only Voltron to heed your call is the vehicle Voltron. And I disabled that yo-yo by pulling out the sparks plugs in the car feet.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It's an old Navajo word for "punk-ass bitch".
- Steven Perez
from IM
No one has the slightest idea how much Steven is enjoying this...
- Abhishek
very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy
- Steven Perez
from IM
VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY
- Steven Perez
from IM
hmm... 800+ comments on this thread, and this is my first, and probably last comment on this thread. I wonder should I read all the comments, or just post?
- Mike Nencetti
Are you guys still trying to win?
- Steven Perez
from IM
23 years from now, Steven will still check his MSGoogle MyFriendFace feed every morning so he can respond to this post with 3,137,783 comments...
- Joe
from iPod
After half a month there must have been moment you thought it would not be a real big deal if you eventually should NOT have the last word, I suppose?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Ohhh, you mean that place, which is totally faked by a #viciousbunneh who was in cahoots with the government in taking all the alfalfa plants into an underground hidden bunker.
- Tsali - el Rey de Reyes
I will allow you to have the last word. But to take that last word you are surrendering your honor to a den of sightless whores.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
It was a test. Honor is pride. A den of sightless whores is merely an event that you will carry forever. You have attained the 7th level of enlightenment.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Considering that this thread has only been around since August, and has been shut down for the last two months, that's not too bad.
- Steven Perez
from IM
2012 is just the begining of the 13th Baktun, the long cont calendar doesn't actually run out until sometimes after 4772, that is of course if you stick with only Baktuns and don't use the other 4 higher counts, I just think FF will end in 4217 on planet Tersanzar :)
- Tsali - el Rey de Reyes
Ah, right thread. In that thread, it's asked what you think you smell like. In this thread, I told you what I think you smell like.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Cilantro, Strawberries, and Chilaquiles.
- Steven Perez
I think this has lasted long enough. We already know what has to be the last word, it's already in the original quote. I will put it as the closing comment. I think we will all feel relieved we can now carry on to do greater things. For ourselves, our loved ones and the world.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I dunno, the Akiva nipple-licking beach picture is pretty long, too. :-) Ah, and it looks like Mike Nayyar's last-word thread has more than 2200 comments in it. I guess we'll have to step it up over here, huh?
- Alleluiabug Heather
"Hyderabadi Biryani is my ultimate recipe for a flavorful rice. The bite of protein,the aroma of spices,the tang from lime,sweetness of onions and touch of herbs make this biryani a top favorite of my family and guests in any daawat. Two kinds of Biryani are commonly made in hyderabad, "Kacchi" and "Pakki". "Kacchi" literally meaning raw is prepared by layering uncooked meat. The "Kacchi" Biryani ,usually prepared by expert "Bawarchis" ,requires a thick bottom vessel for meat to cook through without burning and rice has to be precisely half cooked while promptly making layers before rice cools. I prefer making the easier "Pakki" biryani in which cooked meat is layered with rice.The following recipe is of "Pakki" Biryani."
- Anika
from Bookmarklet
It's been probably about 8 months since I've made a biryani and I awoke craving this. Hope I can find my saffron, it's been way too long since I've used it.
- Anika
This looks so good, I'm hungry. Your knowledge of hyderabadi biryani's is great too. Lots of other varieties of biryani out there. Don't forget to have this biryani with Mirchi ka salan (chillis melange) or bagaire baingan (aubergine stew) and raita (mixed yogurt) of course
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Friend of mien was comparing biryani in India to pizza here. People get very passionate about it. "Hydrabad biryani sucks!" despite hearing about how great it was at work for about 1/2 hour the day before.
- anna sauce
I have only had biryani a few times, but I really liked it. Haven't tried cooking it myself, though.
- Ha3rvey (heavy duty)
Aaman, that first part above is from the site, though I do know my biryanis since I started learning to cook them in '87. I always have mine with a raita and of course, the chilis because that's what I'm used to. I'm just more excited about being able to used vegetables and herbs from my garden for this.
- Anika
I love Biryani! I don't think I'll try making it though. There are so many great Indian restaurants in my part of NJ. Thanks for sharing! :-)
- sean808080
Off to make the biryani. Using chiken (boring!) because I forgot to buy lamb.
- Anika
Anika, my first job out of school was in Hyderabad - lived there for about 1.5 years and had the most amazing food possible. If I am ever in your part of the US, I hope I can come make some Hyd biryani and Salan for you.
- The Fat Oracle
When I was at the Indian market and asked for the saffron, the guy asked me what I was making. When I told him he said, "Whoa. You can do that?" Yep! Been making it since I was 12. I think he fell in love with me. ;P
- Anika
Friendfeed Hacks Group - A place to discuss and share about tweaking Friendfeed with Greasemonkey, UserJS, Stylish, or anything to make the FF experience even better. http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Keith - @tsudo
"Not all barbecue sauces are red. In fact, one of my favorites comes from South Carolina, and is a bright yellow, mustard-based sauce that is every bit as delicious as a vinegar or tomato-based sauce. Yes, I know such things are blasphemy in the Barbecue Belt, where your local style of BBQ is the only true one. Fortunately, I am from New Jersey, where we don’t really have an indigenous barbecue. That leaves me free to enjoy them all. This sauce can be as simple or as complex as you want. It must have yellow mustard, vinegar, sugar and onions. Everything else is icing. This version goes with brown sugar and cider vinegar, as well as some dry mustard and cayenne for kick. I’ve also fancied up this sauce for an elegant sauce for barbecued jackrabbit."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Holy Crap! When did she turn legal?! MY BAD! Carry on, nothing to see in the comments. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Welp @Mona that depends on what state you'd be hosting the young lady in but in most places she's been ‘legal’ - in that special sense - a coupla years now.
- Anthony Citrano
Crap, I just realized how much older than her I am. If you all need me I'm going to go over in the corner and feel all creepy for a bit. P.S. keep off my lawn.
- Joe "The Enforcer" Pierce
Why the morality police, Anthony? Do you need saving from yourself?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Ha! no, please. ;) But, following the "dirty old man" dust-up, I found myself wondering where the Puritans had been during all these other posts. So yesterday I bumped a bunch of them.
- Anthony Citrano
But I've found it to be a little buggy recently (in Chrome). On a few sites (BBC, FF and others) when I hit the bookmarklet the screen scrolls to the bottom and I cannot scroll back up. I have to use the original FF bookmarklet instead. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
The pictures are a little out of order
- Mike Chelen
Mostly stick with the regular one, and use the movable bookmarklet when something is blocked
- Mike Chelen
Cool. I was always hoping for a new Bookmarklet. And even if it's buggy, it's a step in the right direction. Nice Job
- Michael Fidler
Michael: It seems like the only way to uncover parts of the screen. Thanks go to April's friend for writing the code http://friendfeed.com/friendf... hope these pics help to see how it works
- Mike Chelen
Have you ever tried the Posterous Bookmarklet? I think it's one of the best around. It pulls everything off a page and allows you to choose what you want. It's similar to the FFeed one in a way, but I would like something like it, but combine it with the ability to pull in more than three pictures in at a time. Don't get me wrong, I love the FFeed one too, but there's something elegant about the way the Posterous one works.
- Michael Fidler
Michael: How well does Posterous stuff import to Friendfeed? If it were possible to import more than 3 pictures, that would be nice.
- Mike Chelen
Mike. Posterous imports well using the Custom RSS/atom feed , but I recall seeing a message from Gary, one of their founders, mentioning that he would like to have better integration with friendfeed. Before I enter the feed, I first run it through fflow, which gives me a MediaRSS feed which tends to display larger pictures. I use it on all my feeds. Love it. Here's the URL: http://www.fflow.net/...
- Michael Fidler
Michael: cool, fflow looks similar to feed buster http://feed-buster.appspot.com/ which i use heavily for multimedia import to friendfeed. will have to try them side by side and see if there are any differences. thanks for the tip!
- Mike Chelen
Whoa, fflow is new to me. Anyone know how long it's been around and who the developer is?
- Ivan Zuzak
Kevin - that is an awesome logo!!!!!
- Susan Beebe
+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas
- SteVe "Glory Juice" C
cute but what happened to festivus this year?
- Laura Norvig
Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD
- Zu from AOD
Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else.
- Michael R. Bernstein
In the Q&A time, they mention that plugins will be supported, so I'd expect various media players, flash, silverlight, 3D extensions, etc...
- Chris Reichow
Maxamad, so you suggest that Google will artificially control which browser plug-ins go in what's left out. Just like Apple does with their phone OS? Hard to see, that'll be the best play.
- Kari Honkanen
Moonlight, from the Mono project is an OSS implementation of Silverlight. It's how Silverlight runs on Linux. So no reason why Chrome OS couldn't support it.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Right, these plugins probably won't be written by Google, but MSFT is committed to writing for the Chrome browser at least... The new Silverlight 4 beta has Chrome support, see here: http://www.silverlight.net/getstar... And you can bet Adobe wants Chrome OS to run Flash... I'd expect all major plugins to be available, otherwise it makes Chrome OS even less appealing.
- Chris Reichow
If I'd be a ChromeOS guy, I'd make sure my OS is going to be as competitive as possible. Providing support for Flash and SL makes a web oriented OS more appealing as both plugins have relatively large fan base. But I'm not, so...
- Kari Honkanen
Shrews, beware: a group of Indian husbands tired of being harassed by their wives are demanding the local government create a male protection society to address their grievances.
Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy (Foundations, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) as adapted by the BBC in 1973, in eight one hour long episodes, part of the Open Source Audio collection on Archive.org (free to download and/or stream) | Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/details...
Read this when I was a kid. Love to think of all the tech that Asimov thought of that's actually come to pass...
- FFing Enigma
Well acted radio play, the abridgement/adaptation is also very well done through the first one and a half episodes.
- Michael W. May
@MWM why just the first one and a half? does it get crappy after that or is that just how far you are into it?
- Louis Simoneau
OMG, I had no idea this existed... Foundation trilogy still tops on my SF list. Will definitely check these out.
- Adrian
I only discovered it an hour and a half ago ;)
- Michael W. May
Download 'em quick. I'm willing to bet the BBC doesn't know someone uploaded them there. The BBC is pretty aggressive about copyright and region restriction.
- Spidra Webster
I'm really digging the sound effects. The acting is properly stiff. I approve.
- Adrian
@Spidra I doubt it: "This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio"
- Adrian
These have been online for years, I'm sure the BBC knows they're up. Most public libraries even have them.
- Anika
I will enjoy making my spouse listen to this ;)
- Andrew Roche
I'm through 5 and a half and it is making me quite certain I will be reading the trilogy yet again in the coming days.
- Michael W. May
"It was the kind of place many New Yorkers dream about, the sort of impossibly beautiful apartment movie directors cast as home for “arty” characters who would more likely be living in a cold-water collective in Bushwick in the real world. For a time, it was Ms. Williams’s dream home. She and her husband, both of whom are in television production, moved in two days before Christmas in 2007 after a renovation, at the time not yet complete, that had already taken about a year. Two weeks later, Ms. Williams’s husband moved out. He was done, he told his wife, with the renovation, and the marriage. Perhaps there were unseen fissures in the marriage that the stress of the renovation cracked wide open; perhaps the 14-year relationship had run its course. Whatever Tolstoyan truth Ms. Williams and her husband embodied is not the subject of this story. (He has asked not to be mentioned by name.)"
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
"He was done, he told his wife." Where have I heard this before? oh yeah, Mr. R. "I'm DONE" D. That's what they say after 14 years...or five. Murr. At least I wasn't forced to sell my home. That still sucks, P., but you will have a new dream home--I know it.
- maidel
*grabs P in his arms, swoops around, does a dip and lays one on her -- in a platonic sense, of course* :D
- Derrick
kisses and much gratitude to Mai, Parth, Derrick, and Cecily. You are all too kind to indulge my moments of bitterness and self-pity. I wish it were not still there, but it is, a bit... Bless you for being kind instead of judging me harshly, because I looked back at this after I first posted it and thought, "Oh, Polly, now... *please.*" Derrick: :) :) :) :) :) :)
- edythe
Considering that these trains are typically less than top notch russian machines it wouldn´t surprise me if something unexpectedly non-aerodynamic stuck out underneath of the trains sometimes which would make the girl just disappear.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
I feared that comment, zhinzher:) Although I assumed from the title, I would say the same even if it was a Norwegian train. The stupidest place to do this would be in front of magneto trains in Japan though;)
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
These idiots should take a look at ogrish, rotten, or something like that, and then think about it a little bit. You only have 1 life, after it's game over. Dumbs....
- TiTi
:O( It's totally stupid!!! They need a place to go, to do things that matters instead of this..
- Jeannette Høvring
A prominent industrialist of a Rs 1000 crore company was arrested at the airport here for allegedly stealing a high-end mobile phone of a passenger after CCTV visuals indicated that he took it, police said on Tuesday.
kiki-pedia:
My one wish is that someday I discover that my mom had an affair with Christopher Walken 26 years ago and that I am his illegitimate daughter. Oh what a glorious day that will be!
All I take from this is that you hope your mother is a slut. That’s some fucked up shit. - http://oregonjon.tumblr.com/post...
...someone forgot to pay the electric bill...
- JA Castillo
Clearly, it is because I proposed a DMU reunification with Caleb and I as admins. The response was uniformly positive, and flickr cannot allow DMU to ever be reunified.
- andertho
what's the point of a unified DMU if it's censored by Caleb?
- Thomas Hawk
Of course he would. He wanted to censor in the old DMU, he advocated having Kathleen banned from the group. He was one of the chief architects towards nuking the entire group. But most certainly he'd censor going forward.
- Thomas Hawk
what makes you think there would be no censorship in a group with Caleb as an admin Andertho?
- Thomas Hawk
Then I would quit. In the meantime, I'm willing to give it a shot.
- andertho
BTW, if someone were to break the law by doing something like posting pictures of children having sex, I would delete the post and ban the member.
- andertho
I'm tired of starting communities then watching them, nuked, censored, having to quit, etc. It's emotionally draining. I'd rather see a community that won't be censored or won't be nuked. "Quiting" a group because of censorship when it's started and admined by a known censor doesn't seem like a very good idea.
- Thomas Hawk
you are all forgetting that uncesored groups do not work on flickr - all it takes is one person to break flickr TOS and someone to tell heather about it
- eyebex
TH, I hear you. But this place simply isn't doing it for me.
- andertho
As would I Andertho. Illegal content ought not exist on any social network. The problem with Flickr though is that the Flickr TOS/CG doesn't distinguish between illegal activity and things that are just against the rules, like being "that guy."
- Thomas Hawk
what's going on with Flickr today, Thomas?
- Melissa
Looks like the censors deleted the whole site ;-)
- Nils Sandin
It's only going to be worse going forward because now any admin can censor any content they want and then just fall back on flickr's vague TOS/CG as justification. Flickr's TOS/CG is soooo vague that anyone can use it as a hammer to pretty much remove any content that they disagree with.
- Thomas Hawk
All true TH, all true. But the alternative is this place or nothing. I love you all, but this interface sucks ass. I'd rather take my chances on yet another DMU.
- andertho
I'm just joking about YHOO's stock being down because of Flickr Glen, it's down because of their earnings report.
- Thomas Hawk
The interface is awesome dandertoe. What's not to like?
- Ryan MacLean
I think it's down because the market does not approve of the Hack Girls
- dshalock
Check out article number 2 for a more mature way to manage content you dislike in a community per FriendFeed's TOS: 2. User Responsibility You are solely responsible for your use of the Site and Services. Because FriendFeed merely serves as a repository of information, user-posted content does not represent the advice, views, opinions or beliefs of FriendFeed, and FriendFeed makes no...
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- Thomas Hawk
I wonder if the screen name "ThatGuy" or varients of that are already all taken on Flickr.
- Adam Harrison
I find conversation flows better on Friendfeed, I like how responses roll in even before you refresh the page.
- Thomas Hawk
This interface is very nice for two minutes ago and two minutes from now. If you want to have a lengthy, days long convo you can go back to, it sucks ass.
- andertho
YHOO is down more than GOOG or MSFT or EBAY.
- Thomas Hawk
We might as well use iChat for DMU. I'm sorry, it's true.
- andertho
Does iChat have groups, conversations?
- Ryan MacLean
I mean, it doesn't even have topics
- Ryan MacLean
iChat doesn't create an archive or allow for non-realtime responses. FriendFeed does.
- Thomas Hawk
tinychat, with video. we can yell at each other for real andertho!!
- Mo Tabesh
Also doesn't interface with email, web.
- Ryan MacLean
tinychat and other chat apps or photophlow or any of that stuff is not a group. It's temporary conversation. This is a permanent archive that can be searched and accessed at any time.
- Thomas Hawk
Friendfeed is the closest thing I've seen yet to Flickr Groups forums, it's primary limitations are that you can't format text (including even a basic paragraph break) and you can't post inline images, gifs, etc.
- Thomas Hawk
I like that I can block Cody and TVJ on Friendfeed and they become invisible to me. That's a nice feature.
- Thomas Hawk
Hey Hawk, it's still here... I had a great trip to Sonoma. Sorry I missed you.
- Clearlight
Why tinychat instead of Skype Chat?? I've always loved Skype chat! We use it a lot in the Camphone DMU group/.// s2art is most attractive before his third cuppa cawfee ;)))
- Jakey
sorry I missed you as well Pal. Looking forward to catching up in person next Month down in L.A.
- Thomas Hawk
Tre, hover over the bubble icon next to a comment.
- Thomas Hawk
Don't block yourself Mo, You'll never be able to unblock yourself then.
- Thomas Hawk
so maybe heather finally found the big red button
- Clearlight
None of that pesky censorship or having to worry about flickr nuking your flickrstream because Iansand reports you as "that guy," for being fingerpointy.
- Thomas Hawk
ugh the phrase "that guy" makes me shudder every time under heather's sickly condescending tone.
- nick
and then.. why would you care? she's also not subscribing here, that I can tell? But I guess lovely Brenda is... fuckers. Is Brock? Can I call him a fucker again too???
- Jakey
i think my stock is 99% down because Flickr is down. grrrrrr
- Neya
Call them anything you like here. What you post offsite doesn't violate any of their TOS clauses.
- Adam Harrison
" hover over the bubble icon next to a comment." I get nothing? help
- steve sayers
you might not be violating their TOS, but you're giving them a reason to hate you. Having hundreds of hours of your invested time at the mercy of people with "feelings" is quite hard to tolerate
- nick
Steve, if you hover (with your mouse) and wait a second over the bubble to the left of this comment it will show you how long ago it was posted. Also if the bubble is filed in that means that the person that wrote it is a contact of yours. If the bubble is not filled in then this means that the person is not a contact of yours. If you see an unfiled bubble and want to subscribe to that person you can hover over their name and add them.
- Thomas Hawk
I used to know dos and windows 3.1, sad eh
- steve sayers
Nah... I learned on DOS when I was a wee lass. Having that initial sort of interface with the computer eventually prepared me for my Linux days. :)
- Stephanie Keating
Firefox is a much better browser than IE Steve. In my opinion at least.
- Thomas Hawk
yep, perhaps it's time I moved on, can I run both on the same machine?
- steve sayers
Steph.. but do you remember Fortran4?? or Cobol?? ;)
- Jakey
Nick, I don't think I have any recourse if Flickr nukes my account. Hopefully they won't. I think by removing myself from Flickr communities though where they might use something I post in a forum there as ammunition to nuke it I'm probably safer. Flickr needs to institute a policy whereby they won't nuke accounts without warnings though or at least substantial accounts.
- Thomas Hawk
hi steve! yes I run both! so that my troll can access Flickr easier ;)
- Jakey
TH.. I love you, but that's a bit egotistical.. "or at least substantial accounts" NO ONE should be deleted without warning.
- Jakey
TH lurves his flickr account, that's why he's distancing himself.
- Ryan MacLean
Jakey, *absolutely* nobody should be deleted without warning. But I suppose I feel that an account (any account not just mine) that has been active on flickr for many years with thousands of photos and thousands of hours of input is probably more of a tragedy when nuked than the guy who joins today posts 12 photos of real estate that he's selling and finds his account nuked. It doesn't...
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- Thomas Hawk
it doesn't hurt as much if you lose 30 minutes of work than if you lose 3,000 hours of work is what I'm saying.
- Thomas Hawk
I agree, what other than time invested and emotion is at risk though (not diminishing that that is a huge pain), is all you stuff backed up?
- steve sayers
Steve all my images are backed up. What I'd lose though is an incredibly rich collection of meta data and organization around my photos. Also many contacts that are very important to me and a big chunk of my online life over the past 4 years or so.
- Thomas Hawk
SK you use linux? Niiiiiice. What flavour?
- Ryan MacLean
understand, can the MD not be attached to your real files? (I am wondering myself whether I can match flickr org via photoshop/folders)
- steve sayers
Huge conversations have taken place on many of my photos and that i've participated on on others' photos. I'd lose that. I'd lose so much actually none of which can really be backed up. Since flickr could nuke my account without warning based on something I say in a forum, it's simply safer not to say anything in flickr forums. Silence is golden there. Community is not bound by the...
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- Thomas Hawk
I understood your premise TH... But I'd be pissed royally if I got deleted (which is why I questioned Brocks *FURTHER ACTIONS TAKEN* fmail to me if I did not cease and desist. that fucker). I am not a "substantial account".. though I have been there since 2004. I certainly have all my images backed up.. but nothing else. Though I know when Fotolog got snarley, there was a way to back up ALL your data from the site.. I forget how now, though.
- Jakey
TH Looks like discretion is the better part of valour in this case, I would have made the same decision. :-)
- steve sayers
Jakes, I'd be completely pissed if they deleted your account. As was I when they deleted Pierre's and Shepherd's, two other accounts that I blogged about when they did it. Nuking *any* substantial Flickr account without warning is *completely * unacceptable. They didn't use to do it this way. They used to warn you and make your account private. Current practices are simply too dangerous for users who value their data.
- Thomas Hawk
Ryan - I use linux at work, just Ubuntu. It's friendly. I don't have the time to get too hardcore into it, but I admin my own system and I haven't really broken it yet (knock on wood).
- Stephanie Keating
you should be pissed.. Brock threatened me because I made a post about DMU2 ;) I am not allowed to EVER POST OR COMMENT ON DMU AGAIN!!! After I got done being TOTALLY HYSTERICAL (his words).. it was rather amusing. Though I'm sure he could get me nuked. Me and my dog shots and camphone crap. Still, they mean a lot to me.. and as I said I am *NOT * a "substantial account" (if I read your definition the right way) I don't have that many fo-toes, really.. I'm not all arty and shit. No Getty invites (dammit).
- Jakey
anyway, no wukkers.. I was meaning more about the little peeps with 120 photos.. they would still be hurt if they got nuked.
- Jakey
Ah right on, SK. Ubuntu has that "it just works" thing about it.
- Ryan MacLean
*frikkin enter key!* and if they do get me.. I expect a freaking BLOG POST!!!! ;)
- Jakey
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I love the Synaptic Package Manager... a multiverse of fun tools at my fingertips! :) I also recently discovered "screen" for the terminal - bloody brilliant idea, especially for research. I can SSH in from home and pop back and forth with the screen. Love it.
- Stephanie Keating
screen is great, unless you want to use your scroll bar to look back through output...
- Adam Harrison
Yeah, true - that is my one beef with it, I haven't been able to condition myself for that. Of course, you can always enter copy mode. And I like that you can save the whole session to a hardcopy.
- Stephanie Keating
social media is a relatively new thing. It's big enough and the data is considered valuable enough to warrant the outrage we're seeing when the admins show us how fragile it is, especially in their hands. There needs to be a charter, some sort of code of practice that forbids any abuse of power. It needs to be written by the community, for the data it protects is the collective property...
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- nick
very well said Nick. Unfortunately I doubt the power hungry community management team at flickr is likely to go without a fight. But you are very right. Community Managers should be protectors of data not destroyers of data.
- Thomas Hawk
"It doesn't matter that you just paid a thousand dollars for a machine that comes with a valid Windows 7 license - your computer manufacturer just don't want to spend the money (or perhaps take on the responsibility) of giving you a Windows 7 installation DVD accompany your expensive purchase." Thankfully, Microsoft seems to have realized this problem, and have thankfully made a recovery disc for this purpose.
- Michael Fidler
from Bookmarklet
? idk which OEM the article's referring to, but just about every PC I've ever bought came with an image DVD that allows reinstallation of the OS (just not on another machine)
- Judah Richardson
@Judah Richardson plenty of laptops DO NOT come with these discs, and instead most have a partition on the hard drive that contains the Windows installer.
- Chris