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Re:RSS Rant on Thursday October 27, 2011 @06:23PM (#3165886)
Fun fact: Google Reader will understand http://twitter.com/username as an RSS feed. The trick is to remove the hashbang that Twitter automatically adds to the URL (i.e. http://twitter.com/#!/username) before attempting to add it as a feed.
Re:New iPhone worm can act like botnet on Monday November 23, 2009 @04:57PM (#958230)
s/unlocked/jailbroken/

There's a difference: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unlock

Re:Basic Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @07:06PM (#840302)
If there are .svn directories still present, it's likely that they just copied a working copy to their web server. You're supposed to use "svn export" to create a "production" version without the .svn directories. Or just delete them. Either way, this is really VCS misuse more than anything else.
Re:Acer Aspire One netbook for $309.99 on Monday October 20, 2008 @12:55PM (#338041)
Thanks for your post, ashishk. I've been ogling the various netbooks/ultraportables/what-have-you, not wanting to spend gobs of money but also really wanting to have one, just for the sake of having one. This seems like a nice compromise between those two conflicting desires.