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spcmnspff··on What do you want from Windows 8?
Virtual desktops is the big one for me. I like being able to categorise my windows eg. one for programming, another for other work, another for leisure and multimedia etc etc.
spcmnspff··on Ask HN: Where do you listen to podcasts?
Going to uni takes at least an hour on the train and on a bus (not even counting the return trip) so I listen to podcasts then.
spcmnspff··on 15 Ultimate Features of Chrome 6
Integrated PDF viewer is a very nice addition. I always liked how my preferred Linux browser, Konqueror, had Okular to integrate with.
spcmnspff··on Ask HN: Recommend me a Podcast
I was going to write a perl script to download all these but after I discovered that the naming scheme wasn't consistent throughout every file, I gave up and installed iTunes to download everything. I then promptly removed all hundreds of megabytes of it. An advantage is the naming scheme is pretty good; nothing that a novice shell-scripter can't fix.
spcmnspff··on Pacman in HTML5 / Canvas
javascript, I believe.

http://github.com/macek/google_pacman/tree/master/src/js

spcmnspff··on Ask HN: Why isn't Javascript the new BASIC?
The name mislead me to believe that it had something to do with haskell. I guess I thought too deeply into the anagram.
spcmnspff··on Ask HN: What do you take with you?
N95, EeePC 1005PE, Pilot G207 Black, a wallet containing essential wallet deelies and a towel.
spcmnspff··on [dead]
I am now going to compose several paragraphs that I will copy and paste onto any forum/board/chat-area that has mistaken the definition of 'hacker' with this as a basis which people that frequent the /g/ board of 4chan might be familiar with:

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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