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Brentley_11··on Surface disk space FAQ
As of November 19, 2008 the Xbox OS actually requires additional disk space. It's why they discontinued the Xbox 360 Arcade console package since it didn't come with a hard drive.

"While previous system updates have been stored on internal memory, the NXE was the first to require a storage device—at least a 128 MB memory card or a hard drive." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#New_Xbox_Experience

Brentley_11··on Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android
I second the Android Police suggestion. They really do a great job highlighting good android apps.

For anyone curious, here is a recent app roundup they did. http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/10/04/51-best-and-2-wtf-ne...

Brentley_11··on [dead]
At a glace it reminds me of any other forgettable corporate site. Maybe it's the shade of blue, maybe the globe in the background. Anyone else agree with me?
Brentley_11··on Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?
I want to toboggan/sled in Antarctica. I don't see it happening any time soon, but I should probably go for it while I'm still young and limber.
Brentley_11··on JQuery UI 1.8 Final Released
No themes but the widgets and effects are there.
Brentley_11··on Poll: Hackers, do you play any musical instruments?
Musical saw, melodica, accordion, and guitar. Ordered in personal skill level, best to worst.
Brentley_11··on An Incredibly Short PHP Script That Renders a Christmas Tree
We had a contest at work to see who could write the smallest code to create a Christmas tree. Ryan won with flying colours! For it to work error_logging must be set to E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE.
Brentley_11··on Media Temple Hacked
Just a heads up, the injected links are not always in the footer. I just noticed on one of my sites that the injection was somewhere in the middle.
Brentley_11··on IPhone developers aren’t stupid. Consumers just know what they want.
This is in response to http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/11/apple_is_not... ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=957314 )
Brentley_11··on HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites
Might as well give it a shot: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01cTgLqXMpA-xI1YWX89jiIw==...
Brentley_11··on Free Full Featured CSS Framework: BlueTrip
Here is an actual link to the framework if anyone is interested: http://bluetrip.org/
Brentley_11··on Google Wants You To Become A Gmail Ninja. Or Look Like A Huge Nerd Trying.
Link to the google post: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/so-you-want-to-be-gmai...
Brentley_11··on Dailymotion Launches Support for Open Video Formats and Video HTML Tag
Here is the demo url: http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/ca-en
Brentley_11··on Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp
It also seems to be making a web request every second that just returns: {"Results":[]}

Could the sudden popularity and the fact that this page is making a request every second without even hiting go mean that the site is essentially attacking itself?

Brentley_11··on NYT reader 2.0
If anyone is curious on how they structure their data you can look at the SQLite database files which are stored here (on windows at least): %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\com.nyt.timesreader.78C54164786ADE80CB31E1C5D95607D0938C987A.1\Local Store\

"newsreader.db" contains all the article information and eventRecorder.db contains records of all the actions you take in the application.

Brentley_11··on Ask HN: Why no love for PHP?
I think PHP compares well to the saying "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Most of the time security issues are in the hands of the programers. Although, PHP sure makes it easy sometimes to create those issues.
Brentley_11··on Beyond the Stars, Effective Local Rating Made Simple
Here is a link to the actual article for someone who finds this page in the future and the post is no longer at the top of the blog: http://www.thebuzz.at/blog/2009/05/beyond-the-stars/