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brydon replied on October 16, 2009 16:31 to the idea "Retweetable" in CoTweet:

sorry, I was confusing RT others with people RT'ing me. Clearly comparing it to my followers usernames makes no sense. I suppose the value would be in comparing my username to the most common way clients RT for users.

brydon shared an idea in CoTweet on October 16, 2009 16:27:

Retweetable

Retweetable? If I'm writing a post I specifically want people to RT, I'd like to know how retweetable the post is. Compare the free characters in my post against my followers username length and keep a running tally of "x of y of your followers can easily RT this post"...

Otherwise my followers will have to edit down my post to RT

brydon started following the idea "Music Shuffle or Play by Genre" in boxee.

brydon reported a problem in boxee on April 29, 2009 00:53:

video playback on ubuntu too fast when resuming from pause

I just updated to jaunty and after hearing people talk about boxee's latest release for ubuntu being better, thought I'd try it. I still have the problem with video playback. I start a video and it plays correctly. If I pause the video, then resume playback, the playback runs at about double speed with no audio.

This and a few other glitches always push me back to plain old browser and vlc.

brydon asked a question in boxee on April 28, 2009 21:13:

getting boxee product new releases on ubuntu

I installed boxee on ubuntu a few months back. I can't recall if it was just a .deb file I downloaded or whether I added a source that apt-get will use to proactively pull down updates.

I suppose my question is, what's the most effective way to keep my boxee installation up to date over time, on ubuntu?

brydon asked a question in boxee on April 28, 2009 20:52:

proxying boxee using tsocks on ubuntu

for various reasons I won't bother detailing, it helps to be able to proxy a service like boxee. The main reason I'm not using boxee heavily is because of this. I can easily use something like tsocks to start up firefox and run it entirely over an ssh session. When I start boxee using tsocks, however, boxee doesn't seem to think it can even connect to the internet.

brydon started following the idea "Add More Canadian Content" in boxee.