Fun and games with Livejournal

[andrewducker]

Bah!  Wasted about three hours while writing an LJ client because while livejournal will take an md5 hashed password in either upper or lower case, when you're adding in the challenge and sending the hash of that it suddenly insists that it has to be in lower case.  Not that it tells you - you just get told your password is wrong...

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[aliiis.livejournal.com]

ach neeeeeeiiiiiin! 3 hours?! D: I don't know why I'm speaking German so much these days.
For future reference, have you seen Writer? http://writer.bighugelabs.com/
I more or less always use it for... well, writing things, nowadays, and think it is rather neat - just very, very simple, I don't think you can check your html or anything, and saves what you're doing often and unobtrusively.

[andrewducker]

Looks nice - but is exactly the kind of tihng that will be blocked from my work, which would make it hard for me to use it as a universal writing device :->

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

It's not currently blocked from your work.

Can you tell I'm bored today?

[andrewducker]

I tend to find that unblocked document writing apps last about a month :->

(You'll note that Google Documents is blocked. Didn't use to be...)

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Yeah they seem to be tightening up the blocked stuff. Strangely LJToys has become blocked yet LJ is fine which intrigues me.

I finally bought a new laptop, kept coming back to the same one as you got - HP have the build quality, and I could get higher specs for same price but were things like Acer and Fujitsu which can both be flaky. In the end however bit the bullet and decided I'd pay just over the £400 mark and get one with dedicated GFX which gives me HDMI output as well as blu-ray drive(which I don't really need). Still trying to convince myself the extra £49 was worth it as your spec would probably meet all my requirements(I have problems surrounding whether Spore will run on integrated GFX as it seems to have high restrictions for playability and won't run on my current laptop with integrated gfx). I got the G70-120EA, going to pick it up on way home from work tonight. Did you keep Vista or roll back to XP?

[andrewducker]

I kept Vista. Not had any problems with it so far. I've heard that XP and HDMI don't always play well together...

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

How have you got on with networking and the Vista laptop then? My Vista desktop doesn't seem to want to play ball at all with sharing across the network and Roy spent hours trying to get the networked printer to work from the Vista machine. That's the only thing making me hum and haw - If I can't get laptop working with my networked printer I may as well not bother with it and keep my old flaky one.

[andrewducker]

Not tried yet with printing, but it worked fine with filesharing to Julie's XP desktop. I'll try printing when I'm next over there!

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

aw lame! I have never actually experienced this whole workplace url-blocking phenomenon, but I hear it exists. So they block this sort of thing but allow LJ - that's mad! Isn't that surely far more procrastinatey/perverted?!

[andrewducker]

It's not necessarily about procrastination or perversion, it's about information tracking. All of our USB ports are locked down because if we lose customer data or other sensitive data we get massive fines...