It is amasing how in a large city you learn to completely block out the world sometimes, you are never alone and people tend to have an amasing ability to just ignore others completely, you see this especially on the Tube where people just completely turn off.
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s MS Knowledge base RSS feeds I discover gmane.org. This is a totally amasing service that takes common mailing lists such as those from various Open Source projects, remove spam, remove cross posts and pop them into a NTTP server. At the moment it carries 4272 groups and 9377095 posts.
This is amasing for me since it moves more things out of my mail client and into my Aggregator which happens to have really nice NTTP support.
Over at Lockergnome I saw mention of this amasing resource for Windows Kiddies. RSS Feeds for every category on the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
Today I had to upgrade Exim on my RedHat and my FreeBSD machine.
The experience was hugely different in the two cases and highlights to me again that RPM is from the Devil.
Most of us have seen these XML icons all over the net thesedays, especially on blogs. Infact you should see one bottom left on this very page. This icon is the placeholder for what some believe is the way of the future for any news and discussion publishing system – called RSS (DMOZ) it consists of a simple XML format that clients pull on-demand and view in special application software.
