As discussed in the comments, using Bloglines might be considered a better way to limit the bandwidth I use in checking on feeds, since it checks once an hour and shares the feed with all of the subscribers to that feed. So I decided to give it a try. It’s better than I thought it…
Some more discussion of the RSS “problem”, and the real answer to the problem, quit pulling feeds once an hour! Trust me, I update once, maybe twice a day, during the week and hardly at all on weekends. I’d be willing to bet most of the feeds you are subscribed to are similar. For more…
As you may remember, I’ve been pushing RSS as an answer to our communications people when it comes to dealing with spam filters. My thinking was, if we can get our members to move toward adopting newsfeeds as a way to get information from our website, we can avoid all of the problems we’ve been…
The latest issue of Scot’s newsletter has a nice collection of information to help answer the question “Will my hardware work under Linux?” It’s got links to getting Live CD distros, hardware compatibility databases, and more. It’s all part of the Linux Clues addition to the newsletter, both the newsletter and various forums and websites…
Macy was kind enough to send me an email about a local event coming up here in Columbus on Oct. 2, Ohio Linux Fest. I might have to check that out. If you’re in the area, you might want to think about it too!
I bit the bullet and installed SP2 over lunch today, since I had to work through my lunch hour anyway. (Long story) Everything went well, and nothing really came across as “broken” in any major way. I had to re-enable the Messenger Service, since I do use “net send” across our internal network quite often….