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Monday, April 08, 2002
Another web-logging lawyer

Denise Howell is another lawyer publishing a web log.  There's a stereotype that lawyers can't write, but that isn't true for Denise.


7:18:29 PM      comment []
Wikis are getting RSS

Wiki sites are getting bit by the RSS bug.  A number of Wiki implementations now support RSS files of changes.  My personal favorite Wiki implementation is UseModWiki.  RSS code isn't built into the current release, but there are various patches available.  

Wikis and RSS should fit together naturally - Wikis generate list of recent changes (e.g,. Meatball's recent changes), but I've been subscribed to Meatball's changes as an RSS channel, and for some reason I've found it less than useful.  I think part of the reason is that Recent Changes gives you some context; typically, changes are listed by date with author, and by seeing the last few days of changes at once, you can get a sense of where the Wiki is going right now.  Having the changes trickle in once per hour is much less useful.


2:39:30 PM      comment []
Slashdot thread on upcoming Debian 3.0

Slashdot has a good thread on the upcoming Debian 3.0 release. I use Debian on my home linux server.  This thread brings out what's good and bad about Debian: Debian doesn't always have the latest packages, and sometimes the installation procedures can be convoluted, but the people working on it are committed to bringing out a high quality release.

My sense is that Debian is the Linux distribution that is closest to the pure GNU/Richard Stallman philosophy - "We won't do it if it's not right (and we know what's right.)"  Quality and purity over user-friendliness.

Lately I've been using VMware on my W2k box to play with different Linux installations and with FreeBSD; I'll have to write that.

 


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