This article on MacMerc.com is a brief, Mac-centric introduction to RSS. More importantly for me, it provides links to official RSS feeds for MacMinute and LiveJournals, neither of which are well documented on their respective sites.
Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon on mailing lists?
As is my custom for messages I think have some reasonable content, I sent my message to the list and copied it to person A. I received no personal or on-list response from person A.
This seems to happen to me with about half the list posts I make: they're ignored and people route around me in conversation as if the messages I send don't exist. Am I really that inarticulate, or is there a technical explanation for this? I mentioned this behavior to someone in conversation, and they ascribed it to list propagation delays. An hour is a bit long for that, however.
If I'm such a horrible communicator, I need to do better, otherwise I might as well not waste my time posting and trying to help other people. Or does this happen to everyone else too, and I'm merely unobservant?
Apple Technical Note TN2056: Installable Keyboard Layouts documents the new XML keyboard layout format in Jaguar. I wonder if I can replace my keyboard rempaping utility with some XML—it wasn't possible to use a classic Mac OS keyboard layout for the purpose.
I just typed in the URL of Andy Ihnatko's blog, thinking “I should really add this to my bookmarks page, since he doesn't have a RSS feed and updates rather sporadically.” But as of today, CWoB has a RSS feed, per item permalinks and all. Thanks Andy, for saving me some time (which I proceed to waste reading your blog…)
The FireWire DriveDock, which I discussed a few weeks ago, arrived yesterday. The prices of 80 GB 7200 RPM drives came down a bit since then—I got a WD800JB (7200 RPM, 8 MB cache) for $105 including shipping from NewEgg. I'll buy another 80 or 120 GB disk in a few weeks or months when my finances permit.
Tonight I tried plugging this tape drive (whose abortive installation caused the FireWire ports in my desktop G4 to die) into the DriveDock, and was happy to note that it worked.
Not that I'd use it this way, of course, but it's nice to know that OS X and Retrospect support some rather bizarre and nonstandard configurations.
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