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Via Horst: Tomorrow….

Yesterday I discovered XML::RAI. RAI stands for “RSS Abstraction Interface”. It greatly simplifies my rssfetch script.
I also discovered the 2RSS.com Atom2RSS converter, which is very useful for blogs that only offer Atom feeds and RSSreaders that don’t support Atom. Of course I am planning to support Atom in my RSS script and/or add an Atom feed to my blog, but this requires more time to read more about the Atom spec.

I should do university stuff, as my time will be limited next week, because my parents are visiting Vienna from Monday to Friday.
But i spent a few hours on the next version of rssfetch. It now works with the latest XML::RSS::Parser. The main drawback, it currently does not parse the FreeBSD feed, because the feed is broken, will hopefully be resolved soon as I submitted PR 67042.
Additional Josef just told me that hrs is reworking the feed generation, as he wants add a feed for Security Advisories to the FreeBSD Blog^WWebsite.

The reorganisation was successfull. I have now a seperate page for my Blogroll. Since this page required to have two lists of Feeds, german and english, I had to adapt my rssfetch again to use a configfile. Now the script requires p5-Config-Simple (which is really simple enough for my non-existing perl hacking-skills). 0.3 is the first version that does not require editing the source to add another feed.

Today the KDE Mailinglist Ids changed. I learned that there is an RFC about List-Ids, RFC2919, and that it discourages changes of the List-Id:

Although the list identifier MAY be changed by the mailing list administrator this is not desirable.

Today an Accesspoint crashed when I wanted to connect on the serial line.

Continue reading “Accesspoint Panic”

Tomorrow will probably be the third time this year, that an “.at world domination”-thread will be started on developers@. And this time, no danes are involved (AFAIK, but they are everywhere).
Looking at the commits to CVSROOT/access of this year, more than 10% of the new committers are living in Austria. So it looks like the BSD Usergroup Austria is successfull pushing BSD forward.
This time Stefan Farfeleder got an src-commit bit, so there are now three and a half FreeBSD committers in Vienna. Congratulations stefanf!
Who will be the next? Send patches now!

You really should buy a MacOS X. Josef just told me, that MacOS X (at least Panther) knows about _my_ birthday per default. So in case you forgot my birthday, open a Terminal.app and enter:

ische:~ arved$ grep arved /usr/share/calendar/calendar.*

So I am expecting a lot of presents in June :-).

Tomorrow, ARK-test. I started learning at 14.00.
Now I have 2/3, only simulation of register machines needs to be refreshed, so I can take a blogging break. But why do I always start 5 minutes before 12?
Current food: Erasco – fiery Thai soup — “Dosenfutter rulez!”

Today I was really astonished to hear “Oberkrainer”-like Volksmusik on FM4. A group called global.kryner played famous popsongs e.g. Madonna’s “Like a virgin” in this traditional style. Although I don’t like Volksmusik, this was quite funny. There are a few mp3-examples on their Website and they will release a CD soon.