Archive for December, 2007
Privacy Concerns: Google Streets Boston
December 14th, 2007 by James Sullivan | No Comments | Filed in BlogGAO: “USA is living beyond its means”
December 13th, 2007 by James Sullivan | No Comments | Filed in BlogMagpie-RSS + Snoopy + Gzip + reddit = broken
December 11th, 2007 by James Sullivan | No Comments | Filed in BlogI have a news page: bobbysullivan.com/home
I use that to read my news because it doesn’t keep history, doesn’t let me surf through more than just the top current articles, and over-all reduces the temptation to surf through like 10 pages of reddit articles (yes, it happens). I must have some sort of news addiction.
My reddit news feed has been broken and just took a second to review it – turns out that reddit uses gzip for their rss feed. Snoopy, the user-agent script provided with Magpie-RSS doesn’t really support gzip. Per this blog entry [http://laughingmeme.org/category/gzip/] , the way to disable gzip (and make sure it works) is to add this to your script:
define('MAGPIE_USE_GZIP', false);
Free Software Foundation Membership
December 3rd, 2007 by James Sullivan | No Comments | Filed in Open SourceThe Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Boston, MA, USA. It relies on individuals like us to support FSF’s mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users.
