Friday, January 02, 2004

Vivisimo, Grokker, Teoma Engines Help to Narrow Search Results. Search engines companies are getting better at bringing order to all the chaos of search results, and could revolutionize how people mine the Internet for information. [eWEEK Technology News] 10:34:51 PM

Review of the Mirra Home Backup System Review of the Mirra Home Backup System Posted by michael on Friday January 02, @10:40AM from the mirra-mirra-in-the-hall dept. Darth Fredd writes "Having trouble backing up,or just too lazy to take the time? Behold Mirra, a networked RAID 1 volume, backs up everything automagically over the network. Extreme Tech has a review. Mirra uses the insanely popular (and fun) Mini ITX form factor motherboard. Mirra is targeted at the "normal" home and desktop user." We've mentioned the Mirra before.  [Slashdot] 12:12:39 PM

Book Review: Apache Cookbook. A lot of helpful tips and advice make up for a few shortcomings. [Linux Journal] 12:06:22 PM

Next step -- invite people who read this site to participate. If your aggregator can export an OPML list of the feeds you're subscribed to (most can) then become a member of the feeds site, and either upload your OPML, or enter a URL where the OPML can be read. 23 people are participating at the beginning of the day; I'd like to see 100 people by the end. I'm going to write some more code today and fix bugs, as they come up. So far we've tested it with quite a few aggregators, esp NetNewsWire and BlogLines, but I'm sure there are more interesting ways to export OPML that we've yet to discover. I'm going to publish the souce for the parser so there are no mysteries, using a very liberal open source license. If you have trouble, if you can provide the full OPML that would be great. Read the FAQ for details. [Scripting News] Hey, I was subscriber 66.  About half of my subscriptions are in the top 100.  As might be expected certain feeds like teknoids, trainboard, ELS news, Jurist, and model-horse-customizers among others are not in the top 100.  But that may change. 12:04:07 PM