I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
Gmane – is an interesting project that provides archiving and comfortable interface to a huge number of mailing lists. What they do is subscribe to a huge number of mailing lists, receive and index messages. They also provide archives over web and NNTP (news). And they even allow to post without subscribing to mailing lists (they do use one-time confirmation though).
Sounds good? Add to that that the service is totally free, and it willsound even better than good.
There is a very interesting article at Perl.com. It is about building a search engine using perl language. The interesting part is that the article is not about the usual reverse index type search engines. It takes a different approach – vector space searching.
Reading the article reminded me of the few things:
If for some reason you need a list of all sorts of different web user agents (spiders, robots, crawlers, browsers), then you can check the list here. These are separated into three huge pages with descriptions, and links to the vendors’ sites.
This might be useful when writing a robots.txt file or developing a site with different content varied by the web client.
Maintainer of the Bash Prompt HOWTO, it turns out, also keeps a small website with examlpes of different bash prompts. It provides screenshots together with code for some really wicked prompts. If you are into that kind of things, but all of ideas, than check the site out. Maybe you’ll find something for yourself. :)
If you need to spice up your desktop or add something original to your webdesign, check this page out. It has plenty of TrueType fonts to offer for free.