[CLUE-Talk] news

[Randy Arabie]

On Saturday, 12 April 2003 at 16:40:35 -0600, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:33:32 -0600
> Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday, 11 April 2003 at 22:28:04 -0600, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Dunno whether I mentioned it back then or not, but I've found that
> > > using an RSS aggregator works very well. There are lots of them, but
> > > I'm liking Amphetadesk.
> > > 
> > >   http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/
> > 
> > I'm looking at that now.  Cool, so far.  I had a little trouble getting
> > it installed.  The install docs and readme failed to mention a few perl
> > modules that were required.
> 
> Oh, I should have warned you against using the 'perl -mcpan ...' method of
> getting needed modules. It really sucks, IMHO. But I guess I already had
> them all, coz I didn't have any trouble once I cleaned up the mess left
> behind by that method.

Well...I don't think it made a big mess (I *hope* it didn't), but I got it
working.
 
> Uhm, well, once you Amphetadesk running, from the main page (your news
> channels) click on "add a channel", then "G".

Oh boy....thousands of RSS sources indexed alphabetically.  Thanks Jed.
Now I'll have no problem wasting away hour, after hour, after hour
reading news and other trivial bits-o-info.
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/