[Klug-general] It’s finally here – the new Kent Linux User Group website

[J D Freeman]

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On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:10:15PM +0000, nic dan wrote:
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> Hi
> Perhaps a talk is needed on setting up a twitter account [or rss feed] & it's advantages/disadvantages for boring old farts like me

Twitter is simply a way of finding out what other people are doing. Quick
simple text blurts in 140 characters or less. 

https://twitter.com/about 

This link will tell you more about it. 

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It allows you to subscribe to
a feed (an xml document) using a reader, to keep upto date with what
websites. So rather than having to flick round the bbc, guardian, times,
cnn, etc.. in the morning, your rss reader will take the feed from each of
their sites and put it in a simple display were you can read all the
headlines for all of the sites. Readers come in various forms, from
googlereader (http://google.co.uk/reader), to rawdog
(http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html), to some browsers, and so on and so
forth. 

> I still struggle with texting...~~~ ....& I'm only a novice emailer so why would I want/need a mega feed [unless I'm hungry??]

The megafeed is different from email. 

> My mailbox gets full enough already, or did I miss something here?

Kinda.

> Are you really all that geeky, or is it just, young?

No, some of us are infact proud to admit to being geeks. Sad tho some may
feel that to be. (see http://catb.org/jargon/ for more info).

> I need to know how to reduce my communications/computing/network costs, if anyone has any tips....pension doesn't go far

Which part of the costs do you want to reduce? Hardware costs? Running
costs (power, phone line?) 

HTH

J
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