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Comment on Advancing in the Bash Shell by QuickLinks vom 19. Oktober bis zum 16. November — instant-thinking.de

QuickLinks vom 19. Oktober bis zum 16. November — instant-thinking.de — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:21 +0000

[...] Advancing in the Bash Shell – A metric ton of usefull shortcuts and hints for the Bash Shell [...]

Comment on Top Ten TED Talks by TED: Stroke of Insight | Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

TED: Stroke of Insight | Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:04:31 +0000

[...] TED videos I watched didn’t impress me. A few weeks later, I saw this post from Sam about the top 10 TED videos. Sam is one of those people who reserves good for the truly special so I made sure to watch them. [...]

Comment on Advancing in the Bash Shell by .::ich-wars-nicht.ch::. » Edit Bash command in editor

.::ich-wars-nicht.ch::. » Edit Bash command in editor — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:28:26 +0000

[...] Some other Bash tips and tricks: http://samrowe.com/wordpress/advancing-in-the-bash-shell/ [...]

Comment on SSH-Agent Forwarding and GNU Screen by Environment Variables and GNU Screen » alan.lamielle.net

Environment Variables and GNU Screen » alan.lamielle.net — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:31:07 +0000

[...] I normally do, I googled for this issue and ran across this solution to the problem. Rather than reiterate the details presented in this post, I simply show the two [...]

Comment on Dear Tenn Comcast Liferea User by mykhailo

mykhailo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:53:44 +0000

Wow. This is even better than tuning in to Kasey’s Coast to Coast, and having him read out a dedication that’s coming STRAIGHT TO ME!

Anyway. Oops. Sorry about that. I thought I had the default set at a 24 hour update.

Comment on Dear Tenn Comcast Liferea User by mph

mph — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:45:32 +0000

Ingrate.

Comment on Email is a spectacular failure by ez

ez — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:54:09 +0000

Feedburner does allow people to subscribe to my feed with an email address. In the six months I had the email subscription box available, I got 20 RSS subscribers and 0 email subscribers, so I dropped the box figuring no one would ever be interested. Little did I know there would be one person.
:)

Comment on Email is a spectacular failure by sam

sam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:18:51 +0000

Creating my single use emails is thinking of a string to put before the at sign. The _only_ reason I make this is pure curiosity. As I said, your email address isn’t a secret. Your 40 clicks are a waste of your time.

We’re way too deep in this hypothetical situation, but the reason that you perceive it to be difficult to sign up for an email list is because the tools you use have grown up around the broken system of feeds. If the world I described existed, your browser would make it as easy to subscribe to an email-based feed as an RSS/ATOM feed. It might even have support for making up the string I mentioned above or at the very least using the old-school + nomenclature that most mail systems support.

And even if browsers didn’t have such support, but the blog engines (et al) supported email based feeds, all you’d need to do is type in your email address into my blog engine… like you already did to be able to post comments here. :)

Comment on Email is a spectacular failure by ez

ez — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:21:31 +0000

Which is it? You said it is just as easy to turn off the tap for email. :)

My forwarding email address = your single-use emails. My point is creating them is way more work that subscribing to an RSS feed.

To subscribe to an email list: I have to create a new browser tab, click through some bookmark folders to my host’s login, type my credentials, click through to the email manager, type in a new email address to use, switch back to the list form, paste in the email address in the form, wait for the list confirmation, click on the link for the list confirmation, go to my email program, and create a filter. ~40 clicks or key strokes.

To subscribe to an RSS feed: click the RSS icon in Firefox, click the Google Reader button, click the folder list, click the folder. 4 clicks.

Comment on Email is a spectacular failure by sam

sam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:58:16 +0000

Now I have to disagree with you. Your email address is not a secret, sorry. You can’t really think that signing up for mailing lists would somehow give you more spam in your inbox do you?

My google apps account gets about 40k (no typo) spams per month. I really doubt anything I do could make that worse. :)

If subscribing to a mailing list was entering your address and clicking “go!” that’d be one ‘click’ :) Nothing stopping you from using single-use emails to see who is selling too. I do that for everything. When I signed up to see your jabber, the email I used was jabber at samrowe dot coo-coo-catchooooooo. No setup on my end other than saying “emails not destined for a specific account go to this inbox,” so I can make up addresses WILLY NILLY.