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Barix Exstreamer and Streamsicle

I’ve had a Barix Exstreamer for quite a while. It has been sitting in my bedroom, mostly not playing. One of the reasons was the the server software (zServer) that Barix provides isn’t quite to my liking. Barix has since made zServer open-source and I have started to work on it (something that unfortunately I don’t have too much time for at the moment). But on the Exstreamer Mailing list, someone mentioned Streamsicle as an alternative. This piece of software is a streaming server that jukeboxes through my mp3 collection on my home theater PC. Re-configuring the Exstreamer was a snap and now it sits and happily plays through my collection. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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Moving to RSS 1.0 and 2.0 feeds in MoveableType

I have been using Zoë for a while now (as a kind of Google for Email) and I’m more than happy with it. Recently Raphaël included the possibility that Zoë also handles RSS feeds like email. When using this feature with this Blog, I noticed that the RSS entries that come from this site are truncated to 15 characters or so - not really much meat for an indexing engine. Thanks to Andrew Dunn my blog now outputs both RSS1.0 and 2.0 feeds with the full text of an entry - just like it should be. Get his instructions and implement them! ...

Jens-Christian Fischer