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Statusnet is now known as  GNU social. The install seems to be about the same (wget  https://github.com/foocorp/gnu-social/archive/master.zip ) To install Statusnet, you need to go download the latest version. Once completing that, you can transfer the file to the server. (of course, you can download the file direct to the server.) We do everything from the command line to the server when we can. $ scp statusnet-1.1.1.tar.gz  oeorgan1:~/. statusnet-1.1.1.tar.gz                        100% 8869KB   4.3MB/s   00:02 $ Now to go to the server to do the install. eddie@oelt02:~$ ssh oeorgan1 Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-41-generic i686) * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/ New release ‘14.04.1 LTS’ available. Run ‘do-release-upgrade’ to upgrade to it. Last login: Sat Aug 16 10:34:43 2014 f...

Twitter RSS url feed can’t be read… >>  FIX Quick Note: This was working in early October 2012, but due to twitter stopping support for RSS feed, can’t guarantee it will work forever.  Our twitter RSS feed was that it suddenly stopped working. So after searching around on the web… here is the solution we found. If you have used: https://twitter.com/favorites/ TWITTER_USERNAME .rss or https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ TWITTER_USERNAME .rss You now need to use: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name= TWITTER_USERNAME

1. Using your computer to help make meals. http://www.instructables.com/id/Quickie-ideas-from-a-non-chef/ 2. Set up your own twitter like site for those close to you. http://www.instructables.com/id/Statusnet-the-Twitter-clone-setup/ 3. eyeOS is sort of a gui web driven desktop and great for all sorts of touchpads. http://www.instructables.com/id/eyeOS/

With everything going gui-ish, why would I want to use the command line to micro-blog? Actually there are several reasons. Remember a computer is a robot without legs. First it is a way, remind yourself of certain things even if you are at a terminal where you have no rights to store information on that equipment. Just a matter of keeping twitter site open to receive the tweets if you are using twitter as your micro-blog. With at or chron, you can easily set up your computer to send your specific message or messages at a particular time. Secondly, you have the ability to use a low resource machine to do messaging tasks like capture tweets of other people for you to read later. Sort of a electronic secretary taking tweets like taking phone calls for you. You can even go a step further and do what is call automated web page scraping to get the information you need off the web without you having to go do that yourself. I have several web page scraping batch files that get the weath...

With everything going gui-ish, why would I want to use the command line to micro-blog? Actually there are several reasons. Remember a computer is a robot without legs. First it is a way, remind yourself of certain things even if you are at a terminal where you have no rights to store information on that equipment. Just a matter of keeping twitter site open to receive the tweets if you are using twitter as your micro-blog. With at or chron, you can easily set up your computer to send your specific message or messages at a particular time. Secondly, you have the ability to use a low resource machine to do messaging tasks like capture tweets of other people for you to read later. Sort of a electronic secretary taking tweets like taking phone calls for you. You can even go a step further and do what is call automated web page scraping to get the information you need off the web without you having to go do that yourself. I have several web page scraping batch files that get the weath...