RSS Feeds
If you want to be notified of changes to the site, you can subscribe to any of the following RSS feeds. You may need a seperate RSS reader, or your browser may be able to handle it for you.
Modulo:13 front page: Notification of any new posts on ColumnC or 1ns3rt, or comments about an 1ns3rt link. Updated hourly.
Rich's Bit: Notification of any changes. Updated daily.
Ant's World of Fun: Notification of any changes. Updated daily.
~ashley/public_html: Notification of any changes. Updated daily.
www.tonton.co.uk: (Jonn's site) Notification of any changes. Updated daily.
Mr Happy's Guide to Life: Notification of any changes. Updated daily.
Tom's Great Site: Notification of any changes. Updated daily.
How to Interpret the Messages
The subsite RSS feeds send slightly cryptic messages when the system thinks that a subsite has been updated. The body of the message will have a number of lines that start with "<" or ">", followed by a time and a file name. (Any lines that don't start with "<" or ">" can be ignored.) For example:
rich has updated some of his files: 158c158 < 2005-05-29 15:34:46.945014696 +0100 /home/rich/public_html/index.php --- > 2005-05-29 17:31:49.000000000 +0100 /home/rich/public_html/index.php
The time is the modification time of the file; if the line starts with "<" it shows the previous modification time of the file; if it starts with ">" it shows the new modification time. So in this example, I modified my front page at half past five (BST) on the 29th of May, and the last time I modified the same page was 3:34 the same afternoon.
If there is only a ">" line and no matching "<" line, then the file is new, and if there is the latter but not the former then the file has been deleted.
If you have used diff, then you should recognise the format and be able to work out that the system stores a list of files and their modification times, and simply adds any changes to the RSS feed.