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What about Linux assembly language?

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/

Or, you can buy a printed version from here.

The next issue of Free Software Magazine will likely have a list of many of the good free books available.

I actually wrote my own book as sort of a prequel to TAOCP. TAOCP assumes that you already have experience with some sort of assembly language. My book doesn't assume anything:

My book teaches programming using assembly language on Linux

In case johnnb's sig is ever changed, I contain here for posterity the sig in full:

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1. Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War by Producer/ Director Robert Greenwald, 2003, 56 minutes. Independent film by the Producer. Web site: Uncovered. Reviews: Powell's (out of stock, no reviews) Barnes & Noble Amazon

   This documentary shows the actual video of Bush administration officials justifying the war in Iraq. The overall effect is powerful.

   Quotes:

   • "... it is a federal felony, it's a crime, to mislead and distort information and present it to the Congress." -- 23:14 minutes into the movie.

   • "... the administration has not been honest..."

   • "... very disturbing ... intervention by people particularly from Vice President Cheney's office and Vice President Cheney himself ... to produce precisely the language which would allow them ... to support the decision to go into Iraq." -- Dr. David C. MacMichael, former CIA analyst. Page 7 of the transcript, 7:32 minutes in the movie.

   • "It is somewhat puzzling, I think, that you can have a hundred percent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where they are." -- Hans Blix, chief weapons inspector, referring to the administration's statements, at 34:44 minutes into the movie.

   This work is available several in several forms, some of which are free:

   • A transcript of the movie is available online. NOTE: Both forms of the transcript contain errors. The errors I've seen are minor. The quotes here have been checked against the movie.

   • The transcript is also available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat PDF file. The Acrobat PDF Reader software needed to view the transcript is a free download for all computers.

   • You can buy the DVD online for $9.95 from Amazon or Barnes & Noble or from CafeShops.com, at a Cafe Shops online store that is inappropriately titled Disinformation. The store originally sold items connected with a humorous TV show called Disinformation.

   • The DVD is available on loan through Netflix.

   • Make your own copies: Kate McArdle, one of the producers, told me that they encourage people to make copies of the DVD and give them to friends (but not sell them, of course). Also, they encourage people to play the movie for groups of people, without extra payment.

2. Unprecedented - 2000 Presidential Election by Richard Ray Perez, Joan Sekler, and Robert Greenwald, 2002, reissued 2004. Web site: Unprecedented. Reviews: Barnes & Noble Amazon, DVD Amazon, VHS IMDB

   From a

I'm using the paper bingo ballot.

My Book is focused on kind of the same area, but focuses on the interface between the application and the operating system and hardware. While Knuth essentially assumes the complete lack of an operating system, my book teaches how it interacts with your program through system calls, linking, memory management, etc. It talks about calling conventions, addressing modes, and all of the other gritty details that programmers need to know that usually just comes in bits and pieces from other sources.

I bet you would LOVE this shirt.

Jave.sucks();

http://www.cafeshops.com/Java_sucks

• the Patent Office
• patent lawyers
• people with profitable software patents

These people offer various reasons one should be in favor of software patents:

• the Patent Office: because patents are, like, good, duh!
• patent lawyers: because patents are, like, good, duh!
• people with profitable software patents: because inventors should have a moral right to not have their ideas ripped off

However, these people, and nobody else, stand to gain something obvious from software patents:

• the Patent Office: money
• patent laywers: money
• people with profitable software patents: money

Changing the lawyers' minds isn't going to be easy. So the first order of business is to make patents not a profit center for the PTO. If patents are something worth having, let the taxpayers foot most of the bill.

PS. Man, LZW expired. I need to make a new shirt.

I am a geek, not a PHB, and I refer to myself as an IT professional. It (IT) is an appealing term because the alternative is to be part of information services which implies that you do something, and I'd rather get paid to sit around and slashdot :)

T-shirts, coffee mugs, etc. ($5 of each purchase goes to wikipedia)

Site seems very slow already, so here's the article text.

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Federal charges were filed against Adam McGaughey, creator of the popular SG1Archive.com website - a fan website devoted to the MGM-owned television show Stargate SG-1. The charges allege that the website engaged in Criminal Copyright Infringement and Trafficking in Counterfeit Services. The charges were the culmination of a three-year FBI investigation, set in motion by a complaint from the Motion Picture Association (MPAA) regarding the content of the SG1Archive.com website.

SG1Archive.com is one of the most popular fan-run websites among the Stargate community. In addition to providing very active fan discussion forums, broadcast schedules, production news, and episode guides, the site heavily promotes the sale of the show on DVD. As of this writing, direct links from SG1Archive.com to Amazon.com have resulted in the sale of over $100,000 worth of DVDs. Many more DVDs have been sold to international fans of the show through sites like Blackstar.co.uk. Upon hearing this news, Stargate executive producer Brad Wright called the site "cool" - which Adam took as an endorsement of his work.

However, instead of thanking Adam for his promotion of their product, officials at MGM and the MPAA have chosen to pressure the FBI into pursuing criminal charges. Adam was first tipped off about the investigation when the FBI raided his and his fiancee's apartment in May of 2002 and seized thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment. Adam later received a copy of the affidavit filed in support of the search warrant, and was shocked to discover that this document, prepared by the FBI, contained significant amounts of erroneous and misleading information. For example, two social security numbers were listed for Adam, one of which is not his. References were made to a cease and desist letter sent by the MPAA to an email address that did not exist. His online friendship with other Stargate fans across the globe was portrayed as an international conspiracy against the MPAA. And perhaps most disturbing of all, it was later revealed that the FBI invoked a provision of the USA Patriot Act to obtain financial records from his ISP. The FBI's abuse of its powers did not stop there. When they seized Adam's computer equipment, he was given written documentation stating that it would be returned within 60 days. The equipment that they did return did not arrive until more than 8 months later, and only then after much prodding from his lawyer. Much of it was damaged beyond repair - one laptop had a shattered LCD screen, an empty tape backup drive was ripped apart for no apparent reason, his fiancee's iBook was badly damaged when it was pried apart with a screwdriver. The FBI's computer crimes staff is either incompetent (at least when it comes to Macintosh computer equipment) or else they just don't give a damn.

Adam has has received positive feedback about his site from multiple members of the Stargate cast and crew at fan conventions. In addition, a representative of MGM's fan publication interviewed Adam about his website several months prior to the FBI raid. As a result, Adam sincerely believed that the show's creators did not have a problem with the content of his website. Many other sites are currently serving content of questionable legality, without promoting the sale of DVDs or offering a community for fans to discuss the show. Why the MPAA and FBI have chosen to ignore these sites and target SG1Archive.com is unclear.

Up until this point, Adam has been fortunate enough to receive pro bono legal counsel in his current hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. However, the charges were filed in Los Angeles county. The cost of travel, trial, bond, etc. is likely to be quite high.

I have been working with authors of out of print technichal books on functional programming and type theory to get the books published via print-on-demand services. It is absolutly great for academic interest books which a traditional publisher will refuse to carry or charge an obscene amount for because of the limited demand.

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Actually what I'm wanting to do, eventually, is write a book about great programming constructs people have probably never heard of, or don't understand well.

My last book took me 3 years to find the spare time to finish, so I don't suspect I'll have this done anytime soon.

I was originally going to just analyze scheme's features, but then I realized that many languages have features that need to be recognized, too. my original outline was going to be:

* Memory Management
* Symbolic programming - an intro to Scheme
* Functional Programming & Functional Programming Patterns
* Closures and higher-order functions
* Advanced Flow Control w/ Continuations
* Compile-Time programming 1: Macros
* Compile-Time programming 2: Partial Evaluation
* Compile-Time programming 3: C++ templates
* Lazy evaluation
* Lazy data structures

However, if I decide to open it up to other languages, I have no idea how I'm going to organize it or even how I will decide what to include.

Anyway, it was originally posted just to Advogato, but then I remembered that the only threads on Advogato that get any real response are flame-wars, which is sad because Advogato could be a real cool place. Then I thought "you know, this would make a good 'Ask Slashdot' as well. However, I don't expect the quality of responses on Ask Slashdot to be as good, although I expect there to be a LOT more of them.

....and for those who wish to really stick it to Darrel, may I present
The SCO-doo Doll, with bonus McBride of SCO-doo! :-)

Reunite Church and State? Maybe the government should give funding to churches. Do you think they also fund mosques?

Your link contradicts your argument ... we find the Federal Government (ever mindful of the constitutional separation of church and state ;-) has addressed the issue (the DEVIL is in the details ;-):

Partnering with the Federal Government: Some Do's and Don'ts for Faith-Based Organizations

If I cannot take government money to support religious activity, how do I separate our religious activities from our Federally-funded social service program? link

Money Quote:A faith-based organization should take steps to ensure that its inherently religious activities, such as religious worship, instruction, or proselytization, are separate - in time or location - from the government-funded services that it offers. link

BTW, the term "faith based" would appear to include "mosques." Any evidence that it does not?

Tax breaks that only benefit the rich? Here's what Paul Krugman had to say on the subject.

Ah Yes ... noted Enron Advisor Paul Krugman ... there is now a large number of Krugman readers - The Krugman Truth Squad who have a knack for catching Krugman making inaccurate and often false statements regarding the economy.

Krugman's work has become very sloppy as of late ... too busy writing ... too lazy to research his arguments or check his data. More Krugman errors can be found here with links to supporting DotGov data ... scroll down to "New York Times"

More to follow ...

I've got some computer generated art here They are generated by applying a genetic algorithm to the parameters of an iterated function. The program tries to maximise a weighted sum of the powers of the spatial frequencies whilst minimizing the clumping of the trajectories in phase space, leading to some quite intricate and structured patterns.

I've got some computer generated art here They are generated by applying a genetic algorithm to the parameters of an iterated function. The program tries to maximise a weighted sum of the powers of the spatial frequencies whilst minimizing the clumping of the trajectories in phase space, leading to some quite intricate and structured patterns.

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trust me. you can not generate revenue from online ADs. Take Eric Raymond advice and sell mugs, t-shirts etc with your logo. That is better way to generate to revenue then to put AD banners. I used cafepress.com to create a online store to sell mugs and tshirts and it was pretty easy and effective.

No, OSI does no have an endowment. The money for the OSAs is through corporate sponsorship which you can read about here.

You can always buy some Open Source Swag if you feel like helping out.

John.

The author just wrote me saying he put a poster up for sale (since I wrote and asked if he'd let me print my own off a high res version).

At any rate, pick up your copy here.

fs

Sex can be good excersie too. I used to weigh 325 lbs. I got some trendy 4XL t-shirt, went down to a local bar, and worked my magic on the ladies. Next thing you know I was down to a slim 3XL shirt, and feeling like a stud. Of course they say it was all water weight from me sweating so much, but I've never moved so much in 10 mintues before.

You can also prevent your underwear from being stolen by anti-Bush forces by buying underwear from Air America Radio (also available as boxers.

Poster

I think I'm going to solve world hunger. Then I'm going to print up some cool T-shirts

Just kidding, this is exactly the kind of thinking that Linux needs. I think Linux flavors for the most part, need to suck up their pride and do things MORE like windows. When they have a system that more and more people use, THEN they can start "innovating" new technologies/different ways of doing things.

There is already a way to run Linux on Windows. Here are the steps:

1. Remove Windows.

2. Install Linux.

3. Run Linux.

----
Are we there yet?

Its sounds like something out of The Book of the Sub-Genius.

I've got to give them credit for creative funding!

Yep... the ISBN number of 0974312002 checks out...

Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble (They recongize the number, but don't have it.)
CafePress.com
NerdBooks.com

I wonder if this will affect my two favorite Mozilla T-Shirts (hopefully not, since one doesn't even use the Mozilla trademark):
Futured
Tinderbox after a Hyatt landing

I wonder if this will affect my two favorite Mozilla T-Shirts (hopefully not, since one doesn't even use the Mozilla trademark):
Futured
Tinderbox after a Hyatt landing

Other than a CD, all they are offering is a stupid T-shirt. Mozilla might as well have set up a CafePress account. Seriously, it looks like they threw it together to make their case against merchandisers.

If you want to be environmentally-friendly about it, you can take your fashionable mug with you to the cafe at university...

and find out they only serve it in styrofoam cups (of a known size), so you have to buy coffee in the foam cup, pour it into your mug, and throw the foam away unused. Congratulations to Nottingham university on their environmental policy.

Saddam trained by CIA

http://www.cafeshops.com/ilabs.5978112 Who the fuck would buy this?

Hilarious! Calendar with "art".

Wow - I want one of them "Pahntom Wall Clock[s]"

Can anyone decipher that?

...and does anyone else suspect that this whole ordeal might be a front for the REAL BUSINESS?

So as N other people have said, if you put the information somewhere that your http server will hand it to anyone who asks for it, then you're handing it to anyone who asks for it, whether you were paying attention or not, so don't be stupid. Crypto is your friend, but don't think that it's enough - http://secretplans.army.mil/norobots,please/invasi ons/Cuba/October-2004.pgp is still leaking information even though nobody can read it.

Norobots.txt is a good place to put disinformation for harvesters, though - sugarplums for spam harvesters and intrusion detectors are the main uses for it. While norobots was partly motivated by the concern about information privacy, the other big motivation was slow web servers getting stomped all over by fast search engines. You really don't want Altavista and Google and Yahoo and 43000 spammers downloading your Linux ISO distributions to see if there are popular keywords or spammable email addresses in them. The big search engines were also polite enough to spread their load around rather than doing too much depth-first-search; some spammers also do that, usually to avoid getting detected.

On the other hand, using passwords, SSL, and client certs gives you some level of protection, but even then, the people who download your stuff may be careless about where they leave it, and Google's real security threat is finding stuff like that.

nah, what you really need is a Lesbian GNU/Linux Classic Thong

My Book if you want to start at the bottom and work up.

How to Design Programs or Simply Scheme if you want to start at the top and work down.

I think there's also some good introductory Python books.

Ah, yes, after a night of Guiness... This site gives new meaning to the term Technicolor Yawn!

...how about something from the PC Weenies online store?

Bob :)

Right here.

My ex said this looked cool AFTER we broke up. Grrrrr.....

Seiously, though, I think this'd be every geek's dream come true.

and it certainly doesn't portray accurately the worst things in army: waiting.. waiting.. waiting.. shitty food.. waiting.. shitty camp food.. waiting..

Campers suck.

-
Proud Camper, Campers Suck, Campers Suck

People might consider Booble to be part of Google since Google has sites with names such as Froogle.

But Froogle is precisely why the site is a parody. Google did it first, and Booble is parodying Google's action in creating Froogle. And that Google will dilute their own trademark with Froogle shows that Booble is not the source of the dilution of Google's trademark.

I have a more lengthy response later in this thread where I attack multiple parts of Google's C&D.

Where they might get in trouble is over selling Booble Swag, linked from a page they serve. Maybe for the Sponsored Links as well. I don't know if they're real or not; my stylesheet suppresses them just as it does on Google.

Guilty? Nah... I have the opposite problem.

but the clowns the Dems are producing this year don't leave much choice

Dude, you don't know what a clown is. Everybody has a t-shirt.

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