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There is an XML/SGML alternative to LaTeX. It is already used by LinuxDoc and it is called DocBook.

This XML/SGML solution will not give you power to specify exact inches/cm like LaTeX but the goal is to tag everything to use with stylesheets. With the use of MathML, one can get the formula writing powers of LaTeX.

Alot of work has been done by Norman Walsh and he has some nice stylesheets for making slides and even a website.

This is not for the person interested in flashy webpages, but for people interested in using the power of XML to document anything.

If you are working with writing technical documentation this is something that is worth looking into.

alfadir
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Here is another mirror of the screenshots. It's located on a German university server and should work better for Europeans.

I hear that the latest version of Microsoft's Natu ral keyboard provides just the most natural Microsoft combinations.

List of Jargon Resources Mirror Sites USA:

• http://www.akrotech.com/~darkstar/jargon
• http://memes.org/jargon
• http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/jargon/
• http://www.mindspring.com/~li mbert/hacking/jargon.htm
• http://www.iscvt.org/jargon/jargon.html
• http://www.babcom.com/jargon/index.html
• http://www.hackboy.com/jargon
• http://www.pulhas.org/
• http://www2.netdoor.com/~lhand
• http://avatar.deva.net/
• http://www.blee.net/jargon
• http://www.fortuneci ty.com/skyscraper/jolt/15/jargonindex.html
• http://www.jargon.8hz.com/
• http://culture.0wnz-u.org/
• http://www.houseofhack.com/jargon
• http://jollyrogers.com/jargon/
• http://handel.math.psu.edu/jargon

• http://celestrion.totalaccess.net/do cs/jargon/
• http://www.pir.net/pir/jargon/
• http://www.technozen.com/tetsuo/jargon/
• http://ude.org/jargon
• http://web.chad.org/usr/doc/jargon-file/

• http://karnak.nmc.siu.edu/jargon/

Australia:

• http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/text/jargon/

• http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/text/jargon

Czechoslovakia: ttp://www.instinct.org/texts/jargon-file/

Finland: http://zone.pspt.fi/jargon/

Germany:

• http://www.ude.org/jargon
• http://www.ghks.de/computer/jargon/
• http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~rene/jargo n/
• http://hex.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jargon/
• http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de /~bergt/jargon

Gret Britain: http://jargon.strugglers.net

Greece: http://www.hack.gr/jargon

Italy: http://beatles.cselt.stet.it/mirrors/jargon

Japan: http://www.vacia.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jargon/

Norway: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/misc/jargon/ Poland: http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl/jargon/

Spain: http://www.undersec.com/jargon

Sweden: http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/

U.K.:

• http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/admin/jargon/
• http://g.pet.cam.ac.uk/g/jargon/

... where did www.math.fu-berlin.de go?? I can't connect to the Vi Pages anymore!!!

Can be found at:

The Colossus of Bletchley Park - The German Cipher System

Computer History (1940-1944)

The Turing Bombe Rebuild Project

Official Bletchley Park Website

The Colossus Rebuild Project

Mr. Flowers Death Announcement in 1998

I did a little research (which I should have done before posting, but hey, why would I not want to shoot off my mouth) and realized Turing's Bombe's decrypted Enigma, while Colossus decrypted Lorenz, two entirely different encryption machines.

I also found a link stating that Colossus does outperform a modern Pentium. The link is of a presentation given in July of 1998 for Pentium comparisons.

They claim they performance is because of the parallelism of the Colossus.

George

Using dynamic runtime invocation on a micro kernel object based OS would give you A LOT of what you want.Besides buzzw3rd compliance 2.0

Now go make some kick ass code

• pics of the 30 box AlphaLinux cluster rendering POV-Ray images in parallel.
• masses of people panicking over a power failure that immobilized them at Friday evening because the metro was frozen.
• A few Linux cameos
• IBM praising VisualAge COBOL (no joke!)