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Re:I fear for Red Hat
Hehe. Um, you're wrong. Even Larry the Cow knows that Gentoo's a real authentic distribution!
From their site at gentoo.org:
"We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.
Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo Linux a metadistribution." -
Re:ask the communityGive up copyrights to the community and let the community to help you writing the text.
I hope you're joking.
Have you tried reading TAoCP? This is not some computer book but is an in-depth study of all the mathematics that Computer Science comprises. Some of the exercies would serve as topics for a PhD thesis (and are marked as such).
Suffice it to say that writing these books is not an easy task and I'm not sure if the series will ever get finished. I'm still on the first volume, so I don't know if I'll ever finish the series. Even though wikipedia shows us that a community effort can produce some good writing, I doubt it could ever produce something as in-depth as TAoCP.
And besides this, I think Addison-Wesley would have something to say about putting TAoCP in public domain.
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Re:Compare with Adobe's stewardship
Even ESR doesn't claim to have coined the phrase: "I did not coin the term "open source"; I only popularized it. It was coined by my friend Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute. While it's true that I more or less ran the brainstorming session and fortunately had enough of a clue to recognize a winner when it popped up, the creative leap was all hers."
It's the November 14th entry. -
Re:Cool, but where's the money?Exactly. The USSR had a quality space shuttle that seemed to be WAY better than the US one, plus was cheaper to develop.
They made 12 of them to test all the avionics and one of them made it into space as a test flight and on AUTOPILOT landed only 5 feet off it's target (well impressive).
Alas that was it's last flight as it was cancelled cos of lack of cash.
They could use it as a starting point for a new one and hope it doesn't end up as another flight sim ride in Gorky Park
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Re:if they spam me
You mean write in candidates? Like maybe Mickey Mouse, Ben Kenobi, and of course, Steve Jobs?
You can't just write-in anyone in the Write-In candidate box. In some states, you have to register your name as a write in candidate. I knew an election clerk a few years ago who didn't like people who wrote in Mickey Mouse because it wasted their time in counting votes.
At least with write-ins, your vote is recorded.
This is the rule. With all rules, there are exceptions to the rule. During the 2000 election in North Carolina, some voters voted for Nader, but their ballot was not counted.
According to Alex Keyssar:
In North Carolina, for example, Ralph Nader was not on the ballot (because he lacked enough signatures on a petition last spring), and write-in votes for Nader were not counted because he was not an "official" write-in candidate. (Since that fact was not advertised, many people did write in his name and had their ballots thrown away.)
Eric Longley has an article describing problems with write in voting in North Carolina. -
Re:Absolutely
Have a look at the code for GRASS GIS.
Very flexible, I think the brilliant NVIZ visualization software originally came from NASA in part as well..
Also check out at Vis5d+
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Re:What about Gutenberg?
Yes they did. See here for one citation:
In 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act [CTEA] removed several million works from the Public Domain. -
Re:Share alike compatibilityAs a travel site word66 might be more interested in compatibility with Wikitravel. Fortunately both of you are using CC BY-SA.
There has been some demand for CC BY-SA/GFDL compatibility on the cc-licenses mailing list (see last month's archives in particular). We'll see if anything can be done...
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Re:Say what?Oh, I agree w/ the preference
However, having built several monolithic kernels that are larger than 640k (ie: 888759 Jan 7 15:02 vmlinuz-2.4.24), I still have to disagree regarding a 640 limit. After some intensive googleing I found out what happens.
Long Version
Short Version:
- bootloader loads compressed image at the 1M mark.
- decompresses to lower 640 first, then to high memory (above compressed image I assume
- kernel is then re-assemebled at the 1M area (lotta swapping going on)
- kernel is booted from the 1M mark
All of this assumes that your bootloader is bzImage aware, of course.
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Re:Thoughts on Porn and Sharing
But then, the problem with the music industry is that people only want to pirate well known artists.
I think this also happens (to a lesser degree, of course) with Porn. There are a few pornstars that are more famous than the rest, and so I guess people that download porn (ok, me among them
Say, Jenna Jameson or Asia Carrera, for example. They're quite famous, and there surely are a lot of p2p searches that go for these specific names (i.e., instead of "ass fuck" or "blowjob"). Or that awesome girl that Eric Raymond commented on his "Armed and Dangerous" weblog. Let me google for it
Man, how I long for a girlfriend after writing about these things for a while
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Re:It's true
I agree that the artistic "debunking" is over enthusiastic. For example, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was a deliberate user of the Golden Ratio.
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bwahahaha
Check out Eric Raymond's wife!
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Re:Interesting Business Model too...
ESR discusses this business model. The Web and Identity Goods
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Edgar Allen Poe knew itFrom "The Fall of the House of Usher":
I well remember that suggestions arising from this ballad, led us into a train of thought wherein there became manifest an opinion of Usher's which I mention not so much on account of its novelty (for other men[1] have thought thus), as on account of the pertinacity with which he maintained it. This opinion, in its general form, was that of the sentience of all vegetable things.
[1] Watson, Dr. Percival, Spallanzi, and especially the Bishop of Landaff.-See 'Chemical Essays,' vol. v.
The footnote isn't in the electronic edition I linked to, but is in my print edition. I don't know if Watson et al. are real references or purely fictional, but they could count as even more prior art, possibly. Either way, Edgar Allen Poe certainly knew it long before that young Sid Meyer whippersnapper knew it. And he even attributed it to the fungi as well. (Read further for that bit.)
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Contrib Packages for 3.2
Since nobody has (yet) taken the pains of posting the mirror list (yea, yea, I know, this is
Hmm
(pulled from KDE Mirror List)
WARNING: VERY BAD FORMATTING to get around the lame lameness filter.
mirrors.isc.org. .
mirrors.midco.net. .
download.at.kde.org. .
ftp.solnet.ch. .
ftp.de.kde.org. .
ftp.uni-kl.de. .
ftp.tu-chemnitz.de. .
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Contrib Packages for 3.2
Since nobody has (yet) taken the pains of posting the mirror list (yea, yea, I know, this is
Hmm
(pulled from KDE Mirror List)
WARNING: VERY BAD FORMATTING to get around the lame lameness filter.
mirrors.isc.org. .
mirrors.midco.net. .
download.at.kde.org. .
ftp.solnet.ch. .
ftp.de.kde.org. .
ftp.uni-kl.de. .
ftp.tu-chemnitz.de. .
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YATSR - Yet Another Typical Slashdot ResponseSo being a good
Typical Slashdot Response #1 = Take bets on the winning score
Typical Slashdot Response #2 = "all of us
Typical Slashdot Response #3 = Being
(those few born with one are naturally excluded from the competition, as they've automatically scored 1 even before the competition starts, which by the letter of the rules means they cheated)
Typical Slashdot Response #4 - Anyhow, they prefer to be called Vagina Squirrels
I did a search on google, and found these rules for Beaver Challenge 2004 (PDF).- Every contestant should obtain a Challenge Card from the Beaver Challenge organiser at
the Information Tent.
- Visit as many bases as possible. A map of all registered bases will be on display at the
Information Tent.
- Once you have completed a Beaver Challenge base, the base will stamp your card only
once at the next numbered block. You may only present one card for stamping at the base.
- Go to another Beaver Challenge base.
- Contestants are only allowed to visit a Beaver Challenge base a second time
however this can only be done after you have visited at least two other bases.
- Once your Challenge Card has been completed return the card to the Beaver Challenge
organiser at the Information Tent where you will need to fill in your choice of the 5 best
bases.
- The first 100 (hundred) contestants to submit their Cards completed and filled-in as per the
rules will receive a Special Badge.
- Should you wish to visit some more Beaver Challenge bases then you can ask for another
card at the Information Tent.
- Every contestant should obtain a Challenge Card from the Beaver Challenge organiser at
the Information Tent.
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Re:Netscape for $50?
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Re:MPAA vs. shoplifting
Sounds like a precursor to this.
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Read These!Technical Self-Employment Is A Fat Paycheck Waiting to Be Pocketed
With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility
If you are interested in Programming then these are a great place to start:
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Java
PDF's plus Logo and C++ here: Open Book Project
I agree with the above posts, if you want to code or you can project manage, get involved with an open source project and don't quit your day job until you have an established portfolio of projects.
Build a Linux box from scratch, and know it inside and out. Play games on it, run benchmarks with it using beta kernels. Backport something to Debian
All that said, I'm a techie whose thought about being a doctor or lawyer. Maybe we should swap stories and frustrations. The grass is always greener... HTH, Bod
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Read These!Technical Self-Employment Is A Fat Paycheck Waiting to Be Pocketed
With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility
If you are interested in Programming then these are a great place to start:
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Java
PDF's plus Logo and C++ here: Open Book Project
I agree with the above posts, if you want to code or you can project manage, get involved with an open source project and don't quit your day job until you have an established portfolio of projects.
Build a Linux box from scratch, and know it inside and out. Play games on it, run benchmarks with it using beta kernels. Backport something to Debian
All that said, I'm a techie whose thought about being a doctor or lawyer. Maybe we should swap stories and frustrations. The grass is always greener... HTH, Bod
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Read These!Technical Self-Employment Is A Fat Paycheck Waiting to Be Pocketed
With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility
If you are interested in Programming then these are a great place to start:
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Java
PDF's plus Logo and C++ here: Open Book Project
I agree with the above posts, if you want to code or you can project manage, get involved with an open source project and don't quit your day job until you have an established portfolio of projects.
Build a Linux box from scratch, and know it inside and out. Play games on it, run benchmarks with it using beta kernels. Backport something to Debian
All that said, I'm a techie whose thought about being a doctor or lawyer. Maybe we should swap stories and frustrations. The grass is always greener... HTH, Bod
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Yet Another Racist Linux UserFrom the SL Weekly article:
Leading the charge against Linux is McBride, the blustering executive every Linux dweeb has come to loathe. "He's no geek," says Benjamin Choate, a self-trained Linux user living in Logan. "His tan's too good."
I guess Mr. Choate thinks that only light-skinned people are capable of mastering Linux? Couple his statement with ESR's proclamation that black people are stupid, and I see a vary troubling trend in the OSS movement.
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Release Notes (man-pages-1.65.Announce)
(Since this is not very informative:)RELEASE
The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. .
man-pages-1.65.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
POSIX
This release is the first to contain the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages. The directories man0p, man1p, man3p contain descriptions of the headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard.
Permission to distribute these POSIX man pages has just been obtained, and the pages in man0p, man1p, man3p were derived from the POSIX html pages by some silly conversion script. No doubt the result is still full of flaws, and all of this can be much improved. Corrections, scripts, etc. are welcome - aeb@<snip>.
In order to use this, put in {/usr/share/misc/}man.conf{ig} or so your favourite order of looking at these pages, for example,
MANSECT 1p:1:8:0p:3p:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o
or set the MANSECT environment variable.
OTHER PAGES
The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages for Linux, and in addition section 1 man pages for the fileutils-4.0 utilities, and section 5 and 8 man pages for the timezone utilities.
[The latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.] [The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.] [The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
Differences from version 1.64:
POSIX pages were added
The man pages
chroot.2 clone.2 intro.2 mkdir.2 remap_file_pages.2
errno.3
sk98lin.4
elf.5 protocols.5 raw.7
are new or have been updated. Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several other places.
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 0p = POSIX headers
Section 1p = POSIX utilities
Section 3p = POSIX functions
Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF)
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp,
Section 6 = games (intro only)
Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc.
Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written for. Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel.
Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages, please do so and mail them to aeb@<snip>.
The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name) wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project:
<snip>
Copyright information:
For the POSIX pages permission to distribute was given by IEEE and the Open Group, see POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
For the remaining pages, please note that these man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses. Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution).
If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages, these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email address, and copyright notice. -
Re:To be read
Which machine are you trying to export the filesystems from? The Linux machine? Or the Mac OS X machine? Read those articles and come back to us if you have questions.
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Re:sally.au?here
It's Meg Ryan's orgasm clip from "When Harry met Sally".
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radio first termer
"Radio First Termer" was the name of a pirate radio station run by an anonymous DJ in South Vietnam during the war. "David Rabbit" was pretty raw and raunchy but he did quite a few public service announcements, things like there's some bad heroin going around and the MPs are going to bust such and such bar.
I came across it in '96, on the venerable ibiblio.org (then sunsite). Its one of the best things I've found on the 'net and its still there.
It was actually mp2's but who's counting. -
Re:It's not that they're devils ....
The devils are in a pose that mimics one that is usually associated with valour and the giving of ones life for "liberty" (whether or not you agree that this particular pose does or not is for another discussion).
I'm struggling to find the correct reference for the logo. Is that Delacroix painting? Or is it something else? -
Subject is misleadingWhile it is beginning to be quite feasible to begin to connect neurons in the brain or motor cortex to neurons or muscles whose normal connections to the brain have been disrupted this is a far cry from a Matrix-like interface.
Current estimates by Robert Freitas suggest that it is going to require at least a trillion nanorobots in place within the brain and most probably the installation of an extensive fiber optic network to handle the required bandwidth to provide a matrix-like interface (either for real time full bandwidth human-computer interfaces or for brain/mind uploading into a computer). This may be documented to a limited extent in Ray Kurzweil's forthcoming book The Singularity is Near (est. publication early 2005) and perhaps to a greater extent in several years when Nanomedicine Volume III is published.
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Sure - it's one of the Habitat Papers
In fact, it was written in 1993.
Here, you can find all of them.
Chip Morningstar (together with Randy Farmer and Doug Crockford) is one of the three gurus of avatar-based virtual communities. (i.e. Habitat, Club Caribe and WorldsAway/Avaterra). -
Re:Playing soundfile on remote UNIX box
Geez, kids these days.
sally.au
You old-schoolers know what I'm talkin' about.
Oh, come on, old schooler, get with the program. This is the web, for crying out loud! That should read as:
sally.au
Much better.
Warning, not safe for work
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Re:Infamous?
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Oh great, thanks alot Slashdot...
1) I made stereo pix of the Mars images over a day ago. Posted a link here on Slashdot, and it was rejected. WTF? Did somebody let Timothy out of his playpen or something?
2) Have a look, no 3D glasses required.
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Re:Hey!
what about us MS DOS users?
If any of the free *nix operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD) do not fit your needs - you should consider sidegrading over to FreeDOS when MS-DOS becomes more of a hassle than it's worth. Not only is FreeDOS being actively fixed and maintained, but you can also get the source code to fix and add features yourself if you want.
Check the todo list for what they've not yet got finished in their run up to a 1.0 release. -
Some stereo 3D views I made.
Enjoy.
I tried submitting this as a story, but it was rejected.
Hooray. -
GPL notice included in KISS DP-508 Media Player
In accordance with the GPL, the source for KISS DP-508 is available upon
request, for a nominal fee to cover media and shipping costs.*
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* = The source code will be provided to you as a series of large, neon-lit
marquee letters shipped individually in wooden packing crates. Currently,
the world's supply of neon gas limits our ability to ship large quantities
of source code. The current expected wait time is 32 years, plus or minus
6 months, depending upon the condition of labor relations in countries with
substantial noble gas exports.
For more information, please inject crystal meth directly into your eyeballs,
and light yourself on fire while listening to the following song:
http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda/pogo/easteregg.m p3
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Re:Wanna see what this sucker looks like in 3D?
Believe it or not, it can be done.. And yes, even with goatse.
Stereo 3D wallpaper!/a
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Re:Wanna see what this sucker looks like in 3D?
I do tons of this stuff for a hobby. Even TV programs...When the camera is mounted on a dolly, you can reconstruct the shot in 3D and see if the set is fake or real.
Here's some of my stuff:
My Stereo 3D photos
Here's an easy one for beginners:
The dashboard of my old Mazda 323
Cheers, -
Re:Wanna see what this sucker looks like in 3D?
I do tons of this stuff for a hobby. Even TV programs...When the camera is mounted on a dolly, you can reconstruct the shot in 3D and see if the set is fake or real.
Here's some of my stuff:
My Stereo 3D photos
Here's an easy one for beginners:
The dashboard of my old Mazda 323
Cheers, -
Wanna see what this sucker looks like in 3D?
It's kewl.
Have a look:
Approximated 3D stereoscopic view of the comet
The fact that the comet was photographed from two slightly different angles makes it possible to create a stereoscopic view of the object. I enhanced the left-hand image a little bit to help bring out the depth of the object. The original image is way too washed out to make it a good fit.
In order to view it, sit squarely infront of your monitor at a distance of a few feet, cross your eyes gently, and try to merge both sides of the images into a "single image" in the center. If you're having trouble, try using the two red birds as a visual guide. Once the birds overlap, the rest of the picture will as well.
Ahhhh, I love stereoscopy.
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Re:balance
All from this article.
In one widely-publicized study reported in
1989, for example, a neutral committee of three biologists found that a
single nuclear power plant, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in
California, killed some 21 tons of fish each year, including "several
billion" fish larvae [9].
And a study at a single Florida coal-fired power
plant with four smokestacks recorded an estimated 3,000 deaths in a
single evening during a fall migration [7].
[7] "Bird Casualties at a Central Florida Power Plant," Maehr, D. S., et
al., Florida Field Naturalist, 11:45-49, 1983. Florida Ornithological
Society.
[9] "Committee Finds Massive Sea Life Kills from San Onofre,"
Groundswell, Vol. 11, No. 2&3, Autumn, 1989. Nuclear Information and
Resource Service, Washington, D.C.
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Re:This is old and misleading news
Another bit from that article:
In the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (which has some 7,000 wind
turbines), a two-year study found 182 dead birds, of which 119 were
raptors. The study attributed 55 percent of raptor deaths to collisions
with turbines, eight percent to electrocutions from power lines, 11
percent to collisions with wires, and 26 percent to unknown causes [4].
The inital posted article says:
an estimated 22,000 birds have died...
Where was the posted article getting its data? 52 deaths per year by collision is A LOT less than the 1100 per year mentioned in the article. Kinda shifts things a bit...
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Re:How many birds would die from a coal plant?And a study at a single Florida coal-fired power plant with four smokestacks recorded an estimated 3,000 deaths in a single evening during a fall migration - "Bird Casualties at a Central Florida Power Plant," Maehr, D. S., et al., Florida Field Naturalist, 11:45-49, 1983. Florida Ornithological Society.
From here
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damn!And a study at a single Florida coal-fired power plant with four smokestacks recorded an estimated 3,000 deaths in a single evening during a fall migration - "Bird Casualties at a Central Florida Power Plant," Maehr, D. S., et al., Florida Field Naturalist, 11:45-49, 1983. Florida Ornithological Society.
From the link above...
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More Direct Link
If you're really impatient, you can Download the English preview-4 ISO here
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A Download Link
If you want to download the latest version right now, you can:
Download PCLinuxOS
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Re:Oh my god, quitcher bitchin'!
OH, and ahem DOS ISOs.
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Re:IP Theft and The Linux Community
They even have documents that give a step by step procedure for stealing the Microsoft fonts and installing them on Linux systems! Notice in particular the instructions for the Tahoma font.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.html
Your link is bad, it should be
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other- formats/html_single/FDU.html#TRUETYPE
Also, from the HOW-TO, "TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.", not Microsoft. I'm not sure if the 'Tahoma' font in particular is property of Microsoft.
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Prior Art
The Munch. I'd sue.
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Re:One word...Plucker is not, and has never been, an extension of anything other than text, then text + images, then text + images + hrefs, and so on. It matured independantly of any other eBook format or "standard".
Also, AportisDOC is not open, documented, or freely usable, without substantial commercial licensing.
Please drop the false accusations.
Additionally, you can see that LinuxDOC uses Plucker format. Oddly, I don't see their HOWTO docs in AportisDOC format. Project Gutenberg is considering the move to Plucker as well, last I heard.
How about checking out the thousands of Plucker ebooks out there, before spinning your tripe.
