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ASCII? A Basic Definition
Pronounced "ask-ee," a code used by computers to represent alphanumeric characters and some punctuation marks. Each character is represented by a 7-digit binary number, 0000000 to 1111111, giving a total character set of 128. E-mail messages sent over the Internet take ASCII form, meaning that some kind of conversion is often required.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
From: Communications
American (National) Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard character-to-number encoding widely used in the computer industry.
From: Information Technology
Linux And Unix Gallows Humor - The Great Save
Published January 5, 2009, 7:26 pm, Linux Today
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's post was found on LinuxNut.org. They actually have funnier stuff on that site, if you want to check it out at your leisure, but I found the below story of recovery more moving than every episode of "Celebrity Rehab" ever aired. Actually, that isn't saying much since I hate reality television."
ICANN Uses For-Profit Companies as "Comparables" in Its Employee Compensation
Published January 5, 2009, 2:45 pm, CircleID
Note that the comparables have been "for-profit". This is obviously ridiculous, given the purported non-profit nature of ICANN, with its inherent job security. Indeed, ICANN has had major blunders, yet to my knowledge no staff were ever held accountable through termination or pay reductions.
GRUB 2 Receives New Font Engine
Published January 5, 2009, 4:11 am, Linux Today
Phoronix: "GRUB 2, the next-generation Linux boot loader, has received a new font engine. Version 2 of the GRand Unified Bootloader introduces this new font engine that's written in C and with a font tool in Java."
Long-term personal data storage
Published January 4, 2009, 10:54 pm, ZDNet
You can stick a newspaper clipping in a folder and read it in 50 years. Not so with digital content: both the media AND the format can become unreadable. With so much of the world's data - and yours - in digital form, more people wonder: how do I keep my pictures, music, videos, documents and more around for decades? Here's how. The proper mindset Your data is valuable. Storage is cheap. ...
Yahoo Search Script Fixed - Looking Backward At My Linux And Unix Mistakes
Published January 4, 2009, 4:41 pm, Linux Today
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "It's actually almost 9pm on New Year's day and I'm just over my initial waking stupor. Surprisingly, I actually had a clear thought while I was cursing myself for not pre-writing the one post I "knew" I'd be too zonked to write coherently ;) In any event, I fixed the original Yahoo CLI search index rank script that we put out last week..."
Happy New Year! Unix and Linux Resolutions.
Published January 4, 2009, 12:11 am, Linux Today
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Good morning/afternoon/evening... is it January 2nd already?!?!?!?!"
Software Review: DiffDog 2008 from Altova
Published January 3, 2009, 6:50 pm, Blogcritics.org
If you spend a lot of time trying to figure out what files have changed then DiffDog 2008 is a perfect solution. DiffDog 2008 is a difference/merge tool for software and application development. It is a graphical differencing utility that will allow you to visually compare and merge text or source code and synchronize directories using a straightforward visual interface. It also provides ...
Open Document Format Has Been Accepted By 16 Governments
Published January 3, 2009, 7:29 am, InformationWeek
The ODF Alliance, with Sun and IBM as principal backers, announced the countries would use ODF, not Microsoft's OOXML, as the format for government documents.
IE: Inevitable Extinction?
Published January 2, 2009, 12:36 pm, Microsoft Watch
News Commentary. Can we stop all the desktop browser market share talk? Microsoft's mobile browsing problems are much bigger.
A Linux Christmas Carol Explained
Published December 31, 2008, 12:57 pm, Linux Today
IT Wire: "On Christmas Eve I suggested what "Jingle Bells" may look like if it were a Linux shell script. Here it is for those who missed out, and some interpretation for those who didn't."
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Off-site ASCII Links, User Submitted
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Mon Jan 5
- xentheon
- ascii art video and images " Linux by Examples
- ROFLCOPTER!!!1
- Keyboard Shortcuts for special characters
- HTML codes for special characters and symbols
- HTML URL Encoding Reference
- asciiconvert.c om ? convert images to ASCII text
- Mikezilla ASCII Converter
- Oaxoa Blog " Asciify - Actionscript 3 (as3) Ascii Art class
- Ascii Dreams: Runner up for Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year: Dwarf Fortress: ascii roguelikes to try
Sun Jan 4
- JapaneseAsciiA rt: blog muito bacana de arte ascii
- A tutorial on character code issues
- TEXT-IMAGE.com: text image converts image files into ASCII, HTML, and Matrix art.
- Ascii Table - ASCII character codes and html, octal, hex and decimal chart conversion
- Python Package Index : asciiporn 2009.01.03: "this is a moderately complex python3.0 script for performing fast, high quality graphics -> ascii conversions. it relies on py3to2 in order to use PIL & numpy extension modules. for performance, portions of it have been inlined w/ direct C code using scipy.weave. asciiporn can easily render & display megapixel images on a 1ghz 500mb machine. "
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