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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
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American (National) Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard character-to-number encoding widely used in the computer industry.
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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."

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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.

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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."

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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. ...

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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..."

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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?!?!?!?!"

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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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