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No Microsoft here. Only GNU/Linux. Links: http://www.linux.org.tw/, http://www.debian.org/.

• Regarding wikis

  Natural fits for article/category

• My famous quote

  I don't care what software you (the government) use, just don't cause me (when connecting to your systems) not to be able to use Free Software (when interacting with your programs). (2007)

• Stallman 2005 Taiwan visit

  For the last week of May, 2005 I was Stallman's bodyguard (well, escort), i.e., protecting innocent bystanders from getting squashed in case of any stumbles (joking, ha ha).

  Q: What did RMS eat on May 24, 2005? It's not on his list.

  A: I brought him to a US$1.50 all you can eat vegetarian place and the owner was unwilling to especially turn on the air conditioner. Luckily take-out was acceptable.

  LWN comments.

  Images: back, front ( Jouston Huang, Richard Stallman, Dan Jacobson)

• Other famous people

  My first contacts

  • (Text of me with): Linus Torvalds

  • (Text of me with): Larry Wall

  • (Text of me with): Dennis Ritchie (R.I.P.; I had inadvertently forgot the password to my digital underwear collection, and posted to USENET for assistance...)

  • (Text of me with): Leslie Lamport

• Tiny scripts

  • spamdealer, filtering spam on the server for non-root offline users. More email ideas.
  • git-cache-meta, file owner and permissions caching, minimalist approach, for git.
  • wwwoffle and offline / modem users, ppp tools
  • My emacs, gnus, etc. configuration files.
  • Checksum programs.
  • S1MP3 GNU/Linux ls(1)
  • at_xmessage: print messages on X windows at a certain time.
  • sitemap-jidanni-ch makes a map of my website.
  • My namecard solution.
  • showterminalcolors
  • buzz_tester: put your radio near your terminal and set it between stations, AM perhaps better than FM, and check out the effects of each different ASCII printing character on what you hear, running this: perl -we 'for $a ( ord " " .. ord "~" ) { $_ = ( chr($a) x 80 . "\n" ) x 24; system "clear"; print; sleep 1; }' I find dashes buzz little, and angle brackets buzz lots. Hmmm. Then I found tempest.
  • Find programs not used in a whole month:find ${PATH//:/ } -maxdepth 1 -atime +30 -type f -perm +111 | sort
  • Decompose Unicode variants : perl -C -nwe 'use Unicode::Normalize q(decompose); print decompose($_)' whereupon piping to e.g., iconv -f utf8 -t big5 is much smoother.
  • I managed to put a Chinese character into a favicon.ico file using: echo [Chinese character]|bg5ps -s 15| pstopnm -stdout -pbm -|pnmcut -bottom 333|pnmcrop|pnmpad -white -l1 -r1 -t1 -b1|ppmtowinicon -output favicon.ico back when I used big5.
  • HTML striptag, htmldebloater

• Etc.

  • Funny Linux/BSD image.

  • Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter, a 2009 Taiwan Mini Debian Conference talk.

  • Video of me: Introducing the ed editor, 2009.10.08; Debian 2009.12.27.

  • My

    SSH public key

    PGP public key

    4096R/1D46E4C9

    2009-09-27 C9EB A54C 5912 8AB7 DC2C 00B2 FD33 04E0 1D46 E4C9

    Dan Jacobson (2009) <jidanni@jidanni.org>

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