Links: GNU, OSM, gNewSense, Bangalore

A GNU Hackers Meeting recently took place in the UK. Videos are now online, and there is a mailing list for future meetings. How to contribute to OpenStreetMap, even if you don’t have a GPS logger gNewSense 2.1 is released Photos of the candle light vigil against software patent, in Bangalore See also: Yesterday’s links Read more »

Japanese PDFs part 2: XeTeX

(Last month’s article: Using LaTeX to make PDF documents with Japanese characters) I’ve found a better TeX tool for making Japanese PDFs: XeTeX. Below are first the technical advantages, and then an analysis of community and sustainability. XeTeX is a version of Tex that has been modified to use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding internally. It is Read more »

Links: translation, BSOD, Orwell, releases

The Chinese Translation Server Error shop Microsoft Windows crashes with BSOD during Olympic opening ceremony George Orwell’s 1938 diaries being serialised as a blog July’s GNU releases, by Henrik Sandklef See also: Yesterday’s links – the archive of my Links posts. —  Ciarán O’Riordan, Support free software: Join FSFE’s Fellowship

FSFE meeting tonight in Brussels, Thurs 7th

Sorry for this short notice, but since I’ve just been added to the planet.grep.be blog aggregation, I decided it’s worth a quick mention. Tonight’s meeting is a small, informal one at 20:00 in Café Walvis, 209 Antoine Dansaertstraat. We hope to soon launch larger meetings which will be held on Sunday afternoons every 3 months. Read more »

Links: FaceBook, Snooping, Consultation, Theora, Treacherous

Logged in or out, Facebook is watching you. (discussed on Slashdot) A campaign site against "Deep Packet Inspection" – snooping by your ISP. An EC consultation about European Interoperability Framework (EIF) – they’ve previously discussed removing their support for open standards and free software, so we should comment on the importance of these things. Firefox Read more »