diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20040505.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20040505.xml index 4ecd4e3a..89bd3bee 100644 --- a/LDP/ldpwn/20040505.xml +++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20040505.xml @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ If you still want more after finishing the Bash Guide for Beginners, Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is the place to be. v2.7 contains more examples and some minor updates. Mendel keeps the full revision log on his personal site. -Accidents will happen! Prepare for the worst with Charles Curley's Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO. Featuring in v1.6: notes on Knoppix, Syslinux, PPART, QtPart and more info on rescue CDs. +Accidents will happen! Prepare for the worst with Charles Curley's Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO. Featuring in v1.6: notes on Knoppix, Syslinux, PPART, QtPart and more info on rescue CDs. @@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ ITL goes to press -The Introduction to Linux Guide will be available in printed format (264 pages) from from May 20th onwards by Print On Demand (POD). Fultus also distributes the book via Google's Froogle, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Barnes & Noble. +The Introduction to Linux +Guide will be available in printed format (264 pages) from +http://fultus.com from May 20th onwards by Print On Demand (POD). Fultus also distributes the book via Google's Froogle, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Barnes & Noble. @@ -105,6 +108,20 @@ + + +Obsolete MSSQL6-Openlink-PHP-ODBC HOWTO + +Jean-Philippe Geurard, the HOWTO-French translation coordinator +wrote +in to inform us that the MSSQL6-Openlink-PHP-ODBC HOWTO was +obsolete. The version of OpenLink that does not seem to be available +anywhere on the internet and The current version was not free anymore. + + + + @@ -116,25 +133,37 @@ -Discussion topic title 1: +AsciiDoc as a new format for submissions -Discussion topic 1 body. +AsciiDoc is a +GPLed formating system written in Python by Stuart Rackham that can +convert a plain text human readable/writable document format directly to +DocBook. Scot W. Stevenson suggested +that the LDP maintainers consider AsciiDoc for document submissions to +reduce the barrier involved in learning DocBook. Emma Jane Hogbin said +that this was a misconception that the LDP accepts only DocBook +submissions and Scot explained how he thought learning DocBook was +necessary if only at a later point of time. Gerg Ferguson was +interested in how good AsciiDoc was at doing container elements +and meta-data and that if it can do a good job like WikiText without +DocBook errors, the LDP would be open to such submissions. -Discussion topic title 2: +TLDP funds and donations -Discussion topic 2 body. - - - - - -Discussion topic title 3: - -Discussion topic 3 body. +Machtelt Garrels wanted to know what somebody who wanted to give +money to TLDP should be doing. Paul Jones replied +saying that cheques may be sent to: ibiblio.org, campus box 3456, UNC +chapel hill, nc 27599-3456, USA. They should be made payable to +University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a note that the funds +are for the Linux Documenation Project.