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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2003</volumenum>
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<issuenum>25</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2003-10-15</pubdate>
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<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1>
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<title>New documents</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>Fresh@LDP</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Mock-Mainframe/index.html">The Mock Mainframe Mini-HOWTO</ulink> by Scot W. Stevenson is a brief description of a standard way to set up and work with a computer network for a small group of people. The goals are low build costs, ease of administration and relative safety. The document requires no extraordinary background, specific terminology is explained as the author goes along.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Eric S. Raymond did a complete rewrite of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/UPS-HOWTO/">UPS HOWTO</ulink>. An Uninterruptable Power Supply is the box that will keep your hardware running when the conventional power network is in trouble. Worried about power outages? If you have Linux, a UPS and this HOWTO, you'll feel much better.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Proposed new documents</title>
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<para>A couple of propositions from the feedback mailinglist, but no authors found for them yet:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>A Multi:Multi NAT HOWTO</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>A Quail + Vpopmail + MySQL HOWTO</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Apart from that ...</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Manoj Warrier <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5095:200310:eijeecajpkbbgcipifea">proposed</ulink>
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a <ulink url="http://SciLinux.sourceforge.net">Scientific computing with
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free software on GNU-Linux HOWTO</ulink>. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Thomas MIGLINCI <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5099:200310:jnkoeipdfhkmejmcjkdh">proposed</ulink>
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a HOWTO dealing with the Web tablet from Siemens: <ulink
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url="http://www.pocketpcmag.com/May02/SIMpad.asp">The SIMpad
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HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Updates</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>HOWTOs</title>
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<para>We were lagging behind a bit, lots of pending submissions, so here are the updates published this week:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Ian Ward's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/">Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v1.2.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Miroslav <quote>Misko</quote> Skoric's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v1.25, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">Lilo mini-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Daniel Nofftz's v1.1 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO/">Athlon Powersaving HOWTO</ulink> contains a lot of new information and links.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>David Braun's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption-HOWTO/">Disk Encryption HOWTO</ulink> v1.2 contains Gentoo instructions.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>V1.6.9 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink> by Rick Moen has some minor corrections. Our favorite tool for searching a LUG: <ulink url="http://www.ssc.com:8080/glue/groups/">GLUE</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Bryan Henderson's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/">Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO</ulink> v1.04 explains what happens with kernel modules behind the scenes.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Happenings in the LDP world</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide 2nd Edition</title>
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<para>Bob Stayton <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?2:mss:528:200310:aaafcfkokbbeicifkbkn">announced</ulink>
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the release of the second edition of his book <ulink
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url="http://www.sagehill.net/book-description.html"><quote>DocBook XSL: The
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Complete Guide</quote></ulink>. The book is available at amazon.com and
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also for browsing at <ulink
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url="http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/">http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/</ulink>. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>DocBook output from OpenOffice.org</title>
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<para>If you are struggling to get the DocBook output from
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OpenOffice.org to work like <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5077:200310:kiadacffdolnkpikbgna">Saqib
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Ali</ulink> and <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?2:mss:525:200310:mkcekgolfdckhhgkoapn">Charles
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Curley</ulink>, Try the <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5076:200310:fbacfjfdkmpbdhgmbbhp">solution</ulink>
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that Charles found. It seems it would be best if you install JRE first,
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so that OOo can see it during installation. Time for a mini-HOWTO? </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>HTML to DocBook XML/SGML Conversion: Help Needed</title>
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<para>John Levon has lost the original sources of his <ulink
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url="http://movementarian.org/linux-profiling/">Linux profiling
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HOWTO</ulink> and would be trying out html2db/tidy to generate them.
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However, if you would like to help, get in touch with John. </para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="feedback">
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<title>Feedback and Contributions</title>
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<para>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
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free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system.
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Announcements about TLDP are made via
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<email>announce-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>. If you want to help TLDP,
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take a look at the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/">tasks
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page</ulink>, and consider joining
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
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community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events
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related to free software documentation. Write to us at
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by
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Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
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with help from several other people.</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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