Freesoftwaremagazine.com - Issue 2

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Direct d/l (pdf) link is
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/pdfs/FSM_issue_02.pdf


Freesoftwaremagazine.com Issue 2 is out...

Issue 2 of Free Software Magazine is finally out! Download your PDF copy for
free from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Contents...

o EDITORIAL / Your part-time job
The trials and tribulations of being a "computer person"

o FOCUS / The history and future of SMTP
by Kirk Strauser
SMTP's adaptation to a hostile Internet

o Filtering spam with postfix
by Kirk Strauser
Effective ways to reduce unwelcome mail

o Mail servers: resolving the identity crisis
by John Locke
How to get Dspam, Postfix, and Procmail to play well together

o TECH WORLD / Poking at ITunes
by Chris J Karr
A developer's guide to the iTunes platform

o Why free IT management tools are gaining traction
by Will Winkelstein
Enterprises are increasingly receptive to free software alternatives for
IT management.

o CASE STUDY: Mythic Beasts
By Tony Mobily
A small company specialised in Linux servers and amazing support

o Interview with Bernhard Reiter at aKademy
by Tom Chance
What we can do to promote the future of free software

o Hard passwords made easy
by John Locke
Creating strong memorable passwords using mnemonic devices and
word lists

o WORD WORLD / The FUD-based Encyclopedia
by Aaron Krowne
Dismantling fear, uncertainity, and doubt, aimed at Wikipedia
and other free knowledge resources.

o Guerrilla marketing
by Tom Chance
Part one: promoting community projects in the marketplace

o A law for free software
by Maureen O'Sullivan
Don't we have enough laws already?

o The Libre Culture Manifesto
by David M Berry, Giles Moss
A manifesto for free/libre culture

o Richard Stallman's blog
by Richard Stallman
Selected entries from Richard's blog (http://agia.fsf.org/rms-blog)
from November 2004 to December 2004.

75 PGS * WORLD-CLASS PRINTING, GET-UP * A DOWNLOAD AWAY * unbelievable?
 
Thanks for the link! The magazines are great. Here's a free magazine
link that I like: *snipped*
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hrmmm... i got some weird "file i/o - page was blocked" errors while
trying to open it. firefox to the rescue?...
 
hrmmm... i got some weird "file i/o - page was blocked" errors while
trying to open it. firefox to the rescue?...
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Direct download links to the *.pdf files.

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 01.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 01.pdf

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 02.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 02.pdf

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 03.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 03.pdf

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 04.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 04.pdf

Regards
Gordon
 
Direct download links to the *.pdf files.

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 01.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 01.pdf

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 02.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 02.pdf

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 03.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 03.pdf

From: http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/bb/Home Computer Magazine 04.pdf
Home Computer Magazine 04.pdf
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gordon, i tried again using your direct links and got the same error
message when trying to open it via ff. i have posted a screenshot of
the error message in alt.binaries.freeware with the subject "[acf]
screenshot of home computer magazine pdf error". never seen this one
before...
 
_/3iff //ullins_, lunedì 28/feb/2005:
gordon, i tried again using your direct links and got the same error
message when trying to open it via ff. i have posted a screenshot of
the error message in alt.binaries.freeware with the subject "[acf]
screenshot of home computer magazine pdf error". never seen this one
before...
Click to expand...

Here Firefox works well with those links, prompting me to save or open the
pdf files. I always choose to save, because I like to read pdf with the
Acrobat reader. Instead, to open them in the browser you need the right
plugin (I don't have it, then I can't give you its name). Do you have it?
Check it typing about:plugins in the address bar.

Anyway I think it's much better to save them on the disk, try it.
 
_MLC_, lunedì 28/feb/2005:
_/3iff //ullins_, lunedì 28/feb/2005:
gordon, i tried again using your direct links and got the same error
message when trying to open it via ff. i have posted a screenshot of
the error message in alt.binaries.freeware with the subject "[acf]
screenshot of home computer magazine pdf error". never seen this one
before...
Click to expand...

Here Firefox works well with those links, prompting me to save or open the
pdf files. I always choose to save, because I like to read pdf with the
Acrobat reader. Instead, to open them in the browser you need the right
plugin (I don't have it, then I can't give you its name). Do you have it?
Check it typing about:plugins in the address bar.
Click to expand...

Uhmm... I have to be more accurate. This page
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html
says
"The installer for Adobe Reader will automatically detect your browser's
plugins folder and install the plugin"
then if you have Adobe Reader installed, you have also the plugin.
So do I, then, but I can't see it listed in the page about:plugins.

???
 
/3iff //ullins said:
hrmmm... i got some weird "file i/o - page was blocked" errors while
trying to open it. firefox to the rescue?...
Click to expand...

No difficulty getting it with Internet Explorer. It looks interesting.

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.
 
MLC said:
Uhmm... I have to be more accurate. This page
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html
says
"The installer for Adobe Reader will automatically detect your
browser's plugins folder and install the plugin"
then if you have Adobe Reader installed, you have also the plugin.
So do I, then, but I can't see it listed in the page
about:plugins.

???
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I haven't installed any pdf plugin for firefox v1.01 and .pdf can be
read with acrobat reader 'embedded' in firefox.

A 'about:config' command leads here to :
------------------------------
Adobe Acrobat
File name: nppdf32.dll
Adobe Acrobat Plug-In Version 5.00 for Netscape
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/pdf Acrobat pdf Yes
------------------------------

And this file is located here :
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\Browser\nppdf32.dll

So no specific plugin is needed.
 
I haven't installed any pdf plugin for firefox v1.01 and .pdf can be
read with acrobat reader 'embedded' in firefox.

A 'about:config' command leads here to :
------------------------------
Adobe Acrobat
File name: nppdf32.dll
Adobe Acrobat Plug-In Version 5.00 for Netscape
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/pdf Acrobat pdf Yes
------------------------------

And this file is located here :
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\Browser\nppdf32.dll

So no specific plugin is needed.
Click to expand...

Under Linux (Mandrake 10.1) the plug in is
/usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so

(a *.so file in linux is a shared library like a *.dll under Windows)

and the links work fine with Opera (8.0 Beta 1, build 913)

single left click loads file in tabbed browser window (using Acrobat plugin) or
right click gives options of "save as" or "quick download"

I find the combination of any browser & pdf files a pain. I always
download the *.pdf file and read it offline.

Regards
Gordon
 
_/3iff //ullins_, lunedì 28/feb/2005:
gordon, i tried again using your direct links and got the same error
message when trying to open it via ff. i have posted a screenshot of
the error message in alt.binaries.freeware with the subject "[acf]
screenshot of home computer magazine pdf error". never seen this one
before...
Click to expand...

Here Firefox works well with those links, prompting me to save or open the
pdf files. I always choose to save, because I like to read pdf with the
Acrobat reader. Instead, to open them in the browser you need the right
plugin (I don't have it, then I can't give you its name). Do you have it?
Click to expand...
yup. i click those links, acrobat reader's embedded plugin fires up to
open it, i get that infernal error shortly thereafter.

i do know the plugin works fine otherwise, as i usually view online
pdf documents with it at least once per day.

*shrug*
Check it typing about:plugins in the address bar.

Anyway I think it's much better to save them on the disk, try it.
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i did, and acrobat reader still dislikes them. :-(~
 
No difficulty getting it with Internet Explorer. It looks interesting.
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lol! well i'm *not going back to ie just to read it...

to me, the error message seems to indicate that either ff or acrobat
reader are protecting my system from something. guess i'll just pass.
 
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