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PARPORT, an architecture-independent parallel-port device-sharing system for Linux.
DocBook bits including how to get DocBook XML and XSL going on Red Hat Linux.
xmlto, a tool for helping to transform XML documents into other formats using XSL and an XSL-T processor.
A library for communicating with parallel port devices.
Installing Red Hat Linux 7.1 from a BackPack CD-ROM drive. (For Red Hat Linux 7.2, use the "oldcdrom.img" driver disk on the CD-ROM.)
Patches that are in my queue.
The configuration files I use.
Some projects.
Nifty things to do with VNC: screen capture/replay, scriptable control.
A mail summary program.
Some programs for manipulating patch files.
Want to set up an e-timestamping service?
How to set up an HP OfficeJet with Red Hat Linux 9.
Other (please specify).

HTML | PDF : VNC (2002-11-14): This article, which briefly explains what VNC is and what pieces of software have been written that use it and its ideas, was originally published (in Italian) in issue 2 of Red Hat Magazine. It was written using OpenOffice.org, and I have since reformatted it in DocBook. This version is more or less the same as the original; some URL references have been tweaked.
HTML | PDF : When is a command line not a line? (2001-11-08): This article discusses the way in which intuitive handling of 'command lines' can lead to bugs and security problems, and suggests a solution.
HTML | PDF : Selfdocbook: A self-documenting introduction to DocBook DocBook book.
HTML | PDF : Selfdocbook (XML edition): A self-documenting introduction to DocBook XML DocBook XML book.
HTML | PDF : The Linux 2.4 Parallel Port Subsystem (2001-10-19): Documentation for PARPORT, taken from the Linux kernel source tree Documentation/DocBook directory.