Typographic Marks Unknown – Retinart – A brief history of the pilcrow, ampersand, section sign, asterisk, and hedera, with comments on usage. H&FJ News – Pilcrow & Capitulum – A brief history of the pilcrow–that "reversed 'P' for paragraph" character–with some samples. MeetBot – Debian Wiki – "MeetBot is designed to assist in running meetings, [...]

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Zint Open Source Barcode Generator – “Zint is an Open Source barcode encoding and image generating library written entirely in C and released under GPLv3 or later.” In particular, offers QR code output in SVG format. [1009.0550] Optimizing Selective Search in Chess – Fun. [0907.3135] Fast Searching in Packed Strings – "On a standard unit-cost [...]

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ngIRCd: Next Generation IRC Daemon – "ngIRCd is a free open source server for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is being developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It has been written from scratch…" [1008.1770] A complex network approach to robustness and vulnerability of spatially organized water distribution networks – Examines water distribution networks [...]

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Recently, I’ve been experimenting with supervisor, which is a Python-based process restarter for Unix/Linux. Lincoln Loop recently offered instructions on running supervisor under upstart, which is applicable to some of the current Linux distributions. On OpenSolaris and related systems, the service management facility, smf(5), can be used to ensure your supervisors stay online. Below is [...]

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