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links for 2007-01-29

January 30th, 2007 by timelady

• 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Obesity - - science news articles online technology magazine articles 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Obesity
  wow. no 1 alone scares the crap out of me.
  (tags: diet health obesity america usa)
• Do we need an Ubuntu installer for Windows? | Free Software Magazine
  “If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a new Ubuntu-oriented project that’s been making waves: install.exe. In short, it’s a way to install Ubuntu onto the same file system as MS Windows without repartitioning your drive.”
  (tags: ubuntu windows)
• Announcing “Debian-Installer Loader”
  This is the announcement of “Debian-Installer Loader”, a win32 loader for Debian Installer, inspired by Ubuntu loader.
  (tags: debian linux windows ubuntu)
• It’s Knuttz - Safety above everything else
  ye gods and little fishes, how NOT to use ladders…..
  (tags: digg funny photography humor gallery safety)
• PDF to become an open, ISO standard
  Adobe Systems Inc. on Jan. 29 announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM, in turn, will start working on making PDF an ISO standard.
  (tags: adobe pdf software news standard)
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
  “This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX® wisdom and lore.”
  (tags: abs script advanced code cli command blog book awk bash linux shell scripting programming reference tutorial)

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