Here you will find some of the Plucker projects I'm working on. This list is by-no-means exhaustive, and all of the projects listed here are in varying degrees of completion and complexity (with the Wikipedia project being far and away, the largest to date!).
Why are you doing these things?"I believe in the Plucker project. I've supported it for 8-9 years now in code, CVS hosting, website hosting and other pieces where I could help. I want to be able to provide other people access to materials to read and learn from when they are WAY offline, with no power for miles and miles."
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May 19th, 2006 desrod Posted in E-Books, Learning 3 Comments »
Related projects: [mobileQuote] [dictoPlucker]
Below are some screenshots of the FULL Wikipedia converted to Plucker format. The full content of the Wikipedia was fetched page-by-page using a local instance of the data imported into MySQL, after many custom modifications were made to the Mediawiki software that drives it, to make it more usable on handheld devices.
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August 10th, 2005 desrod Posted in E-Books, News No Comments »
I’ve also been playing with converting Google News into Plucker format. The screenshots below were taken with ScreenShot from LinkeSoft, by Andreas Linke and pulled from my Palm with read-screenshot, a conduit that is part of the pilot-link project, which I maintain.
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June 30th, 2005 desrod Posted in E-Books, Fiction No Comments »
An early science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds (1898), by H.G. Wells, the fictional turn of the twentieth century invasion of Earth by aliens, from Mars, who use laser/maser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons (the Black Smoke), and mechanical three-legged “fighting machines” that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the resistance the Martians devastate much of eastern England, including London, before being unexpectedly killed by terrestrial diseases, to which they have no immunity.
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April 29th, 2005 desrod Posted in E-Books, Freedom No Comments »
Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman’s unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement’s overall success.
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February 1st, 2005 desrod Posted in E-Books, Operating Systems No Comments »
Below are some screenshots of the FreeBSD handbook I’ve converted into Plucker format. If you’d like to see other works like this, let me know.
This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE and FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. This manual is a work in progress and is the work of many individuals. Many sections do not yet exist and some of those that do exist need to be updated.
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January 11th, 2005 desrod Posted in E-Books, Programming No Comments »
Below are some screenshots of the Version Control with Subversion book (v1.0 and v1.1) converted to Plucker format. The full versions of these documents are provided below, for version 1.0 and version 1.1 of Subversion.
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January 11th, 2005 desrod Posted in Applications, E-Books, Programming No Comments »
Below are some screenshots of the Creating XPCOM Components book converted to Plucker format. With the author’s permission, I am making this available here in a handheld format for the community to enjoy (thanks go to Doug Turner for the permission, thanks Doug!).
The original material was provided in a fairly-clean HTML format. Some additional adjustments had to be made to the HTML to correct it for validation. Two versions of this converted work are available; one in high-resolution format, and one in low-resolution format.
c896c7b9d362339bc9513007fd0d0940 Creating_XPCOM_Components_hires.pdb
4ad2a3e9f68df758a5cf005b16561496 Creating_XPCOM_Components_lores.pdb
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January 5th, 2005 desrod Posted in E-Books, Learning No Comments »
Related projects: [encycloPlucker] [dictoPlucker]
Below are some screenshots of the FULL Wikiquote converted to Plucker format. The full content of the Wikiquote was fetched page-by-page using a local instance of Wikiquote, after many custom modifications were made to the Mediawiki software that drives it, to make it more usable on handheld devices.
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January 4th, 2005 desrod Posted in E-Books, Learning No Comments »
Related projects: [mobileQuote] [encycloPlucker]
Below are some screenshots of the FULL Wiktionary converted to Plucker format. The full content of the Wiktionary was fetched page-by-page using a local instance of Wiktionary, after many custom modifications were made to the Mediawiki software that drives it, to make it more usable on handheld devices.
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