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declaration of independence
by bowerbird 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

the old hands will remember that project gutenberg was born on the fourth of july, when a grocery bag with the declaration of independence printed on it was handed to michael hart, which prompted him to enter it into a computer system and then send it to some of the other people on that system, giving him the idea that books could be distributed like this. in 1971, that took a lot of foresight. thank you, michael. now project gutenberg is approaching 50,000 items, with distributed proofreaders kicking in 30,000 of 'em. happy birthday, project gutenberg. rest in peace, michael hart... -bowerbird

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49,000 and counting
by bowerbird 21 May '15

21 May '15

first of all, congratulations. and second: how about once you hit 50,000 e-texts, you go back and clean up the messes? -bowerbird

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49,000 and counting
by bowerbird 21 May '15

21 May '15

first of all, congratulations. and second: how about once you hit 50,000 e-texts, you go back and clean up the messes? -bowerbird

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Main FTP server appears to be down
by Jared Buck 01 May '15

01 May '15

Anybody know what is going on with the main FTP site at ibiblio.org? the FTP, rsync, and ibiblio.org website are down currently. also, PG's website appears to be down as well. Jared

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do you miss the good old days of gutvol-d?
by bowerbird 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

do you miss the good old days of gutvol-d? if so, i do sympathize with you; but it's over. nonetheless, with so many rehashes over those topics, it's clear they were evergreen. so if you're into a nostalgia thing, i suggest you trip on over to the "gitenberg" listserve: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitenberg-project lots of material there to amuse you... toddle-do... -bowerbird

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Unicode UTF-8 Compatible Version of Jeebies
by James Adcock 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

I have finished translating jeebies to a widechar Unicode UTF-8 compatible version “jeebies_u”, if anyone wants it – completing my translation of the three tools – gutcheck, gutspell, and jeebies – to Unicode versions: gutcheck_u, gutspell_u, and jeebies_u. Jeebies_u appears to be mainly more “Unicode friendly” in practice in that it doesn’t mangle curly quotes and apostrophes, making its output more easily read and understood. If you are not using curlies, it may not buy you much, unless you’re mixing in a bunch of Latin extensions or something. Still, its nice to be looking at output which isn’t corrupted. Again, this presumably contains a little “Windows Only”-ish which would take some work to find and fix on say Mac. If people didn’t want “console-out” but would be happy with “file-out” instead then I think it would probably be easier to make these say “Mac friendly.” FWIW below find a snippet output from gutspell_u if someone doesn’t know what we are talking about (assuming your email reader itself does Unicode!) : Gutspell, for example, mangles and queries things that it should not, and does not query things that it should: Ã‰gyptologique_, I, p. 121 (the collection in which it is preserved not Line 2218 - Query word gyptologique protocol reads: â€˜Year 4 in the month of Athyr of King Harmachis, living Line 2222 - Query word Athyr eternally, beloved of Isis, beloved of Amonrasonter, the great god.â€™ Line 2223 - Query word eternally Senobastis sells 1Â½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres), Line 2226 - Query word Senobastis Senobastis sells 1Â½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres), Line 2226 - Query word sells Senobastis sells 1Â½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres), Line 2226 - Query word cubits Senobastis sells 1Â½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres), Line 2226 - Query word waste situated in the endowed land of the god Amon near a place Line 2227 - Query word endowed Paos and Psenesis were brothers, a fact which makes the two papyri part Line 2234 - Query word brothers notary, â€˜Petamenophis, the son of Petemestus, ... who writes in the name Line 2236 - Query word writes of the priests of the god Amonrasonter,â€™ and among the sixteen witnesses Line 2237 - Query word sixteen of the priests of the god Amonrasonter,â€™ and among the sixteen witnesses Line 2237 - Query word witnesses on the verso of the papyri eleven are identical in both texts (Pl. Line 2238 - Query word verso on the verso of the papyri eleven are identical in both texts (Pl. Line 2238 - Query word identical These two documents concern two different sales of temple land in the Line 2241 - Query word concern same Theban region between different contractors, of whom two are Line 2242 - Query word contractors every sale was concluded by two documents, the agreement for sale Line 2244 - Query word concluded is evident that we have only half of the complete acts of the two Line 2246 - Query word evident ------------------------------------ Compared to Gutspell_u, which does not mangle output, and which queries the things that it should: Égyptologique_, I, p. 121 (the collection in which it is preserved not Line 2218 - Query word Égyptologique protocol reads: ‘Year 4 in the month of Athyr of King Harmachis, living Line 2222 - Query word Athyr Senobastis sells 1½ cubits of waste land (about 40 square metres), Line 2226 - Query word Senobastis (συγγραφἠ πρἁσεως) and the contract of cession (συγγραφἠ ἁποστασἱου), it Line 2245 - Query word πρἁσεως (συγγραφἠ πρἁσεως) and the contract of cession (συγγραφἠ ἁποστασἱου), it Line 2245 - Query word ἁποστασἱου text is signed by Thothmosis, and has the date of ‘the year 4 the 30th Line 2270 - Query word Thothmosis

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Unicode UTF-8 Compatible Version of Gutcheck
by James Adcock 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

I've created a Unicode UTF-8 Compatible Version of Gutcheck, calling it gutcheck_u -- if anyone wants to try it. This was primarily an exercise in finding and changing 8-bit char coding dependencies to 16-bit widechar coding dependencies, but it did require some additional coding. Currently it is a somewhat Windows-dependent implementation, so if you want to run it on another OS it would take a little bit of work. I find it more pleasant to use if one's development file format of choice is UTF-8, and/or if one are doing such things as left-handed / right-handed quotes. Testing it on PG released files I am in fact finding a fair amount of left / right handedness errors that are not currently being discovered. Let me know if you want to try it, same distribution terms as the original. Jim Adcock jimad(a)msn.com

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i told him he was doing it wrong
by bowerbird 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

i _told_ him he was doing it wrong. but seth, well, he didn't listen to me. now his project -- "gitenberg", project gutenberg in github -- won a $35,000 prototype award from the knight foundation... that's right. 35 thousand smackers. > http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/1/30/22-projects-win-… that'll teach him to ignore me... -bowerbird p.s. now i just need to fork the rebase, so the merge will clone my repository, and i can diff the conflict in my commits without recovering fallback authentication or transferring the branch before deletion, as there's an issue configuring the remote, as we see by deleting the unused branches, since collaborators can't update credentials, although you can symlink the submodule tag, or you can push the ssh cache up your nose, but you'll need to filter a request to pull my leg. don't worry, it's ok, as long as you get the gist. because plain-text is the _simple_ format!

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Trans-Pacific Partnership and copyright extensions
by Al Haines 07 Feb '15

07 Feb '15

I received the following from Mark Akrigg, founder of Project Gutenberg Canada: The Electronic Frontier Foundation in the US has just commented on the new TPP mess. It's as good a summary of the situation as I've seen, and is well suited for colleagues outside Canada: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/negotiators-burn-their-last-opport unity-salvage-tpp-caving-copyright-term Al

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state of the union
by bowerbird 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

back in the day, michael hart would type in the state of the union speech, by himself, to put in the p.g. library. every year. without fail. eventually, other people as well started typing it in and posting it, and michael would use their text to proof his own, while insisting on doing his version his own way, specifically adding punctuation to indicate pauses, noting applause, and including "ums" and "aahs" -- if, as i hope, i remember correctly. in recent years, the white house itself has released the text of the speech... and last night, for the first time, it posted the text _before_ the speech was even given. meaning, of course, that their "official posted version" failed to include the obama ad-lib -- in response to those republicans who made approving noises when he said he had no more campaigns to run -- "because i won both times". i do believe it would've made michael very happy to have typed those words. i miss you, michael hart, i really do. -bowerbird

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