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December 13, 2005:
Robert
Sheckley, one of the few authors represented with copyrighted works at
Project Gutenberg, died December 9 at age 77 in Poughkeepsie. According to
a New York times obituary, Sheckley
"is considered one of science fiction's seminal humorists, and a
precursor to Douglas
Adams"; but "a better comparison might be to Kafka, a
fabulist who could never understand why his friends didn't laugh when he
read his stories to them". (We don't actually have Adams; but the link is
to a free online text adventure game by him.)
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November 01, 2005:
Sony CD installs `rootkit'.
If you stay away from file sharing networks because you
fear virus infections,
you'll also have to stay away from copy-protected CDs from now on.
At least one commercially distributed Sony CD has been found
to install a `rootkit' software which should prevent user
from making copies of the CD.
A naive removal of the `rootkit' files will make the
system CD drive unusable. For more details see:
The Register
or
Slashdot.
- October 22, 2005:
This month marks the fifth anniversary of
Distributed Proofreaders,
a website designed to make helping Project Gutenberg easy by breaking
up the tedious work of checking our etexts for errors in small,
manageable chunks.
- October 2, 2005:
Apart from War of the Worlds, three
more films will have been based on public domain books at the
end of 2005, according to the
Based on
the Book website:
Pride and
Prejudice,
Dorian
Gray (English, Dutch and French), and
Oliver
Twist (English and French).
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August 31, 2005:
Project Gutenberg has all the light classics for your summer
reading needs: the works of
Frank L. Baum
("Oz"),
Edgar
Rice Burroughs ("Tarzan"),
Victor
Appleton ("Tom Swift", remastered in glorious HTML), et
cetera. Are there any missing? Please
tell us
about them.
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