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References
References
- The Free Software Foundation is dedicated to
promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs.
- TCPA/Palladium FAQ.
- A proposed standard for interactions with the Window Manager can be found at
freedesktop.org.
- The Independent JPEG Group which puts out the
JPEG image implementation being used in FOX.
- More information about the JPEG image standard can be found on the
Official JPEG Standard website.
- Information about the PNG Image Format can be found on the
Portable Network Graphics Format Website.
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- Information on how to deal nicely with various X11 Visual depths can be found in the following few
articles by John Cwikla: Beyond the Default Visual, and
X Color Context 1, and
X Color Context 2.
- The XDND Drag and Drop Protocol is described in
Drag-and-Drop Protocol for the X Window System designed by John Lindal.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an organization working
to protect our fundamental rights online.
- Your freedom of speech is under attack. Please check out The Digital Speech Project.
- Consider signing the Petition Against Software
Patents. Patents on software prevent many useful features from being added to FOX, for example, GIF
compression using the LZW algorithm.
- Also take a look at the Anti-DMCA Petition.
- Information on the standard zlib compression library is found at
ZLib Compression Library Website.
- The bzip2 and libbzip2 official home page
contains everything about the bzip2 compression library.
- Additional information can be found on the Unofficial TIFF Home Page.
- Some notes on the TIFF format at Adobe.
- Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections.
- FOX to Ruby Language bindings are found on the FXRuby Website.
- The Definitive Source on Programming Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Developer Network.
- Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux.
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- The XFree86 Project,Inc., the standard GNU/Linux Window System.
- The Unix Socket FAQ everything about network programming
on the UNIX system.
- The List of Socket Programming References
has even more on socket programming.
- The i18nGurus, a site carring lots of stuff about internationalization
and localization.
- Details about the soon-to-appear AMD Hammer (Opteron) architecure
and GNU/Linux ports to this hardware (will FOX run on it? You betcha!).
- The Free Standards Group is an independent,
non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the use and acceptance of open source technologies
through the development, application and promotion of standards.
- The Red Hat Dev Net site contains a wealth of
information for development on GNU/Linux in general and Red Hat in particular.
- The OpenGL website has a vast collection of OpenGL related information for graphics developers.
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- The Mesa3D Library is an OpenGL replacement library which can
be used on machines for which no hardware-accelerated OpenGL is available.
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- The UNICODE Home Page has the standard UNICODE character
set definition.
- The UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ has all the interesting information
on the UTF-8 standard and its relevance to GNU/Linux.
- The IETF RFC for UTF-8 is found in RFC2279: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
This document replaces the earlier RFC2044.
Here is another link to RFC2279.
- Roman Czyborra also wrote a few interesting documents on Unicode Transformation Formats.
- The IEEE754 Floating Point number standard is described in
The IEEE standard 754 for binary floating-point arithmetic.
- More on IEEE754 Floating Point is found on William Kahan's site.
- Additional light reading on IEEE 754 and 854 Floating Point.
- One of my favorite sites, the User Interface Hall of Shame. And yes,
we are guilty just a little bit here and there!
- Markus Oberhumer's LZO compression algorithms.
- The UPX Packed Executable library.
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- Wu's Color Quantizer Algorithm; also found
in Graphics Gems vol. II, pp. 126-133.
- The Image Image File Format FAQ, and another
Mirror of it.
- The list of IANA Mime Types which
FOX uses for XDND data types.
- Gallery of CSS Descramblers. Source Code *is* Speech!
- Information about Fonts in X11.
- The GNU Unifont is a simple bitmapped font covering
the entire UNICODE character set.
- IBM Classes for UNICODE.
- Identity Theft can be helpful if you suspect someone's
shopping with your credit cards.
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouseis a nonprofit
consumer education, research, and advocacy program to empower you to control your personal
information by providing practical tips on privacy protection.
- Creative Commons is a non-profit organization founded
on the notion that some people would prefer to share their creative works (and the power to copy,
modify, and distribute their works) instead of exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law.
- IANA Character Sets the
assignment of character set names and numbers.
- Data Compression Info.
- The Freedom Network.
- Notes on Cross Compiling Linux to Windows.
- RMS on copyright.
- The Programmer's File Format Collection.
- SGI's Standard Template Library website.
- Unicode stuff by Mark Leisher.
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