{"id":8974,"date":"2005-05-16T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/16\/new-procedures-for-2005-readers-choice-awards\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T23:11:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T20:11:21","slug":"new-procedures-for-2005-readers-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/16\/new-procedures-for-2005-readers-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"New Procedures for 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Linux Journal<\/a> has changed the procedures for its Readers’ Choice Awards contest. From now on, if you want to participate, you’ll have to send them a specially formatted email message, instead of using a web form. They have published the instructions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve already sent the email to awards@linuxjournal.com<\/a> with the following nominations:<\/p>\n

\ne-mail client<\/strong>: Mutt<\/a>
\ndistribution<\/strong>: Fedora<\/a>
\ndatabase<\/strong>: MySQL<\/a>
\nbackup utility<\/strong>: Tar<\/a>
\nnetwork backup utility<\/strong>: AMANDA<\/a>
\naudio tool<\/strong>: XMMS<\/a>
\ndesktop environment<\/strong>: KDE<\/a>
\nLinux web site<\/strong>: http:\/\/slashdot.org<\/a>
\ndistributed file sharing system<\/strong>: BitTorrent<\/a>
\nprogramming beverage<\/strong>: coke<\/a>
\ndevelopment tool<\/strong>: Vim<\/a>
\ntext editor<\/strong>: Vim<\/a>
\nsystem administration tool<\/strong>: perl<\/a>
\nserver<\/strong>: HP ProLiant DL<\/a>
\noffice program<\/strong>: KDE Kontact<\/a>
\nprogramming language<\/strong>: Perl<\/a>
\ninstant messaging client<\/strong>: Licq<\/a>
\ngraphics program<\/strong>: GIMP<\/a>
\nweb browser<\/strong>: Firefox<\/a>
\nblogging software<\/strong>: WordPress<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Linux Journal has changed the procedures for its Readers’ Choice Awards contest. From now on, if you want to participate, you’ll have to send them a specially formatted email message, instead of using a web form. They have published the instructions here. I’ve already sent the email to awards@linuxjournal.com with the following nominations: e-mail client: … Continue reading New Procedures for 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29013,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/23\/archiving-web-sites\/","url_meta":{"origin":8974,"position":0},"title":"Archiving web sites","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"LWN runs an interesting article, covering different ways of archiving a website.\u00a0 It sounds trivial, but it's not.\u00a0 Even the simplest of ways - wget - will probably take you a few dozen attempts to figure out the following: There a few other interesting tools (like pywb) mentioned.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7433,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/14\/backup-software\/","url_meta":{"origin":8974,"position":1},"title":"Backup software","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Being a system administrator part of my job deals with backing up and restoring things. 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