Canon BJ Drivers for GNU/Linux

ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/


Support and Download for Bubble Jet Printers

The Debian legacy

http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/1430228

Debian's popularity has inspired dozens of variants, including many that circumvent your hard disk and run directly from a combination of CD-ROM and computer memory. Here's a look at some of the celebrities in the Debian family tree. Debian is an open source operating system developed by volunteers and freely available via the Internet. Capable of running on a variety of hardware platforms, Debian is also a great representation of the power of open source software. It offers around 10,000 software packages that are maintained by about 1,000 developers.

Trojan holds PC files for ransom

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580389.stm

A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified. The trojan turns files into gobbledegook, holding them to "ransom"

RFC-2397: The "data" URL scheme

http://bebas.vlsm.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt

A new URL scheme, "data", is defined. It allows inclusion of small data items as "immediate" data, as if it had been included externally.

Some applications that use URLs also have a need to embed (small) media type data directly inline. This document defines a new URL scheme that would work like 'immediate addressing'. The URLs are of the form:
data:[][;base64],

HTML example:

<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAMAAw
AAAC8IyPqcvt3wCcDkiLc7C0qwyGHhSWpjQu5yqmCYsapyuvUUlvONmOZtfzgFz
ByTB10QgxOR0TqBQejhRNzOfkVJ+5YiUqrXF5Y5lKh/DeuNcP5yLWGsEbtLiOSp
a/TPg7JpJHxyendzWTBfX0cxOnKPjgBzi4diinWGdkF8kjdfnycQZXZeYGejmJl
ZeGl9i2icVqaNVailT6F5iJ90m6mvuTS4OK05M0vDk0Q4XUtwvKOzrcd3iq9uis
F81M1OIcR7lEewwcLp7tuNNkM3uNna3F2JQFo97Vriy/Xl4/f1cf5VWzXyym7PH
hhx4dbgYKAAA7"
alt="Larry">