Jef Poskanzer
Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet. He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus (the precursor to the Netpbm package) to manipulate it.[1] He has also worked on the team that ported A/UX.[2] He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards – in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.
Jeffrey A. Poskanzer | |
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| Occupation | computer programmer |
| Known for | pbmplus |
He owns the Internet address acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million e-mail spams a day[3]), which is the home page for ACME Laboratories. It hosts a number of open source software projects; major projects maintained include both pbmplus and thttpd, an open source web server.
Notes
- "Netpbm History". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- "Jef Poskanzer's Web Page". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- "Mail Filtering - Introduction". acme.com. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
gollark: The reactor pair does about 55kRF/t peak, which is nice.
gollark: Please tell me I won't have to know too much nuclear physics to actually use the mod when this comes out...
gollark: The two reactors powering my base right now, not running very often since the quarries are off. (EDIT: oops, second picture is before coolers were added)
gollark: I only put 190 or so in.
gollark: I basically just attempted to go for high-efficiency things with as many moderators as possible, so glowstone was good.
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