Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to

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. He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus (the precursor to the

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package) to manipulate it. He has also worked on the team that ported

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. He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards – in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project. He owns the Internet address acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million

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s a day), 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.

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ACME Laboratories

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