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Linux-Announce Digest #184
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Thu Sep 19 12:19:08 2002
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Linux-Announce Digest #184, Volume #4 Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Meta-CVS 0.24 (Kaz Kylheku)
WEB: Zaurus Software Reviews (Steve Emms)
Technical Program Overview and Daily Schedule - Now Available! ("Encompass - HP Enterprise Technology Symposium")
Ontario College Faculty & Staff: Open Source Symposium Oct 25 (Chris Tyler)
Virus Report to Sender (domath01/Olympic/GR%OLYMPIC-AIRWAYS@olympic-airways.gr)
GNU CLISP 2.30 release (Sam Steingold)
ANN: Project mangement FAQ on OpenSource ("Vivek Venugopalan")
new LUG - UK (Jon Hill)
Escape Studios turns to IBM and Linux for Special Effects ("Stacy Simpson")
New free online Linux magazine: The Grasshoppers' Linux Journal (Ludootje)
Announcing Maintenance Parts Bin 5.0 ("nhunt")
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From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
Subject: Re: Meta-CVS 0.24
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:45:25 GMT
Meta-CVS is a version control system that uses CVS for data storage
and retains most CVS features and the overall model for working
with a sandbox and its associated repository.
However, Meta-CVS versions not only file contents but also the
directory structure, symbolic links, the execute permission of files,
and user-defined properties attached to files and symbolic links.
Branching and merging are higher level operations in Meta-CVS; the low
level CVS tagging and updating is hidden from the user. Repeated merges
from the same branch to the same destination are handled automatically.
Branching and merging of the directory structure, with conflicts, works
just fine, and has worked since release 0.0.
When files are added, Meta-CVS identifies any previously unknown
suffixes, and allows the user to edit a specification that
will determine the CVS keyword expansion mode for each new file type.
The types are recorded in a file that is versioned.
Meta-CVS has a third party importing feature in the form of a ``grab''
command which synchronizes a branch or the trunk to a given file tree
The grab command calculates what files and symbolic links must be
added, removed, or renamed and what must be edited to make the tip of
the target branch look exactly like the tree being grabbed.
Meta-CVS internally interfaces with CVS using its command line
interface and the CVS/{Entries,Repository,Root} files. Meta-CVS
projects can be stored in any CVS repository, accessed over any network
transport mechanism supported by CVS.
Freshmeat page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcvs
Home page: http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mcvs.html
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From: Steve Emms <sde@linuxlinks.com>
Subject: WEB: Zaurus Software Reviews
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:50:25 GMT
The Zaurus SL-5500 PDA represents a new frontier. Here Linux
is not an afterthought shoehorned onto a windows product - the
Zaurus is a PDA that comes configured with Linux out of the box.
And it's a good fit, Linux works well on relatively low spec
machines like PDAs. But it's the software that makes
the machine. So LinuxLinks has started a series of reviews of commercial
Linux software for the Zaurus:
<A href="http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/content/html/Zaurus/">
http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/content/html/Zaurus/</A>
The Zaurus comes preinstalled with a variety of applications - some of
them good, some of them not so good. Software developers have been quick
off the mark writing hundreds of programs dedicated to the Zaurus.
With an increasing user base, companies have also been releasing
commercial programs for the Zaurus. And it is these programs that are the
focus of the reviews. We aim to address the problem of what to do with
Zaurus after you've got it out the box. How does the 'freestuff' compare
to those packages that you have to shell out your hard earned dollar
for...
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From: "Encompass - HP Enterprise Technology Symposium" <KilleenJ@toast.net>
Subject: Technical Program Overview and Daily Schedule - Now Available!
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:45:28 GMT
Reply-To: "Encompass - HP Enterprise Technology Symposium" <KilleenJ@toast.net>
You still have time to register for the HP Enterprise Technical Symposium
and Encompass Technical Exchange trade show, October 6-11 in St. Louis,
Missouri.
In order to assist you in sorting through the 400+ in-depth technical
sessions this year we have produced a series of new guides to the Symposium
content. They outline the program content based on areas of interest or
unique sessions of interest within the program. View
http://www.hpets2002.com/portal/content/highlights.jsp to quickly review the
400+ unique conference offerings by category:
Daily Schedule (Symposium and Pre-symposium education
Sessions-at-a-Glance)
Technology (Mini-Program Guides and Topic Guides)
Type of Educational Content
Mini-Program Guides for operating environments and Topic Guides for specific
technologies (Tru64, Linux, ProLiant, HP-UX etc.) are accessible within the
"Sessions by Technology" section. These guides offer a comprehensive listing
of associated educational offerings.
Session Guides for broad categories of educational offerings from Expert
Discussions to Case Studies are accessible within the "Sessions by Type"
search capabilities. These guides enable you to review the schedules for
the types of training you prefer most.
Register today for the HP Enterprise Technical Symposium and pre-symposium
education. For fast and easy registration for either or both visit
http://www.hpets2002.com/portal/login.jsp.
For Pre-Conference information please visit
http://www.encompassUS.org/events/preconregistration.html
We look forward to meeting you St. Louis.
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From: Chris Tyler <chris.tyler@senecac.on.ca>
Subject: Ontario College Faculty & Staff: Open Source Symposium Oct 25
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:50:29 GMT
Reply-To: chris.tyler@senecac.on.ca
Welcome to the first annual Seneca OpenSource Symposium
Friday, October 25th, 2002, Toronto, 8:00am - 8:00pm
The Seneca Open Source Symposium is a one-day event aimed at bringing
together college faculty/staff from across the province of Ontario to
discuss common open source concerns, learn new open source technologies
and to generally promote the use of open source software in both our
classrooms and our labs.
Here at Seneca College, we think Open Source is a real alternative, and
better in many ways, than traditional, proprietary (closed source)
software. We therefore call on IT teachers/technicians from the four
corners of Ontario to come to Toronto on October 25 for a one-day Open
Source extravaganza. The symposium will include short tutorials and
demonstrations along with frank discussions and exchange of ideas.
For the full details of the symposium, including the current list of
speakers, agenda, map, and registration form, please see
http://cs.senecac.on.ca/sos Please note this event is only open to the
faculty and staff of Ontario colleges.
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From: domath01/Olympic/GR%OLYMPIC-AIRWAYS@olympic-airways.gr
Subject: Virus Report to Sender
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:45:32 GMT
Virus Incident Information
Database: mail1.box
Author: linux-announce <linux-announce@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov>
Recipients: press-office@olympic-airways.gr
Subject: Look,my beautiful girl friend
Date: 9-10-2002
The file attachment oanews300600gr[1].exe you sent to the recipients listed above was infected with the W32/Klez.h@MM virus and was deleted from the
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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Subject: GNU CLISP 2.30 release
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:50:32 GMT
Reply-To: sds@gnu.org
GNU CLISP 2.30 is now available at
<http://clisp.cons.org>
<http://www.clisp.org>
<http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/>
<http://clisp.sourceforge.net/>
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/latest>
<ftp://cvs2.cons.org/pub/lisp/clisp/source/latest/>
<ftp://cvs2.cons.org/pub/lisp/clisp/binaries/latest/>
please ask questions about CLISP on <clisp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>.
if you would like to contribute to CLISP development, please subscribe
to <clisp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> and send patches there.
CLISP Common Lisp Summary
Common Lisp is a high-level, all-purpose, object-oriented, dynamic,
functional programming language.
CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.
CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, most of CLOS,
a foreign language interface and a socket interface &c.
An X11 interface is available through CLX and Garnet.
Command line editing is provided by GNU ReadLine.
CLISP runs on microcomputers (OS/2, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, Amiga
500-4000, Acorn RISC PC) as well as on Unix workstations (GNU/Linux,
BSD, SVR4, Sun4, DEC Alpha OSF, HP-UX, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX, Sun3 and
others) and needs only 2 MB of RAM.
CLISP is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU
GPL. You may distribute commercial applications compiled with CLISP, see
file COPYRIGHT in the CLISP distribution.
The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch and
Russian, and can be changed during run time.
2.30 (2002-09-15)
=================
User visible changes
====================
* CLISP does not come with GNU libiconv anymore. The most important
encodings are built-in anyway, and CLISP can use the GNU libc 2.2
iconv and a GNU libiconv when it is independently installed.
* CLISP does not come with GNU gettext anymore. This is a separate
package and should be installed separately, if you wish to use i18n.
* CLISP does not come with GNU readline anymore, because, starting with
version 4.3, readline supports multibyte characters out of the box.
* CLISP does not come with GNU libsigsegv anymore. This means that in
certain cases of infinite recursion, the C stack overflow will not be
properly detected and will result in a segfault instead of an error.
You are urged to download and install GNU libsigsegv from
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libsigsegv/> or
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsigsegv>
before configuring CLISP.
* Strings can now hold UCS-4 characters, instead of only UCS-2 characters.
CHAR-CODE-LIMIT increased from 65536 to 1114112.
* Added a new module - "oracle": an interface to the Oracle ODBMS.
Thanks to John K. Hinsdale <hin@alma.com>.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*PARSE-NAMESTRING-DOT-FILE* controls
how the file names starting with a dot are parsed.
By default, it is set to :NAME in config.lisp,
so #P".clisprc" is now #S(PATHNAME :NAME ".clisprc").
To get the old result of #S(PATHNAME :TYPE "clisprc"),
set this variable to :TYPE.
This is an incompatible change.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#name-type-split> for details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*TRACE-INDENT* controls TRACE output indentation.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#trace> for details.
* SOCKET:SOCKET-ACCEPT and SOCKET:SOCKET-CONNECT now accept a :TIMEOUT
keyword argument.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#timeout-k> for details.
* SAVEINITMEM now accepts :START-PACKAGE, :VERBOSE, and :LOCKED-PACKAGES
keyword arguments.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#image> for details.
* You can now shutdown a socket for input or output separately
using SOCKET:SOCKET-STREAM-SHUTDOWN.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#sost-shut> for details.
* CUSTOM:*SOURCE-FILE-TYPES* and CUSTOM:*COMPILED-FILE-TYPES*
now contain strings, not pathnames.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#loadfile> for details.
* EXT:GETENV now returns all of the OS environment as an alist
when its argument is omitted or NIL.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#getenv> for details.
* When configured with --with-export-syscalls,
several new functions are available:
POSIX:STREAM-LOCK provides an interface to flock(2);
POSIX:COPY-FILE provides an interface to link(2)/symlink(2)/rename(2),
(in addition to the usual file copy);
POSIX:DUPLICATE-HANDLE provides an interface to dup(2)/dup2(2).
Thanks to Marco Baringer for COPY-FILE and DUPLICATE-HANDLE.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#syscalls> for details.
* You can now control the CLISP exit code better by passing a
non-negative integer to EXT:EXIT.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#quit> for details.
* Russian translations of the user interface messages have been added.
Thanks to Arseny Slobodjuck <ampy@ich.dvo.ru>.
* When built with readline, CLISP will DESCRIBE the current function
when you hit TAB after a #\Space.
* MAKE-ENCODING now checks whether the iconv charset is valid, and
signals an error if it is invalid unless given the :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST
NIL argument.
* New debugger command Quit (:q) aborts to the top-level read-eval-print
loop immediately, saving you typing :a several times.
* When CUSTOM:*PARSE-NAMESTRING-ANSI* is non-NIL, do not accept symbols
as pathname designators.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#filename-dict> for details.
* COMPILE-FILE no longer clobbers an existing *.c file when the Lisp
file being compiled does not contain any FFI forms.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#compilefile> for details.
* Type COMPLEX now correctly uses UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE.
* Improved accuracy of some transcendental functions, e.g., now
(EXPT -5.0 2.0) return #C(25.0 0.0).
* Fixed a bug: Conversion from bytes to string did not work for the encoding
(MAKE-ENCODING :CHARSET CHARSET:UNICODE-32-LITTLE-ENDIAN
:INPUT-ERROR-ACTION :IGNORE).
* Fixed a bug in compiling duplicate keyword arguments.
* Fixed the (destructuring-bind (&key (x x)) ...) bug.
* Wide-mode -W backward compatibility option is now gone
(defunct since 1998-09-09). This permits colons in memory image file
names (necessary on Cygwin).
* CLISP on Cygwin now understands native pathnames like "c:/gnu/clisp/"
by translating them internally to "/cygdrive/c/gnu/clisp/".
CLISP on Win32 now understands Cygwin pathnames like "/cygdrive/c/gnu/clisp/"
by translating them internally to "c:/gnu/clisp/".
You can disable this by setting CUSTOM:*DEVICE-PREFIX* to NIL.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#device-prefix> for details.
* Readline is now used properly on Cygwin.
* DIR-KEY now works on Cygwin.
Portability
===========
* CLISP now works on SPARC/Linux with glibc 2.2 when built with SAFETY=3.
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux
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<http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/links.html>
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From: "Vivek Venugopalan" <vivek@magic-cauldron.com>
Subject: ANN: Project mangement FAQ on OpenSource
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:45:35 GMT
Hello
I am putting together a project management FAQ on open source projects.
This will help people who
1. Plan to adopt/manage open source projects
2. Other managers understand open source project management in general.
The current FAQ is located at
http://www.magic-cauldron.com/opensource/faq-on-osp.html
Please send in your comments and suggestions/areas of coverage to vivek who
has an email account on magic-cauldron.com
Thanks
Vivek
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From: Jon Hill <jon@lancasterlug.org.uk>
Subject: new LUG - UK
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:50:35 GMT
A new Linux user group is starting up in Lancaster, England
The first meeting will be held on Wed, September 25th, 7pm at Folly
Gallery (www.folly.co.uk)
We have begun a website at www.lancasterlug.org.uk (nothing much there yet!)
for more info, drop me an email - jon@lancasterlug.org.uk
Jon
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From: "Stacy Simpson" <stacysim@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Escape Studios turns to IBM and Linux for Special Effects
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:45:38 GMT
Stacy Simpson
Media Relations
IBM Corporation
Route 100, Somers, NY 10589
Ph: 914-766-4123 (t/l: 826-4123)
E: stacysim@us.ibm.com
UK Training Centre Chooses IBM Digital Media Solutions
To Train the Next Generation of Special Effects Stars
London, UK, August 30, 2002 - Escape Studios, an educational facility that
trains visual artists in the UK, announced that it has selected an IBM
Digital Content Creation (DCC) Solution to help train students of
animation, video production, film, and game design to master advanced
applications widely used in those industries. Escape was established to
ensure that the UK and Europe continues to be regarded as a hub of talent,
creativity and excellence in the 3D arts industry. Blockbuster movies such
as Gladiator, Harry Potter and James Bond were all finished in
post-production/special effects facilities in the UK. London-based Escape
Studios has the backing of industry greats such as Ridley Scott, Disney and
the BBC.
Escape Studios is equipped with 20 IBM IntelliStation Pro workstations to
power a curriculum of leading 3D graphics, special effects, and rendering
applications including Adobe Photoshop®, Alias|Wavefront Maya®, Discreet
Combustion® Softimage XSI®, Pixar Renderman® and Apple Shake®. IBM
Professional series monitors were selected to ensure high resolution and
color fidelity for critical imaging. IBM DCC Solutions are optimised for
Microsoft® Windows® and Open Source Linux® operating systems, or a hybrid
of both platforms. Students benefit from extensive hands-on experience with
state-of-the-art IBM workstations, duplicating a fully operational
real-time production environment.
IntelliStation reliability and IBM customer support were fundamental to
Escape Studios' choice of a technology partner. The IBM solution enables
students to run compute- and graphics-intensive applications with the speed
and stability demanded in industries driven by no-excuse deadlines. IBM's
DCC Solutions?the first complete Linux-enabled solution for the media and
entertainment industry?is a comprehensive suite of IBM IntelliStation
workstations, xSeries servers, storage and services all designed to
support animators, special effects wizards and digital media producers.
Incorporating an open and standards-based framework optimised for media
production, IBM DCC Solutions leverage the IBM e-business infrastructure,
as well as integration and services from IBM Business Partners.
IntelliStation E Pro workstations feature high-performance ATI FireGL 8800?
3D graphics accelerators to ensure that large, complex models can be
created and manipulated with ease. With 128MB of unified memory, the
FireGL 8800 offers the flexibility of programmable per-pixel shading, a key
ingredient of highly realistic virtual worlds.
"We chose IBM equipment because it had the best reputation in the visual
effects industry," said Dominic Davenport, Managing Director of Escape
Studios. "Escape is a centre of training excellence for visual art
students, which means we have to ensure that our technology partner is of
the same calibre."
"We're excited to be involved in this venture with Escape Studios because
IBM technology is a vital component of the students' training, and critical
to their success," said Sarah Poland, IBM IntelliStation Manager, UK.
IBM IntelliStation Workstations
IBM IntelliStation workstations offer a robust, transparent user
experience, backed by the reliability, worldwide support and graphics
know-how gained from decades of high-performance computing. The new
IntelliStation Pro range now features the very latest memory and I/0
technologies, powered by the new Intel® Pentium® 4 and Intel Xeon?
processors at 2.4GHz to optimise the performance of demanding technical
and creative applications.
The IntelliStation Pro series:
? IntelliStation E Pro 6216 and 6226 -- Essential workstation
performance with a choice of advanced graphics and compact desktop designs
? IntelliStation M Pro 6229 -- Ultimate graphics performance in a
flexible mini tower design
? IntelliStation M Pro 6850 -- Scalable multiprocessor performance
optimised for compute-intensive applications
For more information on IBM Digital Content Creation Solutions visit:
www.ibm.com/industries/digitalmedia
Notes to Editor:
1. Adobe Photoshop is a trademark or registered trademark of Adobe
Systems Incorporated
2. Discreet Combustion a trademark or registered trademark of
Autodesk/Discreet Incorporated
3. Soft ImageXSI is a trademark or registered trademark of Avid
Incorporated
4. Pixar Renderman is a trademark or registered trademark of Pixar
Renderman Incorporated
5. Apple Shake is a trademark or registered trademark of Apple Computers
Incorporated
6. Microsoft and Windows is a trademark or registered trademark of the
Microsoft Corporation
7. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
8. ATI FireGL 8800 a trademark or registered trademark of ATI
Technologies Incorporated
9. Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
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From: Ludootje <ludootje@linux.be@telenet-ops.be>
Subject: New free online Linux magazine: The Grasshoppers' Linux Journal
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:50:39 GMT
Hi all!
Some people from the linuxnewbie.org forum and I have been working hard on a
GNU/Linux magazine, we've recently released issue number 1. We need readers
of course, but most of all writers. Currently we don't have a lot of
writers, and it's a lot of work to get enough enough articles and
interviews to bring out another issue. We're mostly oriented towards
newbies (unlike other online Linux-magazines), but some articles can be
very interesting to experts too. The interviews for example, can interest
everyone.
For those interested, this is the Table Of Contents of our first issue:
=============
What is Linux?
My First Linux
A Noob's Perspective
Unix Tool of the Month
Open Source Alternatives
MrProject Interview
Mandrake vs. SuSE
Custom RedHat CDs
Dual Monitor Guide
Gnomemeeting Interview
Getting Help in Linux
Dynamic IP Webservers
The Year of the DVD
Review: Creative vs. Labtec Speakers
Letters
=============
For those interested in writing (English doesn't even have to be your native
language, we have proof-readers): simply register on our forum, and say
you're willing to write an article / make an interview. We'll give you
access to the articles & interviews forums once your interview / article is
done.
Anyone who thinks (s)he can somehow help the project is free to do so, of
course.
If you have any remaining questions, you can simply answer to this post,
e-mail me at ludootje@linux.be, or register on the forum and ask your
question there.
Ludootje
--
The Grasshoppers' Linux Journal - a free, online distributed magazine about
GNU/Linux / Open Source / ... oriented towards newbies. Check it out @
http://ghj.sunsite.dk !
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From: "nhunt" <nathanht@netzero.net>
Subject: Announcing Maintenance Parts Bin 5.0
Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:50:42 GMT
Reply-To: nathanht@netzero.net
Maintenance Parts Bin 5.0 is now available for download at
http://www.maintenancepartsbin.com.
Maintenance Parts Bin (MPB)is a system for keeping
inventories of parts and determining when reorders are necessary.
MPB is not just limited to maintenance inventory.
Create as many databases as you like and title each one what you
Will.Used for tracking Computer Parts,Automobiles,Etc.
You can create new databases in MPB for different departments,
projects etc. Edit field labels to suit your needs and give
each database an individual title. Optional administrator
password to keep anyone from deleting a database,editing field
labels or creating a new database without the password.
You can also select which database you would prefer MPB to
load on startup.MPB allows you to change its appearance using skins.
Imports & Exports Excel Spreadsheets
Runs in Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP
800 x 600 Screen Resolution Required
Lots of new features;
New file extension;
Due to conflicts with some other popular programs Maintenance Parts Bin
database now uses an .mpb extension.The old extension .dat must be imported
from the import menu.
Check in/out has its own tab now and records the dates as you use or add
parts to view on a chart.Charts can be saved.
MPB now supports photos (bmp,gif,jpg)
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