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Linux-Announce Digest #646
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Thu Nov 11 19:02:32 1999
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 99 18:13:19 EST
Linux-Announce Digest #646, Volume #3 Thu, 11 Nov 99 18:13:19 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Understudy - fully redundant web server software (Eric Bellagio)
WWW: iTherm - the Internet Thermometer (Daniel Robert Franklin)
LOCAL: Bruce County (Ontario) Linux Users' Group (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
COMMERCIAL: GPL'd drivers v1.0.7 for LML33 cards available (Vassili Leonov)
Snd 3.4 sound editor (Bill Schottstaedt)
LOCAL: Alice Springs Linux User Group meeting : Nov 16th (axiiom@ozemail.com.au)
signature 0.02 - dynamically produced sigs for e-mail & news (Ian Macdonald)
Mad Bomber 0.1 - Atari 2600 "Kaboom!"-game clone (William Kendrick)
XShipWars 1.21 Released (Taura)
CONFERENCE: NordU 2000: Call For Participation (Martin Wahlén)
non-bios boot loader: nuni (Neil Koozer)
CONFERENCE: Linux Exposed: The Canadian Linux Exhibition - Call For Papers ("Ron Harwood")
LOCAL: Silicon Graphics @ VanLUG - Mon, Nov 15, 1999 (Dave Michelson)
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From: eric@wolfblast.com (Eric Bellagio)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Understudy - fully redundant web server software
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:20:32 GMT
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PolyServe Corporation announces version 1.3 of Understudy, its flagship
software application. Understudy enables a Webmaster or Network
Professional to set up a high availability web server cluster with IP
service monitoring, failure detection, load balancing and automatic
failover.
Understudy has broad OS support, including Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Linux
and Free BSD. No specialized hardware is required and it will work with
any webserver. By using Understudy on two or more servers users can be
assured their websites will always be available and will not be brought
down by server hardware or software failures.
Understudy is available at a breakthrough price point starting as low as
$499. per server pair. We are offering a 30-day free trial - please click
here http://www.polyserve.com/form.html to download your free evaluation
copy, or to find out more about Understudy.
For more information please visit our web site http://www.polyserve.com
PolyServe, Inc.
Gary Hemminger, Director, Product Management
gary@polyserve.com
918 Parker Street, Suite A12
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: 510.665.2929/fax: 510.649.0660
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From: Daniel Robert Franklin <d.franklin@computer.org>
Subject: WWW: iTherm - the Internet Thermometer
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:26:35 GMT
Reply-To: daniel@snrc.uow.edu.au
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The iTherm is a bit of cheap hardware and free Linux-based software which is a
nice demonstration of a low-speed web-based data-logging system. It has been
designed and built by the University of Wollongong IEEE Student Branch and is
located here:
http://ieee.uow.edu.au/iTherm
All schematics and source code (not that there is very much) is placed under
the GNU Public License and is available from the Web page.
Yes it's pointless, but it is _definitely_ fun (look at the graphs, try and
work out when we opened the lab, when people have heaters on etc :)
- - Daniel
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* Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering
* d.franklin@computer.org
******************************************************************************
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From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Bruce County (Ontario) Linux Users' Group
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:22:00 GMT
Reply-To: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>
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This is not an announcement, but a call for Linux users in Bruce
County (Ontario, Canada) to contact us so we can gauge the amount of
interest and the geographical distribution of potential members.
Because of our beautiful expanse of unpopulated wilderness and
countrysides, we are looking to start with a virtual (IRC/Mailinglist)
based LUG to share information, to promote Linux in our area, and to
offer support to new Linux fans. As time goes on, we will have some
physical meetings, but given our geography (and our weather) these
will probably not be monthly but just occasional install-fests and
other special events.
Anyone interested in participating should contact the Bruce County
Linux Users Group at bclug@teledyn.com
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Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@teledyn.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Telecom Services : Internet Consulting : http://www.teledyn.com
Linux/GNU Education Group: http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-education/
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
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From: Vassili Leonov <vleo@linuxmedialabs.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: GPL'd drivers v1.0.7 for LML33 cards available
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:29:08 GMT
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New drivers v1.0.7 are available for download from the regular URL
http://linuxmedialabs.com/lml33src
Improvements compared to 0.3 version are:
- Tcl not needed (but still can be used to control the card)
- Support for both D1 and CIF resolutions (720x480i and 360x240)
- Nasty bug that prevented switch from read() to write() operation
fixed
- Single frame mode works as expected now
- Preliminary support for video overlays
- ioctls and insmod option to select compression ratio and video stream
All drivers and software developed by Linux Media Labs are licensed under
GNU GPL. Check our programs jpegdump, riffdump and avidump that produce
human readable form of these formats. We'll appreciate any feedback,
especially for AVI.
Linux Media Labs also manufactures full motion video capture/playback
hardware motion JPEG board LML33. Board hardware is fully open, which is
ideal for linux fans, educational institutions and system integretors.
Applications are - teleconferencing, video capture, scientific
visualization, web-cams and security monitoring. Please check
http://linuxmedialabs.com
#------------------------------------#
| Linux Media Labs LLC | Vassili Leonov
#------------------------------------#
mailto:vleo@linuxmedialabs.com http://linuxmedialabs.com
phone:1-719-231-3173
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From: bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Bill Schottstaedt)
Subject: Snd 3.4 sound editor
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:27:52 GMT
Reply-To: bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
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Snd 3.4, a sound editor, is available at ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu
pub/Lisp/snd-3.tar.gz and various rpm versions. Requires Motif
or Lesstif, and works much better if you have Guile.
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From: axiiom@ozemail.com.au
Subject: LOCAL: Alice Springs Linux User Group meeting : Nov 16th
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:39:59 GMT
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The Alice Springs Linux User Group (ASLUG) will meet at Det 421 Rec.
Room on Schwartz Crescent at 18:30 on Tuesday, November 16th.
Agenda.
1. Linux in the News
2. Bash basics
3. Install time : 600Mhz screamer...
All welcome! If you'd like your PC upgraded to Linux, just bring it
along! If you have any questions about Linux, come along and we'll
try to answer them!
Cheers.
Adrian Casey.
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From: ian@caliban.org (Ian Macdonald)
Subject: signature 0.02 - dynamically produced sigs for e-mail & news
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:38:16 GMT
Reply-To: ian@caliban.org
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Announcing a bug fix release of signature, 0.02.
signature is a free, open-source producer of dynamic signatures for
livening up your e-mail and news postings. It will allow you to sign
your messages with a different sig every time.
The idea for the program came from an old Perl script in the Camel
Book that demonstrated the use of named pipes.
This version corrects the problem of a zombie process being created
every time a signature is created, plus a minor display error in the
usage message.
The software can be obtained from:
http://www.caliban.org/files/signature/signature-0.02.tar.gz
RPM format packages can be obtained from:
http://www.caliban.org/files/signature/signature-0.02.i386.rpm
http://www.caliban.org/files/signature/signature-0.02.src.rpm
The source code is available under the GPL 2.0 licence.
Ian
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http://www.caliban.org/ | in a very acute form. -- Winston
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From: nbs@sonic.net (William Kendrick)
Subject: Mad Bomber 0.1 - Atari 2600 "Kaboom!"-game clone
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:49:08 GMT
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Mad Bomber is a clone of Activision's 1981 Atari 2600 classic, "Kaboom!"
The Mad Bomber rushes back and forth at the top of the screen and drops bombs
which you must catch with your bucket. If one drops, you lose a bucket and go
back one level. One or two players can play, using keyboard or mouse. There
is also a "versus" mode where player two controls the Mad Bomber.
CHANGES since 0.0:
* Something special happens at 10,000 points now.
* Fixed some major CPU eating in the title and option screens.
(Thanks to Gabe Rosa <mr_gabe@student.djusd.k12.ca.us>)
* High score no longer counts in Two Player Vs. mode.
* Tweaked the bomb-drop rate to be more like the original Kaboom!
* The "Makefile" has been changed so that you can now cross-compile
Madbomber for Win32 systems. Joe Zbiciak's <im14u2c@primenet.com>
"jzIntv" Intellivision Emulator for Linux helped shed some light
on how to mangle the Makefile and source to cross-compile for Windows.
Info, screenshots and source (Linux) and Windows downloads at:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/madbomber/
- -bill!
bill@newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
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From: Taura <foxSWAPEM2REPLYlear@furry.ao.net>
Subject: XShipWars 1.21 Released
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:38:42 GMT
Reply-To: foxSWAPEM2REPLYlear@furry.ao.net
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XShipWars 1.21 Released
http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/dl_main.htm
Changes:
Default main menu theme touched up. If you have your own
main menu theme, please notify the developers so that they
may put it on the web page for distribution (see
http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/contacts.htm).
Fixed `transparent' pixel loading roundoff errors for loading
tga files at lower depths (8, 15, and 16 bits).
Portions of Windows code have been inserted into the client
and server code, this is strictly for Windows porters to
worry about. Also, if you're interested in porting to Windows,
then please e-mail the developers (see
http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/contacts.htm).
Updated Y2 support to version 2.02. Make sure you upgrade
your Y package to 2.02 (see http://fox.mit.edu/xsw/dl_main.htm).
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From: mva@bartlet.df.lth.se (Martin Wahlén)
Subject: CONFERENCE: NordU 2000: Call For Participation
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:39:35 GMT
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http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000
The NordU2000 (The Second USENIX/EurOpen) Conference is happy to announce
that our program is now offically released. We are pleased to be able to
offer some really good tutorials and technical sessions. For the full program
and registration details please se http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000
Dates: the confernce will be held between the 8:th and the 11:th of February,
2000 at Scandic Hotel Triangeln, Malmö, Sweden.
Keynote speakers
Bernt Ericson - Vice President, Research and Innovations,
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
Richard Stallman - founder of the GNU project
Steve Mann - inventor of the wearable computer
Tutorial Speakers
Eric Allman - Sendmail, Inc
Bjarne Stroustrup - AT & T Labs
Simon Kenyon - Irial Limited
Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick - Author and Consultant
Brad C. Johnson - SystemExperts Corporation
Aeleen Frisch - Exponential Consulting
Paul Vixie - Internet Software Consortium
Evi Nemeth - University of Colorado, Boulder
Marcus J. Ranum - Network Flight Recorder, Inc
Technical session
Theo de Raadt - the OpenBSD project
Marcus J. Ranum - Network Flight Recorder, Inc
Brad C. Johnson - SystemExperts Corporation
Bjarne Stroustrup - AT & T Labs
Tobias Oetiker - EE-Dept ETH-Zurich
Kjell Högström - SUN Microsystems AB
Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick
Bill Sandve - IBM Austin
Jeremy Allison - SAMBA team
Per Gullfeldt - Compaq
Poul-Henning Kamp - FreeBSD team
Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes - Member of AFUL
Andrew Tridgell - SAMBA team
Gustaf Selén - Ċbo Akademi University
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer - KDE development team
Brian Eberhardt - SuperUsers
Richard Guy Briggs
Werner Almesberger
Keld Simonsen - RAP A/S
Lars Hamrén
Dr. David P. Anderson - SETI@home
The conference is arranged by EurOpen.se an affiliate of the USENIX association,
SSLUG Skċne Själland Linux User Group and DKUUG Dansk UNIX-system Bruger Gruppe.
For SSLUG,
Martin Wahlen
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From: Neil Koozer <nkoozer@rosenet.net>
Subject: non-bios boot loader: nuni
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:43:34 GMT
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The nuni boot loader is posted at:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/
Purpose:
The purpose of nuni is to avoid bios-related problems in booting linux
by not using the bios. Use of the bios for boot loaders has been a
constant thorn because it detracts from the image of linux when many new
users get the "LI" or "L 01 01...." problem with lilo.
ChangeLog:
1999-08-06 nuni-0.01 released
/ChangeLog
Although the release number is still 0.01, there have been no bug
reports or suggested modifications.
Characteristics:
(1) CMOS setings are irrelevant. Changing them all over the place does
not affect the loader.
(2) All IDE drives that have i/o ports, i.e. hda thru hdh can be booted
equally well.
(3) No cylindar limit. It can boot linux from anyplace up to 128gb.
(4) It doesn't have a second stage loader. All loading is handled by
the code in the boot sector. A utility is used to insert the inode
number and some other parameters into the boot loader.
(5) Since it does not use the bios, the diagnostics are in the form of
a colored progress bar. One color character is poked into the video
memory for each block that is loaded. It uses different colors for the
inode block, pointer blocks, setup code blocks, and kernel blocks. If
it should freeze you can see exactly how many of which types of blocks
have been loaded. Prints a red 'E' for error.
(6) It doesn't pass command lines to the kernel. It is equivalent to
the floppy boot loader in this respect.
(7) Loads zImage and bzImage type kernels. Tested on linux 2.0 and 2.2
(8) It uses GPL licence.
(9) nuni can be placed in the MBR for booting one system, or it can be
placed in many different partitions if there is some kind of selector or
boot manager in the MBR.
Usage example (mbr only):
/sbin/nuni /vmlinuz /dev/hda
Usage example (multi-booting):
/sbin/nuni /vmlinuz.1 /dev/hdb2
/sbin/nuni /vmlinuz.2 /dev/hdd7
Usage example (nuni on floppy to boot linux from hd):
/sbin/nuni /vmlinuz
Instead of using a .conf file, you would put these commands into a
script to guard against typos and to remember what you did. The
multi-booting example would depend on a selector in the MBR. (next
version to include a non-bios selector)
The loader portion is assembled with the NASM assembler. The package
includes a binary of this portion.
Neil.
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From: "Ron Harwood" <harwoodr@technologist.com>
Subject: CONFERENCE: Linux Exposed: The Canadian Linux Exhibition - Call For Papers
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:47:12 GMT
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Linux Exposed: The Canadian Linux Exhibition - Call For Papers
When: Fall 2000
Where: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
What: Linux conference and tradeshow
How: Send e-mail to papers@hlug.mohawkc.on.ca
This is a call for papers for those interested in presenting at Linux
Exposed. Please send details of your proposed presentation, including
topic, brief synopsis, approximate length and any required resources.
Example:
Beowulf cluster use in searching for prime numbers.
I would like to present my group's project for using 64 CPUs in a Linux
Beowulf cluster. Details include photos of the hardware build process,
network diagram and software used.
Approximate time 30 minutes
Resources needed: LCD projector, internet connection (to show cluster in
action)
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From: Dave Michelson <dmichelson@ieee.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Silicon Graphics @ VanLUG - Mon, Nov 15, 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:44:30 GMT
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Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.linux.bc.ca/
and
IEEE Computer Society (Vancouver Chapter)
http://www.ieee.ca/vancouver/
present
"LINUX DEVELOPMENT AT SILICON GRAPHICS"
Dr. John R. Mashey
Vice-President & Chief Scientist
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Mountain View, CA 94039-7311
Monday, November 15, 1999
7:30-9:00 pm
BCIT, Bldg SE 6, BC Tel Theatre
Burnaby, BC
Free Admission, Open to all.
For parking and transit info, please see
http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/bcit.html
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Abstract:
New technologies often form disruptive waves in technology markets. The
talk starts with some excerpts from "The Innovator's Dilemma", examines
the last few years of turmoil in the computer business, applies the
general model to Linux, and ends with SGI's applications of these ideas.
SGI believes that Linux is the next major disruptive wave in computing,
and is in the process of committing several product lines to Linux, and
- - Silicon Graphics to making available many features from the IRIX
operating system.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Mashey joined Bell Laboratories in 1973, starting in the
Programmer's Workbench department the week its first PDP-11/45 arrived.
He worked on various UNIX-related projects, including the Programmer's
Workbench (PWB/UNIX), shell command languages (including the first one
heavily used for shell programming), text processing (MM macros), the
merger of UNIX versions that resulted in UNIX/TS 1.0 (numeric ancestor
of System III, System V), software development environments. He also
managed development of operations support systems (UNIX and IBM MVS,
data mining & analysis) deployed in the Bell System for local loop
maintenance. This led to creating a combined group of software engineers
and cognitive psychologists to tackle problems in human interface and
information organization and dissemination. Much of his work involved
evangelizing the use of UNIX and helping it become more widely useful to
broader audiences, split about equally between commercial and technical
computing.
In 1983, he moved to Convergent Technologies, ending as Director of
Software Engineering for the Data Systems Division. In 1985, he joined
MIPS Computer Systems, where he helped design the MIPS R2000 RISC
architecture, and managed operating systems, networking, and software
QA. At MIPS (and now SGI), he was (and is) a company-wide
trouble-shooter and evangelist, working with engineering, marketing, and
sales, and customers, especially in areas that cross divisions and
disciplines.
He was one of the founding members of the SPEC benchmarking group. He
remains active in technical conferences, either as Program Chair (USENIX
Summer 1990, Hot Chips 1992), on program committees (Hot Chips, USENIX),
as General Chair (Hot Chips 1994) at conferences and user groups around
the world. He was Guest Editor for IEEE Micro June 1993. People who read
USENET comp.arch usually know him.
He was an ACM National Lecturer for 4 years while at Bell Labs, and has
given more than 500 public talks on software engineering, UNIX, RISC
design, benchmarking, and supercomputing. People especially seem to
remember the talks called "Small is Beautiful" and "Software Army on the
March", as well as "More MIPS, Cheaper MIPS, Never Too Many" (the "Car"
talk), "Hardware, Wetware, Software", and "Big Data and the Next Wave of
InfraStress".
Dr. Mashey has a B.S. Mathematics, and M.S. and PhD Computer Science
from Pennsylvania State University.
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Dave Michelson /\\
dmichelson@ieee.org _\_v
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