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Linux-Announce Digest #671
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Fri Dec 10 20:13:16 1999
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Linux-Announce Digest #671, Volume #3 Fri, 10 Dec 99 20:13:04 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Easysoft ODBC Middleware Opens Corporate Data to the Linux Community (Eleanor Dowding)
Tiny Cobol release 0.0.2 (Rildo Pragana)
COMMERCIAL:Holiday 400MHz Linux Box for promotion (sales)
WebRAT: A web-based Remote Administration Tool. RC1 released (Michalis Kabrianis)
LOCAL: Philly User Group meeting 1/5/2000 announcement (Darxus)
Cyrus imapd 1.6.20 -- enterprise electronic mail (Lawrence Greenfield)
Keen little rabbit ears 0.8 - ear training program (Matthias Nutt)
WWW: Linux Software Channel back online (Tim Dobbelaere)
CryptoArchive - Initial announcement ("Kurt Seifried")
LOCAL: Chicago InstallFest Dec 12 ("Michael E. Potter")
LOCAL: Dec. 16th Piedmont Linux Users Group Meeting Announcement (Thomas Porter)
Festival 1.4.1 speech synthesis system (Rob Clark)
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From: Eleanor Dowding <Eleanor.Dowding@easysoft.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Easysoft ODBC Middleware Opens Corporate Data to the Linux Community
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:52:18 GMT
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Easysoft ODBC Middleware Opens Corporate Data to the Linux Community
Extending the benefits of ODBC to users of Linux and other non-Windows
platforms.
Leeds, England, Dec. 7, 1999 -- When an organisation turns to Linux to
enhance and expand its business systems, an essential consideration is how
legacy information can be incorporated into the new paradigm.
Windows users are accustomed to simple, consistent access to disparate data
sources through ODBC, the SQL based data access standard, now adopted and
controlled by the Open Standards Group.
Easysoft have now extended the benefits of ODBC to users of Linux and other
non-Windows platforms with the introduction of the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC
Bridge, a new component in the Easysoft Data Access 2000 family of
enterprise data access solutions.
By extending the ODBC API to Linux, the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge allows
access to any ODBC enabled database using standard Linux development tools
and desktop applications. The Bridge is supported within Perl DBI DBD::ODBC,
C, Python, Rexx/SQL and PHP and has been fully tested with leading office
software such as Applixware and Star Office.
Although the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge can be used without a Driver Manager,
Easysoft have worked closely with the developers of unixODBC, the standard
Open Source ODBC 3.0 Driver Manager and toolset, to ensure the Bridge is
fully compatible with unixODBC.
Sales Director, John Kos is delighted with the early feedback from users.
"Pre-launch over 5,000 sites installed the evaluation version. As you might
imagine, the Bridge is predominately being used with Apache to web enable
legacy applications and implement e-commerce solutions where the data is
stored in Microsoft Access, SQL Server, DB2 or Oracle. Many companies have
been so satisfied with the performance that they have pushed ahead to deploy
solutions based on the Bridge way ahead of the official release." The
Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge is a member of Easysoft Data Access 2000,a family
of software components and services for building enterprise-wide data access
solutions based on industry standards and providing heterogeneous access to
any database on any platform. Other components include the Easysoft
JDBC-ODBC Bridge and the Easysoft SQL Engine.
Easysoft -- Easysoft is a leading supplier of data access middleware
solutions based firmly on established industry standards. Easysoft products
provide an open framework to which you can add your own business logic to
create secure data access solutions that deliver consistent, blistering
performance, irrespective of client technology, server or database.
Additional Information
Easysoft: http://www.easysoft.com/ unixODBC: http://www.unixodbc.org/
Contact:Eleanor Dowding, Marketing Contact: Nick Gorham
E-mail: Eleanor.dowding@easysoft.com E-mail: nick.Gorham@lurcher.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1132220400
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From: Rildo Pragana <rpragana@acm.org>
Subject: Tiny Cobol release 0.0.2
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:52:40 GMT
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Tiny Cobol is a project for a freely available cobol compiler for the
Linux operating system. It is licensed under GPL (libraries are LGPL) and
is already compiling and running most of the Ansi-74 standard.
You can find more information or get the released package at
http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net
Developers snapshots are also available from our cvs tree, updated daily.
We are looking for developers and beta testers.
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Rildo Pragana FPGA/uControllers * Linux * tcl/tk
P.O. Box 721 Camaragibe PE http://members.xoom.com/rpragana
Brazil 54792-990 +55-81-459-1776
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL:Holiday 400MHz Linux Box for promotion
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:54:51 GMT
Reply-To: sales@storeanywhere.com
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The following system with Linux operating system is for promotion
before the Holidays:
AMD K6II 400 MHz CPU
64mb Memory, 6.4g Hard Drive
1.44FDD,48x CD-Rom
AT case, 8mb VGA card
3D Sound Card
Keyboard/Mouse/Speakers
for the total price of $469, also included is Redhat 6.1 copied CD.
There are other few systems for Holiday promotion. Please check
our website: www.storeanywhere.com
To order, you can simply pick up the phone and dial: (718) 934-7313 or
order on line.
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From: Michalis Kabrianis <kabrianis@hellug.gr>
Subject: WebRAT: A web-based Remote Administration Tool. RC1 released
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:54:08 GMT
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I would like to announce here the public release 0.8 of WebRAT, a.k.a Release
Candidate 1.0
WebRAT is a Web-based remote administration tool, designed to make system
administrators' life easier in broad networks, containing many Unix servers.
That release is considered stable, with complete feature freeze.
Administrative Modules:
Manage Servers (add/remove)
Manage Users (add/remove/change password)
View Logs
Node's modules:
Manage users (add/remove/change password)
Manage groups (add/remove groups, add/delete users to/from groups)
Manage hosts (/etc/hosts file, add/delete hosts)
Manage services (/etc/services file add/delete services - names)
View system logs.
You may access WebRAT at:
http://hq.hellug.gr/~webrat
Make sure to read the installation instructions at
http://hq.hellug.gr/~webrat/index-2.html
Bug reports will be highly appreciated
Michalis Kabrianis
kabrianis@hellug.gr
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From: Darxus <darxus@op.net>
Subject: LOCAL: Philly User Group meeting 1/5/2000 announcement
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:55:15 GMT
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Date Subject Speaker
1/5/2000 Apache Web Server Jason Stelzer <mental@neverlight.com>
2/2/2000 GNU Emacs Hugh Brock <hbrock@indigologic.com>
Where: The IQ Group's Technology Lab
The Constitution Building, 6th floor
325 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(map / pictures & info available on PLUG web page)
Cost: None
PLUG, the Philadelphia Linux User's Group, meets on the first Wednesday
of every month. Thanks to the IQ Group for providing our current
meeting place.
The PLUG web page is http://plug.nothinbut.net. Click on "Plug
Announcement" for more info on meetings (directions, parking info, etc).
If there are specific topics reguarding Apache web server that you would
be interested in hearing discussed on 1/5/2000, please email Jason Stelzer
<mental@neverlight.com>, or discuss on the PLUG mailing list. Info on
joining the PLUG mailing list can be found on the previously mentioned web
site.
__________________________________________________________________
PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4
darxus@op.net / http://www.op.net/~darxus
Find the next largest prime, be famous:
http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
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From: Lawrence Greenfield <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Cyrus imapd 1.6.20 -- enterprise electronic mail
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:58:46 GMT
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I'm pleased to announce the release of Cyrus imapd 1.6.20. This
release mostly fixes compilation problems and small functionality bugs
dealing with Sieve and duplicate delivery suppression.
Cyrus is an enterprise class electronic mail system, meant for high
performance on a sealed server. The IMAP server supports multiple
methods of authentication, Sieve filtering support, and other
features.
Download Cyrus imapd 1.6.20 from:
ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/cyrus-imapd-1.6.20.tar.gz
Send all bug reports, comments, requests, pleas to
cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu, or join the info-cyrus list at
info-cyrus-request@andrew.cmu.edu.
Enjoy,
Larry Greenfield
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From: Matthias Nutt <nutt@forwiss.uni-erlangen.de_antispam_>
Subject: Keen little rabbit ears 0.8 - ear training program
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 02:08:03 GMT
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hi folks,
I am not shure if I had annouced that keen little rabbit ear 0.8 is available
since 12th of november. See
http://www.forwiss.uni-erlangen.de/~msnutt/sound/keenlittlerabbitears/
for details.
You should update because it fixes a major bug.
Keen little rabbit ears is a simple ear training program for Linux and Windows.
It is free of charge. You can exercise the recogniton of
intervalls, chords, scales and chord progressions.
Keen little rabbit ears requires the installation of Perl (Version 5), Perl/Tk,
Perl::MIDI and an extermal MIDI player, like timidity (Verion
0.2i). Keen little rabbit ears is written in perl, uses Perl/Tk for the user
interface,
Perl::MIDI to write MIDI files and timidity to play MIDI files.
An Installation can be found on the web page.
Cheers Matthias
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From: Tim Dobbelaere <tdobbelaere@keyware.com>
Subject: WWW: Linux Software Channel back online
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 02:02:17 GMT
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Hi all,
The Linux Software Channel previously on www.cocoon.net/linux or
linux.cocoon.net is back online with the old database. New additions
expected shortly on linux.shark.eu.org
NEW URL -> linux.shark.eu.org
Please change your links
Thank you
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From: "Kurt Seifried" <seifried@seifried.org>
Subject: CryptoArchive - Initial announcement
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:57:26 GMT
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CryptoArchive - http://www.cryptoarchive.net/
The purpose of CryptoArchive is to collect, maintain and distribute
cryptographic software, documentation and information to anyone that
wants it. CryptoArchive was started by Kurt Seifried
(seifried@seifried.org). CryptoArchive will probably host a variety
of security software as well, since providing a secure environment is
just as important as choosing good cryptographic software.
CryptoArchive will not accept any cryptographic software (or in some
cases documentation) that is export controlled from it's country of
origin (for example the United States of America), I do not want to
have to enforce controls on who can and cannot access various parts
of the archive, and legally it is too risky. If you have any concerns
feel free to ask me (I want to include as much as possible, I just
don't want to end up in jail). If you have, or know of) a crypto
project that is not included please contact me, I'm sure I'll miss
more then a few projects/documents.
CryptoArchive will be available via ftp, and www for normal users,
for mirror sites the archives will be available via rsync (to ensure
it's continuity). Banner ads will be run on the www side, and text
messages in the ftp side will also be used (bandwidth isn't free
unfortunately).
As far as privacy goes I'm waffling on this, while I would like
nothing more then to have a 0 logging policy (i.e. no logs of ftp or
www access at all) I do need to know what is popular, how well
advertising is working, and so on. I will not sell log data except as
general statistics (i.e. webalizer style output), and will probably
destroy log files after a certain period (end of the month after I
generate statistics most likely). If there is sufficient demand I
will setup virtual servers that do not log accesses (I don't want to
paint myself into a corner either way).
Legal issues
Since I am accepting no export restricted crypto I will be avoiding
many problematic legal issues. For example if I were to host American
crypto, then I would have to make sure only US and Canadian residents
could access it Otherwise I (and possibly other Americans and
Canadians working on the project) could be held liable (as in federal
law breaking type liable). Obviously I do not want to go to jail, but
more importantly I do not want to exclude Americans from helping and
sponsoring the project (since that is where a lot of help and
sponsorship will be from).
Current sponsors / affiliates:
SecurityPortal.com
Wirex
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or affiliate please
contact Kurt Seifried.
Kurt Seifried, seifried@seifried.org, December 7 1999.
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From: "Michael E. Potter" <mep@xnet.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Chicago InstallFest Dec 12
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 02:04:56 GMT
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Announcement of Linux Installfest
What:
An Installfest is a gathering of people interested in
Linux with the intent of installing Linux on computers
owned by the individuals. We are also calling it a LinuxFest
to promote the idea of just sharing information.
It is FREE!
WHAT'S NEW THIS MONTH:
Note the time change, we are now running from 10 - 4.
Where:
The College of DuPage during the computer central computer expo.
We are in a room in the building _next_ to where the sale is held.
We are easy to find: if you go to the expo you will see our signs.
When:
Sunday December 12, 1999
Sunday January 23, 2000
Sunday February 27, 2000
Sunday April 30, 2000
Sunday May 28, 2000
Sunday June 25, 2000
Sunday July 30, 2000
Sunday August 27, 2000
Sunday September 24, 2000
Sunday October 22, 2000
Sunday November 26, 2000
This is the same day as the computer expo.
9:30-10 is the setup time.
10-4 is the install time.
The swap meet runs from 9-3.
Watch the web site for changes. www.uniforum.chi.il.us/linuxfest/
Who:
The local Linux User Groups are doing the installs.
UniForum Chicago is the coordinating organization; UniForum Chicago has
allocated $700 to promote and buy supplies for the upcoming installfests.
We are _not_ associated with the expo, we just think it is convenient
to have the installfest at the same time to allow people to pick
up some needed hw at the same time they are installing Linux.
I am Michael Potter, mep@xnet.com.
How:
For Installers:
a) Show up and install or just hang out.
b) Bring powercords and powerstrips to loan to or donate to the cause.
c) Bring your favorite distribution of Linux.
d) Bring network cable and hubs.
e) Bring foldable 2 wheel dollies.
f) Bring your experience on how to run an installfest (I am new at this).
g) Bring information about your Linux group so we can promote your group.
h) Bring a banner to hang up promoting your group.
For Installees:
Bring your computer and all the peripherals that
you want to work under Linux. We will not have spare monitors,
so you will have to bring your own.
The computer should have free disk space to install Linux, at
least 100MB.
You do not have to give up windows, we can install a dual boot system.
We have software which allows partitioning a live partition
and therefore, you do not need an open partion (just the free space).
Back up your system before you come. Even without the risk associated
with installing a new operating system, just moving the computer
in your car is a good enough reason to backup critical data.
There is no charge.
For Socializers:
Feel Free to stop by and say hi, there is no cover charge ;).
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From: Thomas Porter <txporter@mindspring.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Dec. 16th Piedmont Linux Users Group Meeting Announcement
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 02:07:26 GMT
Reply-To: txporter@mindspring.com
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Subject: LOCAL: Dec. 16th Piedmont Linux Users Group Meeting Announcement
Topic: Introduction to Python by Dr. Joe Louderback
Where: Room 17 Calloway Hall,
Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, NC
(map and directions on web page)
When: Thursday, December 16th, 1999, 7pm - 9pm
Cost: none
PLUG (the Piedmont Linux Users' Group) is an open membership group which serves
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the surrounding area.
The group meets informally on the third Thursday of each month at 7pm, usually
in Calloway Hall on the Wake Forest University campus.
The PLUG web site is located at http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/
To join our mailing list, send a message to listserv@wfu.edu saying
'subscribe plug' in the body.
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From: Rob Clark <robert@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Festival 1.4.1 speech synthesis system
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 02:03:10 GMT
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The Festival Speech Synthesis System version 1.4.1
and Edinburgh Speech Tools Library version 1.2.1
30th November 1999
Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis
systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole
it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level,
though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and
an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English
(British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most
advanced. Other groups release new languages for the system.
The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools
Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based
command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF
texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and
HTML.
Festival is free sorftware and is distributed under an X11-type
licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike.
This release offers minor bug fixes and new compiler support over
version 1.4.0 which was release in June 1999.
This distribution includes:
* Full English (British and American English) text to speech
* Full C++ source for modules, SIOD interpreter, and Scheme library
* Lexicon based on CMULEX and OALD (OALD is restricted to non-commercial
use only)
* Edinburgh Speech Tools, low level C++ library
* British English Male (for residual LPC resynthesis 8k and 16k versions)
* 2 American English Male (for residual LPC resynthesis 8k and 16k versions)
* 4 other voices using MBROLA based diphone synthesis (1 British Male,
2 American Males and 1 American Female).
* Castilian Spanish Male (for residual LPC resynthesis 11k version)
* British English Male (for spike excited LPC resynthesis 10k version)
* Full documentation (html, postscript and GNU info format)
Festival version 1.4.1 sources, voices, and Linux binaries are
available from
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html
and also from the US mirror at CMU
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/download.html
The Festival home page, offering descriptions of the system, examples
and online demos, can be found at
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
Requirements
To run Festival you need:
* A Unix machine, Festival has compiled and run on Suns (SunOS and
Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, SGIs and DEC Alphas but should be portable
to any standard Unix machine.
* A C++ compiler: we have used GCC version 2.7.2, 2.8.1, 2.95.1
SunCC 4.1 and 4.2, and egcs. Other C++ compilers are
probably possible with perhaps some minor chanages
* GNU Make any recent version
* Audio hardware, /dev/audio (8 bit and 16 bit on Suns, Linux
and FreeBSD) and NCD's NAS network transparent audio system
are supported directly but Festival supports the execution of
any Unix command that can play audio files.
There is also support for building the system under Windows NT and
95/98. We have successfully ran the system complied with Cygnus' GNU
win32 package and Microsoft's Visual C++, instructions are included
We intend to distribute binary distributions for major
architectures particularly Linux and Solaris. We will *not*
distribute binary versions for Windows NT/95 as we do not have enough
expertise to support them.
New in 1.4.1 version
* many small bug fixes
* SSFF track support (for emulabel)
* updated support for gcc-2.95.(12], gcc-2.7.2.[23], and AIX
* Support for new JDKs
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Alan, Rob, Richard and Paul
30th November 1999
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