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Linux-Announce Digest #690
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Linux-Announce Digest #690, Volume #3 Sun, 2 Jan 00 09:13:09 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Japanese WordMage (TM) Suite Enhanced For Students And Schools ("Dave Spector")
libbgrab-1.7 bttv framegrabber library with webcam application (Andreas Schiffler)
WWW: O'Reilly and Open Source (Andy Oram)
WWW: PegaSoft Portal - Y2K coverage and upgrades (Ken Burtch)
CVS Manual Translation Project initiated (0.1) (Karl Heinz Marbaise)
LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday (Daniel Tasch)
White Paper on Server Clustering ("Eric Bellagio")
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From: "Dave Spector" <spector@snip.net>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Japanese WordMage (TM) Suite Enhanced For Students And Schools
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:08:03 GMT
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News Release
For Immediate Release
For More Info Contact
Michael Wildoer
Marketing Manager
Lava Software Pty. Ltd. (ACN: 078 013 902)
service@lavasoft.com
+61-8-8235-0003 (Australia)
http://www.lavasoft.com
Japanese Application Suite Enhanced For Students And Schools
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA -- December 30, 1999 -- Lava Software is now shipping
Japanese WordMage (TM) v5.7, a complete low-cost Japanese application suite
for MacOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Linux. New features include the 'Kanji
Safari' multiplayer game, interactive storybooks, reading, aural and visual
comprehension exercises, and a powerful new vocabulary import filter. Many
features now support the extended European, Cyrillic and Greek character
sets (in addition to Japanese), making Japanese WordMage also suitable for
students of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Greek, etc.
All The Applications You Need In One Great Package
Japanese WordMage offers nine highly integrated applications including a
multilingual wordprocessor, a HTML web page editor / viewer, various study
systems with authoring abilities (interactive storybooks, auto-revision
flashcards, the 'Kanji Safari' multiplayer game and reading, aural and
visual comprehension exercises), a powerful Kanji reference dictionary, a
grammar library builder and a text translation aid.
Japanese WordMage does not require Japanese operating system software as it
contains its own multilingual input system, fonts, etc., making it
cost-effective and easy to install and upgrade. It can also be customised to
most European (and other romanised) languages, allowing European schools to
generate custom course materials for their students in their native
language. For example, Swedish-Japanese dictionaries or German-English
comprehension-type exercises can be created in minutes.
Students with laptop computers can now study anywhere, anytime using
Japanese WordMage, whilst teachers can easily create custom course materials
(or import existing materials) which conform exactly to their requirements.
Japanese WordMage also supports the distribution of course materials via the
Internet or school intranet - this can significantly enhance and extend
existing school-based studies and make distance learning and home study
programs much more effective.
Availability & System Requirements
The Standard Edition is priced from US$79 and the Professional Edition from
US$149, whilst the Classroom Edition starts at US$179 for a 5-machine
licence (10, 20, 40 and 80-machine license packs are also available).
Internet upgrades are free via download. Order direct from Lava Software
(school purchase orders accepted) or via resellers Netsales, eMacSoftware or
Digital River.
About the Company
Lava Software develops and delivers innovative software and extensive
customer support services to users in over 25 countries. More information
(including downloadable demos) is available from http://www.lavasoft.com on
the web, by emailing service@lavasoft.com or via fax on +61-8-8235-0668.
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Big Mouth Media
http://www.visionx.com/bigmouth
Voice: 856-428-2193
Fax: 661-207-4972
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From: Andreas Schiffler <schiffler@zkm.de>
Subject: libbgrab-1.7 bttv framegrabber library with webcam application
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:10:09 GMT
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libbgrab-1.7
libbgrab is a video4linux grabbing library to facilitate easy use of
BTTV framegrabber cards through a few function calls.
Included demo and utility programs are:
- - X-Windows screen output of live video
- - video-to-ascii converter
- - smooth live-video zooming with glide
and a complete and functional
- - webcam server
Everything is (C) under the GPL, A. Schiffler, schiffler@zkm.de
Home site: ftp://esc1.zkm.de/pub/libbgrab
Author contact: schiffler@zkm.de
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From: Andy Oram <andyo@ruby.ora.com>
Subject: WWW: O'Reilly and Open Source
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:18:22 GMT
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O'Reilly & Associates is just starting an open, online discussion on
open documents, as I mentioned on this list a few days ago. If you
like the idea of the forum (see my "seed" posting below) go to:
http://forums.oreilly.com/~publishing
and just start clicking; the procedure should be pretty easy to figure
out.
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The groundswell of Open Source, or free software, technologies has
created a sea change in commercial book publishing. Several
publishers, including O'Reilly & Associates, have started offering
books under various open-content licenses so that they can be freely
displayed on Internet sites, distributed with software on CD-ROMs,
taken apart to be used for course handouts, and in some cases
printed by other people besides the original publisher. As
revolutionary for the publishing industry as this distribution
mechanism is, some projects go even further to work directly with
the developers of Open Source projects. We are likely to see the
integration of professionally edited and produced documentation into
the model of Open Source development over the next few years.
Having recently finished one project myself under an open-content
license -- Using Samba -- and having started work on several other
such projects, I'd like to invite all interested persons to a
discussion on how the Open Source community and professional
publishers can
1. Involve developers of open source software more directly in the
development of high-quality guides and other
professionally-edited content.
2. Find the development models for open documents that work well
with the successful models used for open-source software.
There are many angles to consider -- quality control, Internet-time
release schedules, the big-picture thinking required to keep the
book's balance and structure strong during updates, risks and
benefits of forking, adequate compensation for writers and
publishers, dealing with the natural tendency to want to hide work
in progress with competitive publishers -- so take your pick and
give us a thoughtful post!
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Andy Oram O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. email: andyo@oreilly.com
Editor 90 Sherman Street phone: (617) 499-7479
Cambridge, MA 02140-3233 fax: (617) 661-1116
USA http://www.oreilly.com/~andyo/
Stories at Web site:
The Bug in the Seven Modules Code the Obscure The Disconnected
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From: Ken Burtch <ken@tiamet.vaxxine.com>
Subject: WWW: PegaSoft Portal - Y2K coverage and upgrades
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:11:09 GMT
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PegaSoft Portal, the Start Page for Linux Professionals, now has
extensive Y2K news coverage through the end of the year. Find out
what's happening all across the world.
The services of Canada's most extensive Linux portal have been enhanced
over recent months. Here are some of the hilights:
* news coverage: we cover dozens of news services. Read the latest news
articles, major press releases and announcements first from us. From
Reuters to Silicon Valley, from Oracle to the latest kernel releases.
* software links: over 1600 links for Linux professionals, with software
summaries and licencing information.
* Browse millions of Internet sites through our "Whole Internet"
categories.
* Linux Cafe, our brand new Linux chat room, is now operational. Stop
by for some caffinated discussions
* Improved site search engine
* and our portal is the only portal to give you weather forcasts, now
with satellite information
We are proud to serve the Linux community.
Ken O. Burtch
PegaSoft
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From: kama@hippo.fido.de (Karl Heinz Marbaise)
Subject: CVS Manual Translation Project initiated (0.1)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:14:03 GMT
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Title: CVSMTP
Version: 0.1
Entered-date: 30DEC99
Description: CVS Manual Translation Project (CVSMTP)
Started a project to translate the CVS
documentation into german may be other
languages. Coordination should be done
by e-mailing to kama.
Keywords: documentation CVS german
Author: kama@hippo.fido.de (Karl Heinz Marbaise)
Maintained-by: kama@hippo.fido.de (Karl Heinz Marbaise)
Primary-site: http://www.fido.de/~kama/cvs/cvsmtp.html
2700kB ftp://ftp.fido.de/pub/cvs/cvsmtp-0.1.tar.bz2
170kB ftp://ftp.fido.de/pub/cvs/cvsmtp-src-0.1.tar.bz2
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platforms:
Copying-policy: GPL Version 2.0 or later (see CVS manual)
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'til next mail. Internet: http://www.fido.de/~kama/
Karl Heinz 7:-) Fidonet: 2:2452/110.18
Voice: +49 241 962380
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From: Daniel Tasch <taschda@dmapub.dma.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:39:10 GMT
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The UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group of the Dayton Microcomputer
Association meets on the first thursday of evey month. The meeting is held
at the DMA office at 119 Valley St in Dayton at 7:00 pm.
Visitors and new users are always welcome.
For additional information contact:
Tony Snyder
snydert@dmapub.dma.org
937-275-7913
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From: "Eric Bellagio" <eric@wolfblast.com>
Subject: White Paper on Server Clustering
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:40:31 GMT
Reply-To: "Eric Bellagio" <eric@wolfblast.com>
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PolyServe Corporation announces the availability of a comprehensive White
Paper on "Server Clustering for High-Availability, Low-Cost Web Server
Appliances" via its web site.
http://www.polyserve.com/PDFs/high_availability.pdf
This seven page White Paper provides a synopsis of the Server Clustering
Market and an in-depth overview of Defining, Designing and Configuring
High-Availability Server Clusters for Ecommerce Applications.
For general 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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