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Linux-Announce Digest #805
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Linux-Announce Digest #805, Volume #3 Mon, 19 Jun 00 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: NYLUG.org June meeting 6/21 @ 6:30pm, Beowulf Clusters (Jim Gleason)
KUnit 0.3 unit conversion tool ("Jan Schaumann")
FreeLinuxCD.org Needs Your Contributions ("Free Linux CD Project")
COMMERCIAL: Hot-swap for Compact PCI (Jungo)
MAILING-LIST: ThinkPad 240 Linux Users (Brian Edmonds)
web2ldap.py 0.7.6 - web gateway for accessing LDAP servers (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
LOCAL: Automatic COLUG meeting notice (colugx@stones.wcbe.org)
LOCAL: Alice Springs Linux User Group : June 27th (Adrian Casey)
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From: Jim Gleason <jgleason@electriclichen.com>
Subject: LOCAL: NYLUG.org June meeting 6/21 @ 6:30pm, Beowulf Clusters
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:51:43 GMT
Reply-To: Jim Gleason <jgleason@electriclichen.com>
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*** New York Linux Users Group June Meeting ***
- NYLUG.org -
Beowulf Clusters: Linux-based Supercomputers
that Use Commodity Hardware
6/21/00
Wednesday
6:30pm-8:00pm
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
Check in at lobby for badge and room number
Beowulf is a Linux-based supercomputer that uses commodity hardware
arranged in a cluster, or some grouping of off-the-shelf nodes
interconnected by a private high-speed network, such as ethernet.
The work to be done by the Beowulf cluster occurs in parallel. For example,
in a 64 node cluster, one node is assigned to be the "manager" and will
parse jobs to each of the other nodes which all work simultaneously. When a
node is ready for more work, it is given a new job or more data to crunch.
When compared to an equivalent "big iron" SMP box, such as a Sun
Microsystems E10000, an IBM SP2, or an SGI Origin; Beowulf-class
architectures cost significantly less - as much as five to 20 times less
than the proprietary equivalent.
Beowulf systems can be found in the financial services industry calculating
risk or interest rates. In the pharmaceutical industry designing new drugs.
They are prevalent in Hollywood rendering special effects (The Titantic is a
noteworthy example.) They are also widely found performing scientific
computing work or any task that is computationally demanding.
We are happy to have Greg Lindhal, senior engineer at High Performance
Technologies, Inc. (hpti.com) in Reston, VA present this topic and answer
your questions.
_______________________________
After the Meeting... Stammtisch
Join us around 8:15pm or so at the Typhoon Brewery & Restaurant located
at 22 East 54th Street between Madsion and 5th Aves.
What is Stammtisch? http://linuxmafia.com/bale/#stammtisch
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Swag Give-Away
More DeCSS t-shirts.Thanks again to Steve Blood of The Bazaar, for
providing us with this cool swag and many thanks to everyone who
demonstrated against the DMCA in May. -- Stay tuned for an upcoming
"official" article from NYLUG.org --
______________________________________
Where & When is the NYLUG.org Meeting?
With the generous support of IBM, all regular NY-LUG meetings are held at
the main IBM building at 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street in mid-town
Manhattan every third Wednesday of the month starting at 6:30pm. All
meetings are free and open to the public.
_____________
Mailing Lists
* nylug-talk
Talk Mailing List for people to contribute and resolve each other's
technical problems.
* nylug-announce
Announce Mailing List for speaker and installfest announcements.
To post a message to the talk mailing list, address it to
nylug-talk@nylug.org
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List Archives
Thanks to Eric Berg, we now have sortable archives from 1999 and in new
millenium. Check it out at: www.nylug.org
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Contacts
Jim Gleason, President, jgleason@nylug.com
Eric Berg, Vice President, eberg@nylug.org
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What is Linux?
http://www.nylug.org/about_linux.html
__________________
What is NYLUG.org?
NYLUG (www.nylug.org) is New York's Linux Users Group supporting all
things Linux and Open Source in the New York metro area. Please feel
free to contact me if you have any questions about the NYLUG.org.
______________
Special Thanks
Many thanks go to all of the people who travelled down to Washington DC for the DMCA
protest in front of The Library of Congress on May 2nd. Many thanks also to Rebecca
Blake & Lara Kisielewska of Optimum Design (they co-publish Linux Magazine) for creating
our mascot "Tuxi" and to Mark Andal for the original cabbie idea. Thanks to Ari Jort -
core nylugger whose contributions are too numerous to mention here. Special thanks also
go to Peter Norton and Barry Hughes, NYLUG's lead engineers at LinuxWorld Expo, and all
of the other NYLUGGERS who volunteered. Without you, we could not have done the show.
Good job!
_______________________________________________________________
NYLUG.org: Host LUG Sponsor of LinuxWorld Expo's .Org Pavillion
February 1-4, 2000; Jacob Javits Center, NYC
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Jim Gleason VA Linux Systems
email: jim@valinux.com http://www.valinux.com
phone: 212-858-7684 President, New York Linux Users Group
fax: 212-858-7685 http://www.nylug.org
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <jschauma@netmeister.org>
Subject: KUnit 0.3 unit conversion tool
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:49:19 GMT
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I'm pleased to announce KUnt Version 0.3:
KUnit is a tool to convert between different units. It currently supports
conversion to and from various units in the following categories:
acceleration, angle, angular acceleration, angular velocity, area, bits
and bytes, capacitance, charge, current, energy, force, illuminance,
inductance, length, luminance, magnetic flux, mass (or weight), power,
pressure, SI prefixes, specific heat, temperature, thermal conductivity,
time, torque, velocity, viscosity (dynamic), viscosity (kinematic),
voltage, and volume.
KUnit can be obtained from http://www.netmeister.org/apps/kunit-0.3.tar.gz
or alternatively from
http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/kunit-0.3.tar.gz There is an
RPM at http://www.netmeister.org/apps/kunit-0.3-1mdk.i686.rpm and a
Source-RPM at http://www.netmeister.org/apps/kunit-0.3-1mdk.src.rpm
View the Changelog at http://www.netmeister.org/apps/kunit/CHANGES
- -Jan
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Jan Schaumann
http://www.netmeister.org
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From: "Free Linux CD Project" <contribute@freelinuxcd.org>
Subject: FreeLinuxCD.org Needs Your Contributions
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:50:48 GMT
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Dear Linux Enthusiasts,
'Free Linux CD' is a very new project run by
volunteers. We aim to provide Linux CDs for FREE
to anybody who wants one.
Please contribute your used Linux CDs to the
FREE LINUX CD Project. You will find more information
on our website.
Although we already have 'some' Linux CDs to offer for free,
we are eagerly accepting your donations to the project so that we
can offer Free Linux CDs to more and more people.
Don't let that Linux CD be wasted. Put it into good use.
PS:(Other free/open source operating systems also welcome)
FreeLinuxCD.org
http://freelinuxcd.org
PS: We apologize in advance if you consider this message spamming.
x-------------------------------------------------------------------x
The FREE LINUX CD Project
http://freelinuxcd.org
Get your FREE LINUX CD now...
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From: Jungo <Jungo_member@newsguy.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Hot-swap for Compact PCI
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:59:30 GMT
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Jungo Ltd. Adds Hot Swap Capabilities to The Linux Operating System.
The “GO Hot-Swap" tools enable users to easily develop hot-swappable drivers
from scratch, or immediately add Hot-Swap capabilities to their existing PCI
drivers.
The “GO Hot-Swap” is a generic solution, i.e. it is not dependant on the
hardware configuration on which it is running, or the host PCI controller it is
using. The same drivers written using the “GO Hot-Swap” solution will compile
and run on all supported operating systems, and on all CompactPCI systems.
For more information regarding the Hot-Swap technology or for a free evaluation
version please visit: http://www.jungo.com/cpci.html.
Amir Inbar, cPCI product manager
Web: www.jungo.com, Email: amir@jungo.com
Phone: 1-877-514-0537 (USA) +972-9-8859365 (Worldwide), Ext. 103
Fax: 1-877-514-0538 (USA) +972-9-8859366 (Worldwide)
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From: Brian Edmonds <brian@gweep.bc.ca>
Subject: MAILING-LIST: ThinkPad 240 Linux Users
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:54:46 GMT
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I have created a mailing list for users of Linux on the IBM ThinkPad 240
to share experiences and configuration information. More information
and a subscription interface can be found on the following page:
http://www.gweep.bc.ca/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-tp240
Please keep in mind that this is *not* a general help forum, as many of
those already exist. People coming out of nowhere with a flood of
general newbie questions will not be warmly received. Newbies are
welcome, but any threads should be focused on issues specific to the
peculiarities of running Linux on laptop computers, in particular the
TP240.
Brian.
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From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: web2ldap.py 0.7.6 - web gateway for accessing LDAP servers
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:56:22 GMT
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
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*** web2ldap.py 0.7.6 ***
I would like to announce a new version of web2ldap, a full-featured
LDAPv2+ client written in Python designed to run as web gateway.
It's available for free (GPL) from
http://www.web2ldap.de/
The changes are documented on:
http://www.web2ldap.de/doc/changes.html
There's a demo up and running:
http://www.web2ldap.de/demo.html
I would like to encourage users to heavily test this gateway and
report success or problems to feedback@web2ldap.de. You might want
to use the feedback form on
http://www.web2ldap.de/feedback.html
as a template for a mail. Thanks a lot.
Ciao, Michael.
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From: colugx@stones.wcbe.org
Subject: LOCAL: Automatic COLUG meeting notice
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:01:20 GMT
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Followup-to: colugx@bopper.wcbe.org
MEETING NOTICE
==============
Central Ohio Linux Users Group
Saturday, June 24th., 1300 to 1500 local
Meeting Presentation
====================
The main presentation:
Carry-over from last month -- Finishing this topic, Phil H
will use the 'h2n' tool and some shell scripting to set up a simple
set of DNS files for local nameservice provision behind a residential
firewall. Please review the DNS HOW-TO -- see, e.g.:
http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html
The second half will be a 'Stump the Guru' Q and A session.
Bring a sick box, or your toughest problem and we'll pull a panel
from the attendees.
There are also raffle goodies from TurboLinux, and a
publisher who will be next month's featured sponsor on the
group's web-pages.
As always (both with the informal nature of the group's
`management' and the vaguries of the presenters' schedules),
the agenda and content are subject to change.
Additionally, the _formal_ meeting ends at the stated time.
We've noticed that folks continue to stand around in the parking lot
for _hours_. We'll probably adjourn to a local watering hole,
to slake thirst and sit down.
MEETING SITE:
=============
This month's meeting will be held at:
TEAM America (http://www.teamamerica.com)
110 East Wilson Bridge Road
Worthington, OH 43085
(614) 848-3995
The building is at US23 North and 270 off of
East Wilson Bridge Road just around the first
curve.
Parking is FREE !
.... The group has met on the LAST Wednesday or LAST Saturday
of a month, alternating by month to allow more folks to mesh
their schedules with COLUG's. Sites and dates also depend
on facility availabity, with common-sense relocation in the
holiday season.
The webpage always has a link to a map to the upcoming meeting
site. See: http://stones.wcbe.org/~COLUG/meetings.php3
Meeting Schedule
================
The NEXT meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, July 26,
2000 from 19:00 to 21:00 local -- Location is up in the air --
we've pretty well outgrown the kindly donated TeamAmerica site,
although we continue to 'shoe-horn' in until a suitable
replacement is found.
Additional information
======================
Call Phil Hunter (Owl River Company) at 614 - 221-0695.
info@owlriver.com http://www.owlriver.com
================================================================
Check out the web site at:
http://stones.wcbe.org/~COLUG/cola_index.html
Send administrative mail to: colugx@bopper.wcbe.org with any
questions
There exists a Majordomo list -- send an email as above, for
details
- -- Phil Hunter
hunter@owlriver.com
Owl River Company
"The World is Open to Linux (tm)"
... Open Source LINUX solutions ...
~COLUG/meeting.txt
rev. 000618 PH -- mails to COLA on the 19th
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From: Adrian Casey <axiiom@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: LOCAL: Alice Springs Linux User Group : June 27th
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:00:21 GMT
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* Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia *
The next ASLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, June 27th, 18:30 at Det
421 Recreation Room (Schwartz Crescent, opp. RSL).
Agenda.
1. Linux news
2. Show preparations
3. Hands On
I'm working on a Linux Boot-Camp series of pages. The aim is to help
users in the immediate post-installation stage. Check it out at
www.aslug.org.au/boot_camp1.html. Comments and suggestions welcome.
As always, check www.aslug.org.au for latest details.
Cheers.
Adrian Casey.
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