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Linux-Announce Digest #817
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Linux-Announce Digest #817, Volume #3 Wed, 5 Jul 00 13:13:07 EDT
Contents:
xhyperoid 1.2 - an enhanced shoot-the-asteroids game (Russell Marks)
Announcing release 1.2 of the Market Analysis System (Jim Cochrane)
LOCAL: unix security presentation thursday 6th (Philip Brown)
ftape-4.03 floppy tape device driver and utilities (Claus-Justus Heine)
LOCAL: PCLUG - Polk County, Florida (Henry White)
etach 1.1 (MIME email attach/detach/forward in Emacs) (John M Rulnick)
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From: russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com (Russell Marks)
Subject: xhyperoid 1.2 - an enhanced shoot-the-asteroids game
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:56:37 GMT
Reply-To: russell.marks@ntlworld.com
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xhyperoid is essentially an Asteroids clone, but with a few extra
features. It's a port of the original Hyperoid for Windows 3.x. There
are versions for both X and svgalib. There are three reasons I ported
it:
- the decent game physics and enhancements over the original game
make it probably my favourite Asteroids variant;
- it's always sucked having to run it under Windows (admittedly, you
can run the original under Wine, but it's less than ideal);
- it's the first GPL'd program I ever saw, which gives it a certain
special something for me. :-)
One of the first things I did on porting it was to add sound, so
that's another plus. :-)
The homepage is here:
http://www.svgalib.org/rus/xhyperoid/
You can also download it from Metalab (though mirrors are better):
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/arcade/asteroids/xhyperoid-1.2.tar.gz
Here's the LSM entry:
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Title: xhyperoid
Version: 1.2
Entered-date: 2000-06-27
Description: xhyperoid is essentially an Asteroids clone, but with
a few extra features, and some nice game physics. (It's
a port of one of the better games for Windows 3.x.)
Despite the name, there are both X and svgalib-based
versions (the X one uses GTK+).
Keywords: games action arcade Asteroids sound X GTK+ svgalib
Author: eah@email_address_unknown (Edward Hutchins)
russell.marks@ntlworld.com (Russell Marks)
Maintained-by: russell.marks@ntlworld.com (Russell Marks)
Primary-site: http://www.svgalib.org/rus/xhyperoid/
Alternate-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/games/arcade/asteroids
89862 xhyperoid-1.2.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
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From: jtc@dimensional.com (Jim Cochrane)
Subject: Announcing release 1.2 of the Market Analysis System
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:00:44 GMT
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This is to announce version 1.2 of the Market Analysis System (MAS).
MAS is a client/server application that provides tools for analysis of
financial markets using technical analysis, with the goal of helping its
user make better buying and selling decisions and to help save time by
automating some tasks that would otherwise be done by hand. MAS includes
facilities for charting, as well as for automated batch processing of
market data.
MAS 1.2 includes some bug fixes and minor extensions to both the server
and the GUI client.
MAS is released as free software, and is currently available at:
http://eiffel-mas.sourceforge.net/
MAS has two main components: the Market Analysis System Server (also
known as Market Analysis Server) and the Market Analysis GUI Client.
The server provides the capability to apply technical analysis[1]
indicators to market data. Additionally, the server allows the user
to specify a set of criteria (using one more more technical indicators)
and apply those criteria to market data, generating buy and sell signals
for markets that meet the criteria[2].
The current version of the MAS server runs on Linux/Intel and Windows
systems, although the Windows version is currently more limited than the
Linux version[3]. The MAS server is written in Eiffel. The GUI Client is
written in Java and should run on any system with a Java runtime
environment (JRE).
The Market Analysis GUI Client (MAGC) provides basic charting facilities,
using the server to obtain market and indicator data. MAGC currently
displays price data using either standard bar charts or candle charts.
MAS currently accepts daily stock and index data. In the future it will
probably be expanded to accept other kinds of data, such as futures data.
Below is a summary of MAS's features.
Market Analysis Server (MAS)
Functionality:
- Includes several system-defined technical indicators.
- Allows the user to create and save new technical indicators.
- Handles stock splits.
- Currently expects daily data.
- Production of weekly data from daily data.
- Allows user to create and save sets of market-analysis rules.
- Analyzes market data using selected market-analysis rules.
- Notification by email of buy and sell signals generated by market analysis.
- Allows user to add registrants for email of market analysis results.
- Provides services to GUI or command-line clients using a socket-based
protocol.
- One server process can service several GUI clients.
System-defined technical indicators:
- Simple Moving Average
- Exponential Moving Average
- MACD Difference
- MACD Signal Line (EMA of MACD Difference)
- MACD Histogram
- Momentum
- Rate of Change
- Williams %R
- Stochastic %K
- Stochastic %D
- Slow Stochastic %D
- Relative Strength Index
Current list of user-configured technical indicators:
- On Balance Volume
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Slope of MACD Signal Line
- Slope of Slope of MACD Signal Line
- EMA of Volume
Current list of market-analysis rules:
- MACD Crossover (Buy)
- MACD Crossover (Sell)
- Stochastic %D Cross Below 35% (Buy)
- Stochastic %D Cross Above 65% (Sell)
- Volume > Yesterday's Volume EMA (5) * 2.75
- Slope of MACD Signal Line Cross Above 0 (Buy)
- Slope of MACD Signal Line Cross Below 0 (Sell)
- Slope of Slope of MACD Signal Line Cross Above 0 (Buy)
- Slope of Slope of MACD Signal Line Cross Below 0 (Sell)
Market Analysis GUI Client (MAGC)
Functionality:
Provides charts of market and indicator data.
Obtains market and indicator data from the MAS via a network connection.
Provides choice of candles or price bars.
Provides selection of markets.
Provides choice of daily or weekly data.
Displays reference dates and values based on current data.
Allows user to run several windows at a time.
Provides configuration of colors for graph components.
Provides configuration of date range for data.
Allows configuration of user-defined reference lines.
Allows printing of charts.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Eirik Mangseth for his work porting MAS to Windows
and writing an ODBC database layer for Windows, and for his helpful comments
and suggestions.
[1] For those not familiar with technical analysis, it is a set of
techniques for analyzing market data, using indicators such as trend
lines, moving averages, price momentum, oscillators, etc. to identify
changes in market trends. It is based on the observation that "prices
move in trends which are determined by the changing attitudes of investors
toward a variety of economic, monetary, political, and psychological
forces." ["Technical Analysis Explained," by Martin J. Pring]
[2] For example, one configuration I haved used is to issue a buy signal
if Stochastic %D crosses below 35% (indicating that the stock is becoming
oversold) and, no more than 28 days before that, the weekly MACD difference
line crossed above the weekly MACD signal line (indicating that the stock
may be in a long-term uptrend), as well as to issue a sell signal for the
opposite event - Stochastic %D crosses above 65% and weekly MACD difference
line crosses below weekly MACD signal line.
[3] The Windows version currenlty can only be used for charting of stocks
with the system-defined indicators. It cannot do batch processing. Also,
it cannot read the stock split data file; so to use it for charting you will
need stock data that has already been adjusted for splits. There is a
description of the reasons for these limitations included in the files that
contain the Windows release (README_WINDOWS.txt in mas_windows1.2.zip or
mas_windows1.2.tar.gz).
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From: phil+s3@bolthole.no-bots.com (Philip Brown)
Subject: LOCAL: unix security presentation thursday 6th
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:05:30 GMT
Reply-To: phil+s3@bolthole.no-bots.com
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UNIX Users Association of Southern California - LA
Next Meeting, Thursday July 6th, 7pm-9:30pm
[See below for NEW location]
Topic: Security -- securing, intrusion detection, and other issues
Planned items include:
* Demonstrations of security auditing techniques.
* Demonstrations of Intrusion Detection Systems (snort, NFR,
others).
* Demonstrations of penetration testing, live and direct.
* See attempted intrusions live.
* Discussions of how to fend off the bad guys.
Remember, you have to plug all the holes. The bad guys just have to
find one.
Speakers at the presentation:
Lynda True
Lynda is Co-P.I. of the Art of Information Warfare IR&D Project.
She has a strong background computer network security, and
is known in the hacker community for 20 years as "shrdlu", among other names.
Jim Ross
Jim is a member of the Art of Information Warfare IR&D Project.
He has been a speaker at Defcon, and and is known in the community as
"Gurney Halleck"
Doug Ayers
Doug is a member of the Art of Information Warfare IR&D Project.
He has experienced at securing systems at the commercial level, and has
over 15 years' experience with DoD software systems
Thursday July 6th, 7pm-9:30pm
TRW, Building R2, room 1177A
One Space Park Drive, Redondo Beach, CA.
A telephone into the room is 310-812-5607
**You need to call this number to be let in the building**
There is a phone in a call box beside the door for any latecomers, and
they only need to dial the last five digits (25607).
Directions to TRW
Location is TRW, "Building R2", on the ground floor, room 1177A. More
details forthcoming.
Coming either way on the 105:
Get off at Aviation blvd, and go south for a mile or so.
Then use the "south on 405" directions below, starting at the
"make a left onto Aviation" line
Coming south on the 405:
exit at Rosecrans west (says Manhattan Beach on the sign),
make a right onto Rosecrans,
make a left onto Aviation,
cross Marine, and make a left on One Space Park Drive.
turn left at the stop sign, and park in the R2 parking lot.
use the phone outside, and call 25607.
someone will come out and get you.
Coming north on the 405:
exit at Inglewood,
turn north on Inglewood,
turn left on Marine,
turn left on Aviation,
turn left on One Space Park Drive
turn left at the stop sign, and park in the R2 parking lot.
Hope to see folks there :-) !
Philip Brown
phil@bolthole.com
http://www.bolthole.com/uuala/
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From: Claus-Justus Heine <heine@instmath.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: ftape-4.03 floppy tape device driver and utilities
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:51 GMT
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Finally, ftape-4.03 is ready.
ftape-4.03 is in the main part a maintenance release which fixes
various incompatibilities with newer kernels.
What it is
==========
ftape is the floppy tape device driver for Linux.
News
====
- -- Make sure the whole stuff compiles with kernels up to 2.4.0
- -- Builtin ISAPnP support with kernels which support it (i.e. >= 2.3.46)
- -- `devfs' support for kernels which support it.
- -- The "raw" ftape devices have vanished, but still are recognised for
compatibility. Instead, a new ioctl "MTIOCFTMODE" has been
introduced to switch the driver to and from "raw" mode.
- -- Change the format API slightly so that the format filler byte can be
specified.
- -- Fix the "mysteriously erasing header segments on Ditto 2GB tape
drives" bug.
- -- change the MTFSR/BSR/SEEK/TELL interface. Now blocks are counted from
logical BOT, each file mark counts for one block. Thus we should be
consistent with SCSI tape drives at last.
- -- ftape-4.02 didn't automatically reduce the data rate down to
2000Kbps with Ditto Max tape drives (the ft_fdc_rate_limit
parameter did work correctly, though).
Supported platforms
===================
Linux/x86
Linux/alpha
Maybe others.
Where to get it
===============
Primary site:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ftape-4.03.tar.bz2
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ftape-tools-1.08.tar.bz2
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ftape-4.x-doc-1.04.tar.bz2
It will probably take a some time before the archives show up at
their proper location at sunsite. Until then you can fetch them from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/
Secondary site:
http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/tar/ftape-4.03.tar.bz2
http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-tools/tar/ftape-tools-1.08.tar.bz2
http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/tar/ftape-4.x-doc-1.04.tar.bz2
The Ftape home page is located at
http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
Regards
Claus
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heine@instmath.rwth-aachen.de
http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/
Ftape - the Linux Floppy Tape Project
Home Page : http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
Mailing-list: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: Henry White <henryw@gte.net>
Subject: LOCAL: PCLUG - Polk County, Florida
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:01:24 GMT
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The Polk County Linux Users Group will hold its regularly scheduled general
meeting (the second Tuesday of every month):
Tuesday, 11 July at 7:00 pm in the Cafeteria
Southwest Middle School,
2815 South Eden Parkway,
Lakeland
(west off Florida Avenue South (US98) at Edgewood Drive (a couple
of blocks south of Southgate Shopping Center) to South Eden Parkway on the
right. (see map at http://pclug.fsn.net/meetings.html).
All Linux users are welcome, regardless of expertise level. If you're
not currently using Linux but are interested or thinking about it, this is
the time and place to find out all you need to know!
If you have questions, comments, or just want to participate, please
email info@pclug.fsn.net or visit our webpage at http://pclug.fsn.net
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Henry White
mailto:henryw@gte.net
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From: John M Rulnick <etach@rulnick.com>
Subject: etach 1.1 (MIME email attach/detach/forward in Emacs)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:58:53 GMT
Reply-To: John M Rulnick <etach@rulnick.com>
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Etach is free software for handling email attachments and detachments
in Emacs. Version 1.1 is now available from:
http://download.sourceforge.net/etach/
This version includes many changes from the first release for
compatibility with different environments and versions of Emacs, some
new features, and a few documentation enhancements and bug fixes. For
more information please see:
http://etach.sourceforge.net/
LSM entry (with updated sites) follows.
Title: etach
Version: 1.1
Entered-date: 2000-07-04
Description: Etach is an Emacs add-on that allows easy management
of MIME email attachments in RMAIL and Mail modes.
Attachments and detachments are as simple as entering
the Emacs commands M-x attach and M-x detach,
respectively. Also provided is the ability to forward
mail via message/rfc822 format (M-x mime-forward),
useful when forwarding messages that contain MIME
attachments. Installation requires adding just a
single line to the system or user startup file.
Keywords: attach, attachment, detach, Emacs, email, Mail, MIME,
RMAIL
Author: etach@rulnick.com (John M Rulnick)
Maintained-by: etach@rulnick.com (John M Rulnick)
Primary-site: http://download.sourceforge.net/etach/
Alternate-site:
Original-site: http://etach.sourceforge.net/
Platforms:
Copying-policy: GPL
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