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Linux-Announce Digest #836, Volume #3 Sun, 13 Aug 00 14:13:05 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: Manchester Linux User Group (ManLUG) meetings, Aug and Sept (Dr A V Le Blanc)
WWW: Issue #18 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU forum has been released. ("Georg C. F. Greve")
COMMERCIAL: 4U Rackmount Dual-CPU server
banal 0.10 release - bookkeeping/practice management system
LOCAL: Washington DC Aug 19 User Group Meeting ("Geof Goodrum")
RADION 256 + 3D Accelerated-X (Debbie Kreuser)
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From: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
Subject: LOCAL: Manchester Linux User Group (ManLUG) meetings, Aug and Sept
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:53:01 GMT
Reply-To: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
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MANLug meetings for August and September, 2000.
19 August 2000, 14:00, Lascelles Williams Room, Computer Building,
University of Manchester. (For more information, see our website:
http://www.manlug.man.ac.uk, under 'How to find us'.)
Linux at the BBC
Damion Yates, BBC Internet Services
A brief description of the BBC Internet and digital TV infrastruture;
where Linux has been chosen in the BBC in general, and why Linux was
chosen in the BBC specifically for Digital TV and the Internet.
Some interesting projects we're working on using Linux and UNIX.
Damion has asked me to install realplayer on the presentation machine,
which I have done.
16 September 2000, 14:00, usual place (as above).
The Dolphin WulfKit
Chris Scotford, Dolphin Interconnect
This will be two presentations, one about Dolphin hardware
(high speed, low latency SCI interconnect tecnology) and one about
Scali software (tuned MPI supercomputer and configuration software).
The combination produces a particularly powerful Beowulf cluster,
yielding high performance at low cost.
See http://www.wulfkit.com/ and http://www.scali.com/ for more
information about these companies and their products.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@gnu.org>
Subject: WWW: Issue #18 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU forum has been released.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:51:08 GMT
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[Please repost and forward this article widely, wherever it
is appropriate.]
Issue #18 of Georg's Brave GNU World,
the monthly GNU forum has been released.
-- Georg Greve
Hi !
Issue #18 of the column is now online and it can - as usual - be found
on the GNU Webpage and its mirrors. Otherwise just follow the links at
the end of this posting.
Georg's Brave GNU World is a monthly column which is being released
simultaneously in five languages (English, German, French, Japanese
and Spanish) on the web and printed in the German "Linux-Magazin" as
well as the "Linux Magazine France." This makes it the monthly column
with the widest distribution worldwide as far as I know.
If you would like to receive mail about new issues directly, you can
subscribe to the "Brave GNU World" announcement mailinglist. Just
send mail to <brave-gnu-world-request@gnu.org> with "subscribe" in
the *body*. The mailinglist is only for announcements that are related
to the "Brave GNU World" and is of very low volume (between 1 and 2
mails a month).
The 18th issue covers the following topics:
* GNU Sather (a very advanced object oriented
programming language)
* Ruby (an object oriented scripting language
and the possible successor of Perl)
* a386 (a Intel 386 Virtual Machine)
* Guppi (The GNOME Plotting Tool & Library)
* GPL-Society? (About a study analyzing a possible
GPL'ed society)
* Bravehack (About a study trying to summarize the
Free Software and Open Source movements)
* Free Software - Law-free Zone? (About a book that analyzes the
German applicability of the GPL)
This column intends to provide a forum for all GNU maintainers,
friends and associates and I am always open to suggestions. So if
you
* have questions about the GNU Project that might be of general
interest
* have a GNU Project and would like to improve its profile
* would like to start a GNU Project you are looking for people to
start it with
* think something doesn't get the publicity it deserves
* would like to see something made public
send mail to:
"Brave GNU World <column@gnu.org>"
This column is for everyone with an interest in Free Software,
so donīt hesitate to contact me if your project is under the
GPL/LGPL and youīd like to see it introduced here.
The 18th issue can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-18.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-18.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-18.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-18.ja.html
[ Japanese version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-18.es.html
[ Spanish version ]
or via the "Brave GNU World" homepage
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.ja.html
[ Japanese version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.es.html
[ Spanish version ]
Thatīs it for now...
Regards,
Georg Greve
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From: <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: 4U Rackmount Dual-CPU server
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:56:48 GMT
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You can e-mail at: sales@storeanywhere.com or dial (718) 934-7313 to place
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From: <matt@starnix.com>
Subject: banal 0.10 release - bookkeeping/practice management system
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:59:13 GMT
Reply-To: matt@starnix.com
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TITLE INFORMATION: BANAL 0.10 - or BANAL's Absolutely Not A Ledger
AUTHOR INFORMATION: Matthew Rice - matt@starnix.com
AFFILIATION INFORMATION: Starnix Inc.
DATE INFORMATION: August 2000
This file serves as the announcement that goes to the
comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup as well as a message to
the banal mailing list banal@starnix.com.
What is BANAL?
BANAL is a bookkeeping/practice management system that allows you to
create and track invoices, clients, projects, suppliers and expenses.
BANAL is a client/server application so you can keep one set of books
on your system while allowing everyone access.
BIG NOTE: This is the last release in this series. We are about to
add a suite of tables and functionality to do support and
sales tracking. The next release will include significant
changes to the table schema as well as optional SQL support.
What is new in this release?
This release is a minor update with an easy install for Linux folk:
o there's a quickstart (based on Jay Copeland's) at:
http://www.starnix.com/banal/quickstart.html
o the documentation is now online at:
http://www.starnix.com/banal/banal.html
o a noarch RPM for RedHat 6.x (should work on any distro)
o added an 'admin stop' command and a SysV-init script to
cleanly shutdown the server
o a new report called worksummary (see bk help report for info)
o new script "bk-renumber" to put an invoice into your naming
scheme
o new script "bk-replace" to replace an arbitrary field in a
form with a new value
o fixed PostScript invoice so that they will work on Level 1
printers (the min function is a ghostscript-ism)
o invoice charge items are now sorted by id for reproducability
What can it do?
For this release, BANAL can store your information, list (and allow
searching of) information and print expense cheques, generate invoices,
quotations, income and expense statements. You can also make and use
recurring and memorized transactions to ease the burden of creating them
manually. There are also commands to tell which invoices, projects and
clients are "expired" and to automatically invoice finished projects and
WIP. More reports will be added.
How do I obtain the distribution through http?
You can get the distribution from the BANAL website. This release
may be downloaded now from:
http://www.starnix.com/banal/dl/banal-0.10.tgz
The RPMs are also in the download directory at:
http://www.starnix.com/banal/dl/
How do I obtain the distribution through ftp?
You can't right now.
How do I subscribe to the mailing list?
Simply send an e-mail to majordomo@starnix.com with the body of
the message (NOT the subject) saying: subscribe banal
You should receive confirmation shortly. Send your questions and
comments to: banal@starnix.com
Attention users of versions before 0.07!!!
There have been significant changes to the table layout.
Before you decide that you can use this new version please review
the CHANGES file. Some stuff will be broken (not the data entry).
I just haven't had the time to write an update script. It should
be fairly straight forward, though. Especially using the 'import'
function. If you write one please consider sending it to me for
inclusion in the next release.
How easy to use is it?
Currently, there is only a command line client (bk). The client
takes a subcommand to invoke some action. There are only three
types of subcommands: list, edit and print (print now includes
statement, expired and runbatch).
By type of subcommand, I mean that to edit an invoice you type:
bk invoice
While to edit an expense you type:
bk expense
Once you've learned a subcommand, you've learned all of the
subcommands for that type.
How good is the documentation?
It should be adequate enough to get you started - the server running
and you running some simple commands. Let me know if this is not
the case and I'll clarify the text. The documentation is not for
me (I know the system) so your feedback is essential.
What is the copyright?
Starnix Inc. holds the copyright (I am doing it under
their time), however, it is very unrestricted (read: do what you
want but don't think of suing them). There is a more detailed
COPYRIGHT file included with the distribution. This is akin to
Berkeley licensing or the Perl Artistic License.
Who should I contact ?
Right now the only person (or group) to contact is:
matt@starnix.com
Alternatively, you may subscribe to the BANAL mailing list (see
above) and ask questions there.
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matthew rice <matt@starnix.com> starnix inc.
tollfree: 1-87-pro-linux thornhill, ontario, canada
http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products
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From: "Geof Goodrum" <ggoodrum@bigfoot.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Washington DC Aug 19 User Group Meeting
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:57:45 GMT
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August 19: Internet Security - Personal Firewalls and Software Updates
Members of the Washington Area Computer User Group (WAC) will review and
demonstrate personal firewall products for Windows9x (including Zone Labs
ZoneAlarm and Network ICE's BlackICE Defender) and discuss security
configurations for Linux systems. There will also be a review of free online
resources for the latest security bulletins. This presentation will dovetail
into the September 16 presentation on Internet Privacy.
In addition, WAC members will perform an online demonstration of how to
create and upload web pages to a personal web site using Microsoft FrontPage
and GlobalSCAPE's CuteFTP.
There will also be an opportunity to receive help on general computer
hardware and software questions.
WAC is a general interest computer user group that supports a variety of
operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux. WAC meetings
are free and open to the public. The meeting is scheduled for 12:30 to 4:00
PM on August 19 in Conference Room 2 of the Fairfax County Government
Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway in Fairfax, Virginia.
For more information, visit the WAC web site at URL
http://member.apcug.org/wac/ or call the WAC AnswerLine at (703) 370-7649.
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From: Debbie Kreuser <deb@xig.com>
Subject: RADION 256 + 3D Accelerated-X
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:55:31 GMT
Reply-To: deb@xig.com
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ANNOUNCING!
LINUX WORLD EXPOSITION
San Jose, CA
August 15 - 17
All are encouraged to stop by the Xi Graphics booth (booth 1344 - 46)
next week at the Llinux World Exposition in San Jose, California.
We will be showing a number of demonstrations, including a prototype
version of 3D Accelerated-X v2 running on ATI's RADEON 256 card - you
won't want to miss this!
You may also enter to win $100 toward your next Xi Graphics purchase, as
well as receive a bunch of free stuff from our booth.
Hope to see you there!
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