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Linux-Announce Digest #859
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Linux-Announce Digest #859, Volume #3 Sun, 1 Oct 00 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: Linux-Quebec (Montreal) - Rencontre de octobre / October Meeting (Charles Levert)
Quotes and QuotesApps v1.7 ("Didimo Grimaldo")
cvsadmin 0.3 ("Vincent Labrecque")
tpconfig 3.0 available (kall@compass.com)
LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday (Daniel Tasch)
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From: Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux-Quebec (Montreal) - Rencontre de octobre / October Meeting
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:15:11 GMT
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[ A version in English follows the one in French. ]
Linux-Québec
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Rencontre technique mensuelle
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Sujet : Applications en temps réel avec Linux, RTAI et LTT
Quand : le mercredi 11 octobre 2000 à 19:00 (20001011T1900)
Où : École Polytechnique de Montréal, salle B-316.1
Web : http://www.linux-quebec.org/Rencontres.html
Karim Yaghmour, auteur du Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT), viendra parler du
développement d'applications en temps réel à l'aide du Linux Real Time
Application Interface (RTAI) et de LTT. Les différences techniques
entre RTAI et RTLinux seront discutées.
Les rencontres techniques mensuelles sont gratuites et ouvertes à
tous. Elles ont généralement lieu le deuxième mercredi de chaque
mois, avec relâche en juillet et août. C'est l'occasion de discuter
des dernières nouveautés dans le monde Linux, d'établir des contacts
et d'assister à une présentation technique portant sur un sujet relié
à Linux et aux logiciels ouverts. Elles ont souvent lieu à l'École
Polytechnique de Montréal.
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Monthly Technical Meeting
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Subject: Real-time applications with Linux, RTAI, and LTT
When: Wednesday October 11, 2000 at 19:00 (20001011T1900)
Where: École Polytechnique de Montréal, room B-316.1
Web: http://www.linux-quebec.org/Rencontres.html
Karim Yaghmour, author of the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT), will talk
about real-time applications development using the Linux Real Time
Application Interface (RTAI) and LTT. The technical differences
between RTAI and RTLinux will be addressed.
Our monthly technical meetings are free and open to all. They are
generally held on the second Wednesday of each month, except in July
and August. They are an opportunity to discuss the latest news in the
Linux world, establish contacts, and listen to a technical
presentation on a Linux and open software related subject. They are
often held at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
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From: "Didimo Grimaldo" <degt@hotmail.com>
Subject: Quotes and QuotesApps v1.7
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:16:54 GMT
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Quotes 1.7-1
Quotes-Apps 1.7-1
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http://www.coralys.com/
FREE
What is Quotes
The Quotes core package provides all the functionality needed to
fetch and process remote content. A simple, yet powerful Application
Program Interface provides all the needed functionality to
implement loadable applets for content specific tasks.
The Quotes-Apps package contains 'applets' for a variety
of Financial, Internet and Generic tasks.
Financial quotations and Linux news. With this program
you can fetch the latest Stock quotations registered in
NASDAQ or NYSE (quotes are delayed 15-20 mins.),
also currency conversion (any-to-any) in case you are
looking for the right moment to exchange and as a bonus
Linux news from Slashdot!.
Internet Applets
QuInternic whois database queries
Unix/Linux News Applets
QuSlashdot Slashdot Linux/Unix news
Financial Applets
QuNasdaq some major indices
QuYahoo other major indices with details
QuStocks stock quotes from NASDAQ & NYSE
QuCurrency currency exchange quotes
General Applets
QuSpif get latest release information SmartPIF(tm)
So sure! why spend time downloading useless graphics and
banners when you are better off with the stuff that matters?
Problems fixed
* Stocks. Last entry of HTML output was out of the table
* Stocks. Fixed decoder
* Currency. Fixed decoder
* Show configuration option was temporarily broken
Enhancements
* Show the human readable names of world currencies
* New core methods for use by loadable modules
* Supports loadable modules with multiple network requests
* All intrinsic content handlers (money, stocks, slashdot) are
now in loadable modules (Quotes-Apps) QuCurrency.pm, QuStocks.pm,
QuSlashdot.pm and QuSpif.pm. Therefore Quotes-Apps must be installed
as well.
* It is now possible to perform single and multiple stock quote
requests on the command line: "quotes stocks BEOS RHAT SPX"
* It is possible to perform single currency exchange requests
on the command line: "quotes currency 1.50 USD EUR"
* Full support of SmartPIF(tm) files.
"quotes spif"
"quotes spif -- --list"
"quotes spif -- --updates Quotes"
"quotes spif -- --type Perl"
Download
Both .tar.gz and RPM packages are available
quotes-1.7-1 (Core)
quotes-apps-1.7-1 (Applets)
FTP: ftp://coralys.com/pub/free/
FTP: ftp://ftp.iae.nl/pub/users/grimaldo/
URL: http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/quotes.shtml
FreshMeat record: 913728558
Mailing List
A mailing list has been created (as suggested) for those users of
Quotes that wish to exchange ideas and anything related to the topic.
http://www.eGroups.com/group/ct-quotes/
Acknowledgements
Stock quotes are copyright Nasdaq-Amex, Linux news is copyright
of Slashdot.org and currency data is copyright Yahoo Financials.
You should respect all the copyrights. Neither the author nor
Coralys.com are liable for damages or misuse of the data/program.
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From: "Vincent Labrecque" <NOSPAMlimitln@cooptel.qc.ca>
Subject: cvsadmin 0.3
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:10:56 GMT
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(almost)-initial release of cvsadmin.
cvsadmin is a tool to let administrators easily add/remove/change passwords of CVS users. It
feature a cli and a GTK gui, which have the same features.
Current features:
- Add new user
- Delete users
- List users
- Change passwords
Homepage:
http://www.cooptel.qc.ca/~limitln/cvsadmin/
Feel free to ask for new actions/features/whatever
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From: kall@compass.com
Subject: tpconfig 3.0 available
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:16:22 GMT
Reply-To: kall@compass.com
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tpconfig version 3.0 has now been released. tpconfig is a command-line
utility to set options on Synaptics Touchpad and (now) ALPS Glidepad/
Stickpointers. Most people primarily use it to turn off the 'tap mode'
on laptop 'touchpads'.
New features in 3.,0 include the first limited support for the ALPS devices.
tpconfig is available at www.compass.com/tpconfig/index.html
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From: Daniel Tasch <taschda@dmapub.dma.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:12:59 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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