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Linux-Announce Digest #903
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Linux-Announce Digest #903, Volume #3 Tue, 2 Jan 01 09:13:04 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: New Year Specials: Dual 1Ghz server & more (sales)
WWW: Linux courses on the web ("Simon Mc")
Amacdys 0.20 - dedicated mp3 player system (Joonas Timo Taavetti Kekoni)
WWW: Linux Gazette #61 (January 2001) available (Linux Gazette)
Fcron 0.9.4 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron (Thibault Godouet)
LOCAL: LILUG Long Island Linux Users Group - Meeting Jan. 9th, 2001 ("Michael J. Roberts")
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: New Year Specials: Dual 1Ghz server & more
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:07:28 GMT
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www.storeanywhere.com is promoting its
dual Intel 1Ghz Linux server for the
New Year for $1899.
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2 x Intel 1Ghz CPUs
Gigabyte server motherboard
512mb PC-133 SDRAM
40G 7200rpm HDD/Floppy drive
52x CD-Rom/ 8mb VGA card
10/100 Network card
ATX mid tower case
Keyboard/Mouse
For workstation we promote K6II 500Mhz
Linux system for only $389, which includes:
500Mhz CPU& Chaintech mainboard
64mb SDRAM/ 10.2G HDD
8mb VGA card/ 3D sound card
52X CD-Rom/ 1.44Floppy
Keyboard/mouse
Want to know more details and more promotions?
Check our website: www.storeanywhere.com
Want to order? Directly place orders online or
dial: (718) 934-7313.
Happy New Year!
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From: "Simon Mc" <gatekey@hotmail.com>
Subject: WWW: Linux courses on the web
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:07:04 GMT
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We have just added a load of free Linux courses to the site.
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For Information on computer networking and certification..Visit your IT home
on the net www.theitweb.com
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From: Joonas Timo Taavetti Kekoni <jkekoni@cc.hut.fi>
Subject: Amacdys 0.20 - dedicated mp3 player system
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:08:49 GMT
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Amacdys is a single disk operating system designed to play mp3 CDs.
OR
Amacdys is bootable mp3 player, that fits into single diskette.
It is designed to be on floppy or El-torrito image of cdrom.
Amacdys uses linux kernel, but can be burned on cd or written on
floppy REGARDLES OF operating system used in the writing process.
Or booted regardles of the OS (if any) installed in the player machine.
The idea is the create bootable MP3 cdrom that should work
without any software installed in the host machine.
It should also Configure HW automatically and start playing.
URL: http://www.hut.fi/~jkekoni/amacdys.html
Author: Joonas kekoni jkekoni@cc.hut.fi
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From: Linux Gazette <lg@ssc.com>
Subject: WWW: Linux Gazette #61 (January 2001) available
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:09:27 GMT
Reply-To: gazette@ssc.com
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"Linux Gazette...Making Linux just a little more fun!"
Linux Gazette is a freely available, WWW e-zine that includes short articles
giving tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions for customizing and running
Linux. It is a member of the Linux Documentation Project.
Linux Gazette issue #61, January 2001, is out and can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/
For download purposes, individual issues of LG are available at:
ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/
A list of mirror sites can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html
While we do not mail issues of LG to our readers--it's just too big--we do
have an announcement service. Write lg-announce-request@ssc.com with the
word subscribe in the body, and each month you will receive an e-mail notice
when we post Linux Gazette.
Topics in this issue include:
* The MailBag
* News Bytes
+ Distro News
+ News in General
+ Software Announcements
* The Answer Gang , by The Linux Gazette Answer Gang
* More 2-Cent Tips
* Linux On Your Desktop: Setting Up GNOME , by Marius Andreiana
* HelpDex , by Shane Collinge
* Using ssh , by Matteo Dell'Omodarme
* The emelfm File Manager , by Paul Evans
* Tuxedo Tails , by Eric Kasten
* Using the Wireless Modem Ricochet , by Mark Nielsen
* When Apache Redirect Doesn't Work the First Time , by Mark Nielsen
* Learning Perl, part 1 , by Ben Okopnik
* Booting Linux from the NT Boot Menu , by Pradeep Padala
* Making Smalltalk: Bags o' Fun , by Jason Steffler
* Setting Up a Linux Laptop With No CD-ROM Drive , by Alan Ward
* The Back Page
+ About This Month's Authors
+ Not Linux
Read all about it in the Linux Gazette.
Michael Orr
Editor, Linux Gazette
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From: Thibault Godouet <fcron@free.fr>
Subject: Fcron 0.9.4 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:09:08 GMT
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What is new in this release (0.9.4) ?
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- - security improvement : fcron now uses the (strong) system of owners
on the file system and the classic execution permissions to guarantee
a good security.
- - a new kind of line : the "%"-lines. This replaces the &runfreq(1)
lines
while making it easier and convenient. Thanks to that, user can tell
fcron to run a command once an hour, a day, etc, but only at some
specified time and date (for instance, once a day either between 4
and 7 am
or between 1 and 3 pm).
- - the installation process has been improved : user is now consulted
before anything is done.
- - various bugs have been fixed.
What is fcron ?
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Fcron is a scheduler. It aims at replacing Vixie Cron, so it implements
most of its functionalities.
But contrary to Vixie Cron, fcron does not need your system to be up
7 days a week, 24 hours a day : it also works well with systems which
are not running neither all the time nor regularly (contrary to
anacrontab).
To do so, fcron allows you to use the standard mode in which you tell
it to execute one command at a given date and hour and to make it run
a command according to its time of execution, which is normally the same
as system up time. For example :
Run the task 'save /home/ directory'
every 3h15 of system up time.
and, of course, in order to make it really useful, the time remaining
until next execution is saved each time the system is stopped.
You can also say :
run that command once between 2am and 5am
which will be done if the system is running at any time in this
interval. Or even :
run this job once every week as soon as the 15 minutes
load average is lower than 0.9
Fcron also includes a useful system of options, which can be applied
either to every lines following the declaration or to a single line.
Some of the supported options permit to: run jobs one by one, run jobs
at fcron's startup if they should have been run during system down time,
a better management of the mailing of outputs, set a nice value for a
job ...
What is planed for next releases ?
- ----------------------------------
I'd like to :
- - allow users to have several fcrontabs.
(I wonder if it is really necessary : what do you think
about it ? Please mail me answers at fcron@free.fr )
- - allow users to control their running jobs (renice, stop,
continue ...)
(propositions and help are welcome)
How you can help me
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I especially need help for testing every fcron functionalities.
If you'd like to help me, please contact me at :
fcron@free.fr
Where can I get it ?
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You can either go to the project home page at :
http://fcron.free.fr
or get it from metalab at
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/cron/fcron-0.9.4.src.tar.gz
(I've sent the file but it may take some time before it is available on
metalab)
I hope you will enjoy it,
Thibault.
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From: "Michael J. Roberts" <MRoberts@TaskWeb.com>
Subject: LOCAL: LILUG Long Island Linux Users Group - Meeting Jan. 9th, 2001
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:09:33 GMT
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LILUG, the Long Island Linux Users Group, will hold its regular monthly
meeting on Tuesday, January 9, 2001, at 8 PM in Gleeson Hall, room 202/204, on
the campus of SUNY Farmingdale.
Michael E. Smith of LXNY, New York's Free Software Organization, is scheduled
to give a presentation.
LILUG meetings are free and open to all. We meet on the second Tuesday of
every month on the campus of SUNY Farmingdale. For more information, please
visit us at:
http://www.LILUG.org
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