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Linux-Announce Digest #933
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Sat Mar 24 12:13:08 2001
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Linux-Announce Digest #933, Volume #3 Sat, 24 Mar 01 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
lirc-0.6.3 Linux Infrared Remote Control (Christoph Bartelmus)
STklos 0.51 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter (Erick Gallesio)
mboxgrep 0.5.2 (Daniel Spiljar)
Aegis 2.24 - a project change supervisor (Peter Miller)
COMMERCIAL: Low cost firewall/communication appliance (Soren Kristensen)
WWW: Linux Advocacy, and some other funny stuff about Linux ("chappy@psycholinux.com")
Fcron 1.0.2 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron (Thibault Godouet)
Tsinvest version 1.2 (John Conover)
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From: columbus@hit.handshake.de (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: lirc-0.6.3 Linux Infrared Remote Control
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:54:36 GMT
Reply-To: lirc@bartelmus.de
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LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control, Version: 0.6.3
Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>
Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
(according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)
LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals
of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
Pre-release versions are currently available at the LIRC homepage:
http://www.lirc.org/
Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial
or parallel port. Descriptions how to build this hardware can be found
on the LIRC homepage. Current versions of LIRC also support a variety
of other hardware. An up-to-date list of all supported devices and the
status of the according drivers is available on the LIRC homepage.
The most important part of LIRC is the lircd daemon that will decode
IR signals received by the device drivers and provide the information
on a socket. It will also accept commands for IR signals to be sent if
the hardware supports this. The second daemon program called lircmd
will connect to lircd and translate the decoded IR signals to mouse
movements. You can e.g. configure X to use your remote control as an
input device.
The user space application will allow you to control your computer
with your remote control. You can send X events to applications, start
programs and much more on just one button press. The possible
applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV
tuner card or CD-ROM, shutdown by remote, program your VCR and/or
satellite tuner with your computer, etc. I've heard that MP3 players
are also quite popular these days.
Adding new remotes is still problematic but since version 0.5.2 there
comes the first program that will try to add new remote controls
automatically.
Don't expect much documentation. This is only a pre-release version
and there is still much to be done before LIRC becomes easily
configurable and usable.
For people with a little C/C++ knowledge this should already be possible
with this pre-release. Otherwise, wait for version 1.0.
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From: Erick Gallesio <_eg@unice.fr_>
Subject: STklos 0.51 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:01:44 GMT
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STklos is a free Scheme System (nearly) conform to R5RS. The aim of this
implementation is to be fast as well as light. The implementation is
based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine. STklos can also be compiled as a
library, so that one can easily embed it in an application.
The salient points of STklos are:
* efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing
- Multiple Inheritance,
- Generic Functions,
- Multi-methods
- an efficient MOP (Meta Object Protocol)
* a simple to use module system
* implements the full tower of numbers defined in R5RS
* easy connection to the GTK+ toolkit
* Perl compatible regular expressions thanks to the PCRE package.
* tail recursive calls are properly implemented
New in this release:
* Added R5RS hygienic macros
* Added compatibility with the Aubrey Jaffer's SLIB
* New port on Alpha/Linux
* Added SRFI-0 and SRFI-1 (other SRFI will follow)
* New primitives: CURRENT-TIME, RUNNING-OS, FIND-PATH, CALL/EC,
LOAD-PATH, SET-LOAD-PATH!, LOAD-SUFFIXES and
SET-LOAD-SUFFIXES!
* Exact reals can be read now (e.g #e3.14 => 157/50)
* New demo: edit.stk
* Bug corrections
Download: See http://kaolin.unice.fr/STklos/
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Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis | fax: +33 (0)492965155
ESSI - I3S -- 930, Route des colles | mailto:_eg@unice.fr_
BP 145 - 06903 Sophia Antipolis CEDEX - FRANCE
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From: dspiljar@public.srce.hr (Daniel Spiljar)
Subject: mboxgrep 0.5.2
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:00:23 GMT
Reply-To: Daniel Spiljar <dspiljar+mboxgrep@hobbiton.org>
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mboxgrep 0.5.2 -- A mailbox "grep" utility (GPL)
Mboxgrep is a small mailbox scanning utility, written in C.
It scans a mail folder for a given regular expression and displays
matching messages on standard output.
Its features include:
* ability to limit the search to message body or headers (although the
whole message is scanned by default)
* message counting
* ability to invert the sense of matching
* support for mbox, MH, nnmh, nnml and maildir folders
* support for basic and extended POSIX regular expressions, and,
optionally, Perl-complatible regular expressions (if linked with
Philip Hazel's PCRE library)
Mboxgrep homepage: <http://pubwww.srce.hr/~dspiljar/mboxgrep.html>
Source tarball: <http://pubwww.srce.hr/~dspiljar/mboxgrep-0.5.2.tar.gz>
(RedHat and Debain packages are also available. Check the homepage.)
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From: Peter Miller <millerp@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Aegis 2.24 - a project change supervisor
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:55:22 GMT
Reply-To: Peter Miller <millerp@canb.auug.org.au>
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I am pleased to announce that Aegis 3.24 is now available.
Aegis is a transaction-based software configuration management
system. It provides a framework within which a team of developers
may work on many changes to a program independently, and Aegis
coordinates integrating these changes back into the master source
of the program, with as little disruption as possible.
You are invited to visit
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/\*(n)/
for a more complete description of what \*(N) is, and access to
the download files.
For information about what new features are available in this
release, please see the README file available at the above site.
In particular, I'd like folks to try out the new CVS import facility.
Regards
Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
/\/\* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are personal and do not necessarily
reflect the opinion of my employer or the opinions of my colleagues.
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From: Soren Kristensen <sales@soekris.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Low cost firewall/communication appliance
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:57:36 GMT
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I have designed a small 486 based single board firewall / VPN
router / communication appliance. I now have working prototypes
and have samples out for testing. The basic specs are:
100/133 Mhz. AMD ElanSC520
16-64 Mbyte SDRAM, soldered on board
1-4 Mbit BIOS/BOOT Flash
CompactFLASH Type I/II socket
2-3 10/100 mbit Ethernet ports, RJ-45
1 Serial port, DB9. (optional 2nd serial port)
Power LED, Activity LED, Extra LED
MiniPCI type III socket
PCI Slot, right angle 3.3V only
8 bit general purpurse I/O, 14 pins header
Board size 4.8" x 5.5"
Power either 5V DC fixed or 6-20V DC, max 8W
Operating temperature 0-60 °C
Software:
comBIOS for full headless operation over serial port
PXE boot rom for diskless booting
Designed for Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
Runs most realtime operating systems
I now would like to find out if there is enough interest for
putting the board into production. I expect to be able to offer
products from $140 to $250 depending on volume and configuration.
Please go to http://www.soekris.com for more information.
Feedback is very welcome.
Regards,
Soren Kristensen
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From: "chappy@psycholinux.com" <netstarkiller@earthlink.net>
Subject: WWW: Linux Advocacy, and some other funny stuff about Linux
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:55:02 GMT
Reply-To: "chappy@psycholinux.com" <netstarkiller@earthlink.net>
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Hey if you get a chance, to a peek at my site www.psycholinux.com
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From: Thibault Godouet <fcron@free.fr>
Subject: Fcron 1.0.2 - a replacement for Vixie cron and anacron
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:54:21 GMT
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What is new in this release (1.0.2) ?
- -------------------------------------
- - the user for whom a job is run is now logged.
- - installation script is now more explicit about what it is going to do.
- - a boolean value can now also be set by "yes" and "no".
- - bug corrected : bootrun option works again.
- - bug corrected : shell variable containing underscore (_) used to be
rejected.
- - bug corrected : installation script used not to check if user fcron was
in group fcron, in which case fcrontab doesn't work correctly (it cannot,
in that case, read the fcrontabs for non-privileged users).
What is fcron ?
- ---------------
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).
In other words, fcron does both the job of Vixie Cron and anacron, but does
even more and better :)) ...
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.
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,
- - set the max system load average value under which the job should be run,
- - set a nice value for a job,
- - run jobs at fcron's startup if they should have been run
during system down time,
- - mail user to tell him a job has not run and why,
- - a better management of the mailing of outputs ...
What is planed for next releases ?
- ----------------------------------
I'd like to :
- - add PAM support.
- - 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
<mailto:fcron@free.fr> )
- - allow users to control their running jobs (renice, stop,
continue ...)
(propositions and help are welcome)
How you can help me
- -------------------
I especially need help for testing every fcron functionalities.
If you'd like to help me, please contact me at :
fcron@free.fr <mailto:fcron@free.fr>
Where can I get it ?
- --------------------
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-1.0.2.src.tar.gz
(110kB)
(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: john@johncon.com (John Conover)
Subject: Tsinvest version 1.2
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:57:57 GMT
Reply-To: john@johncon.com (John Conover)
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The program tsinvest is for the real time programmed day trading of
equities. The only changes from version 1.1 to 1.2 is the addition of
the -a command line option, which will dynamically determine the
optimal asset allocation in an equity portfolio, (e.g., how much to
invest in each stock-it does not rely on mathematical programming
techniques to make the determination.)
The program has a web site at http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/
From the lsm:
Begin3
Title: tsinvest-1.2.tar.gz
Version: 1.2
Entered-date: March 3, 2001
Description: Quantitative financial analysis of equities.
The optimal gains of multiple equity
investments are computed. The program decides
which of all available equities to invest in
at any single time, by calculating the
instantaneous Shannon probability of all
equities, and using statistical estimation
techniques to estimate the accuracy of the
calculated Shannon probability. Entropic
techniques are used throughout. A tutorial is
presented in the man(1) pages. A companion
equity market simulation program is included,
as is a simple data blade program template. A
fragment of the daily US exchange tickers,
from 1993 to 1996, is included as a
demonstration of the program's capabilities.
Additionally, there is a program provided that
will translate the Yahoo! historical database
of stock daily closing prices at
http://chart.yahoo.com/d to a compatible
database format.
Keywords: financial engineering quantitative analysis entropic equities stocks trading investing
Author: John Conover <john@johncon.com>
Maintained-by: Author
Primary-site: http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.johncon.com/ntropix/tsinvest.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/financial/investment/tsinvest-1.2.tar.gz
Original-site: http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/
Platform: Linux, and any other supporting GCC
Copying-policy: Can freely distribute, but cannot sell or include in a
commercial product without permission of author.
End
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631 Lamont Ct. Cel. 408.772.7733 http://www.johncon.com/
Campbell, CA 95008 Fax. 408.379.9602 SMS: 14087727733@pacbellpcs.net
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