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Linux-Announce Digest #5
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Linux-Announce Digest #5, Volume #4 Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Unicode under Linux Demonstration (Markus Kuhn)
Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (Ed Centanni)
new location for makedev-itz (Ian Zimmerman)
Translation Project seeks volunteers (Martin von Loewis)
Another place to ask a linux question (Josh Rogers)
Linux 10! (tekniklr)
Wsmake 0.6.2 - website pre-processor (Mike Brownlow)
LTOOLS V5.3 released ("Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Zimmermann")
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:41:20 CST
From: mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Unicode under Linux Demonstration
Here is a 3 minute demonstration on how to use Unicode under Linux.
Give it a try!
1) Make sure you have a recent Linux distribution installed. You should
have glibc 2.2 and XFree86 4.0 or newer (e.g., SuSE or RedHat Linux 7.1
or newer), otherwise your system lacks
- UTF-8 locale support
- ISO 10646-1 fonts
- the new UTF-8 enabled xterm
(UTF-8 is the ASCII-compatible encoding in which Unicode is now
commonly used on POSIX systems.)
2) Test whether you have a UTF-8 locale installed. For example if you
use bash, then
$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 locale charmap
UTF-8
confirms that you have a locale named en_GB.UTF-8 available that uses
the UTF-8 encoding. ("locale -a" lists all available locales,
"man localedef" explains how to generate locale definition files.)
3) Open an xterm in UTF-8 mode by selecting a UTF-8 locale and
an ISO10646-1 font, for example
$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 xterm \
-fn '-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1'
4) Download some example UTF-8 plaintext file such as "UTF-8-demo.txt" from
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/
(Save to disk directly such that your web browser has no chance to mess
the file up by attempting some charset conversion.)
5) Display it in the UTF-8 xterm with "cat" or "less". You should see the
plain text with lots of nice non-ASCII characters, as in
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/xterm-UTF-8-demo.gif
6) If that got you interested and you want to learn more on Unicode/UTF-8
under Linux and Unix, please read
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
You will find there information on how UTF-8 works, which popular
editors support it already and what you should know about it as
a developer to make your applications ready for it.
Markus
--
Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:42:18 CST
From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
WHEN AND WHERE:
8 August 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
PricewaterhouseCoopers -- Room 684
3109 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd
Lakepointe I Building
Tampa, FL 33607
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
16 August 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
Computer Advantage Store
217 Brandon Town Center Drive
Brandon, FL
Across the street from Barnes & Noble, next to Target and Honey
Baked Hams. See the SLUG website
(www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for directions.
28 August 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
J.M Stewart Corp
2201 Cantu Court
Suite 218
Sarasota, FL.
25 August 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
1 September 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey
6 September 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center Brandon, FL
Take I-4 East to I-75 South. Go south on 75 to the second exit
(Hwy 60, Exit 53). Head left (east) under the overpass, and
make sure you're in the right lane. When you go to the
entrance for Brandon Town Center, you'll see Barnes & Noble
on your immediate right.
ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentations:
Tampa Meeting Wednesday August 8 --
Special Appearance and Presention by Robin "Roblimo" Miller,
Editor-in-chief for the Open Source Developer Network (OSDN)
and Newsforge (www.newsforge.com).
Others: -- to be announced
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
FOLLOWING MEETINGS:
12 September 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
20 September 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
22 September 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
4 October 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
6 October 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:43:15 CST
From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>
Subject: new location for makedev-itz
The download location for the experimental new implementation of
MAKEDEV, which I announced here a while ago, has changed. It is now
http://www.speakeasy.org/~itz/hacks/
Here's the README extract again:
makedev-itz is a yet another implementation of the basic Unix program
that creates device nodes based on their (somewhat) generic names. It
was developed on, and is mostly intended for, GNU/Linux systems;
however, it is possible (no guarantees!) that it is useful on other
modern Unix-like systems, particularly where the GNU tools are
prominent.
I decided to write this when I learned that my distribution had
recently switched from a table-driven implementation to the familiar
amorphous shell script hack, because of license issues. This one is
FREE, without any reservations: NO proprietary tools or information
has been used to develop it.
--
Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
GPG pub key: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:44:13 CST
From: Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: Translation Project seeks volunteers
The Translation Project (or TP for short) aims to get the maintainers
of free software packages, benevolent translators and users all
together, so that computers and systems gradually become able to speak
many languages [1].
Over the past few years, a large number of language teams [2] have
started to work on maintaining translations of the messages of many
different programs [3].
If you are interested in contributing to the translation project,
please contact your team, and have a look at [4]. If you find that
there is no team for your language yet, you may consider starting one
[5].
If you already contribute to some translation project, or if you are
merely interested in discussion translations of software messages and
documentation to your native language, you can still join the mailing
list of your team - we happily provide the forum for open discussions.
If you are the author of a free software package and are interested in
getting translations for your program's messages, you might consider
having us host your "textual domain" (i.e. the catalog of all your
program messages).
If you have any questions on the TP, don't hesitate to ask
translation@iro.umontreal.ca.
We are looking forward to your contributions,
Karl Eichwalder
Martin v. Löwis
François Pinard
TP coordinators
[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/index.html
[2] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/teams.html
[3] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/domains.html
[4] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/translators.html
[5] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/leaders.html
[6] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/maintainers.html
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:45:11 CST
From: josh.rogers@getlinuxonline.com (Josh Rogers)
Subject: Another place to ask a linux question
Usenet is a great resource for Linux questions, but you don't always
get a response in a timely manner or one at all. Sometimes you don't
understand the answer, and it takes so long to have your post posted
and wait for a response. GetLinuxOnline.Com is hosting a linux
support forum that your guaranteed to get an answer within just a
short period of time, and it instantaneously posts, so you might even
get a response right away. You can always ask to have the answer
explained to you if you don't understand, or you can delve deeper into
the problem.
Come join the message board, it is free as rain, and ask a question in
both places, see how quick you get an answer, and compare the quality
of answer. I guarantee you'll enjoy our message boards.
http://www.getlinuxonline.com
Just click on discussion then click register up at the top.
GLO doesnt only host message boards, but I think you'll want to give
those a try first! :)
Thank you,
Aragorn
Admin of GLO
P.S. Please, write me back and let me know what you think of the
site! Email me from the site, or you can leave a message here! :)
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:46:11 CST
From: tekniklr <tekniklr@eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Linux 10!
Reply-To: tekniklr@eden.rutgers.edu
1991 - "Hello everybody out there using minix..."
2001 - "What's Minix?"
Celebrate Linux's 10th anniversary August 25!
Locations:
Sunnyvale, CA http://linux10.org/
Southern California
Philadelphia, PA http://philadelphia.linux10.org/
Bouillon, Belgium http://lbw2001.ynfonatic.de/
Copenhagen, Denmark
Venezuala
More Information @ http://linux10.org/ for all locations, links to other
pages.
RSVP today!!!
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:48:07 CST
Subject: Wsmake 0.6.2 - website pre-processor
From: Mike Brownlow <mike@wsmake.org>
Wsmake is a website pre-processor. It includes a parser that handles
page ordering, tag substitution, and dependency checking. You can use
wsmake with any type of content, from PHP to XML or even your own
computer language.
See website for details and downloads:
http://www.wsmake.org/
--
Mike Brownlow
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:49:11 CST
From: "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Zimmermann" <Werner.Zimmermann@fht-esslingen.de>
Subject: LTOOLS V5.3 released
LTOOLS V5.3
LTOOLS is a tool suite for Windows 9x/ME and Windows NT/2K (or DOS or
Windows
3.x for those who still have it) for accessing files on Linux harddisks
(Linux's native Extended 2 filesystem).
The tools allow to list directories, to copy files from Linux to DOS and
to copy files from DOS to Linux. You also can delete files or modify
access rights of Linux files from DOS/Windows.
The LTOOLS can either be used from the command line, but also have two
graphical user interfaces. You can either use your web browser to view
your Linux directories or files or you can use a Java Swing (JDK 1.2)
based graphical user interface, which provides a Windows Explorer
like view of your filesystem.
The most recent version of the LTOOLS suite can be found on
http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.htm
In combination with an included simple server program, you can also
access your files from a remote client over the net (however, this might
be a security risk, as access protection in this case is rather simple).
The package includes binaries for DOS/Windows 9.x and for Windows NT as
well as source code. The package is copyrighted by me, but may be freely
distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Werner Zimmermann
FHTE Esslingen, Germany
06. August 2001
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