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Linux-Announce Digest #33
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[ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Oct 29 00:05:00 CST 2001 (cola-admin@stump.algebra.com)
LOCAL: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Meeting Nov 2001 (ale@tazmania.org)
GNU TeXmacs (Arlette Pecontal)
Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (Ed Centanni)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.3 (SANFACE Software)
NEWS: In India, a 4-year-old finds Linux interesting! (Frederick Noronha)
FreeNIX 2002 (Erez Zadok)
(LOCAL) Montreal, Presentation: Jacques Gelinas on Virtual Servers (Michel Dagenais)
Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement -- Sarasota Correction (Ed Centanni)
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:01:54 CST
Subject: [ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Oct 29 00:05:00 CST 2001
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:01:54 CST
From: ale@tazmania.org
Subject: LOCAL: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Meeting Nov 2001
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - November meeting notice
Join your fellow Linux enthusiasts for
our regular monthly meeting!
Thursday 8 November, 2001
7:30 PM
Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Gambrell Hall Classroom 1C
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THIS MONTH:
Topic: Accessing MS COM objects remotely with Linux
Speaker: Larry Grenevitch
Larry Grenevitch will demonstrate and discuss different techniques
for accessing COM objects on a Windows PC from Linux.
Larry has been using Linux for a little over a year, but he has
worked in the PC world since 1981 and has a worked with various
Unixes and Windows. He is currently employed by Kewill Systems Plc,
in his current job he is involved daily in systems integration.
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For more info about ALE, visit our web page:
http://www.ale.org/
For directions to Emory University School of Law:
http://www.ale.org/directions.shtml
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:01:55 CST
From: Arlette Pecontal <Arlette.Pecontal@obs.univ-lyon1.fr>
Subject: GNU TeXmacs
GNU TeXmacs
Le projet GNU TeXmacs [6] travaille sur un éditeur de texte «tel
écran, tel écrit» (NdT : traduction officielle de l'anglais «WYSIWYG»,
what-you-see-is-what-you-get). Joris van der Hoeven, auteur de GNU
TeXmacs, s'est inspiré de GNU EMACS et LaTeX, comme le nom le laisse
présager.
Contrairement au projet LyX [7], qui pourrait paraître similaire
en première approche, il ne s'agit pas d'un frontal à LaTeX, mais d'un
projet indépendant. L'inspiration de LaTeX se retrouve plutôt en terme
de qualité d'impression et de possibilités d'impression avancées pour
les expressions mathématiques, sur lesquelles LaTeX est sans aucun doute
la solution la plus adaptée aujourd'hui. Aussi GNU TeXmacs utilise les
polices de TeX et possède des filtres d'importation/exportation de
documents LaTeX.
L'inspiration d'EMACS s'exprime en terme d'extensibilité. GNU
TeXmacs est écrit en C++ avec Guile/Scheme comme langage d'extension.
L'interface utilisateur et l'éditeur lui-même peuvent être
paramétrés/étendus avec des commandes Guile.
GNU TeXmacs permet également d'effectuer des calculs scientifiques
directement par des interfaces à Maxima, Pari GP, GTybalt, Yacas,
Macaulay 2, Mupad et Reduce. Sous peu, une interface à Scilab devrait
être utilisable et l'ajout d'interfaces supplémentaires est relativement
aisé.
GNU TeXmacs offre d'intéressantes possibilités pour des
fonctionnalités telles que des documents mathématiques interactifs sur
Internet, combinées à l'extension planifiée lui permettant de devenir un
éditeur XML complet.
Grâce à sa qualité d'impression professionnelle, un bon
anticrénelage (NdT : «anti-aliasing» en anglais) des polices TeX, la
possibilité de documents structurés et le potentiel de macro-commandes
et fichiers de styles, GNU TeXmacs offre un nombre incroyable de
possibilités, particulièrement aux utilisateurs scientifiques.
Après quatre ans de travail de Joris van der Hoeven, Andrey
Grozin, Thomas Rohwer et d'autres, le projet est en passe de lancer la
version 1.0. Les problèmes actuels sont au niveau de fonctionnalités
partiellement implémentées et de certains filtres LaTeX qui méritent
encore quelques améliorations. La documentation aussi reste encore un
peu pauvre.
Les priorités actuelles sont de régler ces quelques problèmes et
de lancer la version 1.0. Les phases suivantes seront le tableur et les
extensions XML/HTML. À plus long terme, ils prévoient de le porter sur
des plates-formes non-Unix et d'avoir une partie pour le dessin
technique.
Pour faire connaître et utiliser GNU TeXmacs par un plus large
public, de l'aide sous n'importe quelle forme sera la bienvenue, qu'il
s'agisse de documentation, traduction, écriture de filtres de
conversion, portage sur d'autres plates-formes ou support de GNOME.
Page d'accueil de GNU TeXmacs http://www.texmacs.org
--
Arlette Pecontal-Rousset tel (33) 04.78.86.83.77
fax (33) 04.78.86.83.86
CRAL - Observatoire de Lyon
9, Av. Charles Andre
F-69561 Saint Genis Laval Cedex
email : Arlette.Pecontal@obs.univ-lyon1.fr
http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/arlette.pecontal
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:02:12 CST
From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
WHEN AND WHERE:
1 November 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.
3 November 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
14 November 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.
15 November 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.
27 November 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
J.M Stewart Corp
2201 Cantu Court
Suite 218
Sarasota, FL.
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
24 November 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin
ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentations: 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:
1 December 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
6 December 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
12 December 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
20 December 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
22 December 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:02:12 CST
From: sanface@sanface.com (SANFACE Software)
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.3
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You can run txt2pdf on any system that runs PERL, but it has been
tested and is verified to work on many operating systems.
etxt2pdf is the executable version of txt2pdf. It's been specially
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:02:12 CST
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: In India, a 4-year-old finds Linux interesting!
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OCT 2001 LINUX MEETING AT PANJIM * HIGHLIGHTS
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PANJIM (Goa), Oct 27:
You thought GNU/Linux was difficult? Four-year-old Greyno Menezes doesn't. At
the ILUG-Goa meeting at Panjim last Saturday, the young lad demonstrated how
he boots-up the PC, logs on, launches PC games and plays them.
He can also launch an office-software and type in his first-name in an
appropriate large font for all to see!
Some other highlights that emerged at the meeting last weekend:
* Harish, from Goa but now in Bangalore, introduced himself and work on the
Linux Documentation (Indianisation) project. This was followed by a lengthy
discussion, with useful insights by Prof G R Bhat, on the complexities
involved in Indian language solutions in computing.
* Some members questioned whether the key need was to have documentation in
Indian languages, or the ability of GNU/Linux to enable computing in Indian
languages. "What's important is being able to write a letter to my father in
Devanagiri (and anyone being able to open it on any computer)," said Arvind.
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Compiled by FN <fred@bytesforall.org>
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:02:37 CST
From: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: FreeNIX 2002
Hello,
I wanted to remind everyone that the deadline for submissions for the
FreeNIX track of USENIX is coming up: November 12, 2001. You may submit
either a complete paper, or a 2-5 page extended abstract or summary of your
work to date. Submitting your work to FreeNIX is a great way of promoting
your work and getting useful feedback from the world. It also provides
visibility and useful exposure for projects like Linux. The FreeNIX call
for papers and directions on how to submit your paper can be found here:
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/cfp/freenix.html
Feel free to email me if you need more info about FreeNIX or FreeNIX
paper submissions.
Cheers,
Erez.
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:02:37 CST
Subject: (LOCAL) Montreal, Presentation: Jacques Gelinas on Virtual Servers
From: Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca>
The monthly meeting schedule for the Linux Quebec user group in Montreal
is now ready (http://www.linux-quebec.org/Rencontres.html). For november,
a world premiere :-), Jacques Gelinas, author of Linuxconf, on Virtual Servers
(http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc). The presentation will
be in French.
Virtual Servers:
le mercredi 14 novembre à 19h00, à la salle B-316.1 de l' Ecole
Polytechnique de Montréal, Jacques Gélinas, auteur Linuxconf,
aclfs, xtermkit et d'autres projets viendra parler des serveurs
virtuels.
Les serveurs virtuels permettent plusieurs installations
indépendantes sur un même ordinateur qui fonctionnent en
simultané. Le noyau Linux légèrement modifié isole les serveurs
les uns des autres. Vous aimeriez offrir plusieurs sites Web
sur un serveur, avec chaque webmestre qui peut avoir les
permissions "root" sur sa section, ou encore tourner plusieurs
distributions sur votre ordinateur, c'est maintenant facilement
réalisable.
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:02:37 CST
From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement -- Sarasota Correction
Please note that this is a correction to the previous annnouncements.
This is now confirmed as the new regular meeting place.
23 October 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
Certification, Inc.
2033 Wood Street Suite 220
Sarasota, FL 34237
Directions South on I-75 from Tampa to exit 39 (Fruitville).
West (right) several miles until you reach 301
(First Security Bank building is on the corner). Go south
(turn left) until you see McDonald's on the left. Certification
Inc. is located in the red brick building behind
(to the east of) the McDonald's, but you'll have to do a
u-turn at the Bay Street light to get back to Wood Street.
Pull into the parking lot, and drive to the back of the
building (north side). Go up the stairs to the first floor,
and then take the elevator (or stairs) to the second floor.
We're in the office in the North West corner of the building.
Call me if you get lost!
Cam Hunt
941.957.0711 (Cert Inc)
813.598.8374 (Cell)
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