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Linux-Announce Digest #41
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Linux-Announce Digest #41, Volume #4 Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:13:04 EST
Contents:
Linux StepByStep re-launch ("Douglas J. Hunley")
Announcing the Parma Polyhedra Library (version 0.2) (Roberto Bagnara)
[ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Nov 19 00:05:01 CST 2001 (cola-admin@stump.algebra.com)
[INDIA] Linux in a teaspoon (Frederick Noronha)
[LOCAL] Swansea Meeting, The Goose, 18:00 Tuesday 20th November (Darren Wyn Rees)
Guikachu 0.99.0 "Image of Me": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS (ERDI Gergo)
Demp/restore 0.4b25 released (Stelian Pop)
Contest Reminder: Create an SDL Game by 12/1/01 (No Starch Press)
hdparm-4.5: get/set IDE disk parameters] (Mark Lord)
ipgrab 0.9.7 released ("Mike Borella")
[ANNOUNCE] OOO is released (Kiss Gabor)
ANN: CodeBeamer, a web-based Source Code Comprehension Portal released (Janos Koppany)
Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (Ed Centanni)
Announcing linuxtrainers.biz: A site for all open source trainers and courseware developers ("Sysadmin for Linuxtrainers.biz")
SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated (Howard Holm)
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From: "Douglas J. Hunley" <doug@hunley.homeip.net>
Subject: Linux StepByStep re-launch
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:04 CST
Approximately 1 month ago, http://linux.nf had severe hardware problems and
crashed hard. The site has just recently been relaunched on all new
hardware and is back in perfect running order. However, all prior list
members need to re-subscribe as the list membership info was lost. Anyone
can subscribe by visiting http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
I'd also like to announce that news.linux.nf is now 100% functional. All
currently hosted email lists on http://linux.nf are now gated to their own
newsgroups on this machine. Swing by the newsgroups and join the discussion
if you prefer not to fill your inbox up.
The Linux StepByStep site has also recently published their sitewide
copyright license. It is fully Open Content compliant.
Thanks! And visit http://linux.nf when you need help on getting something
done on your Linux box that you're not quite sure how to do.
--
Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net
USER, n.:
The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot".
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From: Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@cs.unipr.it>
Subject: Announcing the Parma Polyhedra Library (version 0.2)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:11 CST
We are glad to announce the release of
The Parma Polyhedra Library (version 0.2)
http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/
The Parma Polyhedra Library is a C++ library for the manipulation
of convex polyhedra. The applications of convex polyhedra include
program analysis, optimized compilation, integer and combinatorial
optimization and statistical data-editing.
The Parma Polyhedra Library is:
+ user friendly: you write `x + 2*y + 5*z <= 7'
when you mean it;
+ fully dynamic: available virtual memory is the only
limitation to the dimension of anything;
+ written in standard C++: meant to be portable;
+ exception-safe: never leaks resources or leaves invalid
object fragments around;
+ rather efficient: and we hope to make it even more so;
+ thoroughly documented: perhaps not ``literate programming''
but close enough;
+ free software: distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.
For more information, visit the Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL)
web site at http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/
The PPL development team:
Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@cs.unipr.it>
Patricia M. Hill <hill@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
Elisa Ricci <ericci@cs.unipr.it>
Enea Zaffanella <zaffanella@cs.unipr.it>
--
Roberto Bagnara
Computer Science Group
Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/
mailto:bagnara@cs.unipr.it
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From: cola-admin@stump.algebra.com
Subject: [ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Nov 19 00:05:01 CST 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:15 CST
Reply-To: cola-admin@stump.algebra.com
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [INDIA] Linux in a teaspoon
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:15 CST
========== Forwarded message ==========
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****
--
=====================================================================
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From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk>
Subject: [LOCAL] Swansea Meeting, The Goose, 18:00 Tuesday 20th November
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:11 CST
South Wales Linux Users Group http://www.swlug.org/
===================================================
Our next meeting is at The Goose pub, in Swansea, on
Tuesday 20th November, 2001. Starting at 18:00.
Everyone welcome.
Help with directions to the meeting venue & ASCII map here :
http://www.swlug.org/archive/swlug-001180.shtml
And/or contact, Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk>
Please CONFIRM venue/date/time before the day, as meeting
plans may be forced to change at short notice.
To hear about future Linux meetings and events in South Wales, please
join our announcements mailing lists. Send a blank email to
announce-subscribe@lists.swlug.org
--
Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk
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From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: Guikachu 0.99.0 "Image of Me": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:23 CST
Dear users of both large and small computing tools,
A new release of Guikachu is available.
About Guikachu
==============
Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
files for PalmOS-based pocket computers. The user interface is
modelled after Glade, the GNOME UI builder.
Catch it all from http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/
Features
========
* libXML-based I/O
* Exporting to PilRC .rcp files (compile with pilrc -H)
* String resources
* Dialog resources
* Menu resources
* Form resources
* Per-application resources (e.g. version number)
* WYSIWYG Form Editor, with drag & drop capability
* XSLT style sheets and shell script to generate RCP files from
Guikachu documents
* Sample file with sample GNU PalmOS SDK-based application
About this release
==================
This is the first beta release of Guikachu, the penultimate step of
the long road towards 1.0. All known bugs and run-time warnings are
fixed, and even new ones since the last 0.98 release have been
discovered. The documentation style sheets and build system are
included and are nearing completeness. A nearly finished sample
application is included.
Since the code base is now 100% frozen, now is the chance to finish
existing translations and create new ones. Some of the existing
translations have only one or two strings missing, so completing these
should be quite simple.
The documentation system uses a straightforward XML format to minimize
redundancy in resource and widget descriptions. If you'd like to
contribute to the documentation but don't know how, just send your
contributions in plain text to the Guikachu mailing list.
Guikachu uses GTKmm and GNOMEmm for its user interface. File I/O is
implemented via the libxml package. Dialog windows are loaded via
libglade. You will need the versions of these packages available in
the GNOME 1.4 bundle (with the exception of GNOMEmm which you will
need to upgrade to version 1.2.0)
To actually create the PalmOS resource files, you will also need PilRC
(part of the GNU PalmOS SDK) to compile the .rpc files produced by
Guikachu.
To use the stand-alone Guikachu-to-RCP converter program, xsltproc
(part of the libxslt package) is required.
Beware of bugémons!
Cactus
--
.--= ULLA! =----------------------. `We are not here to give users what
\ http://cactus.rulez.org \ they want' -- RMS, at GUADEC 2001
`-----= cactus@cactus.rulez.org =--'
A válások legfőbb oka a házasság
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From: Stelian Pop <pop@noos.fr>
Subject: Demp/restore 0.4b25 released
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:23 CST
Reply-To: Stelian Pop <pop@noos.fr>
A new version of dump/restore, the ext2/ext3 filesystem backup
utilities, has been released today.
This new release fixes some minor bugs, adds some new features and,
most important of all, adds a workaround for the dump hanging
problem some users have encountered.
The full Changelog is appended below.
You can download the new release here:
http://dump.sourceforge.net
Enjoy.
Stelian.
Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released November 17, 2001)
=======================================================================
1. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
directory.
2. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
3. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
to the examples section. It features dumping several
filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
4. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
5. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
patch.
6. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
to know this information when reading a remote compressed
dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
for device) when using a non Linux remote box. Thanks to
many users and especially to Eros Albertazzi
<eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting this.
7. Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs
stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems
to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work
for you, please report back.
8. Updated the RPM spec file (BuildPrereq, URL etc).
--
/\
/ \ Stelian Pop
/ DS \ Email: pop@noos.fr
\____/
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From: No Starch Press<games@nostarch.com>
Subject: Contest Reminder: Create an SDL Game by 12/1/01
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:39 CST
Reply-To: games@nostarch.com
No Starch Press, publishers of PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES, is pleased to announce an SDL GAME DEVELOPMENT CONTEST, open to entries from game developers worldwide.
Create a complete computer game under 1 megabyte using Simple DirectMedia Layer, and send it to games@nostarch.com by DECEMBER 1, 2001 and you could win the entire Loki Software game library, books from No Starch Press, a subscription to Linux Journal magazine, and more!
Contest details: www.nostarch.com/?games
Questions: games@nostarch.com
Sponsored by
============
No Starch Press, www.nostarch.com: Publishers of PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES
Loki Software, Inc. www.lokisoftware.com: Ports best-selling PC games to Linux
Linux Journal www.linuxjournal.com: The leading Linux magazine
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From: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Subject: hdparm-4.5: get/set IDE disk parameters]
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:46 CST
The latest version 4.5 of "hdparm" has been released,
and should appear shortly at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/hardware/hdparm-4.5.tar.gz
hdparm is a Linux utility for viewing/manipulating various
IDE drive and driver parameters. Most systems can benefit
from improved performance using a command sequence similar to this:
#!/bin/sh
for d in /proc/ide/hd* ; do
if [ `cat $d/media` = 'disk' ]; then
hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1 -qd1 -qW1 /dev/${d##*/}
elif [ `cat $d/media` = 'cdrom' ]; then
hdparm -qu1 -qd1 /dev/${d##*/}
fi
done
This latest version includes minor cleanups and Makefile fixes.
--
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
mlord@pobox.com
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From: "Mike Borella" <mikeborella@hotmail.com>
Subject: ipgrab 0.9.7 released
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:47 CST
A new version of ipgrab is available at:
http://ipgrab.sourceforge.net
New protocols supported:
- NNTP
- RTCP
- TFTP
New tracefile format supported:
- Sun Snoop
Minor fixes
- -v option now works properly
- FTP control packets now decoded properly
- Fixed problem with minimal mode lumping discrete packets together
- Ran a test compile with gcc v3.0, fixed some warnings
- Added new config.sub and config.guess
- Fixed RTP support
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From: kissg@sztaki.hu (Kiss Gabor)
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] OOO is released
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:39 CST
Reply-To: kissg@sztaki.hu
OOO (Object Oriented Ogonkify) is a PERL5 version of
Juliusz Chroboczek's great ogonkify script.
It supports XFig 3.2 well and fixes a Netscape bug.
It is easy to extend (and I'm willing to do it).
--> http://gatling.ikk.sztaki.hu/~kissg/pd/ooo/
--> ftp://gatling.ikk.sztaki.hu/pub/ooo/
Gabor Kiss
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From: Janos Koppany <janos@intland.com>
Subject: ANN: CodeBeamer, a web-based Source Code Comprehension Portal released
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:51 CST
Stuttgart, Germany., November 30, 2001 -- Intland, Inc. today announced its
CodeBeamer (TM) product.
CodeBeamer Portal Edition (http://codebeamer.intland.com) is a web-based
source code comprehension product that enables enterprises or geographically
dispersed developers to analyze, comprehend and collaborate on Java and C/C++
software projects. It integrates extern contractors and customers in the
software development process providing insight into the structure, quality and
progress of software projects on a secure way.
CodeBeamer Enterprise Edition is installed behind corporate firewalls, it
provides fast and secure browsing - visualization, analysis, QA, and issue
tracking features on the common software asset. A fast Java/Swing based
plug-in aims at enhancing the productivity of individual developer with quick
code browsing and editing.
Major features
Code browsing and analysis, cross-referencing, QA, metrics, dependency
analysis, impact analysis, class diagrams, code collaboration, issue tracking,
revision system access, Java documentation check, export for MS-Excel and
StarOffice, it runs on Unix/Linux/Windows platforms.
About Intland
Intland provides customers with products and services to enhance the
productivity and quality of the software development process. Intland's
flagship product is CodeBeamer a web-based, enterprise-wide source code
engineering solution with strong collaboration features. Intland participates
in the Open Source Community with the free portal on the site
http://codebeamer.intland.com
--
Janos Koppany
Intland GmbH www.intland.com
Schulze-Delitzsch-Strasse 16
D-70565 Stuttgart
Tel: +49-711-7221873 Fax: +49-711-7221835
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From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:52 CST
WHEN AND WHERE:
24 November 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin
27 November 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
Certification, Inc.
2033 Wood Street Suite 220
Sarasota, FL 34237
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
1 December 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 December 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.
12 December 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.
20 December 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
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.
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:
22 December 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
3 January 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
5 January 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
9 January 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
17 January 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
22 January 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
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From: "Sysadmin for Linuxtrainers.biz" <sysadmin@linuxtrainers.biz>
Subject: Announcing linuxtrainers.biz: A site for all open source trainers and courseware developers
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:51 CST
This is an invitation for all trainers, but specifically those who do Linux, Unix or other open systems to join an online community at the
Linuxtrainers.biz site.
This site is completely non-political, non-denominational, and doesn't favor any particular courseware provider, vendor or certification. It's
specifically for those of us who do *Nix training and development to band together and support each other.
Highlights include:
- Articles about our favorite topics
- Classroom tips and techniques
- Cool downloads and links for training stuff
- Linuxtrainers.biz subscription-based mailing list open to all trainers
- Html or Java chatroom for when email just isn't fast enough
- Much more coming!
Contributions to the site:
Everyone is encouraged to contribute thier tips, articles, downloads, techniques and expertise to the site. We of course reserve the right
to not post something that's particularly off-topic, or that otherwise will get us in trouble.
Please stop by the site and look around, we'd love to have all of you join us in supporting the Linux trainer community and of course, by
proxy, all of your students and employers.
Thank You,
If you have any questions, please direct them to sysadmin@linuxtrainers.biz.
Sysadmin
sysadmin@Linuxtrainers.biz
http://www.linuxtrainers.biz
The Place for *Nix Trainers to go
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From: hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil (Howard Holm)
Subject: SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:04:59 CST
A new release of the LSM-based SELinux prototype has been put on the
SELinux web site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/>. This release is based
on the lsm-2001_11_05 patch against kernel 2.4.14. It fixes a number
of bugs, cleans up some code, and is based on newer versions of the
kernel and utilities.
Security-enhanced Linux incorporates a strong, flexible mandatory
access control architecture into the major subsystems of the Linux
kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of
information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. This
allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security
mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that
can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. The SELinux web
site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/> contains background information,
documentation, source code, and archives for the selinux mailing-list.
--
Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Secure Systems Research Office
National Security Agency
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