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Linux-Announce Digest #51
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Linux-Announce Digest #51, Volume #4 Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
scli 0.2.5 - snmp command line interface (Juergen Schoenwaelder)
Tsinvest version 1.3 (John Conover)
NEWS: India's Silicon Valley gets ready for an ambitious GNU/Linux (Frederick Noronha)
Guikachu 1.0.0 "Team Pocket" PalmOS Resource Editor for GNOME (ERDI Gergo)
New Glade Tutorial ("Eddy Ahmed")
MultiMail Offline Reader, v0.42 (William McBrine)
ndustrix version 0.0 (John Conover)
LUG in Seoul, near Apgujeong (Jonathan Gardner)
new apsfilter release 7 (Andreas Klemm)
xboard and WinBoard 4.2.4 released (Tim Mann)
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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
Subject: scli 0.2.5 - snmp command line interface
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:29:24 CST
scli 0.2.5 is now available:
<http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/scli/>
Description:
============
The SNMP command line interface (scli) provides a command line
interface to browse, monitor and configure SNMP capable devices. The
scli command set abstracts from SNMP and MIB details in order to
provide a convenient to use interface to talk to printers, bridges,
routers, hosts and so on. More information is available from the scli
web page at <http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/scli/>.
Features:
=========
- Command line interface that works on devices produced by different
vendors (if they support standard MIBs).
- Commands are structured in a hierarchy (recursive command
evaluation). Related commands are logically grouped into modes.
- Default output format is optimized for human readability. Additional
XML-based machine readable output format for scripting.
- Support for simple online monitoring activities.
- Command line editing, command history and command aliases.
- Supports SNMPv1/SNMPv2c plus lots of IETF standards track MIBs plus
some vendor specific MIBs.
Enjoy.
/js
--
Juergen Schoenwaelder Technical University Braunschweig
<schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dept. Operating Systems & Computer Networks
Phone: +49 531 391 3289 Muehlenpfordtstr. 23, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Fax: +49 531 391 5936 <http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~schoenw/>
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From: conover@email.rahul.net (John Conover)
Subject: Tsinvest version 1.3
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:29:40 CST
Reply-To: conover@email.rahul.net (John Conover)
The program tsinvest is for the real time programmed day trading of
equities. The only changes from version 1.2 to 1.3 is the addition of
the L option to tsinvestsim, which will make a simulated stock's
marginal increments have an exponential leptokurtotic distribution,
(there were no bugs or documentation changes.)
The program has a web site at http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/
From the lsm:
Begin3
Title: tsinvest-1.3.tar.gz
Version: 1.3
Entered-date: December 7, 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@email.johncon.com>
Maintained-by: Author
Primary-site: http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/
Alternate-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/financial/investment/tsinvest-1.3.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.
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John Conover, conover@email.rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: India's Silicon Valley gets ready for an ambitious GNU/Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:29:40 CST
INDIA'S SILICON VALLEY GETS READY FOR AN AMBITIOUS GNU/LINUX EVENT
IT'S BEING billed as one of the most ambitious GNU/Linux event of its kind,
and it's being staged in Bangalore, the South Indian city considered the
'Silicon Valley' of this country. Volunteer-organisers of the 'Linux
Bangalore/2001 are already confidently promising that the three-day
conference will cover a very wide canvas on understanding and using Linux.
To be held from December 10 to 12, 2001, this event is being built into an
'applied technology' conference. It is intended for open source and
free-software developers, administrators, and users. And IT decision makers.
Mahendra M., currently the coordinator of the Bangalore Linux Users' Group
(BLUG) calls this major event one "for the Linux community, by the Linux
community". Recent years have seen a spurt in interest in free software and
open source usage in India, a country which is sometimes considered a
software power-house, but where the lack of affordable Internet access till
the late 'nineties has delayed the expected surge of interest in Linux.
Signs are now coming in, though, that a significant segment of a generation
of college students and programmers in various parts of India are getting
fascinated by this new way of working on software. It is expected that in a
few years time, countries like India could contribute significantly to the
global grassroots drive to build up the 'free' software world.
Said Mahendra, a young engineer: "Linux Bangalore/2001 is a three day
conference on understanding and using Linux technologies. This conference
aims to cover a large number of areas that include core Linux technologies,
Open Source, Embedded Systems and other allied technologies. We are planning
to give 72 talks over a period of three days."
This conference aims to cover a large number of areas that include core
Linux technologies, Open Source, Embedded Systems and other allied
technologies.
Its primary audience will be the core (or potential) Linux-using community
of developers (who are being appropriately categorized, for this techie
meet, as /dev), system administrators (/adm), users (/usr) and
CxO/managers/decision makers (/cxo).
"Each track will include introductory, technical, how-to and tutorial
sessions, catering to 'newbies' (people new to Linux) to 'gurus' (people who
know Linux in and out)," explained Mahendra.
To make this event accessible to many, entrance is free. This is significant
in a Third World country where the cost factor still looms large, and when
people talk about GNU/Linux being a 'free' operating system, the cost aspect
could be as important as the freedom aspect, for many.
Said the organisers, commenting about what they called the 'entry f(r)ee'
status of the event: "We have decided to make entry free for all. We feel
that it is the present student community that is going to drive the
phenomenal growth of Linux (in India) in the days to come and it would be
doing injustice if they find the event costs prohibitive. At the same time,
we see no need to make employees run to their managers to get budget
approval just so that they can attend this event. As long as you can get an
approval for $ 0 /Rs 0 from your company, you can attend!"
Over one thousand persons registered for the event by end-November,
according to Indian Linux guru Atul Chitnis. This Bangalore-based software
whizz's efforts at promoting Linux through popular Indian computing
magazines like PC-QUEST, in the past, have taken this OS to varied nook and
crannies of this vast country of 1000 million.
"New technologies and their implementation/application under Linux will be
discussed as well, making this a technology conference to remember. In
addition to this, we also intend to provide assistance to new users and more
information to technology enthusiasts," promised the organisers.
During the event, there will be multiple tracks and with six sessions every
day from 10 am to 5 pm, plus Birds-of-Feather (BoF) sessions at the end of
the day. There will be an estimated 70-72 talks.
In addition, also planned are separate workshops, tutorials, case studies
and demonstrations. Speakers for this event will be drawn from the Indian
Linux community, as well as the IT industry.
This event is being held at the impressive J.N.Tata Auditorium at the
Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Incidentally, a team at
the IISc itself is inching its way towards completing what it calls the
'Simputer'. This simple and inexpensive sub-$200 (Rs 9000) computing device
that is expected to make computing affordable to the commonman (and woman).
Not coincidentally perhaps, the Simputer is to work on GNU/Linux.
Exploiting the Net technologies to the optimum, the organisers sought
volunteers to offer talks. This drew in dozens of enthusiastic specialists,
giving a clue of the vast spread and understanding GNU/Linux has gained
across India since the late 'nineties... and in some cases, a little earlier.
Talks range from connecting to the Internet, to setting up an "optimal"
Linux server, and adding a scripting language to your toolkit.
Remote booting disk-less machines, 'bug-safe' Linux, IDS and Forensic
Analysis, IPv6 deployment and usage, 'thin clients', Lotus Domino on Linux,
Linux Intrusion Detection System (LIDS), deploying ATMs on Linux, anti-spam
tools, GRID computing, low-cost ISP (Internet Service Provider) setups, and
bandwidth management using Linux are among the other subjects to be covered.
On the developer track, speakers will explain GNOME development tools and
BONOBO, the Linux kernel itself, Linux device drivers, porting and embedding
Linux, PHP programming, data-driven websites, licenses, Linux databases,
clustering concepts in Linux and a range of other topics.
Some of the names of those tackling these subjects are familiar through the
well-knit Linux networks and communities that exist in cyberspace. Recent
attempts to unearth Indian programming contributions to Linux have shown
that the once-small effort is now fast growing, more than is generally
understood or acknowledged.
IT managers and decision-makers could also tune in to topics such as Linux
for ISO 9000:2000 Implementations, Linux in the enterprise, Linux in Indian
space science research, Linux as the 'dream OS', and experiments learnt from
the KDE experiment.
Linux users will not be left out either. They can choose from learning more
on Linux on the 'corporate desktop', multimedia under Linux, or 3D images
and animations.
One area of interest to many would be Linux's potential in VoIP
(voice-over-Internet protocol, or Net telephony). For long banned by the
Indian government, VoIP is expected to be legalised sometime after March 2002.
What is also vitally important to the future of computing in India is the
attempt to offer Indian-language Linux versions, that could be accessible to
the millions who don't understand English.
During the event, Frank Pohlmann is scheduled to speak on the Linux
Documentation Project and Indian languages. other speakers will also present
studies on Indian language computing on Linux and related subjects.
This event is managed by young volunteers of BLUG, the Bangalore Linux
Users' Group. Including Mahendra M (BLUG Coordinator), Jessica Prabhakar,
Biju Chacko, Syed Khader Vali, Kingsly John, U.K.Jaiswal Manager Support,
Kalyan Varma Alluri, Vineeth S, Madhu M. Kurup.
Advisors to this ambitious plan are long-time GNU/Linux gurus Gopi Garge ˇ
and Atul Chitnis You can reach the team by email: lb2001 at linux-bangalore
dot org.
Hewlett Packard (India Software Operations) has wholly sponsored Linux
Bangalore/2001, amidst some early fears that the recession and the September
11 attacks in the US might make the task of finding sponsorship impossible.
Updates are at http://linux-bangalore.org/2001
In addition, there is also a mailing-list set up to discuss plans for the
event. If you wish to discuss about the event, send a blank email to
linux-bangalore-2001-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (ENDS)
--
Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa * India
BYTESFORALL www.bytesforall.org * GOAPIX www.goacom.com/wallpapers/
GOARESEARCH www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1503 * NEWS www.goacom.com/news/
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From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@gnome.hu>
Subject: Guikachu 1.0.0 "Team Pocket" PalmOS Resource Editor for GNOME
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:29:48 CST
Guikachu 1.0.0: "Team Pocket" released
Guikachu is the premiere solution for creating PalmOS resource files
in UNIX operating systems, and it is also available as Free Software,
as defined by the GNU GPL. "Resources" are data statically linked into
PalmOS applications, and contain information about user-visible things
like strings, windows, and menu structures. Guikachu, based on the
GNOME 1.4 libraries, makes it possible to edit these files in an
easy-to-use way, under the popular GNOME desktop environment.
"WOW DUDE! Your recent hacking is beautiful", Miguel de Icaza,
co-founder of the GNOME project said, when first checking it out. An
excited user simply e-mailed: "Thanks for making such a valuable
tool!"
Guikachu is available for immediate download at
<http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu>
As of version 1.0, Guikachu has full support for the following
resource types:
* Strings
* Dialogs
* Menus
* Forms
* App List entry data
It also includes a WYSIWYG form editor and an easy-to-use menu editor
for designing PalmOS windows with a click of the mouse.
There is also a special resource type for storing arbitrary RCP code
fragments for resources not yet supported, such as bitmaps.
Guikachu uses the popular PilRC resource compiler (also available as
Free Software) as the back-end. Guikachu also includes a 100%
platform-independent, XML-based solution to creating the PilRC input.
This allows you to deploy the Guikachu resource files to any platform
where the actual compiling and linking of your application is done.
Learning Guikachu is easy with the included documentation and a
complete example application. The web-based feature guide at
<http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/tour> will also be updated
shortly. To lower the barrier of entry even further, Guikachu is
translated to ten languages by volunteers from all over the globe.
Guikachu is created by Gergő Érdi. The Guikachu artwork was done by
Basilico Briceno. Source code includes code snippets by Martin
Schulze. Widget icons are taken from the excellent Glade UI editor, by
Damon Chaplin. Special thanks to Murray Cumming and Daniel Elstner
for their C++ hints every now and then, and to Marco Antonio Cabazal,
Erich Douglass and Roger So for providing binary packages of Guikachu
for various Linux distributions.
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`-----= cactus@cactus.rulez.org =--'
Százezer lemming nem tévedhet!
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From: "Eddy Ahmed" <eddy@writelinux.com>
Subject: New Glade Tutorial
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:29:47 CST
Hello,
I've made a new Glade tutorial targeted at developers with C know how,
looking to get into Gnome development.
The URL is: http://www.writelinux.com/glade
Thanks
Eddy Ahmed
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From: William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: MultiMail Offline Reader, v0.42
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:29:58 CST
MultiMail is a free, open source (GPL) offline mail packet reader for
Unix, DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS and AtheOS. It currently supports the Blue
Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP formats. It uses a simple curses-based interface.
The MultiMail home page is:
http://multimail.sourceforge.net/
Alternately, you can get it via FTP:
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/multimail/
Binaries for several platforms are available, along with the source code.
What's New in version 0.42?
===========================
* Display fix for Win32 port under XP (and 2000?)
* QNX port
* New addressbook functionality
* Better error reporting on failed uncompression
* Fixed documentation
Begin3
Title: MultiMail (source)
Version: 0.42
Entered-date: 08DEC01
Description: MultiMail is a curses-based Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP
offline mail reader for Unix and other systems.
Keywords: mail bluewave omen qwk soup bbs fido offline reader
Author: wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net (William McBrine) et al.
Maintained-by: wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net (William McBrine)
Primary-site: download.sourceforge.net /pub/sourceforge/multimail
212992 mmail-0.42.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/bbs/mail
Original-site:
Platforms: C++, curses and InfoZip or PKZIP. Tested on Linux, Solaris,
NetBSD, MS-DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS, AtheOS, FreeBSD, MacOS X, QNX
Copying-policy: GPL 2.0
End
--
William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net>
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From: conover@email.rahul.net (John Conover)
Subject: ndustrix version 0.0
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:06 CST
Reply-To: conover@email.rahul.net (John Conover)
The sources to "Notes on the Fractal Analysis of Various Market
Segments in the North American Electronics Industry," which is
intended for use by those involved in strategic marketing and
optimization of business operations and process, (i.e., managing the
P&L,) includes the C sources to 60 some programs for analyzing
industrial markets and planning effective business strategies. The
program suite uses entropic mathematical concepts of economics,
finance, and information theory to provide optimal strategies under
uncertainty.
The program suite has a web site at http://www.johncon.com/ndustrix/
From the lsm:
Begin3
Title: fractal-0.0.tar.gz
Version: 0.0
Entered-date: December 7, 2001
Description: Sources to "Notes on the Fractal Analysis of
Various Market Segments in the North American
Electronics Industry," which is intended for
use by those involved in strategic marketing
and optimization of business operations and
process, (i.e., managing the P&L.) Also
includes the C Sources to the 60 some programs
that do quantitative analysis of industrial
markets using entropic methodologies.
Keywords: financial engineering quantitative analysis entropic industrial markets
Author: John Conover <john@email.johncon.com>
Maintained-by: Author
Primary-site: http://www.johncon.com/ndustrix/
Alternate-site: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/financial/investment/fractal-0.0.tar.gz
Original-site: http://www.johncon.com/ndustrix/
Platform: Linux, and any other supporting GCC, LaTeX
Copying-policy: Can freely distribute, but cannot sell or include in a
commercial product without permission of author.
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From: jgardn@alumni.washington.edu (Jonathan Gardner)
Subject: LUG in Seoul, near Apgujeong
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:07 CST
I am curious if there is any LUG in the Apgujeong area of Seoul,
Korea. I am an American, but I am nearly fluent in Korean, so I am not
looking for exclusively American groups.
Jonathan
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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Subject: new apsfilter release 7
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:14 CST
The apsfilter developement team proudly presents apsfilter 7.
Many new features ! Details, see:
http://www.apsfilter.org/download/ANNOUNCE-7.0.0
The apsfilter webserver contains, all you need: download page,
patches, handbook with FAQ section, mailinglists for help and
suggestions and a browseable mailinglist archive.
See you !
http://www.apsfilter.org
Best regards
Andreas ///
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Apsfilter Homepage ........................ http://www.apsfilter.org/
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Inofficial band pages with add-on stuff.. http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html
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From: Tim Mann <usenet@tim-mann.org>
Subject: xboard and WinBoard 4.2.4 released
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:30:22 CST
** Announcing the release of XBoard and WinBoard, version 4.2.4 **
A new release of both XBoard and WinBoard is now available. Version
4.2.4 is strictly a bugfix release. It corrects about 30 bugs in the
4.2.3 release, upgrades the included copy of GNU Chess 5 from 5.00 to
5.02, and adds a couple of very minor features. See the ChangeLog
included with the release for details.
Several new features contributed by various people are still in the
pipeline for a future release, as are several additions to the engine
communication protocol that have been discussed on the chess-engines
mailing list but which I have not implemented yet. I wanted to work
through my large backlog of small bug reports and fixes before moving
on to these larger items.
You can get both programs from my Chess page on the World Wide Web.
In addition, they should soon be available from GNU FTP sites.
- http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard/
XBoard is a graphical chessboard for the X Window System that can
serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, and other chess
engines, for the Internet Chess Servers, and for electronic mail
correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself. It can read
and write game files in PGN (portable game notation).
WinBoard is a similar program for 32-bit Microsoft Windows. It
includes all the major features of XBoard except email correspondence
chess.
Some known bugs and deficiencies in previous versions have not been
addressed. It is not necessary to report your favorite bug again if
you have reported it before, unless the ChangeLog erroneously says it
has been fixed. Most known bugs, deficiencies, and suggestions
received are now listed in the ToDo file. If you find a bug not
listed there, please report it to me.
--Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org>
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