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Linux-Announce Digest #72
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Linux-Announce Digest #72, Volume #4 Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:13:03 EST
Contents:
ANN: Python course in Silicon Valley (1/28-3/25) (Wesley J. Chun)
SDL Game Contest Entries Now Available for Download (No Starch Press)
The CREC-LUG announcement (sood aaditya)
BPP 5.0.0 - GPL utilities to install, manage and rebuild automatically software packages (Antonio Gallo)
Obelix versus MobiliX: Legal Response Online Now (Werner Heuser)
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From: wesc@deirdre.org (Wesley J. Chun)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.python,comp.lang.python.announce,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc
Subject: ANN: Python course in Silicon Valley (1/28-3/25)
Date: 22 Jan 2002 23:07:54 -0800
one last reminder that open enrollment for this course are still
available. contact Mickal at the number below for information.
details: monday nites, 6:30-9:30p, 1/28-3/25 (!2/18), sunnyvale
in addition to the course description at the website below, there
is a course website with the syllabus, schedule, topics, homework,
handouts, etc. here:
http://instruction.ucsc-extension.edu/wesc/013e44
finally, the website for the textbook is in the .sig below. feel
free to contact me directly if you have any questions. hope to
see some of you in class this coming week!
-wesley
> Wesley J. Chun <wesc@deirdre.org> wrote in a msg on Jan 9, 2002...
>
> After a 1 year hiatus, UC Santa Cruz Extension is once again
> offering a Python course, Python Programming (I). The course
> is 8 weeks in total, one night a week (Monday nights) from
> January 28 - March 25 (no class on Presidents' Day, Feb 18).
>
> The class is taught in Sunnyvale. The course description and
> enrollment information can be found below or by calling Mickal
> at 408-566-4534:
>
> http://instruction.ucsc-extension.edu/wesc/013e44cd.htm
>
> if all goes well, i may be teaching a new course in the Spring,
> Python Programming 2, which follows right after the 1st course.
> if enrollments are not high enough for the advanced class, then
> i will probably teach the 1st class again. i have also put in
> a proposal for a "completely new to programming" course for
> newbies, but that has yet to be approved.
>
> anyway, hope to see some of you in class later this month!!
>
> -wesley
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall PTR, © 2001
http://starship.python.net/crew/wesc/cpp/
wesley.j.chun :: wesc@deirdre.org
cyberweb.consulting :: silicon valley, ca && las vegas, nv
http://www.dnai.com/~wesc/cyberweb/
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From: No Starch Press<amanda@nostarch.com>
Subject: SDL Game Contest Entries Now Available for Download
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:37:19 CST
Reply-To: amanda@nostarch.com
For Immediate Release
No Starch Press is pleased to announce the winners of the SDL GAME DEVELOPMENT CONTEST. Michael Speck won first place with "LBreakout 2," an Arkanoid-genre game. Andreas Roever came in second place with "Tower Toppler," a tower climbing game. And Bill Kendrick won third place with "Vectoroids," an incarnation of Asteroids. All 25 entries are now available for download: http://www.nostarch.com/game_contest_results.htm.
With an open call to the gaming community, contestants were challenged to create a computer game under 1 megabyte using the Simple DirectMedia Layer. Contestants responded with a wide range of game types, including clones of Asteroids, Arkanoid, Missile Command, Bomberman, and Connect Four. Original concepts include "Wok", a highly unconventional ball tossing game, "54321", a mind-twisting 4-dimensional puzzle game, and "E-Type", a typing tutor program.
John Hall, a contributing author of PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES ($39.95, 1-886411-49-2, No Starch Press, http://www.nostarch.com/?plg) wanted to create a forum for resident game developers and newbies alike. "There is no lack of talent and creativity in the free software world, but sometimes people need a little motivation to put their ideas into code. The goal of this contest was to motivate amateur game programmers to bring their projects nearer to completion, and with several previously unseen game submissions, I believe we succeeded."
The contest was sponsored by NO STARCH PRESS (http://www.nostarch.com), publishers of PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES, a Linux Journal Press book, LINUX JOURNAL (http://www.linuxjournal.com), the leading Linux magazine, and LOKI SOFTWARE, INC. (http://www.lokisoftware.com).
Media Contact: Amanda Staab, 415-863-9900, amanda@nostarch.com
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From: sood aaditya <alpha@tux.reccal.ernet.in>
Subject: The CREC-LUG announcement
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:37:19 CST
Reply-To: sood aaditya <ec98310@matrix.reccal.ernet.in>
This is an announcement about a new LUG in CREC, Kerela, India.
We run a LUG in CREC (Calicut Regional Engineering College, Kerela,
India) called CREC-LUG. Although there have been Linux users in the
college since about 1995, paradoxically the LUG was founded in Nov 2001!
That partly explains why we haven't had any meetings yet, the other
reason being the exams :-/.
The DNS to our server (called tux.reccal.ernet.in) is shaky and slow
(almost like the whole ERNET), so the site better be accessed at the IP
address. Mail however would come through.
Lug Name : CREC-LUG
Co-ordinator : aaditya sood <ec98310 at matrix.reccal.ernet.in>
Mailing List Url: http://202.41.105.20/mailman/listinfo/lug
Mailing List Subscribe : <lug-request at tux.reccal.ernet.in> or from the Mailing list Url
Mailing List Archives : http://202.41.105.20/pipermail/lug
Lug Website : http://202.41.105.20/
First Meeting : Sometime in Jan 2002
Local Resources : A mailing list+website+~150 people:)
So any of the alumni of the college, anyone near Calicut (or anyone
at all:)) is invited to join. Just send a mail to me for more info.
Happy hacking!
--
sood aaditya
MIPS:
Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed
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From: Antonio Gallo <agx@linux.it>
Subject: BPP 5.0.0 - GPL utilities to install, manage and rebuild automatically software packages
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:37:42 CST
BPP 5.0.0 - GPL utilities to install, manage and rebuild automatically software packages
[english]
BPP (Bad Penguin Package) is a format that define a not so new way of
packaging software. BPP packages can be installed, removed, updated,
restore, ecc. You can also recreate a package from the file on your own
filesystem. Addittionally if you carefully follow the documentation
you can automate the process of mantaining packages. The BPP system
provide all the tool to automatically download, compile and install
a software in "source code" from internet diretly on your PC and
assemble it into a package that can be re-distribuited.
The BPP system is written mainly in shell and so require only normal
basic Unix utilities. The archive format is GNU tar + GNU gzip.
It handle dependencies, requirements, usage of disk space, package
conflicts and other things.
Download from:
http://ftp.badpenguin.org/pub/software/
http://www.badpenguin.org/
Antonio Gallo
www.antoniogallo.it
[italian]
BPP (Bad Penguin Pachetto) è un formato che definisce un modo di
archiviare il proprio software. Un pacchetto BPP può essere installato,
rimosso, aggiornato, risistemato, e, se si segue con scrupolo la
documentazione, può essere scaricato, compilato e installato scaricando
il software in "formato sorgente" da internet direttamente sul proprio PC
e assemblarlo in un pacchetto che può essere redistribuito.
Il sistema di pacchetti BPP è stato scritto principalmente in shell in
tale modo richiede per il suo funzionamento solo le normali utility
Unix di base. L'archivio è in formato GNU tar + GNU gzip.
BPP è in grado di gestire le dipendenze, richieste, l'uso dello spazio
su disco, conflitti tra pacchetti e altro ancora.
Download da:
http://ftp.badpenguin.org/pub/software/
http://www.badpenguin.org/
Antonio Gallo
www.antoniogallo.it
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From: Werner Heuser <wehe@mobilix.org>
Subject: Obelix versus MobiliX: Legal Response Online Now
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:37:42 CST
In the conflict between Obelix and MobiliX, the
legal response of the lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB)
is online now.
In November 2001 Werner Heuser, owner of the Opens Source
project MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Computers
(http://mobilix.org) was charged by "Lés Editions Albert René",
which is owner of the trademark "Obelix". The charge
aimes on a deletion of the trademark "MobiliX" and
a compensation fee. Also every commercial use of the
name "MobiliX" will be forbidden. Every offense can
be charged with up to 250.000 Euro or as a substitute
with six months prison. Werner Heuser has taken
the lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB)
(http://www.jbb-berlin.de) to represent him in court. His
lawyers had to work out the legal response until
January 21st 2002.
The legal response (PDF, 22 pages in German) is online
(http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html) now.
The document describes the origin of the names Obelix
(from "obelisk") and MobiliX (from "mobil" and "UniX").
Many wellknown names are used to show how widespread the
suffix "ix" is in the IT business, e.g. often
UniX derivates are named by this scheme. This is
followed by an analysis of the pronounciation and
spelling of the words Obelix and MobiliX, and whether
they can be mistaken from members of the IT business or not.
As a conclusion the charge is considered void.
Since the suffix "ix" is widespread in the IT community, it
seems possible that even more projects will be charged.
This case is very important for the Free Software
community, too. Therefore the lawyers
Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB) have agreed
to make the legal response public.
The MobiliX (http://mobilix.org) site
is dedicated to Mobile UniX systems. It leads you to
a lot of useful hands-on information about
installing and running Linux, BSD and other UniXes on laptops,
PDAs and other mobile computer devices. Werner Heuser offers
his Linux-HOWTOs and his book "Linux on the Road" there.
Besides his work for MobiliX he is a Debian GNU/Linux maintainer.
--
|=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe_AT_mobilix.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://MobiliX.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|=| http://Xtops.DE Laptops+PDAs pre-installed with UniX
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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