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Linux-Announce Digest #77
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Linux-Announce Digest #77, Volume #4 Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:13:05 EST
Contents:
new ILUG at jaipur, rajasthan, india (seemanta dutta)
Re: Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released into the market (jamess@fda.net)
LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday (Daniel Tasch)
ANN: Ogden, Utah LUG (James Knowles)
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.10.0 (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
The CREC-LUG announcement (sood aaditya)
Linux StepByStep (http:/linux.nf) updated ("Douglas J. Hunley")
A Plea for High-level Descriptions in Postings (Gerry Snyder)
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From: seemanta_18@yahoo.com (seemanta dutta)
Subject: new ILUG at jaipur, rajasthan, india
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:49:17 CST
hi all linux gurus....
this is to inform you that we the linux freaks of MR engg college have
got together and established a new ILUG here at jaipur.....called LUGJ
actually this is nothing but a realisation of a dream by some of our
seniors who had taken this initiative long ago in 1999...
their mailing list is still active at lugj@yahoogroups.com
for now that will suffice...but that is not all soon we shall have our
own webserver ,mailing lists,anonymous ftp server et al (the college
has agreed to do this....)till then please bear with us....
here's wishing this LUG soaring success...
linux freaks from rec jaipur...
aakaash IV BE ece
anjaneya pal IV BE ece
ansuman tapan IV BE ece
rohit talukdar IV BE cse
yashvir guleria IV BE ece
aditya pandey III BE cse
seemanta dutta III BE ece
venkateshwara rao III BE cse
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From: jamess@fda.net
Subject: Re: Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released into the market
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:49:18 CST
Al Dev wrote:
>
> Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released
> into the market
>
> A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL (Redhat Database)
> Second Edition (revised and enlarged and covers latest
> version of PostgreSQL 7.1.3),
> Published Jan 2002
> Author: Al Dev
>
> International Edition: The cost of the book is very
> minimal at about $20.99.
> ----------------------
>
> Asian Economy Edition:
> ----------------------
> For consumers in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives,
> Nepal,
> Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand please click
> on the
> button which says Rs. 330 (Indian Rupees).
> You can also buy this book for Rs. 330 from
> http://www.gtcdrom.com , Bangalore, INDIA as well at
> all GTCdrom branches
> in every major Indian city.
>
> The book is sold at http://www.aldev.8m.com
>
Would love to buy the book, but all you unenlightened people always act
like everyone that use's Linux use Redhat. PostgreSQL is a database that
works on all Linux distros. Maybe if you acted like it you would sell
more of your product.
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From: Daniel Tasch <taschda@dmapub.dma.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:49:25 CST
The UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group of the Dayton Microcomputer
Association meets on the first thursday of evey month. The meeting is held
at the DMA office at 119 Valley St in Dayton at 7:00 pm.
Visitors and new users are always welcome.
For additional information contact:
Tony Snyder
snydert@dmapub.dma.org
937-275-7913
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From: James Knowles <jamesk@ifm-services.com>
Subject: ANN: Ogden, Utah LUG
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:49:32 CST
This is an Ogden, Utah, USA LUG meeting announcement.
More information available at http://oalug.darkpenguin.com
Group Meeting Wednesday February 06, 2002 7:00 PM PST Posted By:
Jason Cox LUG Meeting - Feb 06, 2002
WHERE: Room 9, Weber State Library
note: room 9 is in the basement. Enter the library through either the east
or west doors and take the stairs located just north of the east doors. I'm
not sure exactly which room is 9 but it should be marked.
WHEN: 7pm-9pm (The room will be available at 6:30p for those who wish to
bring computers. Limited outlets are available so please bring your own
power strips. One outlet per person.) Please be prompt so we can start on
time.
WHAT TO BRING: yourself. I spoke with the library and they said it wouldn't
be a problem if people wanted to bring thier own computers.
This is the biggest room that they have available. It has tables but I think
it will only fit about 10 people. This should be fine for atleast this
meeting. We could discuss alternate meeting locations during this meeting.
We should also discuss future meeting times. I know atleast a couple of
people have suggested that we meet once on wednesday and once on saturday
each month.
As far as parking goes, everything is free after 5pm. With reference to the
following map: Map of Weber State
(http://weber.edu/weberstatemap/default.html) , the best place to park would
be the spot labled "PPL" just right of the contsruction zone. This is
normally a pay lot but I believe it to is also free after 5pm. It's just a
quick 100 yards or so to the library from there. (The library is "37LI" on
the map)
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From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.10.0
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:49:32 CST
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
HI!
Find a new release of web2ldap on:
http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html
Ciao, Michael.
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From: sood aaditya <alpha@tux.reccal.ernet.in>
Subject: The CREC-LUG announcement
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:49:25 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: "Douglas J. Hunley" <doug@hunley.homeip.net>
Subject: Linux StepByStep (http:/linux.nf) updated
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:49:39 CST
It's been a fairly busy month at Linux StepByStep again. We've put up the
following additiont to the stie:
28th
FTP -> Servers -> ProFTPD (Chang)
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25th
Bind 9 -> clarifications on the secret key needed for rndc (Douglas Hunley)
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21st
FREEBSD (Added to Left Menu)
FREEBSD -> Intro to FreeBSD (C.Richey)
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20th
WARNING -> Proper French Translation (Patrick)
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18th
Timekeeping -> Automatic Sync (Added 'netdate' option c/o K. Cullis)
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17th
Bedtime Reading -> Partitions (proper German by Hermann-Josef)
Distros -> Reviews -> Redmond (update)
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16th
Bedtime Reading -> IDE cd burners (revised)
Programming -> kbhit() example (revised) (Anders Brander / Mike A)
Added bsd-users@linux.nf mailing list and newsgroup for BSD discussion (Doug
Hunley)
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12th
KDE2->Soundbug (Mike Andrew)
Bedtime Reading-> CD Burners (Mike Andrew)
CD BURNERS -> Bedtime Reading
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4th
Added new bios of the Editors (Front Page->Snapshots) (Doug Hunley)
Moved all mirror-related content to new mirror subdir (Doug Hunley)
Bind/DNS-> major re-org/cleanup. new security additions, and rdnc info (Doug
Hunley)
PALMPILOT->GUI INTERFACES (Susan/Alan) moved
PALMPILOT->PROGRAMMING->Rapid Development Tool Install
->EMULATOR
->SDK
->PILRC
->PRCTOOLS
->Putting it all together
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3rd
Moved copyright and privacy notice to new legal directory (Doug Hunley)
Proper German for print filters (Klaus-Peter)
Moved bio and images to new bio subdir (Doug Hunley)
Proper French for all front page frames (patrick kapturkiewicz)
VIDEO -> AVI + DIVX -> Mplayer (Net Llama!)
VIDEO -> AVI + DIVX -> Avifile (moved (Net Llama!)
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2nd
Upgrade -> Compiling and Installing GLib and GTK+ (Kurt Wall)
Bind 9 -> updates to handle the /var/run permissions issue (Doug Hunley)
KDE -> Getting Rid of KDE1 (Bill's way) Bill Day
FTP->Server (ammended) Linuxism
PALMPILOT->(susan/alan) Bedtime Reading->Print Filters (Joel Hammer)
Bedtime Reading->Hardware driver API's and technical breifs (Mike Andrew)
--->CDROM Kernel API
--->CDROM Example C Code driver
--->IEEE1284 Parallel Interface
---->LS120 Parallel Interface protocol
---->ZIP Parrallel Interface protocols
usb->general-> change of url to linux-usb.org
=====
1st
Bedtime Reading -> BASH Startup Process Scripts (Chris Kassopulo)
We also had a lot of happening on the mailing lists.
We added a bsd-users mailing list this month to coincide withour new BSD
content.
the linux-users list is up to 152 members, and generated 1937 messages for
the month of January!
As usual, the website continued to grow in popularity and traffic:
Total Hits for the month: 249126
Average Hits per Day: 1255
Average Hits per Hour: 334
Average Hits per Day: 8036
Top 5 Referrers for the month are:
Google
Yahoo!
www.idir.net
www.redmondlinux.org
Linmodems.org
(LWN, DistroWatch, Caldera, Redat, and KDE.com also showed strongly in the
Referrer catagory)
Top 5 Search Items:
s3 trio
sis 5597
ppoe
s3 virge
s3 trio 3d/2x drivers
Top 5 Visiting TLDs:
.COM
.NET
.CA
.EDU
.AU
Full details of the web traffic is available at
http://linux.nf/www/usage_200201.html
January also showed a marked increase in traffic on our news server
(news.linux.nf)
--
Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf
It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word
you're saying.
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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:50:10 CST
From: Gerry Snyder <gerrysnyder@mediaone.net>
Subject: A Plea for High-level Descriptions in Postings
Dear cola poster,
I think many of you are short-changing both yourselves and us naive
linux users by the type of messages you post to this list. It seems that
most of the ones I read (and I read them all) consist of two sections:
what's changed, and where to get it. That's great for your established
user base, and I know that your web page has great detail about the
product.
But a typical update to cola has ten or twenty messages. I often don't
have the time to look through the referenced web pages, and I think many
other readers don't either. I am sure that I have missed out on several
packages that would be useful to me but I was not smart enough to
realize it. Just a few short sentences could make a big difference.
Pseudo-example:
Potrzeebie is a grobswitcher client. It lets you download grobs and
switch and browse them locally. Its advantage over switchgrob is that it
is smaller and much faster, although less flexible.
I know your program represents hundreds or thousands of hours of effort.
It deserves the largest audience possible. Please spend one or two extra
minutes telling us what your creation does. It will help you, and it
will help us.
Thank you,
Gerry
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mailto:gerrysnyder@mediaone.net
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