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Linux-Announce Digest #85
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Linux-Announce Digest #85, Volume #4 Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:13:03 EST
Contents:
LOCAL: Linux Basic Administration Course in Houston, TX (Algis Rudys)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings ("Paul M. Foster")
Archmobx 2.0.0: a simple email archiver (Alessandro Dotti Contra)
noteedit looks terrible on KDE-2.2 (Joerg Anders)
LILUG Meeting (VanPopering)
LINK: India contributes to GNU/Linux... (Frederick Noronha)
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From: Algis Rudys <arudys@cs.rice.edu>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux Basic Administration Course in Houston, TX
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:47 CST
Reply-To: rlug@rice.edu
Greetings --
Over the next several months, the Rice Linux Users Group will be running
a six-course series on using Linux. The second of these courses, "Basic
Administration", will be held this Tuesday 12 February at 6:30pm in
Duncan Hall 1046. There will be a Rice Linux Users Group meeting at
5:30pm, just before the course. Directions are available at our
meetings page, http://linux.rice.edu/meetings.html.
"Basic Administration" is targetted towards people who have just
recently been introduced to Linux. It covers some basic programs,
security, and package management.
Note that these courses are not Rice academic courses, and are in no way
affiliated with any academic department of Rice University. Visit
http://linux.rice.edu/courses/ for more information on this and other
planned courses. Visit http://linux.rice.edu/ for more information on
the Rice Linux Users Group.
Cheers,
Algis Rudys
Rice Linux Users Group
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Algis Rudys
Rice Linux Users Group
rlug@rice.edu
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From: "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:48 CST
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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TAMPA ****************************************************
13 February 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
PRESENTATION: Wayne Witt
An open source client/server backup system
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#tampa for directions.
BRANDON II ***********************************************
21 February 19:00-21:00 Brandon
(third Thursday of each month)
Computer Advantage Store
217 Brandon Town Center Drive
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#BrandonII for directions.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
23 February 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
SARASOTA *************************************************
26 February 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
Certification Inc.
2033 Wood St Suite 220
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#sarasota for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
2 March 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, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
7 March 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
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ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
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!)
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From: Alessandro Dotti Contra <alessandro.dotti@libero.it>
Subject: Archmobx 2.0.0: a simple email archiver
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:48 CST
Hy everybody,
archmbox 2.0.1 has just been uploaded and is available for download.
URL: http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/archmbox/archmbox.html
Archmbox is a simple email archiver written in perl.
These are the changes in this release:
* a stupid bug which prevents custom extension of archive
mailbox to be handled correctly was fixed.
Feel free to contact me for bug reports, suggestions, ideas, improvements...
Thak you.
alex
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Alessandro Dotti Contra
alessandro.dotti@libero.it
http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/
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From: j.anders@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Anders)
Subject: noteedit looks terrible on KDE-2.2
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:49 CST
NoteEdit-1.17.0:
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html
looks terrible on KDE-2.2. See:
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/kde22problem/kde22problem.html
The icons and the text is distorted. The icons look terrible and the text
is unreadable.
It has to do with a new scaling and font handling algorithm on
KDE-2.2/Qt-2.3. It concerns for instance all SuSE-7.3 and
RedHat-7.2 users. So if noteedit has the same terrible outfit as
shown on page above try noteedit-1.17.1.
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Furthermore:
A terrible PMX chord export bug is fixed
and
The MusiXTeX exporter now has a accidental
placing algorithm. Thus, overlapping accidentals
in chords shouldn't occur any longer.
===============
There is a further problem on RedHat-7.2: During installation there is
a message:
/usr/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
Don't know how to do adjust column widths with libxslt
unable to parse ./index.docbook
As a result the OnLine help isn't available on RedHat-7.2. I don't
know what's wrong. I assume it has to do with a prehistorical libxml/libxslt.
But I'm not sure. So all RedHat -7.2 users must forego OnLine help.
(Perhaps a RedHat guru can explain what's wrong)
If this error stops the whole installation process then in top
Makefile change:
TOPSUBDIRS = doc noteedit po
against:
TOPSUBDIRS = noteedit po
--
J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
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From: VanPopering <dvanpope@bookworm.suffolk.lib.ny.us>
Subject: LILUG Meeting
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:58 CST
LILUG is meeting on Tuesday, 12 February, 2002, at SUNY Farmingdale.
Linux Experience of LILUG Members On The Job
We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at SUNY Farmingdale, generally in Room 100 of
Roosevelt Hall from 8-10 PM. We'll always post the meeting location with any meeting
announcements just to be sure.
You can check out a SUNY Farmingdale campus map to find your way.
http://lilug.org/images/fdalemap3.jpg
Please feel free to come join us! No invitation needed, we are open to everyone, no matter
how much or how little experience you may have!
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/* David...
Running Linux */
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: LINK: India contributes to GNU/Linux...
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:40 CST
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FROM SOUTH ASIA WITH LOVE: INDIA CONTRIBUTES TO GNU/LINUX
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By Frederick Noronha
fred@bytesforall.org
MORE DETAILS FROM http://linuxinindia.pitas.com
Is India contributing to the global GNU/Linux initiative?
Check out what's happening in this part of South Asia. The modest
work-in-progress site http://linuxinindia.pitas.com attempts to catalogue
some of these efforts...
And, it appears that quite a few things are actually happening...
Scientific data visualisers (its name is 'MayaVi', after the term for a
magician in the ancient sacred language of Sanskrit), software that queries
each host to display the HTTP server software, and the like.
That's not all: Commercialized supercomputing technology, Linux parallel
supercomputers for high speed rendering, molecular modeling and weather
modelling, bioinformatics solutions, GIS servers and even Indian language
'killer applications' (word processing, e-mail using GPLed tools).
Check out Perl modules that help you do "various things". Or an interactive
voice-response system, that allows anyone to select and fetch pre-recorded
messages via a telephone... of course, using Linux.
Other Indian GNU/Linux products include a GPL WAP-based POP3 mail client,
and a RomanScript-to-Hindi transliterator from the world of GPL again.
Down south, software initiatives are focussing on building office suites
"like MS-Word, Excel and Access" for Linux. Or even a Pacman in Tamil!
Likewise, other teams are looking at giving Linux an Indian face -- offering
Indian language support from the kernel up, not just as an add-on stuck on
top of the Operating System. Imagine Pine in the South Indian language of
Tamil. It's possible, says this team!
Check out Bugster, a P2P application for sharing MP3z and OGGz.
Information Meta View (IMV) system attempts to create a web standard for
information storage in a decentralized database. Information is stored as a
graph like structure spanning several service providers.
Mget is a command-line download manager mget is a command line download
manager. "It splits the file into a number of segments and uses several
separate threads to download each segment. It can handle proxies." It's by
Debajyoti Bera, from India's prestigious technology incubators called the
Indian Institute of Technology.
Kandalaya (Sanskrit for "abundance", take Raj Mathur's word for it) is an
outfit that consults in GNU/Linux, Network application integration and
network security. Committed to the Free Software (Open Source) movement and
its goals, Kandalaya contributes back its software packages. Like Hinv
(hardware inventory, Gmemusage (graphical memory usage viewer), PPP Dial-Up
Scripts (it isn't that tough to dial-out to your ISP now) and Simple SMTP
(does a "simplistic checking" of how fast a mail server is).
Checks links to the free software campaign in India, and efforts to make
GNU/Linux relevant to the millions of youngsters going through the
educational system in this country.
On http://linuxinindia.pitas.com you'll find links to GNU Yahoo, a software
named after the developer's girl-friend (guess which...software), and links
to the growing number of Linux groups across India. There's even a site
earlier run out of the Indian commercial capital Mumbai (earlier Bombay)
that tells 'everything' about a few dozen of free Operating Systems
available worldwide.
Students in the tiny state of Goa -- better known as a holiday destination
-- are smoothing out rough edges of their GNU Library Management System,
called Glibms. It's now up on sourceforge.net
Wondered what happened to the Simputer, the sub-$200 computing device that
was slotted at being meant to take computing to the commonman in India and
the rest of the Third World? Check out the link...
Also being announced is an operating environment for the Linux kernel. With
a name like Indy, take no guesses where it's coming from....
In nearby Bangladesh, Mohammed A Muquit has a fascinating page of free
software. Bangla fonts with Linux groff, LDAP authentication module for
Apache web server, good ol' MasterMind game for Linux, a simple PPP dialler
for Linux (mppp), mxconsole... and lots more. Thanks to Jeebesh Bagchi for
pointing me here.
Links to all this is available on this site, which is still only in the
making and has a long way to go before it can claim to credibly catalogue
even some of the many initiatives coming up from this region.
Why has India taken its time to make its contribution to the Linux world
felt? Till recently, there were doubts expressed whether Indians were at all
giving back anything to GNU/Linux domain. Now, these doubts are vanishing...
It needs to be remembered that most Indians couldn't access the Net till
sometime in August 1997. It was only on Independence Day that year that
Internet services were thrown open to the general public. They too had to
pay steep prices for Net access initially, and in recent months the costs of
this has fall...Earlier, only a few priviledged researchers and some
government officials could access the Net.
All this means that collaborative working and gaining access to ideas and
inspiration from near and far is becoming a reality.
In the months ahead, we could well see the speedy growth of an Indian (and
South Asian too, since other countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh have
their own programming talent) contribution to GNU/Linux.
If readers could help this journalist with pointers in this direction, I'd
be grateful. My work to map the contribution of South Asians to GNU/Linux is
supported by www.sarai.net of New Delhi. -FN
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Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa * India 832.409490 / 409783
BYTESFORALL www.bytesforall.org * GNU-LINUX http://linuxinindia.pitas.com
Email fred@bytesforall.org * SMS 9822122436@attcell.net * Saligao Goa India
Writing with a difference... on what makes *the* difference
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