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Linux-Announce Digest #106
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Linux-Announce Digest #106, Volume #4 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:13:02 EST
Contents:
DAR - a Full Featured Backup Software for Linux (No Spam)
RE COMMERCIAL: dual amd server for $1059 ("sales")
Linux Gazette #77 (April 2002) available (Linux Gazette)
ANN: tk500, new utility software for the Yaesu VR-500 receiver (Bob_Parnass_AJ9S)
Meta-CVS 0.10 (Kaz Kylheku)
[LOCAL] Montreal, monthly technical meeting, Embedded Systems (Michel Dagenais)
Shareware: jpg2pdf 2.4 (SANFACE Software)
Linux:noteedit:graces,alsa-0.9,aRts (Joerg Anders)
Linux for sale - £2.50 per CD or less, including first class postage and packing. ("Simon Finnigan")
ANNOUNCE: PasTmon-0.1-20(beta) released (graham.bevan@ntlworld.com)
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From: No Spam <nosp@m.com>
Subject: DAR - a Full Featured Backup Software for Linux
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:44:13 CST
Hello all,
I am happy to present DAR version 1.0.0
Dar stands for "Disk ARchive"
it is released under GNU General Public License
http://dar.linux.free.fr/
PRESENTATION
================
dar is a shell command, that makes backup of a directory tree and files.
Actually it has been tested only under Linux, but future issue is planed
for windows. A GUI for Linux will also follow, for version 2.0.0
FEATURES
================
FILTERS :
dar is able to backup from total file system to a single file.
Additionally a mechanism of filters permits, based on the filename, to
exclude or include some files while backing up or restoring a directory
tree. In the other side, a secondary filter mechanism permits to exclude
some branches of a
directory tree, or to only include some branches.
DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP :
When making a backup with dar, you have the possibility to make a full
backup or a differential backup. A full backup, as expected makes backup
of all files as specified on the command line (with or without filters).
Instead, a differential backup, (over filter mechanism), saves only
files that have
changed since a given reference backup. Additionally, files that existed
in the reference backup and which do no more exist at the time of the
differential backup are recorded in the backup. At recovery time,
(unless you deactivate it), restoring a differential backup will update
changed files
and new files, but also remove files that have been recorded as deleted.
Note that the reference backup can be a full backup or another
differential backup. This way you can make a first full backup, then
many differential backup, each taking as reference the last backup made.
SLICES :
Dar stands for Disk ARchive. From the beginning it was designed to be
able to split an archive over several removable media whatever their
number is and whatever their size is. Thus dar is able to save over old
floppy disk, CD-R, DVD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, Zip, Jazz, etc... Dar is not
concerned by
un/mounting a removable medium, instead it is independent of hardware.
Given the size, it will split the archive in several files (called
SLICES), eventually pausing before creating the next one, allowing this
way, the user to un/mount a medium, burn the file on CD-R, send it by
email (if your mail
system does not allow huge file in emails, dar can help you here also).
By default, (no size specified), dar will make one slice whatever its
size is. Additionally, the size of the first slice can be specified
separately, if for example you want first to fulfil an partially filled
disk before starting using empty ones. Last, at restoration time, dar
will just pause and prompt
the user asking a slice only if it is missing.
COMPRESSION :
last, dar can use compression. By default no compression is used.
Actually only gzip algorithm is implemented, but some room has been done
for bzip2 and any other compression algorithm. Note that, compression is
made before slices, which means that using compression with slices, will
not make slices smaller, but will probably make less slices in the
backup.
DIRECT ACCESS :
even using compression dar has not to read the whole backup to extract
one file. This way if you just want to restore one file from a huge
backup, the process will be much faster than using tar. Dar first reads
the catalogue (i.e. the contents of the backup), then it goes directly
to the location of
the saved file(s) you want to restore and proceed to restoration. In
particular using slices dar will ask only for the slice(s) containing
the file(s) to restore.
CONTACT :
============
Denis Corbin
for more info : http://dar.linux.free.fr/
x
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From: "sales" <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: RE COMMERCIAL: dual amd server for $1059
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:44:14 CST
Storeanywhere.com Inc. has new promotions for
April. The following is one of them. To know more
just check our website: www.storeanywhere.com.
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including:
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AMD 1600mp CPU
60G 7200rpm hard Drive
256mb DDR 2100rpm Ram
1.44mb Floppy Drive/52X CD-Rom
10/100 Netsurf ethernet card
ATX Tower Case
8mb ATI Rage AGP Card
Keyboard/Mouse(3 buttons)
Any queries, send your e-mail to: sales@storeanywhere.com.
To place order you can do directly on line or call us on
718-934-7313.
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From: Linux Gazette <gazette@ssc.com>
Subject: Linux Gazette #77 (April 2002) available
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:44:21 CST
Reply-To: gazette@ssc.com
"Linux Gazette...Making Linux just a little more fun!"
Linux Gazette is a freely available, WWW e-zine that includes short articles
giving tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions for customizing and running
Linux. It is a member of the Linux Documentation Project.
Linux Gazette issue #77, April 2002, is out and can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/
For download purposes, individual issues of LG are available at:
ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/
A list of mirror sites can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html
While we do not mail issues of LG to our readers--it's just too big--we do
have an announcement service. Write lg-announce-request@ssc.com with the
word subscribe in the body, and each month you will receive an e-mail notice
when we post Linux Gazette.
Topics in this issue include:
* The MailBag
* More 2-Cent Tips
* The Answer Gang
* News Bytes
* Help Dex and Qubism , by Shane Collinge and Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
* Working with Micro-Distributions, or Linux in Your Pocket , by Larry "Dirt
Road" Kollar
* Writing Your Own Toy OS (Part I) , by Krishnakumar R.
* Network Security with /proc/sys/net/ipv4 , by David Lechnyr
* Linux Line Printing Daemon for Mainframe Application "Print-to-Email" , by Lew
Pitcher
* Setting Up a Linux-based PPP Callback server , by Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
* Displaying Real Time System information on a LCD Display using LCDproc &
lcdmod, by Gaurav Taneja
* The Back Page
Read all about it in Linux Gazette.
Michael Orr
Editor, Linux Gazette
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From: Bob_Parnass_AJ9S <parnass@megsinet.net>
Subject: ANN: tk500, new utility software for the Yaesu VR-500 receiver
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:44:21 CST
The Yaesu VR-500 is a portable 0.1 - 1300 MHz receiver.
tk500 is a new, open source program for
Linux, Windows, and (perhaps) MacOS X which lets you:
(1) Read a memory image from the VR-500 receiver.
(2) Read an RT Systems .RDF file and extract the memory image.
(Thanks to Dan Wanchic, WA8VZQ for posting detailed
information about the RDF file layout.)
(3) Display data from a memory image using a graphical user
interface.
(4) Save a memory image in a template file.
(5) Extract memory channel information from a memory image
and export it to a .csv (comma-separated values) file.
This is an early, experimental version of tk500.
It will read data from the radio and let you edit it via
a graphical user interface. Currently, tk500 cannot write the
changes back out the radio.
For more information, screenshots, and download, see:
http://members.core.com/~parnass
This is also the home page for tk545 software for the Japan Radio
NRD-545 and tk8500 software for the ICOM IC-R8500 receiver.
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Bob Parnass, AJ9S parnass@megsinet.net http://members.core.com/~parnass
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From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
Subject: Meta-CVS 0.10
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:45:58 CST
Meta-CVS is a layer of software intended to create a more intelligent
version control system on top of CVS. The features are:
- interactive handling of file types when adding or importing;
- easy branching and merging that automatically keeps track
of what has been merged where (new in 0.10);
- no CVS glitches when adding, removing or resurrecting dead files.
- directory structure treated as concurrently versioned element,
allowing moves and renames that preserve file history perfectly.
With Meta-CVS, developers can restructure a project's file hierarchy
in different ways in parallel, and then merge the structure. Moreover,
the structure is tagged as part of a software release. Retrieving
an old release gets the old structure. Updates from the repository
automatically rearrange the sandbox to match the new structure.
Meta-CVS currently has these dependencies: GNU/Linux, /dev/urandom,
glibc2, CLISP.
The home page is http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mcvs.html
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From: Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca>
Subject: [LOCAL] Montreal, monthly technical meeting, Embedded Systems
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:46:10 CST
Linux in Embedded Systems
On Wednesday April 10, 19h00, room B-505, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal,
Karim Yaghmour, author of the Linux Trace Toolkit, of the Opersys Open Source
Company, will discuss how to use Linux in embedded systems: cross platform
development, flash file systems... The presentation will be in French.
Linux dans les systèmes embarqués
Le mercredi 10 avril à 19h00, à la salle B-505 de l' Ecole Polytechnique
de Montréal, Karim Yaghmour, auteur du Linux Trace Toolkit, de la compagnie
Open Source Opersys, discutera des modalités de l'utilisation de Linux
dans les systèmes embarqués (plates-formes de développement, systèmes de
fichiers sur disque "FLASH", compilation croisée...).
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From: sanface@sanface.com (SANFACE Software)
Subject: Shareware: jpg2pdf 2.4
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:46:35 CST
SHAREWARE: jpg2pdf 2.4
What is jpg2pdf?
jpg2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program. It can convert
a collection of jpeg images into a PDF album.
You can use jpg2pdf like a module inside your applications (cgis,
...).
Why do you need jpg2pdf?
jpg2pdf is a PERL5 tool, so you can use it in every OS supported by
PERL5.
We distribute also these executable versions: Windows, Solaris, HP-UX,
Linux, AIX, Mac OS X.
Please note that the Windows version comes with an extra tool known as
Visual jpgt2pdf.
jpg2pdf is a native converter, you don't need to pass through
PostScript format
jpg2pdf is specific to put your jpeg images inside a PDF, so
you can create (batch) a unique PDF file from your JPEG archive (using
* and ? metachars: e.g. a*.jpg or recursively)
you can add to your PDF collection of jpeg images transition effects
you can set PDF full-screen mode e.g. to show to your friend your
digital photos made by your digital camera
you can create your personalize background and foreground layer
What's new:
Mac OS X executable distribution
Visual jpg2pdf version 2.0
New linear option or inside your configuration file: list. With this
new option you can specify a list file with inside a list of your
input textual files (one entry every line).
Test jpg2pdf 2.4!
You can find it at http://www.sanface.com/jpg2pdf.html
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From: j.anders@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Anders)
Subject: Linux:noteedit:graces,alsa-0.9,aRts
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:46:50 CST
noteedit-1.18.0 is available:
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html
New features:
=============
The first 2 features actually don't concern NoteEdit but Pete Goodliffe's
<pete.goodliffe@pace.co.uk> TSE3 library. Version 0.1.3 of TSE3 is
alsa-0.5/0.9 and aRts compatible.
As a side effect NoteEdit is:
- alsa-0.5/0.9
- aRts compatible (start: noteedit -arts)
Furthermore:
- grace notes (see/hear example11.not)
- Italien version (Tanks to merigo Carugno <amcarug@tin.it>)
- a glue button to (un)lock some buttons
- wheel mouse causes horizontal(!) scroll (if correctly configured in X11)
- mezzo piano (mp)
- bugs, bugs, bugs, ... (mainly concerning problems with slurred notes)
Some aspects of grace notes
===========================
Please note! Grace notes are conflicting things: They do not
contribute to measure length. On the other hand a certain amount
of time is needed to play them. This time must be taken from other
notes. Thus, if you insert - say - 20 grace notes between two 8th
you cannot expect the playback really works! Problems also occur
if you place some graces without a main note.
Problems exporting graces notes
==============================
MusiXTeX
accepts the graces so as written on score: with/without beam,
with/without slur, even beamed stroken graces.
LilyPond
changes the beam status reasonably. Version 1.4.x cannot deal
with slurs in grace notes. NoteEdit will warn you.
PMX
does not offer 16th graces. NoteEdit will warn you.
MUP
hates beam statements in grace notes. It sets the beams reasonably.
So, if you are a MUP user never produce grace notes with beams!
Furthermore, MUP cannot deal with graces after. NoteEdit will warn you.
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J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
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From: "Simon Finnigan" <simon@therealm.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Linux for sale - £2.50 per CD or less, including first class postage and packing.
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:47:00 CST
I`m selling copies of Linux in the UK for £2.50 per CD or less, depending on
how many you order. As an example, I charge £6.75 for Mandrake 8.2,
including delivery by first class post.
I take payment by NoChex, cheque or postal order. For international orders,
please email me to confirm postage costs - I can also accept PayPal.
For full details of what distributions I am selling, along with a full price
list and so on, visit my site:
http://mysite.freeserve.com/linuxsales
If this posting is against the newsgroup charter, please email me off the
group and I`ll make sure I don`t post here again.
Thanks for listening.
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From: graham.bevan@ntlworld.com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: PasTmon-0.1-20(beta) released
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:47:03 CST
Reply-To: graham.bevan@ntlworld.com
http://www.pastmon.org/
PasTmon is a passive network application response time monitor utilising packet
capture (via libpcap), tracking sessions maintaining transaction state and
collecting metrics of server/network response times, segment size negotiation
and TCP window size advertisements.
The goal of the PasTmon project is to provide an engine to measure application
service levels from the perspective of perceivable user response times.
Protocols supported by the default configuration are http, telnet, rlogin,
rsh, ftp (control channel), smtp, pop3 and irc.
Mechanisms are provided for data summarisation/reduction and import into a
PostgreSQL database.
A web PHP4 based front-end to R-based statistical graphics is provided.
(PasTmon is licensed under the GNU General Public License.)
Release 0.1-20 features:
Minor bug fixes.
More improvements to RTT measurements and pastmon-php.
Tested on Debian Linux 3.0 (Woody), 2.2.20 and 2.4.18 kernels.
Improvements to handle very heavy web traffic load monitoring.
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