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Linux-Announce Digest #122
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Mon May 13 12:13:14 2002
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Linux-Announce Digest #122, Volume #4 Mon, 13 May 2002 12:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Linux StepByStep summary for April (Douglas J Hunley)
Zaurus Development Version of DemoLinux bootable CDROM (William Kendrick)
new linux-audio-announce list... (Joern Nettingsmeier)
RE COMMERCIAL: dual Intel Xeon server for $1,959 ("may Feng")
Linux for sale - £2.50 per CD or less, including first class postage and packing. ("Simon Finnigan")
SCons 0.07 (Python build tool) is now available (Steven Knight)
New HELP !!! Community (BimBo)
New HELP !!! Community (BimBo)
OpenCluster v 0.2 - High-Availability and Load Balancing Software (GNU (Charles Swift)
OpenCluster v 0.2 - High-Availability and Load Balancing Software (Vitaly Vanchurin)
ANNOUNCE: Clara OCR 0.9.9 (Ricardo Ueda Karpischek)
San Francisco BALUG on Tuesday May 7th - ERIC RAYMOND speaking! ("Arthur F. Tyde III")
Lines of Action - a board game (Christian Weninger)
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From: Douglas J Hunley <doug@hunley.homeip.net>
Subject: Linux StepByStep summary for April
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:14 CST
Reply-To: doug@hunley.homeip.net
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Some interesting items over at the Linux StepByStep this past month. The most
notable of these probably being the addition of an RSS/RDF feed. You can now
load our latest additions/updates into your favorite news ticker program. The
feed can be found at http://www.linux-sxs.org/sxs.rss and is updated every 4
hours.
April also say the introduction of a new format for our finger results (finger
steps@linux-sxs.org). The finger now returns the 10 latest additions/updates
to the site. The new format matches our 'What's New' page as well.
During April the following material was added to the site:
setting up Philips USB webcams - New
programming Palm pilots under Linux - updates
installing XFS - updated for latest release
printing under Linux - updates
installing KDE on SuSE (source and RPM) - new
installing Mozilla (source and binary) - new
ALSA on 2.5.x kernels - new
display :0.0 problems on Caldera - updated
iptables HOWTO - new
gentoo distro review - new
compile-time fix for Java bug in KDE3's kdebindings - new
installing ProFTPd from source - updates
configuring AirConnect Wireless Access Point in Linux - new
turning off kernel boot messages - new
We saw a marked increase in site traffic this past month.
We now have over 300 people on our various mail lists and they generated over
1340 messages on the main list. We had 1.41Gb of web traffic pass through our
link in the month of April with an average of 4482 hits per day.
Our top 5 referring sites were:
Linmodems.org
Google.com
RedHat.com
www.madchat.org
LinuxandMain.com
Our jobs board (http://jobs.linux-sxs.org) was also busy this past month. We
had ~225 jobs listings added during the month, 4 new employers, and 25 new
job seekers register. The site saw 78 hits per day (avg).
- --
Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org
and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org
Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/o/registry/48D11KZ4BPBQ
Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?
Because OCT(31) == DEC(25)
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From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Subject: Zaurus Development Version of DemoLinux bootable CDROM
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:17 CST
This distribution is for demo'ing the Trolltech
Qtopia development environment for the Sharp
Zaurus Personal Mobility Tool or any ARM based
device running the Trolltech QPE system. It is
provided by Pellico Systems.
This project is a modification of the DemoLinux
Project.
http://www.pellicosystems.com/devolinux/zdevolinux/
-bill!
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From: Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de>
Subject: new linux-audio-announce list...
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:17 CST
hello everyone !
we have created a new mailing list for linux audio announcements.
it is moderated, and will be low-volume.
typical announcements might be:
* releases of audio applications or new drivers
* releases of documentation
* latency or scheduling-related kernel patches
* conferences, events, meetings related to linux audio
* job advertisements (don't laugh, we've had a few on
linux-audio-dev)
the list will be advertised to editors of major linux news sites and
printed publications, so that they have an easy, centralized news
feed and you can reach a wide audience with your announcements.
to make this work, please copy all major release announcements and
other appropriate messages to this new list. (by "major" i mean
tarball releases, as opposed to daily cvs commits. ;)
the address is
linux-audio-announce@music.columbia.edu
you do not need to be subscribed to be able to post.
no discussions should take place on the list. if you want to
encourage public feedback, please cc: an appropriate other audio
forum, such as linux-audio-user@music.columbia.edu.
please visit http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelaa.php3 for
further information.
best,
jörn
you are welcome to forward this announcement to other related
mailing lists or interested individuals if appropriate.
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:35 CST
From: "may Feng" <fengmay@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE COMMERCIAL: dual Intel Xeon server for $1,959
>From time to time we have the tower, rackmount servers
and workstations custom-made and pre-loaded with
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:35 CST
From: "Simon Finnigan" <simon@therealm.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Linux for sale - £2.50 per CD or less, including first class postage and packing.
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
payments if you want to pay this way.
For full details of what distributions I am selling, a full price list and
details on how to pay, 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.
Thank you for your time.
--
For cheap Linux CD`s (£2.50 each or less in the UK) visit:
http://mysite.freeserve.com/linuxsales
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:42 CST
From: Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com>
Subject: SCons 0.07 (Python build tool) is now available
Version 0.07 of SCons, a build tool based on the winning design in the
Software Carpentry build competition and implemented in Python, has been
released and is available for download from the SCons web site:
http://www.scons.org/
Or through the download link at the SCons project page at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/
RPM and Debian packages and a Win32 installer are all available, in
addition to the traditional .tar.gz and .zip files.
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE?
IMPORTANT: This release contains the following interface changes:
- The former -U option function is now -D. -U now functions like -u,
except only targets defined in the local SConscript file are built.
- The default F77 command line on Win32 now uses /Fo instead of -o.
- The target Node is now passed to a Scanner function as its third
argument. An optional fourth node takes an FS object.
- Command generator functions now take a fourth "for_signature" argument.
This release adds the following features:
- The SConscript() function can now take "dirs" and "name" keyword
arguments to avoid having to specify "SConscript" on every file.
- Builder objects can now take arbitrary keyword arguments to
create ad-hoc attributes for use by function Actions, Builder
emitter functions, or command generators.
- Builders can now take an emitter= argument to specify a function
for massaging the target and source file lists.
- Command generators can now return anything that can be made into
an Action, and take a for_signature argument to support returning
separate contents for signature generation vs. execution.
- Support for building shared libraries has been added.
- Support for Win32 .def files has been added.
- SCons now supports long MSVC linker command lines through use of
a temporary file.
- A Split() function has been added to support explicit splitting
of space-separated strings into individual file names. (The
automatic splitting that SCons does will go away in 0.08).
- An SConscriptChdir() method has been added to support automatically
changing to each SConscript file's directory.
- A new --debug=dtree option prints out only derived files.
- A new --implicit-cache option caches dependency signatures of files.
- A new .abspath construction variable modifier has been added.
- $SOURCE is now a synonym for ${SOURCES[0]}.
- Python modules can now be imported into an SConscript file from
its local directory.
The following fixes have been added:
- The -c option now deletes .h files generated by yacc.
- Relative CPPPATH directories were broken in 0.06; now fixed.
- The -n option used with -c now properly does not remove targets.
- .c and .C files are now treated the same on case-insensitive
(Win32) systems.
- The PDF builder now uses pdftex or pdflatex directly instead of
going through a .dvi intermediate file.
- The --debug=tree option now works with directory targets.
- .sconsign files are now written on error or interrupt to save
intermediate build results.
- Aliases now work with the -u, -U and -D options.
- Nodes can now be passed to SConscript files.
Performance has been improved as follows:
- Construction variable substitution has been optimized.
- Content signatures are now cached for each file.
The following changes have been made to the SCons packaging:
- The scons.bat file has been improved to support more than nine
arguments on Win32 systems that support it.
- The Debian package has been updated.
WHAT IS SCONS?
SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool) written
in Python. Its design is based on the design which won the Software
Carpentry build tool competition in August 2000 (in turn derived from
the Perl-based Cons build tool).
Distinctive features of SCons include:
- configuration files are Python scripts, allowing the full use of a
real scripting language to solve build problems
- a modular architecture allows the SCons Build Engine to be
embedded in other Python software
- a global view of all dependencies; no multiple passes to get
everything built
- the ability to scan files for implicit dependencies (#include files);
- improved parallel build (-j) support
- use of MD5 signatures to decide if a file has changed
- easily extensible through user-defined Builder and Scanner objects
- build actions can be Python code, as well as external commands
An scons-users mailing list has been created for those interested in
getting started using SCons. You can subscribe at:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-users
Alternatively, we invite you to subscribe to the low-volume
scons-announce mailing list to receive notification when new versions of
SCons become available:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-announce
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to Chad Austin, Charles Crain, Alex Jacques, Steve
Leblanc, Anthony Roach, and Moshe Zadke for their contributions to this
release.
On behalf of the SCons team,
--SK
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From: bimbo00@sympatico.ca (BimBo)
Subject: New HELP !!! Community
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:34:03 CST
I would like to announce the issue of a new Linux community called
FREE LINUX HELP. Everybody that is interested is welcome to join the
community.
If you are interested join at http://communities.msn.ca/FREELINUXHELP/
..
Features
1. Share file with other users
2. Message board
3. Publish pictures
4. Announce any upcoming events by the Calendar function
5. Real-time Chat (Doesn’t require additional application)
6. Publish any interesting links that you would like to share and add
pictures to them
7. Suggest your favorite CDs to other Linux users
8. Suggest your favorite books to others Linux user
9. Publish messages by e-mail
10. Invite your friend
11. And much, much more
If you are interested join at http://communities.msn.ca/FREELINUXHELP/
..
Thanks to everybody in advance !!!
The Manager
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From: bimbo00@sympatico.ca (BimBo)
Subject: New HELP !!! Community
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:50 CST
I would like to announce the issue of a new Linux community called
FREE LINUX HELP. Everybody that is interested is welcome to join the
community.
Features
1. Share file with other users
2. Message board
3. Publish pictures
4. Announce any upcoming events by the Calendar function
5. Real-time Chat (Doesn't require additional application)
6. Publish any interesting links that you would like to share and add
pictures to them
7. Suggest your favorite CDs to other Linux users
8. Suggest your favorite books to others Linux user
9. Publish messages by e-mail
10. Invite your friend
11. And much, much more
Thanks to everybody in advance !!!
The Manager
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From: Charles Swift <swiftcharles@hotmail.com>
Subject: OpenCluster v 0.2 - High-Availability and Load Balancing Software (GNU
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:56 CST
OpenCluster v 0.2 is a new revolutionary software for Linux distributed
under GNU GPL license agreement. Quantizer v. 0.2 implements Quantum
Balancing algorithm for master-less load-balancing distributed with
OpenCluster as well as Pulsar v. 0.7 - master-less high-availability
software with fast failover detection.
Download the latest version of Open Cluster distribution from:
http://www.vitaesoft.com/registered/OpenCluster.zip
The main goal of proposed software is to implement reliable ip-cluster
solution where cluster itself consists of similar computers. The cluster
can be used for implementing high availability and/or load balancing of each
service. All the computers are located on one ethernet-based local net and
have the same ip address (VIP - "virtual ip address", according to LVS
terminology). All computers see all the requests coming from user side.
Selection is based on client's address. Every computer serves only users,
whose ip-address belongs to particular address range. If one or some number
of clustered computers fails, the other will take their users. We provide
our own heartbeat code. Every computer in the cluster sends information
reporting its health to all other computers. Based on predefined timeouts
the decision is made whether particular computer (and/or service) is working
or not. This information is used to generate a rule for iptables filter.
The information can be send using the same ethernet interface which serves
clients requests.
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:34:21 CST
From: Vitaly Vanchurin <shpankin@yahoo.com>
Subject: OpenCluster v 0.2 - High-Availability and Load Balancing Software
OpenCluster v 0.2 is a new revolutionary software for Linux distributed
under GNU GPL license agreement. Quantizer v. 0.2 implements Quantum
Balancing algorithm for master-less load-balancing distributed with
OpenCluster as well as Pulsar v. 0.7 - master-less high-availability
software with fast failover detection.
Download the latest version of Open Cluster distribution from:
http://www.vitaesoft.com/registered/OpenCluster.zip
The main goal of proposed software is to implement reliable ip-cluster
solution where cluster itself consists of similar computers. The cluster
can be used for implementing high availability and/or load balancing of each
service. All the computers are located on one ethernet-based local net and
have the same ip address (VIP - "virtual ip address", according to LVS
terminology). All computers see all the requests coming from user side.
Selection is based on client's address. Every computer serves only users,
whose ip-address belongs to particular address range. If one or some number
of clustered computers fails, the other will take their users. We provide
our own heartbeat code. Every computer in the cluster sends information
reporting its health to all other computers. Based on predefined timeouts
the decision is made whether particular computer (and/or service) is working
or not. This information is used to generate a rule for iptables filter.
The information can be send using the same ethernet interface which serves
clients requests.
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:34:20 CST
From: Ricardo Ueda Karpischek <ueda@ime.usp.br>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Clara OCR 0.9.9
Clara OCR 0.9.9
===============
Clara OCR version 0.9.9 is available. Clara OCR is designed to
OCR old books. It's available under the terms of the GPL.
Clara OCR features a GUI and a web interface. It also features a
command-line interface, but X Windows is always required both to
compile and run. The development effort is using Intel 32-bits
boxes running various Linux distributions and FreeBSD.
Clara OCR can be found at http://www.claraocr.org
New in 0.9.9
============
1. Added grayscale native support (PGM format), plus four
binarization methods.
2. Added internal preprocessor including deskewing, balancing,
thresholding and interpolation (by Giulio Lunati).
3. Packaged for NetBSD (thanks Thomas Klausner).
4. Various new features: border path computing, barcode search,
detection of extremities, PAGE only mode, the flea, the spyhole,
instant threshold, per-depth optimized X code, etc.
5. Many bugfixes and interface enhancements.
6. Documentation updated (but not finished). Glossary added.
Obs:
* The CHANGELOG is available at http://www.claraocr.org/CHANGELOG
* The FAQ is available at http://www.claraocr.org/FAQ.html
* The archives of the list claraocr-devel can be acessed through
the SmartList native features (visit
http://www.claraocr.org/lists.html for details).
* Once a week the development files are copied to the net and
made available through FTP. News are posted to the lists
claraocr-devel and claraocr-announce on a weekly basis.
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From: "Arthur F. Tyde III" <aftyde@tyde.net>
Subject: San Francisco BALUG on Tuesday May 7th - ERIC RAYMOND speaking!
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:33:53 CST
SPECIAL EVENT on Tuesday May 7th in San Francisco!
Please pass the word around- sorry this is so last minute but it's a great
opportunity to hear an excellent speaker.
ERIC S. RAYMOND - Featured Speaker
On May 7th (that's right ... NOT the third Tuesday, but an amazingly,
incredulously early-in-the-month FIRST Tuesday... (please note this is in
ADDITION to our regular Third Tuesday gathering at Four Seas Restaurant in
Chinatown, SF.)
ERIC S. RAYMOND will speak to BALUG from 7:00 - 9:00 PM on Tuesday, May 7th
at the Renaissance Stanford Court in San Francisco. He will be in the "India
Room" on the lower level of the hotel. This is a "BYOR" -- bring your own
refreshments -- event. The hotel is located in Nob Hill at 905 California
Street between Powell and Mason. The hotel's number is (415) 989-3500. We've
some useful directions how to get there too.
Thanks All! Art...
--
Arthur F. Tyde III
Bay Area Linux Users Group
http://www.balug.org
tel: 1-415-389-3822 fax: 1-415-354-3342
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From: Christian Weninger <cweninger@gillion.de>
Subject: Lines of Action - a board game
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:34:35 CST
Lines of Action (LOA) is a board game that can be played using a standard
checker set. It was invented by Claude Soucie and published in Sid
Sackson's
book "A Gamut of Games".
LOA for Linux is at:
http://www.gillion.de/loa/
email: cweninger@gillion.de
Christian Weninger
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