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Linux-Announce Digest #138
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Sun Jun 2 22:13:08 2002
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Linux-Announce Digest #138, Volume #4 Sun, 2 Jun 2002 22:13:02 EDT
Contents:
[LOCAL] Long Island Linux Users Group, June 2002 Meeting Date Change! ("Michael J. Roberts")
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Announcement!_New_software_released_-_binary_enhanced_News?= ("Ant")
LOCAL: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts NorthWest Meeting Jun 2002 (ale@tazmania.org)
18 DOSSIER volumes are now available in PDF (Acrobat) format (Rich Morin)
LOCAL: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Meeting Jun 2002 (ale@tazmania.org)
Announce: grubconfig - setup GRUB bootloader (robotti@godmail.com)
Network Monitor N-View (Version 1.5-prev now available) ("Wolfgang Ullrich")
libcomprex v0.3.1 released (news@gnupdate.org)
LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday (Daniel Tasch)
Linux Gazette #79 (June 2002) available (Linux Gazette)
Network Monitor N-View (Version 1.5-prev now available) ("Wolfgang Ullrich")
LUG in Ardmore, Oklahoma (Brett)
LOCAL: Sharp Zaurus presentation, Davis CA, June 26th (William Kendrick)
LOCAL: Linux Installfest, Davis CA, June 16th (William Kendrick)
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From: "Michael J. Roberts" <MRoberts@optonline.net>
Subject: [LOCAL] Long Island Linux Users Group, June 2002 Meeting Date Change!
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:57:15 CST
LILUG, the Long Island Linux Users Group, will hold its monthly meeting on
Tuesday, June 4th, 2002, at 8 PM in Gleeson Hall, on the campus of SUNY
Farmingdale.
** PLEASE NOTE: This is a date and location change! For the month of June
only, we are meeting on the first Tuesday of the month. **
LILUG meetings are free and open to all. We meet on the second Tuesday of
every month on the campus of SUNY Farmingdale. For directions and more
information, please visit us at: http://www.LILUG.org
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From: "Ant" <me@privacy.net>
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Announcement!_New_software_released_-_binary_enhanced_News?=
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:57:23 CST
Oz Insight is announcing release of Ozway - its binary enhanced News-to-Web
gateway.
Ozway is designed to provide a WYSIWYG access to Usenet binary groups
carrying images (though it can be used with other newsgroups as well). It is
a fast and scalable application capable of supporting hundreds of
simultaneous connections from users.
The main value of Ozway to ISPs is an easy and joyful interface to their
news server that Ozway can provide. We hope that Ozway can help you to
introduce your users to the Usenet, make the Usenet fun and popular among
your users. This may help you to achieve huge savings in external traffic
because if your users start downloading binaries from your local news
server, they won't use your external Web link that much! There are lots of
binary goodies posted in newsgroups! And it is amazing how few people know
about the Usenet and use it.
It takes only 10 minutes to install and configure Ozway. It runs as a
separate HTTP daemon and is just another client to your news server. So, it
will not disrupt work of your news server or do nasty things to your Web
server.
Ozway has a built-in cache, so, it can be used to take part of the load off
your news server. Also, if you don't have a news server and outsourcing news
service, you can use Ozway as an on-site cache.
To read more about Ozway, please visit this page:
http://www.ozinsight.com/ozway/index.php
We are interested in Ozway reaching end users ASAP. This is why we are
offering free licenses to ISPs who start using Ozway soon. Please read more
here:
http://www.ozinsight.com/ozway/start.html
There are versions available for Linux 7.1 or later, FreeBSD 4.3 or later
and Win2K/NT.
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From: ale@tazmania.org
Subject: LOCAL: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts NorthWest Meeting Jun 2002
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:57:42 CST
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - NorthWest June meeting notice
Join your fellow Linux enthusiasts for
our regular monthly meeting!
Thursday 20 June, 2002
8:00 PM
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Rd., Kennesaw, GA 30144
Burruss Building Room 369
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THIS MONTH:
Topic: Installation of SuSE 7.3 DVD Versiopes, Redirectors,
and File Descriptors, Oh My!
Speaker: David Jackson
David will be presenting a "Bash Bootcamp" especially oriented toward
newer users who are trying to grok the commandline for the first time.
General topics will include the Basics, Customizing Your Environment,
and Basic Shell Scripting with Bash. Along the way, we'll cover special
characters, flow control, positional variables, command substitution,
testing conditions and exit status, bash math, pattern matching, here
documents, tab completion, how to use your history file, and whatever
else we can squeeze in!
David Jackson has been using Linux since early 1995, Slackware 2.2 and
Linux 1.2.x. Shortly thereafter, David started using Linux for nearly
everything and rarely ever booted to anything Microsoft. David's first
and only book (so far), _Special Edition, Using SGML_ from Que Macmillan
(co-written with Martin Colby), arrived from the publisher on the same
day that his baby daughter arrived in the world. Nowadays, he lives the
quiet life at home, raising his daughter and writing computer-related
articles for _ComputorEdge_ magazine (the "I Don't Do Windows" column),
and riding his Harley on lonely Georgia back roads.
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For more info about ALE, visit our web page:
http://www.ale.org/
For directions to Kennesaw State University:
http://www.ale.org/directions.shtml
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From: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin)
Subject: 18 DOSSIER volumes are now available in PDF (Acrobat) format
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:57:42 CST
Prime Time Freeware is pleased to announce the initiation of a new service:
subscription-based access to PDF (Acrobat) copies of our DOSSIER document
collections. 18 volumes are already available; many more are in active
development:
C, etc.: Essential Tools
Email: Exim 3, Mail and Sendmail
File Systems: FreeBSD, RedHat
Kernel: FreeBSD
PostgreSQL: Programming and Development, Reference Manual,
Use and Administration
Processes: FreeBSD, RedHat
Python: Library Reference, Miscellanea
Security: Local System, Remote Access
Text Processing: Essential Tools
User Commands: FreeBSD, RedHat
Note: Several DOSSIER volumes that are not Linux-specific nonetheless
contain Linux-derived documentation.
DOSSIER collections are available through BSDMall (http://www.bsdmall.com).
For more information, visit PTF's DOSSIER page (http://www.ptf.com/dossier).
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From: ale@tazmania.org
Subject: LOCAL: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Meeting Jun 2002
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:57:50 CST
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - June meeting notice
Join your fellow Linux enthusiasts for
our regular monthly meeting!
Thursday June 13, 2002
7:30 PM
Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA
Gambrell Hall Classroom 1C
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THIS MONTH:
Topic: Practical Tutorial on Linux DVD Ripping
Speaker: K. S. Wehr ("Eater")
A practical tuturial will be given on Linux DVD ripping
using the transcode video stream processing tool. This
process enables the Linux user to take a DVD's MPEG-2 data,
manipulate several audio and video characteristics,
and encode this information using a more manageable codec.
Emphasis will be given to the installation of tools and libraries
needed. Common command-line usage will be detailed, as well as
automating the process using a popular scripting language. Eater
will also touch on some of the political issues surrounding this
topic as it relates to fair use and the DMCA.
K. S. Wehr ("Eater") has been obsessed with UNIX and Linux for
much of the last decade. When not tending to his Columbus-based
networking company, he spends his time experimenting and helping
others learn about Linux and network security.
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For more info about ALE, visit our web page:
http://www.ale.org/
For directions to Emory University School of Law:
http://www.ale.org/directions.shtml
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From: robotti@godmail.com
Subject: Announce: grubconfig - setup GRUB bootloader
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:14 CST
Reply-To: robotti@godmail.com
grubconfig v1.15 Kent Robotti <robotti@godmail.com> 5-30-2002
The script `grubconfig' helps you install the GRUB bootloader
on your Linux system.
It requires the `bash' shell and the `dialog' program to run.
It supports IDE and SCSI devices, it has no support for RAID devices.
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux
grubconfig-1.15.tar.gz 10Kb
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From: "Wolfgang Ullrich" <w_ullrich@attglobal.net>
Subject: Network Monitor N-View (Version 1.5-prev now available)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:15 CST
There is an new version of N-View available!
Now with additional display of Traffic Graphs per interface for all hosts!!
Screenshots, Tutorial, FREE download of preview at:
http://195.211.169.58/index_en.html
or at the mirror:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/n-view/index_en.html (next day).
PLEASE USE THE MIRROR! My poor server/dsl is havy overloaded!
Test results, critics and feature requests are welcome!
Happy download.
W. Ullrich
w_ullrich@attglobal.net
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From: news@gnupdate.org
Subject: libcomprex v0.3.1 released
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:22 CST
libcomprex v0.3.1 has been released.
The libcomprex library transparently handles automatic compression
and decompression of files. The API is similar to C's built-in file
access functions, which provides a smooth transition to libcomprex.
libcomprex can also open uncompressed files, making it a good
replacement for the native file access functions.
The highlights for this release include:
* CxFP structures are now used as file pointers, instead of CxFile.
* Files are now read in-place from most archives. Temp files are no
longer used for all I/O.
* Rewrote the partially broken archive traversal functions.
* Removed the old, unwritten directory API functions.
* Added reference counting.
* Added file seeking using cxSeek().
* Added file position retrieval using cxTell().
* Added the ability to open archives and files from FILE * streams
and buffers.
* Fixed many bugs and memory leaks.
A detailed ChangeLog can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=92194
For more information on libcomprex, visit:
http://www.gnupdate.org/components/libcomprex/
For more information on the GNUpdate project, visit:
http://www.gnupdate.org/
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From: Daniel Tasch <taschda@dmapub.dma.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:14 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: Linux Gazette <gazette@ssc.com>
Subject: Linux Gazette #79 (June 2002) available
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:33 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 #79, June 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
* Dillo--a Web Browser as Fast as Lightning , by Matthias Arndt
* Cracking open proprietary envelopes , by Adrian J. Chung
* Help Dex , by Shane Collinge
* Compiler Design with Python , by Dinil Divakaran
* A Linux Fax Server for a Windows Network , by Pedro Fraile
* Writing Your Own Toy OS (PART II) , by Krishnakumar R.
* The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers , by Mike Orr
* Improving Hard Disk Performance with hdparam , by Piter Punk
* Qubism , by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
* Getting started with PIC 16F84 on GNU/Linux , by Jerry Sebastian
* A Framework For Writing Application Servers In C++ , by Rob
Tougher
* The Back Page
Read all about it in Linux Gazette.
Michael Orr
Editor, Linux Gazette
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From: "Wolfgang Ullrich" <w_ullrich@attglobal.net>
Subject: Network Monitor N-View (Version 1.5-prev now available)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:14 CST
There is an new version of N-View available!
Now with additional display of Traffic Graphs per interface for all hosts!!
Screenshots, Tutorial, FREE download of preview at:
http://195.211.169.58/index_en.html
or at the mirror:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/n-view/index_en.html (next day).
PLEASE USE THE MIRROR! My poor server/dsl is havy overloaded!
Test results, critics and feature requests are welcome!
Happy download.
W. Ullrich
w_ullrich@attglobal.net
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From: cauchy_1@yahoo.com (Brett)
Subject: LUG in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:33 CST
I intend to start a LUG in Ardmore, Oklahoma. I checked the LUG
listings, and couldn't find one for this area. If anyone knows that
one already exists, please let me know.
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From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Subject: LOCAL: Sharp Zaurus presentation, Davis CA, June 26th
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:50 CST
Bill Kendrick of the Linux Users' Group of Davis and New Breed Software
will be demonstrating Sharp's new "Zaurus SL-5500" Linux- and Java-based PDA
at the June 26th meeting of the Davis PC Users Group (a SIG of the
Sacramento PC Users' Group; http://www.sacpcug.org/ )
Davis PC Users Group meets at 7pm at the Davis branch of the
Yolo County Library, 315 East 14th Street, Davis, CA 95616.
-bill!
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From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Subject: LOCAL: Linux Installfest, Davis CA, June 16th
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:58:57 CST
The Linux Users' Group of Davis and the UC Davis Computer Club
will be holding another free "Linux Installfest" workshop.
When:
Sunday, June 16th
10:00am - 6:00pm
Where:
Engineering Unit II
Room 1131
1228 Bainer Hall Drive
UC Davis
Davis, California
Just bring your PC to us, and we'll help you install and configure the
Linux operating system on it... for FREE!
If you wish to bring in your PC, you must RSVP beforehand to reserve a space.
The RSVP form, and lots of useful information about Linux and Installfests,
are accessible on the web at:
http://www.lugod.org/linux/
LUGOD is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
Linux Operating System, and which meets twice a month in Davis, CA.
Please visit our website for details:
http://www.lugod.org/
-bill!
pr@lugod.org
http://www.lugod.org/
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