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Linux-Announce Digest #167
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Linux-Announce Digest #167, Volume #4 Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:13:12 EDT
Contents:
The Linux Beer Hike Hits Ireland (Jim Gleason)
GNU CLISP 2.29 (2002-07-25) is released (Sam Steingold)
Linux Developer Panel ("Resarch")
Dump/restore 0.4b30 released (Stelian Pop)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings ("Paul M. Foster")
Multi Gnome Terminal 1.5.2 (Hal Burgiss)
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:22:12 CST
From: Jim Gleason <jgleason@nylug.org>
Subject: The Linux Beer Hike Hits Ireland
Dear Editor,
You might take an interest in this year's Linux Beer Hike. Please
see press release at bottom.
<blurb>
"Linuxbierwanderung," a.k.a. The Linux Beer Hike or LBW for short, is
an annual summer event in which Linux users from around the world meet
in a region with a high density of brew pubs. The objectives are valorous
- hike to the pub, drink beer and exchange ideas until closing time, then
hack Linux through until it's morning again. Upwards of 100 people plan
to rendez-vous on the west coast of Ireland to enjoy the fast bandwidth
and attend one of the ad hoc technical seminars. Pints of local ale and
traditional Irish music should only help foster a nourishing environment
for a week's worth of serious Linux use. Funded by a small voluntary
donation from each attendee, it is unclear if one can obtain a receipt.
This sounds like a tax-deductible business trip to me.
- Jim Gleason
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Jim Gleason VA Software
email: jim@vasoftware.com http://www.vasoftware.com
phone: 212-858-7684 Pres. New York Linux Users Group
fax: 212-858-7685 http://www.nylug.org
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 23 July 2002
The Linux Beer Hike Hits Ireland
Doolin, Ireland -- 23 July 2002 -- "Linuxbierwanderung,"
(also known as The Linux Beer Hike - LBW for short) will
take place this year in the village of Doolin, August 24-31,
2002, on the west coast of Ireland. Now in its fourth year,
LBW has travelled to Bavaria in Germany, the Lake District
in England and the Ardennes in Belgium.
Upwards of 100 people have attended LBWs in the past, and
even with above average rainfall in Ireland this year, no
one is disheartened. The Russell Community Centre located
near the Cliffs of Moher, has been confirmed as the base
of operations for the event and where the weather is lacking,
the fast connectivity and interplay of technological ideas
(not to mention the "special recipe" brew being cooked up
to commemorate the occasion) should more than compensate.
Funded by a small voluntary donation from each hiker, The
Linux Beer Hike is a week-long, international summer event
in which Linux users from around the world get together,
exchange ideas, hack Linux, drink beer, take in a little
local scenery and have a lot of fun. It is a great way for
Linux users who correspond all year long via e-mail, to
meet one another face-to-face. It is also a chance to work
on Linux far into the night, compute with abandon, and
conceive of the utterly cool. "It's the ultimate Linux
users holiday" says Willem Konynenberg, a former organiser.
Planned events:
* technical seminars
* caving, golf, touring local castles and other sights
* having a pint in the local pub and listening to
traditional Irish music
There is an active mailing list and information on how to
join The Linux Beer Hike can be found on the main web page:
http://www.lbw2002.draiocht.net
Press release courtesy of
Jim Gleason
jim@nylug.org
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Jim Gleason VA Software
email: jim@vasoftware.com http://www.vasoftware.com
phone: 212-858-7684 Pres. New York Linux Users Group
fax: 212-858-7685 http://www.nylug.org
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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Subject: GNU CLISP 2.29 (2002-07-25) is released
Date: 26 Jul 2002 19:25:04 GMT
Reply-To: sds@gnu.org
GNU CLISP 2.29 (2002-07-25) is released.
Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.
It runs on microcomputers (OS/2, Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/ME,
Amiga 500-4000, Acorn RISC PC) as well as on Unix workstations (Linux,
SVR4, Sun4, DEC Alpha OSF, HP-UX, BeOS, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX, Sun3 and
others) and needs only 2 MB of RAM.
It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL,
while it is possible to distribute commercial applications compiled
with GNU CLISP.
The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch.
GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, a large
subset of CLOS, a foreign language interface and a socket interface.
An X11 interface is available through CLX and Garnet.
More information at
<http://clisp.cons.org/>,
<http://www.clisp.org/>,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/> and
<http://clisp.sourceforge.net/>.
Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from
<ftp://cvs2.cons.org/pub/lisp/clisp/>,
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/>
and their mirrors.
CHANGES:
2.29 (2002-07-25)
=================
User visible changes [this is a bug-fix/portability release]
====================
* INSPECT: fixed bugs in HTML generation, Content-Length header,
removing incorrect package on exit, help in nested inspect sessions.
* COMPILE-FILE: fixed :VERBOSE NIL handling.
* DESCRIBE: handles DIR-KEY now.
* (LAMBDA () (DEFMETHOD ...)) now works.
* Fixed RETURN-FROM in deep nesting.
* Fixed crash on errors in module initialization.
* COMPILER-MACROs can now expand to special forms.
* EVAL-WHEN now distinguishes between COMPILE and :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL
and between LOAD and :LOAD-TOLEVEL.
Portability
===========
* CLISP now builds with GCC-3.1 out of the box.
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux
<http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/>
<http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/links.html>
Never succeed from the first try - if you do, nobody will think it was hard.
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From: "Resarch" <Research@evansmarketing.com>
Subject: Linux Developer Panel
Date: 26 Jul 2002 19:25:11 GMT
Linux Developers,
EDC is an independent market research firm specializing in software
development. We're recruiting developers to complete a survey on Linux
development and tools so join our international panel of developers and
enter our drawing for $500US. You can find this survey at:
http://www.evansdata.com/Surveystart4.html
Our reports are read by most of the largest development tool companies.
This is your chance to influence them so they can make the tools and
programs YOU want.
Panel members are alerted via e-mail every time we run a survey and may
choose to participate or not. Everyone who does complete a survey is
automatically entered in a drawing to WIN $500US CASH.
All your personal information is held strictly confidential. The results
are aggregated and turned into reports which influence top development tools
companies. YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS NEVER GIVEN TO ANYONE UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES.
To take our survey and enter the drawing please go to:
http://www.evansdata.com/Surveystart4.html
We think you'll find it interesting!
The Research Group at Evans Data Corp
http://www.evansdata.com
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From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Subject: Dump/restore 0.4b30 released
Date: 26 Jul 2002 19:25:07 GMT
Reply-To: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Hi everyone,
A new version of dump/restore, the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem backup
utilities, has been released today.
This new version features several new features (the most important
of them being the ability to write inodes having 32 bit UID/GID,
while still preserving the BSD tape format), and the usual set
of bugfixes, see the changelog for details.
The dump/restore homepage is located at:
http://dump.sourceforge.net
The full changelog is appended below.
Enjoy !
Stelian.
Changes between versions 0.4b29 and 0.4b30 (released July 25, 2002)
===================================================================
1. Made dump print out the ext2 logical block number in case of a read
error, which can be given as an argument to debugfs' ncheck command,
in order to find out the affected inode. Added note about this
usage in dump's man page.
2. Fixed a problem in restore when reading tapes written on big
endian machines with very old versions of dump. The patch was
contributed by George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk>.
3. Fixed the tape length calculation when using large tapes
and compression. Thanks to Georg Lippold
<g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
4. Added a new set of examples in dump_on_cd_2 directory, based
on dump_on_cd examples but somewhat enhanced, supporting DVD
media, and localized in english and german. Thanks to
Georg Lippold <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for the new scripts.
5. Made dump save 32 bit UID/GID. Internally, this was achieved
by switching from the old BSD inode format to the new BSD
inode format, which means that the tape format was changed.
However, since all restore versions out there should
transparently support both inode formats, the change should
have no side effects. Thanks to John Yu <jky@cs.bu.edu> for
reporting the bug.
6. Fixed a lot of warnings in the code shown when compiling
with 'gcc -W'. Thanks to Matthias Andree
<matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting this.
7. Fixed a small markup bug in the dump man page. Thanks to
Eric S. Raymond <esr@minx.thyrsus.com> for submitting the
patch.
8. Rewrote entirely the man pages using the tmac.an macro
package (Linux man page format) instead of the original BSD
format. They should be now cleaner and easier to modify.
--
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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From: "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: 26 Jul 2002 19:25:14 GMT
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
*************************************
DUNEDIN **************************************************
27 July 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.
BRANDON **************************************************
1 August 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.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
3 August 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.
TAMPA ****************************************************
14 August 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
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#tampa for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
21 August 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
Baker Electronics
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/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: Hal Burgiss <hal@foobox.net>
Subject: Multi Gnome Terminal 1.5.2
Date: 26 Jul 2002 19:25:18 GMT
Enhancements:
* Bold text color can be set separately from normal, foreground color.
* A different font can now be set for bold text (as well as color).
* New command line option: '--add-window-wt', which opens new window
with startup Tabs for that class.
* Short names for many command line options (multi-gnome-terminal
--help to list them).
* mgt-helper script improvements:
- ssh and su wrapper have been added so that you can use mgt-helper
as URL handler while in su/root and ssh terminals
- FILE_HANDLER stuff has been improved.
- -x option for running compound shell commands from within Edit
Commands
(and other uses).
- various other command line options.
- documentation (man page and in User Guide)
* Contrast and gamma correction adjustments for background pixmaps, so
now it's even possible to brighten a background image
* The default, hardset items at the top of the 'New Term' menu can now
be hidden
* Y3K compliancy (according to the Time Walkers Bot Federation)
Bugs fixed:
* keypad '/' and '*' didn't work on RH
* dots could be left around terminal with text shadowing enabled
* selected text in MGT couldn't be pasted into gnome-terminal
* background scaled pixmap didn't get resized when resizing MGT window
* streaks were left around with font shadowing enabled in mc file
viewer
* extending selection into scrollback buffer with mouse didn't work
* MGT crashed creating a new window after --newapp command line option
and many other ones (see ChangeLog for more details).
http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/
A release candidate for 1.6.0 is also posted. What is significant with
this, is that there are two configuration Classes now: Window Class
and Tab Class. Tabs can have individual, unique configuration (e.g.
differing fonts, backgrounds, etc).
--
hal v3.51.07
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