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Linux-Announce Digest #240
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Mon Nov 25 12:13:09 2002
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Linux-Announce Digest #240, Volume #4 Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:13:04 EST
Contents:
NEWS-INDIA: MP opens windows to Linux (fwd) (Frederick Noronha)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings ("Paul M. Foster")
RERO 0.0.53 - A software release manager ("Michael L. Brownlow")
"The Sound Blaster Live! Book" released by No Starch Press (Janet del Mundo)
Lx-Viewer (submission for comp.os.linux.announce) (Guy Edwards)
Office productivity software for Linux desktops. ("Rene LEVANTINH")
Emacspeak-17.0 (HappyDog) Unleashed! (fwd) (Hans Zoebelein)
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS-INDIA: MP opens windows to Linux (fwd)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:03:19 CST
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=28707422
MP opens windows to Linux
ANIL SHARMA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2002 01:42:20 AM ]
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh has shut the door on Bill Gates. The state
government schemes will use Linux software. Chief minister Digvijay Singh
personally conveyed this to Microsoft boss Bill Gates during an
interaction last week in New Delhi.
"For us it is not a question of Microsoft versus Linux. It is just a
matter of choosing between a free software and a monopoly. We feel that
when we are putting public information out in the open, then it should not
be through a proprietary software," Mr Singh told ET.
Nor is it merely a public vs private ideological battle. Germany and Latin
American countries, particularly Peru and Brazil, have opted for Linux
rather than proprietary software to bring down costs, which keep mounting
with successive upgrades in the case of proprietary software.
Madhya Pradesh has two significant programmes that reach out to people in
a big way: Gyandoot e-governance, which covers 26 out of 45 districts and
won the Stockholm Challenge Award for 2000, and the Headstart programme
for computer-enabled school education. For the Headstart programme, the
state government is now committed to use Linux.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has shown an interest in Gyandoot.
According R Gopalakrishnan, state coordinator for the Rajiv Gandhi
missions, the first phase of the Headstart did use Microsoft software, but
the next will use Linux.
"This should set at rest any fears that we are anti-Microsoft as such. But
we have opted for Linux in this phase, because of the cost factor, and the
fact that it avoids costly upgrades and improved versions that are an
inseparable element of Microsoft packages," he said.
"It is a considered decision taken by us. We have noted that several
governments in the west and other countries too have opted for the Linux
software instead of Microsoft because of a host of considerations," Mr
Singh said.
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From: "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:42:51 CST
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
*************************************
BRANDON **************************************************
5 December 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 ******************************************
7 December 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 ****************************************************
11 December 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 ***************************************
18 December 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
Baker Electronics
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
DUNEDIN **************************************************
28 December 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually 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.
***********************************************************
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: "Michael L. Brownlow" <mike@wsmake.org>
Subject: RERO 0.0.53 - A software release manager
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:05:46 CST
RERO 0.0.53 - Release Early, Release Often
RERO is a release automation tool. The goals of RERO are to provide a
framework for current release models and formally address release
management of software in both sophisticated and model-based development
environments for the purpose of increasing release throughput. The
perspectives of release automation, analysis, and process improvement
are some fundamental viewpoints that are held.
http://rero.wsmake.org/
--
Michael L. Brownlow
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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:38:10 CST
From: Janet del Mundo<janet@nostarch.com>
Subject: "The Sound Blaster Live! Book" released by No Starch Press
Reply-To: janet@nostarch.com
For Immediate Release
November 22, 2002
For a review copy or cover art, contact Janet del Mundo at janet@nostarch.com or 415-863-9900.
UNLOCK YOUR PC'S AUDIO
No Starch Press Releases "The Sound Blaster Live!(tm) Book"
San Francisco, CA - No Starch Press, the publisher that makes computing fun and accessible, has released THE SOUND BLASTER LIVE! BOOK. This groundbreaking guide to the world's most popular PC sound card (over 100 million installed) by two well-known figures in the online Sound Blaster Live! community shows readers how to enhance their digital audio experience when playing games, composing music, or collecting and listening to their favorite tunes.
"The Sound Blaster Live! comes pre-installed on millions of PC's, yet users are not aware of its many features and uses due to a surprising lack of documentation," said co-author Clarence Song. "We wanted to give people enough information to be able to set up their entire PC audio system and configure their audio drivers, mixer, and speakers for optimal sound."
According to co-author Lars Ahlzen, "The Sound Blaster Live! composition tools are not widely known. For example, SoundFonts allows users to customize instruments for their own compositions."
THE SOUND BLASTER LIVE! BOOK includes tips for utilizing these undocumented features and much more, like:
* How to connect the Sound Blaster Live! to multimedia speakers and home theater systems
* How to get the most out of surround sound from DVDs, games and other consumer audio equipment
* How to use the mixer and play with EAX (Environmental Audio Extensions)
* How to install digital I/O accessories like the Live!Drive for enhanced audio connectivity
* All about recording audio, including mixer settings and audio editing basics
* How to find, create, play, and manage SoundFonts
* Sequencer basics, including MIDI, effects, and SoundFont support in popular PC sequencers
* How to connect SBLive! Hardware, including the various connectors, jacks, and digital input/output features
THE SOUND BLASTER LIVE! BOOK includes a CD-ROM with numerous music and audio files, sample sound clips, SoundFonts, and selected freeware, shareware, and demo versions of commercial software.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
The authors of THE SOUND BLASTER LIVE! BOOK run the two most popular, unofficial, Sound Blaster Live! websites. Lars Ahlzen is the founder of the "Live! Center" website (http://listen.to/sblive) and a Computer Science and Engineering student at Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden. Clarence Song is a software engineer living in Singapore, and an avid technology, multimedia, and AV enthusiast. He runs the popular "ALive! - Sound Blaster Live! Resource" website (http://alive.singnet.com.sg).
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Table of contents: http://www.nostarch.com/sblive_toc.htm
Sample chapter: http://www.nostarch.com/sblive_ch3.pdf
The Sound Blaster Live! Book
Lars Ahlzen & Clarence Song
ISBN 1886411735, 504 pp w/CD-ROM, $39.95 (US), $59.95 (Cdn)
orders@nostarch.com
800.420.7240; 415.863.9900
ABOUT NO STARCH PRESS
Since 1994, No Starch Press has published unique and often fringe books on many computing topics, with a focus on Open Source, security, hacking, web development, programming, gaming, and alternative operating systems. No Starch Press books have personality; its authors are passionate about their topics, and its goals are to make computing fun and accessible for everyone.
Contact: Janet del Mundo, janet@nostarch.com or +1 415.863.9900.
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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:38:11 CST
Subject: Lx-Viewer (submission for comp.os.linux.announce)
From: Guy Edwards <guy_j_edwards@hotpop.com>
Lx-Viewer 0.98a is now available for download
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30996
LX-Viewer is a program that will allow you to open, view and print DWG
or DXF files, typically used in AutoCAD related technical drafting, on a
Linux machine.
You will need the OpenDWG libraries to compile the program
http://www.opendwg.org
put the opendwg files in the viewer/opendwg folder prior to doing
./configure
make
make install
Any problems/questions/feedback you have is welcome:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=97584
The project website is at:
http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net
New features in 0.98a:
* latest Qt3 and OpenDWG support
* Single/multiple drawing auditing and reporting
* Accepts multiple command line parameters when starting the program
* internal command line with command history
* Postscript printer resolution increased from 72dpi to 600dpi
* Added text and picture previews to the open file dialog
* Viewer now stores a bitmap preview picture with the drawing file
* Drawing is sniffed prior to load looking for corrupt data
* XPM file output replaced with Portable Network Graphics files (PNG)
* Standard install: ./configure, make and make install working 100%.
* many other misc improvements.......
Project changes
* New, more informative website with development roadmaps/targets etc
* Project team up from 6 to 16 members
* Development has begun on version 0.99
Thanks for your time,
Guy
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From: "Rene LEVANTINH" <visual@club-internet.fr>
Subject: Office productivity software for Linux desktops.
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:38:15 CST
Reply-To: "Rene LEVANTINH" <visual@club-internet.fr>
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or the last=20
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your=20
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professionals regularly backup servers. With sqlDESKTOP there are no =
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From: Hans Zoebelein <hzo@gmx.de>
Subject: Emacspeak-17.0 (HappyDog) Unleashed! (fwd)
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:38:23 CST
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:39:57 -0800
From: T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu>
To: emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu
Subject: Emacspeak-17.0 (HappyDog) Unleashed!
Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:40:19 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From: emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu
Emacspeak-17.0 (HappyDog) Unleashed!
----------------------------------
For Immediate Release:
San Jose, Calif., (November 23, 2002)
Emacspeak-2003: Empowering Experienced Users
--Zero cost of ownership makes priceless software affordable!
Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) --http://emacspeak.sf.net--
announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 17.0
--a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving
semantic WWW.
Investors Note:
===============
With several prominent analysts initiating coverage, NASDOG: ESPK
is now trading over the net at levels close to that recently
attained by last year's DogCom high-fliers.
What Is It?
===========
Emacspeak is a fully functional audio desktop that provides
complete eyes-free access to all major 32 and 64 bit operating
environments. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet
such as Web-surfing and electronic messaging into the audio
desktop, Emacspeak enables speech access to local and remote
information with a consistent and well-integrated user interface.
A rich suite of task-oriented tools provides efficient
speech-enabled access to the evolving semantic WWW.
Major Enhancements:
===================
1) Enhanced Emacs 21 support.
2) emacspeak-w3.el --smart content filters using XSLT.
3) emacspeak-websearch.el --Search wizards using content filters.
4) emacspeak-url-template.el --Programmable url templates using content filters.
5) emacspeak-wizards.el --Additional productivity wizards.
6) Software Dectalk --Speech server for Software Dectalk TTS.
7) emacspeak-rpm-spec.el --Editing RPM spec files.
8) emacspeak-m-player.el --Media player interface.
9) emacspeak-pronounce.el Custom dictionaries for smileys and XMl namespaces.
10) emacspeak-ecb.el --Enhanced ECB support.
See the NEWS file for additional details.
Establishing Freedom:
=====================
Emacspeak is now voluntarily bundled with all major Linux
distributions. Though designed to be modular, distributors have
freely chosen to bundle the entire system without any undue
pressure. The integrity of the Emacspeak codebase is ensured by
the reliable and secure Linux platform used to develop the
software.
Extensive studies have shown that thanks to these features, users
consider Emacspeak to be absolutely priceless. Thanks to this
wide-spread user demand, the present version is being made
available at the same zero-cost as earlier releases.
At the same time, Emacspeak-2003 continues to innovate in the
area of speech and multimodal interaction and carries forward the
well-established Open Source tradition of introducing user
interface features that eventually show up in luser environments.
On this theme, when once challenged by a proponent of a
crash-prone but well-marketed windowing system with the assertion
"Emacs is a system from the 70's", the creator of Emacspeak
expressed surprise at the unusual candor manifest in the
assertion that it would take popular idiot-proven interfaces
until the year 2070 to catch up to where the Emacspeak audio
desktop is today. Industry experts welcomed this refreshing
breath of Courage Certainty and Clarity (CCC) at a time when
users are reeling from the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
unleashed by complex software systems backed by even more
convoluted press releases.
Independent Test Results:
=========================
Independent test results have proven that unlike some modern
software, Emacspeak can be safely uninstalled without adversely
affecting the continued performance of the computer. These same
tests also revealed that once uninstalled, the user stopped
functioning altogether. Speaking with Aster Labrador, the creator
of Emacspeak once pointed out that these results re-emphasize the
user-centric design of Emacspeak; "It is the user --and not the
computer-- that stops functioning when Emacspeak is
uninstalled!".
Note from Aster and Bubbles:
============================
UnDoctored Videos Inc. is currently looking for volunteers to
star in a video demonstrating such complete user failure.
Obtaining Emacspeak:
====================
Emacspeak can be downloaded from sourceforge --see
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/emacspeak/ You can visit
Emacspeak on the WWW at http://emacspeak.sf.net or
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/emacspeak. You can subscribe
to the emacspeak mailing list emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu by sending
mail to the list request address emacspeak-request@cs.vassar.edu.
The latest development snapshot of Emacspeak is available via
anonymous CVS from sourceforge.
History:
========
Emacspeak-17.0 --code named HappyDog-- enhances user productivity by
exploiting today's evolving WWW standards. Emacspeak-16.0 --code named
CleverDog-- the follow-up to SmartDog-- continued the tradition of
working better, faster, smarter. Emacspeak-15.0 --code named
SmartDog--followed up on TopDog as the next in a continuing a series
of award-winning audio desktop releases from Emacspeak Inc.
Emacspeak-14.0 --code named TopDog--was the first release of this
millennium. Emacspeak-13.0 --codenamed YellowLab-- was the closing
release of the 20th. century. Emacspeak-12.0 --code named GoldenDog--
began leveraging the evolving semantic WWW to provide task-oriented
speech access to Webformation. Emacspeak-11.0 --code named Aster--
went the final step in making Linux a zero-cost Internet access
solution for blind and visually impaired users. Emacspeak-10.0 --(AKA
Emacspeak-2000) code named WonderDog-- continued the tradition of
award-winning software releases designed to make eyes-free computing a
productive and pleasurable experience. Emacspeak-9.0 --(AKA Emacspeak
99) code named BlackLab-- continued to innovate in the areas of speech
interaction and interactive accessibility. Emacspeak-8.0 --(AKA
Emacspeak-98++) code named BlackDog-- was a major upgrade to the
speech output extension to Emacs.
Emacspeak-95 (code named Illinois) was released as OpenSource on
the Internet in May 1995 as the first complete speech interface
to UNIX workstations. The subsequent release, Emacspeak-96 (code
named Egypt) made available in May 1996 provided significant
enhancements to the interface. Emacspeak-97 (Tennessee) went
further in providing a true audio desktop. Emacspeak-98
integrated Internetworking into all aspects of the audio desktop
to provide the first fully interactive speech-enabled WebTop.
About Emacspeak:
================
Based at Cornell (NY) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman
--home to Auditory User Interfaces (AUI) on the WWW-- and
SourceForge --http://emacspeak.sf.net-- Emacspeak is mirrored
world-wide by an international network of software archives
and bundled voluntarily with all major Linux distributions. On
Monday, April 12, 1999, Emacspeak became part of the
Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information
Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History.
The Emacspeak mailing list is archived at Vassar --the home of the
Emacspeak mailing list-- thanks to Greg Priest-Dorman, and provides a
valuable knowledge base for new users.
Press/Analyst Contact: Hubbell Labrador
Going forward, BubbleDog acknowledges her monopoly on setting the
direction of the Emacspeak Audio Desktop, and promises to exercise
this freedom to innovate and her resulting power responsibly (as
before).
About This Release:
==================
According to Hubbell Labrador, this release does not contain
the much-vaunted SmartTag feature --despite the codename.
Emacspeak Inc. promises to introduce SmartDogs soon based on
customer demand.
Windows-Free (WF) is a favorite battle-cry of The League Against
Forced Fenestration (LAFF). --see
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for details on
the ill-effects of Forced Fenestration.
CopyWrite )C( Aster and Hubbell Labrador. All Writes Reserved.
GoldenDog (DM), BlackDog (DM) etc., are Registered Dogmarks of Aster and Hubbell Labrador.
All other dogs belong to their respective owners.
--
Best Regards,
--raman
Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/
AIM: TVRaman
PGP: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.asc
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