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Linux-Announce Digest #398
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Linux-Announce Digest #398, Volume #4 Thu, 1 May 2003 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Sweep sound editor 0.8.2 Released (Conrad Parker)
Isla Margarita Exotic Properties!! Opportunity!!! ("Chris")
EVENT-INDIA-GOA: LaTeX, TeX, Free Software in the Enterprise... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
What developers really want (ricky)
blueMail 1.1 - a multi-format offline mail reader (Ingo Brueckl)
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From: Conrad Parker <conrad@vergenet.net>
Subject: Sweep sound editor 0.8.2 Released
Date: 30 Apr 2003 11:50:01 GMT
Wed Apr 30 2003 -- Sweep 0.8.2 Released
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Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and
compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including
WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and
LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called
Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.8.2.tar.gz?download
Latest News
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This release contains support for ALSA 0.9; this is configurable and could
do with widespread testing.
To build with ALSA support, simply configure with:
./configure --enable-alsa
Note that doing this will build a binary which will work with ALSA only,
and not attempt to use OSS. In future this will be replaced with plugins
for different pcm i/o methods, which should ease binary distribution.
Internationalization (i18n) improvements:
* a complete audit of untranslateable strings, including
mis-configured source files and unmarked strings, by
Silvia Pfeiffer.
* a new Greek translation by Dokianakis Fanis
* a new Russian translation by Alexandre Prokoudine
* an updated Italian translation by Yuri Bongiorno
* an updated German translation by Silvia Pfeiffer
There is a new mailing list: sweep-i18n. List information is at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sweep-i18n
Additional changes include:
* added VBR without DTX option for Speex 1.0 speech encoding
* improved accuracy of sliders in processing dialogs
Events:
Conrad will presenting and demoing Sweep at the following upcoming events:
Jul 10-13 LinuxTag 2003 (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Conference and Linux Audio Dev (LAD) exhibition booth
http://www.linuxtag.org/
Jul 31 - Aug 3 UKUUG Linux Developers Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland)
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/
Plus, the Call for Participation for the Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2004
(Jan 12-13 2004, Adelaide, South Australia) is announced:
http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2004/
Further information
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Screenshots:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/screenshots/
Some interesting audio recordings of Scrubby are at:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/demos.html
Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes
almost everything you would expect in a sample editor, and then some:
* precise, vinyl like scrubbing
* looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback
* playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks
* looped and reverse recording
* internationalisation
* multichannel and 32 bit floating point PCM file support
* support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed audio files
* sample rate conversion and channel operations
* LADSPA 1.1 effects support
* multiple views, discontinuous selections
* easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming
* unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history
* multithreaded background processing
* shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes
Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License.
More information is available at:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/
Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the
development of this project.
enjoy :)
Conrad.
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From: "Chris" <MargaritaOpps@hotmail.com>
Subject: Isla Margarita Exotic Properties!! Opportunity!!!
Date: 30 Apr 2003 13:20:01 GMT
Reply-To: MargaritaOpps@hotmail.com
Building Exotic RE Broker Business
Who has experience in remarketing international
properties ?
I am searching for a partner for remarketing real
estate from "Isla Margarita".
Company and Infrastructur and Team with good local
experience is in place.
Since the currency devaluation the prices are that
low. I am sure that you wont get a similar price
/value anywhere else in the world.
You get a 3/2 house on this caribean island (called
the perl of the caribean) for less than 50.000 US $
And there is even not tax to own a house...
The big advantage is:
1.) the prices are on an alltime low
2.) the demand for exotic properties is growing (not
only the fich target group, but also people looking to
get more value for theire (retirement) dollar
3.) less legal or bureaucratic restrictions (you are
not restricted to 6% commisions)
4.) no tax ! and no IRS
5.) not much competition (less sofisticated investors)
There is a big market for this kind of properties :
-investors
-people looking for a vacation home
-people wanting a good place to retire
I have put some current listings on a website to down
load and give you an idea
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/bertos14/vwp2?.tok=bcIEKeRBiYa.REng&.dir=/My+Documents&.dnm=Isla+Margarita+Listing+English.pdf&.src=bc
If you need more information let me know
Also the file is a .pdf file should you need the Adobe PDF reader
in order to view the file you can download it for FREE at this address:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
looking forward to your feedback
Jack B.
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: EVENT-INDIA-GOA: LaTeX, TeX, Free Software in the Enterprise...
Date: 30 Apr 2003 19:10:04 GMT
SIX PROPONENTS of Free Software from Kerala are to visit Goa shortly, and
to interact with those interested in issues they're working on.
Those coming are CV Radhakrishnan, CV Rajagopal, E Krishnan, Anil Kumar, S.
Rajkumar and KG Kumar. Some of the presentations planned for Monday, May 5,
2003 from 4 to 6 pm at the Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Verna
are:
o Introduction to LaTeX and digital typography
o TeX as a business solution: a case study of the BSNL Trivandrum telephone
directory
o GNU/Linux and Free Software in the Enterprise: with a case study of the
online bill payment system of BSNL Tvm.
o Free Software and its relevance in higher education (subject to
confirmation)
o Network security using Free Software tools.
All are invited to this interesting meet. If you'd like any particular
emphasis, kindly send your feedback to KG Kumar of the Indian TeX Users
Group at <kg at tug.org.in>
See you on May 5 at Verna! FN
PS: Below is a feature relating to the work of some members of the team,
which puts the issue in context...
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6738
Currents: Free Software Makes Telephone Users' Lives Easier in India
Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003
Large prep and printing job made manageable and affordable with free tools.
Thanks to free software, one-third of a million telephone users living in
Southern India will no longer find locating phone numbers such a complex
process. Telephone directories often take a notoriously long time to be
published in India, meaning phone subscribers are lost when trying to locate
numbers they need.
GNU/Linux increasingly is attracting attention in Corporate India, not only for
its usually lower costs but also because of its high quality products. Last
weekend, the latest edition of the Thiruvananthapuram telephone
directory--from the regional capital of the south-western province of
Kerala--was processed and typeset using a range of free software tools.
These tools provided substantial savings in cost and time, while producing a
neatly laid-out and elegant publication ahead of schedule.
The two-volume directory, to be distributed to all subscribers of the
Thiruvananthapuram secondary switching area as of March 25, contains 1,200
pages and 320,000 entries. Some 400,000 copies of the directory currently
are being printed by the locally based St. Joseph's Press, using typesetting
software and programs provided by River Valley Technologies (RVT), also
based in the Kerala capital. RVT specialises in typesetting and publishing
solutions using free and open-source software.
For the phone directory publishers domestic telecom giant Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Limited (BSNL), this is the first complete directory to be published
since 1999. K. Sreekantan Nair, Principal General Manager of the
Thiruvananthapuram telecom district, said BSNL has spent Rs 35 million on
printing the directory.
Normally, an order of this magnitude -- a print run of 400,000 copies, each
with 1,200 pages printed on 48 GSM white paper in three columns of Helvetica
Narrow 7 point typeface, with 94 lines per column--would have taken six
months and involved around 50 employees wholly dedicated to the work.
In this case, however, the press was able to finish the entire printing
process in four months, using a smaller team. At present, SJP's printing
presses are operating 21 hours per day at their maximum capacity of 20,000
copies per hour to finish the printing.
Using software like PageMaker or QuarkXPress could have taken a longer time,
said RVT. Instead, they used a combination of free software programs to
extract BSNL's data, process it and typeset it into camera-ready copy.
RVT managing director C. V. Radhakrishnan said the BSNL data of telephone
numbers, subscribers names and addresses was supplied as files in dBase, an
outdated database software that goes back to the days of the DOS operating
system. Using a set of free software libraries downloaded from the Internet
and locally customised, this data was extracted into the PostgreSQL
relational database, also free software, and was then entirely recreated.
RVT wrote a Java program to pipe this newly generated database into TeX.
>From TeX, RVT produced the final output as Portable Document Format (PDF)
files, using pdfTeX, also free software.
"So powerful is TeX that it was able to process nearly 1,200 pages in just
four minutes", says Radhakrishnan. "Not only that, since it is also a
programming language, it is able to do several things automatically, like
the generation of header markers, for example", he adds.
To incorporate corrections and editorial changes to the proof sheets, RVT
designed a graphical spreadsheet interface for SJP. This also helped to save
time in updating the almost 10,000 entries that had changed since the last
directory was printed four years ago.
Recent reports in India's enterprise-based Network Magazine also noted the
small but growing number of other industrial ventures starting to try out
GNU/Linux in their "mission critical space".
Asian Paints, India's largest paint company, has implemented SAP modules on
GNU/Linux. IDBI Bank, with over 91 branches, runs its core banking
applications on it. Rolta India runs its database containing thousands of
users, while ICICI Infotech runs its knowledge management applications, and
C-DAC runs e-governance solutions on GNU/Linux.
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From: richard@audioscout.com (ricky)
Subject: What developers really want
Date: 1 May 2003 03:10:08 GMT
Hey,
Theres a great interview on www.Availinux.com in which IBM interviews
Nicholas Petreley.
"Evans Data Corp''s 2003 Linux Developer Survey is out, and this year
Evans brought in Nicholas Petreley -- long-time Linux observer,
founding editor of LinuxWorld.com, and contributing editor for
InfoWorld -- to analyze the survey results. To get some perspectives
on what the survey tells us about Linux developers'' likes and
dislikes, read on and find out!"
You can check it out at
http://www.availinux.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=80
Enjoy!
-Ricky
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Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 05:56:29 CST
From: ib@wupperonline.de (Ingo Brueckl)
Subject: blueMail 1.1 - a multi-format offline mail reader
I've just released version 1.1 of blueMail, the multi-platform, multi-format
offline mail reader, which now includes all major functions of the old Blue
Wave mail reader and has achieved its (primary) goal to be a reasonable
alternative to Blue Wave (actually exceeding it in the meantime by far).
Among the new features are:
* Personal mail and personal area support for SOUP
* Message(s) print function
* Message status flags can now be edited
* Support for a user definable program to run through the reader
* Jump to replies from letter window and return to letter afterwards
* Bug fixes and improvements
What is blueMail?
=================
blueMail is a multi-format offline mail reader for Unix, DOS, Win32, and
other systems.
It supports the Blue Wave, QWK, QWKE, SOUP, OMEN and Hippo packet formats,
the Hudson and BBBS Message Bases, Unix mail, Eudora and is designed to
be a reasonable alternative to the Blue Wave mail reader. It has a full
screen, colored user interface built with the curses library.
blueMail is free, "open source" software, provided "as is", without
warranty of any kind, distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Its current maintainer is Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de> and will not
accept liability resulting from your use or inability to use blueMail.
You can get the latest version from
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail
Requirements
============
* Unix-compatible (POSIX) system, DOS with DJGPP, Cygwin with Windows, or
OS/2 with EMX
* curses -- tested with ncurses 1.9.3+, and PDCurses 2.2+
* gcc (g++) 2.7.0+ -- may work with other C++ compilers, not tested
* InfoZip, and/or other compressing archivers
* GNU make *may* be required on some systems
* PMODE/DJ (by Thomas Pytel and Matthias Grimrath) and UPX (by Markus
Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar) is recommended (and used) for the DOS binaries
What's new in this version?
===========================
You can find a list of new features and improvements in the history file
together with a list of new options for the configuration file since
version 0.01.
See INSTALL for the installation procedure, and the man page (bmail.1, or
bmail.txt for DOS, Windows or OS/2) for information on usage.
Tested Systems
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blueMail will run on multiple platforms, like
MSDOS 6.22 (DJGPP, PDCurses)
Linux 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 (gcc, egcs, ncurses, PDCurses aka XCurses)
Windows 9x/NT (Cygwin, PDCurses)
and - untested -
OS/2 (emx, PDCurses)
NetBSD (ncurses)
Solaris (curses)
(Please understand that it is impossible to continuously test blueMail on
all platforms, so there may be bugs on platforms other than my developing
platform DOS, but I'll try to fix all bugs I'll be told.)
If you get it running on a dissimilar system, please let me know (along
with any necessary patches).
Ingo Brueckl
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