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Linux-Announce Digest #503
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Linux-Announce Digest #503, Volume #4 Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:13:07 EDT
Contents:
LilyPond 1.8 - make beautiful music prints (Han-Wen Nienhuys)
from Mrs. Katerina (WSEAS)
Linux C++ Developer Needed - Sockets, IPC, Threads (Gil Vander Voort)
Intel Support of Centrino Under Linux Petition (Werner Heuser)
The new issue of the BogoMips mini-Howto (v34, jubilee edition) (Wim van Dorst)
[ANNOUNCE] LAMP:Linux and managed power (Vivek Haldar)
LAMP - Linux and Managed Power - free laptop power-saving tool (Vivek Haldar)
Idea for a better use of human intelligence (Mattis Manzel)
Bogofilter-0.14.4 - New Current Release (David Relson)
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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Subject: LilyPond 1.8 - make beautiful music prints
Date: 10 Aug 2003 10:55:28 GMT
Reply-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl
Dear music enthousiasts,
LilyPond 1.8.0 is released. LilyPond is an automated music engraving
system: it is used to make gorgeous sheet music. Use it for your
music too!
Downloads, examples and documentation are available from the
completely redesigned website,
http://lilypond.org
The website has also been enhanced with many new sections. Come check
it out!
This release is focused on internal and external cleanups: Scheme and
LilyPond input can now be seamlessly mixed. Entry and layout of texts,
chord names and chords has been revised and cleaned up entirely.
Happy music printing!
Han-Wen Nienhuys & Jan Nieuwenhuizen
(core development team)
New features in 1.8 since 1.6
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* The chord entry code has been completely rewritten. It is now
cleaner and more flexible.
* A new syntax has been added for text entry. This syntax is more
friendly than the old mechanism, and it is implemented in a more
robust and modular way. For more information, refer to the section
on "Text markup" in the notation manual.
* The integration of the input language and Scheme has been made
deeper: you can now use LilyPond identifiers in Scheme, and use
Scheme expressions instead of LilyPond identifiers.
* The internal representation of music has been cleaned up completely
and converted to Scheme data structures. The representation may be
exported as XML.
* A new uniform postfix syntax for articulation has been introduced.
A beamed slurred pair of eighth notes can be entered as
c8-[-( d8-]-)
In version 2.0, postfix syntax will be the only syntax available,
and the dashes will become optional.
This will simplify the language: all articulations can be entered
as postfix, in any order.
* A new syntax has been added for chords:
<< PITCHES >>
It is not necessary to update files to this syntax, but it will be
for using LilyPond version 2.0. In version 2.0, this syntax will
be changed to
< PITCHES > for chords
and
\simultaneous { .. }
for simultaneous music.
To convert your files from <PITCHES> to <<PITCHES>>, use the script
included in buildscripts/convert-new-chords.py
This change was introduced for the following reasons
* It solves the "start score with chord" problem, where you
have to state \context Voice explicitly when a chord was
the start of a Staff or Score.
* With the new syntax, it is possible to distinguish between
articulations (or fingerings) which are for a single chord
note, and which are for the entire chord. This allows for
per-note fingerings, and is more logical on the whole.
* User code may now be executed during interpreting. The syntax for
this code is
\applycontext #SCHEME-FUNCTION
* User code may now be executed on arbitrary grobs during
interpreting. The syntax for this feature is
\applyoutput #SCHEME-FUNCTION
SCHEME-FUNCTION takes a single argument, and is called for every
grob that is created in the current context.
* New algorithms for chord-name formatting have been installed. They
can be tuned and have ergonomic syntax for entering exceptions.
* Texts may now be put on multimeasure rests, eg.
R1*20^\markup { "GP" }
* Ancient notation now prints ligatures in Gregorian square neumes
notation, roughly following the typographical style of the Liber
hymnarius of Solesmes, published in 1983. Ligatures are still
printed without the proper line breaking and horizontal spacing.
* Glissandi can now be printed using the zigzag style.
* LilyPond can now print clusters. The syntax is:
\apply #notes-to-clusters { NOTE NOTE .. }
* For irregular meters, beat grouping marks can be printed. The
syntax for this is
#(set-time-signature 7 8 '(3 2 2))
* Nested horizontal brackets for music analysis can now be printed.
NOTE-\startGroup
..
NOTE-\stopGroup
* Ottava brackets are now fully supported as a feature. The syntax
is
#(set-octavation 1)
* Metronome markings are printed when a \tempo command is processed.
* Fingerings can be put on chords horizontally.
* The appearance of various glyphs has been fine-tuned.
* Different types of percent style repeats may now be nested.
* The emacs support has been extended.
* The manual has been completely revised and extended.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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From: <ara@teacher.com>
Subject: from Mrs. Katerina (WSEAS)
Date: 10 Aug 2003 10:55:32 GMT
This is Dr. Katerina Tsironi. I am the new conference manager of WSEAS.
We invite you to submit a paper or to organize a Session
in the WSEAS Conference in the Rhodes Island (Greece), November 2003.
http://www.special-sessions-wseas.netfirms.com
Rhodes is the most sunniest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
The island with Colossus (one of the 7 miracles of the ancient world),
with the valey of batterflies, the venezian port, the old churches
and islam temples, the ancient port and Acropolis in Lindos
where the beautiful Hellen stopped before the Trojian war,
with the "7 Springs" waters and
of course with many modern attractions and night life.
LEARN MORE: http://www.special-sessions-wseas.netfirms.com
BENEFITS FOR SUCCESSFULL SPECIAL SESSIONS ORGANISERS:
http://www.special-sessions-wseas.netfirms.com
or
Contact us using the email address that you will find in
the first page of the WSEAS multiconference in Rhodes.
The names of the SUCCESSFULL SESSION ORGANISERS will be included in the
conference
publications (program, proceedings, post-conference publications) as
ASSOCIATE
EDITORS and they will participate as members in the INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC
COMMITTEE of the corrsponding conference of the next year.
Also, for every session with 6 papers, the organizer will have the
opportunity
to select one paper which will participate without paying registration
fees.
(for example the paper of the session organizer).
See you in Rhodes.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT INVITATION:
WSEAS will accept other 50 papers more for her very important Web
Multiconference. Please ignore the deadlines! all the accepted papers will
be published in WSEAS TRANSACTIONS. Registration fees: 200 EUR. None cost
for any trip and any accomodation. Please, click:
http://www.special-sessions-wseas.netfirms.com
Mrs. Katerina Tsironi
HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE: contact me, using the email that you can find
in the first page of the conferenes in Rhodes Island, Greece
http://www.special-sessions-wseas.netfirms.com
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From: recruiter@coresearchinc.com (Gil Vander Voort)
Subject: Linux C++ Developer Needed - Sockets, IPC, Threads
Date: 10 Aug 2003 11:00:02 GMT
Great stable and very profitable company is looking for a very
talented C++ programmer with lots of experience with Linux internals.
This team doing a lot with Sockets, IPC and Threads. They need help
increasing spead, reliability, scalability and fault tolerance.
For more information please contact:
Gil C. Vander Voort
Research Consultant
gil@coresearchinc.com
recruiter@coresearchinc.com
www.coresearchinc.com
(803)771-9977
(888)464-9977
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From: Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org>
Subject: Intel Support of Centrino Under Linux Petition
Date: 10 Aug 2003 11:00:05 GMT
Three months after Intel has released their new technology, laptops based
on the Centrino(TM) features are already very popular in the Linux
community. For almost all Centrino based laptops from different
manufacturers there are installation reports[1] available.
But the "Intel Support of Centrino Under Linux Petition"[2] states
"currently support is quite lacking and only half of the technology has
any form of drivers. Intel has flipped on the issue of Linux. When
Centrino was introduced they reported that Linux would indeed be
supported. Now, after conversing with them, they have said that they
have no plans at all to support Linux with respect to Centrino any more
than they have." [3][4][5]
Please support the petition.
Werner
[1] http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html
[2] http://www.petitiononline.com/xanthan/petition.html
[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29840.html
[4] http://news.com.com/2100-1006-993896.html
[5] http://www.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/os.htm
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From: Wim van Dorst <baron@clifton.nl>
Subject: The new issue of the BogoMips mini-Howto (v34, jubilee edition)
Date: 10 Aug 2003 11:00:08 GMT
Reply-To: WvD@clifton.nl
Hello *,
after ten years of publications, I have now published the 34th edition
of the BogoMips mini-Howto: the jubilee edition.
More than 1600 entries by nearly 1300 different persons, from over
50 different countries, reporting BogoMips ratings starting at 0.02
BogoMips (anyone lower?) for Linux/ELKS on an old Intel 8088 CPU, up
to 6121.06 BogoMips (anyone higher?) for a new Intel Pentium 4, and
what about more than twohundredthousand Bogomips for a Linux/Beowulf
with 102 CPUs in it?
Lots of CPUs: Intel 8088, Intel/AMD 386SX, Intel/AMD 386DX, Motorola
68030, Cyrix/IBM 486, Intel Pentium, Intel 486, AMD 5x86, Mips
R4000/R4400, Motorola 68040, PowerPC 603, Intel StrongArm, Nexgen
Nx586, PowerPC 601, Alpha 21064/21064A, Alpha 21066/21066A, Alpha
21164/21164A, Intel Pentium Pro, Cyrix 5x86/6x86, Intel Pentium II/III,
AMD K7/Athlon, Intel Celeron, Intel Itanium, Mips R4600, Alpha 21264,
Centaur VIA , AMD K5/K6/K6-2/K6-III, AMD Duron/Athlon XP, UltraSparc
II, Pentium MMX, Pentium 4, Centaur C6-2, PowerPC 604/604e/750,
Motorola 68060, Hitachi SH-4, IBM S390, Intel Xeon, Intel ARM.
Read about BogoMips in all the obvious TLDP places, and on the BogoMips
mini-Howto home page at http://www.clifton.nl/bogomips.html
Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim van Dorst
========================================================================
Wim van Dorst, Clifton Scientific Text Services, tel/fax +31 355 242 319
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From: vivek_haldar@yahoo.com (Vivek Haldar)
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LAMP:Linux and managed power
Date: 10 Aug 2003 11:00:12 GMT
Hello all,
LAMP is a simple user-level tool to adapt CPU frequency to CPU load,
to achieve a balance between performance and battery life for laptops.
It uses the interface provided by CPUFreq to do frequency scaling
guided by CPU load.
It's under the GPL.
http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/~haldar/lamp/
Feedback appreciated.
Enjoy,
Vivek.
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From: Vivek Haldar <vivek_haldar@yahoo.com>
Subject: LAMP - Linux and Managed Power - free laptop power-saving tool
Date: 10 Aug 2003 11:00:15 GMT
Hello all,
LAMP is a simple user-level tool to adapt CPU frequency to CPU load, to
achieve a balance between performance and battery life for laptops.
It uses the interface provided by CPUFreq to do frequency scaling guided by
CPU load.
http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/~haldar/lamp/
It is distributed under the GPL.
Feedback appreciated.
Enjoy,
Vivek.
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From: mattismanzel@yahoo.de (Mattis Manzel)
Subject: Idea for a better use of human intelligence
Date: 10 Aug 2003 11:00:19 GMT
Dear reader and friend of the open source movement,
My name is Mattis Manzel, born 1960 in Berlin, grown up in Berlin
(West), German writer. In February I had an idea, which first
frightened me, as the idea was pretty big. Since middle of July I'm
working on-line on a presentation of my idea. Meanwhile I wrote some
text and provided a start page. I recently translated the whole
unfinished German throw to English. I work intensively and update the
web page several times daily. The text is incomplete, the form is
puzzled and requires order. Nevertheless I started some days ago to
step out into the public with my idea. I do this, because I am afraid
that there is a hurry to start a public discussion on it.
The goal of my idea is:
- the creation of peace and justice on earth by global decentralized
democracy or - more precisely - the waking of collective human
intelligence.
- the displacement of the conventional currencies by an excluding
virtual currency: "Terra".
Mankind uses for common decision making a computer program (which is
to be commonly developed) and the world-wide data network. The
behavior of the program is steered by the participating humans.
Preparations could take place on a Wiki.
Please do not take my idea for a joke. It is about as serious as the
internet.
I cordially thank you for that and wish you a beautiful day.
Mattis Manzel
www.terrahome.net.tc or
http://mitglied.lycos.de/terrahome/
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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: Bogofilter-0.14.4 - New Current Release
Date: 10 Aug 2003 14:00:06 GMT
Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham (non-spam)
by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content (body). The
program is able to learn from the user's classifications and corrections.
The statistical technique is known as the Bayesian technique and its use
for spam was described by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For
Spam". Gary Robinson, in his weblog Rants, suggests some refinements for
improved discrimination between spam and ham. Bogofilter's primary
algorithm uses the f(w) parameter and the Fisher inverse chi-square
technique that he describes.
Bogofilter is run by an MDA script to classify an incoming message as spam
or ham (using wordlists stored by BerkeleyDB). Bogofilter provides
processing for plain text and html, supports multi-part mime message with
decoding of base64, quoted-printable, and uuencoded text and ignores
attachments, such as images.
Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris,
OS X, HP-UX, AIX, ...
******* ******* ******* ******* *******
Bogofilter version 0.14.42 has been released on SourceForge,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter.
Major cleanup/revision to datastore/database code layers.
Database update and locking fixes.
Exit code cleanup.
Documentation updates.
See files NEWS-0.14 and RELEASE.NOTES-0.14 for the details.
=================
BOGOFILTER NEWS
=================
0.14.4 2003-08-10
* Revised database API so that there are 3 distinct layers
(program, datastore, and database) with a clean interface
between them.
* Correct exitcodes in bogoutil by using EX_ERROR.
* Updated FAQ.
* Fixed token registration bug in 0.14.x versions.
* Fixed seg fault caused by database lock contention.
0.14.3 2003-08-05
* Fixed critical locking bug introduced into bogofilter 0.14.0 with
the combined-wordlist code: when working with separate wordlists,
bogofilter would lock only the first one opened, rather than all.
* Documentation updates.
* %g formatting is now supported by bogofilter's formatting functions.
* Merged trio 1.10 (http://ctrio.sourceforge.net/) to support
compilation on ancient systems (Solaris 2.5) that do not have
[v]snprintf functions.
Trio is Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg.
* Various documentation updates, including the FAQ.
* The test suite was adjusted for older grep variants (Solaris 2.5)
that don't cope with long lines.
* Print database version in print_version().
* Postfix integration instructions have been upgraded.
* Debug output for wordlists and databases was enhanced.
0.14.2 2003-08-02
* Replaced use of memcpy() by memmove() in an input routine. The
overlapping copy migh cause data corruption on some systems.
* Fixed "make check" failures for bogoutil introduced with the
"combined wordlist" feature in 0.14.0. There has been a buffer
overflow. All users of bogofilter with combined wordlist prior to
0.14.2 are advised to upgrade.
* Fixed bogus "t.valgrind" test FAILures.
* Fixed uninitialized data in db_get_dbvalue(), for split word lists.
* New file, contrib/vm-bogofilter.el, provides an interface
between the VM mail reader and bogofilter."
* Revised lexer_v3.l for compatibility with flex-2.5.31
* Break up long line in regression test input for Solaris 2.5
compatibility.
0.14.1.1 2003-08-01
* Fixed check for adding spam_subject_tag to Subject: line.
* Correct problem with t.degen regression test.
* Updated French version of FAQ.
0.14.1 2003-07-31
* Implemented named exitcodes, with Unsure having its own value (2)
and changing the value for error from 2 to 3.
* Initial release of token degeneration code.
* Revised lexer pattern to better recognize encoded tokens.
* Updated English version of FAQ.
0.14.0.1 2003-07-23
* Fix problem with encoded text.
* Fix handling of absolute paths.
* Fix defect in base64 decoding that can cause segfaults.
* Bogoutil now complains before exiting when it can't open a
file.
* Updated bogominitrain.pl to work with combined wordlists.
0.14.0 2003-07-22
* Initial release of code allowing bogofilter to use a single,
combined BerkeleyDB database for storing both ham and spam tokens.
The file is named wordlist.db
* Default wordlist mode is single, combined wordlist.
File wordlist.db contains all spam and ham tokens.
* Bogofilter and bogoutil detect whether one or two wordlists are in
BOGOFILTER_DIR and use the appropriate wordlist mode (combined or
separate).
* Added tdb (trivial database) support.
* Decode encoded text in header lines.
* Updated contrib/bogominitrain.pl prints more info and can save
messages used in training.
* Bogofilter's -V output now includes algorithm and database info.
* Miscellaneous documentation updates.
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