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Linux-Announce Digest #655
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Linux-Announce Digest #655, Volume #4 Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: O'Reilly at LinuxWorld ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
CHEOPS 1.1 -- an AI chess engine (Tristan Miller)
GPP 2.20 -- a general-purpose preprocessor (Tristan Miller)
Open Source Business Models for Success (SVASE)
DELORES 0.91 -- defeasible logic interpreter (Tristan Miller)
SoftIntegration Ch and Embedded Ch 4.5 released ("Wayne W.Cheng")
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:36:04 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Re: O'Reilly at LinuxWorld
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, O'Reilly & Assoc. wrote:
> LinuxWorld is almost upon us. If you're going to the conference, be sure
> to stop by the O'Reilly booth (#357). We'll be giving away free Hacks
> sampler booklets and our complimentary Linux Quick Reference card, based
> on Daniel Barrett's upcoming "Linux Pocket Guide." We'll also have lots
> of great Linux and open source books, as well as author presentations.
>
> Some of the books we'll have on hand:
> Security Warrior (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/swarrior/)
> Learning Python, 2nd Edition (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython2/)
> Postfix: The Definitive Guide (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/postfix/)
> sendmail Cookbook (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmailckbk/)
>
>
> Here's the schedule of author presentations at our booth:
>
> Wednesday, January 21:
> --11:30 am: Jay Beale, author of "Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection"
> --2 pm: Adam Trachtenberg and David Sklar, authors of "PHP Cookbook," will
> give a talk on "A Sneak Preview of XML in PHP 5"
> --3 pm: Nathan Torkington, author of "Perl Cookbook," will give a talk on
> "10 Perl Modules Your Company Can't Live Without"
>
> Thursday, January 22
> --1 pm: Gerald Carter, author of" LDAP System Administration," will give a
> talk on "LDAP Support for Samba 3.0"
> --2 pm: Brian Jepson, author of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" and "Learning
> Unix for Mac OS X Panther," will give a talk on "As Untethered as it Gets:
> Linux and Cellular Modules"
> --3 pm: Andy Oram, O'Reilly editor, will give a talk on "Linux
> Documentation: What's There and What's Needed"
>
> Friday, January 23
> --11 am: Brian Jepson, author of "Mac OS X for Unix Geek"s and "Learning
> Unix for Mac OS X Panther," will give a talk on "As Untethered as it Gets:
> Linux and Cellular Modules"
> --1 pm: Doc Searls, Senior Editor of "Linux Journal," will give a talk on
> "Digital Democracy: Making Democracy What We Wanted It To Be All Along"
>
>
> For the complete O'Reilly Schedule at LinuxWorld go to:
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/linuxworld2004/
>
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Frederick Noronha : http://www.fredericknoronha.net Ph 0091.832.2409490
Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org Ph 0091.832.2409783
http://fredericknoronha.blogware.com Cell 0 9822 122436
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:21:09 CST
From: Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com>
Subject: CHEOPS 1.1 -- an AI chess engine
CHEOPS 1.1 -- An AI chess engine -- released on 2003-12-08
About:
CHEOPS (CHEss OPponent Simulator), or Χεοψ, is a fully-functional AI chess
program capable of human vs. human, human vs. computer, and computer vs.
computer play. It uses a 64-square linear array board representation. The
game tree search is alpha-beta, and the static evaluation function
considers material, mobility, and motif features. CHEOPS comes with
extensive documentation on the program internals, aimed at students or
programmers wishing to understand or extend the system.
Changes since v1.0:
CHEOPS is now packaged in a manner similar to most GNU programs, including
a "configure" configuration and installation script suitable for Unix-like
systems. The LaTeX manual has been revised. A Unix man page is now
available. The --version and --help command-line options are now
supported.
      License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Â
Home page: http://www.nothingisreal.com/cheops/
Tar/BZ2: http://www.nothingisreal.com/cheops/cheops.tar.bz2
Change log: http://www.nothingisreal.com/cheops/news.txt
Freshmeat:Â http://freshmeat.net/projects/cheops-chess/
Maintainer: Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com>
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(7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ >< To finish what you
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:21:27 CST
From: Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com>
Subject: GPP 2.20 -- a general-purpose preprocessor
GPP 2.20 -- Generic preprocessor -- released on 2004-01-17
About:
GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax, suitable
for a wide range of preprocessing tasks. Its independence from any
programming language makes it much more versatile than cpp, while its
syntax is lighter and more flexible than that of m4. The syntax is fully
customizable, which makes it possible to process text files, HTML, or
source code in a variety of languages equally efficiently
Changes since v2.14 (2004-01-16):
The arithmetic evaluation macro (#eval) now supports POSIX-style wildcard
matching (i.e., shell globbing). There is now an #elif macro to help avoid
deeply-nested conditionals. Finally, a long-standing bug has been fixed
where GPP would be off by one when reporting line numbers in its error
messages or with the #line meta- macro.
Changes since v2.13 (2003-12-30):
There are two new built-in macros, "file" and "line", with functionality
similar to the C preprocessor's __FILE__ and __LINE__. A crash bug has
been fixed, and the GPP manual is now under a free documentation license.
Changes since v2.12 (2003-11-23):
Cross-platform compatibility has been improved and bugs have been fixed.
GPP is now packaged in a manner similar to most GNU programs, including a
"configure" configuration/installation script suitable for Unix-like
systems. There are minor changes (mostly typographical) to the manual.
Changes since v2.1 (2001-12-17):
This release has an XHTML mode, improved documentation, and miscellaneous
code cleanup and bugfixes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Home page: http://www.nothingisreal.com/gpp/
Tar/BZ2: http://www.nothingisreal.com/gpp/gpp.tar.bz2
Change log: http://www.nothingisreal.com/gpp/news.txt
Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpp/
Maintainer: Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com>
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(7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ >< To finish what you
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:21:33 CST
From: svase@comcast.net (SVASE)
Subject: Open Source Business Models for Success
http://www.svase.org/site/Events/Data/ev_2004010920530935
Larry Augustin (VA Software), Marten Mickos (MySQL), Larry Rosen (OSI)
and more give you the bottom line!
Network Meeting Center, Techmart Building
5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
Thursday, February 5, 2004, 6:00 pm
Even if you've been in software for 30 years, the rules have changed!
Using Open Source code can save you and your customers enormous time
and money. At the same time, careless use can destroy your….
Funding
M&A opportunities
Sales to big corporate customers
Sales to the Government
D&O Insurance
...effectively shutting down your business. This all-star panel will
share their unique, battle-line perspectives on WINNING with Open
Source and tell you where, when and how to get the help you need to
succeed.
Come meet:
* Larry Augustin, Founder, VA Software
* Mårten Mickos, CEO, MySQL
* Larry Rosen, Attorney, Open Source Initiative
* Deborah Magid, Director, Strategic Alliances, IBM Venture
Capital
* Andrew Aitken, Founder, Olliance Group (consultants on open
source issues for commercial & government clients including Hewlett
Packard and the US Navy)
* David Kaefer, Director of Business Development for Intellectual
Property & Licensing, Microsoft
* Moderator: Brian Kelly, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
FREE EVENT ADMISSION: We'd like to hear about "SVASE Success Stories"
- ways SVASE has helped your business. If you have an SVASE Success
story you can describe in 30 seconds for the audience at this event,
we'll give you free admission! Call Laura Roden at 650 592 0421 at
least 48 hours before the event to secure your ticket. One free
ticket will be awarded per event.
PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Dinner)
Members - $35
Affiliates who advertise this event - $35
General Public - $49
WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 to price listed above
All qualified press are invited to join us for an exclusive Q&A
session with the panelists from 6:30-7:00 pm; to request a press pass,
please contact Jim Lambert at SVASE_PR@yahoo.com.
Photography at this event provided courtesy of JOEL MOSES,
specializing in fast, flexible and cost effective Corporate
photography and videography: http://www.jmphoto.net.
To reserve an Exhibit Table, contact Info@svase.org, $500 Members,
$1000 Non-members, includes 2 tickets to the event and dinner.
If you go to nothing else in Silicon Valley this month, don't miss the
SVASE Main Event!
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:21:49 CST
From: Tristan Miller <tristan.miller@dfki.de>
Subject: DELORES 0.91 -- defeasible logic interpreter
DELORES 0.91 -- defeasible logic interpreter -- released on 2003-12-18
About:
DELORES (DEfeasible LOgic REasoning System) is a forward-chaining reasoning
engine for defeasible logic, a less expressive but more efficient
nonmonotonic logic. In contrast with most other nonmonotonic logics,
defeasible logic has linear complexity, allowing DELORES to execute large
theories very quickly. DELORES's algorithm extends to general defeasible
theories through the use of a preprocessing transformation which
eliminates all uses of defeaters and superiority relations.
Changes since v0.90 (2003-12-14):
The print() directive now prints out theory conclusions (this important
feature was inadvertently omitted from the 0.90 release). The man page now
contains info on theory conclusions. The documentation has been placed
under a less restrictive licence. An erroneous version number in the NEWS
file was fixed.
DELORES v0.90 was the initial public release.
      License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Â
Home page: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/delores/
Tar/BZ2: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/delores/delores.tar.bz2
Change log: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/delores/news.txt
Freshmeat:Â http://freshmeat.net/projects/delores/
Maintainer: Tristan Miller <tristan.miller@dfki.de>
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence | Tel: +49 631 205 3440
http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/ | Fax: +49 631 205 3210
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From: "Wayne W.Cheng" <wcheng@softintegration.com>
Subject: SoftIntegration Ch and Embedded Ch 4.5 released
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:10:20 CST
Dear Mikko,
We just released Ch 4.5 and Embedded Ch 4.5.
Ch is a C/C++ interpreter for scripting, shell programming,
numerical computing, ploting and embedded scritping.
We think that many readers of your journal might be
interested in our product. Attached please find our company press
release for possible coverage or review in your journal.
Feel free to use the logo of our company and products
from the following link
http://www.softintegration.com/company/logo.html
If you need any further information, please feel free to
contact us. Thank you.
Best regards,
Wayne Cheng <mailto: wcheng@softintegration.com>
SoftIntegration, Inc.
http://www.softintegration.com
Tel: +1 (530) 297-7398 Fax: +1 (530) 297-7392
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SoftIntegration Ch 4.5 and Embedded Ch 4.5 Released
DAVIS, Calif., January 20, 2004 - SoftIntegration, Inc. today announced the
availability of Ch 4.5 and Embedded Ch 4.5. Ch is a C/C++ interpreter for
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in command shell, easier interface with binary C/C++ libraries and
embedded scripting, and bug fixes.
"SoftIntegration Ch provides an unmatched level of power and flexibility in
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Functions in static or dynamical binary C/C++ libraries can be executed
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toolkit NI-Motion, Barret Technology's Barret Hand robotic manipulator
control, and Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, as well as
IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
* Pricing and Availability
Ch for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and HP-UX is available. Ch
Standard Edition is free for both commercial and non-commercial uses. Ch
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or commercial use.
About SoftIntegration, Inc.
SoftIntegration, Inc., is the leader of scripting technology for ubiquitous
computing. SoftIntegration provides infrastructure software and services for
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216 F Street, #68
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tel (530) 297-7398
fax (530) 297-7392
info@softintegration.com
http://www.softintegration.com
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