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Linux-Announce Digest #676
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Linux-Announce Digest #676, Volume #4 Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:13:02 EST
Contents:
History of Linux Article moves to my new page (Ragib Hasan)
New Linux Website in town! (Ernie Baca)
OpenTaxSolver v1.6 released (Aston Roberts)
Bogofilter-0.17.1 - New Current Release (David Relson)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (Paul M Foster)
PLT Scheme v206p1 available (Eli Barzilay)
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:19:57 CST
From: ragibhasan@yahoo.com (Ragib Hasan)
Subject: History of Linux Article moves to my new page
Hi
My article on the History of GNU/Linux has been moved to its new page:
http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux
If you linked to that page, please update the url.
Also if you never visited that page, I'd invite you to take a look and
correct any errors/give any suggestions/info etc.
Thanks
Ragib Hasan
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From: ebaca@linux-forensics.com (Ernie Baca)
Subject: New Linux Website in town!
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:20:13 CST
I would like to announce the grand opening of Linux not just for
geeks. It is a Website community devoted to the promotion of Linux.
It includes an SSH terminal, forums, chat, FREE E-MAIL Account, and
much much more.
Visit:
www.linuxnotjustforgeeks.org
Check us out!
Thanks,
Ernie Baca
www.linuxnotjustforgeeks.com
www.linux-forensics.com
www.putercops.org
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:20:45 CST
From: aston_roberts@yahoo.com (Aston Roberts)
Subject: OpenTaxSolver v1.6 released
Hello,
The OpenTaxSolver (OTS) project is off to a good start. Documentation
and the latest OTS-v1.6 release can be found at:
Homepage- http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
Project- https://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaxsolver/
OTS presently contains programs for US Federal taxes and some States.
It is intended to eventually have forms for other countries as well.
It is built on a common set of c routines for conveniently describing
the arithmetic of common tax forms. The OTS source code is GPL'd and
open for anyone to extend, but you do not have to be a programmer to
use it. OTS is presently based on text files, is portable to all
platforms, and is useful with Adobe Fill-In forms for mail-in filing.
OTS may not be best suited for everyone, but provides another choice
and holds advantages for some. It seems particularly helpful to those
who have done their taxes by hand or used spreadsheets.
Presently OTS covers the US Federal 1040 form, with Schedules A, B, C,
and D for itemized, interest/dividends, business taxes,
capital-gains/losses, and AMT calculations, all for 2003 tax year.
Cases for single, married joint/separate, and head of household are
handled. 2003 State Tax versions are also available for the following
states: California, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and North
Carolina.
Enjoy,
-- Aston
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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: Bogofilter-0.17.1 - New Current Release
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:26:58 CST
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, RISC OS, OS/2, ...
******* ******* ******* ******* *******
Bogofilter-0.17.1, a.k.a. "Code Clean-up Release - Phase 2", has been
released. It fixes a problem with option --bogofilter-dir and some
portability issues for SunOS 4.1.x.
File RELEASE.NOTES-0.17 has details of the changes. If you haven't read
it already, do so! If you determine at some future date that you need
the removed code, you'll have to download 0.16.4
The files are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter as
always.
=================
BOGOFILTER NEWS
=================
Note:
Release 0.17.0 is the "Code Clean-up Release - Phase 2".
Be sure to read RELEASE.NOTES-0.17 !
0.17.1 2004-02-09
* Fix '-d' and '--bogofilter_dir=directory' options.
* Additional portability fixes for SunOS 4.1.4
0.17.0 2004-02-01
* Removed DEPRECATED CODE.
* Bogoutil now 'and's the maintenance operations together.
* Bogofilter and bogolexer now use standard long option
parsing.
* Correct processing order as '-V' doesn't need to read the
config file.
* Correct SIGSEGV causes by missing environment variables.
* Documentation cleanups.
* Extracted basic typedefs from system.h into bftypes.h.
* Fixed warnings from Intel C++ 8
* Portability fixes for SunOS 4.1.4
0.16.4 2004-01-23 - Released
2004-01-31 - Promoted to Stable Version
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FAQ: http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/bogofilter-faq.html
To unsubscribe, e-mail: bogofilter-announce-unsubscribe@aotto.com
For additional commands, e-mail: bogofilter-announce-help@aotto.com
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:48:46 CST
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
From: Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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TAMPA ****************************************************
11 February 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
Student Services Bldg, Room 108 (note change of room)
(to the northeast of the Technology Bldg)
Hillsborough Community College
Dale Mabry Campus
4001 Tampa Bay Blvd
Tampa, FL
See http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/Docs/DM-Map.htm for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
***** CANCELLED *****
18 February 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
Honeywell
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
23 February 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
St Petersburg Public Library, Main Branch
Auditorium
3745 Ninth Ave North
St Petersburg, FL 33713
727-893-7724
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#stpete for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
4 March 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.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
6 March 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room B.
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
6 March 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.
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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: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Subject: PLT Scheme v206p1 available
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:01:07 CST
PLT Scheme v206p1 is now available from
http://download.plt-scheme.org/
This is a patched version that solves a few v206 bugs:
* Printing scale bug fixed for Windows NT/2000/XP.
* Upgraded ProfessorJ.
Feedback welcome.
--
((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:
http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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