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Linux-Announce Digest #713
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Sat Mar 20 19:13:13 2004
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Linux-Announce Digest #713, Volume #4 Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:13:06 EST
Contents:
OpenTaxSolver 1.68 Released (Aston Roberts)
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 27th March 2004 (Mark Suter)
Bogofilter-0.17.4 available (David Relson)
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:31:55 CST
From: aston_roberts@yahoo.com (Aston Roberts)
Subject: OpenTaxSolver 1.68 Released
OpenTaxSolver (OTS) has been updated with improvements and additions
provided by several users. In particular, a Massachusetts state tax
version has been added and quick-links to official tax forms.
Documentation and the latest releases can be found at:
Homepage- http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
Project- https://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaxsolver/
(You can also search for "taxes" under freshmeat.net or
sourceforge.net.)
OTS is a free open source project providing software to help
individuals prepare annual income tax forms. Built on a common C
package for conveniently describing tax forms, OTS has versions for US
Federal Taxes and several State Tax forms. Forms for other countries
are planned.
OTS is licensed under GPL and you do not have to be a programmer to
use it. It is portable to all platforms, and is especially useful
with Adobe PDF fill-in forms for mail-in filing. Although it may not
be suited for everyone, OTS provides choice and advantages for those
who has done their taxes by hand.
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 filing joint or separate, and head of
household are handled. State Tax versions are available for
California, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, and
Massachusetts.
-- Aston
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From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 27th March 2004
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:00:16 CST
The Home Unix Machine Brisbane Users Group exists to get fellow
Unix users in contact with each other, to introduce people to
Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and to help users in
operating those systems. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Meetings tend to be informal. We socialize, discuss Unix and
computing, solve Unix problems for new and experienced users
alike and, these days, have regular talks.
Date: Saturday, 27th March 2004 (every second Saturday)
Time: From 3pm with the network up 30 minutes after we are
granted entry. The network will be brought down after
midnight to allow time to clean up for a 1am exit.
Venue: Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50)
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Car parking is currently unregulated on Saturdays. The
University is serviced by public transport with frequent
buses during University terms. For more information:
http://www.uq.edu.au/about/index.html?page=1070
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.phtml?menu=1&z=1&id=25
Cost: Membership until our AGM in September is $20, but no one
has to join unless they are going to use club services
such as our network access during meetings.
Talks: Information on upcoming talks is announced separately.
For information on talks see the announcements by our
Talks Maintainer on the announce mailing list.
Food: The eating places (ranging from take away to a la Carte)
at 'The Ville' are usually open until about 10pm Saturday
night. There is also the Pizza Cafe on campus near the
Schonell Theater:
http://www.schonell.uq.edu.au/pizza_caffe.html
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.phtml?menu=1&z=1&id=11
Drinks: Various soft drinks and snacks are available from the
three vending machines located immediately outside the
room. Remember to bring change!
For more information on club meetings and HUMBUG itself see our
web page at http://www.humbug.org.au/ or email me directly.
Humbug President
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:44:01 CST
From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: Bogofilter-0.17.4 available
Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies email 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-0.17.4 is the newest release in phase 2 of the bogofilter
"Code Clean-up" release. It eliminates the gratuitous config file
warning message of 0.17.3, fixes a minor bug in bogotune, and improves
parsing of mime header parts and pgp signatures.
File NEWS-0.17 has details of all the changes in the 0.17.x series.
File RELEASE.NOTES-0.17 has details of the "Code Clean-up" 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 available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter for
download.
David
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