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Linux-Announce Digest #777
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Linux-Announce Digest #777, Volume #4 Sat, 22 May 2004 11:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Announce: Euro LUGs Network Project started (Fabrizio Sebastiani)
Re: New Linux User Group (David Lerner)
[ANNOUNCE] June 2004 Linux Magazine focuses on Java 1.5, JBoss AOP, and more ("Martin Streicher, Editor in Chief")
DaFT Database Fishing Tool 1.0 released (jelco huijser)
[ANN] Pexit, a New Multiprotocol Chat Application (Pexit)
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From: fabrizio@bzimage.it (Fabrizio Sebastiani)
Subject: Announce: Euro LUGs Network Project started
Date: 22 May 2004 14:30:05 GMT
Official Announce: Euro LUGs Network Project started
http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?EuroLugsEn
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Our goal:
Join forces with all european Free Software/Linux User Groups and
associations which care for the spread of Free Software in order to
coordinate events, organize european-wide actions, share information and
announces, and so on.
You can find the original draft of the project goals here.
All european Linux User Groups and other similar local or national
associations are invited to partecipate!
We would hope to have (at least) one official representative subscribed
to the mailing list for each LUG, group and/or association.
Join now!
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Mail list:
We have created a mailing list:
<lugs-discuss@lists.ffii.org>
We will start discussing the general guidelines for the project on this
mailing list. If you are interested in contributing to this effort,
please subscribe by visiting this url:
http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/lugs-discuss
or sending a message to:
<lugs-discuss-request@lists.ffii.org>
putting the word `subscribe' in the subject of the e-mail.
Note: if you use the web subscription method and you get a "500 Internal
Error", you can usually ignore the error; If you still have problems in
subscribing, choose the email method above or contact
<lugs-discuss-owner@lists.ffii.org>
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The history:
Many LUGs from all over Europe met in Brussels on April 14-15 2004 for
the "Euro LUG party" organized by the Greens-ALE group in the European
Parliament, and participated to the demostration and workshop against
software patents organized by the Foundation for a Free Information
Infrastructure.
During these two days, people agreed that it would be a good idea to
have an european network of LUGs and associations which care for Linux,
Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) and related subjects, in
order to better represent this community inside Europe and when
interacting with european institutions. You can find a list of all LUGs
present in Bruxelles here: http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EuroLug
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The Euro LUGs team:
Main Page: (temporary): http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?EuroLugsEn
Andrea Glorioso <sama _at_ miu-ft.org> mail list admin
Pilch Hartmut <phm _at_ a2e.de>, FFII chairman
Bernhard Kaindl <bernhard.kaindl _at_ gmx.de>, FFII
Fabrizio Sebastiani <fabrizio _at_ bzimage.it>, LUG Roma, mail list admin
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From: David Lerner <diesel1900@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: New Linux User Group
Date: 22 May 2004 14:30:08 GMT
Roy Hoobler wrote:
> I'd like to get a LUG started around Newark (or central) New jersey.
>
> If you're interested please email me at rhoobler@comcast.net.
>
> Thanks,
> Roy
>
Roy,
I live in Virginia, but central Jersey is my old home. I used to attend
meetings of ACGNJ in Scotch plains. Their users group for Linux has a
web page at:
http://www.acgnj.org/groups/lunics.html
Dave
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From: "Martin Streicher, Editor in Chief" <mstreicher@linux-mag.com>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] June 2004 Linux Magazine focuses on Java 1.5, JBoss AOP, and more
Date: 22 May 2004 14:30:18 GMT
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The June 2004 issue of Linux Magazine is now available on newsstands
everywhere. June focuses on Java, presenting three feature stories
written by Java gurus Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter, Cedric Beust, Marc
Fleury, and Bill Burke. In addition, June features our regular
departments, including Randal Schwartz on Perl, Jerry Peek on Linux
Power Tools, attorney Nick Wells on legal issues, Rod Smith on system
administration, and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on whatever's on his mind
(usually a lot.)
See below for the complete table of contents.
LINUX MAGAZINE
JUNE 2004
A Fresh Cup of Java
by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter
Version 1.5 of the Java platform, code named "Tiger," adds seven new
features to the Java programming language. The unifying theme of these
features is ease of development: make programs clearer, shorter, and
safer, without sacrificing compatibility or compromising the spirit of
the language.
Metadata for Java
by Cedric Beust
Metadata is information that cannot be expressed in Java, but is
nevertheless important for your Java application to work properly.
Currently, metadata is expressed in separate text, Java properties, and
XML files, but that poses a serious problem: code is disconnected from
configuration, making development, deployment, and maintenance that
much more difficult. JDK 1.5 addresses this disparity, capturing
critical information where it belongs: right in your code.
A "Killer App" for AOP
by Bill Burke and Marc Fleury
JBoss 4's implementation of aspects makes the development, deployment,
and maintenance of middleware a snap Aspect-oriented programming has
been gaining a wider audience of late, as enterprise application
developers discover that AOP provides for more intuitive, extensible,
and flexible middleware. With JBoss AOP, provided in JBoss 4,
developers can write plain old Java objects (POJOS) and request complex
services like transactions, security, and caching with just a few
simple annotations. Sound too good to be true? Read on.
DEPARTMENTS
Which Zip Is Right For You?
by Jeremy Zawodny
Copyright and the GPL: Friends or Foes?
by Nicholas Wells
CORESense
by Jason Gilmore and Jon Shoberg
Execution and Redirection
by Jerry Peek
Customizing Your Video Mode
by Roderick W. Smith
Programming Linux 2.6
by Ethan McCallum
Introduction to the Template Toolkit, Part One
by Randal L. Schwartz
Using Keys with SSH
by Jeremy Garcia
Exposing your APIs to Python
by Michel Pelletier
Burning the Bulb Brighter
by Michael Bordash
Open Source Basics & Java
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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<x-tad-bigger>The June 2004 issue of Linux Magazine is now available
on newsstands everywhere. June focuses on Java, presenting three
feature stories written by Java gurus Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter,
Cedric Beust, Marc Fleury, and Bill Burke. In addition, June features
our regular departments, including Randal Schwartz on Perl, Jerry Peek
on Linux Power Tools, attorney Nick Wells on legal issues, Rod Smith
on system administration, and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on whatever's
on his mind (usually a lot.)
See below for the complete table of contents.
LINUX MAGAZINE
JUNE 2004
A Fresh Cup of Java
by Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter
Version 1.5 of the Java platform, code named "Tiger," adds seven new
features to the Java programming language. The unifying theme of these
features is ease of development: make programs clearer, shorter, and
safer, without sacrificing compatibility or compromising the spirit of
the language.
Metadata for Java
by Cedric Beust
Metadata is information that cannot be expressed in Java, but is
nevertheless important for your Java application to work properly.
Currently, metadata is expressed in separate text, Java properties,
and XML files, but that poses a serious problem: code is disconnected
from configuration, making development, deployment, and maintenance
that much more difficult. JDK 1.5 addresses this disparity, capturing
critical information where it belongs: right in your code.
A "Killer App" for AOP
by Bill Burke and Marc Fleury
JBoss 4's implementation of aspects makes the development, deployment,
and maintenance of middleware a snap Aspect-oriented programming has
been gaining a wider audience of late, as enterprise application
developers discover that AOP provides for more intuitive, extensible,
and flexible middleware. With JBoss AOP, provided in JBoss 4,
developers can write plain old Java objects (POJOS) and request
complex services like transactions, security, and caching with just a
few simple annotations. Sound too good to be true? Read on.
DEPARTMENTS
Which Zip Is Right For You?
by Jeremy Zawodny
Copyright and the GPL: Friends or Foes?
by Nicholas Wells
CORESense
by Jason Gilmore and Jon Shoberg
Execution and Redirection
by Jerry Peek
Customizing Your Video Mode
by Roderick W. Smith
Programming Linux 2.6
by Ethan McCallum
Introduction to the Template Toolkit, Part One
by Randal L. Schwartz
Using Keys with SSH
by Jeremy Garcia
Exposing your APIs to Python
by Michel Pelletier
Burning the Bulb Brighter
by Michael Bordash
Open Source Basics & Java
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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From: jelco huijser <jelco@dds.nl>
Subject: DaFT Database Fishing Tool 1.0 released
Date: 22 May 2004 14:30:25 GMT
I have released DaFT version 1.0 for Linux and Windows.
DaFT is a GUI to any database that can be connected via UnixODBC (linux) or
ODBC (windows). It provides list views of tables and columns, table view of
data, an SQL statement editor with syntax highlighting and history memory of
executed statements, variable scanning, CSV, HTML, SyLK, and DIF data format
export, and a function for copying data between two ODBC databases. The
program is written in TCL/Tk and distributed as a StarKit.
DaFT is created by Jelco Huijser. It's main purpose is exploring two or more
databases at the same time to copy records, analyze differences, create large
automated insert scripts for backup or copying records, create and test
queries for reports or custom triggers, or defining an interface between two
databases.
DaFT is available as Free Software, as defined by the GNU GPL.
DaFT's homepage can be visited at http://sourceforge.net/projects/daft/
DaFT needs the startkit executable tclkit. This file can be downloaded from
http://www.equi4.com/tclkit.html
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From: dani@consensys.com (Pexit)
Subject: [ANN] Pexit, a New Multiprotocol Chat Application
Date: 22 May 2004 14:35:00 GMT
Pexit is a multiprotocol, multiplatform instant messaging and chat
client. It supports all of the major messaging services, including
ICQ(tm), AIM(tm), MSN(tm), Yahoo(r), IRC and RSS. Pexit has many
features, such as whiteboards, multiprotocol chat rooms, chat history,
alerts, auto-forward and reply, encryption and personal profiles.
Pexit also performs peer-to-peer file transfers and can be connected
to external databases to give them remote access. Pexit is available
for all popular computer platforms.
Available at www.pexit.com. Spyware and Adware free.
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