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Linux-Announce Digest #798
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Linux-Announce Digest #798, Volume #4 Sat, 12 Jun 2004 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 19th June 2004 (Mark Suter)
Preference ballot tabulation: Condorcet with Dual Dropping 6.0 (M G)
LINK: Planet FLOSS India ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
sysstat-5.0.5 - System performance tools for Linux (Sebastien Godard)
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:00:21 CST
From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 19th June 2004
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, 19th June 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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From: matt@tidalwave.net (M G)
Subject: Preference ballot tabulation: Condorcet with Dual Dropping 6.0
Date: 12 Jun 2004 03:15:01 GMT
Condorcet with Dual Dropping Perl scripts release 6.0
http://condorcet-dd.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/condorcet-dd/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/condorcet_dd/?topic_id=234
A vote tabulation and ranking system for deciding single or
multi-winner contests (elections) using preference or approval
ballots. Dual Dropping will compute the Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential
Dropping (CSSD) and Tideman's Ranked Pair (RP) results for each
contest round and select the combined SSD and RP contest outcome with
the lowest overall dropping cost. It has options to compute just the
CSSD or RP outcome, various optional tie-breakers, and alternative
measures of
dropping cost (winning votes and/or margin). See documentation on
SourceForge.
Available in RPM package, tar.gz, or tar.bz2 formats and zip format
for Microsoft Windows (with setup.exe install wizard).
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:37:45 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: LINK: Planet FLOSS India
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Planet FLOSS India is way for everyone to get an idea of what is
happening in the world of Free/Libre/Open Source enthusiasts from India.
It is a window into world, work and lives of FLOSS developers,
contributors and users from India.
Planet FLOSS India draws its inspirations from Planet GNOME, Planet
Debian and the numerous other planets scattered throughout the world
wide web.
Planet FLOSS India is powered by "Planet", a RSS/RDF/whatnot feed
aggregator. It works by downloading news feeds published by blogs and
aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest
entry first. Since it is just a simple aggregator, there is no scope for
editorialising of content, and thus, the entries are not just about
technology, but also about the lives and thoughts and opinions of the
featured FLOSS'ers.
If you are from India (you need not be physically present in India right
now), and if you blog regularly, please get in touch with me
(sayamindu@randomink.org). Your blog need not be entirely about FLOSS,
we have no issues with you writing about your cat occasionally (heck!
even I do it sometimes). :) To include you in the feed list, I would
need an URL to your blog's XML feed, and your picture (optional, though
highly recommended).
Also, if you know someone who may be a likely candidate for inclusion in
the Planet, please do let me know.
-thanks-
Sayamindu
--
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:38:33 CST
From: Sebastien Godard <noreply@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: sysstat-5.0.5 - System performance tools for Linux
All,
A new stable version of sysstat (sysstat-5.0.5) has been released. This one may
be the last one before the beginning of a new development series (5.1.x).
It fixes a bug in the binary RPM file, where symlinks to sysstat script were
wrong in the /etc/rc.d directories. It should also get rid of 'mojibakes'
characters that sar and mpstat could have displayed with some locales like
ja_JP.
Also remember that beginning with sysstat 5.0.2, iostat can look again for
extended statistics in /proc/partitions if available.
Sysstat 5.0.x can be used with *all* Linux kernels, including recent,
cutting-edge 2.6.x ones.
Sysstat 5.0.5 is available for download from my web page at:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
It is also available on ibiblio's Linux archive site:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/status/
120kB sysstat-5.0.5.tar.gz
98kB sysstat-5.0.5.tar.bz2
123kB sysstat-5.0.5-1.src.rpm
87kB sysstat-5.0.5-1.i386.rpm
The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools for
Linux. These include sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools.
Feedback always welcomed . Send your remarks and comments to:
<sysstat|at|wanadoo|dot|fr>.
To learn some more about sysstat, check out
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
Enjoy!
Changes vs 5.0.4 are:
* Timestamp is no longer limited to 11 characters. This should avoid problems
with somes locales (for example Japanese locale, where 'mojibake' used to be
displayed by sar and mpstat sometimes).
* Fixed a bug in sysstat RPM spec file (symlinks to sysstat script were wrong
in /etc/rc.d directories).
* sar now checks parameters for options -n, -s and -e more aggressively.
* NLS updated: Japanese translation added.
* Various typos fixed in several files (manual pages, README, etc.)
* CREDITS file updated.
--
Sébastien Godard (sysstat <at> wanadoo.fr)
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
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