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Linux-Announce Digest #63
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Linux-Announce Digest #63, Volume #5 Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:13:02 EST
Contents:
Linpedia.org (JoelMontes01@gmail.com)
Open Tax Solver update ("ARoberts")
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 12th March 2005 (Mark Suter)
libannodex 0.6.1 Release (Conrad Parker)
mod_annodex 0.2.1 Release (Conrad Parker)
Linux Gazette: Call for Papers ("Benjamin A. Okopnik")
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:50:27 CST
From: JoelMontes01@gmail.com
Subject: Linpedia.org
Linpedia has been created to further the knowledge of Linux/GNU via a
community of devoted users. Linpedia will thrive to be a medium for all
users whom want to post and share how-tos, tips, and general knowledge
about Linux and other Open-Source Software. Anyone may post or edit an
article as they see fit. Try out the Sandbox to become comfortable with
editing and/or creating a new page. The Linpedia.org project began on
March 1st, 2005.
Visit us at http://Linpedia.org
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:35:58 CST
From: "ARoberts" <aston_roberts@yahoo.com>
Subject: Open Tax Solver update
OpenTaxSolver (OTS) has been updated for US 2004 taxes. It includes
several improvements. An optional graphical interface (GUI) has been
added. Distribution package has been unified and reorganized.
For documentation and downloads see:
Homepage- http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
Project- https://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaxsolver/
(Or search "taxes" on freshmeat.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 describing tax forms, OTS now has solvers for US
Federal and State Taxes, as well as UK and Canadian Taxes.
Tax Solvers for other states or countries can be made by anyone.
OTS is licensed under GPL. You do not need to be a programmer to
use it. It is portable to all platforms, and is useful with Adobe
PDF forms for mail-in filing. Although it may not be suited to
everyone, OTS is helpful especially to those who otherwise do their
taxes by hand. OTS offers an alternative to commercial tax packages
for Linux/Unix systems.
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. Filing
status of single, married filing joint or separate, head of household,
and widow(er) are handled. State Tax versions are now available for
California, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina,
Massachusetts, Ohio, and Virginia.
-- Aston
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:00:17 CST
From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 12th March 2005
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, 12th March 2005 (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.html?menu=1&z=2&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.uqunion.uq.edu.au/schonell/pizzacaffe/
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&z=2&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: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:56:53 CST
From: Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org>
Subject: libannodex 0.6.1 Release
libannodex 0.6.1 Release
=========================
libannodex is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Annodex media. Annodex is an open standards based technology that
extends the World Wide Web's hyperlinking, searching, and compositing
infrastructure to time-continuous data, enabling video surfing, searching for
clips of audio and video files using ordinary Web search engines, and
on-the-fly composition of a video on a Web server from previously annodexed
clips. For more information on Annodex, see http://www.annodex.net/
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libannodex/download/libannodex-0.6.1.tar.gz
New in this release:
* Removed all memory leaks in the libannodex codepaths used by
the commandline tools and by mod_annodex
* added new anxgrep tool:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libannodex/anxgrep.html
* fixed bugs:
#68 anxed --end npt:N produces short files
#72 xtag_new_parse() requires NUL termination but shouldn't
#-- update OGGZ version number in pkg-config check
* added new API call: anx_track_free()
* added valgrind test environment; enable on i386 Linux with
./configure --enable-valgrind-testing --disable-shared
* added new noop and insert-clip tests, and improved paramtest
* updated libtool shared version info to 2:0:2
About libannodex
================
The libannodex source distribution comprises the C library libannodex,
plugins for importing CMML and Ogg media (Theora, Vorbis and Speex), and
the command-line tools anxenc, anxrip, anxgrep and anxinfo.
libannodex provides the following features:
* API documentation, with comprehensive examples
* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX and Win32. May
work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf. For Win32: nmake
Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files and Visual C++ 6.0
workspace files are provided in the source distribution.
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
interface to Annodex media and embedded CMML clips.
* Plugin based importing framework, providing temporal interleaving
of multiple media and annotations data sources.
Full documentation of the libannodex API, customization and installation,
and reading and writing examples can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libannodex/html/
Tools
=====
The libannodex source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for creating and inspecting Annodex media:
* anxenc: Encapsulate annotations and data into annodexed media.
* anxrip: Extract annotations and data tracks from annodexed media.
* anxgrep: Search for a pattern in annodexed media files.
* anxinfo: Display information about annodexed media contents.
License
=======
libannodex is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.
More information is available online at the libannodex homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libannodex/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/ http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
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From: Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org>
Subject: mod_annodex 0.2.1 Release
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:34:59 CST
mod_annodex 0.2.1 Release
=========================
mod_annodex is a module for Apache httpd, and provides server-side support
for annodex media. Parallel versions are available for Apache versions
1.3 and 2.0.
Annodex is an open standards based technology that extends the World Wide
Web's hyperlinking, searching, and compositing infrastructure to
time-continuous data, enabling video surfing, searching for clips of audio
and video files using ordinary Web search engines, and on-the-fly
composition of a video on a Web server from previously annodexed clips.
For more information on Annodex, see http://www.annodex.net/
This release is available at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/mod_annodex/
New in this release:
* Support for time ranges of the form "t=start/end", such as
http://media.example.com/index.anx?t=npt:00:00:10/00:00:20
It is recommended that you upgrade libannodex to version 0.6.1 in order
to make use of this feature. Additionally, libannodex-0.6.1 has undergone
an extensive audit of memory use resulting in the removal of all known
leaks in the codepaths used by mod_annodex.
About mod_annodex
=================
mod_annodex is a handler for type application/x-annodex. It provides the
following functionality:
* Time URI handling
Time URIs (see http://www.annodex.net/uri/) are a way of addressing time
points in a resource. mod_annodex implements server-side timed query offsets,
such as
http://media.example.com/fish.anx?t=npt:00:01:20.8
A client retrieving such a resource will view the media stream immediately
from the requested time offset, allowing other annodex media files or web
pages to use such timed hyperlinks to link directly to a point of interest.
http://media.example.com/fish.anx?t=npt:00:01:20.8/00:02:30.4
A client retrieving such a resource will view the media stream immediately from 00:01:20.8, and ending at 00:02:30.4.
* CMML pre-processing
CMML is an HTML-like markup for media, providing timed hyperlinks, metadata
and annotations. Rather than storing fully encoded annodex media, mod_annodex
allows you to store the CMML and the source media file(s) separately. This
allows for easier editing of the annotations, as the CMML is plain XML.
mod_annodex then dynamically generates annodex media upon request of an
annodex resource.
* CMML extraction
If the Accept: HTTP Request header prefers type text/x-cmml over
application/x-annodex, then CMML content is returned. This content is
produced either dynamically by extracting it from stored annodex media, or by
serving a stored CMML file. This behaviour is invoked when a client includes
an Accept HTTP Request header such as any of the following:
Accept: text/x-cmml
Accept: text/x-cmml;q=1.0, application/x-annodex;q=0.5
However, annodex media is served if a client includes an HTTP Request header
such as any of the following:
Accept: */*
Accept: application/x-annodex
Accept: text/x-cmml;q=0.5, application/x-annodex;q=1.0
Accept: text/x-cmml;q=0.0, application/x-annodex;q=1.0
* Annodex version 3 support
Annodex version 3 allows efficient streaming of multimedia content from
arbitrary time offsets. It does this by providing clues in Ogg Skeleton
headers to allow recomposition from keyframe offsets. This ensures that
information required for correct rendering is possible, such as the prior
Ogg Theora video keyframe and the current CMML clip.
Through libannodex, mod_annodex also provides read-only support for reading
and importing Annodex v2 content to allow existing content to be recomposed
in v3 format without modification.
License
=======
mod_annodex is Free Software, available under the Apache Software License
version 1.1.
More information is available online at the mod_annodex homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/mod_annodex/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/ http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:53:28 CST
Subject: Linux Gazette: Call for Papers
From: "Benjamin A. Okopnik" <ben@callahans.org>
The Linux Gazette <http://linuxgazette.net> is calling for authors for its
upcoming issues. The articles should be Linux-relevant and addressed to a
wide audience which includes neophyte Linux users (i.e., any terms not in
common usage should be defined, and step-by-step instructions should be
given where applicable.)
Articles published in LG cover a broad spectrum of diverse interests within
the world of Linux; even if you're uncertain that your article fits
completely within the guidelines, feel free to submit it. We'll be glad to
check it out and let you know whether it's acceptable as is, how it can be
adapted to fit, or if it is not at all suitable.
For more information on the LG submission guidelines, acceptable format,
style guide, and other related issues, please see the LG Author FAQ at
<http://linuxgazette.net/faq/author.html>.
The submission deadline is 7 days before the end of the month. Early
submission is encouraged, since it allows for a round of correction (if it
proves necessary) and may turn an article that would otherwise be rejected
into one that can be published.
* Ben Okopnik * okopnik.freeshell.org * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette *
-*- See the Linux Gazette in its new home: <http://linuxgazette.net> -*-
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