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Linux-Announce Digest #111
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Mon Apr 25 14:13:08 2005
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Linux-Announce Digest #111, Volume #5 Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:13:05 EDT
Contents:
ICS has acquired UIMX ("MassDev")
G-Wrap 1.9.6 - Wrap C functions for Guile (Andreas Rottmann)
A magazine for Linux newbies ("TUX magazine")
lirc-0.7.1 Linux Infrared Remote Control (Christoph Bartelmus)
S-Lang version 2 released (John E. Davis)
Genealogy software... GRAMPS ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (Paul M Foster)
Identifying Gnutella traffic with IpTables and Rope (Chris Lowth)
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:27:46 CST
From: "MassDev" <david@ics.com>
Subject: ICS has acquired UIMX
ICS, the User Interface Company, has acquired the UIM/X product line
from Bluestone Consulting, Inc, of Moorestown, NJ. ICS will provide
on-going technical support, product upgrades, and new licenses to the
thousands of UIM/X users worldwide. Additionally, ICS plans to migrate
the products to the Linux platform.
Along with the acquisition of Centerline Software last year and ICS'
installed base of BX PRO customers, ICS now has strong working
relationships with the majority of professional UI developers and the
resources to assure ongoing support and development of exciting new
tools and advanced Motif widgets.
Full details at http://www.uimx.com
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:58:50 CST
Subject: G-Wrap 1.9.6 - Wrap C functions for Guile
From: Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>
Hello,
I am pleased to announce the release of G-Wrap 1.9.6. The release is
available from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/g-wrap/
The md5 checksums of the files are:
4d83964f51376500eedced538c1620cb g-wrap-1.9.6.tar.gz
8b46e35c545fe52a19b45207cb742417 g-wrap-1.9.6.tar.gz.sig
G-Wrap is a tool (and Guile library) for generating function wrappers
for inter-language calls. It currently only supports generating Guile
wrappers for C functions. For more information about G-Wrap visit its
homepage
http://www.nongnu.org/g-wrap/
Changes since 1.9.5 (excerpt from NEWS):
- Support for size_t and ssize_t data types.
Regards, Rotty
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-- Robert Paul
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:58:35 CST
From: "TUX magazine" <carlie@ssc.com>
Subject: A magazine for Linux newbies
TUX, www.tuxmagazine.com, is the first and only magazine for the new
Linux user. Within each digital edition of TUX, we explore every facet
of the modern Linux desktop, providing a new breed of Linux user with
the tools and information to make their Linux desktop experience
complete.
Subscriptions are FREE! Sign up today,
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/subscribe .
TUX, published monthly as an easy to read PDF, provides informative
user columns with rich, graphical content and covers everything for
home, work, and play. TUX provides Linux users with easy to understand
tutorials, insightful hardware and software reviews, enlightened
opinion, useful tips and tricks, and in-depth exploration of the tools
computer users need every day. Our style is hands-on, welcoming and
non-threatening, speaking in a jargon-free style that everybody can
understand.
TUX recognizes that a new breed of Linux user is emerging, the Linux
consumer, whose needs are an opportunity waiting to be addressed,
further recognizing that this new Linux user is a powerful and rapidly
growing economic force. The new Linux user is a well educated computer
user and technology enthusiast who uses computers every day and in
nearly every facet of their everyday life. Life with computers doesn't
stop at the office. They see their systems as communication centers,
productivity tools, game machines, planners and personal digital
assistants, learning mechanisms and more.
TUX understands that as a desktop user at both home and work, these new
Linux users write letters with their word processor, calculate budgets
in a spreadsheet, talk to their co-workers, clients, and friends around
the world using email, instant messaging, and video conferencing. They
listen to music and watch videos. They rip songs and burn CDs to listen
to in their cars. They play games of all kinds. They balance their
checkbooks, surf the web, organize photographs, make home movies,
doodle, send pictures to relatives... or to put it another way, this
new Linux user does everything with their computers that computers can
do.
Tux is dedicated to fulfilling the needs of this new Linux user, the
Linux consumer.
If you're interested in learning more about TUX's editorial mission,
submitting a product for review, advertising, learning more about
writing for the digital magazine, or simply would like further
information, please e-mail us at info@tuxmagazine.com.
TUX magazine is published by SSC (www.ssc.com), publishers of Linux
Journal.
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From: lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: lirc-0.7.1 Linux Infrared Remote Control
Date: 25 Apr 2005 05:10:02 GMT
LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control, Version: 0.7.1
Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
(according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)
LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals
of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
Pre-release versions are currently available at the LIRC homepage:
http://www.lirc.org/
Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial
or parallel port. Descriptions how to build this hardware can be found
on the LIRC homepage. Current versions of LIRC also support a variety
of other hardware. An up-to-date list of all supported devices and the
status of the according drivers is available on the LIRC homepage.
The most important part of LIRC is the lircd daemon that will decode
IR signals received by the device drivers and provide the information
on a socket. It will also accept commands for IR signals to be sent if
the hardware supports this. The second daemon program called lircmd
will connect to lircd and translate the decoded IR signals to mouse
movements. You can e.g. configure X to use your remote control as an
input device.
The user space applications will allow you to control your computer
with your remote control. You can send X events to applications, start
programs and much more on just one button press. The possible
applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV
tuner card or CD-ROM, shutdown by remote, program your VCR and/or
satellite tuner with your computer, etc. I've heard that MP3 players
are also quite popular these days.
Adding new remotes is still problematic but since version 0.5.2 there
comes the first program that will try to add new remote controls
automatically.
Don't expect much documentation. This is only a pre-release version
and there is still much to be done before LIRC becomes easily
configurable and usable.
For people with a little C/C++ knowledge this should already be possible
with this pre-release. Otherwise, wait for version 1.0.
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:00:12 CST
From: davis@space.mit.edu (John E. Davis)
Subject: S-Lang version 2 released
Reply-To: davis@space.mit.edu
I am pleased to announce the official release of version 2 of the
slang programmer's library. The library boasts a number of new
features including:
* Support for UTF-8 throughout the library
* An interactive debugger
* A much improved exception model
* Operator overloading for user-defined types
* Large File support
* A readline-enabled interactive mode for slsh
See <http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/> for addition information about
what is new, what has changed. and where to download it.
Perhaps the most important change concerns the licensing. Previously,
slang-1 was distributed under both the GNU Public License (GPL) and
the Perl Artistic Licence. The latter license is nolonger supported
by slang-2. That is, slang-2 is available solely under the terms of
the GPL.
Enjoy.
--John
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:43:40 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Genealogy software... GRAMPS
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Date: 2005/04/25 Mon AM 09:08:50 GMT+05:30
To: gramps-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: [Gramps-announce] GRAMPS 1.1.99 released
Move To:
GRAMPS 1.1.99, the "What...is your favourite colour?" release, is
available for download at http://sf.net/projects/gramps
GRAMPS 1.1.99 is the final release client for the GRAMPS 2.0 release.
Only bug fixes and translations will change between this release and the
2.0 release.
The release requires GNOME 2.8.0 or greater. It is known to run on the
latest versions of Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Debian Unstable, Mandriva, and
SuSE.
Version 1.1.99 -- the "What... is your favourite colour?" release
* Bug fixes
* GEDCOM import fixes with parent/child relationships
* Improved signaling interface to keep all displays in sync
* Handle multiple selections in the Source View
* Handle runtime errors from gnomevfs
* translation improvements
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:18:06 CST
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (Paul M Foster)
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
25 April 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
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* NOTE: New location *
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Panera Bread
1908 4th St North
St Petersburg, FL 33704
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#stpete for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
5 May 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.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
7 May 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.
TAMPA ****************************************************
10 May 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second TUESDAY of each month)
Hillsborough Community College
Dale Mabry Campus
Technology Bldg, Rm 426
4001 Tampa Bay Blvd
Tampa, FL
See http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/Docs/DM-Map.htm for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
17 May 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Tuesday of each month)
Sarasota Coffee & Tea Co.
1419 5th St (5th and Central)
Sarasota, FL 34236
See http://www.sarasotacoffee.com/contactus.htm for directions.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
28 May 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library
Community Room A or B (see notice on site)
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin 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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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:57:51 CST
From: Chris Lowth <chris@lowth.com>
Subject: Identifying Gnutella traffic with IpTables and Rope
P2PWall's "Rope" add-in for Iptables can be used to identify the
Gnutella protocol to allow it to be controlled, in order to..
. Implement QOS or other local policies
or
. Log the protocol
or
. Define pprotocol-specific routing
or
. Block the protocol entirely
etc
The "gnutella.rope" script and documentation can be found at..
http://www.lowth.com/rope/BlockingGnutella
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