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Linux-Announce Digest #125
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Linux-Announce Digest #125, Volume #5 Thu, 12 May 2005 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Mobile PC, made in India ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
<incom> New FLOSS tool for online groups - GroupServer (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GRAMPS 2.0.0 "The Bright Side of Life" released. (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
SOUTH INDIA: GLUG - Madurai & Glugot meet ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
ANN: powermgr 0.0.1 - new power management daemon (Thomas Tuttle)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Mobile PC, made in India
Date: 11 May 2005 09:50:01 GMT
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050511/asp/nation/story_4723145.asp
Mobile PC, made in India
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, May 10: A new computer that will fit in your lap, cost just Rs
10,000 and sport a "Made in India" tag is on its way. But its price will hinge
on how many queue up to buy it.
Bangalore-based Encore Software today launched Mobilis, a mobile desktop, and
two variants that will offer typical home and business applications, including
word processing, accounting, presentation-viewers, email and Internet-browsing.
Encore has described Mobilis as a lightweight, portable, "anytime, anywhere"
computer and says production will begin in three months. But, it said, the
market will need to pick up 50,000 units for the products to be sold in the Rs
10,000 to Rs 15,000 price range.
Encore developed Mobilis under the New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership
Initiative of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research aimed at
creating high-impact innovations in India.
The basic Mobilis has a 7.4 inch laptop-like screen, weighs just 750 grams,
provides six hours of battery power, and uses a flexible keyboard that can be
rolled up.
A variant called SofComp is a compact box-shaped desktop that can be connected
to standard displays. Another variant offers wireless modem options. All
products can be connected to standard personal computers.
"This is India's leap into the future of PC technology," Kapil Sibal, science
and technology minister, said at the launch.
The Mobilis project was conceived after a senior Indian computer scientist
suggested that a low-cost and multi-functional computer was required as an
alternative to standard personal computers.
"Most capabilities in a standard PC remain unused during day-to-day tasks. And
the typical PC is designed for planned obsolescence, suitable only for the
West's throwaway culture," Vinay Deshpande, Encore's chairman, said.
"Mobilis has no moving parts, no extra software costs for basic functions, and
there will be no obsolescence," Deshpande said.
The systems will have built-in software to support most routine applications in
offices, homes and shops. The variants of Mobilis may also be used in cars as
dashboard displays and in home automation systems, he said.
But the absence of a hard disk and the use of "flash memory" -- the kind used
in digital cameras -- give the system a relatively lower storage capacity.
Large volumes of data would need to be stored on external hard disks or on
other computers.
Encore's earlier product, the Simputer, a low-cost handheld computer widely
hailed as a technology marvel, has yet to emerge as a commercial success,
analysts have said.
Deshpande conceded that it has taken time for the market to understand the
Simputer's uses, but volumes are now growing.
"With Mobilis, we've worked with potential partners before the release of the
products," he said.
A US-based company has announced its interest in using one of the Mobilis
variants in a home automation system. It is also being used in REVA, India's
electric car, as its electronic dashboard.
Mobilis uses inexpensive and upgradable open source software.
END OF FORWARDED MSG
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_/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * Freelance Journalist
\ __\/ \ Goa India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: <incom> New FLOSS tool for online groups - GroupServer (fwd)
Date: 11 May 2005 07:50:24 GMT
========== Forwarded message ==========
It would be great to see e-lists like these using the new open source
GroupServer tool. Anyone interested?
It mixes a smart e-mail list with a simple web forum with a dash of
online community features.
Here is a post I am sharing around the Net today ...
I blogged the open source release of GroupServer today:
http://www.dowire.org/notes/index.php?p=17
Read up on E-Democracy.Org's involvement with the tool and watch our 20
minute video tour if you want the inside scoop:
http://e-democracy.org/groupserver
Visit the official download site in New Zealand run by GroupSense,
IOPEN and ZYPE:
http://groupserver.org
Those with NGOs and governments interested in promoting additional
core features that serve all of our needs, are invited join a special
online group:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/factory/groups/gs-ngogov
Whether it is for many-to-many online deliberative discussions or
government-hosted e-consultations, GroupServer will grow with your
interest and our shared open source participation.
With the support of the UK government's Local E-democracy National
Project,
we funded a number of "democratic" GroupServer features as the well as
its
path to its first open source release. If you combine this with our new
60 page guidebook on starting a local Issues Forums and our multimedia
"E-Democracy Experience" we've never been in a stronger position to help
active citizens ready to make an online difference in their local
communities. Join us by building an Issues Forum in your community with
E-Democracy.Org. Relevant documents for all:
http://e-democracy.org/uk
Sincerely,
Steven Clift
Board Chair, E-Democracy.Org
P.S. Feel free to forward this to others.
Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@publicus.net
Join DoWire: http://dowire.org
E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GRAMPS 2.0.0 "The Bright Side of Life" released. (fwd)
Date: 11 May 2005 10:50:05 GMT
Gramps is a useful genealogy software. FN
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_/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * Freelance Journalist
\ __\/ \ Goa India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436
| | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net
|__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.goanet.org
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========== Forwarded message ==========
The GRAMPS project is pleased to announce the 2.0.0 ("The Bright Side
of Life") release of GRAMPS, the Genealogical Research And Management
Programming System. After more than a year of development, GRAMPS is
releasing the new branch that becomes its "stable" series.
GRAMPS 2.0.0 can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps
The development of 2.0.0 involved a lot of internal changes and took
a long time. While the foundation is solid, there is always a slight
risk when changes of this magnitude have been made. Therefore, you are
advised to keep a copy of your XML databases in safe place, just in
case. We believe that this is an extra precaution, but we want our users
to better be safe than sorry.
The 2.0.1 release is expected withing two weeks. If you find a bug,
please report it and see it fixed in a fortnight.
GRAMPS is a GNOME genealogy program that allows you to easily build
and keep track of your family tree. Whether you are new to genealogy
or an experienced genealogist, GRAMPS should be able to meet your
needs. Supporting databases of up to about 100000 people, GRAMPS can
handle most family trees.
GRAMPS is capable of importing data from and exporting data to other
genealogy programs using the GEDCOM interchange format. Reports can be
generated in OpenOffice.org, HTML, PDF, AbiWord, Kword, RTF, LaTeX,
and PostScript formats. All data is stored in Berkeley database, with
backwards compatible imports and exports for the XML format used
by the 1.0.x series. GRAMPS can be extended using a plugin system,
supporting plugins written in the Python language.
Translations are available for Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto,
Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish,
Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish languages.
The manual is available in English.
For more information, see the GRAMPS project site,
http://www.gramps-project.org
Screenshots can be found at
http://gramps-project.org/index.php?module=photoalbum&PHPWS_Album_op=view&PHPWS_Album_id=1
Changes from the 1.0.x series include:
* Berkeley database backend
* Changes are written to disk immediately
* Removal of alphabetical tabs
* Ability to add/remove/rearrange columns in list views
* Removal of Save function and addition of Undo
* Proper window management and removal of most modal windows
* Support for Tip of the Day
* Person-dependent context menus (right-click) in Pedigree View listing
parents, children, spouses, and siblings
* Export wizard
* Built-in Find function in list views
* Date selector dialog
* Name editor enhancements: patronymic names and non-default grouping
* Recent file support (both gramps-specific and gnome-wide)
* Other database backends
* Native editing (in memory) for GRAMPS XML and GEDCOM formats
* New import and export filters available for the GeneWeb format.
* New report (Statistics Chart) added
* Persistent options for reports
* The new command line functionality (opening and report generation)
* Better date internationalization (date parsers available for French,
Russian, and Spanish, with Finnish in the works).
* Better name internationalization (patronymics and non-default
grouping).
* Mime types for formats known to GRAMPS.
* Schemas and proper structure for GConf keys, immediate preference
effect.
--
Don Allingham <dallingham@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:02:02 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: SOUTH INDIA: GLUG - Madurai & Glugot meet
========== Forwarded message ==========
The details of the Glugot & Glug-Madurai meet for the month of May is
furnished below.
Speaker - S.Senthil Kumaran.
Topic - Introduction to Perl
Venue - Z0 hall,Dept of CSE,TCE.
Date - 14th May 2005.
Time - 10.30 am
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glug-madurai-discuss mailing list
glug-madurai-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/glug-madurai-discuss
One-Day-One-Command: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ilugc/
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:50:00 CST
From: Thomas Tuttle <thinkinginbinary@gmail.com>
Subject: ANN: powermgr 0.0.1 - new power management daemon
Here's an announcement for comp.os.linux.announce:
I have just released version 0.0.1 of powermgr. Powermgr is a power
management daemon for Linux, similar to cpufreq in functionality but
with more features. It is able to control cpu speed, display brightness
(on Asus laptops), laptop mode, and wireless power management (both the
standard `iwconfig $IF power' method and the ipw2x00's `iwpriv $IF
set_power') based on ac adapter and battery state. (More inputs and
outputs are coming in 0.0.2) It uses a system of rules and profiles
like cpufreqd to select the settings to apply.
It is written in Perl and requires the Getopt::Mixed module (available
from CPAN) for parsing command-line arguments.
You can download it at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~thinkinginbinary/powermgr.html
Comments, questions, and suggestions (especially for new inputs and
outputs) are gratefully accepted; email me at:
powermgr.thinkinginbinary@spamgourmet.org
Thanks,
Thomas Tuttle
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