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Linux-Announce Digest #169
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Linux-Announce Digest #169, Volume #5 Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:13:02 EDT
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: BalanceNG 1.384 available (BalanceNG Support)
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.12 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
ANNOUNCE: WenQuanYi Bitmap Song CJK Font ("Qianqian")
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (Paul M Foster)
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From: BalanceNG Support <balanceng-support@inlab.de>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: BalanceNG 1.384 available
Date: 26 Jun 2005 14:00:02 GMT
BalanceNG 1.384 is now available at http://www.BalanceNG.net (Release-Date: June 26, 2005).
Changes:
* A bug at gratuitous ARP sending was fixed (requests were sent out at all
interfaces in some cases).
* The interactive line buffer size was increased to allow cut and paste operations.
---
BalanceNG (Balance Next Generation) is a modern software IP load balancing
solution running on Linux and Solaris operating systems.
BalanceNG is small, fast and (relatively) easy to use and setup. It offers session
persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Hash and Least
Resource) and a customizable UDP health check agent (available in source code).
BalanceNG supports VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) to set up High
Available configurations on multiple nodes.
BalanceNG is available at http://www.BalanceNG.net , free trial and promotional
Licenses are available.
---
Thomas Obermair
Inlab Software GmbH
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:20:44 CST
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.12
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
HI!
Find a new release of web2ldap on
http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html
About:
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAPv3 client written in Python and designed
to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server
with FastCGI or SCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi or mod_scgi).
Ciao, Michael.
***** 0.15.12 *****
Release Date: 2005-06-26
* Fixed handling of missing rootDSE data when connecting to an
LDAPv2 server.
* Fixed exporting search results as printable HTML table.
* Added plugin module for ppolicy overlay of OpenLDAP (see
draft-behera-ldap-password-policy).
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From: "Qianqian" <Qianqian.Fang@Dartmouth.Edu>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: WenQuanYi Bitmap Song CJK Font
Date: 27 Jun 2005 02:30:02 GMT
$Id: WenQuanYi-Bitmap 0.5 Rev. 0 2005/6/25 15:59:16 QianqianFang$
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Wen Quan Yi Bitmap Song
Release Notes
==========================================================
Dedication:
To those who lost their lifes in the flood in China
==========================================================
Summary:
Developer: The WenQuanYi Project
Webpage : http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/
Font Name: WenQuanYi Bitmap Song
Version : 0.5 (half-teal)
Release : 1
Copyright: © 2004,2005, The WenQuanYi Project
License : GPL
May the Font be with you, forever!
==========================================================
Legal Disclaimer:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify
this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by
the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy
of the license is available at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.
This document may be copied and distributed in any medium,
either commercially or noncommercially, provided that the
GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), the copyright notices,
and the license notice saying the GNU FDL applies to the
document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add
no other conditions whatsoever to those of the GNU FDL.
==========================================================
Table of Content
I. Introduction
II. Installation Guide
III. About The WenQuanYi Project
IV. Links to Open-source CJK font resources
==========================================================
I. Introduction
The bitmap font in this package includes complete CJK Unified
Ideographics (U4E00~U9FA5) glyphs at four different sizes
(9pt-12X12 pixel, 10pt-13X13 pixel, 11pt-15X15 pixel,
and 12pt-16X16pt) and two weights (medium and bold).
This font can be used for displaying Chinese on various
computer operating systems, especially on all distributions
of Linux. Using bitmap Chinese font can overcome the
blurring problem for many True-Type Chinese font due to
anti-aliasing and insufficiency in hinting methods for
Chinese characters. For 12pt font, the Korean characters
from GNU Unifont (Roman Czyborra/David Starner) were also
added to accommodate the potential needs.
This font is built upon the previous works by firefly
(firefly@firefly.idv.tw)[2] and Redflag Linux Inc[3]. We
would like to give our sincere thanks to their
ground-breaking contributions for the Chinese
open-source community.
The development of this font involved thousands of people
for about 8 months' endeavor [1]. More than fifteen thousands
of new bitmap glyphs were painted and more than twenty
thousands of existing glyphs were improved upon or redrawn
(for detailed statistics, please refer to STAT.txt).
We release this font to public as an open-source software
in terms of GPL. You are free to copy, distribute, and/or
modify this font as long as the license permits.
We hope you find this font useful. Meanwhile, we are
currently working on the bitmap fonts for CJK Unified
Ideographics Extension A (U3400~U4DB5), we sincerely invite
you to join us by contributing to our project.
Please visit our webpage for details on how to contribute.
http://wqy.sourceforge.net/eindex.cgi?HowToContribute
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II. Installation Guide
The WenQuanYi Bitmap Song font (medium and bold weight) was
packaged into two equivalent formats: BDF (Bitmap Distribution
Format) and PCF (Portable Compiled Format). Both formats are
supported by most modern X-window systems. You can choose
either format based on your preference.
1. download
You need first to download the installation package from
our sourceforge download site at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192
choose the latest release and select font format, save the
installation package to a temporary directory, for example /tmp.
2. decompress
The package is compressed with tar and gzip, use the following
command
gunzip wqy-bitmapfont*.tar.gz
tar xvf wqy-bitmapfont*.tar
or
tar zxvf wqy-bitmapfont*.tar.gz
3. relocate
All files will be extracted to a directory: ./WenQuanYi, you
need to move this directory to the location where you want
to install the font, a good place is
/usr/share/fonts/Chinese/WenQuanYi .
To move the directory, you need to use "su" or "sudo" to obtain
root privilege. (If you don't have root privilege, please
refer to Section II.6)
4. font path setup
Now you need to tell X-window to find the installed font.
Assuming you have installed the package to
/usr/share/fonts/Chinese/WenQuanYi/
you need to use the following commands:
cd /usr/share/fonts/Chinese/WenQuanYi/Bitmap/
mkfontdir
cp fonts.dir fonts.scale
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/Chinese/WenQuanYi/Bitmap/
the last command adds the font path to the X-window font path
list. To permanently add this path, you need to add
"/usr/share/fonts/Chinese/WenQuanYi/Bitmap," to /etc/X11/fs/config
under the line "catalogue =/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,".
Most recent versions of Linux X programs support fontconfig, to
inform fontconfig of this bitmap font, you need to type
fc-cache
If you have already installed True-Type Chinese fonts on your system,
the new font may not be used instantly. You need either choose
this font from preference\font options or temporarily remove
the True-Type font in order to activate this bitmap font.
We are working on a fontconfig solution to use the bitmap font
while keeping the existing True-Type fonts.
5. test
To test if the font is successfully installed, the following
command
xset q
should correctly display the path of the font. And
/usr/X11R6/bin/xlsfont | grep 'WenQuanYi'
should print the four font sizes you have installed.
for fontconfig, you need
fc-list | grep 'WenQuanYi'
you should be able to see two lines started with
"WenQuanYi Bitmap Song" printed.
6. installation as a normal user
If you do not have root privilege, for example, you are using
public machine, to install this font is also very simple.
If you are using KDE, find "Control Center" from the K-menu,
choose "System Administration" and click on "Font Installer",
right click on the middle panel, choose "add font", locate the
extracted fonts (bdf/pcf.gz) files.
If you are using Gnome environment, double click on "Computer",
type "font:/" on the address bar, and type enter. Open another
file browser and select the bdf/pcf.gz font files, drag or
copy/paste to the font:/ folder.
If you do not have X-windows started, you can also install the
font by extracting the files to ~/.fonts directory (if it does
not exist, create one after confirming you have installed
fontconfig).
7. Turn on Chinese language support on your system
To correctly display use this font, your system should
support Chinese language. You can put the following line
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
into ~/.i18n and reboot your system (you can also use other
locales in the output list of "ls -d /usr/lib/locale/zh_*").
To enable command line Chinese
message, replace "LC_CTYPE" by "LC_ALL". If you want all menu displayed
with Chinese language, on KDE, goto "Control center", expand "Region
and
Assistance", find "Country/Region and Language", choose "Chinese" from
"Add language"; if you are using Gnome, you need to select "Preference"
and select "Language", then add "Chinese". Restart your X or system
if necessary to enable this setting.
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III. About The WenQuanYi Project
The WenQuanYi Project was created by Qianqian Fang[8] in
Oct 2004. The overall goal of this project is to enrich
open-source Chinese software and resources and facilitate the
communications between computer users using Chinese characters
(Chinese, Japanese and Korean). One important mile-stone for
the project is to create the bitmap character glyphs and
outline fonts for all 70,000+ Chinese characters currently
encoded by Unicode Consortium.
There are two major ongoing sub-projects which are the Bitmap
Chinese project and Vector Chinese project, respectively.
The former subproject targets at portability and screen
optimization.
One of the major complains coming from the Linux Chinese users
is the blurring of Chinese True-Type font when displayed on
the screen. This is due to the insufficiency in hinting of the
font due to the complex structure of glyph. Moreover, for
pattern reasons, FreeType rendering engine can not use hinting
table within the pre-hinted True-type font. One solution for
better screen quality is to embed pre-optimized bitmap glyphs
into the True-Type font or used externally. This font is built
in light of this purpose.
The WenQuanYi Project use Wiki[1] as the major tool for
coordinating the development of the font, documentation
creation and organization. It is greatly benefited from the
large-scale/distributed/parallel cooperative development
mechanism provided by Wiki engine. About 1/5 of the
font editing (more than 7,000) was done online with
the JavaScript tools in each character Wiki page.
There project consists of a "Steering Committee" by the
core members, and a "Team B" for bitmap Chinese font
development, a "Team V" for outline font development.
Meanwhile, a large number of anonymous contributors also
participate our development through the Wiki.
==========================================================
IV. Links to Open-source CJK font resources
[1] The WenQuanYi Project Homepage
http://wqy.sourceforge.net/ (Chinese version)
http://wqy.sourceforge.net/en/ (English version)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/ (Sourceforge project)
[2] Firefly bitmap font
http://www.study-area.org/apt/firefly-font/
[3] Redflag Linux Co.
http://www.redflag-linux.com/
[4] Arphic Public License
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/non-gnu/chinese-fonts-truetype/LICENSE
[5] Unifonts Project
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fCJKUnifonts
[6] Open Source Hong Kong Fonts Project
http://freefonts.oaka.org/en/index.php/Main_Page
[7] The Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org/
[8] Qianqian Fang homepage
http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~fangq/
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$Id: WenQuanYi-Bitmap 0.5 Rev. 0 2005/6/25 15:59:16 QianqianFang$
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From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (Paul M Foster)
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: 27 Jun 2005 05:20:02 GMT
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
27 June 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
J. J. Rohrer
Sterling Square
600 First Ave North
St Petersburg, FL 33701
See http://maps.google.com/maps?q=600+First+Ave+N,+Saint+Petersburg,+FL&spn=0.017456,0.027210&hl=en
for map.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
2 July 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.
BRANDON **************************************************
7 July 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.
TAMPA ****************************************************
12 July 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 ***************************************
19 July 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Tuesday of each month)
Latitude 23.5 Coffee Shop
2820 Clark Rd (Swift/Tuttle and Clark)
Sarasota, FL 34231
See http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=2820+Clark+Rd,+Sarasota,+FL+34231
for a map.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
23 July 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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