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Linux-Announce Digest #189
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Linux-Announce Digest #189, Volume #5 Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:13:04 EDT
Contents:
mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment: Beta 0.15 (Bob van der Poel)
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 30th July 2005 (Mark Suter)
[ANN] Fail2Ban 0.5.1 (Cyril Jaquier)
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:04:48 CST
From: Bob van der Poel <bvdp@uniserve.com>
Subject: mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment: Beta 0.15
I'm pleased to announce the release of my program
mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment
version: Beta 0.15
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain
pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives.
MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks. It comes
with an extensive user-extendable library with a variety of
patterns for various popular rhythms, an extensive user manual,
and many demo songs.
MMA is a command line driven program. It creates MIDI files
which need a sequencer or MIDI file play program.
MMA is written in Python. You'll need Python 2.3 (or later)
for MMA to function.
MMA is supplied in 4 tar.gz archives. Included:
mma-bin -- the main script and library files.
mma-html -- documentation in HTML format.
mma-pdf -- documentation in PDF format.
mma-songs -- a collection of about 230 songs in MMA format.
If you get all four download packages the total size is still
less than 1.5 megabytes.
MMA is currently in final BETAs. We are hoping for a 1.0 release
in summer 2005. Right now we need help in debugging the program,
creating songs for distribution, and new and improved
library files.
Best of all, MMA is free. It is released under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. It has been developed on a Linux platform,
but should be usable on just about any system. A detailed page now
exists on our web site on how-to install on a Windows system.
MMA is available on my personal home page:
http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/
If you have any questions or comments, please send them
to: bvdp@uniserve.com
Beta 0.15: A number of synth translation options have been added,
chord voicings improved, more chord adjustment options, and a lot of
minor (and not-so-minor) bug fixes.
Comments appreciated!
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bvdp@uniserve.com
WWW: http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp
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From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 30th July 2005
Date: 23 Jul 2005 02:10:01 GMT
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, 30th July 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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From: Cyril Jaquier <"cyril dot jaquier at bluewin dot ch"@newsspool.solnet.ch>
Subject: [ANN] Fail2Ban 0.5.1
Date: 23 Jul 2005 10:10:05 GMT
Hi,
The version 0.5.1 of Fail2Ban is available.
"Fail2Ban is written in Python. It scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail
or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password
failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address."
This release fixes bugs discovered in 0.5.0 and add multi targets for
the log output including syslog. Default config creates an iptables
chain for each section.
Please do not forget to remove your previous 0.4.x version before
upgrading to 0.5.x and update your configuration file.
fail2ban-0.5.1 is still an unstable version but should work perfectly.
Homepage: http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net
Best Regards,
Cyril Jaquier
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