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Linux-Announce Digest #259
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Sat Oct 15 09:13:07 2005
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Linux-Announce Digest #259, Volume #5 Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Netmonitor 0.5 - The linux network monitor, has been released (Dwayne Hoy)
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 22nd October 2005 (Mark Suter)
xbrightness : fine-tune the light ! (Jean-Daniel Pauget)
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:52:17 -0500
From: Dwayne Hoy <dhoy3@iprimus.com.au>
Subject: Netmonitor 0.5 - The linux network monitor, has been released
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<font color="#000000"><big><big>About</big></big><br>
Netmonitor is a console application that monitors network intefaces.<br>
It displays the transfer rate (upload and download) for each <br>
device and the the data consumed by each device.<br>
<br>
</font><font color="#000000"><big><big>Changes<br>
</big></big></font>This release implements force units on totals and
data rates, and
updates the man page. The update functions now detect dev file overflow
so that calling a function doesn't have to. The get_xxRate functions
now detect a time limit of 0. Bugfixes for this version include a
modified structure and library to extend data limit overflow to greater
than 1000 terabytes. The configuration double digit bug was also fixed.<br>
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</big></big></b><big><big>Main Features</big></big> <br>
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<font color="#000000"> <li>Low resource usage</li>
<li>Simple yet effective design</li>
<li>Displays values with dynamic unit change</li>
<li>Easy to understand tabular output</li>
<li>Has logging features so it can retain values after a restart</li>
<li>Compact display, fits in a 9x66 size terminal window<br>
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<font color="#000000"><big><big>Requirements</big></big></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"> <li><big><big><small><small>gcc compiler -
Included with most if not
all linux distros</small></small></big></big></li>
<li><big><big><small><small>linux distrubution that supports the
/proc filesystem</small></small></big></big></li>
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<font color="#000000"><big><big>Links<br>
</big></big><big><big><small><small> Sourceforge: <a
href="http://netmonitor.sourceforge.net">http://netmonitor.sourceforge.net</a><br>
Freshmeat:<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/netmonitor">
http://freshmeat.net/projects/netmonitor</a><br>
Direct Download: <a
href="http://freshmeat.net/redir/netmonitor/60430/url_tgz/netmon-0.3a.tar.gz">http://freshmeat.net/redir/netmonitor/60430/url_tgz/netmonitor-0.5.tar.gz</a>
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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:00:16 -0500
From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 22nd October 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, 22nd October 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: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:47:24 -0500
From: Jean-Daniel Pauget <jd@disjunkt.com>
Subject: xbrightness : fine-tune the light !
xbrightness : fine-tune the light ! (X11 and co)
xbrightness sets the maximum brightness of an X11 server and also it's
global gamma.
Story
Once, there was a laptop which had a rough life : lit up at dawn (!), it
would work all day, and almost all night, with a lot of ssh and heat
producing tasks. Not for helping it, that was in a warm country ...
Later on, that same laptop would be carried all day-long in Paris'
metropolitan trains for months.
As a result the screen suddenly turned, err, "half reversed-video".
Later again, I decided to give that laptop a second chance. I noticed that
if I could use only the first half of the available brightness on the
screen, I should manage to get a decent output from this half broken
hardware. Googling for people using XF86VidModeSetGammaRamp function,
I came to xbrightness, brought to us by Asher Blum.
I've tuned it a little bit in order to set both brightness and something
like a gamma, and here it is
Short manual
* use : xbrightness brightness [ gamma ]
* parameters :
o brightness : an integer between 0 (darkness) and
65535 (full-brightness).
o gamma : a float value between 0.0 and 10.0 that is used as
the exponent for the gamma ramp. default value is 1.0 (linear).
Download
http://disjunkt.com/xbrightness/xbrightness-0.3.tar.gz
Links
xbrightness page at disjunkt's : http://disjunkt.com/xbrightness/
Asher Blum's original xbrightness page : http://wildspark.com/xbrightness/
--
Jean-Daniel Pauget
Tél: +33 (0) 676 952 746
2, rue André PELCA
50580 Denneville-Plage
France
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