Linux-Announce Digest #357, Volume #3 Sat, 13 Feb 99 21:13:33 EST
Contents:
Sketch 0.5.3 - A vector drawing program (Bernhard Herzog)
Quotes v1.3-0 - financial quotations ("Gandalf D'Grey")
SmartInst v1.2 - install program wrapper ("Gandalf D'Grey")
Lexmark 7000 driver for Linux (Henryk Paluch)
nis-utils 19990204 - NIS+ Utilities for Linux (Thorsten Kukuk)
LOCAL: San Francisco BALUG on 2/16/99 - RSVP ASAP (root)
tklosung-0.3.1 - program to display Bible verses (Andreas Kraska)
Notif-0.2 - A new free widget library (Joseph H Allen)
CONFERENCE: O'Reilly Linux Conference Deadline (Matt Welsh)
LOCAL: InstallFest -- DC -- 20 Feb 1998 (David Lesher)
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From: Bernhard Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sketch 0.5.3 - A vector drawing program
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:50:39 GMT
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Sketch 0.5.3 - A vector drawing program
Sketch is a vector drawing program for Linux (and possibly other unices).
Its user interface is similar to the interfaces typically found in drawing
programs for MS Windows, i.e direct manipulation to move and transform
objects, the notion of a currently selected object, etc.
Sketch is implemented almost completely in python, with the rest written
in C for performance reasons. Sketch is still under development.
Changes since version 0.5.2 include rounded rectangles, an Adobe
Illustrator export filter and lots of user interface improvements.
License:
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Sketch is released under GNU Library General Public License.
Features:
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o Drawing primitives:
o Rectangles
o Ellipses
o Bezier curves
o Bitmap images: JPEG, GIF,...
(all types the Python Imaging Library can read)
o Encapsulated PostScript
o Text
o All objects, including images and text, can be rotated,
scaled, sheared, etc. (all affine transformations are
possible)
o Gradient fills
o Special Effects and Features:
o Use rectangles, ellipses and bezier objects as guides
o Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of
arbitrary objects
o Text can be converted to bezier objects.
o Text along Path
o Exports Encapsulated PostScript and Adobe Illustrator files
o Imports XFig and Adobe Illustrator files
For more information, have a look at the sketch webpage.
Contact:
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Web: http://www.online.de/home/sketch
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Gandalf D'Grey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Quotes v1.3-0 - financial quotations
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:48:29 GMT
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Quotes 1.3-0
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Cmdr. RegExp does it again =)
What is Quotes
In short financial quotations and Linux news. With this program
you can fetch the latest Stock quotations for up to 10 stocks
registered in NASDAQ or NYSE (quotes are delayed 15-20 mins.),
also currency conversion (any-to-any) in case you are looking
for the right moment to exchange and as a bonus Linux news from
Slashdot!.
Problems fixed
* Invalid characters in currency names were confusing some
users, now strip them. Of course it HAS to be a valid currency.
* Updated the Stock quotation decoder, they did it again...
Enhancements
* It is now possible to add external information-provider
handlers by means of Perl modules (a working example is
provided). This requires the user to implement only two
methods SetRequest() and Decode(), no need to modify Quotes,
or even use code to fetch the URL! the external handler
gets handed the header/body by Quotes.
* Implemented Basic Authentication (code 401) handling
More Details
FTP: ftp://ftp.iae.nl/pub/users/grimaldo/quotes-1.3-0.tar.gz
URL: http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/quotes.shtml
FreshMeat record: 913728558
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D. Emilio Grimaldo T.
URL: http://www.iaehv.nl/users/grimaldo/
http://www.iaehv.nl/users/grimaldo/panama.html
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From: "Gandalf D'Grey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SmartInst v1.2 - install program wrapper
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:47:13 GMT
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SmartInst 1.2-0
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What is SmartInst
SmartInst is another install program wrapper for the MIT, X/Open,
GNU, BSD install program. Now when you do 'make install' you are
no longer left wondering what on earth got deployed in your system
and where. Obviously you need to know these things if you are
to keep your system clean and not forget pieces of packages during
upgrades etc.
It keeps a record of which objects (files/directories) got
created and installed, you can later query which installs you
have made and what do they contain, even repackage them.
Problems fixed
* None reported or discovered =)
Enhancements
* Improved installation records, now we can catch most runaways
* Support a user domain in addition to the system domain
* Added a NoOp option to recreate records of tar packages that
were installed before SmartInst
* Create a tar file out of the installation record
More Details
FTP: ftp://ftp.iae.nl/pub/users/grimaldo/smartinst-1.2-0.tar.gz
URL: http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/smartinst.shtml
FreshMeat Record: 917209047
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D. Emilio Grimaldo T.
URL: http://www.iaehv.nl/users/grimaldo/
http://www.iaehv.nl/users/grimaldo/panama.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henryk Paluch)
Subject: Lexmark 7000 driver for Linux
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:49:14 GMT
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LEXMARK 7000 PRINTER DRIVER FOR LINUX (AND OTHER OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS)
*********************************************************************
(C) 1999 Henryk Paluch, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks!
This is my first release of Lexmark 7000 driver for Linux. It took so much
time, because Lexmark does NOT provide protocol specification for third
party. They consider it "copyrighted". So, this work is completely based on
disassembling printing files (using driver Windows and Print to File
capability in programs). It does mean, that this program comes WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY! Use it on your own risk only!
Current features:
- -----------------
* Black/White printing 600x300 dpi only (600dpi horizontal, 300dpi vertical)
* work as filter PBM -> printer, e. g. easy integration with Ghost-Script
As I stated above, this driver is *pre-pre-pre-pre ALPHA* version. Use it on
your own risk. I'll gladly appreciate bug reports and bug fixes concerning
this driver. I also hope, that Lexmark will change his "OSS deny" policy
soon.
Contact
- -------
The most recent version of this driver should be available on:
http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/l7kdriver/
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I hope you will enjoy this "underground" release of Lexmark 7000
printer driver
Henryk Paluch, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thorsten Kukuk)
Subject: nis-utils 19990204 - NIS+ Utilities for Linux
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:46:15 GMT
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Release of nis-utils 19990204
=============================
This is a snapshot of various sources for rpc.nisd, keyserv and
other NIS+ tools.
This package contains the libraries libmd, libmp, libnis_db, the
daemons keyserv, rpc.nisd, rpc.nispasswdd and all the other
NIS+ tools needed for a NIS+ client.
This package contains as pretty stable versions for NIS+ clients:
chkey, keylogin, keylogout, keyserv, newkey, nisaddcred, niscat,
nischgrp, nischmod, nischown, nischttl, nisdefaults, niserror,
nisgrep, nisgrpadm, nisinit, nisln, nisls, nismatch, nispath,
nisping, nisrm, nisrmdir, nisstat, nistbladm, nistest
Tools, which need some more work:
nismkdir, nisclient, nispasswd
Daemons and tools, which are in pre-ALPHA stage:
nis_cachemgr, nisshowcache, nisaddent, nisupdkeys,
nislog, nisserver, nissetup, rpc.nisd, rpc.nispasswdd
You need a Linux kernel 2.1.117 or later and as C Library glibc 2.1
or later.
You could get the latest version from the main ftp server:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS+
or his mirrors. More documentation is on
http://home.pages.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html.
Thorsten Kukuk
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SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg
Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Subject: LOCAL: San Francisco BALUG on 2/16/99 - RSVP ASAP
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:32:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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*** Gung Hay Fat Choy ***
*** Gung Hay Fat Choy *** HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
*** Gung Hay Fat Choy *** 1999 - THE YEAR OF THE PENGUIN
*** Gung Hay Fat Choy *** Ahem... I mean
*** Gung Hay Fat Choy *** 1999 - THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT
*** Gung Hay Fat Choy ***
Join us on Tuesday February 16th for an outstanding banquet
with subsequent meeting to be held at the venerable FOUR
SEAS RESTAURANT in the heart of San Francisco's historic
Chinatown. BE THERE as we celebrate the Chinese New Year-
1999, the Year of the Rabbit! Bring your Family and Friends
for this Unique Linux Enabled Event!
RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Featured Speaker:
To be announced! Please check our website at
http://www.balug.org - COME ANYWAY, there is no better Linux
networking opportunity AND There's no experience quite like
Chinatown on the Chinese New Year. The Four Seas Banquet
Room looks out over Grant St. and the action is absolutely
non-stop. If you THRIVE ON CHAOS AND EXPLOSIVES, this BALUG
meeting is absolutely NOT TO BE MISSED!
Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Street
San Francisco, California 94108
The Four Seas will host us in the upstairs banquet room,
seating is limited to 300 so please make your reservations
early and insure priority seating. A note to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will assure your seat at this gala event!
As usual, libation is available and with enough reservations
we can get the banquet room bar opened. The Four Seas
banquet room is accessed from a staircase at the rear of the
restaurant lounge. (look for the Linux User Group sign)
Dinner is $10.00 per person, if you choose not to dine with
us, a small donation to help cover meeting costs is
appreciated. We start promptly at 7:00 PM, doors open at
6:30.
Directions and Information
Chinese New Year - Parking Secrets! (NEW BETTER DIRECTIONS)
Contrary to FUD- If you get to the area around 6:30 PM
parking is actually very easy to find. Otherwise we
recommend parking at the city garage located at Kearny and
Commercial- directly across from the Chinatown Holiday Inn.
FROM THE SOUTH - 101 to 280 to the Embarcadero, left on 3rd
street. Cross Market St. (you are now on Kearny), go about
8 blocks- look for Commercial, stay on left- pull into
parking garage directly across from Chinatown Holiday Inn.
The Four Seas is one block up and on your left on Grant St.
FROM THE EAST - Get to 3rd street heading North towards
Market Street. Cross Market St. (you are now on Kearny), go
about 8 blocks- look for Commercial, stay on left- pull into
parking garage directly across from Chinatown Holiday Inn.
The Four Seas is one block up and on your left on Grant St.
FROM THE NORTH - 101 to Lombard to Van Ness, (L)eft on
Broadway. (R)ight on Columbus, stay left- pass Kearny. You
COULD park on your immediate left in the parking garage
(Note: best place in the area to find parking on Chinese
New Year) or continue to Montgomery, (R)ight on California,
(R)ight on Kearny look for Commercial, stay on left- pull
into parking garage directly across from Chinatown Holiday
Inn. The Four Seas is one block up and on your left on
Grant St.
Network Connections
Network connections will be available through our Ricochet
gateway and we encourage you to bring your friends, family,
notebooks, questions, power strips, network hubs and
appetites. In addition to being a fun, creative and
knowledgeable group, the dinner alone is easily the best
chow deal in the city. Speakers, door prizes and other
additional late breaking stuff can be found at
www.balug.org.
Vendor Table Info
BALUG encourages Linux related vendors to set up tables.
Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for information on setting
up a table.
RSVP and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and of course- Rick
Moen will be there!
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From: Andreas Kraska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tklosung-0.3.1 - program to display Bible verses
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:19:31 GMT
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Hi EveryBody,
I am pleased to announce the release 0.3.1 of tklosung,
a program to display Bible verses (known as "Losungen").
For users of tklosung-0.2 it is necessary to upgrade,
as only version 0.3 contains the losung text files of
1999. (and 1998 also). Version 0.3.1. fixes a minor text
converting problem.
This is the LSM-entry:
Title: tklosung
Version: 0.3.1
Entered-date: 01FEB99
Description: Display Bible verses (known as "Losungen") for each day of
year
Keywords: Bible, Losungen, Religion
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kraska)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Primary-site: Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/religion
177kB tklosung-0.3.1.tar.gz
720 tklosung-0.3.1.lsm
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
http://home.hbs.regiocom.net/hbs/Andreas.Kraska/tklosung.html
Platform: Linux, Tcl/Tk
Copying-policy: GPL for source code;
All rights for the Losungen text and the name "Losungen" belong to
the "Evangelische Brueder-Unitaet", Herrnhut and Bad Boll,
and the joint publishers "Haenssler-Verlag" and
"Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag"
It is available from :
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/religion
or
http://home.hbs.regiocom.net/hbs/Andreas.Kraska/tklosung.html
Enjoy !
AK
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* Dr. Andreas Kraska, Noeschenroeder Str.77, D-38855 Wernigerode,
Germany
* WWW: http://home.hbs.regiocom.net/hbs/Andreas.Kraska
* Micha 4,3 : " Dann schmieden sie aus ihren Schwertern
* Pflugscharen und aus den Spitzen ihrer Speere Winzermesser"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph H Allen)
Subject: Notif-0.2 - A new free widget library
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:33:38 GMT
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Get it from: ftp://virek.vwis.com/pub/jhallen/notif-0.2.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.worcester.com/pub/joe/notif-0.2.tar.Z
Notif is a widget library with the following features:
- - Written in C, but in an object oriented style which makes heavy use
of preprocessor tricks. Code is much cleaner appearing than in other
C-based widget libraries.
- - Notif has cooperative multi-threading with continuations. This allows
you to have non-modal dialog windows which can be called as functions- no
need to blow away your code structure by having to return to the event
loop. This feature is entirely multi-threaded: you can finish any open
dialog window in any order.
- - Notif has scalable curved icons. Icons are constructed with scalable
Bezier curves.
- - Notif widgets are heavily overloaded. Every widget can have a border (not
counted as part of the widget's drawing area) and can be made scrollable.
Every widget can contain other widgets and every widget can have a
placement manager. This makes the widget library very orthogonal.
- - Notif includes: balloon help, text edit widget, scroll bars, buttons,
cascading menus, drag & drop, index card-like window selector, vertical
list, radio buttons, toggle buttons, simple buttons and scroll window with
automatic scroll bars.
- - Notif has full tab-key processing and allows you to have multi-key
sequence bindings.
- --
/* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (192.74.137.5) */ /* Joseph H. Allen */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Welsh)
Subject: CONFERENCE: O'Reilly Linux Conference Deadline
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:32:46 GMT
Reply-To: Matt Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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This is a reminder that the deadline for submissions to the O'Reilly Linux
Conference, to be held August 21-24, 1999 in Monterey, California, is:
* MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15th, 1999. *
We're looking for talks from Linux developers and enthusiasts to present at
this conference. We already have a strong tutorial program put together, as
well as several good invited speakers (including Eric Raymond and other
well-known Linux developers). All of the details are at:
http://conferences.oreilly.com
You can e-mail me if you have any questions or need other details.
Thanks much!
Matt Welsh, Program Chair
University of California, Berkeley
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: +1 510 643 7566
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Announcement and Call for Invited Talks
Linux Conference
August 21-24, 1999
Monterey, California
http://conferences.oreilly.com
Sponsored by O'Reilly & Associates
Co-sponsored by Linux International (Confirm with maddog)
Invited Talks Committee
Matt Welsh, Chair, University of California, Berkeley
Jon "Maddog" Hall, Linux International
Andy Oram, O'Reilly & Associates
Greg Hankins, Georgia Tech
Russ Nelson, Crynwr Software
Erik Troan, Red Hat Software
Overview
The O'Reilly Linux Conference will be held August 21-24, 1999 at the Monterey
Conference Center in Monterey, California. There will be two days of
tutorials followed by a two-day, multi-track conference including sessions
for submitted invited presentations on practical and experimental uses of
Linux; daily Q and A sessions with leading Linux developers, and evening
breakaway sessions for special interest groups.
Practical Presentations, Talks, and Panels
This is not a traditional solicitation for academic papers. We seek
presenters for talks and panels that demonstrate the diversity and
strength of Linux. In the practical spirit of Linux, this means not just
showing the clever and interesting ways you use Linux, but how your
experience and code can help others.
We're interested in large stories, small stories, silly hacks, case studies
from the trenches ("Introducing Linux in an NT Shop"), philosophical
perspectives ("Can Linux replace NT?") and even more traditional computer
science pieces ("Distributed Computing with Linux"). We welcome presentations
on every aspect of Linux, from new applications to case studies of Linux at
work to panels. If you have a use for Linux that saves time, money, and
headaches for your and your organization, we would like to hear about it.
In short, we encourage submissions that highlight Linux's features and
benefits.
Some suggestions for talks follow --- but are not limited to these topics.
If you've got an idea that will benefit the Linux community, please let us
know.
* Kernel development and device drivers
* Networking and communications
* Databases, data mining, and storage management
* System and network administration
* Programming environments (C, C++, Java, Perl, etc.)
* Graphical User Interface toolkits (X11, GTK, KDE, GNOME, ...)
* Ports to non-Intel architectures (SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC, ...)
* World Wide Web and Internet applications
* High-performance and parallel computing (Beowulf, Extreme Linux, ...)
* Experiences with Linux: Using Linux for WWW, databases, large
installations, enterprise applications, etc.
* Philosophical musings on the future and role of Linux
What, How, and Where to Submit
Speakers should submit an abstract (250 words) about the talk and a short
biography (a paragraph or so). The abstract should describe what your talk
will be about, and be specific about problems, solutions, and conclusions.
Both the abstract and biography will be used together to evaluate talks.
All submissions will be held in confidence. Talks that do not include both an
abstract and a bio will not be considered.
Important deadlines:
Submissions: February 15, 1999
Acceptances: February 22, 1999
Camera-ready presentations: June 30, 1999
Each submission must include:
1. An initial page with the:
--complete title of the presentation
--name and affiliation of a speaker who will be the primary contact
--that person's complete contact information including phone,
fax, email, postal address,
--The names of all other speakers with their affiliations and email addresses
B. An abstract as detailed above
C. A short biography
Abstracts should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Email inquiries should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registration Information
Complete conference and registration information will be available in
mid-April. Keep checking the conference web site for the latest information:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/
About O'Reilly & Associates
Sponsor of Geekfest, the OpenSource Conference, O'Reilly & Associates is
the leading publisher of books for UNIX, X, the Internet, and other open
systems, as well as a pioneer in on-line publishing. We also publish the
leading web server for Windows NT and Windows 95, and are defining new
ways to develop and sell software on and over the Internet. For more
information about O'Reilly & Associates, visit our web site:
http://www.oreilly.com/.
O'Reilly & Associates
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707/829-0515
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