Linux-Announce Digest #385, Volume #3 Fri, 5 Mar 99 15:13:22 EST
Contents:
Open Credit Card Verification System - 19990228 released (Dave Cinege)
LOCAL: Hampton Roads, VA - Peninsula Linux Users Group ("Scott Stancil")
xpdf-0.80-decrypt-1 - xpdf with decryption (Tony Nugent)
LOCAL: HCC/Corel coming to Toronto LUG ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Pload 0.9.4 - Xaw based network load monitor (Matt Smith)
KIllustrator-0.6.3 - KDE vector graphics application (Kai-Uwe Sattler)
LOCAL: ALUG Meeting Schedule (Sami Yousif)
COMMERCIAL: Mandrake 5.3 PowerPacks available soon in the USA (Gael Duval)
COMMERCIAL: S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0 CD-ROM $1.95 (Linux Central)
Updated Linux Newbie Administrator Guide ver.0.0.8 (bklimas)
Siag Office 3.1.7 released (Ulric Eriksson)
WWW: Editorial - Core Competencies: Open Source, Econ, etc. ("Dan Kaminsky")
lirc-0.5.4 Linux Infrared Remote Control (Christoph Bartelmus)
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From: Dave Cinege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Open Credit Card Verification System - 19990228 released
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:04:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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OpenCCVS is a suite of documentation and programs to allow merchants to
process credit cards via a modem. It currently only supports the FDR7
protocol.
ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/openccvs/
To join the OpenCCVS mailing list send mail to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with
subscribe openccvs
in the BODY.
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From: "Scott Stancil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Hampton Roads, VA - Peninsula Linux Users Group
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:14:48 GMT
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I am announcing the formation of the Peninsula Linux Users Group (PLUG -
http://www.linuxforum.com/plug) in Hampton Roads, Virginia. We realize
there is already a Hampton Roads Linux Users Group (HRLUG -
http://hrlug.runlinux.org); however we are targeting users north of the
Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and south of Richmond.
The first meeting will be held at the Main Street Library main conference
room on Wednesday, March 10th, at 7:00 p.m. This will probably be a short
meeting lasting less then an hour.
Topics:
* Focus/Format of the LUG
* Involvement with Linux Forum.
* Solicitation from members ideas or actual work for a website for PLUG.
* Ideas for a more permanent location, agreement of time and day.
* Gauge local interest for this group.
Directions: From I-64 take Mercury Blvd. towards the James River Bridge.
Make a right on Jefferson Avenue. Get in the left hand lane and turn left
on Main Street. You will go under a bridge for trains. The library is on
your left next to a firestation. If you make it onto Warwick Blvd, you have
gone to far.
Scott Stancil
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xpdf-0.80-decrypt-1 - xpdf with decryption
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:19:13 GMT
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I have just uploaded the following files to:
ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/incoming/
xpdf-0.80-decrypt-1.src.rpm
xpdf-0.80-decrypt-1.i386.rpm
I assume that they will eventually be moved to:
ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/linux/redhat/SRPMS/xpdf-0.80-decrypt-1.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/linux/redhat/i386/xpdf-0.80-decrypt-1.i386.rpm
This is a version of xpdf-0.80 but with a patch (included in the
..src.rpm as "xpdf-0.80-decrypt.patch") that enables it to read
encrypted pdf files. See the file README.decryption that is included
within the patch (and installed into the /usr/doc/xpdf-0.80/
directory).
This version of xpdf installs into /usr/X11R6/bin/ rather than /usr/bin/
and the binary has been built on a RedHat 5.2 (glibc6) system.
xpdf author: Derek B. Noonburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xpdf web site: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
(The author is aware of the existance of this version).
Other source: ftp://ftp.sci.usq.edu.au/pub/linux/xpdf/
Description (from the rpm header):
Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also
sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF
software.) Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It does not use the
Motif or Xt libraries. It uses standard X fonts. Xpdf is quite usable on a
486-66 PC running Linux.
This version has been patched to enable it to work with encrypted pdf files.
(Sources not for export from the USA).
New in Version 0.80 (from version 0.7a):
- Support for some Japanese fonts (Type 0 fonts using the
Adobe-Japan1-2 character collection, horizontal only).
- Added pdfinfo application.
- Added pdftopbm application.
- Added pdfimages application.
- Xpdf is now licensed under the GPL.
- Lots of other little things (see the CHANGES file)
The decryption rpms have had various tweaks to .spec file to get
things installed *right* (0.7a decryption release had mode 644 for
/usr/doc/xpdf-0.7a) (Also, keep installation into /usr/X11R6/)
There is an xpdf port for DOS and Windows available, compiled using
DJGPP, and includes a decryption-capable version. More information is
available from:
http://www.fzu.cz/~kouba/programs/xpdf/
Enjoy!
Cheers
Tony
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Computer Support Officer Faculty of Science
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Oueensland Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LOCAL: HCC/Corel coming to Toronto LUG
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:11:05 GMT
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Hardware Canada Computing and Corel are coming to the next meeting
of the Toronto Linux Users Group. They will be talking about the
NetWinder. Both technical and business aspects of the product will
be discussed.
Everyone is invited and admission is free. The meeting is being
held on Tuesday March 9th, 1999 at 7:30pm. The location is at
the University of Toronto:
McLennan Physical Labs Building,
255 Huron Street, Room 203
For more information and directions, please visit:
http://tlug.ss.org/meeting.html
Regards,
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From: Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pload 0.9.4 - Xaw based network load monitor
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:17:13 GMT
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This is an announcement for an update of the pload program.
Changes: Fixed parsing of proc file for Linux 2.2 and added a
logarithmic scales option.
This is the lsm entry:
Begin3
Title: pload
Version: 0.9.4
Entered-date: 04MAR99
Description: display ppp, and for Linux 2.2 any network interface
statistics in an X window
Keywords: ppp monitor X xload Xaw
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Smith)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Smith)
Primary-site: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/
pload-0.9.4.tar.gz
Alternate-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/serial/ppp
Original-site: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/
Platforms: Any that can run pppd and X11 theoretically, but only
tested on Linux and Solaris with gcc
Copying-policy: GPL
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From: Kai-Uwe Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KIllustrator-0.6.3 - KDE vector graphics application
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:02:15 GMT
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I am pleased to announce the release 0.6.3 of KIllustrator.
KIllustrator is a freely available vector-based drawing application
for the famous K Desktop Environment similiar to Corel Draw(tm) or
Adobe Illustrator(tm).
The features:
- - different object types: polylines, circles, arcs and pies, ellipses,
squares, rectangles, (symmetric) polygons, freehand lines, bezier
curves and multiline text
- - tools for moving, scaling, rotating, shearing as well as grouping,
ungrouping, aligning, distributing and reordering objects
- - zooming up to 1000%, snapping to grid, help lines
- - printing to PostScript (file or printer)
- - import of WMF cliparts, XFig documents, raster images
as well as Postscript (via pstoedit)
- - export to raster image formats (GIF, PNG, XPM) and EPS
- - graphical layers
- - various line styles, arrows and fill styles (pattern, gradient)
- - aligning of text to path
- - line editing: inserting and removing points, splitting of lines
- - undo/redo facility
The installation requires a working KDE 1.1, QT 1.42 as well as
gcc-2.8.x or egc-1.x. KIllustrator is tested on Linux, FreeBSD and
Solaris.
Changes in release 0.6.3:
- - supporting large zoom levels
- - help lines
- - detailled infos in the status line
- - pstoedit backend
- - improved user interface
- - bugfixes
For further information (screenshots, download) please consult my
homepage at:
http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sattler/killustrator.html
Please, for question, comments, bug reports or contributions e-mail me
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage: http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sattler/
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From: Sami Yousif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: ALUG Meeting Schedule
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:12:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The following is the planned meeting schedule for the Amarillo Linux
Users Group (http://www.alug.org/):
Committee meetings will be the first Saturday of every month at 10:00
A.M. Member meetings will be held the third Saturday of every month at
10:00 A.M.
For now, all meetings will be held at the Downtown (Central) Library.
Member Meetings:
3-20-99, 10am
4-17-99, 10am
5-15-99, 10am
6-19-99, 10am
Please also check http://www.alug.org/info/sched.html for any "last
minute" changes.
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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mav.net/teddyr/syousif/
http://www.alug.org/
[eMail sent to any of my addresses is subject to the Conditions outlined
in http://www.mav.net/teddyr/emailtos.shtml]
Another day, so many more LARTS to go. [BOFH, BUFH, JOAT]
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From: Gael Duval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Mandrake 5.3 PowerPacks available soon in the USA
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:07:12 GMT
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Hello,
Linux-Mandrake PowerPack Edition (4 CDs, installation guide, 100 days
installation support) will be available next week in the USA.
Please check our website for details.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
Linux-Mandrake: the user-friendly Linux distribution.
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< Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://linuxmandrake.com >
QPL : "With the release of this license, KDE and the Qt Free Edition
are truly Open Source(tm)". Bruce Perens, Opensource.org.
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Subject: COMMERCIAL: S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0 CD-ROM $1.95
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:54:26 GMT
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From: bklimas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Updated Linux Newbie Administrator Guide ver.0.0.8
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:01:18 GMT
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Hi. Our family project: "The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide" has
been significantly updated. The current version is 0.0.8. Since the
last public announcement, the contents have been roughly doubled and
two nasty typos have been corrected. More additions are in progress.
The Linux Newbie Administrator FAQ contains simple (hopefully) and
minimalistic answers to same basic problems that a newbie might
encounter while using/administrating his/her machine or home network:
mounting, fstab, automounting;
setup of soundcard, printer, ppp, LILO problems;
running a program, adjusting priorities, getting help;
kde install for RedHat 5.2 users, X-server setup;
remote x-windowing, ip masquerading, samba;
essential Linux shortcuts and commands.
Newbie administrators are welcome to visit:
http://www.magma.ca/~bklimas/
Comments, contributions, links, mirrors, and distributors are
greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Stan Klimas, Deep River, Ontario
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From: Ulric Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Siag Office 3.1.7 released
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:24:55 GMT
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Siag Office 3.1.7 is the latest version of the free office package
which consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW
and the animation program Egon.
Siag is easy to use, yet infinitely flexible through multiple
embedded interpreters and a plugin mechanism that allows other
programs to run inside the main document. The supported interpreters
are SIOD, Guile, Tcl and Python.
Changes from version 3.1.6 include:
- New Tsiag maintainer: Dan Gohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Curses interface more portable by using autoconf
- Plotting from vertically as well as horizontally oriented data
by Rodrigo Alfonso Guzm�n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). See the
file vplot.scm.
- Croatian message catalog, thanks to Matej Vela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Plugins can initiate communication with the parent application
to send it commands or data
- Image plugin scales images when it is resized
- Plugins talk back by sending X events back to the main application.
The Hello plugin has been extended to make use of the new feature.
- Modified makefiles to allow building outside source tree
(suggested by "Marcus G. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
- Code restructured to reduce duplication even further
- New Text plugin reads text files or executes arbitrary
shell commands, runs external programs.
- Plotting plugin, available on menu as Plot - Plugin.
Requires Gnuplot and PBMplus/NetPBM.
- Instructions for building on Irix, by Harold Toms
Read more about Siag Office at
http://www.edu.stockholm.se/siag/
Sources and binaries can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.edu.stockholm.se/pub/siag/
Ulric Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Dan Kaminsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW: Editorial - Core Competencies: Open Source, Econ, etc.
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:28:48 GMT
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Interestingly enough, a fellow reader has written an even better synopsis of
the essay I wrote than I did. To wit, by Jack Carrol:
Open source software development is a barter economy with some very unusual
economic properties. The original author of a piece of OSS gets paid, but
not in money. The author gets paid in software. So does everybody else who
contributes a feature or a bug fix. This form of payback is very real, for
all of its intangibility. The return is huge-- everybody who contributes to
the growing program ends up with the useof a much more capable and
higher-quality product than they could afford to develop on their own, and
they get a product which has been carefully enhanced to meet their exact
needs. The actual developers aren't the only contributors and beneficiaries,
either. Everyone who contributes documentation, distribution services,
mutual tech support, or publicity participates in this barter economy.
Full paper? Available at http://doxpara.netpedia.net/core.html .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: lirc-0.5.4 Linux Infrared Remote Control
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:15:46 GMT
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LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control, Version: 0.5.4
Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)
lirc is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red
signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
Pre-release versions are currently available at:
http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~columbus/lirc/
It consists of a device driver, two daemon programs and some user
space applications. The included device drivers support devices
connected to serial and parallel ports. A desciption of receiver
and transmitter circuits can be found at http://www.mindwell.com/lirc/.
More and more support for commercially available IR solutions is being
added.
The most important part of lirc is the lircd daemon that will decode
IR signals received by the device driver and provide the information
on a socket.
It will also accept commands for IR signals to be sent.
The second daemon program called lircmd will connect to lircd and
translate the decoded IR signals to mouse movements. You can
e.g. configure X to use your remote control as an input device.
The user space application will allow you to control your computer
with your remote control. You can send X events to applications, start
programs and much more on just one button press.
Adding new remotes is still problematic but since version 0.5.2 there
comes the first program that will try to add new remote controls
automatically.
Don't expect much documentation. This is only a pre-release version
and there is still much to be done before lirc becomes easily
configurable and usable.
The possible applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for
your TV tuner card or cd-rom, shutdown by remote, program your VCR
and/or satellite tuner with your computer, ...
For people with a little C/C++ knowlegde this should already be possible
with this pre-release. Otherwise, wait for version 1.0.
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