Linux-Announce Digest #390, Volume #3 Wed, 10 Mar 99 15:13:24 EST
Contents:
Procmeter3-3.1 - System monitoring program. ("Andrew M. Bishop")
Gray Scale Mosaic 0.5 - Image Mosaic Creation (Jim Buzbee)
Kibble 0.7.2 - A knowledge-base program
MAILING-LIST: using Linux for Aviation related Applications (John C. Peterson)
LOCAL: Linux installFest 3-20-99 Marlboro, Ma all welcome!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PMR Version 2.0 - Poor Man's Renderer ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
auplay - Play sound files through internal speaker ("Rick Miller")
LOCAL: Washington DC LUG March meeting: Wednesday. March 17:
encryption/authentication (Przemek Klosowski)
LOCAL: March 18 Piedmont (NC) Linux Users Group Meeting (Joe Louderback)
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From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Procmeter3-3.1 - System monitoring program.
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:03:24 GMT
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PROCMETER V3.1
==============
The ProcMeter program itself is a framework on which a number of modules
(plugins) are loaded. More modules can be written as required to perform more
monitoring and informational functions.
The statistics that are displayed are grouped by module, with a menu allowing
selection of module and a sub-menu for each output available for that module.
APM
Advanced Power Management information. These outputs are only available
if you have configured the kernel to have the APM feature.
Biff
Monitors the e-mail inbox (in /var/spool/mail/<username> or
/var/mail/<username>) and indicates the number of e-mails that are
waiting and the size.
Date_Time
The current date and time and the amount of time since the system was
last booted.
DiskUsage
Shows the percentage of the disk that is used and the amount of free
space for each of the local disks that it finds are mounted or can be
mounted when the program starts.
LogFile
Monitors the size and number of lines and the rate of increase of these
in a set of log files.
Memory
The amount of memory that is used for programs, buffers, cache and the
amount that is free.
Network
The network devices and the amount of traffic on each of them. It will
automatically pick up available devices when it starts.
Processes
The load average and the number of processes running and starting.
ProcMeter
Information about the procmeter program itself.
Statistics
Low level system statistics. For example CPU usage, disk usage,
swapping and paging.
Stat-CPU
Statistics about individual CPU usage including support for SMP
machines.
Stat-Disk
Statistics about individual disk usage including support for up to 4
disks.
Stat-Intr
Statistics about individual interrupts including support for up to 32
interrupts.
Uname
The system information from the uname program, hostname and Linux kernel
version.
Availability
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The source code is available from two FTP servers.
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/X11/xutils/procmeter3-3.1.tgz
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/procmeter3-3.1.tgz
Web page
- --------
The ProcMeter web page is at http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/procmeter3/
Mailing list
- ------------
A ProcMeter announcement mailing list is now available, send an e-mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'subscribe procmeter-announce'
in the message body.
Author & Copyright
- ------------------
This program is Copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1994,95,96,97,98,99
and distributed under GPL.
Procmeter Version 3.x Written Aug-Sep 1998/Feb-Mar 1999
Procmeter Version 2.x Written July-Aug-Sep 1996/July-Aug 1997/Dec 1997-Jan 1998
Procmeter Version 1.x Written Dec 1994/July 1995/Feb 1996
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Please put procmeter in the subject line]
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Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Buzbee)
Subject: Gray Scale Mosaic 0.5 - Image Mosaic Creation
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:02:22 GMT
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Ever want to create an image of Linus mosaic'ed with a Tux Tile ? Gmosaic
is the program to do it.
The program was inspired by the work of Robert Silvers who pionerred the
idea of creating an image made up of a "mosaic" of other images. Gmosaic
is a more simplistic program that will create a gray scale mosaic of an
input image using either a specified image "tile" or a tile created from
the input image itself. Each tile in the output image has its overall
intensity adjusted to match the intensity of the corresponding pixel in the
input image.
Gmosaic is released under the GPL and is available for download
(along with the Linus/Tux image) at :
http://www.nyx.net/~jbuzbee/Gmosaic.html
This is the first public release. Comments are welcome !
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Jim Buzbee "I was gratified to be able to
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http://www.nyx.net/~jbuzbee/bat_house.html said I didn't know." Mark Twain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Kibble 0.7.2 - A knowledge-base program
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:59:37 GMT
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We are pleased to announce a new release of Kibble, version 0.7.2. Kibble
is a GTK-based knowledge base program. It is used to organize seemingly
discursive thoughts into a cohesive engine. Basically, it is used to
keep track of random ideas that may prove useful.
What's New:
* Multiple simultaneous operations permitted. (Modal hack code removed.)
* Bug fixes!
Homepage: http://wish.student.harvard.edu/kibble/
Direct download:
ftp://wish.student.harvard.edu/pub/kibble/packages/kibble-0.7.0.tar.gz
Happy downloading! We appreciate all feedback/bug reports.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John C. Peterson)
Subject: MAILING-LIST: using Linux for Aviation related Applications
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:04:20 GMT
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Announcing the linux-aviation mailing list! The business and sport
of aviation is about as mission critical as any human endeavor gets.
Certificated aircraft are designed and built to engineering and quality
standards that far exceed those of any other consumer product. This
list is intended to foster communication between pilots and aviation
enthusiasts who believe that any computing environment used for aviation
related applications should meet similar high standards, and that the
open software development model and the Linux operating system is the
computing environment with the greatest potential to meet such high
standards.
Postings related to the use of the Linux operating system to assist in
the design, construction or operation of all categories of certificated
aircraft; airplane, rotorcraft, glider, and lighter than air are all
considered appropriate. Some example topics for postings might include,
but are not limited to:
o Digital Charts and Cartography
o Weight and Balance Calculators
o Density Altitude, True Airspeed and other E6B "like" Calculators
o Flight Planning for Powered Flights (VFR and IFR)
o Flight Planning for Soaring Flights
o Speed to Fly Calculators
o GPS Interface Software
o Electronic Flight Instrument Systems (EFIS)
o Flight Control Systems
o Flight Simulators
Everyone with an interest is encouraged to participate, those interested
in participating in software development efforts as well as end users. To
subscribe to the list, send the command "subscribe linux-aviation" in the
body of a mail message to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I would like to extend my thanks to the sponsors of the nl.linux.org
server for making resources available for the linux-aviation mailing list.
They are Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Utrecht University located
in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The linux-aviation list owner
John C Peterson (PP ASEL,G)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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___|___ | John C. Peterson, KD6EKQ | Installing Micro$oft Windows on a PC is
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o/ \o | San Diego, CA U.S.A | See http://www.linux.org/ for info.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LOCAL: Linux installFest 3-20-99 Marlboro, Ma all welcome!!
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:54:55 GMT
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WLUG InstallFest!
Saturday, March 20, 1999 from 10 AM to 4 PM
Status Computer, Marlboro, MA
What is an "InstallFest"? Well, you bring your entire computer to the
install fest, and we'll have lots of people on hand who are very able
and eager to help you install Linux for the first time.
We'll supply the Linux CD (or you may bring your own if you wish), the
technical expertise, some light refreshments, and a good time. We'll
do our best to get your computer running Linux and to get X-windows
working. All we ask in return is the following:
a) Please sign up in advance so we can schedule a timeslot for you.
b) We are requesting a $10 donation to WLUG for non-Stratus
employees.
c) Spread the word about Linux to your friends!
for more info goto- http://rob.millbury.net/~wlug/
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG)
Contact Andy at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PMR Version 2.0 - Poor Man's Renderer
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:06:18 GMT
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Version 2.0 of PMR is released
The Poor Mans Renderer is a free 3D rendering/editing
tool for LINUX (and other UNIX systems).
The home page is
http://borneo.gmd.de/AS/janus/new/pmr/pmr.html
There are several improvements since Version 1.5
- new rendering modes
- improved control of cameras
- effects like fog and snow
- many more details
Have a look
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From: "Rick Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: auplay - Play sound files through internal speaker
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:14:08 GMT
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I've uploaded the new version of "auplay" to tsx-11.mit.edu which should
eventually appear under
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/sound/auplay-0.3.tgz
(I don't know how long it'll take to get there...)
"auplay" was the horrendous user-space application which (run as root) would
allow one to play Sun u-law audio files (*.au) through the internal speaker
rather than through a sound card. It's more of a novelty than a useful
program, but I've updated it anyway to make it compile again.
And just so folks know... I was only *joking* when I suggested that this
could be turned into a kernel sound driver. I didn't think anyone would
really do it. <sigh>
The lsm goes like this:
Begin3
Title: auplay
Version: 0.3
Entered-date: 09MAR99
Description: Plays Sun .au files through the internal PC speaker.
No extra hardware or kernel patches needed but it must
be run as root.
Keywords: au sound speaker
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Miller)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Miller)
Primary-site: tsx11.mit.edu /pub/linux/packages/sound
31kB auplay-0.3.tgz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platforms: Linux-intel
Copying-policy: Public Domain
End
Rick Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Przemek Klosowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Washington DC LUG March meeting: Wednesday. March 17:
encryption/authentication
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:18:17 GMT
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The March 1999 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take
place on Wednesday, March 17, 7pm, at the National Institutes of Health;
see our home page,
http://dclug.tux.org
This month, Brad Alexander will discuss the public key infrastructure
for encryption and authentication. He will discuss rationale for the
whole thing, and implementation issues re. PGP and GPG (trust chain,
keyserver and keysignings). We won't do key generation, because the
server is not ready yet.
The meeting dates for the rest of year 1999 are:
April 21
May 19 June 16
July 21 August 18
September 15 October 20
November 17 December 15
For other details, see our home page
http://dclug.tux.org
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** How to get there ***
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BIG PICTURE:
to Frederick to Baltimore & NYC
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NIH AND VICINITY
Rockville Pike
I-270 spur (Rte 355)
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Wisconsin Ave
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Cedar Lane ========= | Bldg. 10 is the huge NIH hospital
| | | complex. The best parking opportunity
West Dr.->| | | is Building 10's underground parking
| | | lot P3 (entrance on the east side, lowest
Bldg 10 | | level); it is free if you leave after 7pm.
| | The elevator runs to the main lobby. There
| | is also some paid street parking around.
South Drive === | Lippsett auditorium is located on the
| | left side of the main entrance lobby.
M Medical Center
(Red Metro Line)
You can retrieve the NIH site map at URL
You can retrieve the NIH site maps and photos at URL
http://www.nih.gov/welcome/maps.html
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From: Joe Louderback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: March 18 Piedmont (NC) Linux Users Group Meeting
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:15:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thursday, March 18, the North Carolina Piedmont Linux Users Group
will meet in Room 17 of Calloway Hall at Wake Forest University.
Directions to Calloway Hall may be found at
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/meetings.html
Ricky Beam, of Interpath.net will give a talk on IP address recovery,
Network Address Translation, and DHCP servers and clients.
The Piedmont Linux Users Group home page is at
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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