Linux-Announce Digest #437, Volume #3 Fri, 2 Apr 99 01:13:31 EST
Contents:
tempcon - a simple Perl/Tk temperature converter (Alan Ford)
GNU MAVERIK 4.3 - system for supporting virtual reality applications (Toby Howard)
LOCAL: Linux Install Party at Friedlos/Germany (Garry Glendown)
bookmarker 1.0 - WWW based bookmark manager in PHP (Padraic Renaghan)
Siag Office 3.1.8 released (Ulric Eriksson)
wmchoose 1.0 - choose a window manager on X startup (Todd Pafford)
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From: Alan Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tempcon - a simple Perl/Tk temperature converter
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:25:28 GMT
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The first release of tempcon (version 0.1) is now available at
http://www.whirlnet.demon.co.uk/linux/tempcon.html
tempcon is a simple Perl/Tk app that allows the conversion of temperatures
between the following different temperature scales:
- - Celsius (Centigrade)
- - Fahrenheit
- - Kelvin
- - Rankine
- - Reaumur
The script is directly downloadable from:
http://www.whirlnet.demon.co.uk/linux/tempcon
Comments, suggestions, bug reports etc. to me, Alan Ford:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
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From: Toby Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GNU MAVERIK 4.3 - system for supporting virtual reality applications
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:33:32 GMT
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The University of Manchester releases GNU MAVERIK:
a free Virtual Reality system for GNU/Linux PCs
and Silicon Graphics workstations
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The Advanced Interfaces Group, in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Manchester, UK, announces the release of GNU MAVERIK 4.3, a
software system for supporting Virtual Reality applications.
GNU MAVERIK is Free software released under the GNU General Public Licence,
and is released with full source code, documentation and example programs.
As of release 4.3 GNU MAVERIK is an official component of the Free Software
Foundation's GNU Project located in Boston, USA.
(A fully-linked Web version of this announcement is at
http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik/pr.html)
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CONTACT (for MAVERIK enquiries)
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Dr Roger Hubbold
Department of Computer Science
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Tel: (44) 161 275 6158
Fax: (44) 161 275 6204
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk
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CONTACT (for GNU/Free Software Foundation enquiries)
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Timothy Ney
Free Software Foundation
59 Temple Place, Suite 330
Boston, MA 02111, USA
Tel: (617) 542-5942
Fax: (617) 542-2652
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.gnu.org
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WHAT IS MAVERIK?
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MAVERIK is a system for managing graphics and interaction in Virtual
Reality applications. It is designed to address the challenges of highly
interactive virtual environments containing many objects with complex
geometry. MAVERIK uses either Mesa or OpenGL to perform rendering and runs
on GNU/Linux PCs and Silicon Graphics workstations.
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DOWNLOAD MAVERIK
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The complete MAVERIK distribution is available as both RPMs and gzipped
tars from http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik, and also from
ftp.gnu.org.
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EXAMPLES OF MAVERIK APPLICATIONS
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Visit the MAVERIK Applications Gallery
(http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik/gallery.html) for examples of
a wide range of MAVERIK applications.
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WHY MAVERIK IS NOVEL
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MAVERIK dispenses with a separate representation for application data.
Conventional VR systems need to import data into their own format, but
MAVERIK avoids this by making use of the application's own internal data
structures. This has two important benefits:
1) MAVERIK can easily take advantage of optimisations that are highly
application-specific, intimately tied to knowledge that the application
has.
2) MAVERIK can far more readily adapt (dynamically) to a wide range of
application demands. Its flexible design means that applications with
widely differing requirements can be supported.
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THE MAVERIK ARCHITECTURE
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MAVERIK has two main parts:
1) The MAVERIK micro-kernel implements a set of core services, and a
framework that applications can use to build complete virtual
environments and virtual reality interfaces.
2) The MAVERIK supporting modules contain default methods for optimised
display management including culling, spatial management, interaction
and navigation, and control of VR input and output devices. MAVERIK's
structure allows these default methods to be customised to operate
directly on application data, so that optimal representations and
algorithms can be employed.
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RELATED WORK
============
MAVERIK provides a framework and toolkit for a single user to perceive,
interact with, and navigate around, a graphically complex Virtual
Environment. Although it can be used stand-alone for single-user VR
applications, it has been designed to integrate with a large-scale
distributed multi-user VR system called Deva, currently under development
(http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Deva/). Deva supports multiple virtual
worlds and applications, together with sophisticated methods of specifying
behaviours and laws for objects within VEs. The Advanced Interfaces Group
plans to release the Deva system at a later date.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Funding for development of MAVERIK was provided by the UK's Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (grant GR/K99701), with additional
support from our industrial partners, CADCentre Ltd, Brown & Root Ltd, and
Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd.
[ends, revision of 18/Mar/99]
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From: Garry Glendown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux Install Party at Friedlos/Germany
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:26:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[Note to English Readers:
This is an announcement for a Linux Install Party in Friedlos/Germany,
so the rest of the text is in German. Anyway, there will be
english-speaking personell available at the party, so you may drop by
even if you don't speak german ... :-) ]
Am 30.5.1999 findet in Friedlos bei Bad Hersfeld die erste "Linux
Install Party" des Vereins C&K Insider e.V. statt. Beginn ist gegen
14:00. N�here Informationen und Anmeldeformular gibt es unter der URL:
http://linux.insider.org
Ciao, -gg
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Garry Glendown - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware!
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From: Padraic Renaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bookmarker 1.0 - WWW based bookmark manager in PHP
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:10:17 GMT
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bookmarker 1.0 has been released!
bookmarker is a WWW based application for managing bookmarks.
It allows multiple users to list, search, maintain, and create
bookmarks using web pages. The quik-mark feature allows EZ adding
of new bookmarks while you are surfing.
bookmarker was developed using PHP, PHPLIB, MySQL, and Apache.
The use of the database abstraction layer in PHPLIB allows
bookmarker to work with other PHPLIB supported databases
(postgres, Oracle, etc...)
bookmarker is licensed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License (GPL).
More info: http://renaghan.com/bookmarker/
Download: http://renaghan.com/bookmarker/download.php3
Padraic Renaghan
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From: Ulric Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Siag Office 3.1.8 released
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:42:44 GMT
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Siag Office 3.1.8 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 3.1.7 include:
- T1lib can be used to add fully scalable Type 1 fonts with kerning,
ligatures, antialiasing and other features not usually found in
X applications. Existing fonts can be leveraged and new ones
easily installed without modifying X or installing "font servers".
- Patch from Stephen Eglen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: when a file
is saved, show its name in the status bar.
- One-line fix in buffer.c to avoid accessing previously freed
pointer. Thanks to S. Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- TextField widget incorrectly discarded Tab characters, which
made it impossible to load tab separated files. Discovered by
Stephen Eglen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Read more about Siag Office at
http://siag.nu/
Sources and binaries can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.edu.stockholm.se/pub/siag/
Ulric Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Todd Pafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wmchoose 1.0 - choose a window manager on X startup
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:24:03 GMT
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wmchoose is a small, but useful, X11 utility that allows a user to
easily choose a window manager as X starts up (via either startx or
xdm). wmchoose is easily configured via an 'rc' file so that adding new
window managers is as simple as sticking a line in this file.
More information, a screenshot, and source or binary downloads can be
found at http://linux.umbc.edu/wmchoose/wmchoose.html
Todd Pafford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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