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JACK Meterbridge 0.0.4

Version 0.0.4 of JACK Meterbridge has been released. A meter bridge is hardware assembly that typically involves a row of audio meters that "bridge" across the top of an audio mixing console.

JACK Meterbridge allows a number of software audio level meters to be displayed on screen. The meters plug into the JACK audio connection kit, a software package that manages multiple connections to audio devices.

Jack Meterbridge currently has a selection of three meter styles, two of them resemble classic mechanical meters, either peak-reading or classic VU style, and one that is a vertical bar-graph style.

Jack Meterbridge is a good example of a virtual hardware device that can be plugged in to JACK. No doubt, many other such devices such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and tuners could be programmed to work with Jack. Hopefully, JACK will prove to be a good platform for developing a wide variety of new virtual audio devices.

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MySQL 4.0.4-beta released

Version 4.0.4-beta of the MySQL database has been released. This is a bugfix release.

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Kyocera releases PPD files as free software (LinuxPrinting)

LinuxPrinting.org mentions that Kyocera has released the PPD (Postscript Printer Description) files for its PostScript printer line. "Kyocera released the PPD files for all their PostScript models under a MIT license, which means that they are free software now and so thay can be included distributions of GNU/Linux, put on web sites as linuxprinting.org, they can also be freely modified, for example to fix bugs or translate them."

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Mod_python 3.0 beta 2 available.

The second beta version of Mod_python version 3.0 is available for Apache 2.

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Zope Members News

The most recent headlines on the Zope Members News include: Basic CMF Product Released, ZopeTestCase 0.5.3 Released, MailBoxer 2.0 released, Torped announces Easy Publisher 1.8, Localizer 0.9.1 released, and Silva 0.8.4 released.

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ZOPE 2.6.0 Beta 1 Released

Zope version 2.6.0 Beta 1 has been released. new features include gzip content compression, signal handling, log rotation, a new default view setting ability, an improved daemon mode, better text indexing and object cache control, automatic browser ID string embedding in URLs, improvments to the BTree and Catalog code, lots of bug fixes, and more.

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mnoGoSearch-php-extension-1.66 available

Version 1.66 of mnoGoSearch-php-extension, the PHP extension to the mnoGoSearch web site search engine is available.

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Maaate 0.3.0 available

Version 0.3.0 of Maaate, the Australian audio analysis toolkit, is available. Click below for the full announcement. The companion Bewdy visualization tool is also available.

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WaveSurfer 1.4.5 released

Version 1.4.5 of the WaveSurfer sound visualization and manipulation tool has been released. The changes include new sound mixing functionality, several new time display formats, bug fixes, and minor improvements.

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FootNotes

Topics on the GNOME desktop FootNotes site include: GNOME Summary - 2002-09-22 - 2002-09-28, art.gnome.org released, GTK+ 2.1.0 Released, Gst-Player 0.4.1 released, Film Gimp 0.4 released, Dropline GNOME 1.1.1, and more.

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Samba-3.0alpha20 Released for testing

Version 3.0alpha20 of Samba has been released for testing. The WHATSNEW document contains a long list of changes.

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Wine Weekly News

Issue #137 of the Wine Weekly News is out. Topics include A Wine status update, MS write support, a proposal for a developer CVS tree, updating developer info, CreateProcessA() and environment settings, and programming with Wine and COM.

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AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #111 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out. "This has certainly been a mixed week! With the new release of 1.0.3, a new meta-bug has been put in place. One example of things most recently caught, 4046 , where something went horribly wrong, and now spelling is all just fizzley if you're using the dialogue (right clicking individual words still works). The good news, however, is that Mark has already promised that 1.0.4 will come out much sooner compared to 1.0.3; preferably within a month."

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Kernel Cousin GNUe

Issue #48 of Kernel Cousin GNUe covers the latest Gnu Enterprise development news.

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Phoenix 0.2 browser released

Following last week's release of version 0.1, version 0.2 of the lightweight Phoenix browser has been released. New features include web forms auto-complete, the return of the sidebar, extension management, toolbar customization, a new search bar, prefs support, speed enhancements, mousewheel font resizing, and bug fixes.

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GnuPG 1.2 released

A new version of the GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) has been released. Here is the list of changes. GnuPG 1.2.0 can be downloaded from one of the *GnuPG mirror sites*.

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The Caml Hump

This week, the new software on The Caml Hump includes MLGraph, Combinator Engine, and toolpage.

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G95 progress

Progress continues on the G95 FORTRAN compiler project. "Plan: Finish the type resolution phase. There are a few things that g95 cannot currently handle, but most of the simpler things are implemented. Conforming fortran 77 programs should be parsed and resolved without difficulty. I have uploaded a Linux x86 binary in order that non-hackers can try g95 on their favorite bits of code and can make sure that that parser doesn't choke too bad."

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Restoring the transparent network, Part 2 (IBM developerWorks)

Todd E. Sundsted shows how to get around network obstacles using Java. "In this follow-up article to "Restoring the transparent network", Todd Sundsted focuses on techniques that Java applications can use to restore the appearance of network transparency in the face of many common types of network obstructions. This article provides a framework that Java applications can use to hide network obstructions from the higher-level parts of the application."

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EJB Inheritance (O'Reilly)

Emmanuel Proulx writes about EJB inheritance on O'Reilly's ONJava site. The article is divided into part 1 and part 2. "Entity beans are objects that represent data coming from a persistent store, such as a database. The key word here is objects. Entity beans encapsulate the data and business logic. But what about the two other principles, inheritance and polymorphism?"

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SBCL 0.7.8 released

Version 0.7.8 of SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) has been released. "This version features a Beta-quality port to the MIPS architecture under Linux, cleaned up compiler handling of TYPE-ERRORs, improved argument type checking, optimization changes, the new extension SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST and a number of bug fixes."

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This week on Perl 6 (O'Reilly)

The September 23-29, 2002 edition of This week on Perl 6 is out. Topics include: Topics include Of Variables, Values and Vtables, IMCC 0.0.9.2, Fun with intlists, Functions in Scheme, Perl6 on HP-UX 11.00, The status of Leopold Toetsch's patches, Of PMCs Buffers and memory management, Add Stone Age Exception Handling, and Meanwhile, in Perl 6.

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This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The 23-29 September 2002 edition of the Perl-5 Porters Digest is out. "This was a nice week, with lots of discussion, on various interesting topics. Read on for strange bugs, strange fixes, strange error messages, and as always, the ongoing efforts made to improve Perl 5."

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Genetic algorithms with Perl (IBM developerWorks)

Teodor Zlatanov writes about genetic algorithms with Perl on IBM's developerWorks. " One of the more intriguing types of algorithm is the genetic algorithm. Genetic algorithms mimic Darwinian natural selection, where "fitness" selects individuals for survival, breeding, and, hence, adaptive mutation. I covered the background on this in a previous column, and I also showed two Perl implementations, one that bred bytes and another that bred words. In this article, I cover more advanced material on genetic algorithms in Perl."

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An AxKit Image Gallery (O'Reilly)

Barrie Slaymaker explains how to use AxKit to make an image gallery. "AxKit is not limited to working with pure XML data. Starting with this article, we'll work with and around non-XML data by developing an image browser that works with two types of non-XML data: a directory listing built from operating system calls (file names and statistics) and image files. Furthermore, it will be built from small modules that you can adapt to your needs or use elsewhere, like the thumbnail generator or the HTML table wrapper."

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PHP Weekly Summary

Week 105 of the PHP Weekly Summary is out: "Two years already! The 4.3.0 Release Cycle due to begin, 64 bit compatible PHP, and more."

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

This week the Python-URL looks at Puffin; Permutations, Combinations on SourceForge; Python's XML and XML-RPC capabilities; Blog with Python; and much more.

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The Daily Python-URL

This week's Daily Python-URL topics include epydoc, Probability And Statistics Utils for Python, Kaa, Automation with Puffin, CAMFR 1.0, PyANT 0.26, and more.

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The Ruby Garden

Topics on this week's Ruby Garden include method ancestors for class Method, Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know, and more.

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The Ruby Weekly News

Topics on this week's Ruby Weekly News include REXML 2.4.2 and 2.5.2, Ruby/CorporateTime 0.1.0, a Russian Ruby mailing list, dbdbd 0.2, SuperHash, Net::GeoIP 0.01, XMLscan 0.1.0 RC1, ZenWeb 1.14.0, ZenTest 1.0.1, Blogtari 0.0.2, "and" and "or" vs. && and ||, Ruby - common pitfalls?, and a Ruby announcement list.

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Scheme Weekly News

The September 30, 2002 edition of the Scheme Weekly News is out, with the latest Scheme language development news.

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Case-insensitive enumerations (IBM developerWorks)

Doug Tidwell shows how to perform case-sensitive enumeration with XML on IBM's developerWorks. "IBM's own XML ace Doug Tidwell offers one curious reader an automated solution for defining a case-insensitive enumeration that's straightforward, standards-compliant, and requires little work on the developer's part. Several code samples are included."

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Introducing HLink (O'Reilly)

Kendall Grant Clark explains HLink on O'Reilly's XML.com. "On its face HLink is a very simple specification, even if, as Joe English and Tim Bray have noted, it amounts to a kind of rehabilitation of SGML's (infamously complex, as I recall) architectural forms extensions. The point of HLink is to provide a way of saying one or more of the following things: that (1) some elements or attributes within an XHTML markup language (or, better: within a namespace) are or can be treated as a hypertextual link; that (2) the functional semantics -- how the link behaves under various conditions -- are such and such; (3) that an attribute of some element which is a link has such and such an effect on its semantics."

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Introducing PyXML (O'Reilly)

Uche Ogbuji writes about PyXML 0.8.1 on O'Reilly's XML.com site. "One of the things I'm going to do in these columns is provide brief information on significant new happenings relevant to Python-XML development, including significant software releases. PyXML 0.8.1 has been released. Major changes include updated DOM support and the disabling of the bundled XSLT library from the default install."

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omniORB 4.0.0 and omniORBpy 2.0 released

New versions of the omniORB and omniORBpy CORBA ORBs have been released.

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MLton version 20020923 released.

Version 20020923 of MLton has been released. "MLton is a whole-program optimizing compiler for the Standard ML programming language. MLton runs on X86 machines with Linux, FreeBSD, or Cygwin/Windows." The new version features major runtime system improvements, support for FreeBSD, and bug fixes.

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