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Archive 06/2003

`27.Jun.2003` Constantinos Nicolakakis	Tool: SRename Version 3.7.1 Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.1 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool which works from AmigaOS 3.0+ you can easily rename files. In the new version some new features have been added and bugs fixed: New features: Added "Filename" (fn) selector to specify filenames that should be treated like filenames even if they contain wildcard characters. Normally SRename can process such filenames in recursion mode but only if they are present in the root directory, if they are not they are treated as wildcard patterns. "Filename" makes it possible to look for and rename such filenames in recursion mode even if those filenames aren't present in the root directory. Added secondary arguments to "Dirpat": "Androot" (ar) causes the filenames in the starting (root) directory to also be renamed. "Anddirname" (adn) causes the name of the directory that is entered with Dirpat to also be renamed. Removed "Persistentdp" that was used together with "Dirpat" because it's behaviour is now the default for "Dirpat". Not having a persistent pattern for entering directories didn't have much use. Recursion can now be used with non-wildcards, for example giving an ordinary filename to look for. Bugfixes: Corrected a bug in recursion where directories weren't always entered with "Dirpat" if the names of those directories were also to be modified. To avoid this situation now directories are first entered and their contents renamed, and the names of those directories are modified afterwards. Other changes: The shell output has slightly changed in some instances. The recursion bugfix has also caused slight changes to the shell output in recursion, such as that the name of a directory has to be printed again to avoid confusion if subdirectories in that directory were entered and filenames in that same directory are also to be renamed. Download: SRename371.lha (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 19:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	IR-chat of the Amiga-show in Maarssen, Netherlands For the Amiga-show in Maarsen, Netherlands which will take place on 28th June 2003 an IRC-channel has been created: #AmigaParty on ARCNet. Participants are Genesi, Computer City and Attention Software. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 17:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jun.2003` Niels Bache (ANF)	Pictures of Niels Bache of the Amiga fair moved Niels Bache wrote: Up to now my pictures of several Amiga fairs have been accessible under http://nbache.frip.dk/. Although the people have earned much praise for their efforts for this free service in my opinion there have been too many breaks in the last time. Now I have found a new home for these sites where I have also more space. Therefore I could add the pictures of the AmiGBG 2003 again and there will be the possibility to upload the other pictures, too. In any case probably there will be new pictures of the OS4 tour in Götheburg because I will go there today. The new start page can be accessed under http://nbache.frac.dk/. Please change your bookmarks. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 17:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jun.2003` REBOL (ANF)	REBOL/View desktop now Open-Source There is another aspect of pushing forward the open-source idea. The desktop project will be released by Carl Sassenrath as an attempt to integrate the community thus everybody can participate in. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 27. Jun. 2003, 13:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Mitsumi: External floppy with integrated memory card reader »7-in-1-drive for all usual memory cards At the end of June 2003 Mitsumi Europe will introduce the 7-in-1 USB media drive FA 401 to the market which can read and write all usual memory cards and additionally normal 3,5-inches disks.« (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 23:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #042 Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies has published its 42th music pack of its series. This time it contains a tune in Techno style called "Rush Hours" written by the Polish musician Rzs. By the way this is his first track for Liquid Skies Records! The cover was created by DaFreak. Some additional information of the track: Title: Rush Hours Artist: Rzs Style: Techno Play time: 4:39 Format: mp3 The zip-packed file (4,4 MB) can be downloaded from the homepage. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 20:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Michael Böhmer (ANF)	ROMulus-extension for HIGHWAY is being delivered From today on E3B delivers the FlashROM-Modules ROMulus for the known USB-controller HIGHWAY. Thus the most successful USB-controller of E3B can get further functions - without engaging a Zorro-slot. The network-modul NORWAY can be also used. A cooperation with the company IOSPIRIT (Felix Schwarz) will make easy getting the upgrade for all interested users. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 16:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Iomega with 4x-multi format-DVD-burner »DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM in one device Iomega has announced a new internal IDE-DVD-burner drive which DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM combines in one device and at least can burn on the first two mentioned formats with four times speed.« (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 08:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)	Total Amiga Magazine: FTW Official Commerce Partner in Germany After Fun Time World succeeded in putting out issue #14 of the English-language Amiga magazine "Total Amiga" they also made the decision to produce further issues in Germany, and have become the magazine's official German partner. The next edition, #15, is being completed and may already be pre-ordered. Fun Time World: "We recommend that all interested parties order an issue. The price is unchanged." In the latest issue of about 52 pages you can read: AmigaOS 4 Update Fleecy Moss (Amiga) and Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) Columns Pegasos and MorphOS thoroughly explained and tested IBrowse 2.3 Test A few more exciting articles and reports If you hurry, you can still get a copy of issue #14! (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 08:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2003` Philippe Bourdin (ANF)	Report from AUGS Meeting / OS4 on Tour in Basel The official report from AUGS Meeting 2003 in Basel is online, with pictures from Caspar Schlegel (AUGS). The meeting itself was enjoyable for the organizers (Claude Müller/AUGS and Jürgen Schober/point.design). The AUGS team was happily surprised that they actually had to bring in more chairs for the OS4 presentation, which they did with pleasure. Locally, the way to the currently largest Commodore logo in the world was described: in "Aesch" not far from Basel one finds such a logo over 9 meters tall, where it has been for many years at the former headquarters of Commodore Switzerland. Many thanks to all the visitors and have fun with the pictures. A special thanks to Jürgen Schober for his honorable efforts. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 26. Jun. 2003, 08:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Erhard Bruse (ANF)	Event: Pegasos board presentation in Leipzig On June the 28th and 29th 2003 there will be a presentation of more tan 160 clubs and organizations from Leipzig held at the central railstation of Leipzig. At the booth of the Computerclub-Lützschena-Stahmeln where some fellows of the Amiga Club Leipzig are working, there will be a working Pegasos computer shown on both days. On Sunday Micha Heider will be there as well and will be testing and adjusting his Linux image installer CD for the Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 22:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` yps aus dem heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Critics regarding Apple's benchmark for the Power Mac G5 Like it can be obtained from the article by Heise which is linked by the title, Steve Jobs might have operated at the presentation of the Power Mac G5 at the WWDC with some dressed up speed values for the regarding to Apple world's fastest PC. Read the full aricle (German) by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 18:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Michael Asse (ANF)	Webmaster for Amiga Frontier page wanted To all Frontier fans, because I will have no more Internet access during the next time I am looking for somebody who wants to be webmastering my site www.amigafrontier.de.vu (title link). The task is to check the page for dead links (and probably to correct them) and to answer user requests regarding Amiga and UAE (which happens around every two or three months) As a further update there is the AtariST version of Frontier Elite II for a shareware download now on that site. Right On Commander Michael Asse (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 17:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Amigan Software	Tool: Report+ version 5.67 The freeware Report+ is now available in version 5.67. The tool bases on ReAction/GadTools needs AmigaOS 3.9 and offers ten different functions: For example it's possible with Report+ to create Aminet readme files, the Commodore bug reporting tool can be replaced by it or the ammount of bytes for any directory can be shown. Within the new version some bugs have been removed, the IFF displayer is now capable of "IFF SPLT" forms and within the Aminet readme editor the directory tree has been updated. Download: ReportPlus.lha - 314 KB (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 14:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Terra Soft	Terra Soft Offers Apple G5s Prepared for Yellow Dog Linux Loveland, Colorado -- 24 June 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is today accepting pre-orders for Apple G5 Power Macs -- soon to be supported by Yellow Dog Linux. (ps) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 14:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)	CAPS Poll Results Annouced Results to the CAPS poll are now on the website, along with the decision, and the reasons behind it. (ps) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 14:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` DENIC (Website)	DENIC restricts access of Domain information data Starting from July 2003 the DENIC will restrict the number of whois-requests with an automatic system to a limited time interval to avoid mass requests. DENIC as registry for domains below .de provides several information systems, which can be used to find out whether a domain is already registered and if yes, to who. These services are heavily used. Since DENIC has recently increased its technical capacities about 6000 to 7000 requests are answered per minute. According to an analysis the registry more than 90% of these requests do not serve the purpose of determining the status of a domain or its owner once. Rather they are for checking continually in extremely short time intervals whether a certain domain is still registered, in order to register it immediately in the case of a deletion. "We see less of a problem in overloading our systems, because we can handle the high number of requests technically without any difficulties. However, the excessive usage of the whois service by certain users causes costs, which at this point have to be shared between all domain owners", describes DENIC board member Andreas Bäß the background of these steps. "Another problem is the unlimited access to these directories in relation to the detection and prevention of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. A limitation of the maximum number of requests from an address block solves both problems. Because then we can determine a threshold, upwards of which we assume an abuse of the services. However, we also want to motivate the intensive users to talk to us in order to mutually find an alternative way to satisfy their information needs." Therefore, starting July 1st, DENIC will regulate the usage of whois requests more strongly. In addition to the above mentioned limitation of the number of requests, the owner data will in the future be only accessible by way of additional parameters. For those requests the number of requests per time unit will be reduced further in order to better protect the domain owners from an automatic utilisation of their address data. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 13:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Virtual Dimension (Website)	Virtual Dimension: Photos from the "Back in Time Live" event On the 21st of June 2003 there has been the first German Back in Time Live event in Wedel near Hamburg. A party regarding the C=64, at which amog other things there were a lot of remixes of popular SiDs. Virtual Dimension has been there and came back from that party with a bunch of photos. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 12:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi: MPC 7447 for Pegasos G4 processorcard chosen As announced on PegasosPPC.com their choice is made to use the Motorola MPC 7447 for the Pegasos G4 processor modules. Additionaly it is newly confirmed that these cards will be available from July on. "This summer processor cards with Motorola's 7447, which work with 1 GHz and higher, will meet the Pegasos. The 7447 is the most recent PowerPC processor of the fourth generation (G4) by Motorola, which offers an improved performance compared to the predecessor generation (G3). Additional to an increased cache the 7447 offes more pipelines, an improved Front-Side-Bus (FSB) and most important an SIMD unit called Altivec. Altivec offers a special on-chip vector engine which is capable of delivering more than one Gflops (one billion floating point operations per second) and still being affordable to an average user. G4 upgrades will be available from July 2003." (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 25. Jun. 2003, 10:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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