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I like to speak about Spamassassin.
I use it now for ~3 months. The first two months, spam wasn't always detected,
but the detection rate grows from time to time (of course, I did a sa-learn
bla).
A month now, spam is correctly detected, with a quota of >99%. Spam is
redirected in a folder, and I regulary do a sa-learn...).
So it works very good for me.
That's all I wanna say.
Al
Pour info,
ca aurait l'air intéressant s'ils ne poussaient pas les brevets en même
temps
Serge
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:06:14 +0200
"The European Union (E.U.) is hoping to give the European open source
software industry a competitive boost through a Euro 1.5 million (AUD$2.68m)
research project kicking off this week. The focus of the two-year CALIBRE
(Co-ordination Action for Libre Software) project is to improve the way
open-source projects work, through organized research and collaboration with
industry, and to bring open source more into the mainstream."
"The group also hopes to address the issue of software patents, which
Fitzgerald and others see as having the potential to derail the progress of
open-source."
full text:
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;201676706;fp;2;fpid;1
EU boost to open source software
Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com
06/09/2004 08:52:42
The European Union (E.U.) is hoping to give the European open source
software industry a competitive boost through a Euro 1.5 million (AUD$2.68m)
research project kicking off this week.
The focus of the two-year CALIBRE (Co-ordination Action for Libre Software)
project is to improve the way open-source projects work, through organized
research and collaboration with industry, and to bring open source more into
the mainstream. Ultimately this will put Europe a step ahead of the rest of
the U.S.-dominated software industry, the project's leaders hope. CALIBRE
will launch on Sept. 10 at University College Cork.
"Interestingly, the majority of open source contributions come from Europe,
but strategic thinking and leadership of many open-source projects is
probably very much U.S.-dominated," said Prof Brian Fitzgerald of the
University of Limerick's department of science and information systems. The
University of Limerick and University College Cork are leading the project,
with the National Microelectronics Application Centre and 12 academic and
industrial research teams from France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands,
Poland, Spain, Sweden, the U.K. and China also taking part.
Open-source software development, generally speaking, allows individuals and
companies to collaborate on software that isn't owned by a single entity,
and which can be distributed and modified by anyone. In recent years
companies such as IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Novell Inc. have begun
to back high-profile open-source projects such as the Linux operating system
as a way to challenge the dominance of proprietary software vendors such as
Microsoft Corp.
However, the development model is still largely informally organized and
remains poorly understood, Fitzgerald said. To put open source on the
industry agenda, researchers need to carry out detailed analysis, massive
collection of data and studies from the software engineering and economic
points of view, CALIBRE believes. For example, part of the project will be
to compile a database of open-source success stories and to codify and
distribute best practices.
In particular, Europe has competitive strengths in the "secondary" software
sector -- areas such as automotive, telecommunications and consumer
electronics -- but this sector doesn't currently have an effective approach
to open source, Fitzgerald said. "As CALIBRE represents the leading
authorities on open source in Europe, or indeed worldwide, we are in a
unique position to transfer these lessons to European industry," he told
Techworld.
More generally, the project plans to tackle open-source issues such as
ensuring code quality and supply of developer talent, and how businesses can
plan strategy around open source. Researchers will even examine the
socio-cultural challenges to open source projects, such as 'alpha-male'
territorial squabbles and the tendency of developers to burn out.
The group also hopes to address the issue of software patents, which
Fitzgerald and others see as having the potential to derail the progress of
open-source. "Clearly some form of protection for non-obvious innovation is
necessary for industry," he said. "However, copyrights and patents come from
a different era, and we need to derive more suitable versions which will
work in today's software marketplace and are palatable to industry."
CALIBRE will also examine two related trends currently cropping up in
software development: distributed development -- factors such as outsourcing
and globalization -- and unconventional, or "agile", development methods.
The project's first meeting will be held in November at the Hague, which
will also see the establishment of a permanent industry-research forum
called Calibration.
Fitzgerald stressed that CALIBRE isn't about abstract, theoretical research
cut off from practical concerns. "Industry obviously do carry out a lot of
research. However, the CALIBRE partners represent the leading players in
this area, whose research is actually drawn upon by these companies," he
said.
The project partners are University of Limerick, the Business Innovation
Centre of Alto Adige-Südtirol, Chinasoft, Groupe des Ecoles de
Telecommunications, National Microelectronics Applications, Poznan
University of Technology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, IMRI Â University of
Paris Dauphine, University College Cork, University of Lincoln, University
of Maastricht / MERIT and University of Sk"vde (H"gskolan i Sk"vde), with
ITEA and Open Forum Europe as official observers.
CALIBRE will coordinate with existing EU projects around open source,
including COSPA (Consortium for Open Source in the Public Administration)
and FLOSS-POLS, which examines the use of open standards and open source in
government.
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Hi,
since having experienced the niceties of the trackpoint on my
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with such a trackpoint.
It is my subjective impression, but I prefer it very much to
a classic mouse, a trackball or a touchpad - even if it won't
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As I found yesterday, such a thing actually exists:
http://www.pckeyboard.com/pdf/EnduraPro.pdf
or a similar model, without Windows keys:
http://www.pckeyboard.com/pdf/Onthestick.pdf
Essentially, this is an old-style IBM keyboard (the
excellent piece of hardware that very few people want to get
replaced) with a trackpoint and 2 mouse keys - connectors are
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The main advantage is that you can use keyboard & mouse without
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you can work faster, and you need less desktop space.
I'm seriously considering ordering such a keyboard. If anyone
else is interested...
Oh yes - on the website, they only talk about the U.S. layout.
I asked about other layouts, i.e. swiss-french. They haven't
made one of those yet, but are willing to do so. They'd cost
as much as the other ones ($99), plus shipping of course (which
can be a hefty amount). I'll still have to ask whether they'd
need a minimum number of sales before manufacturing such a
layout.
Greetings, Eric
