BSDToday: “In this article, I’ll present examples on using LyX to create a document containing chapters, a table of contents, a bibliography, and footnotes.”

“Noon Monday 15 October 2001 at 41st Street and Fifth Avenue, before the
New York Public Library, on the Island of Manhattan, there will be a rally
to free Dmitry Sklyarov.”

Note that this is not an LXNY event, but rather the thirteenth of a series of
rallies, whose Lead Organizer and First Contact is

Leonid Gorkin
lgorkin@excite.com or lgorkin1@nyc.rr.com




Do not bring any sticks to this rally.

There is a New York City regulation forbidding sticks at gatherings.

The New York City police officers who told us of this regulation were
parfit gentle in their courtesy.




There have been and will be rallies in about twenty cities.

http://freesklyarov.org/calendar

Much of the organizing of New York City Rallies to Free Dmitry take place
on the fairuse mailing list of NYFairUse, which list may be joined at

http://www.nyfairuse.org

To download a flyer go to:

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/dmitry-links

For more information:

http://freesklyarov.org
http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov
http://eff.org
http://www.dibona.com/dmca
http://www.templetons.com/brad/free.html
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0108.html




On the morning of 11 September 2001 the United States of America was
attacked.  One big objective of the attack is to drive us to forget our
Bill of Rights.  We will not forget.  We have a right to use our computers
in our homes as we see fit.  We will defend this right.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/bor.html

This summer Dmitry Sklyarov was indicted.  If convicted on all counts he
faces 25 years in prison.  He is accused of distributing a tool to
manipulate files in certain Adobe formats.  All manipulation occurs inside
a single computer.  The tool checks as best it can that the file it
operates on is owned by the person running the tool.  Under the DMCA,
distribution of such a tool is a felony.  If traditional copyright law were
like the DMCA, then distribution of paper, pencils, ink, pens, and cameras
would also be a felony.  Today computers for home and business use contain
no spy hardware nor any spy software, except for certain Trojans which may
have slipped past the owner's defenses.  Under the DMCA and further federal
legislation proposed by Senator Hollings all personal computers will be
required to contain over one megabyte of spy firmware which will monitor
every single read and write of the hard disk.  Under the proposed
legislation the operating system will report back to Infotainment Central
any "suspicious use" of the hard disk.  Law enforcement agencies will
easily get secret writs of computer tapping and be able to watch everything
you do at home on what once was your own machine.  Infotainment Central
will be able to disable your computer without permission from you.

Indictment:

http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/technology/31HACK.html
http://cryptome.org/dmitry-indict.htm
http://cryptome.org/dmitry-burton.htm

Proposed legislation:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html
http://cryptome.org/sssca
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0109.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/16/1647231
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/0034.html
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/2047211

Our rallies and all the work of propaganda and education have been
important in alerting the world to the threat facing not only Dmitry, but
everyone who uses computers and everyone who uses the Great Commons of the
Net.  Despite our alert, the government of the United States chose to
prosecute Dmitry.  Our response must be clear, forceful, and effective.

Why do we rally at the New York Public Library?  Because the Association of
American Publishers has declared that they plan to close down all free
public libraries.  Their chosen tool is the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act.  As demonstrated by the indictment of Dmitry Sklyarov, the DMCA does
indeed outlaw fair use of books that you, or the library, have bought and
paid for:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36584-2001Feb7.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6545588-0.html
http://www.visi.com/~tneu/pro-book.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/23/pirate/index.html
http://www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/index.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/comments
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/boucher_ashcroft_dmca.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July01/ginsparg.archive.ws.html
http://arXiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html
http://xxx.lanl.gov
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu
http://www.baen.com/library/home.htm
http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html

http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/07/lessig.html
http://www.immaterial.net/page.php3?id=44
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue12/LU12-ebenmoglen.html
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu
http://cryptome.org
http://www.ala.org

We need marchers and leafleteers and copiers of leaflets and designers of
leaflets and propagandizers and lobbyists and lawyers and coders and water
carriers and publicists and diplomats.  Come to the Rally and help!  Come
to the Rally and meet allies!

Dmitry Sklyarov today faces twenty-five years in prison for distributing a
program which allows you to make fair use of books you have bought and paid
for.  Come to the Rally and help get Dmitry free!  Free to go home and free
to do his work.



Jay Sulzberger 
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org

“Version 0.2.1 of the Free drop-in replacement for mpg123, mpg321, has
been released. This version of mpg321 is intended to be suitable for release
with Debian woody.”

Highlights of this release include:
* Much higher sound quality. A new, experimental dithering routine has been
  contributed by Rob Leslie. Thoughts and feedback are appreciated.
* Added (non-mpg123) option to skip printing frame status in verbose modes:
  --skip-printing-frames
* BSD and other portability and compilation fixes
* Other bug-fixes and enhancements.

Source and Debian packages of this release can be downloaded from the
Sourceforge project at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36274 .

If you like mpg321, I ask kindly that you make a donation to the Electronic
Freedom Foundation, which helps ensure that writing software of any kind 
remains legal. You can find more information at http://www.eff.org .

I am looking for people to help with everything from hard coding tasks 
(optimization) to easy non-coding tasks (creation of webpages). If you are 
interested, please read the TODO file or send me an email.

mpg321 now has a sourceforge project. To be informed of future releases of
mpg321, subscribe to the mpg321-announce mailing list: either send an email
with 'subscribe' in the body or subject to 
mpg321-announce-request@lists.sourceforge.net, or visit

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mpg321-announce .

The sourceforge project for mpg321 can be viewed at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpg321 .

mpg321 still lacks a few features that mpg123 has; namely
* ID3 tag support
* Extremely robust and well-tested networking support
* Very low resource usage/high-speed decoding and downsampling

The first two items are being targetted for version 0.3.0. The last can
be helped by further optimizing MAD, in particular. Any and all
contributions are welcome.

ABOUT MPG321:

mpg321 was created to alleviate the dependency many people had on the
non-free command-line mp3 player mpg123. It allowed many front-ends to
mpg123 to move to the official Debian archive, rather than being
relegated to the 'contrib' section. 
mpg321 is based on the MAD MPEG decoder library by Rob Leslie
. In particular, this means that mpg321 uses only integer
instructions to decode mp3 files, which is a huge win on any processor
which lacks a floating point unit (FPU) like the ARM. It also means that
mpg321 has very high output quality, since MAD is a Full Layer III
ISO/IEC 11172-3 audio decoder, as defined by the standard. See
http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/ for more information.
mpg321 uses the libao audio library, developed mainly for the Ogg Vorbis
project, for output, which allows it (unlike mpg123) to switch output at
runtime. libao natively supports ESD, ALSA, aRts, and OSS output, among
others. See the mpg321 manual page for more details. 

-- Joe Drew 

CNET: “Industry dollars will soon start flowing into pilot programs looking at the best way to handle an expected avalanche of obsolete computers and other consumer electronics products.

The Electronic Industries Alliance plans to announce on Monday that it has earmarked the funds–approximately $100,000–for a yearlong study to determine how best to collect used electronics for recycling, reuse and disposal. The grants will go to three recipients: the state of Florida, the 10-state Northeast Recycling Council, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region III, which covers Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.”

The Dot: “Five years ago, on October 14th, 1996, Matthias Ettrich delivered his famous newsgroup posting (also HTMLized), and spawned a new era in the history of desktop environments. I think that a simple look at www.kde.org and all its related sites will show everybody just what has happened in the last five years.”

– By Grant Gross –

This week, the Open Source community gained a couple of high-profile converts, and a couple of high-profile Open Source companies said they may branch out into proprietary software.

First the converts: Finland’s leading broadband Internet provider, Sonera Entrum, is replacing Windows NT and Unix servers with Linux. The new configuration will be one IBM machine containing 500 virtual servers running Linux software installed by Red Hat and SuSE. It uses less energy and less space than the 60 NT and Unix boxes it’s replacing.

Also, the U.S. Navy announced this week it would study how to use Open Source. The Naval Oceanographic Office will work with the Open-Source Software Institute to examine how the Navy can benefit from using Open Source software.

While the Open Source way of doing things gains converts, Open Source companies are looking at closed-source business models. This week, Red Hat’s Michael Tiemann suggested that “there are some proprietary technologies out there that may ultimately be relevant to Red Hat’s open source strategy.”

Over at Turbolinux, like Red Hat a Linux distribution company, the leadership is doing more than exploring closed-source software, they’re embracing it. CEO Ly-Huong Pham tells NewsForge’s Jack Bryar that several of the company’s new products will be proprietary.

Mandrake CDs: Coming later, rather than sooner?

Mandrake 8.1 has been available for download since late September, but don’t look for it on CD immediately, at least if you live in the United States. MandrakeSoft says it’s having problems moving manufacturing operations to the United States.

DMCA isn’t a free speech issue?

At least that’s the position of the U.S. Department of Justice, which is seeking to have a Princeton professor’s lawsuit against it and the Secure Digital Music Initiative dismissed. Supposedly, the music industry’s threat to pursue a DMCA lawsuit against Professor Edward Felten if his team published their SDMI research doesn’t count as an attempt to silence his free speech, at least according to the Justice Department.

LWN to be silenced?

No, our friends at LWN.net aren’t facing a DMCA lawsuit, but they are facing tough times because of the current economic downturn. LWN is asking readers for ideas to keep the site going, through a mailing list. If you’d like to subscribe or have other ideas, let them know.

New in NewsForge

Stories NewsForge reported first this week:

Jeff Field reviews the new AMD Athlon XP chip. But he puts it through the paces using Linux, not the operating system after which the chip is named. Oh wait, that’s not released yet, never mind.

We cover a Free Software conference in Washington, D.C., where the movement’s leaders predict they’ll defeat the proprietary way of doing things. But they tell the audience members they need their help.

Tina Gasperson reports on a new Linux certification program, called OpenCERT, which focuses on systems integration skills.

From DebianPlanet: “What happens in incoming? What is it for? How long do packages stay there? I’ve submitted a bug which got fixed about a week ago. I’ve looked at incoming.debian.org and it lists the package’s new version in a file that contains the developper’s message when he closed the bug. However the new package is still not in SID. What is going on?”

From Slashdot: “The 2001 Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) is offering free registration until October 15, to try to increase attendance. If you’re in the Oakland, CA area, perfect! If not, plane tickets are really cheap right now.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “The Eleventh Circuit has ruled that Alice Randall’s novel, The Wind Done Gone, is a parody of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 classic, Gone With The Wind and thus protected by the First Amendment from charges of copyright infringement. Although the Mitchell estate may be owed some royalties, the book cannot be banned. This is a very important ruling in that it prominently features First Amendment analysis of copyright. LawMeme has a number of links to information about the case, as well as the decision [PDF].”

From DebianPlanet: “I made an e2fsprogs and freeswan backport available with a 2.4.12-ac1 (with ext3) kernel patched with freeswan-1.91. This is how I now have a stable filesystem with a fix IP address 😉 You can find info here. This is a step by step howto, with apt sources, it’s easy! Probe out ext3 today ;)”