Acorn News Service Newsletter

Issue: 162 (11 July 2004)

Featured site this issue: http://www.drobe.co.uk/extra/ctltranscript.html

General News

Castle press conference transcript

Drobe have produced a transcript of the Castle press conference on the RISC OS license dispute mentioned in the last issue:

<http://www.drobe.co.uk/extra/ctltranscript.html>
<http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1112.html>

Commercial News

STD temporary closure

In order to minimise further losses and continue to review the changes which have taken place in the RISC OS market recently, Stuart Tyrrell Developments - the RISC OS retail arm of Advantage Six Ltd - announced on Monday, 5th July, that they would close with immediate effect for a period of seven days.

Stuart Tyrrell Developments will make a further announcement on Tuesday, 13th July. Advantage Six Ltd, their service to OEM customers, and all support and warranties remain unaffected.

<http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1113.html>

PD/Shareware News

Updated software summary

Bogofilter v0.92.0
A Bayesian spam filter. It inspects e-mail messages and inserts headers that indicate whether or not the message is spam. New in this version: ignore list and multiple wordlists; Robinson's Effective Size Factor (ESF); changed default parameters; ignore PGP signature data; output from "bogofilter -Q" can now be used as config file; and more.
<http://www.sbellon.de/sw-ports.html>
RegEx module v1.04
Module wrapper for the GNU regular expression library, so that applications that want to use regular expressions do not have to be written in C or statically linked against the GNU regex library. This version is 32-bit compatible and fixes a bug in the [GS]etDefaultSyntax SWIs.
<http://www.sbellon.de/sw-modules.html>
SpamStamp v0.16
Uses Bayesian filtering techniques to detect spam and adds headers to suspect e-mail, allowing a mail client to treat it accordingly. New in this version: multitasking support; user configurable hash sizes and memory usage; check combinations of words; bug fixes and other improvements.
<http://home.c2i.net/jjvdgeer/riscos/spamstamp.html>
Stealth v1.1
Enables you to store a number of encrypted directories inside a container file, each with its own unique passphrase. The program is designed so that no one without a knowledge of the passphrases can determine how many encrypted directories are actually hidden. A particular directory can be decrypted and extracted only by entering the correct passphrase. There are two alternative versions: 1.1b is for users of RISC OS 5 or Virtual Acorn systems; 1.1a is recommended for users of earlier versions of RISC OS on 'native' hardware, because of the greater speed and somewhat higher security of the utility 'nuke' which it contains. New features in these versions: faster creation of Stealth files; better progress messages; minor security and cosmetic enhancements.
<http://www.queen.clara.net/pgp/acorn.html>

Club News

Upcoming meetings

DARC (Derbyshire), 12th July - Xara X; Personalising a music collection
<http://www.darc-comp.org.uk/>
SASAUG (Surrey/Sussex), 12th July
<http://www.poppyfields.net/sasaug/>
EAUG (Essex), 13th July
<http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug/>
LAUG (Liverpool), 13th July
<http://www.italia.co.uk/laug/>
NKACC (Kent), 18th July - Barbecue
<http://nkacc.roundel.net/>
ROUGOL (London), 19th July - Harriet Bazley: StrongEd
<http://rougol.jellybaby.net/>
RONWUG (North West), 21st July
<http://www.ronwug.org/>
BARUG (Bristol), 28th July
<http://www.barug.co.uk/>
ICENI (Ipswich), 4th August
<http://www.btinternet.com/~icenicomputerclub/>
WROCC (Wakefield), 4th August - Presenting with RISC OS
<http://www.wrocc.org.uk/>
NKACC (Kent), 12th August
<http://nkacc.roundel.net/>
WAUG (Wessex), 14th August
<http://www.mfraz.freeserve.co.uk/waug/>

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