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Linux-Announce Digest #678
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Linux-Announce Digest #678, Volume #3 Thu, 16 Dec 99 18:13:07 EST
Contents:
LOCAL: New UK LUG around Leicester ("Clive Jones")
Poppy 2.0 - POP3/IMAP mail viewer and deleting prg (Chris Bagwell)
ECDL crypto challenge to benefit Apache foundation (Xavier Leroy)
WWW: NEW Linux Only Jobs Site (none)
WWW: 10th Issue of the "Brave GNU World", the monthly GNU forum ("Georg C. F. Greve")
COMMERCIAL: $1.99 CD containing Stampede & Tiny Linux (info@cheapbytes.com)
SoX 12.16 - Universal Sound File Processor (Chris Bagwell)
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From: "Clive Jones" <CliveJ@marshtrack.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: LOCAL: New UK LUG around Leicester
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:34:52 GMT
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Hi all,
I am forming a new LUG based around Leicester in the UK.
For further details please contact me at
clivej@marshtrack.freeserve.co.uk
Clive Jones.
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From: Chris Bagwell <cbagwell@sprynet.com>
Subject: Poppy 2.0 - POP3/IMAP mail viewer and deleting prg
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:37:40 GMT
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Announcing release 2.0 of Poppy. Poppy is a simple perl script to view
each header of your mail from a POP3 or IMAP server. You can then chose
to read it, delete it, or save it to your local computer. This offloads
most of the work on to the mail server itself.
It is most useful for "limited resources environments" whether that is
low disk space, slow internet connection, or no graphical environment.
It is also useful for repairing server mailbox by deleting emails that
are to large to download reliably or perform quick checks on new email
accounts.
It may be download from http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/projects.html
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http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell | USA
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From: Xavier.Leroy@see.my.sig.for.address (Xavier Leroy)
Subject: ECDL crypto challenge to benefit Apache foundation
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:46:39 GMT
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Your idle CPU cycles are needed for the 7th ECDL challenge:
http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7/
This is arguably the largest public calculation ever to use a complex
parallel algorithm. Canadian company Certicom is offering a prize of
$10000 for the solution. If won, $8000 will be donated to the Apache
foundation and $1000 to each of the two participants who find parts of
the solution.
ECDL stands for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm, and is the
mathematical problem at the heart of the ECC public key cryptosystem
put forward by Certicom (http://www.certicom.com) as a credible
alternative to RSA. To assay the strength of this cryptosystem,
Certicom has published a number of ECDL problems. The first six were
solved by Irish mathematician Robert Harley of INRIA (France). The
sixth one, solved last summer, took 40 days on a network of 750
machines. Robert Harley is now attacking the seventh challenge, which
is one order of magnitude harder. About 800 machines are already
working on it, and estimated completion time is over one year. If we
can get 10000 machines to work on this challenge, a couple of months
should suffice.
Source code and precompiled Linux binaries (RPMs and tarballs) are
available under the GPL, and include versions specially optimized for
64-bit processors and for MMX. The program uses lots of CPU time but
very little memory. It's the ideal candidate to run as background
task on your machine! Communication is done by e-mail or HTTP to a
central site. Note that this is not a trivially parallel exhaustive
search; some rather subtle mathematics are involved.
For more information on ECDL and on how to participate, see
the ECDL7 challenge pages, http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7/
Good luck!
- - Xavier Leroy
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From: none <prithvi@home.com>
Subject: WWW: NEW Linux Only Jobs Site
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:41:29 GMT
Reply-To: contact@intellinux.com
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Announcing the launching of http://www.intellinux.com
A comprehensive site for Linux Jobs Wanted and Jobs Postings.
Try it out !
Thank you
Nandini Rangaswamy
Manager
RedSpice LLC
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From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@gnu.org>
Subject: WWW: 10th Issue of the "Brave GNU World", the monthly GNU forum
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:47:22 GMT
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[Please repost and forward this article widely, wherever it
is appropriate.]
10th Issue of the "Brave GNU World", the
monthly GNU forum, is online now
-- Georg Greve
Hi !
The 10th issue of the "Brave GNU World" column is online
now. It can be found on the GNU Webpage and its mirrors
or follow the links at the end of this posting.
The "Brave GNU World" is a multilingual (English, German, French,
Japanese and Spanish) monthly column that provides information about
internal developments of the GNU Project and things of importance to
the GNU community, while trying to give insights into the underlying
philosophy. It is available online (see links below) or printed in
Germany´s biggest GNU/Linux magazine, the "Linux Magazin".
If you would like to receive mail about new issues directly, you can
subscribe to the "Brave GNU World" announcement mailinglist. Just
send mail to <brave-gnu-world-request@gnu.org> with "subscribe" in
the *body*. The mailinglist is only for announcements that are related
to the "Brave GNU World" and is of very low volume (between 1 and 4
mails a month).
The tenth issue covers the following topics:
* Userv (clean and secure change of user permissions)
* Clobberd (monitor your user activity)
* La51 (8051 (MCS-51) Cross-Compiler)
* CUPS (a new Unix printing architecture)
* SADP (another great CD player)
* About the GNU GPL (why you shouldn´t accept someone calling the
GPL "viral")
This column intends to provide a forum for all GNU maintainers,
friends and associates and I am always open to suggestions. So if
you
* have questions about the GNU Project that might be of general
interest
* have a GNU Project and would like to improve its profile
* would like to start a GNU Project you are looking for people to
start it with
* think something doesn't get the publicity it deserves
* would like to see something made public
send mail to:
"Brave GNU World <column@gnu.org>"
This column is for everyone with an interest in Free Software,
so don´t hesitate to contact me if your project is under the
GPL/LGPL and you´d like to see it introduced here.
The tenth issue can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-10.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-10.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-10.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-10.es.html
[ Spanish version ]
or via the "Brave GNU World" homepage
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.ja.html
[ Japanese version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.es.html
[ Spanish version ]
That´s it for now...
Regards,
Georg Greve
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Subject: COMMERCIAL: $1.99 CD containing Stampede & Tiny Linux
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:47:06 GMT
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From: Chris Bagwell <cbagwell@sprynet.com>
Subject: SoX 12.16 - Universal Sound File Processor
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:38:15 GMT
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Announcing the release of SoX 12.16.
SoX is a commandline universal sound file processor. It can convert
most popular file formats to any other file format (such as converting a
Microsoft WAV file to an Apple AIFF file).
It can optional apply sound effects to the audio data, change the data
type (uncompressed PCM to ADPCM for example), change the sample rate,
plus many, many more things.
You may download and obtain more information from the following web
address:
http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html
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http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell | USA
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