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Linux-Announce Digest #832
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Linux-Announce Digest #832, Volume #3 Sat, 5 Aug 00 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
web2ldap.py 0.7.8 - web gateway for accessing LDAP servers (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
WorldForge Acorn demo 0.1 alpha released (Alistair Riddoch)
rp-pppoe 2.2 -- Robust PPPoE client for Linux and BSD ("David F. Skoll")
LOCAL: Long Island Linux Users Group - August 8th Meeting ("Michael J. Roberts")
NetKit 0.17 is released ("David A. Holland")
New RPM packages for Linux. (Max Heijndijk)
LOCAL: LUNICS meeting (NJ), August 7th (Andreas Meyer)
LOCAL: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (Ed Centanni)
WWW: Linux MusicStation .. lotsa new stuff (John Littler)
WWW: Linux Gazette #56 (August 2000) available (Linux Gazette)
MkLinux: Performa 52xx/53xx/62xx/63xx Support ("David A. Gatwood")
LOCAL: Polk County Linux User Group (Henry White)
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From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: web2ldap.py 0.7.8 - web gateway for accessing LDAP servers
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:31:57 GMT
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
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*** web2ldap.py 0.7.8 ***
I would like to announce a new version of web2ldap, a full-featured
LDAPv2+ client written in Python designed to run as web gateway.
It's available for free (GPL) from
http://www.web2ldap.de/
The changes are documented on:
http://www.web2ldap.de/changes.html
There's a demo up and running:
http://www.web2ldap.de/demo.html
I would like to encourage users to heavily test this gateway and
report success or problems to feedback@web2ldap.de. You might want
to use the feedback form on
http://www.web2ldap.de/feedback.html
as a template for a mail. Thanks a lot.
Ciao, Michael.
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From: Alistair Riddoch <ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: WorldForge Acorn demo 0.1 alpha released
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:38:25 GMT
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The WorldForge project are pleased to announce the first alpha release
of our Acorn demo. A full press release is included below, and more information
can be found at the following locations:
The worldforge project homepage:
http://www.worldforge.org/
A description of the Acorn demo:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/
Where to download Acorn 0.1:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/download
Installation and instructions and players guide:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/install
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/players
If you would like further information, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Al
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Al Riddoch
Acorn coordinator
The WorldForge Project
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Acorn
- From beneath the firey fog laid atop the Desert of Tyr, the
thunderclouds of war threaten the land known as Cambria. Even just one
month ago, did the Council T-Nor convene in the great ancient Morall of
Caer Jassad, to call for the Ard Rohorg, to rescue the land from this
menace of war. The fanatic Shalkrin to the East have ceased relations,
orc raids from the north and south reveal unchecked aggression, and
unknown threat arise from the many other jealous nations resting against
Cambria's borders.
The rains have fallen steadily on the land the last three years,
bringing to Cambria many fruits. Yet fortune has not smiled as brightly
upon the other inhabitants of Dural, bringing instead flood to some,
drought and famine to others. From the south raid the Gnarpa,
hunger-maddened wolves raised by orcs of the Dark Vale. From the
necropoli of the deepest reaches of the desert, the mummified
Priest-Kings of Syllus have sent their skeletal minions to bring terror
and despair. And from the muddy Nardonar River have risen waves of
hungry Lakos, giant crustaceans, whom some say have been summoned out of
the mud flats by the Arch-Priest of the Shalkrin, to restore balance
upset by the successful Cambridgers.
With the opportunities to trade with the Shalkrin goldmines shut off and
fearing imminent orc invasion; the Ard Rohorg has commissioned the
restoration of the lost desert trade routes through the Dunes of Syllus,
to Tumuljen and beyond. In the borderland village of Agrilan, in the
shade of the rich oak groves of the Haretone Forest, young men and women
endeavor to raise and fatten pigs, to provide the salted meats needed by
the soldiers preparing for battle. I their workshops, the masons invent
clever traps and fortified outposts, and the caravan merchants transfer
preserved goods to the famine-struck nations of the deep desert, to
exchange for the goods of their massive iron forges.
"Acorn" is the second in a series of games created as part of the
WorldForge bootstrapping endeavour, aimed at creating an engine for
massively multiplayer online games. The previous demo featured skeletons
moving across crude maps, Acorn builds on this by incorporating the
following features:
* Python scripted, event-driven rule system
* Client/server architecture using the Atlas Protocol System
* Goal-motivated artificial intelligence
* Herding behavior and nutrient-based growth simulation
* Sound detection and automated reaction
* Richer collection of artwork, sound effects, and music
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From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
Subject: rp-pppoe 2.2 -- Robust PPPoE client for Linux and BSD
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:52:41 GMT
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Version 2.2 of rp-pppoe has been released.
rp-pppoe is a user-mode client and server for the Point-to-Point
Protocol over
Ethernet, a protocol used by many ADSL service providers. It runs on
standard Linux kernels (2.0 or 2.2; no kernel modification required),
FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Changes from version 2.1:
o Added the "-f" option to pppoe to cope with (broken!) PPPoE
implementations which use non-standard frame types. Rumours indicate
that some 3Com DSL modems require a "-f 3c12:3c13" option, possibly with
a "-S ISP" option as well. If your provider requires the "-f" option,
complain loudly -- it is not RFC-compliant!
o Added the "pppoe-sniff" program which watches a connection from
another box (e.g. running Windows) and deduces the correct "-f" and "-S"
options needed for UNIX.
Get rp-pppoe-2.2 from:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/
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David F. Skoll
mailto:dfs@roaringpenguin.com | Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com | Linux and UNIX Specialists
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From: "Michael J. Roberts" <MRoberts@TaskWeb.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Long Island Linux Users Group - August 8th Meeting
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:54:05 GMT
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LILUG, the Long Island Linux Users Group, will hold its regular monthly
meeting on Tuesday, August 8, 2000, at 8 PM in Gleeson Hall, room 202/204, on
the campus of SUNY Farmingdale.
Tom Rothamel will continue his multi-meeting series about digital keys
LILUG meeting are free and open to all. We meet on the second Tuesday of every
month on the campus of SUNY Farmingdale. For more information, please visit us
at: http://www.LILUG.org
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From: "David A. Holland" <dholland@www.linux.org.uk>
Subject: NetKit 0.17 is released
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:50:47 GMT
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The following items have been uploaded to ftp.uk.linux.org (in
/pub/linux/Networking/netkit) and sunsite.unc.edu (in
/pub/Linux/Incoming):
netkit-combo-0.17.tar.gz
biff+comsat-0.17.tar.gz
bsd-finger-0.17.tar.gz
linux-ftpd-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-base-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-bootparamd-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-ftp-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-ntalk-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-routed-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-rpc-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-rsh-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-rusers-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-rwall-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-rwho-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-telnet-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-tftp-0.17.tar.gz
netkit-timed-0.17.tar.gz
netwrite-0.17.tar.gz
These releases supersede the 0.16 versions.
netkit-combo-0.17 contains all of the others in a single easier-to-download
tarball. You do not need both it and the individual other packages.
This release fixes the following major problems, as well as other
minor ones:
- Security problems associated with printf format string
handling in ftpd and in code generated by rpcgen have
been fixed.
- ping's handling of -c has been comprehensively fixed,
and a -w option compatible with Red Hat's has been added.
- A file descriptor leak in inetd was corrected.
- The interaction of talk scrolling and 8-bit character sets
has been fixed.
- The file size limits in tftp/tftpd have been lifted.
- Environment negotiation in telnet now works correctly.
This release also adds the following features:
- rwhod and rusersd can now run without root, and rwhod can
be run chrooted.
- finger supports .nofinger files.
- The scrolling in talk has been improved
This release, however, also has the following problem:
- PAM support has been worked on, but may still be broken.
Note that netkit-ftp has fallen behind the technology curve. It may in
the future disappear completely. A better ftp client, ported from
NetBSD's, can be found in the package "lukemftp".
This is a source-only release. Requires libc 5.2 or higher, or glibc
2.0.6 or higher. Should work with any kernel released within the last
four years. gcc 2.7.2 or higher is required. Also requires
ncurses. GNU readline is optional.
Please send questions and comments to netbug@ftp.uk.linux.org.
Future plans for netkit maintenance are still up in the air, but in the
meantime new releases will still appear from time to time. I don't have
a whole lot of cycles to spare to work on netkit, so things are likely
to continue to be fairly slow.
David A. Holland
23 July 2000
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From: Max Heijndijk <cchq@wanadoo.nl>
Subject: New RPM packages for Linux.
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:44:34 GMT
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Announcing new RPM packages for Linux.
======================================
I have created a collection of RPM packages most of which could
previously only be obtained as a .tar.gz package.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PACKAGES
===========================
AIDE: A file integrity checker like Tripwire(tm).
MHASH: Libraries needed by AIDE.
BSETBG: Wrapper script for setting backgroundimage
for BlackBox.
CDRTOASTER: Graphical frontend for burning CD-ROMS.
EZNET: A simpler way to do PPP for internet dialup connections.
GPSTREE: Shows process tree in an X window and allows you
to kill a process. Something like ktop or gtop,
but you don't need KDE or GNOME.
GTKTETRIS: A tetris game that looks much better
than cxhextris.
IFLED (+DUTCH VERSION): For monitoring a network interface
with the keyboard LED's.
JOHN THE RIPPER: Password checking /cracking utility.
KCD: Possibly the best console directory changer around.
NAPSTER: A GTK+ napster clone.
NCFTP DUTCH VERSION: An improved FTP-client.
PI: Yellow Notes for X.
PDQ: Printing tool. Complete replacement for lpr,
lp, lpd, lpq, lpstat, and lprm with a
graphical interface.
QPROMPT: Qprompt allows reading from the command line,
like read but without the enter. Great for
shell scripting.
RIPENC: Console frontend for ripping and encoding of CD'S.
RT: Root Tail, shows text (logfile) on root window in X.
SCANLOGD: Detects TCP port scans.
SMIX: A sound mixer that does it all.
TCLINPUTBOX: Run a command in X.
TCT: Graphical frontend for crontab.
TOOLBOX: A style-file editor for the BlackBox Window Manager.
WAVE: A waveform generator (guitar tuner included).
XPROC: Graphical tool to view system information.
XWGUI: Printing Utility. Graphical frontend for the XW TOOLS.
Prints high quality graphics.
XZGV: An X version of the zgv picture viewer.
OBTAINING THE PACKAGES
======================
Visit http://home.wanadoo.nl/cchq/conmen/index.html
Best regards, Max Heijndijk
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From: Andreas Meyer <ahm@research.bell-labs.com>
Subject: LOCAL: LUNICS meeting (NJ), August 7th
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:51:33 GMT
Reply-To: lunics@acgnj.org
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The next meeting of the ACGNJ Linux/Unix SIG (aka LUNICS)
will be on Monday August 7th at 8pm. We meet in the Scotch Plains
Rescue Squad building, just off Park Ave. in Scotch Plains, NJ.
This month, Bill D'Augustine will present "Introduction to BSD".
For directions and more information, see: http://www.acgnj.org/
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Andreas Meyer, ahm@research.bell-labs.com, http://www.bell-labs.com/~ahm/
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From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:57:58 GMT
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WHEN:
Wednesday 9 Aug 2000, 19:00 to 21:00 local, starts promptly
(second Wednesday of each month)
WHERE:
*************! NEW MEETING PLACE !******************
PricewaterhouseCoopers -- Room 684
3109 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd
Lakepointe I Building
Tampa, FL 33607
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
ACTIVITIES:
1) Presentation: To be announced
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) BIG Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
FOLLOWING MEETING:
Saturday 26 Aug 2000 2000 09:30 to 12:00 local.
Dunedin -- Dunedin Public Library,
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From: John Littler <jlittler@nirvanet.net>
Subject: WWW: Linux MusicStation .. lotsa new stuff
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 21:04:02 GMT
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Linux MusicStation aka m-station ...
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new stuff for August ...
MP4 Survey
Bert Schiettecatte has a wide ranging look at
MPEG-4 - what it is and what it might mean.
Music Makers
SAOL user Tobiah, chats about CSound and music.
Making MIDI Instruments
Eric Welsh made the patch set for timidity++
and now he's giving us some clues as to how it's
done in an excellent article.
Software Keyboards Howto
A mini-howto for getting software keyboards to
export MIDI to a software sequencer so that the
keyboard output is recorded by the sequencer.
Basically, you "play" the computer keyboard.
Low Latency Howto Updated
Benno Senoner's mini Howto has been updated.
New developments here include a kernel RPM and
a matching ALSA RPM.
Ibiza Guide
Jonty Adderly tells us the ins and outs of a
vacation in Ibiza.
Improved nnnews page (part 2)
The links that pointed to deep space
have now been fixed.
Cheers
John
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pgp public key @ http://www.crosswinds.net/~linuxmusic/pubring.html
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From: Linux Gazette <lg@ssc.com>
Subject: WWW: Linux Gazette #56 (August 2000) available
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:55:12 GMT
Reply-To: gazette@ssc.com
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"Linux Gazette...Making Linux just a little more fun!"
Linux Gazette is a freely available, WWW e-zine that includes short articles
giving tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions for customizing and running
Linux. It is a member of the Linux Documentation Project.
Linux Gazette issue #56, August 2000, is out and can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/
For download purposes, individual issues of LG are available at:
ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/
A list of mirror sites can be found at:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html
While we do not mail issues of LG to our readers--it's just too big--we do
have an announcement service. Write lg-announce-request@ssc.com with the
word subscribe in the body, and each month you will receive an e-mail notice
when we post Linux Gazette.
Topics in this issue include:
* The MailBag
+ Help Wanted & Article Ideas
+ General Mail
* The Answer Gang , by The Linux Gazette Answer Gang
* More 2-Cent Tips
* Maximux , by Shane Collinge
* Linux for small players? Compaq sees important market
opportunities ahead , by Fernando Ribeiro Corrêa
* An Overview of Linux Mail Software , by Jim Dennis
* ping , by Pat Eyler
* Tools of the Trade: nmap , by Josh Flechtner
* The Future Depends on What We Do Now , by Nicolay Alfredo GIRALDO
Leiva
* Tuxedo Tails , by Eric Kasten
* Linux Site O' The Month: SourceXchange , by Sean Lamb
* Micro Publishing, part II (Mark's Update) , by Mark Nielsen
* An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in Python , by
Michael Orr
* The Quanta HTML Editor , by Martin Skjøldenrand
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From: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
Subject: MkLinux: Performa 52xx/53xx/62xx/63xx Support
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 20:59:54 GMT
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As of July 31, 2000, the PowerMac 5200/5300/6200/6300 family of
computers, and their Performa equivalents, are officially
supported in MkLinux. Please NOTE that only the 6214 has been
tested, so there may be some small snags in some of the others.
Barring any surprises, though, it should "just work".
This is particularly significant, as this is the first free and Open
Source OS to work on these machines.
CAVEATS:
* Sound is not supported yet. That's the next priority....
* SCSI is working, but rather slow. It's partially hardware
at fault, and partially a lack of pseudo-DMA code. Oh well.
It "mostly works." As always, your mileage may vary.
* Serial is untested. It should work, but again, YMMV.
Special Thanks:
* Tony Mantler (of mac68k-land) for assistance in tracking down a
lost IDE interrupt.
* MontaVista Software for my continued employment.
* Apple Computer for being about as unhelpful as one might expect,
and for even releasing a perverse hybrid of a Quadra and a
PowerMac in the first place ....
* Linux-mac68k and NetBSD-mac68k for providing invaluable insight
into the Quadra 630 upon which this beast was based, and more
significantly, for correcting some of my own insights.
* Everyone who has offered to help test this support, etc. Now's
your chance.
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You can find a bleeding edge test kernel at
ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/contrib/Mach_Kernel.PERFORMA.gz
All source code changes have been incorporated into the official MkLinux
CVS tree. For more information, please visit our web site at
http://www.mklinux.org
Or visit our CVSweb system at
http://cvs.mklinux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb
For information on this port, feel free to contact me directly at this
email address.
Cheers,
David
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From: Henry White <henryw@gte.net>
Subject: LOCAL: Polk County Linux User Group
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 21:01:42 GMT
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The Polk County Linux Users Group will hold its general meeting (2nd
Tuesday of every month):
Tuesday, 8 August at 7:00 pm in the Cafeteria
Southwest Middle School,
2815 South Eden Parkway,
Lakeland
(west off Florida Avenue South (US98) at Edgewood Drive (a couple
of blocks south of Southgate Shopping Center) to South Eden Parkway on the
right. (see map at http://pclug.sourceforge.net/pclug/meetings.html).
Agenda:
Brief Linux/OpenSource Announcements
Technical presentations, Demos, Q&A
Installation and Troubleshooting Sessions
Door prizes
Topic: 'Selecting a distribution'
All Linux users are welcome, regardless of expertise level. If you're
not currently using Linux but are interested or thinking about it, this is
the time and place to find out all you need to know!
If you have questions, comments, or just want to participate, please
email pclug@email.com or visit our webpage at
http://pclug.sourceforge.net/pclug/index.html
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