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Linux-Announce Digest #26, Volume #4 Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal November 2001 (Heather Mead)
zgv 5.5 - svgalib picture viewer with thumbnail-based file selector (Russell Marks)
Afio archiver version 2.4.7 (Koen Holtman)
Guikachu 0.11: "Got W?": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects (ERDI Gergo)
Guiffy 3.2 compare/merge update ("Bill Ritcher")
Pastmon-0.1.9 Response time monitor released ("glbevan")
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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:30:35 CST
From: Heather Mead <heather@ssc.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal November 2001
Archive-to: linux/linux-journal-toc91
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Linux Journal Contents -- #91 -- November 2001
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Subscribers: If your issue is late arriving, you can find all of these articles on our interactive site at
http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/
Features
* Open-Source Web Servers: Performance on a Carrier-Class Linux Platform by Ibrahim F. Haddad
Apache, Jigsaw and Tomcat compete for benchmark glory.
* Moving to PostgreSQL's Object-Relational DBMS by Chris Volpe
Cleaning house--moving to PostgreSQL one step at a time.
* The Scalable Test Platform by Nathan Dabney
OSDL offers open-source developers an invaluable resource.
Indepth
* More Than Word(s) by Jan Schaumann
Dealing with pesky .docs with some lean and clean word processing alternatives.
* Getting Your Palm to Talk to a Linux Box by Johan Coppieters and Kevin Velghe
Linux Box and Palm--sure they're different but that doesn't mean they shouldn't talk to each other.
* Building the Ultimate Linux Box by Eric S. Raymond
Teaming up with hardware experts to build a couple of dream Linux machines.
* 2001 Readers' Choice Awards by Heather Mead
The results are in--read 'em if you dare.
Toolbox
* At the Forge Data Modeling with DODS by Reuven M. Lerner
* Cooking with Linux Enterprise--Help for Sys Admins by Marcel Gagné
* Paranoid Penguin Detecting Suspect Traffic by Michael Rash
* GFX XFree86 4.1.0 and ATI Radeon by Robin Rowe
* Linux in Education Implementing a Research Knowledge Base by Michael Yuan
Columns
* Focus on Software: Applications for Your Enterprise by David Bandel
* Focus on Embedded Systems: Embedded Linux: A Timely New Book by Rick Lehrbaum
* Geek Law: More on Trademarks by Lawrence Rosen
* Linux for Suits: Original and Instant by Doc Searls
Departments
* Letters
* upFRONT
* From the Editor
* Best of Technical Support
* New Products
* Advertisers Index
Strictly On-Line
* Apache 2.0: The Internals of the New, Improved "A PatCHy" by Ibrahim F. Haddad
* Vi IMproved--Vim and Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2 by Don Marti
* Setting up a Multitrack Audio Recording Studio by Alex Heizer
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Heather Mead, Associate Editor 206-782-9011 phone
Linux Journal and Embedded Linux Journal 206-782-7191 fax
P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, Washington 98155
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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:30:35 CST
Subject: zgv 5.5 - svgalib picture viewer with thumbnail-based file selector
Reply-To: russell.marks@ntlworld.com
From: Russell Marks <russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com>
zgv is an svgalib picture viewer with a thumbnail-based file selector.
Most file formats are supported, and the thumbnails used are
compatible with xv, xzgv, and the Gimp. It can also be used with `zgv
file(s)', to effectively bypass the file selector.
zgv's homepage is here:
http://www.svgalib.org/rus/zgv/
You can also download it from ibiblio:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/svga/zgv-5.5.tar.gz
5.5 fixes a few buffer overruns, though any possible exploit should
have been capable of no more than leaving the console in graphics
mode.
There are also some additions and changes which have been pending for
a while - recursive thumbnail update, long option support, and a
rearrangement of the selector display. And the file info dialog in the
viewer is less kludgey now, popping-up over the picture in most cases.
Here's the changes relative to the previous version (from NEWS):
** New features
Recursive thumbnail update, ported from xzgv. This updates thumbnails
for the current dir and all subdirs (being careful to avoid symlink
loops).
The selector looks different in various ways. Most obviously, the logo
is gone (replaced with a sort of `title bar' with similar content to
xzgv's), the scrollbar is enabled by default, and 20 thumbnails are
visible by default rather than 12 - but there are other changes, like
losing the `raised border' look in most cases, and buttons looking
roughly like they do in GTK+.
GIF animation speed is now much, much more accurate; it previously
tended to run rather slowly.
Now supports GIF animation with the same orientation as the normal
picture. So for example you can flip the picture, and the animation
will be of similarly flipped frames.
The file info dialog (on `:') is much improved - it's now roughly the
same as the one in xzgv.
Added GNU-style long-option support, and changed/reorganised config
file option names to suit this; see `Invoking zgv' in info file or
`OPTIONS' in man page. Essentially things are a lot more xzgv-like now
(and just about everything can be messed about with on the
command-line). Note that most old option names are still supported in
config files, so it shouldn't break things.
Optional black background in 8-bit modes, disabled by default (use the
`black-background' config file option to enable). It works by swapping
the nearest-to-black palette index with the zero index, and altering
the in-memory image to match. This can be rather nice for consistency
with high-colour images, but means that 8-bit images which need such a
`fix' will take longer to appear.
** Bugfixes
Fixed three buffer overruns. Given the nature of these, I suspect they
weren't exploitable for a DoS (i.e. leaving the console in graphics
mode), but it's difficult to be certain.
More BMP fixes - thanks to Jakub Bogusz for most of these.
Finally generates correct height comment for animated GIFs. (Be sure
to remove any old `.xvpics' dir if you want to fix this for existing
files.)
GIF animation with zoom mode enabled no longer pointlessly clears the
screen for each frame.
It previously drew entire pixel lines unnecessarily for images which
remained smaller than the screen width when scaled up.
It didn't previously do the required redraw when toggling fakecols
(with `F') when in 16-colour mode.
No longer undraws/redraws scrollbar unnecessarily during thumbnail
update.
The progress report bar now says "Reading" rather than
"Decompressing". At last. :-)
** Other changes
Message boxes can now pop up over the existing viewer screen in most
cases (i.e. in any mode which is 640x480 or higher and has 256 or more
colours), using much the same approach as the mouse menu does. This
means that e.g. doing `:' in the viewer to get file info generally
doesn't need a mode switch any more.
The old `fullsel', `hicolmodes', and `hicontrol' settings have been
dropped, as they're now obsolete. You get a warning if you try to use
them.
The `centre' setting can no longer be toggled on the command-line with
the `-c' option. (You can use `--centre=off' if you still want to
disable this from the command-line.)
Here's the LSM entry:
==========================================================================
Begin4
Title: zgv
Version: 5.5
Entered-date: 2001-10-04
Description: zgv is a full-featured picture viewer for VGA/SVGA
displays which supports most popular formats. (It uses
svgalib.) It provides a file selector with thumbnails
to select file(s) to view, and allows panning and
fit-to-screen methods of viewing, slideshows, scaling,
etc.
Keywords: svgalib graphics viewer thumbnails
GIF JPEG PNG PBM PGM PPM BMP TGA PCX mrf PRF XBM XPM TIFF
Author: rus@svgalib.org (Russell Marks)
Primary-site: http://www.svgalib.org/rus/zgv/
Alternate-site: ftp.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/svga
332449 zgv-5.5.tar.gz
244943 zgv-5.5-bin.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
End
==========================================================================
-Rus.
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From: Koen Holtman <koen@meta.caltech.edu>
Subject: Afio archiver version 2.4.7
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:30:56 CST
Version 2.4.7 is a maintenance release.
* WHAT IS IT?
Afio is an archiver/backup program that produces cpio-format archives.
Like tar, afio can make compressed archives. However, the compressed
archives produced by afio are much safer than tar -z archives. If a
tar -z archive has a read error, tar is unable to extract the files
beyond this error. The compressed archive format used by afio allows
it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next file.
* WHERE DO I GET IT?
Version 2.4.7 is at:
ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/backup/afio-2.4.7.tgz
* DO I NEED TO UPGRADE TO 2.4.7?
An upgrade is recommended if you are using afio on filesystems which
contain files bigger than 2GB. Afio cannot correctly archive such
large files, but the new version 2.4.7 will print an error message
when encountering such a large file, rather than silently failing to
archive the file correctly.
Also an upgrade is recommended if you are using the -s option (to set
the archive volume size) with values above 4 GB. Earlier versions
have a bug that causes the incorrect handling of these values in rare
cases.
Some other minor bugs have been fixed, and a few improvements to the
manpage have been made.
* NEW FEATURES
Introduces a `maximum-file-size-to-compress' option, with 200 GB
default value, to increase fault tolerance.
Koen.
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From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: Guikachu 0.11: "Got W?": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:31:17 CST
Dear users of both large and small computing tools,
A new release of Guikachu is available.
About Guikachu
==============
Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
files for PalmOS-based pocket computers. The user interface is
modelled after Glade, the GNOME UI builder.
Catch it all from http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/
Features
========
* Exporting to PilRC .rcp files (compile with pilrc -H)
* String resources
* Dialog resources
* Menu resources
* Form resources
* Per-application resources (e.g. version number, icon)
* Form editor with graphical drag & drop capability to make designing
forms more easier and faster
* Native font support in the form editor for more precise
preview
* XSLT style sheets to generate RCP files from Guikachu
documents
About this release
==================
Altough this is only your usual yet another release with nothing to
get excited over, it is an important milestone on the long road
towards Guikachu 1.0: every single PalmOS widget that was initially
targeted is supported. This leaves only Gadget and Bitmap as the
unsupported ones, but implementing Bitmaps will also need the ability
to store and edit pictures -- something that is going to be left for
the post-1.0 time.
New features:
* New supported widget: Table
* Scrollbar property editor's min/max/value fields are
properly synchronized
* MIME description files
* Spaces in resource ID's are automatically converted to
underscores
* Widget editors are lazily initialized, resulting in a
considerable speed-up at startup on slower systems
* Some other optimizations
* New translations: pl (Zbigniew Chyla)
Guikachu uses GTK-- and GNOME-- for its user interface. File I/O is
implemented with the libxml package. Dialog windows are loaded via
libglade. You will need the versions of these packages available in
the GNOME 1.4 bundle (with the exception of GNOME-- which you will
need to upgrade to version 1.2.0)
To actually create the PalmOS resource files, you will also need PilRC
(part of the GNU PalmOS SDK) to compile the .rpc files produced by
Guikachu.
Beware of bugémons!
Cactus
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From: "Bill Ritcher" <Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com>
Subject: Guiffy 3.2 compare/merge update
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:31:25 CST
Guiffy is a visual source file/folder, compare/merge, utility/component.
Guiffy features 2-way interactive and 3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces.
Merge interfaces support Editing during the merge and Undo. Compare/Merge
views can be split vertical or horizontal with synchronized scrolling.
Fonts and colors choices allow each user to create a personal style.
Powerful compare options include: View only the differences, differences
within N lines of context, ignore case, ignore whitespace, and ignore
columns x-y. Comes with builtin UNICODE support plus, a command line
interface for CM/SCM integrations. HTML-based JavaHelp includes Table of
Contents, Index, and Search engine navigation. Compare results can be saved
as text, as an "RCS diff", or stylized HTML. Spanish and German user
interface translations are provided.
Guiffy 3.2 enhancements include:
* Folder Compare Verify File Match with text compare - New option to verify
file matches during folder compare via text compare. Ignores EOL
differences, applies file compare options(Ignore Case, Ignore Whitespace,
Ignore Field) and is aware of FileEncoding selection.
* Open File/Folder Combos - Optional interface view presents a multi
file/folder open dialog.
GuiffyDiff - New guiffy.inside API package class for Guiffy's "diff".
Supports both compare algorithms and both verify methods. Runs as a Thread
with piped output.
* jiff command - New "diff" command line tool.
* Additional Ctrl-Key shortcuts - About a dozen new Ctrl-Key shortcuts
added.
* <Esc> enabled in all dialogs.
Guiffy 3.1 enhancements include:
* New File Encodings Support - Over 100 File Encoding specifications
supported. Supports Encoding specifications such as: UTF8, UTF16, Big5,
Cp500(EBCDIC), JIS, and Shift-JIS.
* Font support enhanced - Selections extended to include all installed
fonts. Supports multi lingual Unicode fonts such as Bitstream Cyberbit and
Arial Unicode MS.
* Ignore SubFolders - New Folder Compare option to Ignore a list of
SubFolders.
* UI Translations - Spanish and German UI translations updated.
* New Installer/Launcher - Upgraded Installer/Launchers fix several platform
problems including relative path filenames on Windows command line and
Windows ME installs Plus, MacOS, Linux, Unix and OS/2 improvements and
fixes.
Guiffy 3.0 enhancements include:
* New Minimum lines of difference compare algorithm
* New option to "Expand Attention Focus"(conflict) area for 3-way SureMerges
* Folder Compare Refresh
* Options to automatically Save Settings
Guiffy 2.0 enhancements included:
* guffy.inside API package to build compare/merging into your application
* Folder Compare graphical Tree views with clickon file compare
* Folder Compare options to ignore dates and sizes and a quick byte-by-byte
files match verifier
Homepage: http://www.guiffy.com
License: Fully functional 30-day evaluation.
Single User registration is $49.
Thank you for your support,
Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com
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From: "glbevan" <glbevan@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Pastmon-0.1.9 Response time monitor released
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:31:17 CST
Pastmon allows you to monitor the response times and throughput of web
servers and other application protocols. Based on network intrusion
detection technology of passive network traffic capture and signature
detection. Pastmon also provides a web front-end to graphical metric
presentation.
Pastmon is available at http://www.pastmon.org
glbevan.
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