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Linux-Announce Digest #144
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Linux-Announce Digest #144, Volume #4 Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
IBM Debuts First Self-Diagnostic Wireless Security Tool on Linux ("Stacy Simpson")
Java Networking, Multi-threading, I/O and Unicode... in C++ ("Rob Lugt")
Alge - Mailing List for general discussion around Unix/Linux ("Luke Th. Bullock")
COMMERCIAL: Microlite Extends the Use of DVD Devices Under Linux With (Tom Podnar)
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: version 1.4 update ("M. Leo Cooper")
pgphtml 4.1 ("Sanface Software")
SAHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.8 ("Sanface Software")
Guikachu 1.2.3 (ERDI Gergo)
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From: "Stacy Simpson" <stacysim@us.ibm.com>
Subject: IBM Debuts First Self-Diagnostic Wireless Security Tool on Linux
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:11 GMT
Stacy Simpson
Media Relations
IBM Corporation
Route 100, Somers, NY 10589
Ph: 914-766-4123 (t/l: 826-4123)
E: stacysim@us.ibm.com
IBM Researchers Demonstrate Industry's First Self-diagnostic Wireless
Security Monitoring Tool
The distributed system allows 24x7 real-time auditing of corporate networks
HAWTHORNE, N.Y., June 17, 2002 -- IBM Research has demonstrated the
industry's first self- diagnostic tool that can automatically monitor
802.11 wireless networks and report security problems in real-time. The
Distributed Wireless Security Auditor (DWSA), which runs on desktop and
laptop computers, can monitor wireless network security and report to the
central back-end servers minute by minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a
week.
IBM researchers introduced its first version, the Wireless Security Auditor
(WSA) last summer, which runs on a small wireless PDA running Linux. IBM
Global Services quickly developed a specific services offering that deploys
software tools, including the WSA, to help customers safeguard and perform
risk assessments of their wireless networks. Researchers have now
extended the tool, making it more autonomic by adding self-sensor and
self-diagnosis features. Running as a lightweight process on wireless
clients in an enterprise, DWSA can quickly report wireless infrastructure
security issues to system administrators.
"As 802.11 wireless networks have become more popular, their security has
to be checked frequently to ensure they are still secure," says Dave
Safford, manager of Global Security Analysis Lab at IBM Research. "Our
self-diagnostic tool takes advantage of the many wireless clients already
out there by having them continuously monitoring the security of the
wireless network and reporting anomalies to a central server, all without
human intervention."
The DWSA system, which runs on Linux on desktops and laptops, can
accurately pinpoint the location of any rogue access points, enabling
network personnel to quickly find and then fix or remove them, unlike other
wireless auditors that require personnel to perform time consuming physical
searches by walking around the site. DWSA locates rogue access points
based on signal strength measurements by the wireless hardware on the
distributed clients. The signal strengths vary with the distance from the
rogue, and can be used to estimate the actual distance. As long as at least
three client machines report the signal strength of the rogue, their
reports can be used by the system to calculate the access point location
using the estimated ranges and simple geometry. The Windows version will
be ready shortly.
Existing security for 802.11 wireless consists of two subsystems: a data
encryption technique called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and an
authentication method, either Shared Key or 802.1x. Both the encryption
and authentication are optional, and wireless access points are typically
shipped with both turned off. Wireless network security needs to be
checked frequently since employees can easily add new wireless devices,
which may become easy access points for hackers. This tool allows system
administrators at the central location to find what access points exist and
examine their configuration remotely so that they can take proper steps to
keep the wireless network secure.
DWSA acts as an extension of IBM's security consulting team by continuously
monitoring customers' wireless systems so they can enjoy the benefits of
wireless technology with the security of wireline computing. In addition,
a new wireless risk assessment offered by IBM Global Services for WLANs
uses a combination of tools, techniques and methodology to help customers
evaluate their security posture. As part of a full family of wireless
services, the Wireless Security Auditor for LANs is used by IBM
consultants to detect wireless access points that do not have the
appropriate security. A set of recommendations are sent to the customer,
as well as a proposal to address security issues detected. These
recommendations go beyond the simple technology and cover processes and
security policies as well.
IBM Tivoli Risk Manager continues to expand on its vulnerability management
capabilities by extending its support to wireless network vulnerability
management based on the DWSA. IBM Tivoli Risk Manager monitors output of
the DWSA and other security checkpoints giving administrators a complete
view of e-business security exposures, intrusions and wireless network
vulnerability.
The wireless security tool was developed in collaboration with the IBM
Personal Computing Division, which is investigating the potential of
including it on future ThinkPad models. ThinkPads are already equipped with
built-in 802.11b wireless networking capability.
For further information on DWSA, visit to www.research.ibm.com/gsal/dwsa.
Further information on IBM Research can be found at: www.ibm.com/research.
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From: "Rob Lugt" <roblugt@elcel.com>
Subject: Java Networking, Multi-threading, I/O and Unicode... in C++
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:17 GMT
ElCel Technology are pleased to announce the release of Celios, a C++
development library that brings the power of Java to C++.
http://www.elcel.com/products/celios/
Celios is a cross-platform library that complements the C++ standard library
by adding Java-like facilities for networking, multi-threading, Unicode, I/O
and automatic resource management (garbage collection). Celios offers an
API modelled on Java, which has the benefit of making it easy to learn and
already tried and tested in modern-day applications.
ElCel Technology also announce the release of a C++ XML Toolkit which builds
on Celios to provide XML facilities, including a fully compliant, validating
XML parser featuring a C++ SAX interface that is strikingly close to the
official Java version [1].
http://www.elcel.com/products/xmltoolkit.html
ElCel Technology is a London-based software company well known for its
popular XML command-line tools, the XML Validator and Canonical XML, used
globally by thousands of developers. All ElCel Technology libraries and
tools are multi-platform, available for Windows, Linux and UNIX.
More about Celios and the C++ XML Toolkit (including full documentation) can
be found on our web site.
http://www.elcel.com/
Kind regards
Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
[1] http://www.saxproject.org/
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From: "Luke Th. Bullock" <nospam|lucc@alge.anart.no>
Subject: Alge - Mailing List for general discussion around Unix/Linux
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:21 GMT
This list was first created 14 Feb 1998, but closed
shortly after due to abuse and little time to maintain
it. Now, over 4 years later, it has been reopened, this
time using SYMPA, not majordomo. The list is meant to
maintain itself. Have phun! :-) /Lucc
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With Kind Regards Luke Th. Bullock (aka Lucc) [ http://alge.anart.no/ ]
"The ocean is a desert with it's life underground and a perfect disguise above"
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From: Tom Podnar <tom@microlite.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Microlite Extends the Use of DVD Devices Under Linux With
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:24 GMT
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Aliquippa PA -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- June, 14, 2002 -- Microlite
Corporation,
the inventors of and world leaders in bare metal disaster recovery
technology for Linux, is making DVD the preferred media for protecting
mid-sized Linux systems. BackupEDGE SS(tm) 01.02.02 adds support for
second-generation DVD+RW devices.
This means that, in addition to supporting tape drives, changers and
libraries, users may protect their systems by backing up to any of the
following optical media: DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD+R, CD-R and CD-RW.
"DVD devices provide exceptional capabilities for Linux users,
especially
in replicated sites.", said Tom Podnar, President of Microlite. "They
can
replace both the CD-ROM drive AND the tape drive on large numbers of
systems, providing lower integration costs, backups on inexpensive, long
lasting media, instant access to archived files, and unprecedented speed
and simplicity when disaster recovery is needed."
Brief Features List
* Re-writable archives may be created on tape, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and
CD-RW
media. DVD-RAM media is rated at 100,000 re-writes, while DVD+RW is
rated at 1,000.
* Write once archives for permanent archives and system replication
may
be made on inexpensive DVD-R, DVD+R and CD-R media.
* No special device driver is needed for DVD devices. They are seen
as a
CD-ROM by the operating system. BackupEDGE SS does the rest.
* Disaster Recovery (DR) media may be created on floppy, CD or DVD
media.
* The above features may be combined to create bootable backups on CD
and DVD media.
* DR media (and bootable backups) contain full network stacks. Users
may
restore from remote devices. Additionally, administrators may
telnet
or modem directly into the booted DR media to perform a remote
recovery from any where in the world.
* The RecoverEDGE DR system is constantly updated to keep up with the
changes in Linux. This release fully understands how to re-create
systems on the latest releases, such as Red Hat 7.3, Suse 8.0 and
Mandrake 8.2. It does extensive system detection and understands
the
intricacies of the LILO and GRUB bootloaders, as well as ext2,
ext3,
Reiser, JFS and XFS filesystems and how to re-create them.
* Instant File Restore(tm) provides the fastest possible restoration
of
files and directories. Typical access time to any file on an
indexed
CD or DVD archive is under one second.
More information on the tape, changer, optical media and additional
operating systems supported by BackupEDGE SS can be found at the
Microlite
Corporation web site.
Availability
BackupEDGE SS 01.02.02 is now available worldwide from UNIX and Linux
resellers and value added distributors. Prices start at $90.00(US) for
personal or non-commercial use and $300.00(US) for commercial licenses.
Fully functional evaluation copies are now available from the Microlite
Corporation web site at http://www.microlite.com/.
About Microlite Corporation
Microlite Corporation has been serving the Unix community since 1983,
and
has been producing high-quality backup and crash recovery software since
1987. For more information, visit http://www.microlite.com/ or contact
Microlite Sales at 724-375-6711 or 888-257-3343, or by mailing to
mailto:sales@microlite.com.
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From: "M. Leo Cooper" <thegrendel@theriver.com>
Subject: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: version 1.4 update
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:30 GMT
Announcing the version 1.4 release of the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide."
This e-book tutorial and reference is the equivalent of a 486-page print book.
With 245+ illustrative examples, the book covers virtually every aspect of
scripting.
The author invites comparisons with *any* of the commercially printed books on
shell scripting.
"This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of
scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an
intermediate/advanced level of instruction ...all the while
sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore. It serves
as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference
and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The
exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader
participation, under the premise that the only way to really
learn scripting is to write scripts."
-- from the Introduction
License: Open Publication License
This means the book is *free* and freely distributable.
URLs:
----
Linux Documentation Project:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://tldp.org/guides.html#abs
Author's home page:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.4.tar.bz2 [ 465k ]
(bzip2-ed tarball containing SGML source, all example scripts,
and rendered HTML)
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From: "Sanface Software" <sanface@sanface.com>
Subject: pgphtml 4.1
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:34 GMT
After we had read the nice page of Noel Bell "PGP signed web-pages" at
http://members.aol.com/EJNBell/pgp-www.html we thought nice method but
not very simple to use. For this reason we wrote the perl tool pgphtml
to generate PGP or GPG signed web-pages based on Noel Bell methodology
and unpgphtml to return to the originals from PGP or GPG signed
web-pages with PGPHTML.
We've tested that: if your html is a valid HTML (tested using
http://validator.w3.org/), the signed HTML will be a valid HTML, too.
You can find the tool documentation at
http://www.sanface.com/pgphtml.html
What's new in the version 4.1
* Corrected a bug in unpgphtml (thanks Ronald Kumon)
* Now metachars work also on Windows (e.g. pgphtml *.html)
* If your html is a valid HTML 4.01, the signed HTML will be a valid
HTML 4.01 (we've tested this using http://validator.w3.org/)
You can find the tool at
http://www.sanface.com/pgphtml.tar.gz
or at CPAN authors/id/S/SA/SANFACE/
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From: "Sanface Software" <sanface@sanface.com>
Subject: SAHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.8
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:37 GMT
Most of your documents are text files. Usually, your reports from legacy
applications, DBs, ERP applications and datawarehouse are textual.
txt2pdf allows you to take those old text files and turn them into PDF's
using only PERL, which means you don't even need to pass the data
through PostScript first.
You can run txt2pdf on any system that runs PERL, but it has been tested
and is verified to work on many operating systems.
etxt2pdf is the executable version of txt2pdf. It's been specially
compiled for those users who simply can't or don't want to run PERL on
their systems. It has all the functionality of the original perl
version, and is merely distributed in binary form for your convenience.
We currently have 5 executable versions: Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX,
HP-UX, Mac OS X.
If you're interested in a binary for another operating system, such as
FreeBSD please let us know, and we'll send you one. With enough
requests, we'll also add one here permanently. Please note that the
Windows version comes with an extra tool known as Visual txt2pdf.
Here are some of the things that you can achieve with txt2pdf:
You can mark coloured (using PERL regular expressions) phrases in the
produced PDF files.
You can mark bold, italic and bold italic phrases in the produced
PDFfiles.
You can add page numbers on every page.
You can add text at the beginning and at the end of every file.
You can add a border to every page.
Internet specific phrases such as http://... ftp://...
mailto:...file:... ldap:... news:... will automatically be made into
clickable URL's.
You can create a link to a specific age within a PDF document by simply
adding http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
Every word like MIME:... will automatically become a link that will
launch the correct application to open that file.
You can use background and foreground layers.
All predefined encodings (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding,
MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding) supported by the PDF format and the
Unix default are supported by txt2pdf.
It's possible to rerun txt2pdf infinitely (every configured second,
sleep feature) on a specific directory (and also it's recursive
directories) moving the produced PDF to a specific directory, and the
original text to a specific directory.
txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT.
EPD 1.0 support. You can use EPD inside the background layer.
A License is ONLY $99.
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free license for every good idea
or good modify to txt2pdf.
txt2pdf is shareware
The txt2pdf source code is our company core business.
We trust you.
You can test text2pdf and modify it.
You can't use a modify version of txt2pdf for production purpose. You
can't resell txt2pdf or a modify version of it without SANFACE Software
authorization.
You can't copy part of it to include in your source without SANFACE
Software authorization.
What's new in this version
zoom feature: to set the open of first page with the selected zoom.
txt2pdf.vim 2.4 inside contributed directory: VIM plugin to save and
convert the edited text to PDF clicking a button!
Test txt2pdf 5.8!
You can find it at http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
Don't forget txt2pdf 5.x PRO at
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdfPRO.html
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From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: Guikachu 1.2.3
Date: 18 Jun 2002 21:30:40 GMT
Small changes, small announcement:
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/
This release fixes the missing DEFAULTBUTTON flag when creating RCP code
for dialogs, and contains fixes to allow compiling with GCC 3.1.
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2B or not 2B, that is 0xff
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