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Linux-Announce Digest #350
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Fri Mar 14 20:13:23 2003
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Linux-Announce Digest #350, Volume #4 Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:13:02 EST
Contents:
FLOSS developer survey... (FORWARDED MSG) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
protector - 1.00.9 -- GPLed e-mail virus protection (Chris Lowth)
ANN: Linux-Mobile-Guide 3.12 (Werner Heuser)
Dev Video Arşivi ("PisÇocuk")
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FLOSS developer survey... (FORWARDED MSG)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:15:32 CST
========== Forwarded message ==========
I am writing to request your help. We are researchers at Stanford
University who are in particular interested in studying open-source as an
alternative way of producing software. To that end, we have designed a
survey that aims to understand motivations and organizational aspects of
open-source. Could we please request you to post the announcement below
to user groups so that developers can fill our survey
and help us better understand how open-source works. This survey has been
translated into several foreign languages so that we can attract a
diversity of responses from across the globe. I am including 2
announcements that relate to the survey and you could post either in the
user groups.
I would be most grateful for advise regarding other sites or names I
could approach in order to attract a large number of respondents from India.
Best
Seema
LONG ANNOUNCEMENT
A Survey of Software Developers
FLOSS-US is an online survey currently being conducted by researchers at
Stanford University’s Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
(SIEPR). It is a part of the study of the Economic Organization and
Viability of Open Source Software undertaken by SIEPR’s Knowledge,
Networks and Information for Innovation Program (KNIIP) which is being
supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
This survey has been designed in cooperation with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
(MERIT and Infonomics, University of Maastricht), who led the FLOSS
survey of Open Source/Free Software developer communities, carried out
with the sponsorship of the European Commission during 2002.
[http://floss1.infonomics.nl]
To establish comparability with the previous sample of voluntary
respondents, FLOSS-US asks questions on the same range of topics that the
original FLOSS survey addressed, including:
o Motivation: monetary / non-monetary, reputation, pleasure, creativity,
jobs
o Expectations: what do you expect of others? What do they expect of you?
o Organization: efficiency, quality, comparison with commercial software
o Law: intellectual property licenses, authorship, public domain
o Technology: preferred programming tools
In addition, developers are invited to provide information about their
experiences and opinions on several other issues, such as: extent and
intensity of OS/FS activities and project roles; relationships with
commercial enterprises based on Free/Libre/Open Source software; support
of OS/FS projects by proprietary software firms.
Announcements of this new online survey will be posted in languages other
than English, and at sites likely to be visited by developers in regions
outside as well as within western Europe and North America.
We will make public tabulated responses for each of the questions as soon
as the survey period is closed, and the results of our further analyses
will also be published on the SIEPR/KNIIP website. We are committed to
protecting respondents' privacy: no personal identifiers will be stored
with your answers and responses will be reported in aggregates that will
prevent inferences about individual identities.
If you are an Open Source/Free Software developer, please assist this
research: go to the questionnaire at
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft
and fill it out!
At the end of the questionnaire you will find links to to the SIEPR/KNIIP
website and further information about our project. When you have
submitted your response there will be an opportunity to comment on the
questionnaire itself, and to request any of the publications that will be
based upon analyses of the survey data.
SHORT ANNOUNCEMENT
The Free/Libre/Open Source Software Survey for 2003
http://www.stanford.edu/group/floss-us/survey.fft
FLOSS-US is an online survey of Open Source/Free Software developers
currently being conducted by researchers at Stanford University's
Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), supported by a grant from
the National Science Foundation. This survey has been designed to
complement the FLOSS survey for 2002 of Open Source/Free Software developer
communities sponsored by the European Commission.
FLOSS-US asks questions on some of the topics addressed by the original
FLOSS survey, plus questions on several other important issues,
including open source developers' motivations and expectations, usage of
licenses and programming tools, individuals' contributions to projects,
and support by proprietary software firms.
If you are an Open Source/Free Software developer, please click here to
fill out the questionnaire. We greatly appreciate your viewpoints
and your responses to our survey questions.
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From: Chris Lowth <chris@lowth.com>
Subject: protector - 1.00.9 -- GPLed e-mail virus protection
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:49:38 CST
Reply-To: chris@lowth.com
Protector 1.00.9 Annnouncement - March, 2002
Update 8 of protector 1.00 has been released for RedHat GNU-Linux versions
6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 systems, and as an "beta"
release for Sun Solaris.
This update of the protector software includes the following changes.
* Switched to "file" version 3.41 - in order to include the
buffer-overflow fix in that software.
* Improves the classifying of ELF binaries.
* Binary (base64 encoded) attachments that declare themselves as "text"
types are now trapped.
For information and download, visit: http://protector.sourceforge.net/
Protector checks incoming e-mail messages for attachments that could
contain viruses, worms etc - and replaces the offending attachments with
standard warning messages before being passed to "procmail" for local
delivery. The original "dangerous" attachment is saved in a directory that
only the root user can access.
Protector is NOT a virus scanner in the traditional sense: It does NOT
scan attachments for virus signatures, but blocks attachments that could
contain viruses. So *.exe, *.vba etc attachments don't get through. This
means that you don't have to keep protector up to date to stay protected
against the growing tide of new viruses and worms.
Protector does not work by blocking listed types, but by blocking ALL BUT
the listed types. For details of the attachment types "allowed through",
please refer to the web site.
The logic employed by protector to determine the file types contained in
attachments is based on a modified version of the "file" command, and a
number of type-specific validation programs - it does not rely on the
actual name of the file, or the "content-type" declared in the attachment
header. It also looks inside ZIP, TAR and other archive formats, and
checks the files contained in them.
Some types of files are allowed through only under certain conditions. The
main example being that MS Word documents are blocked if they contain ANY
macros, but allowed through otherwise.
Chris
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From: Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: ANN: Linux-Mobile-Guide 3.12
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 02:46:00 CST
Hi,
The Linux-Mobile-Guide is a manual covering laptop and PDA related Linux
features, such as installation methods (via PCMCIA, without CD drive,
etc.), hardware features (PCMCIA, IrDA, APM, etc.) and configurations for
different (network) environments.
HTML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html
IPK feed for PDAs http://tuxmobil.org/feed.html
Please note these URLs have moved from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org because
of severe trademark trouble with Asterix and Obelix. A documentation of the
trademark case is at
http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html
Werner
Changes:
- v3.12 12 March 2003,
- some more hints about noise reduction and
power saving (thanks to Serge Winitzki),
- chapter about hotkeys and extra keys improved,
- script to check battery status at console prompt
with ACPI added (thanks to Fabio 'farnis' Sirna),
- new chapter about tablet PCs,
- new chapter about SpeedStep,
- links to SynCE, MultiSync, battery-stats and Knoppix added,
- additions to the bibliography
(Bob Toxen, Billy Ball, Toms Hardware Guide),
- minor changes (SD cards, URLs in USB chapter)
--
|=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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Subject: Dev Video Arşivi
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:33:55 CST
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