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Linux-Announce Digest #383
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Linux-Announce Digest #383, Volume #4 Tue, 15 Apr 2003 04:13:02 EDT
Contents:
IBM Linux Technology Powers Race to Stop the Spread of SARS (Stacy Simpson)
Source Mage GNU/Linux (Eric Kristopher Sandall)
ANNOUNCE: TkMan 2.2, a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser (phelps@cs.berkeley.edu)
ANNOUNCE: LinWiz 1.01 - on-line iptables configurator (Chris Lowth)
GISTalk - New GIS Forum! ("Tim Johnson")
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (Paul M Foster)
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From: Stacy Simpson <stacysim@us.ibm.com>
Subject: IBM Linux Technology Powers Race to Stop the Spread of SARS
Date: 14 Apr 2003 19:45:12 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
Researchers are racing against time to stop the spread of the deadly SARS
virus.
This weekend, using IBM technology running Linux, scientists at the Michael
Smith Genome Sciences Centre at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in
Vancouver, in collaboration with the BC Centre for Disease Control and the
National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg -- accomplished a breakthrough in the
race the stop the spread of the deadly SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome): They completed the world's first genetic sequence of the
coronavirus believed to be responsible for SARS. This milestone could open
the door to a diagnostic test for the virus that has killed more than 130
people around the world, help with the development of anti-viral
medications to treat those who become infected and, hopefully, one day,
lead to a vaccine against the disease.
New techniques in molecular biology, combined with information technology,
enable scientists to complete thousands of experiments in the time it once
took to do one experiment. IBM is a leading provider of information
technology systems for life sciences, including hardware and software. The
systems that enabled the sequencing of the coronavirus at the Michael Smith
Genome Sciences Centre included a cluster of IBM eServer xSeries systems
running the Linux operating system.
Linux is playing a growing role in life sciences as the operating system
for high-performance Intel clusters. The life sciences market has embraced
Linux because of its ability to deliver high-performance computing with
lower total cost of ownership.
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From: Eric Kristopher Sandall <sandalle@wsunix.wsu.edu>
Subject: Source Mage GNU/Linux
Date: 15 Apr 2003 03:50:01 GMT
For those interested in empowering their current PCs.
Tired of installing binaries compiled for an Intel 386/486/Pentium 1 on
your fast Athlon, Pentium II, III, IV, etc.?
Try out Source Mage GNU/Linux (http://www.sourcemage.org)
We currently support all Intel 32-bit processors, most PPC processors, and
most SUN UltraSPARCs (no install ISO for SPARC as of yet).
For more information, contact us on #sourcemage on irc.freenode.net
-sandalle
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Eric Sandall | (P)e-mail: sandalle@mail.wsu.edu
SMGL Beowulf Cluster | (P)web: http://eric.sandall.us/
ICQ: 667348 | User 196285: http://counter.li.org/
SysAdmin, Shock Physics, WSU | (W)web: http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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From: phelps@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCE: TkMan 2.2, a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser
Date: 15 Apr 2003 04:05:05 GMT
TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX.
TkMan boasts hypertext links, (optional) outline view of man pages, high
quality display and superior navigational interface to Texinfo documents,
a novel information visualization mechanism called Notemarks, full text
search among man pages and Texinfo, incremental and regular expression
search within pages, robust yellow highlight annotations, and more.
Changes:
Updated for the latest versions of Tcl/Tk (8.4) and groff (1.18).
More information:
http://tkman.sourceforge.net/
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From: Chris Lowth <please@no.spam>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: LinWiz 1.01 - on-line iptables configurator
Date: 15 Apr 2003 04:05:13 GMT
LinWiz Version 1.01 is now available for use. This adds the
LinWiz://PersonalFirewall to the family of LinWiz iptables configuration
wizards.
The home page is at: http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz
LinWiz is a growing set of on-line tools for the automated generation of
linux security configuration files and scripts. The tools aim to avoid the
user's need of any in-depth technical knowledge - and allow novices and
experts to set up firewalls with ease.
First there was : ** LinWiz://SimpleFirewall **
This wizard is suitable for creating a simple "iptables" configuration for a
linux workstation or server with a single network card, not acting as a
router (not forwarding IP traffic).
It allows you to choose which services running on the system to be
configured you wish to allow others to access (it restricts inbound
connections). The rules it creates do not restrict the services on other
systems that your system can call (outbound connections are enabled for all
ports), and neither do they restrict the ability of programs running on
your system to connect to services that also run there ("localhost" access
is enabled for all ports).
Now there is also : ** LinWiz://PersonalFirewall **
This "novice-user" wizard is suitable for creating a very simple "iptables"
configuration for a linux workstation, with a single network card, not
acting as a router (not forwarding IP traffic) and not providing any IP
services to other hosts.
It allows you to block a number of common IP 'exploits' and sets up your
system in a highly 'locked down' manner - exposing no IP services to other
systems, but not restricting the internet or other IP services (such as
Web, Ftp, Mail etc) that you can use. It produces a file that can be read
by the 'iptables-restore' utility (such as is used by recent RedHat,
Mandrake and other linux distributions), or a shell script that can be
deployed as an "rc.firewall" boot-time script.
There's more on the way ...
Chris Lowth
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From: "Tim Johnson" <talk-lists2@civilnews.com>
Subject: GISTalk - New GIS Forum!
Date: 15 Apr 2003 04:05:23 GMT
Reply-To: "Tim Johnson" <talk-lists2@civilnews.com>
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With over 10,000 engineers active on the forums, you're sure to find answers and opinions for virtually any project you are working on.
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From: Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: 15 Apr 2003 05:05:02 GMT
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
16 April 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
Honeywell
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
DUNEDIN **************************************************
26 April 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
1 May 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
3 May 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
TAMPA ****************************************************
14 May 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
PricewaterhouseCoopers -- Room 684
3109 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd
Lakepointe I Building
Tampa, FL 33607
***** LAST TAMPA MEETING AT THIS LOCATION *****
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#tampa for directions.
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ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
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