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Linux-Announce Digest #511
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Linux-Announce Digest #511, Volume #4 Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:13:02 EDT
Contents:
bogofilter-0.14.5.1 - new current release (David Relson)
NEWS: SGI to focus on Linux-based computing solutions ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Seven steps to software samadhi... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Re: LILO version 22.5.7 released (johninsd at san dot rr dot com)
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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: bogofilter-0.14.5.1 - new current release
Date: 19 Aug 2003 23:20:01 GMT
Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham (non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content (body). The program is able to learn from the user's classifications and corrections.
The statistical technique is known as the Bayesian technique and its use
for spam was described by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For
Spam". Gary Robinson, in his weblog Rants, suggests some refinements for improved discrimination between spam and ham. Bogofilter's primary
algorithm uses the f(w) parameter and the Fisher inverse chi-square
technique that he describes.
Bogofilter is run by an MDA script to classify an incoming message as spam or ham (using wordlists stored by BerkeleyDB). Bogofilter provides processing for plain text and html, supports multi-part mime message with decoding of base64, quoted-printable, and uuencoded text and ignores attachments, such as images.
Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, ...
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Bogofilter version 0.14.5.1 has been released on SourceForge,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter.
An additional parsing problem and a database API error have been corrected, bogominitrain.pl and the bogofilter have been updated.
See files NEWS-0.14 and RELEASE.NOTES-0.14 for the details.
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BOGOFILTER NEWS
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0.14.5.1 2003-08-19
* Fixed parameter type error in dbh_print_names() that causes
segfault.
* Fixed parsing error that treated "^From " in encoded text as
a message separator.
* Enhanced verbose output of bogominitrain.pl
* Fixed defect in bogominitrain.pl's norepetition mode.
* Documented '-T' option in man page.
* Revised format for '-T'.
0.14.5 2003-08-15
* Corrected parsing error (in html code) that caused
bogofilter to miss message separators.
* Revised processing of From and empty lines so that parsing
works correctly with both flex-2.5.4 and flex-2.5.31.
* Added '-T' as terse mode (with fixed formatting).
* Updated bogominitrain.pl to version 1.3.
* Revised FAQ.
0.14.4 2003-08-10
* Revised database API so that there are 3 distinct layers
(program, datastore, and database) with a clean interface
between them.
* Correct exitcodes in bogoutil by using EX_ERROR.
* Updated FAQ.
* Fixed token registration bug in 0.14.x versions.
* Fixed seg fault caused by database lock contention.
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: SGI to focus on Linux-based computing solutions
Date: 20 Aug 2003 00:55:08 GMT
SGI to focus on Linux-based computing solutions
>From Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) U.S.-based Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) said Tuesday
it would continue to focus on developing cutting edge computing solutions on
the Linux operating system platform.
"We have enabled Linux to break into the high performance arena," said
Warren Pratt, executive vice president and chief operating officer of
California headquartered Silicon Graphics Inc.
"We are now committed to continue moving Linux forward by enabling real
solutions for real problems. We will help customers use Linux to solve the
biggest problems facing them," he told a press conference here Tuesday.
Linux can be bought for a few hundred rupees or downloaded free from the
Internet and the same software can be copied across dozens or hundreds of
computers.
One can also modify the software programme code of Linux to suit individual
needs, unlike its proprietary counterparts such as Microsoft's Windows.
While Microsoft say Windows is far ahead in terms of security and user
convenience, supporters of the open source software, which no one owns,
highlight its cost advantage and flexibility for a developing economy like
India.
Pratt said SGI was the first to make "serious product announcements" based
on Linux operating system. The technologies that SGI used in the creation of
its Linux product family have enabled the open source system to scale new
heights, he added.
The official said Linux has great scope to move forward rapidly in India
since the country has one of the largest open source community as well as
the world's second largest pool of scientific manpower.
"This is further boosted by the fact that the government is encouraging the
adoption of open source solutions for the country," Pratt said.
According to an official study, only 16 percent of the central government
offices currently use Linux as a platform but this is expected to grow
manifold in the coming years.
A number of states including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Madhya
Pradesh, Kerala and Maharashtra are either implementing or proposing to
launch e-government projects using Linux operating system as the platform.
The Indian operations of SGI are headquartered at Gurgaon, on the outskirts
of New Delhi, with branch offices located at Bangalore and Mumbai.
--Indo-Asian News Service
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Seven steps to software samadhi...
Date: 20 Aug 2003 07:45:01 GMT
Interesting ;-) FN
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Message: 6
From: LinuxLingam <linuxlingam@bhairon.com>
To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org>,
linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:18:12 +0530
Cc: bg2000g@indiya.com, bg2000g@indya.com, fred@bytesforall.com
Subject: [LIG] [ilugd] 7 steps to software samadhi
Reply-To: linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net
hi bharat,
read your email with interest. especially the part on why you wish to migrate
to gnuLinux.
i have discovered an insightful trend over the past few years:
1) those who *react* to the problems they face in the M$ soup of OS and
applications, *rush* to gnuLinux, are totally dazzled and bewildered by the
completely different paradigm, and sobered, crawl back to their M$, with a
'been there, done that' attitude towards gnuLinux
2) those who *respond* to the problems they face in the claustrophobic and
constrained world of M$ OS and applications, also realize M$ is really a
small fraction, the visible aspect of the looming iceberg ahead, into which
they crash. some aspects of the problems extend to almost all proprietory,
non-freedom based software, on *any* platform.
those who *respond* to the problem, always migrate successfully.
so don't react, just respond.
don't blame M$ or any other proprietory software company. Make your thirst
for freedom, choices, of being responsible and in control of your computing,
your real fuel.
the desire for 'muft' and 'mukt' software should be your fuel.
so how do you respond?
i call it the seven steps to software samadhi by linuxlingam.
step 1) get hold of a cd of gnuWin2
this cd contains freedom-based software for windoze.
install openoffice, mozilla(web browser), chat software, and other stuff for
windows. start using them, taking files back and forth between these and your
other software, until you feel quite familiar with these software.
step 2) get hold of a cd of knoppix.
this is a 'live' cd of gnulinux. pop it in your cdrom, boot the machine, and
presto! your pc boots into gnuLinux, forgetting the windoze in your 'c:'
drive. the entire operating system and soup sits in the ram of your machine,
and works off the cd. explore knoppix, reding the helpful articles provided
in the browser window. explore the applications, softare, and other stuff
available on the cd.
you will find your openoffice, mozilla, and all other software, right there
under knoppix, running under gnuLinux. so you have conquered half the
battlefield already.
log off from knoppix, remove the cd from the hard drive, and reboot the
machine, and you are back into the world of win doze. as if nothing happened.
step 3) at this point, if you feel you must migrate, buy a very good book on
gnuLinux. i recommend peter norton, but you can go pick up a collection of
books if you want,. this is always helpful. start reading the book, and
playing with knoppix to understand the initial topics.
step 4) get hold of monkeyLinux, or dragonLinux, and install them into
windoze! these are special versions of gnulinux that install in the start
menu of windoze, but on running them, they actually give you a complete
gnulinux os! so from within windows, you can use gnuLinux.
step 5) reading the book, and with help from mailing lists and friends, and
tldp.org, yolinux.org, etc., learn how to partition your hard disk, and
dual-boot it into windows and gnulinux. so you can use gnuLinux, and when you
find you have to get back to windoze, or have to use that application not
with an equivalent yet on gnulinux, use windoze.
step 6) configure your gnuLinux, to network with other win based machine on
the network, to access your legacy win data over partitions, etc. make sure
you do all your work more and more in gnuLinux alone.
step 7) my favourite one: the day you discover you don't boot into win for
weeks, reformat the win partition, and free up space for more space for your
data files, or install a second distribution of gnuLinux, or yet another
alternative operating system, on your pc. and do go and distribute the cds of
gnuWin and knoppix to your other colleagues as well.
so the essence:
migration is never instant. it happens in stages, and takes time, in days,
weeks, or about 1 to 3 months to the outer-limit.
enjoy the migration, it is a beautiful adventure in itself, and quite
rewarding. it will teach you many new things.
happy gnulinux software samadhi.
:-)
LL
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From: johninsd at san dot rr dot com <bitbucket@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: LILO version 22.5.7 released
Date: 20 Aug 2003 19:50:23 GMT
Reply-To: Read@MY.fullname.FOR.reply.TO
The source and binary have been updated to 22.5.7.2 to fix the reported
problem on 'devfs' with multiple SCSI drives.
Updates will take a couple of days to propagate to ftp://metalab.unc.edu (see
full URL below).
--John
On 10 Aug 2003 19:20:12 GMT, johninsd at san dot rr dot com
<bitbucket@hotmail.com> wrote:
>LILO release 22.5.7 is based upon Werner Almesberger's LILO version 21.
>
>Version 22.5.7 is a minor update to version 22.5.6
>
>o Include several accumulated updates to prior version.
>o New first stage loader so actual VIDEO ENABLE is done; no more FF.
>
>
>Version 22.5.6 is a bugfix update to version 22.5.5
>
>o Cranky raid installation is fixed; i.e., all spurious error messages are
>gone.
>o Certain raid1 installations (skewed) now boot properly when a disk fails.
>This
> bug affects releases back to 22.5.
>
>
>Version 22.5.5 is a minor update to version 22.5.4
>
>o Improve 'mkrescue' --iso option with 'el-torito-bootable-cd' flag
>o '-M' switch gives option of 'mbr' or 'ext' loaders; latter will boot
> from extended partitions
>o '-A' switch recognizes 'ext' loader, and allows activating extended part.
>o Chain loader begins with memory map from second stage; also can merge
> mapped drives into the drive map; never more than one EBDA drive mapper
>
>
>Version 22.5.4 is a minor update to version 22.5.3
>
>o Bugs in caching algorithm fixed. With no BIOS data check, IDE drives
> are correctly assigned before SCSI drives. Volume ID check corrected.
>o Compilation option SUSPEND, for optional booting from a suspend
> partition using 'vmdefault='. This is disabled in the standard release.
>o Updated 'mkrescue' will produce a bootable diskette without a prior
> LILO boot. Plus '--iso' option will produce a bootable CD image.
>
>
>Version 22.5.3 is a minor update to version 22.5.2
>
>o Handle kernels with DEVFS_FS compiled in, but 'devfs' not mounted and
> not supported by the existing /dev directory hierarchy.
>
>
>Version 22.5.2 is a minor update to version 22.5.1
>
>o Handles reiser4 filesystem
>o Bugfixes: raid-extra-boot=/dev/XXX where XXX is outside the raid set,
> bootloader get number of hard drives
>o -M switch creates backup files of sectors (-s and -S switches)
>
>
>Version 22.5.1 is a minor update to version 22.5
>
>o Writearounds are included for two BIOS bugs which could kill 22.5:
> - Video BIOS destroy's DX register
> - BIOS does not pass boot device code in DL
>o Boot sector backups are handled in a more consistent fashion.
>o Optional configuration file keywords are added: master-boot, boot-as=,
> raid-extra-boot=mbr, bios-passes-dl= (or -Z switch).
>
>
>Version 22.5 is a major update to version 22.4.1
>
>o Booting is based upon industry-standard volume labels (s/n), which are
> translated to BIOS device codes. Changes in the disk configuration
> which cause the BIOS to assign device codes in a different order should
> be transparent to the user.
>o 256-color bitmap boot screens are now supported using VESA video BIOS
> extensions. Both RGB and RLE encoded *.bmp files are supported.
>
>
>
>Versions 22.4, 22.3, 22.2, 22.1, 22.0 are major updates to version 21.
>
>
>*** THE VERSION 22 RAID1 IMPLEMENTATION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH VERSION 21.
>
>Those using version 21 should read 'README.raid1' before installing these
>new codes. There is a compatibility mode (lilo -x mbr-only) for existing
>RAID1 installations which are not going to be converted to the Version 22
>implementation.
>
>
>Source code is available for download from:
>
> http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo (developer's site)
>
>Or from the main distribution site:
>
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo (please use)
>
>
>See the distribution file 'CHANGES' for details of the differences between
>22.5.7 and prior releases.
>
>
>--John Coffman <johninsd at san dot rr dot com>
>
>
>LILO version 22++ links at:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo
>
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LILO version 22++ links at:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo
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