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Linux-Announce Digest #738, Volume #4 Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:13:04 EDT
Contents:
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.13.3 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
Registration Opens for O'Reilly Open Source Convention (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Hey, Corporate America! Show Taxpayers Some Appreciation! (ophelia@votenader.org)
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 05:23:54 CST
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.13.3
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
HI!
Find a new release of web2ldap on
http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html
About:
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAPv3 client written in Python and designed to
run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with
FastCGI or SCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi or mod_scgi).
Ciao, Michael.
0.13.3
Release Date: 2004-04-13
* User session data is stored right after executing dispatched
sub-module.
* Removed special code in w2lapp.handler for sessions just being
created.
* If the sub schema DN for a non-empty search base could not be
found the sub schema DN is read from RootDSE.
* Expired sessions are simply removed. Implementing correct
re-login was getting too messy. Abandoned parameter general
configuration parameter web2ldapcnf.misc.session_relogin.
0.13.2
Release Date: 2004-04-02
* Links are displayed in schema viewer to search entries by
currently displayed object class or attribute type.
* Extension bindname no longer displayed in LDAP URL if bound
anonymously.
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:25:24 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Registration Opens for O'Reilly Open Source Convention (fwd)
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For Immediate Release
April 12, 2004
For more information, contact:
Suzanne Axtell (707) 827-7114 or suzanne@oreilly.com
Registration Opens for the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Sebastopol, CA--O'Reilly & Associates founder Tim O'Reilly is fond of
quoting an Athenian in ancient Greece who said, "The difference between
a man and a sheep is that the sheep just bleats, but a man keeps saying
the same thing in different ways until he gets what he wants." O'Reilly
takes the Athenian's tack, declaring, "There are many things that I want
to have happen in this world. I keep talking about them and bit by bit,
some of them are coming true."
One place where O'Reilly and other open source visionaries repeatedly
evangelize their goals for open source software in different ways--and get
some of them to come true--is the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON),
returning to Portland, OR from July 26-30. Open source tools are being
used to cruise Mars and plumb the secrets of genomes-- unthinkable
achievements when the convention started seven years ago. Apache runs
more than half of the world's web sites. Linux is making headlines thanks
to a legal donnybrook involving corporate giants.
However, as open source opportunities multiply, so do the growing pains.
Notes OSCON program chair Nathan Torkington, "Open source mindshare is
gained and lost, not by legal battles, but by technical and economic
decisions by developers, administrators, and their managers asking
'What's the ROI if we move to Linux?' 'Can I do this project in PHP?'
'Is Mono stable enough for our next project?'"
Torkington has planned this year's OSCON to tackle these issues and many
more. Skill-related topics, like new tools and programming language
changes, will be featured alongside strategic ones: How are open source
languages intertwining, both with each other and with commercial products?
If "open source" moves to "open services," who will the players be in this
new space, and what are the deeper implications for software and
applications? How will business models continue to morph to accommodate
open source's proliferation?
The keynote speakers for OSCON 2004 embody open source's diversity and its
adoption into the enterprise: Freeman, Esther, and George Dyson praise the
concept of "open thinking"; AT&T Wireless' Robert Lefkowitz deconstructs
the semasiology of open source; Milton Ngan of Weta Digital wraps up his
LOTR keynote trilogy; Novell's Vice Chairman Chris Stone talks about
making open source a mainstream reality; Bdale Garbee, Linux CTO of HP,
delves into the continuing importance of community development; and Tim
O'Reilly outlines new trends creeping onto his radar.
By day, other OSCON stalwarts such as Damian Conway, Guido van Rossum,
Monty Widenius, Eric Raymond, Theodore Ts'o, and Mitchell Kapor lead
convention sessions and panels focusing on Linux, PHP, Python, Perl,
Apache, XML, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Security (new this year), Emerging Topics,
Java, and Ruby. At night, event plans include:
- An SCO Moot Court, organized by UC Berkeley law professor Pam Samuelson
and Groklaw founder Pamela Jones
- NASA's Jeff Norris sharing how open source software played a major role
in operating the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rovers,
illustrated with pictures and anecdotes
- Larry Wall's perennial "State of the Onion" address
- A talk by Paul Graham, author of the upcoming "Hackers & Painters"
- A sprinkling of award presentations, including the first-ever Open
Source Awards presented by the Open Source Initiative and ZDNet
- Receptions with authors, both at the convention and at Portland's
inimitable Powell's Books
Speaking about the future of open source, O'Reilly notes, "Most of the big
killer apps of the Internet are built on top of open source, but they're
not themselves open source. So, there's a real challenge for open source
developers. The whole model is challenged." While there may be challenges
ahead and differences between open source and commercial software,
technology is on a path leading to more choices, more opportunities, and
an even larger open source community. It's a welcome iteration at the
O'Reilly Open Source Convention.
Additional Resources:
For complete convention details, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
An OSCON program overview can be found at:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/29/oscon_track_grid.html
For a list of keynote presentations, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/29/keynotes.html
To review speaker bios, see:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/29/speakers.html
For more information about evening events, visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/29/events.html
Press coverage, blogs, photos, and news from last year's convention can be
found at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2003/
For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the
convention, contact Andrew Calvo at (707) 827-7176, or
andrewc@oreilly.com.
For more information on open source issues, visit the Oâ•˙Reilly Network:
http://www.oreillynet.com/
About O'Reilly
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computer technologies. The company's books, conferences, and web sites
bring to light the knowledge of technology innovators. O'Reilly books,
known for the animals on their covers, occupy a treasured place on the
shelves of the developers building the next generation of software.
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business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new
industries. From the Internet to XML, open source, .NET, Java, and web
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From: ophelia@votenader.org
Crossposted-To: md.announcements,fj.net.infosystems.announce,mtsu.announce
Subject: Hey, Corporate America! Show Taxpayers Some Appreciation!
Reply-To: updates@lists.votenader.org
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:22:55 GMT
Hey, Corporate America! Show Taxpayers Some Appreciation!
By Ralph Nader
If you work for a corporation, ask your own employer to support
Taxpayer Appreciation Day. (We’ve included contact information at the
end of the article.)
Take Action Now! April 15 is just around the corner. Please let us know
what action you’ve taken and what type of response you receive at
taxday@votenader.org
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that April 15th of each
year be designated Taxpayer Appreciation Day, a day when corporations
receiving taxpayer subsidies, bailouts, and other forms of corporate
welfare can express their thanks to the citizens who provide them.
Though it may not be evident, quite a few industries -- and the profits
they generate -- can be traced back to taxpayer-financed programs whose
fruits have been given away to (mostly) larger businesses.
Taxpayer dollars have often funded discoveries made by NASA, the
Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health and other
federal agencies. In many instances the rights to those discoveries were
later given away to companies that brag about them as though they were
the fruits of their own investments. Taxpayer dollars have played a
major role in the growth of the aviation and aerospace, biotechnology,
pharmaceutical, and telecommunications industries -- to name only a few.
Though corporate America insists it must file yearly income taxes just
like everyone else, it is responsible for a sharply decreasing portion
of federal tax dollars -- despite record profits. Despite record
profits, corporate tax contributions to the federal budget have been
steadily declining for fifty years and now stand at a mere 7.4% of the
federal government income because of the loopholes they driven into our
tax laws. The average citizen pays more than four to five times that in
federal income tax revenues (with the single exception of payroll
taxes).
Clearly corporations that believe they are self-reliant are often, in
fact, dependent on taxpayer funds to maintain their financial viability.
The least they could do is thank us. Which is why we need something like
Taxpayer Appreciation Day. Consider the following:
General Electric bought RCA (which owned NBC) in the mid-1980s with
funds it was able to save by using an outrageous tax loophole passed by
Congress in 1981. That loophole allowed GE to pay no federal taxes on
three years of profits, totaling more than $6 billion dollars. It also
gave them a $125 million refund! That gave GE the money to buy RCA. GE
should arrange a media extravaganzas on NBC to say "Thank you,
taxpayers.” Pharmaceutical companies constantly ballyhoo their
discoveries in advertisements. What they don't tell us is that many of
the important nonredundant therapeutic drugs -- including most
anticancer drugs -- were developed, in whole or in part, with taxpayer
money and then given to them by the NIH and the Defense Department.
Bristol-Meyers Squibb, for example, controls the rights to Taxol, an
anticancer drug developed all the way through human clinical trials at
the National Institutes of Health with $31 million of taxpayer moneys.
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions on advertisements each year.
Perhaps they should consider a big "Thank You, Taxpayers" ad campaign
every April 15, if only to remind them where their drug research and
development subsidies come from.
Mining companies often receive vast sweetheart deals from taxpayers.
Under the 1872 Mining Act hard rock mining companies are allowed to
purchase mining rights to public land for only $5 an acre, no matter how
valuable the minerals on (or in) that land might be. A Canadian company
recently mined $9 billion in gold on federal land in Nevada after using
the Mining Act to purchase the mining rights to it for about $30,000.
Mining companies owe the taxpayers their gratitude.
Television broadcasters were given free license to use public airwaves
(worth around $70 billion) by a supine Congress in 1997. They too should
thank us. What about all those professional sports corporations that
play and profit in taxpayer-funded stadiums and arenas? The owners and
players should thank the fans/taxpayers who -- in spite of their largess
-- still must pay through the nose for tickets. For years McDonalds
received taxpayer subsidies to promote its products overseas as part of
a foreign market access program. Now McDonalds is a ubiquitous brand
name worldwide, but has it ever thanked the taxpayers who underwrote its
efforts? Then there are the HMOs, hospitals, and defense contractors
that have had their legal fees reimbursed by the taxpayers when our
government prosecutes them for fraud or cost overruns. Those companies
have great public relations firms that can help them show us their
gratitude. Corporate America has taken too much from us for too long.
It's time it shows us a little bit of appreciation.
Corporate Contacts:
General Electric (NBC):
David Frail
Financial Communications
1--203-373-3387
david.frail@corporate.ge.com
Bristol-Meyers Squibb:
Peter R. Dolan, CEO
345 Park Avenue
New York, New York, USA 10154-0037
1-212-546-4000
peter.dolan@bms.com
Viacom (CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, Paramount Pictures, Viacom Outdoor, Infinity, UPN, Spike TV, TV Land, CMT: Country Music Television, Comedy Central, Showtime, Blockbuster, and Simon & Schuster):
Sumner M. Redstone , Chairman and CEO
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
1-212-258-6000
(refused to provide email addresses)
Walt Disney Co. (ABC):
David Eisner, CEO
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521 ABC, Inc.
1-818-460-7477
netaudr@abc.com
McDonalds USA:
Jim Cantalupo, Chairman and CEO
McDonald’s Plaza
Oak Brook, IL 60523
1-800-244-6227
Email on-line form.
Halliburton (Kellogg Brown & Root):
David J. Lesar, Chairman, President & CEO
5 Houston Center
1401 McKinney, Suite 2400
Houston, TX 77010
1-713-759-2600
communityrelations@halliburton.com
In addition to these, pursue your favorite and let us know what they say!
--
Name and the World Wide Terrorism Web
http://www.jimball.com.au/terrorismweb.htm
By Michael Tremoglie
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003
In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major "peace"
organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared
no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its
anti-American Statement of Conscience. Its signatories include scores of
Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti,
Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver. Hollywood icons (and many more
has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed
Harris have also signed or endorsed the statement. NION organizes marches
and other protest activities in its support.
However, Not In Our Name is deeper than the latest academic babblers and
limosuine liberals. NION professes peace, yet it is involved - directly as
well as indirectly - with terrorist organizations and anti-American
propaganda campaigns headed by fanatical Communist and Muslim groups. NION
has cemented alliances with bona fide radical organizations like the
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom and the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Not In Our Name: What is IFCO?
Not In Our Name (NION) requests donations on its website, yet on this site
donors are asked to make checks payable to NION/IFCO. IFCO is the acronym
for the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. NION states
that the " Interreligous Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). is
our fiscal sponsor." Fiscal sponsorship by IFCO means Not In Our Name
receives donati
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