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Linux-Announce Digest #850
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Linux-Announce Digest #850, Volume #4 Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:13:08 EDT
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PLT Scheme 208 available (Eli Barzilay)
[FSFE PR][EN] FSFE to challenge Microsoft in its appeal against ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.1 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:16:54 CST
From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Subject: PLT Scheme 208 available
PLT Scheme v208 is now available from
http://download.plt-scheme.org/
* PLaneT is a package repository for PLT Scheme that is integrated
with the module system. For example, add
(require (planet "csv.ss" ("neil" "csv.plt" 1 0)))
to your program to download and use the `comma-separated values'
package. See http://planet.plt-scheme.org/ for more packages and
more information.
* FrTime has changed considerably since 207: multiple language levels
(`Minimal' includes most of MzScheme; `Standard' also provides
etc.ss, list.ss, math.ss, and date.ss), numerous bug fixes and
enhancements, more interesting demos.
* ProfessorJ: the Beginner language allows initialized field
definitions and imposes restrictions on ==. For details, see
doc.txt in the profj collection.
* The teachpack collection for htdp contains two additions:
- image.ss, which defines operations for creating and manipulating
pictures in an algebraic manner;
- world.ss, which extends image.ss with operations for turning
images into interactive animations.
Note: These teachpacks fix the performance bugs we observed in
Windows labs during TeachScheme! workshops.
Warning: These teachpacks have slightly different interfaces than
those use at the 2004 TeachScheme! workshops. See Help Desk for
details.
Feedcome Welback.
--
((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:
http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] FSFE to challenge Microsoft in its appeal against
Date: 5 Aug 2004 18:25:01 GMT
FSFE to challenge Microsoft in its appeal against
European Commission
(Essen/Luxemburg) The European Commission sought to help the IT market
grow in the best possible way for consumers and citizens of the
European Union with its antitrust ruling against Microsoft.
EU Commissioner Mario Monti imposed a penalty of nearly 500 millions
Euro and additional conditions. One of these is the publication of the
software interfaces. This information is important for example to the
Free Software project SAMBA. SAMBA connects the UNIX and GNU/Linux
World with Microsoft's operating systems. Via this gateway SAMBA
reduces customers addiction of the monoculture which is fostered by
the Redmond based software giant. Without the information on the
interfaces SAMBA cannot work properly.
Although it seems questionable whether that ruling would truly stop
the monopoly, Microsoft seems to be worried and has entered appeal
against it in front of the European Court.
After having participated as third party in the antitrust case before,
the Free Software Foundation Europe has participated to the
preliminary hearing on Tuesday 27th of July 2004 to enter court in
order to defend the decision of the European Commission and the
freedom to use Free Software SAMBA.
Among general interests of Free Software, the FSFE will specifically
be representing the interests of the SAMBA team, a Free Software
cooperation developing the only remaining competing implementation of
the SMB/CIFS protocols that permit interoperability between various
operating systems and the MS Windows family.
The Italian lawyer Carlo Piana, of the milanese firm Tamos Piana &
Partners, will represent the interests of FSF Europe and of SAMBA
team, the developers of the remaining alternative implementation of
the SMB/CIFS protocols that permits interoperability between various
operating systems and the MS Windows family. He commented: "FSFE
simply could not remain outside this litigation. The decision of the
Commission represents an important precedent which is of utmost
importance in the sofware market and for the whole society. Freedom,
not just money, is at stake. I am therefore very proud of this
appointment".
"This case is about preserving the last remaining obstacle to total
Microsoft dominance of the Microsoft-compatible server market. It is
not only about defending freedom for users, but mainly freedom of
businesses." says Georg Greve, president of the FSFE, adding "We call
on all businesses to support us in this struggle. Those who ignore
that call today have to expect to have only one choice to buy storage
and directory services from tomorrow."
Information about the FSFE fundraising campaign can be found at
http://fsfeurope.org/news/2004/news-20040701.en.html
http://fsfeurope.org/help/donate.en.html
More background information on the Microsoft investigation is available
on http://fsfeurope.org/projects/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.en.html
About the Free Software Foundation Europe
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable
non-governmental organization dedicated to all aspects of Free
Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may
participate in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use,
copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free
Software definition - allow equal participation in the information
age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software
politically and legally, and giving people freedom by supporting
development of Free Software are central issues of the FSF Europe,
which was founded in 2001 as the European sister organization of
the Free Software Foundation in the United States.
http://fsfeurope.org
Press Speaker:
Joachim Jakobs <jj at office.fsfeurope.org>
Cell: +49-179-6919565
Other Contacts:
Georg C. F. Greve <greve at fsfeurope.org>
Tel: +49-40-23809080
Fax: +49-40-23809081
Stefano Maffulli <maffulli at fsfeurope.org>
Tel: +39 02 34 537 127
Fax: +30 02 34 531 282
Cel: +39 347 14 93 733
More information for the press available at
http://fsfeurope.org/press/
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Press-release mailing list
Press-release@fsfeurope.org
https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.1
Date: 5 Aug 2004 19:10:01 GMT
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.
***** 0.15.1 *****
Release Date:2004-08-05
Security fixes!
* Fixed error handling where client-generated parameters
displayed in various error messages could be exploited
for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. All web2ldap
versions prior to this version are considered
vulnerable.
Bug fixes
* Fixed backward-compability issue with Python 2.0 by
avoiding use of function inspect.isclass().
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