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Linux-Announce Digest #77
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Linux-Announce Digest #77, Volume #5 Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:13:03 EST
Contents:
IBM announces Linux on Power contest, goes international ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
INDIA: Some new news items on LIG's pages ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 26th March 2005 (Mark Suter)
Bogofilter-0.94.1 - New Current Release (David Relson)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: IBM announces Linux on Power contest, goes international
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:04:14 CST
http://linuxonpower.com/
IBM is excited to announce that the Linux on POWER Open Source Developer
Contest is going international. Last year's contest had such a great response
it has been opened up world-wide.
What is the contest?
The Open Source Developer Competition is designed to reward and showcase
innovative new open source applications that are designed specifically for
Linux running on the PPC architecture, or award the porting of existing
applications from predetermined lists.
What can I win?
You can enter the Tier 1 challenge for the Segway? Human Transporter along with
Tier 2 or 3, or select a single Tier to participate in and win.
1st Tier Prize: 5-Segway? Human Transporter
2nd Tier Prize: 50-Apple Mac G5's from Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
3rd Tier Prize: 50-$1,000 cash prizes
Registration begins on March 15, 2005!
Entries are due by July 15, 2005!
Where do I start?
To enter the IBM Linux on POWER Open Source Developer Contest, read the contest
rules, register for the contest, then choose the Tier(s) you want to enter in.
Once you've completed your entry, please submit it to our panel of judges.
For more information about eligibility and participation, please see the
Contest Rules or Frequently Asked Questions. For more information from IBM
about Linux on Power, see their resources for developers.
As a member of the Linux Developer Community you have the opportunity to
showcase your design flair and innovations around the world. If you are
selected as a Linux on POWER Open Source Developer Contest winner, you may also
get to see your new or ported application featured in contest publicity, as
well as IBM global advertising.
FORWARDED VIA:
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_/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa
\ __\/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436
| | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net
|__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.bytesforall.org
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Writing with a difference, on issues that really make the difference.
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: INDIA: Some new news items on LIG's pages
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:04:22 CST
Please visit http://linuxindianews.notlong.com/
* Respected Sir... appeal to the VC (open letter to VTU-Ktaka))
* CHECK IT OUT: IMB announces LinuxPPC64 contest
* We'll miss you Mandal Hembrom (Santhali localisation)
* When sharing moves beyond software (Ahmedabad)
* LinuxAsia2005.com, reflected in a blog, Slashdot, etc
* Installing Indic
* Languages, local computing, and Tapan
* One day, one command
* Surprised... at Burdwan
* The Times of India higlights the software patents threat
* India's newest LUG? AT SREC
* I4d, and a study on FLOSS for health
* From Mangalore... FLOSS news with love
Check it out. You can also visit via http://www.linux-india.org pages
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_/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa
\ __\/ \ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436
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From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 26th March 2005
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:00:16 CST
The Home Unix Machine Brisbane Users Group exists to get fellow
Unix users in contact with each other, to introduce people to
Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and to help users in
operating those systems. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Meetings tend to be informal. We socialize, discuss Unix and
computing, solve Unix problems for new and experienced users
alike and, these days, have regular talks.
Date: Saturday, 26th March 2005 (every second Saturday)
Time: From 3pm with the network up 30 minutes after we are
granted entry. The network will be brought down after
midnight to allow time to clean up for a 1am exit.
Venue: Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50)
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Car parking is currently unregulated on Saturdays. The
University is serviced by public transport with frequent
buses during University terms. For more information:
http://www.uq.edu.au/about/index.html?page=1070
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&z=2&id=25
Cost: Membership until our AGM in September is $20, but no one
has to join unless they are going to use club services
such as our network access during meetings.
Talks: Information on upcoming talks is announced separately.
For information on talks see the announcements by our
Talks Maintainer on the announce mailing list.
Food: The eating places (ranging from take away to a la Carte)
at 'The Ville' are usually open until about 10pm Saturday
night. There is also the Pizza Cafe on campus near the
Schonell Theater:
http://www.uqunion.uq.edu.au/schonell/pizzacaffe/
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&z=2&id=11
Drinks: Various soft drinks and snacks are available from the
three vending machines located immediately outside the
room. Remember to bring change!
For more information on club meetings and HUMBUG itself see our
web page at http://www.humbug.org.au/ or email me directly.
Humbug President
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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: Bogofilter-0.94.1 - New Current Release
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:05:21 CST
Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies email 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, RISC-OS, OS/2, ...
******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* *******
The big change since the stable release (version 0.92.8) is that
Berkeley DB support now includes the Transaction API to allow multiple
readers and writers for wordlists and to provide insurance against
program or system crashes.
Using the transaction capabilities calls for awareness of the database
environment and taking care in handling its files. Be sure to read
file README.DB and the RELEASE.NOTES file. By default, transactions
are disabled for simplicity. To enable them, use command line option
"--enable-transactions" or config file option "db_transactions=yes"
Bogofilter-0.94.1 also probes to see if the wordlist is in a
transaction or non-transaction directory and does the right thing.
As mentioned above, more information is in the RELEASE.NOTES and
README.db files.
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Files are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter for
download.
Here are the md5sums for the release:
43907830f0e33ecdba408e5a1272c8ef bogofilter-0.94.1-1.i586.rpm
1f7e348da088cc3c178853742107747e bogofilter-0.94.1-1.src.rpm
a4d45c1aa40ecbb3ff7b86c21583a430 bogofilter-0.94.1.tar.bz2
6ffac60d3e272c7c3454883e911cde9a bogofilter-0.94.1.tar.gz
1ad841655f7fb0b93140a157196f2ec8 bogofilter-static-0.94.1-1.i586.rpm
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BOGOFILTER NEWS
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NOTE: More information on important changes for bogofilter updaters
is in the RELEASE.NOTES files. Read them!!
Important Note:
** Bogofilter can now use Berkeley DB's Transaction
capability to ensure database integrity.
** Bogofilter is now generating tri-state results labeled
Spam, Ham, and Unsure, compared to the old two-state Yes/No
results.
These changes are documented in the RELEASE.NOTES, specifically the
sections entitled:
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES IN BOGOFILTER 0.93
and MAJOR CHANGES IN BOGOFILTER 0.93
!!!!!!!! READ THE RELEASE.NOTES !!!!!!!!
0.94.1 2005-03-16
* Long options cleanup: options that have no meaning for a particular
program are now rejected, to meet common expectations. The option
parsing code was cleaned up and is easier to maintain now.
2005-03-14
* Add 'bogoutil --db-checkpoint', to replace db_checkpoint -1h.
2005-03-13
* Modified get_token() to use static storage in order to
lessen malloc/free overhead.
2005-03-09
* Fix segfault in 'bogoutil --db-verify'.
2005-03-08
* Support for Berkeley DB 3.1 is back.
* Terminate 'bogoutil -d' when SIGINT or SIGTERM is received.
2005-03-07
* Fixed query_config ('-Q') option.
0.94.0 2005-03-05
Default mode is transactions disabled for Berkeley DB.
2005-02-26
* Remove bogus signal handler, remove SIGKILL handling; ignore SIGINT,
SIGTERM and SIGPIPE.
* Fix non-transactional mode for Berkeley DB 4.0 and older.
2005-02-25
* Implement --db-log-autoremove=BOOL option, defaults to on.
This option removes outdated log files automatically before closing
the environment, to conserve disk space.
* Added signal handler to catch SIGINT, SIGKILL, and SIGTERM
and exit cleanly.
* Support for Berkeley DB 3.1 has been removed as a side
effect of automatically detecting transactional mode at
run-time, since 3.1 lacks DB_JOINENV.
2005-02-24
* Transactional datastore autoprobing was completed, it assumes
transactional mode if log.NNNNNNNNNN files (where N in {0, 1, ... 9})
are found.
* Add swapped endian support for SQlite3 database, to support reading
big endian (SPARC) generated databases on little endian machines
(x86) and vice versa. To enable reading databases on machines with
differing endian, dump and re-load the databases on a machine with
same endian as the machine that created them.
2005-02-18
* Added code to auto-detect when a transaction environment
exists and act accordingly (if none of the enable/disable
options are specified in the config file or on the command
line).
2005-02-10
* Fixed problem causing SIGSEGV when using options "-p" and
"-s" with multiple wordlists.
2005-02-06
* Code to enable/disable Berkeley DB transactions now uses an
OO paradigm (implemented via struct of method addresses).
* Enabling/disabling transactions is now run-time selectable
using "--enable-transactions=yes/no" on the command line and
"enable_transactions=yes/no" in the config file.
* Use "./configure --enable/disable-transactions" for build
time specification.
2005-01-28
* Add option "--db-transaction=yes/no" for run-time
enabling/disabling of transactions.
2005-01-25
* Removed unused program bogowordfreq.
2005-01-23
* Included charset_iconv.c in the build.
0.93.5 2005-01-22
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