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Linux-Announce Digest #163
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Tue Jun 21 05:13:06 2005
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Linux-Announce Digest #163, Volume #5 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:13:02 EDT
Contents:
ANN: S-Lang 2.0.4 released (John E. Davis)
[ANNOUNCE]: RIP Linux rescue system! (robotti@godmail.com)
COMMERCIAL: BalanceNG 1.382 available (BalanceNG Support)
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:29:18 CST
From: davis@space.mit.edu (John E. Davis)
Subject: ANN: S-Lang 2.0.4 released
Reply-To: davis@space.mit.edu
Version 2.0.4 of the slang programmer's library is available. It
is primarily a bug-fix release. See
<http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/download.html> for downloading options,
information, etc.
Here are the relevant MD5 sums:
eabd690bd49bca720ee406eb5895093b 2.0.3__2.0.4.diff.bz2
a69512d697a68963a2baaa541511ffe4 2.0.3__2.0.4.diff.gz
85d968e5d1ea2d79beba40d625732700 slang-2.0.4.tar.bz2
9caf3e201cf4f912408f5ea12cd6bb5d slang-2.0.4.tar.gz
Changes since 2.0.3
1. slsh/scripts/svnsh: Empty lines were not being handled.
2. src/slutf.c: Incorrect bracketing in the IS_ILLEGAL_UNICODE macro.
(johannes figgen at flextronicssoftware, com)
3. src/sllist.c: A prev link was not always getting set by the list_insert
function.
4. doc/tm/rtl/eval.tm: Tweaked the documentation for the eval function
(Mike Noble mnoble at space, mit, edu)
5. modules/png.sl: Make sure the scale factor is a float and not an int.
6. src/sltime.c: The tic/toc functions were changed to use
gettimeofday or its equivalent. This change results in greater resolution
for these interval timers, but not necessarily greater accuracy.
Also, previously the tic/toc functions measured the time used by
the current process but now they measure elapsed time. The old
behavior is still available via _tic/_toc.
7. slsh/lib/profile.sl: The above change made it possible to create a
more accurate profiling tool. The functions in this file are used
by the slsh/scripts/slprof profiling tool.
8. src/slarith.c: Missing break statement caused signed long long
values to be printed as unsigned long longs.
9. tm/doc/cslang.tm: Two small typos corrected (Alastair McKinstry
mckinstry at computer, org)
10. autoconf/aclocal.m4: Support for GNU Hurd and GNU KFreeBSD /
KNetBSD systems (Alastair McKinstry)
11. src/slstrops.sl: Added support for long long to the sprintf
intrinsic function (e.g., sprintf ("%lld", 1234LL))
12. modules/png-module.c: 8 bit gray scale images were being written
out as 8 bit images with an alpha channel. Bug fixed and version
bumped to 0.1.1.
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:22:30 CST
From: robotti@godmail.com
Reply-To: robotti@godmail.com
Subject: [ANNOUNCE]: RIP Linux rescue system!
This is a bootable CD Linux boot/rescue system!
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Recovery Is Possible! v12.7
The bootable CD image `RIP-12.7.iso.bin' can be written to a CD disk,
using cdrecord etc.
The 2.6.12 kernel has IDE/SATA and SCSI support.
The kernel also has PCMCIA, LVM2, RAID, and Ethernet/Cable/DSL/PPP/
PPPOE/Wireless networking support.
These are some of the programs it contains (partimage/partimaged, parted,
dump/restore, reiserfsck, fsck.reiser4, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, mke2fs,
e2fsck, tune2fs, debugfs, jfs_mkfs, jfs_fsck, mkfs.xfs, xfs_repair,
cdrecord/dvdrecord, mkisofs, dvd+rw-format, growisofs, ntfsresize,
mkntfs, lynx, mutt, fetchmail, ncftp, epic4 irc, tin, telnet, wget,
zgv, testdisk, smbclient, smbmount, ssh/sshd, rsync, udp-sender/receiver,
lde, blesstivo, rtvpatch, chntpw, cmospwd, grub, grubconfig, smartctl,
memtest86+, captive-ntfs, ddrescue, dd_rescue, acpitool, dmidecode, hwinfo,
lshw, ethtool).
It also includes the CD/DVD UDF filesystem packet writing tools (cdrwtool,
mkudffs, and pktsetup). May not work with CD-RW larger than 650MB.
The 'reiserfsck' and 'fsck.reiser4' programs are used to check and repair
a Linux reiserfs and reiser4 filesystem.
The 'xfs_repair' program is used to repair a Linux xfs filesystem.
The 'jfs_fsck' program is used to check and repair a Linux jfs filesystem.
The 'e2fsck' program is used to check and repair a Linux ext2 or ext3
filesystem.
The 'ntfsresize' program non-destructively resizes Windows XP/2000/NT4
or Windows Server 2003 NTFS filesystems. Read /usr/doc/RIP/ntfsresize.txt
on the rescue system.
The 'parted' program is used for creating, destroying, resizing (fat16/32,
ext2/3, reiserfs v3.6), checking and copying partitions, and the file
systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating
systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between hard disks and
disk imaging.
The partition image program 'partimage' saves partitions in the ext2,
ext3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, ufs, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 formats to an image
file. Only used blocks are copied to save space and increase the speed.
The image file can be compressed, in gzip or bzip2 formats.
============ WinNT/XP & BIOS password change programs! ==============
The chntpw program will enable you to view some information and
change user passwords in a Windows NT/XP SAM userdatabase file.
Read /usr/doc/RIP/chntpw/README.
cmospwd is a CMOS/BIOS password recovery tool. Read /usr/doc/RIP/cmospwd.txt.
ATTENTION! The NTFS write support in the kernel is just for use
with chntpw and has no other use.
If you want to mount a NTFS partition, mount it read-only!
# mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
ATTENTION! If you want to mount a Windows-XP NTFS partition read-write,
use captive-ntfs. # mount-ntfs "For help!"
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You can also install and boot the system from a USB flash/pen drive.
The flash drive needs to hold at least 30 MB and be no more than 1 GB.
There is also a PXE network version of the rescue system!
You can get it here:
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:53:57 CST
From: BalanceNG Support <balanceng-support@inlab.de>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: BalanceNG 1.382 available
BalanceNG 1.382 is now available at http://www.BalanceNG.net .
Changes:
* bugs at "show sessions" were fixed,
* bugs at "show parameters" were fixed.
Please upgrade, since session table management could be flawed in some cases.
BalanceNG (Balance Next Generation) is a modern software IP load balancing
solution running on Linux and Solaris operating systems.
BalanceNG is small, fast and (relatively) easy to use and setup. It offers session
persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Hash and Least
Resource) and a customizable UDP health check agent (available in source code).
BalanceNG supports VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) to set up High
Available configurations on multiple nodes.
BalanceNG is available at http://www.BalanceNG.net .
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Thomas Obermair
Inlab Software GmbH
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