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Linux-Announce Digest #164
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Linux-Announce Digest #164, Volume #5 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:13:03 EDT
Contents:
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.11 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 8.2 (mail@sanface.com)
No Starch Releases "Ending Spam" ("Kerry Beck")
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:54:02 CST
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.11
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).
This release published and presented at Linuxtag 2005, Karlsruhe
at the OpenLDAP project's booth (F87).
Would be nice to meet you there during the next few days!
Ciao, Michael.
***** 0.15.11 *****
Release Date: 2005-06-21
Installation and Configuration changes
* List of ISO 3166-2, numeric country codes and country
names defined in new configuration sub-module
web2ldapcnf.countries.
New features/enhancements
* Added general configuration parameter
web2ldapcnf.misc.ldap_opt_debug_level for setting
debug level of OpenLDAP libs.
* Implemented eDirectory-specific plugin class
TaggedNameAndString.
* Added plugin module for OpenLDAP.
* Added plugin classes CountryCode and LogonHours for MS
AD.
* When modifying an entry the DIT content rule which
governs the structural object class is displayed with
a link to this rule in the schema browser.
* In the search result list the attribute msDS-Approx-
Immed-Subordinates is used if available to determine
if it does make sense to display a [Down] link.
* LDAP URLs in query strings (e.g. used for web2ldap-
bookmarks) can now have the following LDAP URL
extensions for specifying the SASL login parameters:
x-saslmech, x-saslauthzid and x-saslrealm.
* When displaying connection information all possible
rootDSE attributes are taken into account instead of
dumb probing all known monitor and configuration DNs.
Bug Fixes and Work-Arounds
* Exception ldap.INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS is ignored in
getUmichConfig() to avoid this exception being raised
to user.
* Recursive delete is hopefully more resistent against
being caught in an end-less loop when working a buggy
LDAP server.
* Fixed handling of non-existing or empty namingContexts
attribute in RootDSE.
* The operational attribute structuralObjectClass is
supposed to be SINGLE-VALUE but some broken LDAPv3
server implementations (e.g. Active Directory) return
all the superior structural object classes as
attribute values.
There was a work-around added for that which fixes
determining the correct DIT content in rule in effect
on those broken servers.
* Fixed input of bind DN with NON-ASCII chars in login
form.
* LDAP URLs with standard port numbers used as keys in
cascaded configuration are matched with our without
the port number.
Code cleaning
* Some modifications in the syntax / attribute type
class implementation which also clean-ups the plugin
implementations. Many syntaxes added.
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From: mail@sanface.com
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 8.2
Date: 21 Jun 2005 15:40:01 GMT
We would like to announce txt2pdf 8.2 version.
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
txt2pdf is shareware; it is a very flexible and powerful Perl5 script
that converts text files to PDF format files, so you can use it in
every operating systems supported by Perl5, including Linux in every
its distribution on every processor (e.g. zaurus, os/390).
Here nice examples made using txt2pdf PRO
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/Purchase_Order.pdf
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/oldinvoice.pdf
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/hfmus.pdf
http://www.sanface.com/pdf/heraldbill.pdf
If you prefer we also distribute executables for Windows, Linux,
Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Mac OS X. Inside the Windows version you can
find a VB GUI: Visual txt2pdf.
What's new in this version
You can set an ftp site where put every pdf after text to pdf
conversion.
You can use the follow parameters: ftphost : host.domain.com, ftpuser :
user, ftppassword : password, ftpdirectory : directory
Test txt2pdf 8.2!
You can find it at http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:50:51 CST
From: "Kerry Beck"<nostarchpr@oreilly.com>
Subject: No Starch Releases "Ending Spam"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact: Patricia Witkin
patricia@nostarch.com
415.863.9900
DEVELOPER OF DSPAM EXPLAINS TECHNOLOGY BEHIND SPAM FILTERING
"Ending Spam" answers critical questions for those who want to do more
than just delete unwanted messages
June 21, 2005, San Francisco--No Starch Press, publishers of the finest
in geek entertainment, has announced the release of "Ending Spam: Bayesian
Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification" (No
Starch Press, July '05) by Jonathan Zdziarski. This important new title
describes, in-depth, how next-generation spam filters work to identify and
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filtering techniques and will be a fascinating read for those writing next
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spammers who want insights into beating the filters.
"While other titles have explored the spam business and the personalities
involved, there hasn't been a book examining the technology being used on
the front lines to fight spam--until now," said William Pollock,
founder and president of No Starch Press. "Lots of computer professionals
and enthusiasts alike want and need to understand spam on a deeper
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Just as with spyware and viruses, there is a constant tug-of-war between
the spammers and those who seek to banish them. For each sneaky spammer
thwarted, there are countless others devising new and unbeaten ways of
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its seasoned hackers have developed new solutions using approaches rooted
in traditional mathematics. "Ending Spam" explains exactly how those spam
filtering techniques work.
Author Zdziarski maintains DSPAM, a high-profile spam filter hailed on
Slashdot and Wired News that is able to achieve levels of accuracy up to
99.985 percent. In "Ending Spam," he explains how spam filtering works and
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the best spam filters (SpamProbe, Bogofilter, Death2Spam) provide further
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Other topics covered include the many low-down dirty tricks spammers use
to push their spam into your inbox, the history of spam, the current state
of the market and a detailed examination of some of the most popular open
source spam filters and how to install/use them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jonathan A. Zdziarski has been fighting spam for eight years, and has
spent a significant portion of the past two years working on the next
generation spam filter DSPAM. His research in algorithmic theory and
neural networking has led to the development of many new approaches in
language classification, and he has played a key role in designing some
popular algorithms in use today, including Message Inoculation, Bayesian
Noise Reduction, and the first functional Neural Networking algorithm for
spam filters. Zdziarski lectures widely on the topic of spam and was a
speaker at the 2004 and 2005 MIT Spam Conference.
Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical
Language Classification by Jonathan A. Zdziarski
July 2005, 312 pp., $39.95, ISBN 1593270526
Available at fine bookstores everywhere, from www.oreilly.com/nostarch, or
directly from No Starch Press (www.nostarch.com, orders@nostarch.com,
800.420.7240).
No Starch Press titles are distributed throughout the U.S. by O'Reilly
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at www.nostarch.com.
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