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Linux-Announce Digest #248
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Tue Oct 4 22:13:07 2005
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Linux-Announce Digest #248, Volume #5 Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:13:03 EDT
Contents:
SPLUNK: the new GREP ("rachel dafny")
MMA Musical MIDI Accompaniment version: Beta 0.16 (Bob van der Poel)
bogofilter-0.96.2 - new current release (David Relson)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (paulf)
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 8th October 2005 (Mark Suter)
TuxMobil News 09/2005 (Werner Heuser)
Netmonitor 0.3a - The linux network monitor, has been released. (Dwayne Hoy)
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.17 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.19 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
Check out FUSIONPHP.NET today!!! (NOT SPAM)
No Starch Press releases "The Cult of iPod" ("Kerry Beck")
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From: "rachel dafny" <data_mine@hotmail.com>
Subject: SPLUNK: the new GREP
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:27:45 GMT
SPLUNK is a free Linux/Solaris server that lets you search all your
log files. Here's the url and access code:
http://www.splunk.com?ac=kilroy
It's helpful for anyone who manages unix boxes to search and
troubleshoot all of their log files, including syslog, Apache, Jboss,
mysql, oracle, router data, etc. It parses and indexes in real time.
If you have to deal with log files and/or troubleshooting, it's worth
checking out. Up until now sysadmins were forced to use grep and ad
hoc scripts.
GREP is totally fine for small, simple, local files, but grep doesn't
work on 20GB of log files, across a dozen servers; doesn't group
multiline log messages together; doesn't unify timestamps across
files; doesn't automatically find related log events; doesn't show
histograms of log events; doesn't search gigabytes in seconds; doesn't
have a cool ajax web interface similar to google. You get the idea.
Both are free, though -- they do have that in common.
--
Splunk: A delicate blend of space-age engineering, amish durability,
and flowery marketing.
http://www.splunk.com?ac=kilroy
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From: Bob van der Poel <bvdp@uniserve.com>
Subject: MMA Musical MIDI Accompaniment version: Beta 0.16
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:27:48 GMT
I'm pleased to announce the release of my program
mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment
version: Beta 0.16
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain
pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives.
MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks. It comes
with an extensive user-extendable library with a variety of
patterns for various popular rhythms, an extensive user manual,
and many demo songs.
MMA is a command line driven program. It creates MIDI files
which need a sequencer or MIDI file play program.
MMA is written in Python. You'll need Python 2.3 (or later)
for MMA to function.
MMA is supplied in 4 tar.gz archives. Included:
mma-bin -- the main script and library files.
mma-html -- documentation in HTML format.
mma-pdf -- documentation in PDF format.
mma-songs -- a collection of about 230 songs in MMA format.
If you get all four download packages the total size is still
less than 1.5 megabytes.
MMA is currently in final BETAs. We are hoping for a 1.0 release
in winter 2005. Right now we need help in debugging the program,
creating songs for distribution, and new and improved
library files.
Best of all, MMA is free. It is released under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. It has been developed on a Linux platform,
but should be usable on just about any system. A detailed page now
exists on our web site on how-to install on a Windows system.
MMA is available on my personal home page:
http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/
If you have any questions or comments, please send them
to: bvdp@uniserve.com
Beta 0.16: Lots of little bug fixes, new SWINGMODE, more note offset
and length options, NOTESPAN directive, better KEYSIG support,
enhanced VOLUME options, negative offsets (prior bar) in patterns.
You really need to read the DOCS for all this!
Comments appreciated!
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bvdp@uniserve.com
WWW: http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp
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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: bogofilter-0.96.2 - new current release
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:27:51 GMT
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, ...
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Files are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter for
download.
Here are the md5sums for the release:
3e7329f46a11ed4614f283bf8159114f bogofilter-0.96.2-1.i586.rpm
3cc9959f0ff0eb0e8b34f41b73529d14 bogofilter-0.96.2-1.src.rpm
30b66f7cf0abfb3dbd51ad07894e3505 bogofilter-0.96.2.tar.bz2
7a42ac23b7db1b85b2f09e3030bb0f1d bogofilter-0.96.2.tar.gz
ad0a2d03f16a2e1200289b9141bb9ea5 bogofilter-static-0.96.2-1.i586.rpm
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=================
BOGOFILTER NEWS
=================
!!!!!!!! READ THE RELEASE.NOTES !!!!!!!!
Sections headed '[Incompat <version>]' and '[Major <version>]'
are particularly important. They describe changes that are
incompatible with earlier releases or are significantly
different.
!!!!!!!! READ THE RELEASE.NOTES !!!!!!!!
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0.96.2 2005-09-25 (a.k.a. 1.0.0-rc2)
2005-09-25
* SQLite3 - no longer using EXCLUSIVE in BEGIN TRANSACTION as
it seems unnecessary and it causes trouble on MAC OSX
2005-09-19
* Require sqlite 3.2.6 and print warning if older version installed, to
avoid people running into critical bugs in older sqlite3 versions.
The test can be defeated by setting the environment variable
BF_USE_OLD_SQLITE to any value. Also warn on 32-bit machines.
2005-09-16
* Fix bogus t.maint failures on some systems that don't use bash for
/bin/sh (for instance, FreeBSD).
2005-09-11
* Resurrected atexit() code to ensure databases have been
closed (needed for rare cases on RISC OS).
2005-09-07
* Perform unicode conversion after base64 and quoted-printable
decoding. (Thanks to Mikhael Zabaluev for the patch)
2005-09-06
* (sqlite3 based builds only) Print reminder to register tokens before
scoring if preparing the SELECT statement fails.
* Avoid "obsolete option -I- used, please use -iquote instead" nagging
from GCC version 4. (Heck, autoconf has even reached include lines
that worked for ages.)
2005-09-05
* Replace mime stack by linked list (to correct gentoo bug #69893).
* Fix configure's --with-included-gsl option. (Thanks to
Torsten Veller for the patch)
0.96.1 2005-09-05 (a.k.a. 1.0.0-rc1)
2005-08-24
* Fix incompatibility with SunOS make(1S), adding a missing trailing
backslash character to src/Makefile.am.
2005-08-17
* Update RISC OS versions of Makefile and config.h
0.96.0 2005-08-15
2005-08-14
* When directory name is argument for bogoutil's dump/load
option, use "wordlist.db" to avoid a sigsegv.
* Remove support for TDB, the Trivial Database.
2005-08-05
* db_lock.c: rename "cell_t" to "bf_cell_t" to avoid clashing with
IRIX's cell_t. Reported by Daichi Kawahata.
* configure.ac: MIPS doesn't have extended FP precisiopn. Patch by
Daichi Kawahata.
2005-08-03
* bogotune - Restored code for recommending db_cachesize value.
2005-07-10
* Bogofilter now complains if sqlite 3.2.1 or older is used on a
machine with a word width greater than 32 bits, but tries to proceed.
It may however crash with SIGBUS as sqlite 3.2.1 performs unaligned
64-bit accesses. sqlite 3.2.2 or newer is strongly recommended.
2005-07-04
* Updated history of stable releases (file RELEASES).
2005-07-03
* Switched t.encoding test to use the POSIX utility cksum,
rather than OS-specific utilities such as md5sum or md5.
0.95.2 2005-06-30
2005-07-08 - Promoted to Stable Release
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From: paulf@quillandmouse.com (paulf)
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:27:58 GMT
*************************************
* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
*************************************
ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
26 September 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
J. J. Rohrer
Sterling Square
600 First Ave North
St Petersburg, FL 33701
See http://maps.google.com/maps?q=600+First+Ave+N,+Saint+Petersburg,+FL&spn=0.017456,0.027210&hl=en
for map.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
1 October 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
6 October 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
DUNEDIN **************************************************
8 October 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library
Community Room A or B (see notice on site)
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
TAMPA ****************************************************
11 October 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second TUESDAY of each month)
Hillsborough Community College
Dale Mabry Campus
Technology Bldg, Rm 426
4001 Tampa Bay Blvd
Tampa, FL
See http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/Docs/DM-Map.htm for directions.
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
18 October 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Tuesday of each month)
Latitude 23.5 Coffee Shop
2820 Clark Rd (Swift/Tuttle and Clark)
Sarasota, FL 34231
See http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=2820+Clark+Rd,+Sarasota,+FL+34231
for a map.
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ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
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From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 8th October 2005
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:28:00 GMT
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.
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: Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: TuxMobil News 09/2005
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:28:03 GMT
Hello,
the "TuxMobil News Digest" for September 2005[1] has good news
for Linux PDA, mobile phone, laptop and notebook users. Here is an
extract of the most important or most interesting messages.
If you are missing news, applications or documents, don't
hesitate to contact me.
Please support our work by submitting news and Linux reports about
laptops, notebooks, PDAs, mobile phones and portable media players.
Werner Heuser
|=| Monthly Highlights
|=| DELL Laptops and Mandriva Linux?
Mandriva has announced "DELL Releases its First Linux Consumer
Product with Mandriva"[1], the DELL Latitude 110L will be
available with Mandriva pre-loaded. This press release is not
online anymore! A posting a InfoWorld[2] describes some more background
"This is really nothing new. Dell installs any distro or software that a
customer requires through our CFI (Custom Factory Integration) program. This
is usually for larger customers with very specific needs rather than your
typical consumer. In this case, Dell won a bid with the French Ministry of
Education. Based on the needs of the end-user, Dell opted to leverage its CFI
capabilities to offer French students the 'n-series' Latitude 110L notebook
with Mandriva Linux pre-installed. [So] the Latitude 110Ln with the Mandriva
OS is limited to a French Ministry of Education program available only to
students. When Mandriva saw this they quickly put out a press release without
Dell's authorization or knowledge which made it appear as if Dell was
pre-installing their OS on Dell systems [in general] rather than the more
accurate CFI story." LinuxToday[3] asked the DELL CEO: "Now that a
laptop with pre-installed Mandrake Linux is available in France, will
DELL follow up with Linux laptops in the US or other nations?" The
CEO Michael Dell denied this because "distributions of Linux are
too "alienated", from each other to make that work".
[1] http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2564
[2] http://weblog.infoworld.com/smbit/archives/2005/09/dell_and_mandri.html
[3] http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005093001826NWHWSW
|=| Complete Monthly Digest
[1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2005_09.html
|=| Daily RSS, Archive, Submission Form, Subscription
You may find the _daily_ TuxMobil News RSS/XML channel, the archiv and
a news submission form at http://tuxmobil.org/newsfeed.html
BTW: You may subscribe to the complete _monthly_ digest there, too.
--
|=| Werner Heuser = Berliner Str. 122 = D-13187 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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From: Dwayne Hoy <dhoy3@iprimus.com.au>
Subject: Netmonitor 0.3a - The linux network monitor, has been released.
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:28:17 GMT
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Netmonitor is a console application that monitors network intefaces.<br>
It displays the transfer rate (upload and download) for each <br>
device and the the data consumed by each device.<br>
<br>
The main features of netmonitor are<br>
<ul>
<li>Low resource usage</li>
<li>Simple yet effective design</li>
<li>Displays values with dynamic unit change</li>
<li>Easy to understand tabular output</li>
<li>Has logging features so it can retain values after a restart</li>
<li>Compact display, fits in a 9x66 size terminal window</li>
</ul>
<br>
<big><big>Requirements<br>
</big></big>
<ul>
<li><big><big><small><small>gcc compiler - Included with most if not
all linux distros</small></small></big></big></li>
<li><big><big><small><small>linux distrubution that supports the
/proc filesystem</small></small></big></big></li>
</ul>
<big><big>Links<br>
</big></big><big><big><small><small> Sourceforge: <a
href="http://netmonitor.sourceforge.net">http://netmonitor.sourceforge.net</a><br>
Freshmeat:<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/netmonitor">
http://freshmeat.net/projects/netmonitor</a><br>
Direct Download: <a
href="http://freshmeat.net/redir/netmonitor/60430/url_tgz/netmon-0.3a.tar.gz">http://freshmeat.net/redir/netmonitor/60430/url_tgz/netmon-0.3a.tar.gz</a>
<br>
<br>
</small></small></big></big><br>
<br>
</body>
</html>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.17
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:28:19 GMT
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.
0.15.17
Release Date: 2005-09-25
* The search size limit is set when retrieving partial
results. This avoids sending abandon request (in
ldap.async.AsyncSearchHandler) if not necessary.
* socket.error is handled just like IOError.
* Reactivated the special attribute value testing in
LDAPSyntax.displayValue() with a corrected regex for
timestamps. This fixes a infinite loop in regex-matching.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?= <michael@stroeder.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: web2ldap release 0.15.19
Reply-To: feedback@web2ldap.de
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:28:22 GMT
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.
0.15.19
Release Date: 2005-09-29
Credits go to Claudia D. for her proposals improving the user
interface.
* Once again: Fixed LDAPSyntax.displayValue()...
* Searching group entries and changing the group membership of
an entry is now divided into separate forms. Hopefully this
is more obvious to the user than the former UI.
* A <table> is used instead of a <dt> for listing the
attributes not covered by template when displaying a single
entry. This saves much space in the browser window.
* The object class select lists are 20 items long now.
* When modifying the object classes of an entry the existing
object classes are listed first in the select fields.
Hopefully it is more obvious to the user now what these
select fields are all about.
0.15.18
Release Date: 2005-09-26
* Fixed exception logging handler.
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From: "Kerry Beck" <nostarchpr@oreilly.com>
Subject: No Starch Press releases "The Cult of iPod"
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:28:31 GMT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact: Patricia Witkin
patricia@nostarch.com
415.863.9900 x303
FOLLOW-UP TO BESTSELLING "CULT OF MAC" EXAMINES iPOD PHENOMENON
Popular player gets the star treatment in new book by Leander Kahney of
Wired News
September 29, 2005, San Francisco - One year after "The Cult of Mac" wowed
devotees of all things Apple, "The Cult of iPod" (No Starch Press, November
'05) takes a loving look at how Apple's portable player has changed music,
culture, and listening behavior for fans around the world. This new title
from bestselling "Cult of Mac" author Leander Kahney includes the exclusive
back story of the iPod's development, looks at the many ways iPod users
pay homage to their devices, and investigates the quirkier aspects of iPod
culture.
Since its first iPod model hit the market in 2001, Apple has sold more
than 21 million iPods, from the no-frills Shuffle up to the flagship 60GB
iPod. "The Cult of iPod," like its predecessor "The Cult of Mac," takes
readers on a tour of everything iPod with gorgeous four-color photos,
stylish layout and design, and tales of users who devote considerable
time, energy, and imagination to their gadgets.
Meet the little-known practice of iPod-jacking (strangers plugging into
each other's iPods to find new music); discover the growing legions of
MP3Js (regular folks who use their iPods to become DJs); and meet average
joes who create their own professional quality iPod commercials just for
fun. "The Cult of iPod" looks at the cottage industries that have sprung up
to capitalize on the iPod's popularity, too, from both fun and functional
accessories to services that build customized playlists or will convert
your entire CD library into the iTunes format. "The Cult of iPod" also
covers the trend of celebrities and fashion mavens who've customized their
iPods and made high-end limited edition carrying cases, as well as gadget
freaks who've modded their iPods into one-of-a-kind designs that make
techies drool.
"The iPod gives both Mac and Windows users a common object for their
adoration. Even people who don't own an iPod have heard about podcasting,
and they certainly have those 'dancing silhouette' ads tattooed on their
brains," said Bill Pollock, founder of No Starch Press. "Given the success
of 'The Cult of Mac' and the world's obsession with the iPod, we figure we
can score a few books from the ravenous iPod freaks."
Like its predecessor, "The Cult of iPod" has a striking cover image and
innovative design that would impress Steve Jobs himself. It also includes
hundreds of photos and graphics that illustrate the many aspects of the
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November 2005, 160 pp., $24.95, ISBN 1-59327-066-6
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