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Thursday, February 15, 2001TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) Sean’s Notes
2) Linux News
Win2K vs. Linux
Reality Check!
Linux vs. FreeBSD
Red Hat Unveils Expanded E-Commerce Offerings3) Linux Resources
LDAP Query with PHP
No Rest for the Kernel Team
GNOME Installation Guide
How are Kernel Decisions Made?
libmilter4) App o’ the week
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1) Sean’s Notes
Linux User Groups (LUG) are a great way of furthering your knowledge of Linux, and helping out others. Within a LUG you’ll find people who just installed Linux the day before (or perhaps not even yet), to people who work with it every day.
There are two big advantages to joining a LUG. The first is the technical content.
For example, I frequent the Manitoba Unix Users Group (MUUG). Each session starts off with an open forum where people ask questions. At the last meeting, everything from window managers to obscure shell scripting techniques was discussed. After that is a presentation. The latest was an excellent tutorial on how to lock down your machine, and in the past there have been demonstrations of products and related technologies.
Between the presentation and the forum, you have to try hard not to pick up something new, even if it is just a new piece of software to try out. Everybody does things differently, and learning these ways can only help you. Through discussion you can get into some really interesting topics.
The second advantage of a LUG is the people. You may run in to someone looking for temporary work, or meet some people face to face that you’ve only seen in email. You may trade email addresses with people you meet there, and use each other to bounce ideas off of in between meetings.
Linux.com has provided a database of LUGs, so if you don’t know if there is one in your area, check it out:
http://www.linux.com/lug/
On another note, the latest .VBS worm, with the Anna Kournikova attachment has been making its rounds. If you use sendmail to handle email at your site, look at the libmilter link in the resources section. It will let you delete harmful attachments. Or, for a more general purpose email filter, try this out:
http://mailtools.anomy.net
In case you’re in the dark on this, you should be checking the IT Resources section of Brainbuzz more often! Here’s the article:
http://itresources.brainbuzz.com/Headline/default.asp?hi=S1H2173
Did you hear about the email worm for Unix? It works on the honour system – it asks you to delete some files and then to forward it off to your friends.
Don’t forget about the Linux Newsletter board, where you can talk to me and other subscribers:
http://boards.brainbuzz.com/boards/vbt.asp?b2
Until next week, take care, and Long Live the Penguin.
Sean swalberg@brainbuzz.com
2) Linux News
Win2K vs. Linux
Come see Win2K compared to Linux on a variety of non-technical merits. Who has the better mascot? Who sucks less? Not a report you want to give to your manager, but some good ammo the next time you get into an OS argument.
http://www.bbspot.com/Features/2000/12/os_guide.html
Reality Check!
SUN’s Reality Checks are always a good read. Usually they’re directed at the Microsoft FUD machine, and this time is no different. It looks like a Microsoft PR firm was talking behind SUN’s back to some reporters, so SUN thought they’d set the record straight.
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/realitycheck/headsup010205.html
Linux vs. FreeBSD
The BSD family is quite possibly more reliable than Linux, but they don’t seem to have the publicity. Here is a good comparison of the two.
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010130S0010
Red Hat Unveils Expanded E-Commerce Offerings
“Red Hat will integrate Akopia’s popular Interchange e-commerce platform into Red Hat’s solutions portfolio that now includes Interchange, the Stronghold Secure Web Server and CCVS e-commerce payment system for a comprehensive e-commerce solution stack.”
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_akopia.html
3) Linux Resources
LDAP Query with PHP
PHPBuilder is a great site for people who develop with PHP. If you’ve ever heard of LDAP and wanted to start learning it, this is a great article to get a simple directory application up and running.
http://phpbuilder.net/columns/dstanley20010206.php3
No Rest for the Kernel Team
- 1ac11 is out, and the accompanying article shows a list of changes. While you may prefer to wait for 2.4.2, keeping up with the intermediate changelogs is helpful in that you may spot some features or bug fixes that concern you. If you can keep up with the AC’s, then your feedback can be helpful to the developers, especially at this time of rapid development.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn 01-02-13-008-04-NW-KN
GNOME Installation Guide
If your system doesn’t include GNOME natively, or you’re looking to do an upgrade, this site is a definite must. If you already have GNOME, it’s still got a lot of useful information on how to select and install applications, and some tweaks too.
http://www.karubik.de/gig/
How are Kernel Decisions Made?
Ever wondered who gets the final say on what goes in to the kernel or how it is to be done? It’s a complicated system, but has worked so far.
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid/02/08/0757219
libmilter
libmilter is a filtering library that is included in recent versions of sendmail. It lets you write C code to filter through your email to remove the undesired content, like the latest .VBS worm. This page has instructions on how to configure and write filters using a .VBS/.SHS removal example.
http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/milter/
4) App o’ the week
This week’s app is more of a script of dubious utility. Think of a perl script that’s entire purpose is to reformat itself into the shape of a camel. Then think of this script silk-screened on to a T-Shirt. Wow! :)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/321a.html
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