Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Torvalds Suggests DiBona for SCO Panel. SCO has offered to document its far-reaching infringement claims against Linux for independent experts. The creator of Linux wants someone believable on the panel. [Linux Journal]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 8:31:59 PM      Yellow dog Updater, Modified 1.97 (Testing) [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 8:16:56 PM      TkSQL 0.8.27 [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 8:09:35 PM      Process Change Detection System 2.4 [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 6:26:16 PM      Disk ARchive 1.3.0 [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 6:08:36 PM      Indexing and searching Outlook email. I never thought I'd find myself digging around in my Outlook message store, but Mark's SpamBayes addin -- which is written in Python -- turns out to be a great Python/MAPI tutorial. Borrowing heavily from his examples, I came up with a script to extract my Outlook mail to a bunch of files that I could feed to a standalone indexer. [Full story at O'Reilly Network] ... [Jon's Radio]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:59:30 PM      Log Tool 1.2.3 [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:58:55 PM      Experimental journalism. Thomas Bayes, a Presbyterian minister and mathematician born just over 300 years ago, would be shocked to see most of the e-mail messages that bid for our attention nowadays. He would be thrilled to know, however, that his statistical inference theorem has inspired a potent counterattack. An open source project called SpamBayes has emerged as a powerful weapon in the war on spam. There are a few different implementations of SpamBayes. I'll focus here on an Outlook add-in, written by renowned Python hacker Mark Hammond. I've been skeptical about the long-term prospects for content-based e-mail filtering. But the Python-based SpamBayes engine, and Hammond's brilliant add-in (also written in Python), are rapidly making me a believer. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] This article was, among other things, an experiment in combining print journalism with blogging. When I wrote the review, I was so excited about the results I was getting with SpamBayes that I wanted to blog it immediately. Instead, I wrote a companion piece online and then, based on feedback, another one the next day. The latter URL will presciently appear in the print article that InfoWorld subscribers will receive next week. This time-travel effect is kind of cool, but it also demonstrates what I think is a really powerful kind of print/online synergy. ... [Jon's Radio]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:54:13 PM      Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter 0.3 [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 12:34:37 PM      LRRD 0.9.5-1 (Development) [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 12:33:42 PM      Tcpreplay 1.4.1 (Stable) [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 12:32:29 PM      NY Times: Unsuspecting Computer Users Relay Spam. "The spammers have mutated their techniques," said Ronald F. Guilmette, a computer consultant in Roseville, Calif., who has developed a list of computers that are forwarding spam. "Today, if you are trying to do a really mass spamming, it is de rigueur to do it in an underhanded manner." [Tomalak's Realm]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 10:37:55 AM      Opera Software today released Opera 7 for Linux, o .... Opera Software today released Opera 7 for Linux, offering Linux users a faster and better Internet experience. The new version includes major new features changes from Opera 6 for Linux as well as a built-in e-mail client, not previously available in Opera for Linux. The first Opera 7 release on Linux is version 7.11, bringing Opera for Linux up to the same level of development as Windows, with Opera 7.11 for Windows being released just last week. Opera's cross-platform development has now advanced so far that releases on Opera's numerous platforms can be only days apart. [Geeknews - The e-literate geek blog]      dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 10:35:56 AM

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