prerelease

The Adobe Flash Media Encoder (FME) will enable technical producers to capture audio and video while streaming it live to Flash Media Server (FMS) or the Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS).

This prerelease of FME is intended for users who want high-quality streaming to broadcast live events such as:
Sporting events
Concerts
Webcasts
Educational or promotional events

ngrams are a rather classical instrument in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications.

NGramJ is an ngram library for NLP with Java. Its major focus is to provide robust and state of the art language recognition. Both types are meant to be embedded into larger applications.

Language recognition is not the only NLP application of ngrams and NGramJ can be used as a building block in all kinds of differing applications. However Langugage recognition was my major application and therefore NGramJ is somewhat streamlined for this.

NGramJ

This uses ngrams of bytes to determine from a sequence of bytes both language and encoding. In symbols: NGramJ : byte[] --> (Language, Encoding)

CNgram

This uses ngrams of characters to determine the langauge of a character sequence. In symbols CNgram : char[] --> Language

If you think of applying this to files: NGramJ is the right thing, if you do not know what encoding the files use. On the other hand if you know the encoding, it is better to explictely use the encoding to read the file and apply CNgram afterward.

Once you are in a program and treat Strings and other kinds of CharacterSequences, CNgram is the only reasonable way to go.

Caution: For historical reasons NGramJ sometimes refers to the (older) byte based ngrams excluding the newer addition of CNgram. Im sorry about the confusion.

Whats New in This Release:

· First public release of CNgram: Character based language recognition!
· NGramJ wakes from stasis after over 4 years.
· Some optimizations of NGramJ memory performance.
· Added ant based building.
· Moved ngram to the de.spieleck.app.ngramj Package.
· Corrected typographic wrong class name "Cathegory".
· Provide self executing archives for both CNgram and NGramJ.
· CNgramj (2 prerelease) straightened NGramProfiles
· CNgramj (2 prerelease) added new Nutch profiles

Marco is a collection of common surveyor calculations intended to assist people in the field, where booting up a laptop to just figure out a couple answers would take far too long. It is designed to be a powerful calculator that is easy to use, and to supplement your desktop computing environment.

Marco will run on any device that runs Palm OS, such as Palm Pilots. These little devices are ideal platforms for use in the field. They require absolutely no boot time, are easily transportable, have a long battery life (especially the black & white ones), and are very reliable. The processor is easily able to handle accurate calculations, and the screen size means that the program can prompt for information in a way that is useful to people that are unfamiliar with the program. Palm devices are also becoming quite affordable and are being integrated with cell phones and watches. With all of these reasons, Palm OS devices are perfect for the job.

Limitations:

· 7 days trial

Whats new in this release:

· Tiny little bugs were fixed and the prerelease version was finally promoted to a full release.

pyClamAV program is a python binding to libclamav written in C. By using pyClamAV, you can add virus detection capabilities to your python software in an efficient and easy way.

Intallation:

You need to have clamav and libclamav installed with clamav.h header file. You also need to have python installed.

The simplest way to compile this package is:

- Run python setup.py build
- As root run python setup.py install

It should be done.

Usage:

From python :

Python 2.3.3 (#1, Mar 21 2004, 00:29:15)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyclamav
>>> ret=pyclamav.scanfile(/tmp/virus)
>>> print ret
(1, Worm.Sober.G)
>>> ret=pyclamav.scanthis("Buffer to test blalblabla...")
>>> print ret
(0, )
>>> print pyclamav.get_numsig()
34861
>>> print pyclamav.get_version()
(0.86.1, 898, 1117257063)
>>> print pyclamav.version()
0.3.0
>>> print pyclamav.scanfile(/tmp) # /tmp is a directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
ValueError: Argument is not a filename

Whats New in This Release:

· Support for clamav 0.90.
· Due to the removal of cl_scanbuff from libclamav, pyclamav.scanthis() had to be removed.
· Using pyclamd instead of pyclamav is strongly encouraged.

The Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 provides prerelease documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools (including C++ compilers) you need to develop applications to run on prerelease versions of Windows Server 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2. To build and run .NET Framework applications, you must have the corresponding version of the .NET Framework installed.

This SDK is compatible with the RTM release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1; including Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions, which are available, free of charge. Pre-release editions of the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio are available from Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 and can also be used with this SDK.

Compilers and Build Environments: In addition to the headers and libraries used to build 32 and 64-bit Win32 Windows applications, the Windows SDK includes command line C++ compilers for both 32 and 64-bit development that are compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta2.

Tools: The Windows SDK includes more than 100 GUI and command-line tools to aid in the development of native (Win32) and managed (.NET Framework) systems for the Windows platform.

Documentation: The Windows SDK documentation contains task-based how-to documentation, API reference topics, and feature overviews to help you develop applications using Win32 and .NET Framework APIs.

Samples: Two sets of samples are included by default: .NET Framework samples and Win32 samples. The .NET Framework samples are available both in the SDK documentation and in the .zip files located in the file system under the Sample install directory. The Win32 samples are available only in the file system under the Sample install directory.

Requirements:

· Hard disk space - choose a disk drive with a minimum of 2.5 GB of free space.
· We highly recommend that you have your machine fully patched through Microsoft Update before beginning setup.
· The .NET Framework 3.0 tools and samples contained in this SDK are designed to work on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista without need of an additional download. If you installed this SDK on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, you will need to install the .NET Framework 3.0
· The .NET Framework 3.5 tools and samples contained in this SDK require installation of the .NET Framework 3.5 which is available with Visual Studio 2008 or a standalone install of the .NET Framework 3.5.

Vine Server is a full featured VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using any VNC client.

Redstone Software offers this VNC server for use with Eggplant: The solution for cross-platform automation and testing.

If youve ever thought that it would be convenient to generate scripts that could interact with the remote VNC machine through the interface exactly the way a user can - then thats what Eggplant is! Its a powerful tool for cross-platform automation and testing.

Whats New in This Release:

· Added GUI Support to Establish Reverse Connections to listening VNC Viewers: You can now add as many listening hosts as you want directly from the GUI.
· Converted OSXvnc to a full Universal Binary For Improved Intel performance.
· Added a mode to force backward compatibility to older protocol versions (3.3).
· Added a flag to disable the screen saver while clients are connected.
· Fixed a problem with screen updates on INTEL Prerelease 10.4.2 and above.
· Fixed a problem with Jaguar Extensions(Bonjour) when first "Configuring the Startup Item", worked on subsequent boots.
· Fixed a problem with the "ConnectHost" option when specifying IPv4 addresses or host names which resolved to IPv4.
· Fixed a problem where the application could user CPU cycles even when no user was connected.
· Fixed a problem with IPv6 host names not showing up
· Fixed a problem with repeated crashes not exiting the keep-alive script.

Papers is a software that bundles all the great technologies that come with Mac OS X Tiger to give you a complete new workflow for reading scientific articles. You find, download, archive, and organize all your articles within a single application.

But that is just the start, using spotlight you instantly find back the paper you are looking for. Read it fullscreen, add your notes, send a copy to a colleague. These are just a few of the many features that after using them yourself you will never want to give up again.

Do you also have dozens of PDF files from your favorite scientific articles scattered in the form of PDF files on your harddrive? Do you also try to desperately archive them by renaming and organizing them in folders?

But like the piles of printed articles on your desk, you cant keep up with all the new papers you download and despite all your efforts it has become impossible to find that one article back.

Finally that all belongs to the past now. Weve been there, trust us, we know. Thats why we wrote Papers, our latest application exclusively for the Mac. Papers will revolutionize the way you deal with scientific papers.

Search for papers using PubMed, directly retrieve and archive PDFs, and read and study them all from within Papers, your personal library of Science.

Limitations:

· Important: The Public Preview of Papers is prerelease software! It still contains bugs, lacks certain features, and might not always work properly.

Clamor is software for musical ear training. The exercises currently available involve hearing intervals, hearing chords, and hearing notes relative to the tonic or the root of a chord.It runs on Linux and FreeBSD. Its written to be as platform-independent as possible, so it might be easy to port to Windows or MacOS X, but I havent tried. As you see in the version number, this is an early prerelease version.


First, make sure to install the program "sox" and the Perl modules "Audio::Data", "Audio::Play", and "Clone". Probably you want to do use your distros mechanisms for installing the Perl modules, but as a last resort, you can do a "make depend", which will try to use CPANs crufty interface to install the relevant perl modules.

FreeBSD. The ports you need are audio/p5-Audio and devel/p5-Clone. FreeBSD was my original development system, so this should work fine.

Debian. On Debian, youre probably out of luck. Perls Audio module is not in Debians packages, and installing it from the CPAN sources just results in crashes.

Here are some key features of "Clamor":

· The exercises currently available involve hearing intervals, hearing chords, and hearing notes relative to the tonic or the root of a chord.
· Intervals and notes are heard in context: either the tonality is estabished first by playing a cadence, or the note or interval is heard as part of an actual melody.
· The software comes with a synthesizer that uses prerecorded, digitized tones from actual acoustic instruments.

Microsoft invites you to test drive a free prerelease version of Microsoft Word X for Mac. Experience the power and simplicity of Mac OS X and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac.

The Word X Test Drive lets you take advantage of Mac OS X technologies, such as Aqua, Quartz, and Sheets, as well as additional features in Office v. X, including Multi-Selection and Clear Formatting.

Whats New in This Release:

· AutoRecover functions correctly when FileVault is enabled Previously, setting the AutoRecover folder location (Word menu, Preferences command, File Locations) to a location inside a FileVault-protected home folder did not work. This has been fixed. FileVault is an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 128-bit keys that secures your home folder by automatically encrypting the contents. For more information about FileVault, see Apple Help.
· Security is improved when you open a document that has macros Word, Excel, and PowerPoint now support an additional level of security that affects macros that open other Office documents containing macros. You can use the Application.AutomationSecurity property to set the level of security desired. For more information about the Application.AutomationSecurity property, see Knowledge Base (KB) article KB 886633 at http://support.microsoft.com.
· Text changes to the font selected on the Font menu In some cases, a font change did not take effect when you used the Font menu. This happened when the WYSIWYG font and style menus check box was cleared in Preferences (on the Word menu, click Preferences, and then click the General tab) and then the Font menu was used to change the font of text in a document. This problem has been fixed. The text now changes to the font that you select in the Font menu.
· Swiss German proofing tools are correctly detected Previously, the Compatibility Report in Word erroneously reported the following: Swiss German proofing tools are not installed. This problem has been fixed. Text marked as Swiss German text is proofed using the German proofing tools, which are installed by default. The Compatibility Report no longer reports this issue.
· Text selection is improved Previously, when you double-clicked a word to select it, and then dragged the selection to include more words, Word sometimes selected the preceding word in addition to the words you selected. This problem has been fixed. Word no longer selects the word preceding the word you select.

ACL Policy Daemon is a program that communicates with the Postfix MTA using the Policy Delegation Protocol implementing an ACL (Access Control List) system, making very easy to improve and create nice controls on your e-mail traffic. You can use it to verify SPF records to.

The project is developed using Python and has no other dependencies and licensed by GPL version 2.

The rules are loaded from a regular text file. It is planned to load the rules from a SQL database or LDAP directory in the future.

Greylisting functionality will be implemented soon.

For news and updated information about ACL Policy Daemon, you can always check the project page at GNA: https://gna.org/projects/apolicy/

Installation:

You must have Python installed, version 2.3 or above. Run python to check:
miguel@debian:~$ python

Python 2.4.4c0 (#2, Jul 30 2006, 15:43:58)

[GCC 4.1.2 20060715 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-9)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

It is very easy to install apolicy. In some distributions, Postfixs daemons are located in /usr/libexec/postfix, check your distribution.

The following commands should do just fine, you must be root:

debian:~# tar zcf apolicy-0.3.tar.gz
debian:~# cp apolicy-0.3/src/apolicy.py /usr/lib/postfix/
debian:~# chmod 755 /usr/lib/postfix/apolicy.py
debian:~# mkdir /etc/apolicy/
debian:~# cp apolicy.conf /etc/apolicy/
debian:~# chmod 644 /etc/apolicy/apolicy.conf
debian:~# echo "apolicy unix - n n - - spawn" >> /etc/postfix/master.cf
debian:~# echo " user=nobody argv=/usr/lib/postfix/apolicy.py" >> /etc/postfix/master.cf

The apolicy.conf is a sample file with examples, you must edit it to fit your needs.

Install the complementary modules for apolicy. We will install 3 packages: apolicy, pyspf and pydns. Note that the directory that contains Python libraries is not the same on all operating systems. Sometimes it is inside /usr/lib or /usr/libexec, and may be named python or python< version >:

debian:~# mkdir /usr/lib/ /site-packages/apolicy
debian:~# mkdir /usr/lib/ /site-packages/spf
debian:~# mkdir /usr/lib/ /site-packages/DNS
debian:~# cp apolicy-0.3/src/apolicy/* /usr/lib/ /site-packages/apolicy
debian:~# cp apolicy-0.3/src/spf/* /usr/lib/ /site-packages/spf
debian:~# cp apolicy-0.3/src/DNS/* /usr/lib/ /site-packages/DNS
debian:~# echo apolicy > /usr/lib/ /site-packages/apolicy.pth
debian:~# echo spf > /usr/lib/ /site-packages/spf.pth
debian:~# echo DNS > /usr/lib/ /site-packages/DNS.pth

Before setting Postfix, it is wise to test apolicy and check if everything is right. The configuration file is loaded by default from /etc/apolicy/apolicy.conf, you can use -c parameter to change to point where your configuration file is. It is possible to debug your configuration using the parameter -d, it will send a lot of output to syslog mail facility:

debian:~# /usr/lib/postfix/apolicy.py -d

The program must keep running and waiting input from stdin. Take a look at mail.log for any problem. You can press ctrl+c to finish it. If no errors happened, then lets move forward.

Finally, add to your main.cf:

smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
reject_unlisted_recipient
...
reject_unauth_destination
check_policy_service unix:private/apolicy

For the size acl works, apolicy need to be called this way:

smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions = check_policy_service unix:private/apolicy

cAos Linux is a community maintained and managed, RPM based distribution of Linux. It combines aspects of Debian, RH/Fedora, and FBSD in a manner that ends up with a solution that is stable enough for servers and clusters, utilizes a long term life cycle (3-5 years), and built from current cutting edge packages (as of today). It also includes many of the features that are considered standard for desktops and laptops, which makes it a very good general purpose Linux distribution.

The cAos Project is part of a larger organization (The cAos Foundation) which is a team of open source developers working and leveraging resources together. The Foundation allows us greater flexibility and reliability with all of the hosted projects by providing funding, support, administration, and management/decision making assistance.

There is no hidden agendas in the cAos project. All management decisions, package inclusions, end of life, updates are open, and can be influenced by the developers and users of the project. The distribution itself is considered to be a light weight but fully functional system, capable of being finely tuned and built to solve a particular niche, or use one of our preconfigured roles (ie. Desktop or Server for example).

We are able to do this by building the distribution as two major sections: the core operating system and the extended. The first is a self hosting development core file system. This core is stable and will remain constant throughout the life of the distribution. It is also maintained by the cAos core developers. Utilizing this core, we are able to build all of the extended packages which are maintained not only by cAos developers, but also external community volunteers.

The caos Foundation is a community of open source developers, contributors and users working together to provide community assembled operating systems (CAOS).

The Foundation currently hosts several main projects and offers resources to others. We understand the value of freely available Linux choices, and dont view our projects as competing, in-fact we share developers and leverage our resources together.

Here are some key features of "cAos":

System:
·The Linux 2.6 kernel (initial release with 2.6.9)
·The Gnu Compilers (GCC) version 3.4.3
·X implementation: X.org version 6.8.2
·Scripting languages: Perl-5.8.5 and Python-2.3.3
·Utilizes the UDEV device file system
·The RPM Package Manager version 4.4
·YUM package updater and installer
·File systems: ext2, ext3, xfs, reiser and jfs at install
·Architectures: ia32 (i386-athlon), x86_64 (AMD64 and EM64T)
·Operating System is always self hosting

Desktop:
·Window managers: Gnome, XFCE, Enlightenment
·Desktop apps: Mozilla, Epiphany, Firefox, Abiword, Evolution, Bluefish, Gimp
·Multimedia: Rhythmbox, Xmms, Totem, Vanity, Gnomemeeting

Services:
·File servers: Apache, Apache2, thttpd, tux, VSFTPD, PROFTPD, Samba
·Mail servers: postfix, sendmail, imapd, dovecot, mailman
·SQL server: MySQL-4, PostgreSQL

Clustering:
·Node Management: Warewulf
·Tools: LAM-MPI, pdsh, Torque, PVFS2, Ganglia

Maintenance:
·3-5 year life cycle (from release)
·Maintainers range from many backgrounds, and are dedicated to supporting the OS
·Packages are maintained in CVS, with many developers having access to specific trees

Look and Feel:
·File hierarchy similar to RHL



Whats New in This Release:

· The cAos Foundation and the cAos Linux development team are proud to announce
the public release of cAos Linux version 2. cAos Linux is a community-managed
and openly-maintained distribution of Linux using the LSB standard RPM Package
Manager. This release identifies the stabilization and validation of the core
operating system as well as stabilization of the extended OS. Members of the
community are invited to try, use and love this new Linux Distribution!

· cAos Linux 2 is scheduled to be maintained for the next 3-5 years. During
that time, it will maintain a stable core OS ABI as well as receive prompt
security updates. We are very open to receiving donations not only the form of
money, but also code, testing, development, and package maintainers. If you
want to join in an uprising open source project, then we encourage you to take
a look at cAos.

· cAos Linux is a general purpose Linux distribution that is lightweight,
scalable and fast. It is suitable for not only cutting edge performance, but
also older hardware which is incapable of running some of the other Linux
distribution and operating systems in market. The prerelease has been tested
in the following scenarios: Enterprise level servers, development, professional
workstations, laptops, desktops, and clustering (HPC, HA, web farm, IO, etc.).

Some features of cAos Linux version 2:

- Linux kernel version 2.6
- GCC 3.4.3
- Xorg 6.8.2
- File systems supported at install: ext2, ext3, xfs, reiser and jfs
- Window Managers: Gnome, XFCE, Enlightenment
- RPM 4.4.1 with YUM 2.2.1
- Services included: apache(1&2), thttpd, vsftpd, proftpd, samba, postfix

Background:

· cAos Linux was created out of necessity for a community-managed, RPM based
distribution of Linux. The project exsisted prior to the merging of Red Hat
Linux and the Fedora Project and continues to exsist independently due to our
vastly different goals. It is the intention of the cAos Linux development team
to maintain the distribution as a general purpose system with a reasonable
life expectancy and package version currency. We are also very open to allow
the general public to join in the development and decision making. For these
reasons and others, we are the only RPM based, community-maintained and
managed Linux distribution.

Technical Organization:

· The cAos Linux distribution is divided into two parts: the Core OS
and the Extended OS. The Core OS ("core") is maintained specifically by the
projects Core OS Development Team and provides the base system which is
responsible for not only building itself, but every package in the extended
operating system. The extended OS is maintained by members of the community
which allows us to scale properly horizontally as well as allow experts from
the community to maintain the packages in which they are most familiar.