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Date: 2003-01-12 23:13:04
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Linux-Announce Digest #286, Volume #4 Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:13:04 EST
Contents:
WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users ("Andrew M. Bishop")
ProcMeter3 - System monitoring program (cpu, memory etc.) ("Andrew M. Bishop")
COMMERCIAL: LGP announces new titles (Michael Simms)
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From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
Subject: WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:08:03 CST
WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.7h
=========================================================
The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
Description
===========
The WWWOFFLE server is a proxy web server with special features for use with
dial-up internet links. This means that it is possible to browse web pages and
read them without having to remain connected.
Basic Features
- Caching of HTTP, FTP and finger protocols.
- Allows the 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST' and 'PUT' HTTP methods.
- Interactive or command line control of online/offline/autodial status.
- Highly configurable.
- Low maintenance, start/stop and online/offline status can be automated.
While Online
- Caching of pages that are viewed for later review.
- Conditional fetching to only get pages that have changed.
- Based on expiration date, time since last fetched or once per session.
- Non cached support for SSL (Secure Socket Layer e.g. https).
- Can be used with one or more external proxies based on web page.
- Control which pages cannot be accessed.
- Allow replacement of blocked pages.
- Control which pages are not to be stored in the cache.
- Requests compressed pages from web servers (compile time option).
While Offline
- Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for pages that are not cached.
- Selection of pages to download next time online
- Using normal browser to follow links.
- Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- Control which pages can be requested when offline.
- Provides non-cached access to intranet servers.
Automated Download
- Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- Options to automatically fetch objects in requested pages
- Understands various types of pages
- HTML 4.0, Java classes, VRML (partial), XML (partial).
- Options to fetch different classes of objects
- Images, Stylesheets, Frames, Scripts, Java or other objects.
- Option to not fetch webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- Automatically follows links for pages that have been moved.
- Can monitor pages at regular intervals to fetch those that have changed.
- Recursive fetching
- To specified depth.
- On any host or limited to same server or same directory.
- Chosen from command line or from browser.
- Control over which links can be fetched recursively.
Convenience
- Optional information footer on HTML pages showing date cached and options.
- Options to modify HTML pages
- Remove scripts.
- Remove Java applets.
- Remove stylesheets.
- Remove shockwave flash animations.
- Indicate cached and uncached links.
- Remove the blink tag.
- Remove refresh tags.
- Remove links to pages that are in the DontGet list.
- Remove inline frames (iframes) that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace images that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- Demoronise HTML character sets.
- Stop animated GIFs.
- Provides information about cached pages
- Headers, raw and modified.
- Contents, images, links etc.
- Source code unmodified by WWWOFFLE.
- Automatic proxy configuration for Netscape.
- Searchable cache with the addition of the ht://Dig, mnoGoSearch
(UdmSearch) or Namazu programs.
- Built in simple web-server for local pages.
- Allows CGI scripts
- Timeouts to stop proxy lockups
- DNS name lookups.
- Remote server connection.
- Data transfer.
- Continue or stop downloads interrupted by client.
- Based on file size of fraction downloaded.
- Purging of pages from cache
- Based on URL matching.
- To keep the cache size below a specified limit.
- To keep the free disk space above a specified limit.
- Interactive or command line control.
- Compression of cached pages based on age.
- Provides compressed pages to web browser (compile time option).
Indexes
- Multiple indexes of pages stored in cache
- Servers for each protocol (http, ftp ...).
- Pages on each server.
- Pages waiting to be fetched.
- Pages requested last time offline.
- Pages fetched last time online.
- Pages monitored on a regular basis.
- Configurable indexes
- Sorted by name, date, server domain name, type of file.
- Options to delete, refresh or monitor pages.
- Selection of complete list of pages or hide un-interesting pages.
Security
- Works with pages that require basic username/password authentication.
- Automates proxy authentication for external proxies that require it.
- Control over access to the proxy
- Defaults to local host access only.
- Host access configured by hostname or IP address.
- Optional proxy authentication for user level access control.
- Optional password control for proxy management functions.
- Can censor incoming and outgoing HTTP headers to maintain user privacy.
Configuration
- All options controlled using a configuration file.
- Interactive web page to allow editing of the configuration file.
- User customisable error and information pages.
Changes
=======
Since version 2.7g:
Bug Fixes:
Have more verbose error messages for invalid POST requests. Fix the way the
upgrade-config script handles the no-lasttime-index to create-history-indexes
change. Change the way that the user selects to view request headers on the
info pages. Handle Accept-Language header more robustly.
*NOTE* This version contains some security related fixes and should be used in
preference to earlier versions.
Availability
============
Version 2.7h uploaded, but may not be available yet
FTP server: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.7h.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.7h.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
Author & Copyright
==================
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000,01,02
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]
--
Andrew.
======================================================================
Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
Subject: ProcMeter3 - System monitoring program (cpu, memory etc.)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:08:10 CST
PROCMETER V3.4
==============
The ProcMeter program itself is a framework on which a number of modules
(plugins) are loaded. More modules can be written as required to perform more
monitoring and informational functions.
The statistics that are displayed are grouped by module, with a menu allowing
selection of module and a sub-menu for each output available for that module.
APM
Advanced Power Management information. These outputs are only available
if you have configured the kernel to have the APM feature.
Biff
Monitors the e-mail inbox (in /var/spool/mail/<username> or
/var/mail/<username>) and indicates the number of e-mails that are
waiting and the size.
Date_Time
The current date and time and the amount of time since the system was
last booted.
DiskUsage
Shows the percentage of the disk that is used and the amount of free
space for each of the local disks that it finds are mounted or can be
mounted when the program starts.
LogFile
Monitors the size and number of lines and the rate of increase of these
in a set of log files.
Memory
The amount of memory that is used for programs, buffers, cache and the
amount that is free.
Network
The network devices and the amount of traffic on each of them. It will
automatically pick up available devices when it starts.
Processes
The load average and the number of processes running and starting.
ProcMeter
Information about the procmeter program itself.
Sensors
Hardware sensors for temperature and fan speed. (Requires lm78 hardware
and kernel patch from http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/).
Statistics
Low level system statistics. For example CPU usage, disk usage,
swapping and paging.
VM_Statistics
Low level system statistics about virtual memory (swaping and paging)
for kernel version 2.5 where the information has moved from the Statistics
section.
Stat-CPU
Statistics about individual CPU usage including support for SMP
machines.
Stat-Disk
Statistics about individual disk usage including support for up to 4
disks.
Stat-Intr
Statistics about individual interrupts including support for up to 32
interrupts.
Uname
The system information from the uname program, hostname and Linux kernel
version.
Wireless
Information about wireless network devices. It will automatically pick
up available devices when it starts.
Longrun
For systems with the Transmeta Crueso processor, information about
longrun. Will not work unless the kernel is compiled with CPUID
support, and /dev/cpu/0/cpuid must be readable by procmeter.
ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface information. These outputs
are only available if you have enabled ACPI in the Linux kernel and you
have the appropriate hardware. ACPI can report various information
about a system's battery, and may also have thermal outputs available.
Changes
=======
Since version 3.3b:
New output format:
Using the LCD driver daemon from http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net.
New or changed modules:
The length of the module names and output names has been increased.
Virtual Memory statistics (for kernel V2.5, swap and page only).
Added new DateTime outputs that show the time without the timezone.
Changed the DateTime outputs to display the weekday in the current locale.
Longer names allow to show DiskUsage outputs for mountpoints with long names.
Fix the parsing of /proc/apm where the version number contains letters.
Documentation changes:
Added a new manual page for the modules (shared among all programs).
Bug fixes:
Doesn't crash if the --rc=... file doesn't exist.
Use snprintf() in more places to avoid buffer overflow.
*IMPORTANT* You should read the NEWS file for some other important changes to
the program that will require changes to the procmeterrc file.
Availability
============
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/linux/X11/xutils/procmeter3-3.4.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/status/xstatus/procmeter3-3.4.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/procmeter3/
Author & Copyright
==================
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,1997,98,99,2000,01,02
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put procmeter in the subject line]
--
Andrew.
======================================================================
Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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From: Michael Simms <michael@linuxgamepublishing.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: LGP announces new titles
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:00:23 CST
Linux Game Publishing has announced that the two new titles we will be
porting to Linux are
Ballistics
and
Bandits: Phoenix Rising
Further information can be found on our web site at
http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com
The competition we announced earlier was won by an entry from Denmark.
--
Michael Simms - CEO, Linux Game Publishing
http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com
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