Wednesday, April 24, 2002

eServer Developer Domain: Tutorial:" Want to integrate your Microsoft client machines with a Linux or Unix server? Open-source Samba turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Roll up your sleeves, dig into this tutorial, and learn how to configure Samba as a primary domain controller on an xSeries server. When you finish this tutorial, you'll know how to: Install Samba using the Redhat package manager (RPM) or by compiling the program from source. Configure the Samba server as a PDC (Primary Domain Controller). Configure the server to support roaming profiles. Configure the server to support netlogons. Create the required administrative directories on the server, and set their permissions as appropriate. Create user and machine (trust) accounts on the domain controller. Configure the client machines to join the domain. And troubleshoot any basic problems that may arise in the above process. It's faster than reading a book! After a quick (30 seconds, tops) registration, you can get started. The tutorial should take you about a half hour to complete. " 7:45:50 PM

Philip Pearson created a PHP implementation of xmlStorageSystem. "This may seem like a completely pointless project, seeing as RCS is already more or less free, and PyCS does everything pretty well already. However, neither of them will run on your $10 hosting account that only allows CGI and PHP. This will."  [Scripting News] 4:36:26 PM

Paolo and his team have a beta of a new Radio tool that does shared outlines.  [Scripting News] 4:36:11 PM

freshmeat.net: Bid Monkey 1.2 (Stable):"Bid Monkey is a command line tool, written in Perl, created to automatically place a bid on an eBay auction at the last minute. It will run in the foreground or background, and only requires basic information from the user, such as username, password, item number, and the maximum bid to place. Its most unique feature is that it will automatically determine the auction ending time. All you have to do is tell it how long before the end of the auction you would like to place your bid. Bid Monkey will work internationally (eBay.de for example) due to the fact that any item number can be viewed through any eBay site." 4:25:12 PM

freshmeat.net: WebCall 1.20:"WebCall is a MySQL Linux ticket tracking system, built for multi-department use. It features easy setup and configuration, easy and low maintenance once setup, module support, separate user logins with security level control, system logging, an automated system for resetting users passwords, flexible configuration for different departments, separate tables in the database for each department, and much more. " 4:24:07 PM

freshmeat.net: GeekLog 1.3.5:"GeekLog is the weblog software that concentrates on performance, privacy, and security. It features Web-based administration, surveys (polls), user-customizable boxes, a friendly administration GUI with a topic manager, an option to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), calendaring, and much more." 3:26:01 PM

Text-Mining Your E-mail  Text-Mining Your E-mail Posted by Hemos on Wednesday April 24, @01:55PM from the doing-the-research dept. Misha writes "There have been a number of weeks/months in anyone's life that called for a better organization of your Inbox. filtering and folders work, but it'd be nice to have an text-mining tool running in the background that categorized incoming messages by topic as they arrive. It's nice to see that besides NLP research, there are some great algorithmic advances being done, as seen in this paper. Perhaps even one of them Perl monkeys will quickly hack such a background tool." Note: it's a PostScript file.  [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 3:23:51 PM

NOVELL: Image New Machine in 30 Minutes with Virtual CDs (ZENworks Cool Solutions):"Being a governmental agency (City of Fresno), we typically buy our computers in bulk. We needed a way to quickly deploy PCs several at a time. Our techs would have to do application installs, client loads, service pack updates, the list goes on. It would take time to get these done the manual way. Even with application pushes, it would tax their lan segments. So, what we've done is implemented an auto-installing Windows2000 sysprepped image with ZEN Imaging, and created Virtual CDs for post-image application deployment (I won't go into detail about the Virtual CDs, unless you're interested. But, it's really easy to do)." 9:34:43 AM