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Statement on Spam and VoteNader.org
by alexis＠votenader.org April 10, 2004

April 10, 2004

Spam from VoteNader.org? (Or naderexplore04.org) You may have received spam email recently that appears to come from our campaign, or be about our campaign -- perhaps the "From" and or "Reply-to" addresses look like they are coming from VoteNader.org. Or perhaps you have received a message that appears to come from an individual (if the address is real, the real owner probably did not send this email either) with suppressed recipients. Or maybe you received an email that appeared to come from yourself promoting our site. These messages are NOT from Nader for President 2004, and these email tactics are NOT condoned by our campaign in any way. UPDATE: Some of the latest forged emails have been made to appear to be coming from naderexplore04.org. Again, we are not responsible for this unfortunate abuse of email, and there is little in the technical sense that we can do to prevent this as it has nothing to do with our actual infrastructure. We are collecting information. NOTE: The emails with malicious code (viruses, worms, etc.) often have attachments. Our campaign will NEVER send attachments in our announcement emails to you. Please be sure that you have anti-virus software and have the latest updates available for your anti-virus software. Our hosting service has alerted us to say that Nader for President 2004 appears to be the target of what is called a "Joe Job." Such an event is where a spammer forges email to make it appear to have come from some other domain (such as ours -- or yourself). This is hard to prevent on our end and part of the insecure nature of the email protocol in general. Members of our actual email list must request to receive email from us (either through Ralph's signup sheets or subscribing during our exploratory phase, or now on our campaign site). When one signs up for email they must reply to a confirmation message before they receive our list announcements. Our public announcement emails come from "campaign(a)votenader.org," contain a "Paid for by Nader for President 2004" statement at the bottom, and have "updates(a)lists.votenader.org" in the "To:" header. Unfortunately, some of these indicators can be forged as well. Most of the Spam that we have received complaints about appear to be forged from email addresses not associated with votenader.org (often forged to appear to be coming from government email addresses), and have our website code embedded in the body of the email with hidden tags that contain random words that work to subvert anti-spam software. If you are on our lists, you can ALWAYS unsubscribe at ANY time by following the instructions included at the end of our announcements. You can also use our unsubscribe page using the email address you signed up with. If you are receiving this SPAM, we extend our apologies. We will pursue the spammers to the full extent of the law. For more information, please review these resources: How Do I Determine the Source of an Email? http://www.aota.net/Email_Spam_Prevention_and_Mgmt/emailsource.php4 Why Does This Spam Look Like I Sent It? http://www.aota.net/Email_Spam_Prevention_and_Mgmt/spamfrom.php4 Coping with a Joe Job http://www.sitepoint.com/article/sabotage-coping-joe-job/2 Please contact abuse(a)votenader.org with any questions. We have received many samples of the spam and are working to identify the source, if possible. Volunteer -------------- http://www.votenader.org/get_involved/index.php Ballot Access ---------- http://www.votenader.org/ballot_access/index.php Register to Vote ------- http://www.rockthevote.com/rtv_register.php Contribute ------------- http://www.votenader.org/contribute/index.php Contact Us ------------- http://www.votenader.org/contact/index.php -- .more integral part of the world revolution, hastening the day when imperialism, Zionism .meet their doom." These Maoist terrorist organizations are financing their activities by trafficking in controlled substances. According to December 13, 2000, testimony by Frank Cilluffo, to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) " is heavily involved in the European drug trade, especially in Germany and France. French law enforcement estimates that the PKK smuggles 80 percent of the heroin in Paris." Cilluffo is Deputy Director, Global Organized Crime Program Counterterrorism Task Force at Washington, D.C.'s Center for Strategic and International Studies. This same testimony reveals the Nepal Communist Party, ".turned to drug trafficking for funding. Nepal serves as a hub for hashish trafficking in Asia." The CIA Fact Book lists Nepal as a major source for heroin from Southeast Asia to the West. The South Asia Terrorism Portal wrote of the Nepal Communist Party: "The Maoists (Nepal) draw inspiration from the 'Revolutionary International Movement', among whose affiliate is the American Revolutionary Communist Party that provides them their ideological sustenance. Observers have noticed striking similarities in the policies and guerilla tactics adopted by the Maoists and those of the Shining Path of Peru.. Maoist violence has already cost Nepal several hundred lives and destruction of property worth millions of rupees. In 1996, the year the insurgency commenced, 82 people were killed. This figure included insurgents, security forces, personnel and civilians. During the next year, total killings came down by half - 38 people died. The following year, in 1998, after the Maoists intensified their program of violence, 408 people were killed - nearly an elevenfold increase in the number of deaths over the previous year. Ever since, the death toll has been on the rise. By late 2000 the death toll has risen to over 2,100. As of A

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Europython update: Registration open
by jacob＠cd.chalmers.se April 10, 2004

April 10, 2004

Europython Update ================= - Registration is now open. We apologise for the delay, but we have had some technical problems. - Due to this, we have decided to keep the submission of abstracts for the refereed track open for one more day. Last submission time is now on Sunday 11 April at 23.59 CET. - We have a limited number of beds available in very affordable accomodation near the conference venue. Book early before it runs out. - We are still receiving submissions for regular talks and tutorials. Closing date is 15 April. - There is now a wiki at the Europython website for sprint organising. Start planning! About the conference ==================== EuroPython 2004 will be held 7-9 June in Göteborg, Sweden. The EuroPython conference will have tracks for Science, Business, Education, Applications, Frameworks, Zope and the Python language itself. Lightning talks, Open Space and BOF sessions are also planned. There will be tutorials as well, both for newcomers to Python and Python users interested in special subjects. In the days before and after the conference, programming sprints will be arranged. Important dates =============== Refereed paper proposals: until 11 April. Submission of talks: 1 March - 15 April. Early Bird registration: 9 April - 1 May. Accomodation booking: 9 April - 1 May (or until space runs out) More information at http://www.europython.org. --

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ANN: Atox 0.3 released
by mlh＠furu.idi.ntnu.no April 9, 2004

April 9, 2004

What is it? =========== Atox is a framework for automated markup. With it one can quite easily write custom scripts for converting plain text into XML in any way one wishes. Atox is normally used as a command-line script, using a simple XML language to specify the desired transformation from text to markup, but it is also possible to build custom parsers using the Atox library. The name (short for ASCII-to-XML) is inspired by such UNIX tools and system functions as atops and atoi. What can it do? =============== The examples in the distribution demonstrate how you can use Atox to: - Mark up a (relatively simple) technical document (the Atox manual) - Mark up code blocks only through indentation; - Nest lists through indentation - Discern between different indentation "shapes" (e.g. a block quote versus a description list item); - Transform simple LaTeX into XML; - Add XML "syntax highlighting" to Python code; - Mark up screenplays or stageplays, largely based on indentation; - Mark up simple fictional prose; - Mark up simple tables. What's new in 0.3? ================== Some examples were added to the demo directory, highlighting the new features: The 'ax:indented' tag This tag allows you to match an indent and a dedent easily, even if there is a lot of indentation between the two. The 'ax:try' tag You can indicate that a portion of the format is to be parsed with backtracking by wrapping it in a 'try' tag. This can be very useful for the places were a single-token lookahead just won't cut it. The 'ax:glue' attribute This replaces the experimental 'glued' attribute. The 'glue' attribute can contain a regular expression that much then match the skipped text before a glued element. Using an empty string makes it equivalent to 'glued="yes"'. Where can I get it? =================== Atox is hosted at SourceForge (http://atox.sf.net) and the current release (0.3) is available for download via its project page (http://sf.net/projects/atox). The Small Print =============== Atox is released under the MIT license. It comes with no warranty of any kind. Also, even though the current version works well, and the project is currently (as per early 2004) being actively developed, there is no guarantee of continued support. What you see is what you get. -- Magnus Lie Hetland "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay http://hetland.org to live in the land of the free." -- C. M. Burns

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ANN: Pyb 0.4 Released
by me＠anthonyeden.com April 9, 2004

April 9, 2004

Pyb 0.4 is now available. Pyb is an ant-like build tool written in Python. Unlike Ant, which uses XML, Pyb build scripts are written in Python thus giving you access to all of the features of Python in your build scripts. Pyb includes tasks for building Java projects, Python and Jython projects as well as common build-related tasks. More information on Pyb can be found at http://pyb.sf.net/ Recent changes include: Started adding unit tests. Dependencies are now specified as a list of target names passed to the Target constructor. Added -d command line argument to enable debugging. Added jythonc task. Added platform-specific path building path to epydocs. Additional small presentational changes.

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Python-UK and Open Source Forum - One Week to Go!
by Andy Robinson April 8, 2004

April 8, 2004

The UK Python Conference is just one week away! Come and join us all in Oxford on 16-17th April: http://www.accu/org/conference/python.html This follows on from the ACCU Open Source Forum on 14th-15th, at which key Python and Zope people and projects will be rubbing shoulders with IBM, Hewlett Packard, SuSE, MySQL and a host of industry experts. http://www.accu/org/conference/opensource.html Be there! Andy Robinson, ReportLab Europe Ltd.

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Hydra Backup System 0.1
by Jonathan Daugherty April 8, 2004

April 8, 2004

This is the first official release of the Hydra backup system, a multi-threaded backup client and server written in Python. Hydra uses Pyro, a pure-Python RPC API. Hydra archives directories and stores them on FTP repositories. Hydra 0.1 is licensed under the GPL and can be downloaded at http://freshmeat.net/projects/hydrabackup Contact cygnus(a)cprogrammer.org for more information. <P><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/hydrabackup">Hydra Backup Server 0.1</A> - a client / server backup system in Python. (08-04-04)

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ANN: Pyb 0.2 Released
by me＠anthonyeden.com April 7, 2004

April 7, 2004

Over the weekend I put together an a new build tool written in Python and based on Ant. This new tool is called Pyb. Documentation and download is available at http://pyb.sf.net . Pyb, although written in Python, already has tasks for building Java projects (such as javac, java, javadoc, jar and war) in addition to tasks specific to Python (setup, epydocs, and python execution). There are also some common tasks for zip, gzip, tar, bz2, copy and delete). Build scripts are written in Python rather than XML or some other format. This gives you access to the full power of Python if necessary. Questions and comments can be directed to the the pyb developer mailing list which can be found on the Pyb SourceForge site at http://www.sf.net/projects/pyb . Sincerely, Anthony Eden

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pyAlbum.py - Python Album Generator
by Premshree Pillai April 7, 2004

April 7, 2004

Hello people, I recently updated one of my Python scripts -- pyAlbum.py This is a simple, command-line based, lightweight Python script to create an image album. Of course, there are plenty of image album creation tools -- a lot of them are very good. But, I wanted something very simple, something that doesn't scare the user with too many options. The final album should be clean -- something like what Zope's Image object offers. Here are some of the features of the script: + Thumbnail creation (using a scaling factor that the user enters) + Image creation for the HTML of individual images (again using a scaling factor that the user enters) + The album Index file includes dimensions and file size of each image + The script generates a single CSS -- this makes changing the style very simple + The script runs on the command-line, and does not require any server-side processing Other requirements: + Python Imaging Library (http://www.pythonware.com/products/daily) So, the idea of the script is -- Keep It As Simple As Possible You can see a sample of an album created using this script at http://www.premshree.resource-locator.com/python/pyAlbum/sample/index.htm Oh, and the script itself is available at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/271246 I hope it's useful. Sincerely, Premshree Pillai ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more. Go to: http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/licspecial/index.html

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ANNOUNCE: AmigaPython 2.3.3 alpha resurrected and released
by Tim Ocock April 6, 2004

April 6, 2004

Hi, The Python port to AmigaOS has been brought up to date by me, and is available freely from: http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/python/

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ANN: Automated GUI Test Tool Squish 1.1 released
by Harri Porten April 6, 2004

April 6, 2004

Hamburg, Germany - 2004-04-05 froglogic today announced the availability of Squish 1.1, the new version of the automated GUI testing framework for Qt applications. The main new features of Squish 1.1 are: - Python support: Squish has been designed to support multiple scripting languages from day one. In Squish 1.0, support for Tcl was implemented. In Squish 1.1, test scripts can also be written and recorded in the very popular Python scripting language. - Squish Spy: This new tool allows Squish to hook up to a running application to inspect its objects properties and methods by either clicking on objects in the application or by navigating the object tree view. The already existing hook-up mechanism of Squish is used, meaning the Squish Spy is also non-intrusive and doesn't require any modifications to the application to work. - Test script debugger: Instead of just executing a test case, it can be executed in the debugger now as well. This way break points can be set, and the user can step through test scripts. This opens up many possibilities for the future like allowing to execute a test until a break point and recording from there. - Automatic insertion of test verification points: The combination of the Squish Spy and the debugger are the foundation of this new feature. By halting the test script at a specified point and choosing objects and properties in the running application, it is possible to insert test verification points into the test script via the Squish IDE without having to write the code manually. "I am impressed with Squish. After I saw it, I set the other options aside and recommended that my client buy Squish. I especially like the fact that Squish uses existing scripting languages, rather than requiring the user to learn a proprietary language. The folks at froglogic are knowledgeable both about Qt and the state of the art in test automation, a rare combination. They provided excellent support, even from many time zones away. I'm looking forward to finding more opportunities to use Squish!" said Danny R. Faught, Proprietor of Tejas Software Consulting. Other smaller improvements of Squish 1.1 include: - Basic ActiveX support: It is possible to send key and mouse events to ActiveX components embedded in Qt applications via ActiveQt. - Better control over the squishserver - Additional event compression heuristics have been implemented - Usability improvements in the Squish IDE - Support for 64 bit and FreeBSD platforms - All test result logs contain file and line number information - Better error messages Squish customers and evaluators can now find Squish 1.1 packages in their download area. For more information about Squish, visit http://www.froglogic.com/squish. If you are interested in evaluating Squish, please contact us at squish(a)froglogic.com. About froglogic froglogic Porten & Stadlbauer GbR is a software company offering Qt consultancy services and Qt-based development tools. froglogic was founded by two former Trolltech senior engineers, Reginald Stadlbauer and Harri Porten, who now use their experience and skills to serve the Qt 3rd party market. froglogic is based in Hamburg, Germany. More about froglogic at www.froglogic.com. Contact contact(a)froglogic.com http://www.froglogic.com +49 (0)40 39 99 11 64 About Tejas Software Consulting Tejas Software Consulting is Danny R. Faught's independent consulting practice. Danny focuses on test automation, test team bootstrapping, and communication. He is a Technical Advisor and Contributing Editor for StickyMinds.com, the maintainer for testingfaqs.org, and the publisher of Open Testware Reviews. Danny has eleven years of software testing experience. Contact Danny R. Faught faught(a)tejasconsulting.com http://tejasconsulting.com +1-817-294-3998

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