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The Analog Web Log Analyzer

Version 5.90beta1 of Analog, a web server log analysis program has been announced. This version is the first beta release leading up to version 6. "The output functions have been completely rewritten, to allow new output styles to be added; there are two new output styles as a result, XHTML and XML; and the default style is now XHTML, instead of HTML." Version 5.90beta1 also includes new documentation.

This introduction is a good place to get an overview of how Analog works to mine information from an Apache web server log file. Analog is cross-platform, configurable, scalable, and open-source. It currently supports 31 languages. Analog also works with a number of helper applications.

To get an idea of what Analog can do, take a look at this example report. The developer claims that Analog is the most popular logfile analyser in the world.

A report can contain the following sections:

• A general summary of activity.
• A monthly bar-chart report.
• A daily bar-chart summary.
• A bar-chart summary of hourly activity.
• A domain report that shows where traffic is coming from.
• An organization report that lists the most active viewer domains.
• A report of the most common search terms.
• A listing of operating systems used by site visitors.
• A web server status code listing.
• Reports for file sizes and extensions.
• A report that shows traffic to served directories.
• A request report that lists served files.

By reading through this condensed information, it is possible to get a good idea of the traffic patterns at your web site. This helps in deciding which sections are worth the most effort to optimize.

One feature that is apparently not part of Analog is the ability to analyze the web server's error log file, a fair amount of useful information could be obtained that way. Analog is available for download here.

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A new Mozilla roadmap

The Mozilla project has posted a new development roadmap that calls for some significant changes in the project. Among other things, the project will:

• Shift its browser focus from the classic Mozilla browser to the newer Phoenix application.

• Add emphasis to the development of the Minotaur mail component as a standalone application.

• Rearrange the code "ownership" model. Cross-project CVS access will go away, in favor of "vigorously defended modules with strong leadership and clear delegation".

The current plans call for a stable 1.4 release in May, followed by 1.5 (which is when the big changes begin) in August.

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Planet CCRMA Status Update

A new Change Log has been released from the Planet CCRMA Linux audio site. "Major repository update, repository version up to 2-0 (it had no version number before). Updated apt to version 0.5.5cnc4.1. Updated synaptic to version 0.32-1 (only for RedHat 8.0, 7.2 and 7.3 need newer core packages that I'm not going to try to build). The linux kernel is now version 2.4.20-4.ll.acpi. The alsa drivers are now version 0.9.2-4.cvs."

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Ogg Traffic

The March 31, 2003 edition of Ogg Traffic is available with the latest Ogg Vorbis audio compression software news. Discussion topics include: Status Updates, Tremor Improvements, Nero Ogg Vorbis plugin, New Software, and New (Experimental) Bitrate Peeler Available.

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PostgreSQL Weekly News

The March 26 issue of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is out with the latest information from the PostgreSQL development team. "[The patches] range from minor tweaks to major changes, with one feature in particular that hasn't been hyped up a lot, but should get a lot of people excited. What? You guys don't get excited about database hacking...?"

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SAP DB Version 7.4.03.17 released

Version 7.4.03.17 of SAP DB is available. See the release info for a long list of changes.

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gEDA News

The latest news from the gEDA (GPL Electronic Design Automation) project includes a new development snapshot of the Icarus verilog electronic simulation language compiler.

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SpamCheck 1.0b1 Released (Milter)

The Milter site has an announcement for SpamCheck 1.0b1. "It's a pretty decent (IMHO) spam-filtering package which allows per-user configurations of which rules are active, per-user DNSBL rules (e.g., one user can use SPEWS, another can use SPEWS and MAPS, another just MAPS, and another have none, its completely configurable)."

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BSpam-0.5 released

Version 0.5 of the BSpam Perl-based probabilistic spam filter is available. "Major features include mime decoding, html parsing and whitespace compression to foil spammers who try to hide their content from filters. Version 0.5 includes improvements in tokenizing prices, and special marking of tokens in Content-Type headers to better handle chinese language spams."

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hl7d added to HL7 Toolkit

Sourceforge mentions a new Perl-based project: "This project aims at providing a Perl Toolkit for using the HL7 protocol (a data interchange protocol used in healthcare). The toolkit will consist of a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7 capable applications in Perl. An early version of the hl7 server has been added to the project. This is a forking server that uses the Net::HL7 module, and dispatches incoming HL7 messages to user defined plugins."

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OMNI version 0.9.0 released

Version 0.90 of the OMNI printer driver has been released. Changes include a switch from compiled device support to XML device support, a switch from DTD to XSD, bug fixes, and more.

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KONTENTOR 2.0 Alpha 1 ready for download (ZopeMembers)

Zope Members News has an announcement for a new Zope-based content management framework, known as KONTENTOR. "The first public release of KONTENTOR 2.0, the Zope-based content management framework developed by iuveno AG, can be downloaded from the new KONTENTOR website, www.kontentor.de (in German)."

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Plone PoPoll released ! (ZopeMembers)

For those of you who need a web-based polling application, the PlonePoPoll content type has been announced for the Plone content management framework.

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ZAxisVideo v1.0 is out (ZopeMembers)

Version 1.0 of ZAxisVideo, a GPL licensed product that allows an Axis video server to be controlled from Zope, has been released.

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Zwiki 0.17.0 released (ZopeMembers)

Version 0.17.0 of ZWiki has been announced. The changes include: "simpler page ids, faster performance and better memory efficiency, new general-purpose page type including tracker and fit support, more robust parenting, skin improvements, preliminary stylesheet support, code cleanups, doctest no longer used."

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Red Carpet 2.0 preview release

Version 2.0 (preview release) of Red Carpet, a graphical software management tool for the RPM and dpkg package management systems, has been announced. "This new version features an all-new, native GTK+ 2.0-based user interface. Its new layout allows more powerful access to software management tasks like installing software from multiple channels and installing and removing software simultaneously. It aims to conform with the GNOME Human Interface Guidlines."

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Building an Address Book with OpenLDAP

Dustin Puryear shows how to work with OpenLDAP on O'Reilly. "Why is a centralized address book important, and how can it be used? For starters, I think just about every consultant has walked onto a site--even a large one--where everyone has contact information stored locally in their contact management software. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't mind losing the ability to update contact information effortlessly across the entire company."

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Ceres V0.38 released

Version 0.38 of Ceres is available. "Ceres is a simple program for displaying sonograms and for sound effects in the frequency domain."

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OZradio BETA 0.6 Released

Version 0.6 Beta of OZradio has been announced. "OZradio BETA 0.6 for bttv compatible Radio cards. Listen to FM Radio, Save up to 10 stations to programable buttons, On demand recording of radio, Programable recording of radio, Playback recorded radio, Auto Scan radio Frequencys, Volume control."

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Fifth release of PythonCAD now available. (GnomeDesktop)

FootNotes covers the latest release of PythonCAD. "The fifth release adds the first appearance of a global and user preferences file. Dimensions can now display endpoint markers like arrows and slashes, though the size these objects are displayed at is currently fixed. This limitation should be removed in one of the next two releases. The first implementation of leader lines has been added as well. This release also has many internal changes in preparation for adding hatching. There are also new methods for finding entities in a drawing. Finally, the usual assortment of bug fixes and code tweaks are included."

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George Staikos: A Quick Cost Analysis of Qt vs GTK

KDE.News has an analysis of some KDE and GNOME comparison issues. "Last week, CORBA-lover Michael Meeks released some slides that caused something of a stir amongst some in the KDE community. In his slide, Michael Meeks attempted to make the case for GNOME as the only viable desktop on Unix by directing the heat of his argument at the cost of Trolltech's Qt -- the wonderful cross-platform toolkit on which KDE is based -- for proprietary development. Rising up to the challenge, George Staikos has written a nice article that compares the cost of Qt vs GTK in the real world."

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GNOME Summary for March 29, 2003

Here's the latest GNOME Summary, with news about GNOME 2 API docs, Abiword, OpenOffice, and much more.

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KDE-CVS-Digest

The March 28, 2003 KDE-CVS-Digest has been published. "KBugBuster can now read most Bugzilla sites. The integration of Kafka (wysiwyg html editor) with Quanta begins. A new KSplash is introduced, KSpread gets some serious optimizations."

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XFree86 Project Launches Bugzilla Installation (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports on a new Bugzilla installation of XFree86. "foopy wrote in to tell us that The XFree86 Project, which produces an open-source implementation of the X Window System, has launched its own Bugzilla installation."

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Eel and Nautilus 2.2.3.1 released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 2.2.3.1 of Eel and Nautilus have been released. "This release continues the work on the UI bugs that make nautilus tougher to use. In particular we've focused on the list view, a long-neglected part of the nautilus family. Anybody using the list view on a regular basis should upgrade, we think you'll be pleased."

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WorldForge Games Media Team Status Report

A new Media Team Status Report is available from the WorldForge game project. "In the first installment for the year, we present our recent accomplishments, things we are working on and things that you could do to help us. As a bonus, there is also the Do It Yourself Mushroom - Fun For The Whole Family!" Lots of fun eye candy is included.

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Pygame updates

New Python-based game software on the Pygame site includes: Tuxmathscrabble .1.5, Pyddr 0.6, and Beamblocks 0.

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Samba 3.0 alpha 23 available

A new alpha version of Samba has been released. Click below for full details. "The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many people as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing."

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Wine Traffic #163

Issue #163 of Wine Traffic is out. Topics include: Interview Series Coming Soon, WineHQ Facelift, Wine Downloads At SourceForge, Making Wine Run With glibc 2.3, Wine & Services, Valgrind for Wine, Error Requiring 32/16 Bit DLL Combinations, and QEMU x86 Emulator.

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AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #137 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out, with the latest AbiWord word processor development news.

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GNUe Traffic #74

Issue #74 of GNUe Traffic has been published. Topics include: Support for images in GNUe Forms, GNUe Small Business and other free financials packages, Application Server development, GNUe Small Business, Sample apps for Application Server, Documenting how to write python triggers in Designer, and Freedom issues with Compiere.

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Mozilla 1.4 alpha

The alpha release of Mozilla 1.4 is out. The release notes will tell you about all the new stuff in this release; the list includes 1000 bugfixes, a reworked bookmark manager, smooth scrolling, Composer improvements, and more.

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Independent Status Reports

The Mozilla Independent Status Reports are out. MozillaZine's summary lists: "The latest set of status reports includes updates from NeedleSearch, Consultants, Jabberzilla, MozQuake, UserGuide, Beonex, Gnusto, Blozom, Uzilla, Googlebar, StumbleUpon and mozdev."

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OpenSSH 3.6 released

OpenSSH 3.6 has just been released and will soon be found at a mirror near you. This version includes RSA blinding and other security inspired features.

OpenSSH version 3.6.1 was announced right afterwards, it fixes a bug caused by the "kex guesses" fix in version 3.6.

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Thorn v0.5.0 released

Version 0.5.0 of Thorn has been released. "Version 0.5.0 adds collaboration diagrams to Thorn's growing list of supported diagrams. Thorn is a UML diagramming tool, specifically designed for Open Source projects. The UML models are saved in XML format for easy internet transfers and publishing. Thorn supports scripting in JPython and uses the Xerces XML parser."

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Caml Weekly News

The March 25 to April 1, 2003 Caml Weekly News is out. Topics include New PXP mailing list, Recursive types and functors, OCaml performance, and Our shrinking Humps.

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Jabberwocky 1.0 released

Version 1.0 of Jabberwocky, a LISP IDE, has been announced.

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This Week on perl5-porters

The March 24-30, 2003 edition of This Week on perl5-porters is out. "This week was a rather interesting week among the Perl 5 porters. Read about pattern matching extensions, CPAN distribution issues, and various bugs and problems."

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This week on Perl 6 (O'Reilly)

The March 30, 2003 edition of This week on Perl 6 is out with the latest Perl 6 news.

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PHP Weekly Summary

Topics on this week's PHP Weekly Summary include: "What is PHP 5?, Thread safety performance, Non-thread safe extensions, ICU extension, Timezone changes due to Tru64, Speeding Apache 2 up, socket_iovec_alloc segfault, Nested namespaces, 255 files bug under Solaris."

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Compiling and Enabling GD in PHP 4.3 (O'ReillyNet)

O'Reilly has an article on making GD work under PHP 4.3. "PHP 4.3 ships with a bundled version of the GD graphics library. Unfortunately, compiling it successfully can still be troublesome. Marco Tabini explains how to make PHP and GD play together nicely--no matter what you want to accomplish."

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Simple linear regression with PHP: Part 1 (IBM developerWorks)

Paul Meagher covers math under PHP on IBM DeveloperWorks. "A missing, but powerful, tool in the PHP arena is a language-based math library. In this two-part series, Paul Meagher hopes to inspire PHP developers to develop and implement a PHP-based math library by providing you with an example of how a library of analytic models might be developed."

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The March 31, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is out with the latest Python language news.

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Python in a Nutshell What's New in Python 2.3? (O'Reilly)

Alex Martelli explores Python 2.3 on O'Reilly. "Is it worth upgrading? You bet. With Python 2.3, you can expect typical Python code to run about 15 percent to 20 percent faster than it did with 2.2, since a lot of care has been devoted to optimization and fine-tuning."

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The Ruby Weekly News

Topics on this week's Ruby Weekly News include: ruby-dev summary 19824-19877, ruby-dev summary 19878-19943, and Squawks of the Parrot.

New Ruby software includes: RubLog 0.8, GridFlow 0.7.1, FXRuby-1.0.21, mhttp, Ruby-MacX alpha, Ruby-MacX alpha, Ruby-GNOME2-0.4.0 binaries(Cygwin, Debian), tld.rb 0.11, RHDL-0.4.2 (Ruby HDL) an agile HDL, xml-simple 0.6.0, and Text::Format 0.62.

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Scheme Weekly News

The March 31, 2003 edition of the Scheme Weekly News is out with the latest Scheme language news.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The January 31, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is out with lots of Tcl/Tk development news.

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XML Standards for Financial Services (O'Reilly)

Ayesha Malik explains the use of XML for performing financial transactions. "The ultimate goal of straight through processing is to replace the traditional phone and fax confirmations with a completely automated loop, from pre-trade communication and deal capture through to clearing and settlement. This involves automating the processes passing trade-related data between investment managers, brokers, clearing agencies, and custodians."

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XML and JavaScript in the Browser (O'Reilly)

John E. Simpson writes about the processing of XML with JavaScript on O'Reilly.

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OProfile 0.5.2 has been released

Version 0.5.2 of OProfile, a system-wide profiler for Linux, has been announced.

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Anjuta 1.0.2 (Tagore) released

Version 1.0.2 of the Anjuta IDE has been announced.

The Anjuta team is pleased to announce the release of Anjuta 1.0.2. Anjuta is an IDE (Integrated Developmetn Environment) for C and C++ targetting the GNOME platform. The main highlight of this release is the advanced search/replace functionality. There have also been numerous smaller feature additions, updates and bug fixes.

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ECB 1.93 released

Sourceforge mentions the release of ECB 1.93: "ECB is a file/code browser for Emacs. It can be used to browse any type of file and supports parsing of Java, C, C++, Elisp and other types of source code. This release (1.93) includes bug fixes, layout enhancements and enhancements to tree-buffers."

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