---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Founded December 1988 The Florida SunFlash The SunFlash Monthly Digest: May 1994 Abstracts of SunFlash Articles May 1994 (01 to 47) SunFlash Digest May 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Electronic Journal For Sun Users Since 1988 John J. Mclaughlin, Publisher & Editor - flash@sun.com ____________________________________________________________________________ 65.90 Abstracts of SunFlash Articles May 1994 (01 to 47) From: John J. McLaughlin, SunFlash Editor A monthly summary of articles posted to the SunFlash mailing list. Articles of interest to the Sun Microsystems community (end-user, developers, admins, ISVs, OEMS, VARS, 1200+ Sun employees, etc) are posted to SunFlash's 140,000+ subscribers. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. A description of SunFlash and instructions on subscribing can be obtained by sending mail to info-sunflash@sun.com -johnj (89 articles, 995 Kb, 22,540 lines - about 342 pages for full text) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts of SunFlash Articles May 1994 (01 to 47) 65.01 THE BIG DUMMY UPDATE V.1.0, March, 1994 An online publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation by Adam Gaffin adamg@world.std.com ( There is so much interest in the internet that I decided to re-post these excellent newsletters from the EFF. For example, 600 people sent for copies of SunFlash 62.27 "FAQ: Big Dummy's Guide 1.4". Enjoy ! Great work Adam! -johnj ) 65.02 O'Reilly's X Resource 10 released We have just released Issue 10 of this quarterly working journal for X programmers. 65.03 3D C Code Visualizer From Cadre Cadre Technologies Inc. announces Ensemble(R) Viewer, a highly interactive 2D and 3D graphical tool for visualizing C programs. Ensemble Viewer represents the latest addition to the company's Ensemble suite of C development solutions for reverse-engineering, maintenance, and test. 65.04 Personal Information Manager and Contact Management Software AMH, of Santa Clara California, announced their new productivity tool for Unix users. AMH Action Manager is an easy to use integrated Personal Information Management System. It is tailored to manage actions (To-Dos) and contact information in a fast and simple way. It assists users in tracking and managing their contacts and business activities. You can get your free demo three different ways: 1. Contact AMH directly 2. Download it from Internet 3. Sun CDware # 6 65.05 HPCwire Table of Contents: April 29 HPCwire is a for-fee Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing. This article is the weekly Table of Contents. There are articles in this HPCwire Table of Contents that non-subscribers can retrieve, but you must be a subscriber to request the bulk of the articles. A free trial subscription is available. 65.06 USENIX Calendar of Events From: cynthia@usenix.org (Cynthia Deno) Jun 94 USENIX SUMMER 1994 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE Aug 94 USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH SPEED NETWORKING Sep 94 8TH USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA VIII) Oct 94 USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON VERY HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES (VHLL) Nov 94 USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION Dec 94 WORKSHOP ON MOBILE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Jan 95 USENIX WINTER 1995 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 65.07 SUG Conference at SunWorld, June 16-18, San Francisco, CA, USA From: troll@sug.org (A. Newman) SunWorld '94 Conference, June 13-16 Sun User Group Mini Conference, June 16-18 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA 65.08 Tom Christiansen Teaches Perl In May S.U.G. Seminar May 27 Harvard University, MA, USA The Sun User Group continues its series of acclaimed UNIX tutorials by teaching you how to program with Perl. Perl stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language", and it can bring the power of an interpreted, high-level programming language into the hands of any end-user, even to someone new to UNIX. 65.09 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several 65.10 THE BIG DUMMY UPDATE Number 2 - April, 1994 An online publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) Edited by Adam Gaffin CONTENTS: 1. Just the fax, ma'am 1.1 TPC - The Phone Company 1.2 Chickening out in Ontario 1.3 Faxinet - commercial faxing 1.4 When things go wrong 1.5 FYI 2. Downloading Usenet articles 2.1 Directories 2.2 Saving the articles 2.3 Getting the articles 2.4 ASCII and ye shall receive 2.5 When things go wrong 3. Archie and Veronica meet the Web 3.1 Searching via Switzerland 3.2 Searching via Texas 4. Services of the Month 4.1 Gopher 4.2 FTP 4.3 World-Wide Web 4.4 Mailing lists 5. Public-access Internet sites 6. Changes/errata 7. Big Dummy goes into print! Can movie deal be far behind? 8. Contact info 65.11 SunSelect Introduces PC-NFS 5.1 SunSelect, the PC-to-enterprise integration business of Sun Microsystems, Inc., introduced PC-NFS(R) 5.1, offering new features and enhancements that make the package easier to install and use. PC-NFS is the most widely implemented TCP/IP solution for PCs, with 27 percent of that market and more than a million nodes installed. 65.12 O'Reilly releases ora.com (Free magazine-plus-catalog) We have released the third issue of our free magazine-plus- catalog entitled "ora.com." It presents a behind-the-scenes look at issues we at O'Reilly & Associates found interesting. To receive a free copy of "ora.com," send mail to catalog@ora.com. (The previous editions of ora.com have been excellent both in content and presentation. Please mention SunFlash in your request. -johnj) 65.13 HPCwire Table of Contents: May 6 65.14 Updated Internet Services List (May-1-94) From: yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) Popular listing of services available on the Internet. More that 1000 SunFlash subscribers requested a copy of the March version of this list. 65.15 THE INTERNET MALL (1 May 1994) From: taylor@netcom.com (Dave Taylor) A monthly list of commercial services available via Internet There's no recession at the Internet Mall! We have 26 new cybershops appearing for the first time in this issue of the Internet Mall! The most growth is in the food mall: now you can get gourmet coffee, culinary herbs and even chocolate through the Internet. New sections too: Religious Books and Related annex on the first floor, an annex for Research and Information Providers. 65.16 Aggregate Computing Newsletter From: anne@aggregate.com (Anne Reinbold) Distributed Directions is a quarterly newsletter from Aggregate Computing, Inc. on distributed computing technologies. The first issue for 1994 is now available and includes information on: Cluster Computing in Commercial Environments, Distributed Applications in Commercial Cluster Environments, Development Issues for Distributed Applications - Naming, and News at Aggregate. 65.17 RISKS DIGEST 16.02 From: risks@CSL.SRI.COM (RISKS Forum) (I'm posting this edition of the RISKS DIGEST for three reasons. The 'New firewalls book' article will be of interest to many people as will (b) the 'Staying Informed of Security & Privacy Issues'. As 300+ people requested the last SunFlash/RISKs article I think that there is some interet! -johnj) RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Tuesday 3 May 1994 Volume 16 : Issue 02 FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator ***** See last item for information on RISKS (comp.risks) ***** Contents: NEW YORKER article on library automation (Jon Jacky) Information Warfare: GM vs VW (Mich Kabay) TechWar: Cell Phone Jamming (Mich Kabay) Green Card Con Artists Exposed! (Bonnie L. Mahon via D.R. Hilton) New firewalls book - a great risk reducer (Ray Kaplan) Re: Drunk in charge (John Simutis, Andy Ashworth, Dan Astoorian) Boot Prom commits Denial of Service Attack (Butch Deal) Staying Informed of Security & Privacy Issues (David Johnson) Info on RISKS (comp.risks), contributions, subscriptions, FTP, etc. 65.18 Public Release of X11R6 Release 6 of the X Window System, Version 11, will be made available world wide starting May 2 at 12:00pm EDT (16:00 GMT). The distribution sites are listed below. PLEASE use a site that is close to you in the network. 65.19 Internet Talk Radio Anonymous FTP Archives A list of archive sites that make the Internet Talk Radio sound files accessible via anonymous FTP. 65.20 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 65.21 Sunergy Broadcast #10: Discussion Of Object Technologies July 28th, 1994 8:30 - 10:00 am PDT Live Satellite broadcast from ObjectWorld, San Francisco For satellite information, contact the Sunergy office at sunergy@sun.com. 65.22 Sun Scientist Honored with Prestigious Award Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation today announced that Dr. Ivan Sutherland, vice president and Sun Fellow in Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., has been awarded the 1993 System Software Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM presents this award annually in recognition of work done by individuals or institutions in the "development of a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both." 65.23 Internet Security Scanner 2.0 Been hacked ? Afraid to find your network has been compromised ? Internet Security Scanner (ISS) is the first multi-functional proactive Unix security scanner available to the public. It is flexible, portable, and quickly does its job. It provides Information that you need to fix Security Misconfigurations. With more and more hackers breaking into networks and compromising tens of thousands of machines, you will want to use ISS to protect your network. 65.24 SUN MICROSYSTEMS SECURITY BULLETIN: #00127a, 5 May 1994 This revised version of Bulletin #127 corrects and two points concerning a security patch just announced for Solaris 2.3 systems. See the "NOTE" in section I for a description of the changes. I. Announcement of patch for Solaris 2.3 "automountd" vulnerability II. Patch Table III. Checksum Table APPENDICES A. How to obtain Sun security patches B. How to report or inquire about Sun security problems C. How to obtain Sun security bulletins 65.25 SPARC-FLASH April 20th, 1994: Table of Contents From: claire@sparc.com (Claire Pinkham) The following is the table of contents for SPARC-FLASH, the monthly email bulletin from SPARC International. If you would like to receive a free subscription to SPARC-FLASH, please send your full name, title, company and email address to sparc-flash-request@sparc.com. 65.26 O'Reilly's Book "Making TeX Work" We have just published this guide through the maze of tools available in the overall TeX system, including myriad drivers, macro packages, previewers, printing programs, online documentation facilities, graphics programs, and more. 65.27 MetaCard hypermedia/RAD environment 1.3 release MetaCard Corporation announced the release of an upgrade to their award-winning hypermedia and Rapid Application Development environment. A powerful tool in both domains, MetaCard is an easy-to-use alternative to conventional GUI development environments, hypertext document creation applications and presentation packages. 65.28 Global Wide Help & Information System (GWHIS) From: combs@quadralay.com (Brian Combs) Quadralay Corporation announced its newest software development tool, Global Wide Help & Information System (GWHIS). GWHIS allows third party application developers to add online documentation and context sensitive help to their applications like never before. This documentation may consist of plain text, rich format text, hypertext, images, audio, and/or video animation and may easily be distributed either locally or over a wide area network such as the Internet. GWHIS consists of two primary components. An application programming interface (API), and a hypermedia viewer (based on technology licensed from the NCSA Mosaic project). Several ancillary conversion programs are also available allowing end users to easily convert existing documentation into GWHIS' native HTML format. 65.29 Tools, Services for S/W Maintenance, Reverse and Re-Engineering From: Charles Stanley Smith After 35 man years of sponsored research as part of the Esprit REDO and RECYCLE projects, the Information Systems Engineering Group at the University of Limerick have formed a company called Piercom Ltd to commercialise the results of their work. Piercom are launching a set of Services and Tools for Software Maintenance and System Reverse-Engineering and Re-engineering. 65.30 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 65.31 Computer Industry Almanac on CD-ROM From: karenj@libre.com (Karen Juliesson) A very useful and inexpensive computer reference book is now available on CD-ROM--The Computer Industry Almanac. This CD-ROM is full of information about the computer marketplace: computer industry overview, product and technology trends, market forecasts, computer history, employment/salary data and much more. 65.32 HPCwire Table of Contents: May 13 65.33 GNU tools available "packaged" for Solaris 2.3 From: jim.CRammond@quintus.COM (Jim Crammond) The ftp directory camus.quintus.com:pub/GNU contains various GNU programs for Solaris2.X running on sparc. These are packaged to enable installation using pkgadd. Included GNU emacs, GNU gcc, Perl and GNU tools (and gunzip). 65.34 MKS Internet Anywhere Now Shipping From: erin@mks.com (Erin Hintz) Mortice Kern Systems announces MKS Internet Anywhere. Internet Anywhere is an easy-to-use software package that demystifies PC access to the Internet. It offers a collection of programs to explore and take advantage of the incredible resources of news and mail on the Internet. 65.35 TeX (and friends) binaries for Solaris 2.3 From: grif@corsa.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith) Binaries for TeX, MF, LaTeX, dvips, xdvi, etc are available on: cs.ucr.edu:/pub/solaris/tex-binaries/tex-sol2.3.tar.gz You will need 14 megs of disk space and make both a user tex and group tex. Please see the README file for more information. (README file enclosed -johnj) 65.36 "HEAD START KIT" Now Available for SBus Developers From: jlyle@netcom.com (Jim Lyle) Troubador Technologies introduced an "SBus Head Start Kit" to help developers of SBus add- in products for SPARC/UNIX workstations and servers. This kit is a "cook book" that provides all the information needed to make PLD- or FPGA-based SBus slave interfaces, and includes the actual source code (on diskette) for several devices. Also included are application examples, and detailed instructions that describe how the devices work and how they can be modified to suit a particular application. 65.37 Sbus Information Sources SBus Publications SBus Specification MBus Information SBus Product Lists Other Publications SBulletin SMCC Catalyst Marketing Program Technical Support SunService Platform Testing SBus/SCSI Design Consultants Backplates and Connectors DMA Interface Chips SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit, Release III 65.38 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts 65.39 SMCC Unveils New SPARCstation 5 Configuration Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) rolled out four new configurations of the recently introduced SPARCstation(TM) 5 system, including an 85MHz version priced at less than $10,000. The introduction of these systems will better enable SMCC to meet the demand for SPARCstation 5 systems that has thus far exceeded forecasts. The systems' 85MHz CPU is the fastest currently available in the microSPARC(TM) II family. 65.40 Solaris Support And Services From Sun's OPCOM Group From: ldavies@canada.sun.com (Lisa Davies) Product Coordinator, Developer Support Centre OPCOM provides fee-for-service expert technical assistance to End Users, OEM's and ISV's. Services provided are phone/email based developer support, software early access programs, tools, training and consulting. We assist Sun customers in using Sun's latest software technology in the most effective and efficient ways possible. Solaris Associate Program - Developer Support Services Consulting Services & Specials Stand-alone Copy Program Configurable Network Boot Batch Scheduling Class Fixed Scheduling Class Training Seminars Porting to Solaris 2.x for Programmers Threads Programming in Solaris 2.x Porting Device Drivers to Solaris 2.x 65.41 May/June 1994 SunExpress Newsletter - ExpressLine From: ernest.indresano@East.Sun.Com This is a product oriented newsletter from SunExpress. 65.42 NewsPrint 2.5 Developer's Kit For Solaris 2.x The NeWSprint 2.5 Developer's Kit, complete with documentation, CD-ROM media and sample printer handler code, is targeted at software & hardware developers, systems administrators and advanced end users wishing to integrate third-party output devices such as printers, plotters and film recorders in the Solaris 2.x environment. 65.43 Solaris 1.1.1 Version B Source Product Availability Announcing the availability of the Solaris(R) 1.1.1 Version B source products (English version) for the Sun(R) SPARC(R) systems. Binaries for 1.1.1B began shipping in March. 65.44 Sun Microsystems Foundation Grants Total $242,600 The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., has awarded $30,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula for its Academic Education Project (AEP), which serves more than 500 minority students. The project includes five after-school academic programs designed to help kids succeed in and prepare for college. 65.45 Sun Information/Product Abstracts 65.46 Single UNIX Specification - SPEC 1170 From: Anita Mcclellan At UniForum, X/Open announced the availability of the Snapshot version of the single UNIX specification (Spec 1170). The Snapshot is now ready for delivery as compressed Postscript files via the Internet ($120/UKL80) or on CD-ROM ($185/UKL120). Contents: 1. Announcement 2. The Single UNIX Specification (Spec 1170) 3. Internet (FTP) Version - Available now 4. CD-ROM Version - Available mid-June 5. Follow up (email, phone, FAX and Snail Mail) 65.47 SPARC-FLASH 5/94: Table of Contents From: claire@sparc.com (Claire Pinkham) The following is the table of contents for SPARC-FLASH, the monthly email bulletin from SPARC International. If you would like to receive a free subscription to SPARC-FLASH, please send your full name, title, company and email address to sparc-flash-request@sparc.com. (note that section I will be posted as a SunFlash article -johnj ) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 65.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. (Login as 'gopher' for a simple gopher client, 'swais' for a simple WAIS client (over 500 databases). 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