Owl River Company

• interviews, essays, philosophy, and photos:
  • A evening with Larry Wall at the Cincinnati GNU/Linux User Group meeting on 22 January 2001
    
  • A evening with Richard M Stallman [RMS] at the Cincinnati GNU/Linux User Group meeting on 24 January 2000 -- reviewed here, here and here
    
  • A morning's interview with Stuart Anderson at the Suncoast Linux User Group meeting on 24 July 1999
    
  • A afternoon with Eric S Raymond [ESR] at Earlham College, in Indiana on 19 January 1999 -- reviewed
    
  • Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, of Counterpane
    
  • The Red Hat Road Tour 2002 crew
    
• Open Source projects we contribute to and follow:
  
  • Owl River tips -- We distill internal documentation to a form we are comfortable releasing publicly. Some are first echoed publicly in mailing list posts, which provide a convenient vehicle to organize content for external release.
    
  • trainwreq -- A fork of the fine wreq trouble ticketting system as last maintained by Yunliang Yu <yu@math.duke.edu>. The last public commit by Yu on wreq was 2000/02/23. Email to him on updates, and on the mailing list have not been answered for over a year at the time of the fork.
       This is a joint project of Rossberry Consulting and Owl River Company. Tarballs initially are available -- RPMs soon
    
  • yum -- seth vidal has written a worthy and capable RPM based distribution management front end, with the best dependency solution code there presently is. We document yum hints and cookbook style approaches - upgrades, chroot, building and server side management tools.
    
  • htdump -- Ren Hoek <? - Where is Stimpy?>, has written a worthy and SSL capable http/https dumper front end, much like lynx -dump without the overhead -- RPMs
    
  • DHIS -- Dynamic Host Information Services, Packaged in a port to Red Hat Linux 7.0 -- a bit tricky with the different library localtions for BIND in the Red Hat environment -- RPMs - UNMAINTAINED 8/2002
    
  • OpenBSD ftpd -- OpenBSD's ftpd, ported to Linux -- needed with the issuance of the broken wu-ftpd by Redhat October 1999 -- RPMs -- UNMAINTAINED 8/2002
    
  • checkservice -- Paul van Tilburg's lightweight internet services monitoring and notification tool. First rate! -- RPMs - UNMAINTAINED 8/2002
    
  • IPTraf -- Gerard Paul Java's neat console based IP traffic monitoring utility. Quite usefile in tracking down those pesky network issues, along with tcpdump -- RPMs - UNMAINTAINED 8/2002
    
  • bidwatcher -- Wayne Schlitt's ongoing maintenance effort of Trent and Tom McNair's bidwatcher EBay bid watching and sniping system. -- RPMs
    
  • calendar -- The BSD calendar shell application -- RPMs
    
  • cAos -- The community Au courant operating system - support notes
    
  • CentOS -- The community Au courant operating system - CentOS RHEL rebuild project - support notes
    
  • NeoMail -- Ernie Miller's neat perl CGI mail reader -- not POP -- not imap --- but manipulating /var/spool/mail files directly! -- not directly RPM applicable - perl-MD5 and perl-CGI at Owl River FTP site here.
    
  • RPM -- Red Hat Package Manager - A major Red Hat competitive advantage is its packaging tool.
    
  • SRPM Packaging -- Independent packagers, such as Matthias Saou' freshrpms.net, and Warren Togami's Fedora project are appearing in the RPM-based systems 'ecology', providing extended RPM coverage as an independent packaging locales.
    
  • COLUG webpage re-implementation -- A wholly Open Source re-implementation, using PHP and MySQL, and GD-created PNG images
    
  • wreq -- Yunliang Yu's wreq trouble ticketing system, implemented in perl
    
  • dirtypgp -- A Tk/Tcl cryptography PGP workslate applet
    
  • GNU dip -- dynamic DNS IP - UNMAINTAINED 8/2002
    
  • Exchange -- Exchange Server Replacement HOWTO
    
  • DHCP Client management
    
  • buildRPM -- Automate a 'hands-off' production of a RPM based ISO CD image from a handful of SRPMs
    
• patches:
  
  • Red Hat 7.2 fix for ppp -- The Owl River Company ppp RPM for interoperability with certain Microsoft dialers -- RPMs
    
  • Older and unmaintained -- mod_php3 - MySQL -- The Owl River Company mod_php3 RPM with integral MySQL support -- RPMs
    
  
  
• RPM packaging:
  
  • We package Open Source projects continuously, and at last count had over 270 projects not otherwise packaged available at our anonymous FTP archive: here
    
  
  
• majordomo and MailMan listserv:
  
  • Suncoast Linux Users Group mailing list - former
    
  • Central Ohio Linux Users Group
    
  • dirtypgp development group
    
  • cmh-consult group
    
  
  
• We provide space, bandwidth, and render sysadmin services without charge for the Central Ohio and other Linux Users Group hosts and other Open Source projects:
  
  • www.colug.net - new COLUG - prime website, and DNS services
  • bopper.wcbe.org - old COLUG, - prime website, and DNS services
  • www.suncoastlug.org - Suncoast LUG - prime website, and DNS services
  • old www.oldrpm.org site - RPM prime website - editorial
  • www.distrowatch.com - mirror and DNS services
  
  
• ... foster values worthy of support, ...
  
  • Scouting Venturing Crew 369
    
  • The National Guard and Reserve Ohio Army National Guard, Company A
    
  
  
• and maintain an archive of web pages which would otherwise be lost to the community.
  
  • Metropolitan Human Services Commission ['PIE'] archive
    
  
  

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