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Paul Howarth

Email: paul@city-fan.org
WWW: http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/
Blog: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/PaulHowarth/Blog
Location: {en} Sale, Cheshire, UK

I've been using Linux since first playing with an SLS distribution in the mid-nineties, and have been running my home (and lately, work) networks on Red Hat/Fedora based machines since Red Hat Linux 5.1. I work as a VLSI chip designer in the Manchester area of the United Kingdom.

My ["Extras"] packages:

  • bittorrent : B'itTorrent swarming network file transfer tool
  • bluefish : A GTK2 web development application for experienced users
  • gnome-libs : The main GNOME1 libraries
  • grepmail : Search mailboxes for a particular email
  • gtkwave : Waveform Viewer
  • gtorrentviewer : A GTK2-based viewer and editor for B'itTorrent meta files
  • imlib : An image loading and rendering library for X'11R6
  • lat : LDAP Administration Tool
  • libglade : Gnome-1 support library for loading user interfaces
  • libpng10 : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
  • libxml : Old libXML library for Gnome-1 application compatibility
  • milter-regex : Sendmail milter plugin for regular expression filtering
  • mod_fcgid : Apache2 module for high-performance server-side scripting
  • ORBit : CORBA Object Request Broker for GNOME-1 compatibility
  • perl-Authen-DigestMD5 : SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication (RFC2831)
  • perl-Class-Loader : Load modules and create objects on demand
  • perl-Convert-B'inHex : Macintosh B'inHex extractor library for Perl
  • perl-Crypt-DH : Perl module implementing the Diffie-Hellman key exchange system
  • perl-Crypt-DSA : Perl module for DSA signatures and key generation
  • perl-Crypt-Primes : Provable prime number generator for cryptographic applications
  • perl-Crypt-Random : Cryptographically Secure, True Random Number Generator
  • perl-Crypt-RSA : RSA public-key cryptosystem
  • perl-Crypt-S'mbHash : Pure-perl Lanman and NT MD4 hash functions
  • perl-Data-Buffer : Read/write buffer class for perl
  • perl-Date-Simple : Simple date object for perl
  • perl-Digest-B'ubbleBabble : Create bubble-babble fingerprints
  • perl-Digest-MD2 : Perl interface to the MD2 Algorithm
  • perl-Digest-MD4 : Perl interface to the MD4 Algorithm
  • perl-F'ileHandle-Unget : A F'ileHandle that supports ungetting of multiple bytes
  • perl-IO-Socket-SSL : Perl library for transparent SSL
  • perl-IO-stringy : I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays
  • perl-Mail-Mbox-M'essageParser : A fast and simple mbox folder reader
  • perl-M'ailTools : M'ailTools module for Perl
  • perl-Math-GMP : High speed arbitrary size integer math
  • perl-Math-Pari : Perl interface to PARI
  • perl-MIME-tools : Modules for parsing and creating MIME entities in Perl
  • perl-Net-SSH-Perl : SSH (Secure Shell) client
  • perl-Net-SSLeay : Perl extension for using OpenSSL
  • perl-String-CRC32 : Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation
  • perl-Tie-E'ncryptedHash : Hashes (and objects based on hashes) with encrypting fields
  • pptp : Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
  • rbldnsd : Small, fast daemon to serve DNSBLs
  • smbldap-tools : User and group administration tools for Samba/OpenLDAP
  • spamass-milter : Sendmail milter for spamassassin

My EnterpriseExtras packages:

  • imlib : An image loading and rendering library for X'11R6
  • mod_fcgid : Apache2 module for high-performance server-side scripting
  • perl-Convert-B'inHex : Macintosh B'inHex extractor library for Perl
  • perl-Crypt-S'mbHash : Pure-perl Lanman and NT MD4 hash functions
  • perl-Date-Simple : Simple date object for perl
  • perl-Digest-MD4 : Perl interface to the MD4 Algorithm
  • perl-IO-Socket-SSL : Perl library for transparent SSL
  • perl-IO-stringy : I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays
  • perl-Jcode : Perl extension interface for converting Japanese text
  • perl-M'ailTools : M'ailTools module for Perl
  • perl-MIME-tools : Modules for parsing and creating MIME entities in Perl
  • perl-Net-SSLeay : Perl extension for using OpenSSL
  • perl-String-CRC32 : Perl interface for cyclic redundancy check generation
  • perl-Unicode-Map : Perl module for mapping charsets from and to UTF16 unicode
  • perl-Unicode-Map8 : Mapping table between 8-bit chars and Unicode for Perl
  • perl-Unicode-MapUTF8 : Conversions to and from arbitrary character sets and UTF8
  • perl-Unicode-String : String manipulation for Unicode strings
  • pptp : Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
  • rbldnsd : Small, fast daemon to serve DNSBLs
  • smbldap-tools : User and group administration tools for Samba/OpenLDAP
  • spamass-milter : Sendmail milter for spamassassin

I'm also a [wiki:Self:Extras/SponsorProcess sponsor] for new contributors, and currently sponsor:

  • Deji Akingunola
  • Duncan Ferguson
  • Felix Schwarz
  • Paul Johnson
  • Thomas Sailer