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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: 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 : BitTorrent 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 BitTorrent meta files
• imlib : An image loading and rendering library for X11R6
• 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-BinHex : Macintosh BinHex 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-SmbHash : 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-BubbleBabble : Create bubble-babble fingerprints
• perl-Digest-MD2 : Perl interface to the MD2 Algorithm
• perl-Digest-MD4 : Perl interface to the MD4 Algorithm
• perl-FileHandle-Unget : A FileHandle 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-MessageParser : A fast and simple mbox folder reader
• perl-MailTools : MailTools 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-EncryptedHash : 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 Enterprise Extras packages:

• imlib : An image loading and rendering library for X11R6
• mod_fcgid : Apache2 module for high-performance server-side scripting
• perl-Class-Loader : Load modules and create objects on demand
• perl-Convert-BinHex : Macintosh BinHex extractor library for Perl
• perl-Crypt-Primes : Provable prime number generator for cryptographic applications
• perl-Crypt-Random : Cryptographically Secure, True Random Number Generator
• perl-Crypt-SmbHash : 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-MailTools : MailTools module for Perl
• perl-Math-Pari : Perl interface to PARI
• 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 sponsor for new contributors, and currently sponsor:

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

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