ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
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This document announces the second ALPHA release (version 1.1a2) of the
Problem Tracking System (PTS). PTS is FREE software.
SOFTWARE: PTS -- Problem Tracking System
Xpts -- X Problem Tracking System
Web/PTS -- World-Wide-Web Problem Tracking System
VERSION: 1.1a2 (alpha release #2 of 1.1)
-----> THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE. DO NOT UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION YET.
This release is intended to provide you with a heads-up on
where PTS is these days, and to provide ME with some input
from YOU. Bring it up, try it out, and let me know what you
think.
SYNOPSIS: PTS helps with system management. It lets people report
problems and lets support personnel record their solutions
to those problems. It also helps automate other related
communication activities. Some might call this "help-desk"
software or a form of "groupware".
SYSTEM REQMTS: The core of PTS is still "xpts", an X11R5/X11R6 application
which uses the Athena widgets. Building PTS requires
a Unix variant, an ANSI C compiler, lex, yacc, make
and imake/xmkmf. PTS should build on most AIX, HP-UX,
OSF/1, SCO, SunOS, Solaris, Domain/OS, Linux,
Ultrix, IRIX, SGI, and Intergraph systems, among others.
(The primary development system is now Linux.)
The new WWW interface requires a web server, and should
work with both CERN and NCSA servers. A WAIS server
is required for searches. Users need a web browser.
Most browsers will work, but Netscape 1.1N or newer
is recommended.
WHAT'S NEW: * A WWW interface for reporting, browsing, and searching
the problem database has been added. This implies
the following:
a) Since web browsers exist on most platforms,
users on other platforms (ok, PCs & Macs) can
now report problems into the PTS system.
b) Since there are text-mode web browsers out there,
there is finally a text mode PTS.
* Several screens in Xpts have been cleaned up.
* A "priority" field is in the process of being added.
* The software now installs into it's own directory,
such as /usr/local/pts, rather than /usr/X11/bin.
* SunOS/Solaris and Linux support improved.
* Bug fixes, errr...ahhh...."unexpected feature" revisions.
CAVEATS: The text-mode and command-line interfaces are limited
at this time. This is an area for continued development.
An e-mail interface is still being planned; however, a
simple one could easily be built around the utility
"newprob". The "priority" field is not fully implemented yet.
Since the database format is currently in development,
and since this is alpha software, there is currently no
upgrade utility to convert your 1.0x database to 1.1a2
format.
The Web/PTS portion of PTS is not complete as far as
your sysops are concerned. It does not yet have a "solve"
capability yet. Xpts is still required by your sysops.
My goal is that this restriction will go away with
the final release of version 1.1.
AUTHORS: Dean Collins is responsible for most of the new enhancements,
with the help of Chris Hyde for low-level database issues.
PTS 1.0 was co-written by Dean and Chris with Luke Sheneman,
Brian Goff, and John Hunter, among others, known collectively
(for convenience only) as "Zombie Software". Additional
support has been provided by the Internet community, for
which we are *very* grateful.
AVAILABILITY: PTS is FREE software. Sources may be obtained from
the following sites via anonymous-FTP, which are the
"official" distribution sites:
ftp.x.org /contrib/applications/pts
ftp.halcyon.com /local/dean/pts
Source file is pts-1.1a2.tar.gz. Look for patches and
README files, too.
Numerous sites mirror the ftp.x.org site. PTS may be
available from the following locations, and many others,
as well as the "official" sites:
public.x.org /contrib/applications/pts
ftp.uu.net /systems/window-sys/X/contrib/applications/pts
ftp.cs.columbia.edu /archives/X11R6/contrib/applications/pts
ftp.germany.eu.net /pub/X11/XConsortium/contrib/applications/pts
ftp.inria.fr /pub/X11/contrib/applications/pts
ftp.luth.se /pub/X11/contrib/applications/pts
SunSITE.sut.ac.jp /pub/archives/X11/contrib/applications/pts
Also, the PTS source code is being distributed via
Usenet and the alt.sources and/or comp.sources newsgroups.
Web/PTS Demo: A demo configuraton of Web/PTS is available at:
http://www.halcyon.com/dean/pts/pts-web-demo.html
PTS Homepage: The PTS Homepage is:
http://www.halcyon.com/dean/pts/pts.html
DESCRIPTION
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PTS is a tool for improving communication between system users and support
personnel (sysops) about problems encountered with the system. It consists
of several programs, including "xpts" and "ptsager", as well as a set of
World-Wide-Web documents and CGI programs.
In a nutshell:
Xpts or Web/PTS is used by system users to report problems. Support personnel
(sysops) also use it to log their activities on solving each problem.
Xpts also sends e-mail to problem reporters when their problems are solved.
Problems are stored in a permanent database for future reference.
With the addition of the WAIS feature, that database now has a full-text
search capability.
The problems are organized in a tree-like structure. For example, a
problem with "tin" might be reported in "/Software/News/tin". A problem
with a computer monitor might be reported in "/Hardware/Monitor".
The problem tree structure is _completely_ configurable to meet your
particular needs.
Ptsager scans through the database once a day and sends electronic mail
to certain system users about problems that have remained unsolved for
several days. It's actions are very configurable.
While PTS was originally designed with managing a network of Unix (well,
Apollo) workstations in mind, it is general and versatile enough to be
used in many other ways. For example, PTS itself was used by the PTS
design team to report problems with and take suggestions about early
versions of PTS. We are very interested in hearing about unique and
creative ways in which you use PTS.
PTS was originally designed and implemented by "Zombie Software", consisting
of me (Dean Collins), Chris Hyde, Luke Sheneman, Brian Goff, John Hunter,
Brent Heikkula, and Dayne Steed. It was designed an implemented in part on
a volunteer basis for the University of Idaho Computer Science Department.
Since then we've all moved on (i.e. graduated) and I have continued to
work on PTS in my spare time. Chris continues to volunteer time to
extend his portion of our original work when he has time.
I can't really provide support for this FREE software, but I'll help
WHEN I CAN. I would appreciate help from others in this project!!!
PTS is being offered as a gift to the Internet community for it's
generosity towards us. Enjoy!
Dean
Sat Jul 22 11:50:18 PDT 1995
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Dean Collins dean@halcyon.com http://www.halcyon.com/dean/
A much more important factor in the social movement than those already mentioned was the ever-increasing influence of women. This probably stood at the lowest point to which it has ever fallen, during the classic age of Greek life and thought. In the history of Thucydides, so far as it forms a connected series of events, four times only during a period of nearly seventy years does a woman cross the scene. In each instance her apparition only lasts for a moment. In three of the four instances she is a queen or a princess, and belongs either to the half-barbarous kingdoms of northern Hellas or to wholly barbarous Thrace. In the one remaining instance208— that of the woman who helps some of the trapped Thebans to make their escape from Plataea—while her deed of mercy will live for ever, her name is for ever lost.319 But no sooner did philosophy abandon physics for ethics and religion than the importance of those subjects to women was perceived, first by Socrates, and after him by Xenophon and Plato. Women are said to have attended Plato’s lectures disguised as men. Women formed part of the circle which gathered round Epicurus in his suburban retreat. Others aspired not only to learn but to teach. Arêtê, the daughter of Aristippus, handed on the Cyrenaic doctrine to her son, the younger Aristippus. Hipparchia, the wife of Crates the Cynic, earned a place among the representatives of his school. But all these were exceptions; some of them belonged to the class of Hetaerae; and philosophy, although it might address itself to them, remained unaffected by their influence. The case was widely different in Rome, where women were far more highly honoured than in Greece;320 and even if the prominent part assigned to them in the legendary history of the city be a proof, among others, of its untrustworthiness, still that such stories should be thought worth inventing and preserving is an indirect proof of the extent to which feminine influence prevailed. With the loss of political liberty, their importance, as always happens at such a conjuncture, was considerably increased. Under a personal government there is far more scope for intrigue than where law is king; and as intriguers women are at least the209 equals of men. Moreover, they profited fully by the levelling tendencies of the age. One great service of the imperial jurisconsults was to remove some of the disabilities under which women formerly suffered. According to the old law, they were placed under male guardianship through their whole life, but this restraint was first reduced to a legal fiction by compelling the guardian to do what they wished, and at last it was entirely abolished. Their powers both of inheritance and bequest were extended; they frequently possessed immense wealth; and their wealth was sometimes expended for purposes of public munificence. Their social freedom seems to have been unlimited, and they formed combinations among themselves which probably served to increase their general influence.321 The old religions of Greece and Italy were essentially oracular. While inculcating the existence of supernatural beings, and prescribing the modes according to which such beings were to be worshipped, they paid most attention to the interpretation of the signs by which either future events in general, or the consequences of particular actions, were supposed to be divinely revealed. Of these intimations, some were given to the whole world, so that he who ran might read, others were reserved for certain favoured localities, and only communicated through the appointed ministers of the god. The Delphic oracle in particular enjoyed an enormous reputation both among Greeks and barbarians for guidance afforded under the latter conditions; and during a considerable period it may even be said to have directed the course of Hellenic civilisation. It was also under this form that supernatural religion suffered most injury from the great intellectual movement which followed the Persian wars. Men who had learned to study the constant sequences of Nature for themselves, and to shape their conduct according to fixed principles of prudence or of justice, either thought it irreverent to trouble the god about questions on which they were competent to form an opinion for themselves, or did not choose to place a well-considered scheme at the mercy of his possibly interested responses. That such a revolution occurred about the middle of the fifth century B.C., seems proved by the great change of tone in reference to this subject which one perceives on passing from Aeschylus to Sophocles. That anyone should question the veracity of an oracle is a supposition which never crosses the mind of the elder dramatist. A knowledge of augury counts among the greatest benefits222 conferred by Prometheus on mankind, and the Titan brings Zeus himself to terms by his acquaintance with the secrets of destiny. 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Henry Pelham was made Secretary at War; Compton Earl of Wilmington Privy Seal. He left foreign affairs chiefly to Stanhope, now Lord Harrington, and to the Duke of Newcastle, impressing on them by all means to avoid quarrels with foreign Powers, and maintain the blessings of peace. With all the faults of Walpole, this was the praise of his political system, which system, on the meeting of Parliament in the spring of 1731, was violently attacked by Wyndham and Pulteney, on the plea that we were making ruinous treaties, and sacrificing British interests, in order to benefit Hanover, the eternal millstone round the neck of England. Pulteney and Bolingbroke carried the same attack into the pages of The Craftsman, but they failed to move Walpole, or to shake his power. 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