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FileSystem Investigator is a platform independent file system viewer and data extraction tool. It allows the user to:

* View the contents of the target file system in a forensicly safe manner, bypassing the normal operating system mechanisms.
* Extract files and whole directory trees of files from the source filesystem.

Since it is written in platform-neutral Java, it can be used to examine filesystems outside their native environment. For example, it can be used to view a Linux filesystem while running under Windows.

FileSystem Investigator directly accesses the source disk and processes the data using it own built in filesystem drivers. This ensures that it is safe to use FileSystem Investigator for forensic investigations.

FileSystem Investigator will never write to the source media thus important timestamps are preserved. FileSystem Investigator can also read disk-image files such as those created by dd.

Files and whole directory structures can be extracted easily from the source drive and stored for further use or analysis. Due to limitations imposed by Java, special files such as device nodes, pipes, sockets and links, cannot be extracted.

GFS (Global File System) is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC, iSCSI, NBD, etc...). GFS reads and writes to the block device like a local filesystem, but also uses a lock module to allow the computers coordinate their I/O so filesystem consistency is maintained. One of the nifty features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the filesystem on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.

GFS consists of a set of kernel patches and userspace programs.
The GFS lock module lock_dlm depends on CMAN and DLM.
The GFS lock module lock_gulm depends on GULM.
The GFS lock module lock_nolock depends on nothing.
Some GFS tools depend on the iddev library.

Building and Installing

1. build and install from cluster tree
cd cluster
./configure --kernel_src=/path/to/kernel
make; make install

- This builds and installs kernel modules, libraries and user programs.

- Kernel modules can also be built within the original kernel source tree by applying the kernel patches from cman-kernel/patches, dlm-kernel/patches and gfs-kernel/patches.

2. build device mapper user space
cd device-mapper
./configure
make; make install

3. build lvm2/clvm
cd LVM2
./configure --with-clvmd --with-cluster=shared
make; make install
LVM2/scripts/clvmd_fix_conf.sh /usr/lib

Load kernel modules

depmod -a
modprobe dm-mod
modprobe gfs
modprobe lock_dlm

Modules that should be loaded: lock_dlm, dlm, cman, gfs, lock_harness and dm-mod if device-mapper was built as a module.

Startup procedure

Run these commands on each cluster node:

> ccsd - Starts the CCS daemon
> cman_tool join - Joins the cluster
> fence_tool join - Joins the fence domain (starts fenced)
> clvmd - Starts the CLVM daemon
> vgchange -aly - Activates LVM volumes (locally)
> mount -t gfs /dev/vg/lvol /mnt - Mounts a GFS file system

Shutdown procedure

Run these commands on each cluster node:

> umount /mnt - Unmounts a GFS file system
> vgchange -aln - Deactivates LVM volumes (locally)
> killall clvmd - Stops the CLVM daemon
> fence_tool leave - Leaves the fence domain (stops fenced)
> cman_tool leave - Leaves the cluster
> killall ccsd - Stops the CCS daemon

Yoxel Systems is a software product management and customer feedback management solution. Yoxel Systems is a connected system to track product requirements, manage product life cycles, provide online customer support, and accumulate support knowledge.

Yoxel Systems is more than yet another bug tracker, helpdesk or project organizer. It bridges request tracking and project management by providing a flow manager that walks your team from request prioritization and project planning through project implementation to project completion.

Unlike web based portals from SalesForce.Com or SugarCRM Yoxel Systems is tailored specifically for software development companies.

WHY YOXEL SW?

A role based, easy to use and very flexible request tracking system with customizable workflow, powerful filtering and advanced reporting capabilities.

Product management capabilities and agile methods of development on top of your existing Bugzilla/Mantis/GNATS/...

Automated process for product requirements management and product development planning/tracking.

Efficient collaboration between R&D, marketing and customer support teams to increase relevancy and value of your product releases.

Improved customer support that gives you fast and more accurate customer feedback on product requests and priorities.

WHY YOXEL IT?

The work of IT departments is not just about supporting users and resolving various network issues, it is also about implementing complex projects concerning. infrastructure and efficiency of your systems and business:

YOXEL IT is the solution for your IT department:

Ticket Tracking System is flexible and powerful, packed with features you expect from professional IT helpdesks.

Yoxel IT Project Management System extends TTS allowing your IT specialists to collaborate, plan and track complex IT projects.

The Plastic File System project is an LD_PRELOAD module for manipulating what the file system looks like for programs. This allows virtual file systems to exist in user space, without kernel hacks or modules.
PlasticFS includes the following file systems:
chroot
The chroot filter may be used to simulate the effects of the chroot(2) system call, in combination with other filters.
dos
The dos filter may be used to simulate an 8.3 DOS file system.
log
The log filter may be used to transparently log file system access, similar to the strace command.
shortname
The shortname filter may be used to simulate file systems with shorter filenames.
smartlink
The smartlink filter may be used to expand environment variables in symbolic links, using the usual $name notation.
upcase, downcase, titlecase and nocase
The upcase filter to make file names appear to be in upper-case when listed. File names are case- insensitive when being opened, etc. The downcase filetr is similar, except it converts to lower-case, titlecase capitalizes, and nocase is simply case insensitive without altering the filenames.
viewpath
The viewpath filter may be used to make a set of directory trees look like a single directory tree. (Also known as a union file system.) All modifications take place in the first directory in the list.
Aka: union and translucent
Note: Filters may be piped from one to the next, forming powerful combinations.
PlasticFS is currently dependent on the implementation of the GNU C Library. It is self configuring using a GNU Autoconf generated configure script.
Enhancements:
- Build problem fixed.

Fast Secure File System exports existing directories securely over the network, letting users store and retrieve encrypted data in a scalable and transparent way. FSFS is written in C and works on GNU/Linux systems on x86 and PPC architectures, with help from FUSE and OpenSSL.
File systems are easily the most evident, from the point of view of users, component of an operating system. Through file systems it is possible to organize data in a wide variety of ways, and access resources through a common interface.
Users can nowadays not only store and retrieve documents, but also find information on running processes and system settings (through ProcFS), access and manipulate e-mail (for example with GmailFS), or perform several other operations.
In several circumstances and scenarios it is desirable to protect stored files and directories from manipulation by unknown or malicious users: financial or health-related data, confidential documents, or any kind of personal or sensitive data may need to be stored securely, in such a way that it can not be examined or modified freely by third parties.
Most file systems do not take action in this sense, and external cryptographic utilities are sometimes employed to secure data before storage. While this can be a perfectly secure solution, it is not transparent to users.
Distributed file systems propose efficient ways of accessing data remotely as if it resided on the local machine; when it comes to dealing with securely stored data as in the examples above, care must be taken to preserve confidentiality and integrity also during network transfer.
Not all distributed file systems accomplish this task, weakening the overall security of the system, or do so inefficiently, making it inconvenient for users.
FSFS is a secure, distributed file system in users space, written in C with much help from FUSE and OpenSSL. It lets users store and retrieve data securely and transparently, knowing that it is protected both on permanent storage devices and while in transit over the network.
It is also concerned with scalability, therefore separates data cryptography from the server, leaving it to the clients; this approach is similar to the one used in CFS, and opposite to those taken on by other secure file system solutions (like NFS on top of IPsec).
FSFS is written as a pair of user space daemons that act as client and server. Because of this, it needs no kernel support (unlike NFS over IPsec), save the FUSE loadable kernel module on clients, included in Linux since 2.6.14; servers dont use FUSE and depend only on user space OpenSSL libraries.
Servers export an existing file system (of virtually any kind) to clients over the network through two separate channels: a TLS connection set up with OpenSSL, and a clear channel. Requests from the clients to the servers are sent via the TLS socket, thus they are encrypted and authenticated, according to TLS v1 specifications, by the channel itself and decrypted on receipt, as they are usually very short and the relevant cryptography does not constitute a great overhead; simple server replies undergo the same process.
Cryptography in this case happens at both ends of the transmission.
In a distributed file system, large amounts of data may be transferred between clients and servers, thus encrypting and decrypting everything may become too cumbersome for both parties, and as more clients are added to the system the server may severely lose performance; moreover, file data should be stored encrypted anyway, so the cryptography could be moved to the clients, in such a way that each encrypts data before a write operation sends it over the network to the server, and decrypts it after a read retrieves it.
This way servers only deal with TLS details and can concentrate on serving client requests by doing the relevant I/O on the underlying, "physical" file system. As the data is already encrypted, it does not need to go through the TLS channel and the corresponding overhead, but can be sent via the clear channel, provided the messages are authenticated.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes two bugs. One bug related to socket creation and would cause problems on some systems (namely OpenSUSE 10.2). The other bug related to server configuration creation when using the Python configuration utilities. Users dont need to upgrade to this release if theyre not experiencing problems or are not using the Python configuration utilities.

Open Conference Systems or OCS for short, is a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference.
Main features:
- create a conference Web site
- compose and send a call for papers
- electronically accept paper and abstract submissions
- allow paper submitters to edit their work
- post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format
- post, if you wish, the original data sets
- register participants
- integrate post-conference online discussions
Enhancements:
- manage conferences that occur more than once (e.g. yearly)
- an expanded, multiple-round review system
- e-mail template system
- localization & translation tools
- credit card payment for registrations
- automated "thanks-for-submitting" messages
- accept login/password for participants
- Creative Commons licensing of presentations
- more customizable, scalable and secure code
- ...and much more.

Alphagate Systems Kernel Patchset provides new technologies and features, standard enhancements, as well as trivial-but-necessary fixes, that have not yet made it into the mainline (vanilla) Kernel.
So on one side, you get the next-gen code, while retaining stability is of concern. We choose SUSE Kernels because it is another stage of quality assurance that things do work reasonably.
2.6-AS22 is based on 2.6.15, which is quite a jump from 2.6.13. Certain things are missing because they are not available yet, such as TPROXY support. Because of this, AS21 and AS22 were released at the same time.
Components:
- Netfilter: IMQ, ROUTE, SYSRQ, TARPIT, XOR, connlimit, layer7, nth, random, u32, rICMP
- ttyrpld 2.10 rpldev
- CDFS 2.6.12
- BalaBit TPROXY 2.0.2 for 2.6.13
- SquashFS 2.2, +xmagic, +scan4it extensions
- UnionFS 20051130
- QuadDSP 1.2 - 4-channel audio output tools
- MultiAdmin 1.0.3
- THKD for Toshiba harddisks
- cdemu 0.7
- NDISwrapper 1.7
- RaLink RT2X00 drivers
- snd-pcsp audio driver and pcspkr emergency sound upon Oops, Panic or BUG
- Partition display upon rootfs mismount
- Boot time improvement by nosynchro RTC
- Visual plus: AS CKO, PureVGA, BSDUnderline, Con Loglevel, pipesize stat
- various /proc hardeners
- various small fixes (incl. UTF-8 console compose and userspace greediness fix)
- mouse button swap
- Staircase 13.2 provided (but not activated by default)
Enhancements:
- Unionfs, tproxy, sonypi, sony_acpi, the staircase scheduler, full preemption, and some other minor parts were updated.