Marty Ferguson Issue #71, March 2000 Training is a sound investment networked to future growth. I was recently talking with a close friend who works as a systems software developer for a small startup technology company. The architects are planning a transition to Linux servers as their platform, but the company does not want to provide Linux training for their ...

Brian Holt Issue #71, March 2000 A look at how training courses will be taught in the future. One hundred million. That’s the number of Americans expected to be involved in adult or continuing education by the year 2004. Many of those individuals will be technology users who need to be trained on evolving software packages and hardware systems. A ...

Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando Issue #71, March 2000 The president of Future Technologies describes his FTLinux Course training program for Linux. Some time ago, I heard that success in mathematics means being able to formulate a good question and answer it. When I decided to write a book for Linux, the question I proposed was, “What is the best way ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #70, February 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Configuring PPP When I installed PPP for Internet connection, I changed some properties by using the linuxconf command in Linux configuration. Now whenever I start Linux, it gives me an error like: starting system loggers:ypbind[187]:clnt_create for server 127.0.0.1 fasiled starting NFS Services:rpc.mountd rpc.nfsd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain ...

Jason Kroll Issue #70, February 2000 Office suites are the mainstay application for any OS; Linux has two competing for your business. We humans love glowing boxes. Monitors, TV sets, suns, moons, lanterns, candles—it all goes back thousands of years, when we sat around in tribes staring into the fire. Computers? As long as we’re comfortable while staring into the ...

Michael J. Hammel Issue #70, February 2000 The first in a series by our favorite artist to take a look at the most commonly used window managers. A few years ago, I did a four-part series on the GIMP for Linux Journal. Those articles served as the basis for my book, The Artists’ Guide to the GIMP, which was published ...

George Lebl Elliot Lee Miguel de Icaza Issue #70, February 2000 The GNOME team bring us up-to-date on the progress of this popular desktop environment. The GNOME Project is aimed at making UNIX attractive and easy to use. To help achieve the goals of the GNU project, we want to make sure that users are presented with a full suite ...

Kalle Dalheimer Issue #70, February 2000 Ready to jazz up your KDE desktop—get KDE 2.0. The KDE team is working full steam on the next release of the K Desktop Environment which is planned for spring 2000, so it is time to look at what the new version will have in store. When you first install one of the beta ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #69, January 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. X Marks the Spot My system worked fine for a few months, but now I’m facing some problems with it. When using X, the system suddenly freezes. Neither the keyboard nor the mouse responds. I can’t telnet to my computer—nothing works. Log files tell nothing—just ...

Eddie Harari Issue #69, January 2000 Wondering about the latest version of BIND? Wonder no more. Mr. Harari is back this month to tell us all about it. Many new features have been compiled into the new version of BIND (Berkeley Internet name daemon), including security bug fixes and several major changes that give the network administrator the needed tools ...