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Phil Hughes

Issue #37, May 1997

Every time you are running as root, you are taking a chance. With a little programming, you can decrease the need to be root and make your life a little […]

David Rusling

Jon Hall

Issue #37, May 1997

David Rusling and Jon “maddog” Hall talk about Digital Equipment Corporation and the porting of Linux to the 64-bit Alpha.

The Alp […]

Mike Mull

Issue #37, May 1997

In a sequel to his “Perl and Sockets” article in the March 1997 issue of Linux Journal, Mike Mull demonstrates how Perl can be used for the server end of a soc […]

Siome K. Goldenstein

Issue #37, May 1997

See how to use a mix of Tcl, Tk, and C to make image manipulation both easy and efficient.

To start an implementation in C from scratch for an […]

Various

Issue #36, April 1997

Our experts answer your technical questions.

Doubling Connection Speed

I have heard that it’s possible to set up Linux to combine two analog modems […]

Richard Sevenich

Issue #36, April 1997

Assembly language is a wonderful tool for teaching about how computers work. Professor Sevenich explains how it is used at WSU.

In the core […]

Andrew M. Bishop

Issue #36, April 1997

You may rely on your electronic Rolodex to organize your life, but Linux uses the /proc file system.

The /proc file system is a part of Linux […]

Andy Vaught

Issue #36, April 1997

This article is an introduction to animation using Persistence of Vision ray tracing to create a mailbox that doesn’t just sit there.

Silicon Graphics […]

Various

Issue #35, March 1997

Our experts answer your technical questions.

Removing a Boot Manager

How can I remove the boot manager from the master boot block of my hard disk? […]

Jim Hill

Issue #35, March 1997

Does setting up UUCP scare the hell out of you? No more! Read on.

Discovering the Internet in a college environment, I was always very casual about the […]

Dan Wilder

Issue #35, March 1997

NEdit is something new in a Linux programmer’s editor.

Here is something new. Not vi, not emacs, not just a wrapper for some hackneyed old Motif […]

Chad Robinson

Issue #35, March 1997

In this Part 1 of 2, see how to have a single machine answer connections to multiple IP addresses and respond differently for each. This installment covers WWW […]

Evan Leibovitch

Issue #35, March 1997

By the time you read this, the SCO in “SCO Xenix” will stand for “Software Considered Obsolete”. Is there an opportunity here?

As of January […]

Simon G

Issue #35, March 1997

Originally designed for controlling consumer electronics, the I2C bus is easily adapted to working with Linux to control a variety of devices using the I2C bus […]

Matthew Crosby

Issue #35, March 1997

Here’s a way to make system administration easier when dealing with NFS.

The standard protocol for sharing files between Linux boxes is the Network […]

Various

Issue #34, February 1997

Our experts answer your technical questions.

Decreasing Partition Size

I recently got a new PC with Windows 95 installed. With my old PC I used […]

Michael Meskes

Issue #34, February 1997

Here’s a program that will watch your computer for those nasty system hang ups and reboot it as needed in your absence.

Starting with version […]

Michael Hall

Issue #34, February 1997

A document layout language, lout can also be used to generate graphs in PostScript.

Most documentation tools can also make graphs. This article […]

Amit Margalit

Issue #34, February 1997

XBanner turns your boring, staid XDM login screen into one of those cool things you’ll want to show all your friends (nonchalantly, of […]

Dan Wilder

Issue #34, February 1997

One reader’s quest has come to a successful conclusion.

The vi editor and kin are used (if maybe not always loved) by many who value a […]