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Martin Sjoelin Issue #43, November 1997 Promoting Linux in the workplace… During the summer of 1997, employees of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) put on a one-month expo to showcase Linux. This article describes how and why we did it. The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) is one of Switzerland’s three largest banks, with offices world-wide and 30,000 employees. ...

David Mosberger Issue #42, October 1997 This is the first of a 2 part series, an introduction to the Alpha family of computers in preparation for giving us the techniques for optimizing code on this high-performance platform in Part 2. Ever since its announcement in the Fall of 1991, the Alpha architecture (see Reference 3) has been the foundation of ...

Hans de Vreught Issue #42, October 1997 A tutorial for beginners is presented on writing PostScript files to display data. The Alparon research group at Delft University of Technology aims to improve automated speech processing systems for information retrieval and information storing dialogues. The current focus is on dialogue management for a research project of Openbaar Vervoer Reisinformatie. The company ...

Marjorie Richardson Issue #42, October 1997 An interview with the founder and president of XiGraphics.                     Thomas Roell is one of those multi-titled, multi-talented kind of guys. He is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Xi Graphics. Mr. Roell developed the original source code for X display servers on ...

John Little Issue #42, October 1997 A gentle introduction to Sun Workstations and installing Red Hat Linux SPARC 4.0. Many PC users have taken the plunge into the Unix world with Linux and, I imagine, quite a few Unix die-hards like me have taken their first, faltering steps with PC hardware, using Linux, too. I have to say that for ...

Jeff Tranter Issue #41, September 1997 Linux and ham radio share a common spirit of cooperation, experimentation and do-it-yourself attitude. These two interests come together in packet radio. In my teens I spent many enjoyable hours tinkering with radio equipment and communicating with other “hams” around the world through the medium of amateur radio. Moving away to attend a university ...

B. Scott Burkett Issue #41, September 1997 One company’s experience using Linux as the operating system of choice for their training classes. The proliferation of the Linux operating system has done much to stimulate the interests and activities of hobbyists around the globe. Many developers and users are taking advantage of this freely available, 32-bit wonder, as a viable home ...

James T. Dennis Issue #40, August 1997 Interview with Sameer Parekh of Stronghold. Jim Dennis, “The Answer Guy” columnist for Linux Gazette, recently interviewed Sameer Parekh for Linux Journal. Sameer Parekh is the founder of C2Net Software Inc., http://www.c2.net/, the company that imports the Stronghold web server. Mr. Parekh has been active on the Internet since 1990, especially in areas ...

Robb Shecter Issue #40, August 1997 How one university uses PGP and digital signatures to make its network secure. PGP and public-key cryptography are used all the time for encrypting e-mail and other kinds of messages. They can also be used in other interesting ways. This article describes two other uses for PGP and digital signatures that can help make ...

Thor Sigvaldason Issue #40, August 1997 We learn to write an application with XForms by simulating a game with 2 players and 2 actions. Last month we began this series on XForms by explaining how to install the forms library and include file. We also took a stab at programming with XForms by writing a couple of simple programs. In ...