All Articles

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 Alpha port of Linux actually started on two fronts, one in the Littleton, Massachusetts offices of Digital Equipment Corporation, and one on a riverboat in New Orleans, Louisiana. The first front ...

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 socket connection. In my previous article in Issue #35 of Linux Journal, I wrote about the socket library functions in Perl with an ...

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 image processing (or manipulation) program is a difficult task. It is necessary not only to develop an internal data structure, but also to write ...

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 program for our computer science curricula we offer two assembly language courses as elements in that part of our sequence providing hardware emphasis. Although the students do learn to program ...

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 that most people have not investigated deeply—perhaps may have never heard of. Like the kernel itself, it is a vital part of a Linux system. Yet ...

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 workstations come with a mail notification program called “mailbox”, that informs the window system user if any mail awaits. Instead of displaying a simple bitmap like the xbiff program, mailbox ...

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 time I spent on-line. Since I didn’t get a direct bill from the university, there was no reason to keep track of it. All that changed ...

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 widget. With a sparse but sufficient keyboard command set and full regular expression substitutions, NEdit has the best mouse integration I’ve seen yet in a Linux editor, free ...

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 services. As Internet sites grow in number, some clients want to create a presence without dedicating a machine to the task. In many cases, a client ...

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 1, 1996 the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) streamlined its product offerings by dropping a number of older releases from its lineup. Until last December 31, you could still buy ...