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Brian Harvey

Issue #58, February 1999

Mr. Harvey tells us about the VNC software package and how to set it up to control MS Windows servers from Linux.

In today’s c […]

Best of Technical Support

Various

Issue #57, January 1999

Our experts answer your technical questions.

umask Trouble

I’m trying to use umask to set permissions in a […]

Dean Staff

Issue #57, January 1999

Canada has a “Linux Day”–a novel method for getting the word out.

Saturday, September 26, 1998 was a big day for the Linux community in Can […]

Bob Zimbinski

Issue #57, January 1999

How to get this most popular game to run on your Linux system.

Quake is one of the coolest games available for any platform. Thanks to Dave […]

Tuomas Lukka

Issue #57, January 1999

Mr. Lukka takes a look at VRML basics including scripting, animation and applications.

VRML is intended to be for virtual reality what HTML is for […]

Randy Appleton

Issue #57, January 1999

A look at the Linux kernel scheduler.

One of the most important tasks of an operating system kernel is to manage processes and threads. A process […]

Randolph Bentson

Issue #57, January 1999

Dr. Bentson did a survey of Linux kernel developers to find out about their backgrounds. Here are the results.

I get mail from folks about my […]

Thomas Connelly

Issue #57, January 1999

If you think all computer professionals are men think again. Mr. Connelly tells us about some well-known women in computer annals.

One of the […]

Stewart Benedict

Issue #57, January 1999

Mr. Benedict show us the way to live in the home of the future by using our computer to control lights and appliances.

Ever since I was a kid […]

Ulrich Quill

Issue #57, January 1999

Make working with LaTex easier by using the WYSIWYG editor LyX.

Although (or perhaps because) it is one of the most flexible typesetting tools, […]

Best of Technical Support

Various

Issue #56, December 1998

Our experts answer your technical questions.

PLIP or SLIP?

Is there an easy way to connect my laptop running MS […]

John Wong

Issue #56, December 1998

The smtpd package is a useful mail daemon for stopping spam, thereby saving money and resources.

The Internet has been around since the 1970s with […]

Idan Shoham

Issue #56, December 1998

Mr. Shoham tells us how his company set up an Internet banking system using Linux for a bank in Western Canada.

M-Tech is a computer security […]

Chris LeDantec

Issue #56, December 1998

Even for the experienced administrator, X-ISP provides an easy way to manage multiple accounts, keep track of usage expense and time […]

John Blair

Issue #56, December 1998

How SMB-encrypted passwords actually work, and a walk-through of the steps required to enable encrypted passwords in Samba.

By default, Samba uses […]

Chris Howard

Issue #56, December 1998

Mr. Howard tells us how he gathers and outputs weather information to the Web using Linux, Perl and automated FTP.

Last fall, my family and I […]

Best of Technical Support

Various

Issue #55, November 1998

Our experts answer your technical questions.

Execution Trouble

I use Red Hat 5.0. When I try to execute files in a […]

Bill Schongar

Issue #55, November 1998

Tcl/Tk offers many uses to the web programmer. Mr. Schongar describes a few of them.

While many people think of Tcl/Tk (Tool Command Language, […]

Cees de Groot

Issue #55, November 1998

A brief overview of the latest SGMLtools is presented by one of its developers.

In the October 1995 issue of LJ, Christian Schwarz presented a […]

Andrew Kuchling

Issue #55, November 1998

XML has been attracting a lot of attention recently. This article provides a five-minute overview of XML and explains why it matters to […]