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 ...

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? —Ralph Wu A Linux Solution A backup copy of your MBR is stored in /boot when first installing LILO. You can restore it with: dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 ...

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 ...

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 standard. The I2C bus is a two-wire serial bus for connecting a wide range of ICs to a computer or micro-controller. It was originally developed by Phillips in ...

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 File System (NFS). This protocol, which originated with Sun in the mid 80s, does the job, but it has many deficiencies that can cause trouble for a systems administrator. Though ...

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 FIPS to decrease the size of the DOS partition and then used Linux FDISK to create Linux partitions. Windows 95 uses VFAT. Do you know of a utility or product ...