R. Joe Brandon Trevor Kludt Markus Neteler Issue #63, July 1999 A description of an archaeology project making use of the freely available geographic information system GRASS. Since the days of Heinrich Schliemann’s search for Troy, archaeologists have been confronted with the dilemma of how to record the spatial characteristics of archaeological data, and once recorded, how to analyze those ...

Ed Petron Issue #63, July 1999 Exploring connectionism and machine learning with SNNS. Conventional algorithmic solution methods require the application of unambiguous definitions and procedures. This requirement makes them impractical or unsuitable for applications such as image or sound recognition where logical rules do not exist or are difficult to determine. These methods are also unsuitable when the input data ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #62, June 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Correction I was reading the BTS column in the April issue, and noticed that for the “Wrong Date” question from Bilal Iqbal, you edited my answer, changing the meaning. In fact, you reversed the arguments to the ln command. The link should be ln -sf ...

Norman M. Jacobowitz Issue #62, June 1999 Mr. Jacobowitz talks about standards with representatives of the various distributions by e-mail and at the LinuxWorld Expo. With all of the recent debate about standardization and the future of Linux standards, it’s natural to wonder where the major Linux distributions and other key industry players stand on the subject. So, to find ...

Daniel Quinlan Issue #62, June 1999 “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” –Professor Andrew S. Tanebaum (author of MINIX). Despite their well-earned reputation as a source of confusion, standards are one of the enabling factors behind the success of Linux. If it were not for the adoption of the right ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #61, May 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. TELNET Permissions How do you disable users from using TELNET to log in to a specific machine (i.e., server)? And is it possible to allow some users to TELNET to a specific machine and some not? —Ethan Bambock, ebambock@hotmail.com You can disable TELNET in the ...

Brian Masney Issue #61, May 1999 A description of POSIX thread basics for C programmers. The purpose of this article is to provide a good foundation of the basics of threaded programming using POSIX threads and is not meant to be a complete source for thread programming. It assumes the reader has a good strong foundation in C programming. A ...

Ian V. McLoughlin Issue #61, May 1999 Follow the development of speech algorithms for digital radios through the complete project life cycle. In this article, I describe a Linux success story based on researching and developing DSP (Digital Signal Processing) speech coding algorithms. I chose Linux over Windows for good reasons—reasons that may provide you with ammunition to persuade the ...

Ian Darwin Issue #61, May 1999 Mr. Darwin takes a look at Java and describes the steps for writing a user interface in Java. If you looked at the earliest versions of Java and concluded that its GUI development toolkit wasn’t quite ready for prime time, it’s time to look again. The Java Foundation Classes (JFC) introduced with Java Version ...

J. Mark Shacklette Jeff Illian Issue #61, May 1999 The authors provide some basics to get the new CORBA programmer started. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is one of those acronyms for which most people have some “feel”, others have some interest, but very few have any real experience. This is the first article in a series of three ...