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 book, the device driver I wrote for Linux, and about articles I’ve written for Linux Journal. A few months ago I got one which said, in part: 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 many public debates in Australia at the moment is on the question of women in the computing industry. For many people, the computer industry and computers in general are seen ...

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 watching the Jetsons, I’ve envisioned living in the home of the future, with intelligent appliances and a central computer controlling the house, in sync with ...

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, many people are a bit afraid of using LaTeX. They’d rather use a standard word processor. On the other hand, even for those of us quite accustomed to LaTeX, some ...

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 Windows for WorkGroups to my PC running Red Hat 5.0? Should I use PLIP, SLIP or something else? —Thomas Svanelind PLIP is probably the cheapest and simplest networking setup around (although ...

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 people using it mainly for electronic mail (e-mail). This is still true even today as we see increasing numbers of multimedia-based applications on the Internet. People still use e-mail ...

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 products and services company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This article describes our experience developing an Internet banking system for a major financial institution in Western Canada. Since ...

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 on-line. Connecting your Linux box to a PPP server can be a frustrating task, especially if you are not familiar with the scripting requirements, authentication modes or network settings your ISP expects you ...

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 plaintext passwords to authenticate clients who access network resources. Samba also supports the use of LanManager- and NT-encrypted password authentication. Using encrypted passwords with Samba has its advantages and disadvantages. On the ...

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 moved from central Iowa to the little mountain resort town of Estes Park, Colorado. Estes Park is a beautiful town at the east entrance of Rocky Mountain National ...