Wayne Marshall Issue #86, June 2001 Maybe the rush to market for spreading internet access across the globe isn’t in anyone’s best interest—a report from the front. Eleven years ago I installed a computer system at a vocational training and development center in Tutume, Botswana. Tutume is a rural village on the northeastern edge of the Kgalagadi desert in southern ...

Richard Vernon Issue #86, June 2001 What has surprised me somewhat more is something I’ve discovered since beginning to work for Linux Journal—the impact Linux has had in other corners of the globe, in fact in every corner of the globe. Having recently returned from CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, where Jon “maddog” Hall of Linux International took excellent advantage of ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #85, May 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. PHP Can’t Connect to MySQL I installed MySQL3 and PHP4 with an RPM package. Apache is running well and the MySQL server is running well from the shell. PHP4 also runs with the infophp() function call. But I can’t connect to the MySQL server. What’s ...

Tobin Maginnis Issue #85, May 2001 Tobin Maginnis, Sair president, provides some arguments in favor of Linux certification. William Shakespeare penned the famous line in Hamlet, “To be or not to be. That is the question.” If you are a Linux disciple, chances are you ask that same question today with an open-source twist: “To be or not to be ...

Richard Morgan Issue #85, May 2001 A review of the LPIC process. As the Linux community has grown from the world of the hobbyist to include professional administrators, the infrastructure of the community and marketplace has evolved to support this rapid growth. We now have numerous Linux periodicals, reference books, web sites and significant corporate involvement. In recent months, the ...

Ana Maria Harkins Issue #85, May 2001 The nonprofit Geekcorps teaches businesses in emerging countries to use technology while providing service volunteers opportunities to share their skills in unfamiliar circumstances. As we approach Geekcorps’ one year anniversary of incorporation, it seems impossible that two waves of Geekcorps volunteers have already been sent to Ghana. Conceived as a Peace Corps for ...

Richard Vernon Issue #85, May 2001 This month’s feature articles show that even with the additions that accompany hitting the big time, the Linux community has maintained a balance between the scramble for cash and keeping the philanthropic element as far from moribundity as possible. The market for certification programs for Linux professionals, such as the Linux Professional Institute, Sair ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #84, April 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. Programming with Shared Memory Segments I have some processes that create shm segments and others that link to those segments. The problem is that some processes create shm segments with a key, but the addresses of the attachment are the same as that of previous ...

Ibrahim Haddad Makan Pourzandi Issue #84, April 2001 Ibrahim and Makan describe and test the Linux Virtual Server. ARIES (Advanced Research on Internet E-Servers) is a project that started at Ericsson Research Canada in January 2000. It aimed at finding and prototyping the necessary technology to prove the feasibility of a clustered internet server that demonstrates telecom-grade characteristics using Linux ...

Don Marti Issue #84, April 2001 Running an efficient FTP server requires simplicity, security and high performance—take a look at this daemon. FTP dæmons may not get much attention, but what attention they do get is in the form of security advisory after security advisory. There’s not much hack value for most people in supporting something as old-school as FTP, ...