Belinda Frasier Issue #39, July 1997 A report from Germany on the world’s largest computer fair. CeBIT is the world’s largest computer fair, bringing together vendors and attendees from many different countries. If you picture landscaped fairgrounds with 27 halls for vendors and even more auxiliary buildings with stores and restaurants and then add 650,000 people to the picture, all ...

Jon “maddog” Hall Issue #39, July 1997 Jon “maddog” Hall dreams up the ideal configuration for an Intel Linux system in this fantasy letter to Bob Palmer, President and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation. Dear Bob: I have finished configuring your Intel Linux system for you. I think you will be highly pleased with the resulting capabilities. First, I split ...

Frank Pilhofer Issue #39, July 1997 Using UUDeview can relieve you of the problems associated with sending and receiving binary e-mail. When did you last send or receive an e-mail? Right. The WWW is fun to surf, but the true killer application on the Internet is e-mail. Another similarly popular service is the Usenet, where you can directly address a ...

Thor Sigvaldason Issue #39, July 1997 The XForms home page calls XForms “a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for the X Window System. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, sliders, and menus, etc., integrated into an easy and efficient object/event callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of X applications.” With this first of ...

Malcolm Murphy Issue #39, July 1997 A quick look at a language designed to manipulate matrices and provide other numerical functions. For numerical computing, high level languages offer advantages over more traditional languages, such as FORTRAN or C. Built-in graphics capabilities, automatic variable typing and flexible data structures combine to provide an environment in which it is easy to develop ...

Various Issue #38, June 1997 Our experts answer your technical questions. Deleting User Accounts I want to delete a user account. But I can’t find any command to do so. Is there any utility to do so? —Harry Wong A Simple Process Many of the Linux distributions ship with a deluser or userdel command that reverses the action of the ...

John F. Bunch Issue #38, June 1997 Eliminate inconsistent behavior from your keyboard by following the instructions in this article. One of the convenient features of Linux is that the keyboard can be completely reconfigured to suit personal tastes. This feature can be a blessing or a curse when keys do not perform the same actions in all applications, but ...

Scott Steadman Issue #38, June 1997 Communicating from the office to home using a Linux server and the Internet. Background Recently I got the urge to tinker with managing my network at home in order to get some experience with Unix and heterogeneous network management. I have three Windows boxes (two with Windows 95 and one with Windows 3.1) hooked ...

Various Issue #37, May 1997 Our experts answer your technical questions. Netscape On MkLinux I have installed MkLinux on my Mac 6100. I log in and ftp Netscape. When I try to run the executable I get an error message saying I can’t run the binary. —Manny Duarte No MkLinux Binary As far as I know, Netscape does not support ...

Andrew Kuchling Issue #37, May 1997 Python has evolved since we last had an article on it. Andrew Kuchling brings us up to date in this article, and we invite readers to submit suggestions for Python topics Andrew might cover in future issues of Linux Journal. What’s been happening to Python since J. Bauer’s article in Linux Journal #35? Like ...