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Lawrence Teo Issue #72, April 2000 Setting up a Linux gateway can be a rewarding experience in both home and commercial environments. Networks are extremely common these days—you see them in businesses, schools, even homes. Networking is popular because it allows users to share resources. You can share files, printers and a myriad of other devices in a network. Now, ...

Nalneesh Gaur Issue #72, April 2000 An outline of key test areas to identify security issues in a web application and provide measures to minimize them. Web sites are moving away from static HTML to dynamic interactive web applications. It is the dynamic, interactive web application that is making the Internet the universal medium. Web applications bring a new level ...

Preston F. Crow Issue #72, April 2000 Everything you need to know to make those Internet and intranet connections at home. I have a fairly complicated home network that uses many of the different features of Linux. While my network setup is probably more complicated than what you’ll ever need in your home, you may find that you want to ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #71, March 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Failure to Connect My PPP connection is failing while using a modem to dial up to my ISP. My log indicates (after chat): pppd:Serial Connection established pppd:Using interface ppp0 pppd: Connect: ppp0 /dev/ttyS2 pppd: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests pppd: Modem Hangup pppd: Connection terminated pppd: ...

Marty Ferguson Issue #71, March 2000 Training is a sound investment networked to future growth. I was recently talking with a close friend who works as a systems software developer for a small startup technology company. The architects are planning a transition to Linux servers as their platform, but the company does not want to provide Linux training for their ...

Brian Holt Issue #71, March 2000 A look at how training courses will be taught in the future. One hundred million. That’s the number of Americans expected to be involved in adult or continuing education by the year 2004. Many of those individuals will be technology users who need to be trained on evolving software packages and hardware systems. A ...

Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando Issue #71, March 2000 The president of Future Technologies describes his FTLinux Course training program for Linux. Some time ago, I heard that success in mathematics means being able to formulate a good question and answer it. When I decided to write a book for Linux, the question I proposed was, “What is the best way ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #70, February 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Configuring PPP When I installed PPP for Internet connection, I changed some properties by using the linuxconf command in Linux configuration. Now whenever I start Linux, it gives me an error like: starting system loggers:ypbind[187]:clnt_create for server 127.0.0.1 fasiled starting NFS Services:rpc.mountd rpc.nfsd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain ...

Jason Kroll Issue #70, February 2000 Office suites are the mainstay application for any OS; Linux has two competing for your business. We humans love glowing boxes. Monitors, TV sets, suns, moons, lanterns, candles—it all goes back thousands of years, when we sat around in tribes staring into the fire. Computers? As long as we’re comfortable while staring into the ...

Michael J. Hammel Issue #70, February 2000 The first in a series by our favorite artist to take a look at the most commonly used window managers. A few years ago, I did a four-part series on the GIMP for Linux Journal. Those articles served as the basis for my book, The Artists’ Guide to the GIMP, which was published ...