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Adam Williams Issue #81, January 2001 Broadcast 2000 aims to bring together the art of making movies and the power of the Linux platform. Years ago there were these HPUX, IRIX and AIX boxes in the back of college computer labs that did nothing but basic computer infrastructure tasks: file serving, database management, number crunching and maybe a bit of ...

Dr.. Ullrich Hafner Issue #81, January 2001 FIASCO provides state-of-the-art image and video compression. A picture is worth a thousand words—a frequently used sentence to introduce the need for digital image processing. And indeed, a wide variety of aspects in our life is influenced by digital images in the meantime. For instance, in the World Wide Web not only still ...

David Phillips Issue #81, January 2001 The following article is based on a chapter in the author’s Linux Music and Sound, published by No Starch Press in October 2000. SoundTracker is the most feature-packed of all the trackers I’ve used with Linux. Its interface presents all the program’s tools on a single screen, making it easy to understand and a ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #80, December 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Trouble with Netscape I am having trouble getting Netscape to run on Linux. I have Windows NT in the first 4G and installed Linux in the remaining 4G partition. Linux detects the Ethernet card when first installed, but when I log off to use NT ...

Michael O’Brien Issue #80, December 2000 A step-by-step procedure for establishing a backup system that will save time and money. Frequently people take computers for granted. This behavior becomes very dangerous when people rely on a computer to store and manipulate important data but fail to back up those data. If you are reading this, then you are probably aware ...

Ibrahim F. Haddad Issue #80, December 2000 An introduction to the Parallel Virtual File System and a look at how one company installed and tested it. Using networked file systems is a common method for sharing disk space on UNIX-like systems, including Linux. Sun was the first to embrace this technology by introducing the Network File System (NFS), which provides ...

Riccardo Facchetti Issue #80, December 2000 Riccardo delves into the details of apcupsd, a program for monitoring and controlling APC UPSes. Computers, like any other kind of electronic device, are very sensitive to utility power quality. According to American Power Conversion definitions (see Table 1) power anomalies can be classified as sags (better known as brownouts), blackouts, spikes, surges and ...

Tim Burke Issue #80, December 2000 With a variety of clustering services on the market, the ability to determine how well options meet your specific business needs is necessary. In today’s competitive environment, the adage “time is money” takes on literal meaning. Keeping your business’ data on-line and accessible is the foundation of overall system uptime. Whether it be database ...

Lawrence Teo Issue #80, December 2000 Network probes are important clues in detecting intrusions. In this article, Lawrence Teo explains two common network probes and what can be done to detect them. Almost any system administrator of a large network will tell you that their network has been probed before. As cracking tools become more popular and increase in number, ...

Don Marti Issue #80, December 2000 In this issue we have a bunch of articles on system administration. In this issue we have a bunch of articles on system administration, so if you’re thinking of breaking into this exciting career, where the stress is high but the hours are long, now is a perfect time to pull up a spare ...