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Kenneth E. Harker Issue #33, January 1997 Looking for something fun to do with your Linux box? One of the most impressive applications available for Linux is SatTrack 3.1 for Unix. Looking for something fun to do with your Linux box? One of the most impressive applications I’ve seen available for Linux is SatTrack 3.1 for Unix by Manfred Bester. ...

David A. Bandel Issue #33, January 1997 The ins and outs of disk maintenance—what we all should know and DO. Here’s a hypothetical situation for you to think about. You’re working on your Linux box, calling up an application or data file, and Linux hesitates while reading the hard disk. Then, scrolling up the screen (or console box), you see ...

David Flater Issue #32, December 1996 This article introduces a program that produces output in text mode, graphics and Java. Besides all that, XTide is both useful and fun. XTide is free software for predicting tides. If you live on the water, then you’re already convinced that it’s the coolest program ever written. But if you’re stuck inland, like 99% ...

PhD. Bruce E. Wampler, Issue #32, December 1996 Dr. Wampler introdces us to V, an excellent GUI framework for writing applications that work with Linux and X Windows. I love Linux as a development platform—it has all the Unix tools I’ve been using for years. Linux has been a superior development platform in every way except for development of graphical ...

Rich Myers Issue #32, December 1996 Ready to get your news the high-tech way—with a satellite dish? Here’s the scoop. This article is a discussion of several aspects of my company’s news system, namely the principles of operation and the hardware and software utilized, in order to guide the novice news seeker through a successful implementation of Pagesat’s High Speed ...

Bill Binko Issue #31, November 1996 First in a series of articles detailing the creation of a Java interface to Postgres95. Java’s native methods are functions written in C (or another compiled language) and dynamically loaded by the Java interpreter at run time. They provide the means to access libraries that have not been ported to Java, and also allow ...

Andreas Beck Steffen Seeger Issue #31, November 1996 The Linux-CGI Project goals are explained—what it intends to accomplish and how it will do it. Introduction In this article, we will explain the intentions and goals of the Linux-GGI Project along with the basic concepts used by the GGI programmers to allow fast, easy to use access to graphical services, hide ...

Amy Wood Issue #31, November 1996 A Techmical Director of Toy Story gives us the scoop from Pixar Studios. Amy Wood, the graphics/layout artist for Linux Journal interviewed Larry Gritz of Pixar Animation Studios on August 16. AmyI understand that you were a Technical Director for the latest great animation feature film, Toy Story. Can you tell us what you ...

Arman Danesh Issue #31, November 1996 Are you an absolute beginner? Here’s a brief introduction to using the JDK. Java has taken the Internet and programming communities by storm during the past year with its promise to enable the creation of software that can run on any platform from a single binary file and be used securely in a distributed ...

Various Issue #29, September 1996 Our experts answer your technical questions. Several readers have requested a forum where short, specific questions—especially those regarding installation and setting up a Linux system—could be answered. Others have expressed a desire for better, more specific, information on how to use each of the various Linux distributions. In an effort to fill these needs we ...