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Jonathan Gross Issue #27, July 1996 Linux provides a very inexpensive alternative to high-cost commercial servers and routers. Many small businesses are becoming interested in Internet connectivity, but they are unwilling (or unable) to fork over the cash for the necessary hardware. With routers costing close to $2000 and bandwidth as expensive as it is, there doesn’t seem to be ...

Peter Kelly Issue #27, July 1996 A Linux computer can be a great server, not only for other Linux computers, but also for computers running other operating systems. Peter gives an example of how to do this effectively. Linux users consistently experiment, finding uses for Linux far beyond what was even thought of five years ago, when Linux itself was ...

Ian Searle Issue #26, June 1996 Rlab stands for “our lab”. It is available to almost everyone who needs a computational tool for scientific and engineering applications, because it is freely available, and it runs on many platforms. I started working with high level languages when I realized I was spending far too much time writing Fortran and C language ...

Belinda Frazier Issue #26, June 1996 UniForum ’96, now billed as a Unix and Open Systems show, attracted about 20,000 attendees in San Francisco in February. UniForum ’96, now billed as a Unix and Open Systems show, attracted about 20,000 attendees in San Francisco in February. It included 90 tutorials, seminars, and keynotes from Lew Platt, of Hewlett-Packard, and Scott ...

Benjamin Ewy Issue #25, May 1996 If you have a valuable or fragile network to protect, you may want to protect it with a very strong, well-proven firewall. In this article, Benjamin Ewy explains very thoroughly how to build your own ‘bastion host’ firewall with Linux. As more and more companies try to develop a presence on the Internet, establishing ...

David Bonn Issue #24, April 1996 One use of such hacks is to break security. live data, n. 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one ...

Erik Troan Issue #24, April 1996 There is a treasure trove of software for Linux just waiting for you to download it from the Internet or copy it from a CD-ROM. However, you may need to keep an open mind to recognize a treasure when you see it. One of the most popular questions asked throughout the comp.os.linux Usenet hierarchy ...

John M. Fisk Issue #24, April 1996 If you have a dial-up connection to the Internet, one of your easiest options for getting and receiving e-mail is popmail. But to use popmail, you need a “popmail client”. XF-Mail is a convenient, easy-to-use, and reasonably powerful popmail client that is worth a closer look. I suspect that there are a lot ...

Ron Bardarson Issue #23, March 1996 If you need to run MS Windows applications under Linux and haven’t been satisfied with the current solutions, here’s the road less traveled… There are three methods of obtaining use of Microsoft (MS) Windows applications under Linux. They are: Wine, available from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/development/DOSEMU, available from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/DESQview/X (DV/X), available from QuarterDeck software Wine is rather ...

Robert Dalrymple Issue #23, March 1996 Robert admits he uses Windows on his PC along with Linux. Here’s how he survives his divided existence. I don’t know about you, but I will admit to using Windows on my PC along with Linux. It’s just that some Windows applications are still better than those available for the X windows system. (No ...