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David Mosberger Issue #47, March 1998 SANE makes it easy to support a wide variety of devices and of applications with a minimum amount of programming effort. SANE stands for “Scanner Access Now Easy”. It is a universal interface that enables you to acquire images from any device that produces raster images, including flatbed scanners, video and still cameras and ...

Ivan Griffin John Nelson Issue #47, March 1998 In part 2 of our series we learn how to design and code network daemons to serve our clients well. Daemon processes are servers which run in the background servicing various clients. You should be aware of the following few issues when creating daemon processes. During development, it is always advisable to ...

Ivan Griffin PhD. John Nelson Issue #46, February 1998 This is the first of a series of articles about how to devlop networked applications using the various interfaces available on Linux. Like most other Unix-based operating systems, Linux supports TCP/IP as its native network transport. In this series, we will assume you are fairly familiar with C programming on Linux ...

Marjorie Richardson Issue #44, December 1997 I did an interview with Larry Augustin, founder and President of VA Research, by e-mail on August 19, 1997.     VA Research was founded in 1993 to develop affordable workstation, server and Internet products using the Linux operating system. I did an interview with Larry Augustin, their founder and President, by e-mail on ...

Sam Williams Issue #44, December 1997 This report on the HP conference freatures the announcement by Hewlett Packard of a port of MkLinux to its HP PA-RISC machines. It may seem odd to be reading about an HP conference in Linux Journal. The fact of the matter is that interest in Linux is growing world wide. Many hardware vendors are ...

Joe Kaplenk Issue #44, December 1997 A teacher at the College of DuPage in Illinois, has found that teaching system administration to beginners is both easy and cost-effective using Yggdrasil Linux.               College of DuPage There are several handicaps inherent in teaching a class in Unix administration in an academic environment. In order to ...

David Mosberger Issue #43, November 1997 Part 2 brings us optimization techniques for speeding up code to get the best performance from your Alpha or other RISC processor. In this article, I will discuss techniques to optimize code for platforms running Linux on Alpha processors. It is based on four years of experience with the Alpha architecture. The primary lesson ...

David Sugar Issue #43, November 1997 Using Linux as a base to implement advanced telphony applications. In “Let Linux Speak” (LJ, January, 1997), I demonstrated some fun applications for the SPO256 text-to-speech board. Buried in that article was a brief discussion on the potential for using text-to-speech as a telephony resource and for using Linux as a telephony services platform. ...

Martin Sjoelin Issue #43, November 1997 Promoting Linux in the workplace… During the summer of 1997, employees of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) put on a one-month expo to showcase Linux. This article describes how and why we did it. The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) is one of Switzerland’s three largest banks, with offices world-wide and 30,000 employees. ...

Marjorie Richardson Issue #42, October 1997 An interview with the founder and president of XiGraphics.                     Thomas Roell is one of those multi-titled, multi-talented kind of guys. He is the Co-Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Xi Graphics. Mr. Roell developed the original source code for X display servers on ...