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Marjorie Richardson Issue #45, January 1998 Speakeasy was conceived around March of 1994. The main impetus was that while the Internet was fascinating to me, I found the necessity of access only at home to be both socially debilitating and much too slow. I interviewed Mike Apgar, owner of the Speakeasy Café in Seattle, by e-mail on July 15. I ...

Richard Parry Issue #45, January 1998 With Netatalk, you can drag and drop files from Linux to Mac and back, share system resources and more. Unix workstations, PCs running Windows 3.x/95/NT/Linux, FreeBSD, and other systems must be able to communicate seamlessly and share data whether they are in an engineering, business or home environment. More than one type of computer ...

Thomas Niederreiter Issue #45, January 1998 Mr. Niederreiter tells us all about his graphical user interface for writing data to a CD-ROM. X-CD-Roast is a fully X-based CD writer program. It is a front end for the command-line utilities cdwrite and mkisofs. X-CD-Roast therefore reduces the task of creating your own CDs to a few simple mouse clicks instead of ...

Various Issue #44, December 1997 Our experts answer your technical questions. Setting Up Linux to use Two Processors I just upgraded to a dual Pentium Pro machine. The BIOS sees the two processors but I can’t tell if Linux (Kernel 2.0.27) uses both processors. How do I make Linux use its SMP features? —Jon Bishop Red Hat 4.1 To take ...

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 ...

Michael J. Hammel Issue #44, December 1997 This second article in the series introduces us to the basic features of the GIMP, a Linux power tool for the graphics artist. Last month, in the first of this four-part series on the GIMP, we took a quick tour around the GIMP’s installation and system requirements. This month we’ll cover a few ...

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 ...

Various Issue #43, November 1997 Our experts answer your technical questions. Forgotten Password I cannot log on. My old password doesn’t work. I am the root on this system. How can I change the password or verify my old password? —Kevin Cary Red Hat 2.0.30 This is a much debated topic since it essentially involves breaking your system’s security. The ...

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 ...