Linux Gazette

May 2004 (#102):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2-Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]Retrospectives, by Jim Dennis
     * [5]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [6]A Shell Named Westley, by Theresa L Ford
     * [7]Songs in the Key of Tux: More Songwrite, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [8]Debian dumps drivers, documentation, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [9]Benchmarking Filesystems, by Justin Piszcz
     * [10]Thinking about Caching, by Pramode C.E
     * [11]Qubism, by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
     * [12]Creating Animated Screenshots on Linux, by Daniel S Washko
     * [13]The Back Page, part 1, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
     * [14]The Back Page, part 2, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
     * [15]The Back Page, part 3, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
     * [16]The Back Page, part 4, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)

   or read [17]TWDT

The Mailbag
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   Submit comments about articles, or articles themselves (after reading
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     * [21]Firewalls for dummies, with fun examples
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Firewalls for dummies, with fun examples

   Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:15:10 -0700
   Heather Stern ([22]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   Some of The Answer Gang have seen complaints on open forums that there is
   documentation for iptables and netfilter, but it is all scary and hard to
   read. Looking at them myself, can't blame folks for thinking this.

   So, we'd like to see an article on this topic - aimed at practical examples,
   doing  some ordinary basic types of things - but with the orindary Joe
   Linuxer  in mind, not people who wanted to learn yet another scripting
   language (tm) just to know their dialup outbound won't get invaded by blue
   meanies seeking to "sploit" the systems on their inner network. (Other
   examples welcome too.)

   If you think you can make putting up the defense shields "Just A Little More
   Fun"  -  check  out  our  article submission guidelines, and then mail
   [23]articles@linuxgazette.net, we'd love to hear from you.
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                              GAZETTE MATTERS
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     * [24]Editor retirement
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Editor retirement

   Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:15:10 -0700
   Ben Okopnik, Thomas Adam, Heather Stern ([25]The Linux Gazette Editor Gang)
   Question by Mike Orr (mso from oz.net)

   This is my last issue editing Linux Gazette. Ben Okopnik has agreed to take
   over producing LG starting in May. 

     [Thomas] Great! Out with the young, in with the.....

   So you're all gonna DIE!!! DOOM IS AT HAND!!! 

     [Heather] Mike's taking some well earned time off to play computer games.

     [Ben] Weren't you supposed to wait until the tranquilizers kicked in? Boy,
     just look at all those capitals and exclamation points; a sure sign of
     somebody who wears his pants on his head, according to Terry Pratchett.

     (I don't care if it's an accurate reflection of reality; they still
     shouldn't let you out on the streets like this and scare the innocent
     passerby.)

   Fortunately,  Heather Stern and Thomas Adam have agreed to step in and
   "handle" Ben whenever he starts reaching for those dark sunglasses 

     [Heather] "Handle" hehehe. Ben keeps leaving his sunglasses in the TAG
     lounge whenever he's split one too many ginger beers with us in the
     lounge. We make sure to sneak them back into his shirt pocket when he's
     not looking.

   and that slingshot he bought from a pirate in the Caribbean last year when
   his helicopter.... Oh, that's another topic. 

     [Ben] He certainly was a pirate. I mean, jeez - $2.00 for for a single
     Slingshot when a whole bottle of Cruzan rum was going for $1.70??? Robbery
     pure and simple, I tell ya.