Linux Gazette

   ...making Linux just a little more fun!

October 2004 (#107):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2 Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]News Bytes, by Michael Conry
     * [5]Knoppix with 2.6.7 kernel from non-bootable CD-ROM, by Anonymous
     * [6]closedShop - The Open Source Shopping Cart, by Chris Fleizach
     * [7]Secure Communication with Stunnel, by Barry O'Donovan
     * [8]Understanding Threading in Python, by Krishna G Pai
     * [9]AMD64 Linux kernel and the NX bit, by Pramode C.E.
     * [10]Document Processing with groff and mom, by Peter Schaffter
     * [11]Speed Compiling with Distcc, by V. L. Simpson
     * [12]How to Reset forgotten Root passwords, by Suramya Tomar
     * [13]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [14]The Wonderful World of Spam
     * [15]The Linux Laundrette
     * [16]The Backpage, by Ben Okopnik

The Mailbag
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     * [20]Why let Gentoo fans get all the fun?
     * [21]Penguinus Advocat
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Why let Gentoo fans get all the fun?

   Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:46:07 -0600
   Heather Stern ([22]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   This last issue we had an article about diving into Gentoo, and the response
   was great. What I'd like to see is some of you send us in some more great
   [23]2c Tips! about things that are specific to your favorite distribution,
   with a neat little description that describes why they're so handy.

   People can spend hours surfing the man pages or reading the "get started
   guide" in their boxed product - but we all know that a lot of linuxers get
   started with a disc from friends and some simple enthusiasm. So... let's
   Make Linux A Little More Fun for them :)
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Penguinus Advocat

   Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:03:07 -0600
   Heather Stern ([24]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   I'd love to see an article describing how a company really got interested in
   open source, a bit of the thought processes and internal changes that went
   with looking at it, considering if it worked for them. I believe such an
   article would be equally useful if it described why one didn't, or did, take
   it on in various departments, and how much of it the company was able to let
   in.

   Obviously, how completely it worked out after implementation would be great
   to hear about. We see occasional tidbits of this sort of thing offered as
   "case studies" and so on, but rather few of them have more than a sound byte
   here and there from anyone who really lived through the changes, drove the
   meetings, pondered the legal entanglements and so on.

   Contact [25]articles@linuxgazette.net if you've got something for us. Get
   whatever internal approvals you need, and if you decide to make $company
   anonymous, don't forget to sanitize tidbits like any IP addresses or partner
   companies you mention, too.
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     * [26]ACPI insight
     * [27]Gentoo
     * [28]Installing Gentoo - 106 - notes :)
     * [29]Gentoo Installation
     * [30][ERRATUM] How to make a stereogram
     * [31]Tripwire
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ACPI insight

   Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:56:18 -0500 (COT)
   John Karns ([32]The LG Answer Gang)

   I just stumbled across something interesting (to me, anyway), while reading
   Groklaw. I had mentioned in a msg to TAG a while back that I was getting an
   boot time error msg on this Inspiron:

     "Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local
     APIC."