Linux Gazette

   ...making Linux just a little more fun!

February 2005 (#111):

     * [1]The Front Page, by Heather Stern
     * [2]The Answer Gang
     * [3]News Bytes, by Michael Conry
     * [4]Are Your Servers Secure???, by Blessen Cherian
     * [5]HelpDex, by Shane Collinge
     * [6]Free as in Freedom: Part Two: Linux for the "Rest of Us", by Adam
       Engel
     * [7]Compiling the Linux Kernel, by R. Krishnakumar
     * [8]Introduction to Shell Scripting - The Basics, by Ben Okopnik
     * [9]Songs in the Key of Tux: Recording with Audacity, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [10]Experimental Physics with Phoenix and Python, by Pramode C.E.
     * [11]Writing Your Own Shell, by Hiran Ramankutty
     * [12]Design Awareness, by Mark Seymour
     * [13]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [14]Qubism, by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
     * [15]The Backpage, by Ben Okopnik

The Front Page

   By [16]Heather Stern

                           Xteddy with newspaper
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   [BIO] bear has been The Editor Gal's teddy bear for some time now. He has
   only gotten into Linux recently, as he has been looking up to [17]xteddy
   and how much he enjoyed the desktop, bear enjoys Fvwm button bars best
   (though  large  dock  icons  are  nice  too)  and  has a snug $HOME in
   /usr/share/xteddy. 

   Heather is Linux Gazette's Technical Editor and The Answer Gang's Editor
   Gal.
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   [BIO] Heather got started in computing before she quite got started learning
   English. By 8 she was a happy programmer, by 15 the system administrator for
   the home... Dad had finally broken down and gotten one of those personal
   computers, only to find it needed regular care and feeding like any other
   pet.  Except  it wasn't a Pet: it was one of those brands we find most
   everywhere today... 

   Heather  is a hardware agnostic, but has spent more hours as a tech in
   Windows  related  tech  support than most people have spent with their
   computers. (Got the pin, got the Jacket, got about a zillion T-shirts.) When
   she discovered Linux in 1993, it wasn't long before the home systems ran
   Linux regardless of what was in use at work.

   By 1995 she was training others in using Linux - and in charge of all the
   "strange systems" at a (then) 90 million dollar company. Moving onwards,
   it's safe to say, Linux has been an excellent companion and breadwinner...
   She took over the HTML editing for "The Answer Guy" in issue 28, and has
   been slowly improving the preprocessing scripts she uses ever since.

   Here's an autobiographical filksong she wrote called [18]The Programmer's
   Daughter.

   Copyright © 2005, [19]Heather Stern. Released under the [20]Open Publication
   license. Linux Gazette is not produced, sponsored, or endorsed by its prior
   host, SSC, Inc.

   Published in Issue 111 of Linux Gazette, February 2005

The Answer Gang

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                          (?) The Answer Gang (!)
By Jim Dennis, Karl-Heinz Herrmann, Breen, Chris, and... ([22]meet the Gang)
                ... the Editors of Linux Gazette... and [23]You! 

    We have guidelines for [24]asking and [25]answering questions. Linux
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  Contents:

   [28]¶: Greetings From Heather Stern

   [29](?) Update vs Install, how best to manage /home?
   [30](?) after installing new kernel running lilo crushes system
   [31](?) finding then catting
   [32](?) tar and find
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(¶) Greetings from Heather Stern

   Greetings, folks, and welcome once more to the world of The Answer Gang.

   By the way, if you've any particularly marvelous answers (might we say,
   rants of the enlightening and useful variety) - feel free to mail them to us