Linux Gazette

   ...making Linux just a little more fun!

April 2005 (#113):

     * [1]The Front Page, by Heather Stern
     * [2]The Mailbag
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]News Bytes, by Michael Conry
     * [5]HelpDex, by Shane Collinge
     * [6]Free as in Freedom: Part Four: Epilog - 2000 VAIOS and a Grain of
       Zen, by Adam Engel
     * [7]Roll your Desktop into a USB stick/CD, by Kapil Hari Paranjape
     * [8]Voice recognition shorthand and the birth of Weblish, by Janine M.
       Lodato
     * [9]Introduction to Shell Scripting - Part 3, by Ben Okopnik
     * [10]-- --- .-. ... ., by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [11]PyCon DC 2005, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
     * [12]Design Awareness, by Mark Seymour
     * [13]First Impressions of Crossover Office, by Neil Youngman
     * [14]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [15]Qubism, by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem

The Front Page

   By [16]Heather Stern

              Tux and his faithful steed SuSE in the Old West
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   [BIO] Tux has been Linux's mascot since shortly after the release of the 2.0
   kernel. He's been known to be quite the fellow for the ladypenguins, and
   [17]A Brief History Of Tux - So Far will surely tell you more than you
   needed to know about this dashing fellow. All too often, it's a working
   vacation for him, but he's considering a [18]hiking trip or a [19]cruise
   sometime this Summer. 

   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 [20]The Programmer's
   Daughter.

   Copyright © 2005, [21]Heather Stern. Released under the [22]Open Publication
   license unless otherwise noted in the body of the article. Linux Gazette is
   not produced, sponsored, or endorsed by its prior host, SSC, Inc.

   Published in Issue 113 of Linux Gazette, April 2005

The Mailbag
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                        HELP WANTED : Article Ideas
   Submit comments about articles, or articles themselves (after reading
   [23]our guidelines) to [24]The Editors of Linux Gazette, and technical
           answers and tips about Linux to [25]The Answer Gang. 
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     * [26]What Fools We Linuxers Be
     * [27]Articles about voice
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What Fools We Linuxers Be

   Fri, 1 Apr 2005 02:32:50 -0800
   Heather Stern ([28]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   We're thinking of a very special edition of "Foolish Things We Do With Our
   Computers". If you did something foolish, or had something foolish inflicted
   upon you by your otherwise favored silicon lifeform, and you're willing to
   have just a little more fun with it in public, send it along to us.

   This does not have to be in article format. You can just send it to The
   Answer Gang (tag, at our happy domain linuxgazette.net) with the subject
   "Foolish Things With Computers" and we'll gather them all up and roast
   marshmallows over them. Let us know if you want your name left in - we'll
   take these anonymously too. But don't just make them up; we want real tales
   that make us groan and go agh I won't do that again! :)