Focus

Science & Engineering  by Marjorie Richardson

Features

Gri: A Language for Scientific Illustration  by Dan E. Kelley and Peter S. Galbraith

This scripting language avoids integrating analysis and display capabilities and instead focuses on providing precise and flexible control over the display of technical material.

Tracking Satellites with PREDICT  by John A. Magliacane

A look at the development and use of an open-source satellite-tracking and orbital-prediction program.

Detecting Chaos in the Field  by Juergen Kahrs

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real. —G.W.F. Hegel, 1770-1831

THOR: A Versatile Commodity Component of Supercomputer Development  by Robert A. Davis

CERN continues to use Linux as their OS of choice for modeling and simulation studies.

A GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone  by Steve Mann

This fully fuctioning prototype, designed and built by Steve Mann in 1998, was demonstrated in 1999, and later used to deliver a videoconference at ISSCC 2000.

Forum

Three-Tier Architecture  by Ariel Ortiz Ramirez

Professor Ortiz presents a little of the theory behind the three-tier architecture and shows how it may be applied using Linux, Java and MiniSQL.

cgimodel: CGI Programming Made Easy with Python  by Chenna Ramu and Christina Gemuend

Always look on the bright side of life and at a method for debugging CGI programs on the command line.

Mapping Lightning with Linux  by Timothy Hamlin

NM Tech studies lightning to determine basic charge structures and learn more about storm morphology.

Using Linux in Embedded and Real-Time Systems  by Rick Lehrbaum

When you need an embedded operating system, Linux is a good place to start. Here's why.

Troll Tech Announces Embedded GUI Toolkit  by Craig Knudsen

Troll Tech enters the embedded systems market—here's what's happening.

The Montréal 2000 Linux Expo  by Marcel Gagné

LJ's French chef visits Montréal April 10-12 for more than the food.

Reviews

Medusa DS9 Security System  by Robert Dobozy

Cygwin: For Windows NT  by Daniel Lazenby

Understudy  by Daniel Allen

Columns

Take Command   The System Logging Dæmons, syslogd and klog  by Michael A. Schwarz

Take command of your log files by learning to handle those pesky logging dæmons.

Linux Means Business   Using Linux at Left Field Productions  by David Ashley

One programmer's experiece developing a Gameboy emulator on Linux.

System Administration   Getting the NT Out—and the Linux In  by David C. Smith

An overview of configuring Linux using Samba to replace the services provided from Windows NT servers.

Kernel Korner   Linux System Calls  by Moshe Bar

How to use the mechanism provided by the IA32 architecture for handling system calls.

Linley on Linux Voice Recognition Ready for Consumer Devices  by Linley Gwennap

Cooking with Linux   An Appetite for Discovery  by Marcel Gagné

Looking at the skies for stars and aliens can both be done on Linux systems.

At the Forge   Press Releases with Mason  by Reuven M. Lerner

Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel

Embedded Systems News  by Rick Lehrbaum

Departments

Letters  

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Penguin's Progress: Collecting RFCs  by Peter H. Salus

Linux for Suits   The Message  by Doc Searls

Best of Technical Support  

New Products  

Strictly On-Line

Mastering Algorithms with C  by John Kacur

Red Hat Linux 6 for Small Business  by Paul Dunne

Low-Bandwidth Communication Tools for Science  by Enrique Canessa and Clement Onime

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Security Technologies for the World Wide Web  by Wael Hassan

Getting Started in Computer Consulting  by Ralph Krause

Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours  by Ralph Krause

Linux Administration A Beginner's Guide  by Harvey Friedman

AIPS and Linux: A Historical Reminiscence  by Patrick P. Murphy

The Astronomical Image Processing System looks at the sky using the radio wave section of the electromagnetic spectrum.