Table of Contents, Linux Journal #137, September 2005

Linux Journal Issue #137/September 2005

Internet Radio to Podcast with Shell Tools by Phil Salkie: This Internet radio show is great—is it available as a podcast? Now the answer is always, yes.
Auditing Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Pre-Shared Key Mode by John L. MacMichael: Don't worry about the insecurities of WEP—we have WPA. What? WPA can be cracked too? D'oh!
Compression Tools Compared by Kingsley G. Morse Jr.: Choosing a compression utility is a delicate trade-off between CPU time and compression achieved. Get a perfect match for your available processing time and bandwidth.
802.1x on Linux with xsupplicant by Matthew Gast: If you have WPA set up correctly, it's secure. Mick Bauer already did the server, now here's the client side.

Memory Ordering in Modern Microprocessors, Part II by Paul E. McKenney: When all the processors are trying to read and write the same main memory, you can do things the right way, the wrong way or the right way but so-slow-nobody-cares way.
Linux Groupware Roundup by Francis Lachapelle and Ludovic Marcotte: Take a tour of the apps that can keep your whole company or project organized.
Native XML Database Storage and Retrieval by George Feinberg: If your application handles XML, shouldn't your database? Here's how one system handles it.
A System Monitoring Dashboard by John Ouellette: Sometimes a big system monitoring solution is overkill. This simple script sees services the way users do and keeps you up to date on what's up and what's down.

First Beowulf Cluster in Space by Ian McLoughlin, Timo Bretschneider and Bharath Ramesh: Want to be absolutely sure of getting your article in LJ? Just put the first Beowulf cluster in space.