Daniel Robbins President/CEO, Gentoo Technologies, Inc. August 15, 2000 This free, dW-exclusive tutorial shows how to compile and install open source programs from their original source code. You'll learn how to compile the vast majority of Unix sources. dW columnist Daniel Robbins steps you through the whole process of unpacking, inspection, configuration,...   Read Article.

Jesse Tilly November 2002 This tutorial is designed to be a thorough introduction and installation guide for the great issue tracking tool, Request Tracker (RT). RT fulfills a key need in a project's Configuration Management (CM) process. By the end of the tutorial, you will have a working installation of RT and ready to implement a CM process for...   Read Article.

Ray Hunter Introduction With the release of PHP5, there has been renewed interest in the PHP-GTK extension. What does the PHP-GTK extension provide? quot;PHP-GTK implements language bindings for GTK+.quot; PHP-GTK provides the means for a developer, familiar with PHP, to create rich clients using the PHP programming language. Installation Installation...   Read Article.

by Kyle Downey February 18, 2004 Introduction For several years I've wanted to assemble my own PC. Every time I decided to replace my computer, I would say that maybe this time I will get around to building my own. This resolution lasted about as long as it took for me to go to Dell and price its latest, comparing that to the amount of free time I...   Read Article.

02/19/2002 Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at a security vulnerability in LIDS; buffer overflows in CUPS, jgroff , Sun Solstice Enterprise Master Agent, and Ettercap; and problems in Sawmill, Faq-O-Matic, pforum , GNAT, Taylor UUCP, and IRIX O2 Video. LIDS LIDS is a...   Read Article.

By Darrell Brogdon March 21, 2002 Intended audience Background How to use GnuPG Encrypting files from within PHP Decrypting GnuPG encrypted files with PHP Pitfalls Alternatives Conclusion About the author Intended Audience The purpose of this article is to show you how to encrypt and decrypt information with GnuPG using PHP. Most of the major Linux...   Read Article.

Tobias Ratschiller Table of Contents 1. Introduction to PHP 2. PHP Meets Development Challenges 1. Introduction to PHP What have sprint.ca, livebid.amazon.com, xoom.com, and mp3.lycos.com in common? All employ one of the Web's hottest server side technologies: PHP, the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. While the success of Open Source software like Linux...   Read Article.

03/04/2002 Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at a remote exploit against PHP; buffer overflows in mod_ssl , Apache-SSL, Chinput, the Cryptographic File System daemon, and xtell ; and problems in Oracle, netfilter's IRC DCC connection module, BRU, User Mode Linux, Xoops,...   Read Article.

Jonathan Hassell Owner, Enable Hosting June 2002 Apache is a marvelously customizable daemon. You can tailor this web server software for specific platforms, environments, and performance thresholds. Unfortunately, most administrators run an out-of-the-box installation with few modifications to the default configuration. In this Linux-focused tutorial,...   Read Article.

Roman Vichr Etensity With DB2 Everyplace, you can build a PDA application that makes data management available anywhere. Your application can reach common PDAs, such as Palm, Handspring, HP's Windows CE-based jordana, Cassiopiea, and Compaq iPAQ devices. DB2 Everyplace also supports EPOC-based PDAs and devices with embedded Linux. Register for...   Read Article.

Tutorial Written By: Till Lots of programmers like PHP for its ability to code and develop web applications fast. Code-debugging is a lot easier than with PERL or C. However, there is one thing a lot of developers are puzzled about, quot;How to run PHP Scripts with crontab?quot; Cron is normally available on all Unix and Linux distributions; if you...   Read Article.

by Noel Davis 07/15/2002 Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in Squid, mod-ssl , the Solaris Volume Manager, ATPhttpd, iPlanet, and kcms_configure ; and problems in the CDE ToolTalk Database Server, the Linux kernel, nn , Icecast, NcFTP, and Sharp's Zaurus...   Read Article.

by Daniel Dern 02/07/2002 IDG's LinuxWorld Conference amp; Expo , held in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City January 29 - February 1, 2002, felt a lot like, well, a conference and expo in a real industry with real vendors, real products, and business customers--but with the Linux, open source message still coming through loud and strong....   Read Article.

Daniel Robbins, Chris Houser, Aron Griffis Gentoo Technologies, Inc. May 2002 In this dW-exclusive tutorial , Daniel Robbins, Chris Houser, and Aron Griffis continue the 102 exam series with this third installment, in which you'll pick up TCP/IP and Ethernet Linux networking fundamentals as well as tips on using the inetd and xinetd superservers, securing...   Read Article.

by Adam Trachtenberg , coauthor of PHP Cookbook 01/16/2003 With the recent release of PHP 4.3, Macintosh users can now configure and build PHP themselves. This is a great boon. Finally, Mac OS X users have the same level of PHP support that people who run Linux and Windows enjoy. If you wanted to use earlier versions of PHP on Mac OS X, you either needed...   Read Article.

By Neal Cabage Rating: 5 out of 5 Rate this article email this article to a colleague Introduction The question was recently raised as to why we choose to work with Windows NT technologies on some projects, rather than one of the various *NIXs (e.g., Linux or one of the various flavors of Unix). Security and reliability are among a few of the well-known...   Read Article.

by Noel Davis 07/30/2002 Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at a vulnerability in PHP; buffer overflows in Cisco IOS, Fake Identd, HylaFAX, and EnGarde Secure Linux's resolver libraries; and problems in Sun Fire servers, chfn , chsh , Pine, GNU Mailman, the VNC challenge...   Read Article.

04/16/2002 Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at an OpenBSD local root exploit; problems with OpenBSD's rshd , rexecd , and atrun ; new versions of Red Hat Linux's tcpdump , libpcap , and arpwatch ; and problems in Webalizer, Open Unix and UnixWare's libX11...   Read Article.

by Jayesh Jain Read Comments Rate this resource Viewed 230 times Rating: 3 users 4.67 out of 5 Next If you're a fan of PHP then you may have PHP installed on an Apache web server using MySQL as the backend on a Windows or Linux machine. Most people will develop and test their code on a Windows machine until they move it into a production machine....   Read Article.

Daniel Robbins President/CEO, Gentoo Technologies, Inc. June 2001 This free, dW-exclusive tutorial will show you how to compile, install, and configure oops, an open source, high-performance, multi-threaded Web proxy under Linux. Caching Web proxies are especially useful for accelerating Web browsing performance while at the same time conserving your...   Read Article.