By Michael Hall As with 802.11b in general the world of wireless LANs as experienced through Linux is an interesting and challenging mix of implementations and approaches. Setting up access to a wireless network in Linux isn t a difficult undertaking to a motivated enthusiast but it is somewhat complex. In this article we ll look at some common stops...

by David HM Spector 03 17 2003 Doing the Penguin Dance One of the things I used look forward to about twice a year was a new release of Red Hat RH Linux. I m pretty conservative on my main desktop system where I write my articles and do my main development and tend to run a pretty out-of-the-box configuration. I leave my hotrodding for my experimental...

Daniel Robbins President CEO Gentoo Technologies Inc. January 2002 In this dW-exclusive tutorial Daniel Robbins begins preparing you for the Linux Professional Institute s 101 exam. In this first of a series of four tutorials you will learn about bash the standard Linux shell ; standard Linux commands like ls cp and mv; Linux s permission and...

04 11 2002 In the first article in this series we talked about the buzz around wireless networking. In the intervening time the wireless network buzz has only grown louder with the release of actual hardware that implements the IEEE 802.11a 54Mbps standard which is more than five times as fast as the current flavor 802.11b. What s the State of Linux...

Tom Syroid Author and NIX system administration expert October 2001 This dW-exclusive tutorial reviews the origins of TCP IP and how it works -- including IP addresses subnets and routing. With this theoretical foundation laid we discuss the various network configuration files required by Linux how to initialize a network interface and how to...

by Edd Dumbill 03 29 2002 It feels a bit like a homecoming. After years wandering in the cranky wilderness of mix-and-match PCs I m working again on a computer that feels like it has a soul. The reason I feel like this The other week I switched from an Intel-based laptop to an iBook. However this is a different story to the recent Mac conversions...

John Starkey One of the better inventions of the 21st Century is with no doubt PHP-Gtk. Released in March 2001 in an effort to show that PHP isn t just a web scripting language PHP-Gtk offers coders running GTK the opportunity to create custom desktop applications without having to meddle outside of their language of choice. In this article I m going...

By Carla Schroder For the harassed overworked network admin connecting new clients without having to run additional cabling is so much fun it feels wrong. Miles of pretty color-coded cables and tags are aesthetically pleasing and useful of course and who hasn t experienced the satisfaction of crimping connectors There s nothing like the authoritative...

by Howard Wen 10 10 2002 The last thing the gaming development community needs is probably another 3-D graphics engine designed for first-person shooters. After all there are lots of them in the market. Some such as the original Quake engine have even been released as open source although long after they became technically outdated and were no longer...

Daniel Robbins President CEO Gentoo Technologies Inc. August 2001 This dW-exclusive tutorial gives you techniques for covering your back in the worst-case scenario. Even new high-quality hard drives will occasionally fail. Regular system backups are essential especially for busy developers who make continual improvements to their code. This tutorial...

Thomas W. Burger Owner Thomas Wolfgang Burger Consulting January 2001 In this free dW-exclusive tutorial you ll learn how to install and use a Perl interface to the IBM DB2 Universal Database Personal Developer s Edition. You ll also learn by example how to query the sample database provided with the DB2 Personal Developer s Edition. After a quick...

by Kendall Clark 05 16 2002 The Problem Like many free software geeks I run a one-person Web hosting shop a combination business hobby and community service. I ve become accustomed to doing complex tasks not only easily but also as cheaply as possible. Since most of the time my modest Web hosting is more hobby than business I can t really afford...

Alberto Dainotti In this article I will explain how it is possible to connect and query an MS SQL server running under a Windows operating system from php installed on a unix box. The same problem in the case of php installed under Windows is not covered here because it is well explained in php FAQ; sadly I cannot say the same thing for the unix...

by chromatic Linux Newsletter for 04 07 2003 Hello and welcome to the latest installment in the continuing saga of the Linux newsletter. This week we ve published several good articles for your perusal. First off Dru Lavigne concludes her look at file integrity utilities in File Integrity and Anti-DDoS Utilities . Though tripwire is well worth investigating...

by chromatic Linux Newsletter for 01 27 2003 Welcome to the post-Super Bowl Linux newsletter It s also the post-LinuxWorld Expo newsletter but the former had more television coverage for some reason. Maybe next year. Here s what s new on ONLamp.com this week. In a plausably deniable coincidence Iljitsch van Beijnum author of the BGP book wrote...