Linux Journal Contents #115, November 2003
Linux Journal Issue #115/November 2003
Features
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HA-OSCAR: the Birth of Highly Available OSCAR
by Ibrahim Haddad, Chokchai Leangsuksun and Stephen L. Scott
If a single point of failure can make hundreds of cluster nodes useless, you have a problem. We have the solution.
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Cluster Hardware Torture Tests
by John Goebel
Those metal pizza boxes may look harmless, but the wrong ones will make your users angry and your electrician rich.
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Sequencing the SARS Virus
by Martin Krzywinski and Yaron Butterfield
Linux on PC hardware formed the basis for an infrastructure to handle huge volumes of genetic data.
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TALOSS (Three-Dimensional Advanced Localization Observation Submarine Software)
by Douglas B. Maxwell and Richard Shell
An experimental US Navy program combines multiple sources of information into one 3-D display.
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My Other Computer Is a Supercomputer
by Steve Jones
You need to start running protein folding jobs—when?
Indepth
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2003 Readers' Choice Awards
by Heather Mead
You voted. We counted. You're waiting.
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Introducing Scribus
by Peter Linnell
Take desktop publishing off the shrinking list of applications Linux doesn't have, and create press-ready documents with a new GPL program.
Embedded
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Writing Secure Programs
by Cal Erickson
If you don't have time to do it right, where will you get the time to issue a security warning and a patch—or worse, a device recall?
Toolbox
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Kernel Korner The New Work Queue Interface in the 2.6 Kernel
by Robert Love
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At the Forge Server Migration and Disasters
by Reuven M. Lerner
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Cooking with Linux Diners, Start Your Processors
by Marcel Gagné
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Paranoid Penguin Secure Mail with LDAP and IMAP, Part I
by Mick Bauer
Columns
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EOF Extreme Linux: Not All that Far Out There
by Jason Pettit
Reviews
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OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit
by Kenneth Wehr
Departments
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