Linux Journal Contents #132, April 2005

Features

• Finding Your Way with GPSdrive  by Charles Curley
  Integrate this navigation package with speech synthesis, wireless network mapping and your choice of map data.
  
• Building Your Own Live CD  by Daniel Barlow
  Live CDs let you turn any computer into a temporary Linux box. Make it a Linux box with your chosen software and configuration.
  
• Building Impress and PowerPoint Slides with LaTeX and Perl  by Paul Barry
  Take advantage of Openoffice.org's well-documented file formats to create presentations as easily as a Web site.
  

Indepth

• Performers Go Web  by Patricia Jung
  That on-line animation was pretty funny, but how about performing a show live? Here's new software that makes it possible.
  
• My Favorite bash Tips and Tricks  by Prentice Bisbal
  These command-line stunts will have you manipulating lots of files as easily as you would do one before. The sooner you start, the more time you'll save.
  
• File Synchronization with Unison  by Erik Inge Bolso
  Is the latest version of that file on my server, my desktop or my laptop? With Unison, the answer is “yes”.
  
• Using C for CGI Programming  by Clay Dowling
  Your Web app doesn't have to be written in some newfangled scripting malarkey. Check out the speed when you try it in C.
  
• Part III: AFS—A Secure Distributed Filesystem  by Alf Wachsmann
  Reconfigure servers without changing mount points on the clients with this Kerberos-authenticated network filesystem.
  

Embedded

• Linux on a Small Satellite  by Christopher Huffine
  If you need to get a satellite launched in a year, think standard parts, creative reuse and shell scripts.
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   Column 100  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Kernel Korner   Dynamic Interrupt Request Allocation for Device Drivers  by Dr B. Thangaraju
  
• Cooking with Linux   The Cook's Collection  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Securing WLANs with WPA and FreeRADIUS, Part I  by Mick Bauer
  

Columns

• Linux for Suits   The No-Party System  by Doc Searls
  
• EOF   Open Access for Science  by Christopher Frenz
  

Review

• LifeKeeper  by Sean Tierney
  

Departments

• From the Editor  
  
• Letters  
  
• upFRONT  
  
• New Products  
  
• Best of Technical Support