Linux Journal Contents #172, August 2008

Features

• The BUG: a Linux-Based Hardware Mashup  by Mike Diehl
  With the BUG, you get a GPS, camera, motion detector and accelerometer all in one hand-sized unit, and it's completely programmable.
  
• Billix: a Sysadmin's Swiss Army Knife  by Bill Childers
  Build a toolbox in your pocket by installing Billix on that spare USB key.
  
• Fun with E-Ink, X and Gumstix  by Jaya Kumar
  Find out how to make standard X11 apps run on an E-Ink display using a Gumstix embedded device.
  
• One Box. Sixteen Trillion Bytes.  by Eric Pearce
  Build your own 16 Terabyte file server with hardware RAID.
  

Indepth

• Linux for the Long Haul  by Michael Surran
  Checking in with the Greater Houlton Christian Academy's switch to Linux.
  
• Zenoss and the Art of Enterprise Monitoring  by Jeramiah Bowling
  Stay on top of your network with an enterprise-class monitoring tool.
  
• How to Fake a UFO Landing  by Dan Sawyer
  Use Voodoo to solve video match-moving problems.
  
• Quantum GIS: the Open-Source Geographic Information System  by James Gray
  Hooked on Google Earth? Check out Quantum GIS to satisfy your geographic cravings.
  
• Build a MythTV Box without Breaking the Bank  by P. Surdas Mohit
  A quick-and-easy guide to the world of MythTV.
  

Columns

• Shawn Power's Current_Issue.tar.gz   Linux: the Root of All Coolness  
  
• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Profiling Rails Applications  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Cool as Ice!  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Movie Trivia and Fun with Random Numbers  
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Wiimote Control  
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   Mixing Up a Generative Mobile Feast  
  

Reviews

• Hot and Bothered at Starbucks  by Dan Sawyer
  
• The Neuros OSD Connects Your TV to the Internet  by Marco Fioretti
  

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