Linux Journal Contents #75, July 2000

Focus

• Science & Engineering  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Features

• Gri: A Language for Scientific Illustration  by Dan E. Kelley and Peter S. Galbraith
  This scripting language avoids integrating analysis and display capabilities and instead focuses on providing precise and flexible control over the display of technical material.
  
• Tracking Satellites with PREDICT  by John A. Magliacane
  A look at the development and use of an open-source satellite-tracking and orbital-prediction program.
  
• Detecting Chaos in the Field  by Juergen Kahrs
  All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real. —G.W.F. Hegel, 1770-1831
  
• THOR: A Versatile Commodity Component of Supercomputer Development  by Robert A. Davis
  CERN continues to use Linux as their OS of choice for modeling and simulation studies.
  
• A GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone  by Steve Mann
  This fully fuctioning prototype, designed and built by Steve Mann in 1998, was demonstrated in 1999, and later used to deliver a videoconference at ISSCC 2000.
  

Forum

• Three-Tier Architecture  by Ariel Ortiz Ramirez
  Professor Ortiz presents a little of the theory behind the three-tier architecture and shows how it may be applied using Linux, Java and MiniSQL.
  
• cgimodel: CGI Programming Made Easy with Python  by Chenna Ramu and Christina Gemuend
  Always look on the bright side of life and at a method for debugging CGI programs on the command line.
  
• Mapping Lightning with Linux  by Timothy Hamlin
  NM Tech studies lightning to determine basic charge structures and learn more about storm morphology.
  
• Using Linux in Embedded and Real-Time Systems  by Rick Lehrbaum
  When you need an embedded operating system, Linux is a good place to start. Here's why.
  
• Troll Tech Announces Embedded GUI Toolkit  by Craig Knudsen
  Troll Tech enters the embedded systems market—here's what's happening.
  
• The Montréal 2000 Linux Expo  by Marcel Gagné
  LJ's French chef visits Montréal April 10-12 for more than the food.
  

Reviews

• Medusa DS9 Security System  by Robert Dobozy
  
• Cygwin: For Windows NT  by Daniel Lazenby
  
• Understudy  by Daniel Allen
  

Columns

• Take Command   The System Logging Dæmons, syslogd and klog  by Michael A. Schwarz
  Take command of your log files by learning to handle those pesky logging dæmons.
  
• Linux Means Business   Using Linux at Left Field Productions  by David Ashley
  One programmer's experiece developing a Gameboy emulator on Linux.
  
• System Administration   Getting the NT Out—and the Linux In  by David C. Smith
  An overview of configuring Linux using Samba to replace the services provided from Windows NT servers.
  
• Kernel Korner   Linux System Calls  by Moshe Bar
  How to use the mechanism provided by the IA32 architecture for handling system calls.
  
• Linley on Linux Voice Recognition Ready for Consumer Devices  by Linley Gwennap
  
• Cooking with Linux   An Appetite for Discovery  by Marcel Gagné
  Looking at the skies for stars and aliens can both be done on Linux systems.
  
• At the Forge   Press Releases with Mason  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Focus on Software  by David A. Bandel
  
• Embedded Systems News  by Rick Lehrbaum
  

Departments

• Letters  
  
• upFRONT  
  
• Penguin's Progress: Collecting RFCs  by Peter H. Salus
  
• Linux for Suits   The Message  by Doc Searls
  
• Best of Technical Support  
  
• New Products  
  

Strictly On-Line

• Mastering Algorithms with C  by John Kacur
  
• Red Hat Linux 6 for Small Business  by Paul Dunne
  
• Low-Bandwidth Communication Tools for Science  by Enrique Canessa and Clement Onime
  No access to the Internet? Browse the Web via e-mail instead!
  
• Security Technologies for the World Wide Web  by Wael Hassan
  
• Getting Started in Computer Consulting  by Ralph Krause
  
• Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours  by Ralph Krause
  
• Linux Administration A Beginner's Guide  by Harvey Friedman
  
• AIPS and Linux: A Historical Reminiscence  by Patrick P. Murphy
  The Astronomical Image Processing System looks at the sky using the radio wave section of the electromagnetic spectrum.