Linux Journal Contents #116, December 2003

December 1st, 2003 by Staff

Linux Journal Issue #116/December 2003

Features

  • Floppies for the New Millennium  by Rick Moen
    A practical guide to setting up and working with USB key chains.
  • DVD Players  by Dave Phillips
    Dave compares and tests the best DVD-playing software.
  • DVD Authoring  by Ian Pointer
    Got ideas for TV-based information design, games and Easter eggs? Make them work on DVDs you create with this versatile software.
  • Managing Audio with Pd  by Peter Todd
    Make your band sound like a symphony orchestra from Uranus with this drag-and-drop sound processing tool.
  • Ultimate Linux Box  by Glenn Stone
    We load up the hottest new 64-bit architecture with the hottest new 3-D and storage hardware.

Indepth

  • Embedding Perl in MySQL  by Brian Aker
    Hey! There's a mistake in this article—Perl code in the middle of an SQL SELECT! Don't you people even read this stuff?
  • Cross-Platform CD Index  by Shawn P. Garbett
    We liked this easy JavaScript-based CD-ROM search system so much, we used it on the 1994-2002 Linux Journal archive CD.
  • DVD Transcoding via Linux Metacomputing  by F. J. Gonzalez-Castaño, R. Asorey-Cacheda, R. P. Martinez-Alvarez, F. Comesaña-Seijo and J. Vales-Alonso
    Strategies for converting MPEG-2 video from DVDs to MPEG-4 for next-generation home media applications.

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From the Magazine

September 2008, #173

Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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