Linux Journal Contents #138, October 2005

October 1st, 2005 by Staff

Linux Journal Issue #138/October 2005

Features

  • Fixing Web Sites with GreaseMonkey  by Nigel McFarlane
    This Web site is fine, but it could really use....Redesign other people's Web sites to your liking, on the fly.
  • The Linux for Kids Experiment  by Paul Barry
    Can a Linux dad get his family moved to a secure, easy-administration box without giving up the fun and education?
  • Project Utopia  by Robert Love
    Traditionally, Linux has protected the hardware from the user for security. When apps need to understand the hardware, new modes of communication are arising.

Indepth

  • Building a Call Center with LTSP and Soft Phones  by Michael George
    You don't need to put a phone and a computer at every desk. Use a soft phone on an almost-thin client.
  • Dirt Cheap 3-D Spatial Audio  by Eric Klein, Greg S. Schmidt, Erik B. Tomlin and Dennis G. Brown
    Look out! Bogey at 10 o'clock high! Your next simulator project can have realistic sound above, below and on all sides of the user.
  • Taming the TODO  by Sacha Chua
    Is your computer helping you get work done, or making more work for you? Try these software options to get your act together.

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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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