+ Linux Gazette +

An e-zine dedicated to making Linux just a little bit more fun. Published the first day of every month.
Issue 150: May, 2008 ...

Last Update: Sun May 4 17:54:27 2008

+ Mailbag + By LG Staff Our Mailbag Delete the contents Scalable TCP Tuning Sendmail and capacity Netcape to OpenLDAP ...

+ Talkback + By LG StaffTalkback:108/okopnik.html Talkback:135/pfeiffer.html Talkback:136/pfeiffer.html ...

+ 2-Cent Tips + By LG Staff2-cent tip: Convert a bunch of Images from one format to another 2-cent tip: Linux Magic System Request ...

+ NewsBytes + By Kat Tanaka Okopnik, Howard Dyckoff, and Deividson Luiz Okopnik News in General MySQL announces 5.1 GA, future 6.0 dual [...] Edition 4 Scales from Branch Office to Data Center VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative

+ Deividson on Databases: Stored Procedures + By Deividson Luiz Okopnik Stored Procedures are pre-compiled subroutines that are stored inside the database. They allow you to [...] computations and return the calculated result to the client. This saves considerable amounts of client/server communication.

+ Knoppix 5.3.1 + By Edgar Howell At the recent CeBIT computer fair, Klaus Knopper finally released a new version of his popular Knoppix [...] (by the way, it is now "lang=us" rather than "lang=en"; this will take getting used to after many years of using "lang=en".)

+ Virtualizing without Virtualizing + By Kapil Hari Paranjape Nowadays one reads a lot about virtualization . The Gazette even ran an article on it. Most of [...] has its place no doubt, but this article will concentrate on the humble chroot way of running programs in a virtual environment.

+ Lockpicking + By Aurelian Melinte The dynamic linker allows us to override functions exported by the shared objects that are used by programs. [...] build a library that wraps around the 'pthreads' library to diagnose mutex -related problems, including the well-known deadlock.

+ Searching for Text (Part II) + By René Pfeiffer In the first part of this series, we took a look at various methods that help us to index text and [...] SQL queries, I can show you another way to build an index and to query it for your favourite phrase. Prepare to meet Lucene!

+ Joey's Notes: Guide to adding a new partition or drive to an existing system + By Joey Prestia The basic steps involved in this process are: ...

+ Hands-on Linux Software RAID + By Amit Kumar Saha Software RAID is RAID implemented with software - no additional hardware such as a RAID controller is [...] IO controller <-> sdb1). ( Thanks to René Pfeiffer of the Answer Gang for pointing that out. )

+ XKCD + By Randall Munroe Click here to see the full-sized image More XKCD cartoons can be found here . _uacct = ...

+ HelpDex + By Shane Collinge These images are scaled down to minimize horizontal scrolling. ...