Using Proxy Servers To Restrict, Log, And Accelerate Internet Access

I have a fairly complicated home network that uses many of the different features of Linux. While my network setup is probably more complicated than what you'll ever need in your home, you may find that you want to use some of the same features. In this article, I'll describe how my computers are physically connected, discuss how I want my network to work, and then explain how I used various aspects of Linux to accomplish those goals.

Since VisualWorks Non Commercial (VWNC) has been freely released for Linux, there's been an increased interest in the Linux community about Smalltalk. The purpose of this article is to give an introduction to Smalltalk for Linux enthusiasts who aren't familiar with it, and to share some of the characteristics of this language that endears itself to so many programmers.

There are about as many ways to build and install Apache as there are reasons to run a web server. As it's our first time out, we'll take the road most traveled and leave the advanced configurations for later columns.

Caching is an important function for a wide variety of Internet-related concerns, as ISPs, educational institutions and corporations all find that it measurably enhances system performance. There are a host of commercial caching products on the market, but perhaps the most popular is Squid, the open-source cache originally produced by the ARPA Harvest project and now maintained by the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR).

Are you having trouble keeping your network under control? Here is an introduction to NOCOL: the freeware network monitoring system which will help you keep instability at bay.

Slackware Linux, maintained by Patrick Volkerding, has recently entered the new millennium with Slackware Linux 7. Coming on the heels of Slackware 4.0, Slackware 7 has some new features that make it that much closer to becoming a Linux distribution even Windows fans could love.

WordPerfect can be downloaded from the Internet without charge or purchased on CDROM from several Internet vendors. Resources below for a list of sources. The downloaded version must be registered at Corel's Linux Site to be functional after 30 days, but there is no charge for registration.

This how-to describes how to use Zope to generate WML pages for use by WAP browsers.

As part of a growing movement towards free software, Borland released its JBuilder 3 Foundation Java Integrated Development Environment--or IDE--for free to the Linux, Solaris and Windows worlds.