Everyone loves a speedy Internet connection, which pushed the telco industry into offering ever-faster Internet access. Today, an affordable and fast access method for business, small offices and home users is xDSL.

This week, the subject of Zope came up again. I'd been pounding my head against the wall trying to figure some things out, and finally posted an exasperated plea to my newsgroup, in which I detailed some problems getting Zope's ZCatalog search engine to search Zope's own source code.

In my last article covering MySQL and Web servers, I talked about creating a guest book that would allow our visitors to leave a message for everyone to see. This was all fine and dandy; however, there is more that we can do with a Web site using mySQL and Apache. In this article covering the creation of a mySQL-based Web site, we'll be talking about using mySQL as a user-authentication database.

A great deal of Linux users have heard about PHP, the Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is the engine behind many dynamic Web sites, including Linux.com.

The title is really just a fancy way of saying that I am going to attempt to describe the whole VM enchilada, hopefully in a way that everyone can follow.

Until now, Adobe's DTP (desktop publishing) software, FrameMaker, was available only for Mac OS, Windows, and Solaris, which meant that you had to run it either on expensive hardware or an unreliable operating system. But the advent of FrameMaker on Linux it possible to run this proven and widely used software cheaply and on a stable OS.

All to often the main complaint I have heard from people who have newly switched to Linux is the command line. Most complain that Linux MUST be an inferior OS because it relies much to heavily on the command line.

As of this writing, the latest stable version of Samba is 2.0.6. You will need the source distribution, it is called samba-2.0.6.tar.gz, grab it from the Samba homepage.

You’ve probably been using Linux for years as a workhorse system for file serving, Web serving, and other thankless tasks. When Linux first came into the shop, it was as a server only and little thought was given to needing a graphical user interface (GUI). Recently, the focus on Linux has been as a workstation or desktop operating system.

This article explains the details of referring to multiple files on the command line using wildcards -- particularly the places where the UNIX wildcards differ from the simpler wildcards used by DOS and Windows.