Using your Linux box to share a single internet connection is one of the most popular ways to use an old beat up 486 or Pentium machine that otherwise would have been thrown into the junk pile in the garage. When used in conjunction with a fast Ethernet connection like cable, or DSL.

Kernel patching always sounded totally esoteric, and more than a little scary to me. I mean, downloading beta software and patching it into my kernel source tree? It wasn't long ago that just the thought of compiling a new kernel was frightening to me.

There are quite a few ways to interact with a MySQL database. Here I will show you one of the more common (and easier in my opinion) ways. This tutorial requires some knowledge of SQL (duh!) and PHP (duh again!).

The surprise from Inprise: a free Java development environment for Linux.

The package has a debugger, a static analyzer, an application wrapper, and a byte compiler.

I am running a computer routing lab that is used to teach routing fundamentals on proprietary equipment. It consists of an 18 seat lab with 9 PCs, 1 server and 1 HP LaserJet 4050N with a HP Jetdirect  print server card installed. The server is running Slackware 4.0 with Linux 2.2.6 on it. Eight of the PCs are running WinNT 4.0 SP5 and one PC is running Win95a.

:This article is a basic introduction to the new web markup language XML and the transformation language XSL. Here I show how the Apache web server can be configured using the servlet engine JServ, to do client side XML/XSL transformation using Apache's Cocoon servlet.

The ls command, which lists files, is one of the most essential utilities for Unix and Linux users and, not surprisingly, one of the oldest.

If LILO has failed you and you wish to switch to LoadLin, BUT, you cannot boot up into Linux to copy your vmlinuz file to your Windows partition, the following step by step N.H.F. just may save the day for you.

For those thinking of setting up an alphanumeric paging service or gateway, here is an explanation of the protocols and methods involved.