Article index by author
This is an index of all LinuxFocus articles sorted by authorname.
André Pascual [5]
Andreas J Gundacker [1]
- Introduction to DNS
You may have wondered what happens behind the scenes in Netscape after you enter a URL. This article will help you to understand the name-lookup process.
Angel Lopez [3]
Antonio Castro [4]
Atif Ghaffar [6]
Ben Y. Yoshino [1]
- Использование редактора VI
The VI editor is a screen-based editor used by many Unix users. The VI editor has powerful features to aid programmers, but many beginning users avoid using VI because the different features overwhelm them.
Brent B. Welch [1]
- The Tcl Syntax
This article explains basics concept and syntax of the Tcl language
Bruce Ediger [1]
Bruno Sousa [2]
Carlos Calzada Grau [3]
- RenderMan Part III
This article discusses he possibility of modeling and animating a scene using C or C!+
- Основные принципы позиционирования камеры
Although the positioning is not as intuitive as Pov-Ray, it has an advantage when describing camera trajectories.
- RenderMan
Who has not heard of Pixar? Who has not seen "Toy Story"? Pixar developed RenderMan.
Charles Vidal [5]
- Изучаем Tk
This articles explain how to build a graphical interface using the Toolkit of Tcl: Tk. The reader should also appreciate the simplicity of this toolkit compared to usual X-Windows libraries.
- MagicPoint
This article reviews the possibility of MagicPoint. This software is one of the very few that allow creation of presentations under X-Windows.
- Веб сервер Apache (часть 1)
This article is an introduction to the HTTP protocol it takes also a look at the history of the World Wide Web.
- Interview with David Bagley
David Bagley is the current maintainer of xlock, a popular X Window screen saver and locking utility.
- Linux among artists at BUF COMPAGNIE
BUF Company is a major synthetic image maker in the film business.
Chris Dibona [1]
Christophe Blaess [1]
D.S. Oberoi [1]
Danilo Lujambo [1]
David Guerrero [1]
Edgar Hernández Zúñiga [1]
Egon Willighagen [10]
- Using BibTeXML in DocBook XML to Write Scientific Articles
BibTex is an system which enables you to insert references from a (file) database into Tex documents. In this article I will show you how you can use a BibTex like reference system with DocBook XML.
- Linux System Administration - A User's Guide (Book Review)
This is a review of the book titled "Linux System Administration - A User's Guide" by Marcel Gagne. The book has 532 pages and 26 chapters that cover installation, daemons, run-levels,file systems, password policy, kernel building, printing, devices, backups, network administration, secure computing, and more.
- Analyzing your internet applications' log files II - configuring your reports
The first article in this series introduced Lire. This article will show you how you can configure your reports for your need.
- Анализируем лог-файлы интернет-сервисов
This article is the first in a series about using Lire to analyze log files of internet server applications. This is not limited to one service, e.g. Apache, but is an integrated analyzer for many different services. Included are DNS, WWW, email and ipfilter services.
- Использование XML и XSLT для создания LinuxFocus.org(/Nederlands)
This article shows you how parts of the Dutch website of LinuxFocus is generated with XSLT tools from the XML database. It compares this with the (very) much slower DOM tools in Perl.
- Editing DocBook XML Documents
This article describes the use of Kate and its XML plugin as a tool for editing DocBook XML documents
- Как информировать об обнаруженных ошибках в дистрибутиве Debian 2.2
How that Debian 2.2 is released, a lot of people will upgrade to new newest Debian distro. Since Debian is extremely stable, why do you need a bug report tool? I do not know, but you cannot write software without bugs, so bugs will be found. This article explains how to submit them to the developers of the package.
- Инсталляция пакетов LinuxFocus для Debian
Article on how to install the Debian package of LinuxFocus.
- Использование Perl - модуля XML::XSLT
This article demonstrates some of the capabilities of the W3C's XSLT standard and how it can be used to help you manage and publish XML documents to the web.
- Создание PDF документов с использованием DocBook
This article describes how you can use DocBook to develop PDF documents and covers tools you need to edit DocBook articles and tools to translate them to PDF documents.
Emiliano Ariel Lesende [1]
Emre Demiralp [4]
Erdal Mutlu and Ceyhun Elmas [1]
- Введение в BORG
BORG is graphical user interface to BMRT, but it is not just a GUI it divides the rendering work across different computers where BMRT is used to render frames.
Eric Seigne [2]
- Samba Configuration
This article describes the configuration of Linux-samba, a server needed to control domains of networks based on MS-windows machines. Examples given here are based on Debian GNU/Linux and Samba 2.0.7
- Автоматическая настройка DHCP
This article explains how to configure easily DHCP on a network.
Floris Lambrechts [1]
- Изучаем XML
This is a short introduction to XML. You will meet Eddy the meta cat, the XML syntax police, and some DTDs. Don't worry, we'll explain ;-)
Frédéric Navarro [1]
- The uCsimm kit
This article describes the uCsimm kit and the UClinux project: Porting the linux kernel on hardware without MMU (memory management unit).
Frédéric Raynal [13]
- Как избежать дыр в безопасности при разработке приложения - Часть 6: CGI скрипты
Security of CGI scripts
- Как избежать дыр в безопасности при разработке приложения - Часть 5: условия перехвата (race conditions)
This fifth article is about race conditions :what they are, how to avoid them ...
- Как избежать дыр в безопасности при разработке приложения - Часть 4: строки форматирования
This fourth article deals with format strings security holes
- Как избежать дыр в безопасности при разработке приложения - Часть 3: переполнения буфера
This article explains how to exploit badly programmed software by using buffer overflows.
- Как избежать дыр в безопасности при разработке приложения - Часть 2: память, стек и функции, шеллкод
This second article is not directly related with the subject of the series. It reviews some concepts before describing the fear of all the system administrators:Buffer Overflows. We shall see how the memory is organized as well as the stack and how a function call is performed. Then we present a tool used for every intrusion attempt: shellcode.
- Как избежать дыр в безопасности при разработке приложения - Часть 1
This is the first article of a series of articles on security holes that can appear within a program. The series will show how to avoid security holes if programming habits are slightly corrected. We shall first discuss privileges, UID and EUID in this first article before dealing with the execution of external commands.
- xinetd - extended Internet services daemon
xinetd - extended Internet services daemon - provides an excellent security against the intrusions, and limit certain risks of attacks by Deny of Services ( DoS ). It allows, just like the most known pair ( inetd + tcpd ), to set access control to a computer, but its capacities extend well beyond. This article proposes you to discover them.
- Bastille Linux
Available by the beginning of june,version 1.1 of Bastille-Linux is not a new Linux Distribution but a set of security scripts. The authors have adopted a very pedagogic approach and one can learn a lot simply installing these scripts.
- NFS - сетевая файловая система
Network File System (NFS) is a tool to manage files spread among several computers on a network as if they were on the same local machine. So, the final user does not have to worry of the exact location of its own files in order to access them.
- Yellow Pages (Part III)
In this last article about NIS, we explain how to install a NIS server. We will see which programs are used, configuration files and the building of the database.
- Yellow Pages 2 : Сторона клиента
My previous article was an introduction to the yellow pages and RPCs. This one explains how to configure a NIS client, how this client works and a small introduction to the different tools coming with NIS. Finally, we'll have a few words about NIS+
- Yellow Pages, часть 1
The Network Information Service (NIS) manages a data base on server. Each computer on a network running a NIS client NIS can then poll the server for informations (login name,password, users and groups informations, ...).
- automount и autofs
Automount and autofs are powerful tools and ease file systems management.
Geoffrey W. Corey [1]
- Enlightenment
Enlightenment is a highly customizable window manager for Linux. This article discusses the features, installation, and customization of the Enlightenment window manager.
Georges Tarbouriech [18]
- FreeBSD, another alternative
This article is an overview over another free Unix system: FreeBSD
- Обеспечение безопасности гетерогенных сетей с помощью программных инструментов
Security in computers networks is probably one of the biggest technology challenges of the 21st century. This article provides a general overview over the most important aspects.
- GNUMail.app, the portability evidence
A NeXTmail clone able to run under GNUstep and MacOS X with the same source code
- IOS, другая REBOLюция
Back to the future: IOS the internet operating system
- MySQL и Perl - взаимовыгодное сотрудничество
Using MySQL in conjunction with Perl is an old story, but still a good one.
- Nessus : еще один кирпич в стену (безопасности)
Nessus is more than a single security scanner
- Psionic Portsentry 1.1 на защите вашего компьютера
Port scan detection and active defense
- Singing in the web
Review of the new improved version of one of the lightest browsers
- Сквозь туннель
Using free SSH with external applications on different OSes
- GNUstep - OpenStep с открытым кодом
An object-oriented framework
- Инструменты для обеспечения безопасности системы
Free tools to harden your systems
- Однажды... или - коммерческие Unix против бесплатных!
Why choosing between a commercial or a free Unix
- REBOL
Let's say REBOL is a messaging language, but as a matter of fact, it's much more than that.
- Виртуальная сетевая система ( VNC )
The dream of the network administrator come true
- Arkeia, a professional and commercial network backup solution
Arkeia 4.2.3-1 is the latest version of a commercial and professional network backup solution from Knox Software.
- NEdit, the universal editor in Unix world
Nedit is a remarkable editor. Unfortunately it is not included in most Linux distributions and therefore not as well known as other editors.
- WindowMaker the spirit of NextStep
Window Maker 0.61.1 is the latest release of a NeXT look-alike window manager.
- FSViewer, a File Manager for WindowMaker
Among the revolutionary tools of NeXTStep, the first in order of appearance on the screen was indisputably the File Viewer. Thanks to the path-view in that File Manager you always knew where you were. It was more than a manager, it was a true browser. FSViewer is a NeXTStep a like File Manager for WindowMaker.
Guido Socher [22]
Hack Linux [1]
Harald Radke [6]
Hilaire Fernandes [2]
Holger Blasum [1]
Ingo Hoffmann [1]
Ismael Ripoll [6]
- Интервью с Хуаном Хосе Амором
Juan Jose Amor Iglesias Current coordinator of the LuCAS project, part of the LDP and devoted to the translation and localization of MDL manuals in Spanish
- Real-Time Linux II
In this second issue devoted to RT-Linux I will try to offer a more practical view of RT-Linux.
- Пакет StarOffice (Текстовый процессор)
This article looks at the word processor in StarOffice
- POSIX RT рассширения
Basic Concepts of Real-Time.
- Введение
This article reviews the applications available in the suite StarOffice 4.0. The author gives us a demonstration using tool for the creation of presentations. (functionally similar to Microsoft's Power Point).
- Lyx Review
Lyx is an editor with fantastic possibilities. Ismael gives us a little overview.
Ismael Rpoll and Elisa Acosta [1]
- Linux RT, part III
In this article a simple electric circuit is used to process commands from any infra-red remote control.
Jan Svenungson [1]
Javi Polo [1]
Javier Palacios Bermejo [1]
- Awk
Examples on how to use AWK
Jay Link [1]
Jeffry Degrande [2]
- Slackware 7.0 Часть II: Настройка системы
After the installation in the first part, the author now describes some basic configuration tasks in his now favorite Linux distribution. He explains how to configure X, how to compile a kernel (and how to use it with lilo), how to do user account management, how to dial in to internet and how to give your system some basic security.
- Slackware 7.0 : Инсталляция (часть 1)
The author describes in detail the installation of the Slackware 7.0 Linux distribution. This article is written for beginners.
Joel McCarty [2]
John E. Gotts [1]
John Kirch [1]
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX
The goal of this article is provide managers in corporations with the data and comparisons necessary to make well-informed decisions concerning the installation of servers for the corporate environment. All the information presented in this article summarizes the experience of a number of information systems professionals.
John Perr [3]
Jose M. Fernandez [3]
- Java. Part II
The second part of a tutorial about java
- MySQL. A Database Server
MySQL is an SQL (Structured Query Language) database server supported by a number of platforms, including Linux. Its Linux version is design with fast performance in mind.
- Java. Часть I
This is the first article in a series about Java programming. The first part will describe Java as a language, its general characteristics and the location of the most relevant sources of information.
Jose Maria Laveda [3]
Juan Manuel Sepúlveda [2]
Katja Socher [7]
Katja and Guido Socher [3]
Ken Yap [1]
Lee Wee Tiong [1]
Lorne Bailey [2]
- KDE 3
The new KDE3 is out. This article will give you an idea what it would be like to try it for yourself.
- GCC - корень всего
This is an introduction to using gcc as a compiler.
Luis Colorado [2]
Manuel Benet Navarro [2]
Manuel Martinez [1]
Manuel Muriel Cordero [2]
- GNU утилиты
The GNU utilities are a set of standard UNIX commands available with almost every UNIX system.
- Basic UNIX commands
Simple introduction to some of the basic UNIX tools
Manuel Soriano [3]
Manuel Trujillo Albarral [2]
- Some Tips
Well...here are some notes, tricks, some of these are specific to non-english speaking users and therefore not frequently answered in the common documentation.
- Connecting to the Internet
Here we have something lots of users face up to in their early stages of setting Linux up: Connecting to the Internet.
Mark Nielsen [6]
Martin Van Velsen [1]
- MindsEye: 3D Modeling
About 2 years ago, when linux was still very much a hackers operating system, the idea popped up to start work on a renderer/modeler/animation program for Linux.
Matthias Rechenburg [1]
Michael Jastremski [1]
Miguel A Sepulveda [15]
Mooneer Salem [1]
Olivier Chapuis [1]
- How to remove windows
This article describes how to remove Windows and give the disk space to Linux without re-installing it
Omar Andres Armas Aleman [1]
- Interview with Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza gives us an interesting peek at a selected group of linux kernel developers. He is involved with the Linux/Sparc, Gnome project and RedHat's Lab.
Penelope Marr [1]
- Linux по-китайски
This brief article describes how to enable Chinese locale on a "standard" Linux box.
Phil Ross [6]
Philip de Groot [3]
- Compile your own Linux kernel
This a really comprehensive article that teaches you how to download , configure, compile and install your own kernel.
- Создание записей в формате mp3, часть 2
In the first part we showed how you can record in mp3 in realtime, for example a radio show, and make a big file out of it, e.g. 650MB for 24 hours of music in near-CD quality (128 kbit/s; stereo). Now, what to do with such a big file? Can we make even bigger files, or could we maybe get a better compression rate? How about the quality of these mp3 recordings?
- mp3-запись в реальном времени
Recording music in mp3-format gives you the possibility to record very long pieces of music without exhausting the disk-space.
Phillip Gühring [2]
Pierre Loidreau [1]
Reha K. Gerceker [1]
- Введение в Ncurses
Ncurses is a library that provides function-key mapping, screen painting functions and the ability to use multiple non-overlapping windows on text-based terminals.
Sebastian Sasias [1]
Serge Lozovsky [1]
Serge Winitzki [1]
Subhasish Ghosh [1]
Sujan M. Swearingen [1]
Thomas Mangin [1]
Vincente Egea [2]
- Installation and Configuration of a Raid-system
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) consists of a series of systems to organize several disk drives into a single entity that behaves as a single virtual drive but making the various disks work in parallel thus improving the access performance and saving the information stored from accidental crashes.
- An auto guided Vehicle Based on Linux
This ariticle describes a Linux based robot as developed at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Wilbert Berendsen [1]
- Поручите свою работу make!
This article explains how "make" works. It shows that "make" is more than just a command to compile software.
Yao Feng [1]
Yves Ceccone [4]
- XMRM : Морфинг с Линуксом
XMRM (Multi Resolution Morphing for X) is a morphing program that allows one to create an mpeg video based on the the transformation from one image into another one.
- Gimp : Using layers and their masks
Mask layers from Gimp are a really universal tool for all kind of tricks.
- Sketch, vectorial drawing under Linux
The advantages of a vectorial representation over bitmap is that files are smaller and the image can be enlarged significantly without differences in rendering (pixellisation). Sketch is written in Python, an object oriented interpreted programming language.
- Инструменты Gimp: выделение и коррекция цвета
This article explains how to use Gimp's powerful selection mechanisms.