Send Linux Tips and Tricks to gazette@ssc.com Contents: Spinning Down Unused HDs Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:34:07 +0100 (MET) From: Philipp Braunbeck 100.182763@germany.net I guess there’s no more need to emphasize how much we all like LG. Here’s just my humble-newbie-one-and-a-half. If You’re like me and You’ve been upgrading for a couple of years […]

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Contents: Removing LILO, Reinstalling MS-DOS From: Stephen Britton, sbritton@westnet.com My parents just told me that I have to give our extra machine (a 486 running Red Hat 4.1) to my younger brother, who only knows Windows. I have formated the drive with MS-DOS, but I can’t seem to figure out how to remove LILO. I […]

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Do you have a laptop ? And want frequently to copy files to another system ? Use mirror ! I frequently have to exchange files between my laptop and other systems, eg. my home desktop. This can be conveniently done using rdist(1). I wrote a small script called mirror, which basically contains a call of […]

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Write the Gazette at gazette@ssc.com Article Ideas Help Wanted General Mail We’re back in business after a one month gap–no November issue–and we need articles from you. So, all you budding authors and Linux users out there, send me your material. Don’t depend on our regular authors to fill the gap. We want to hear […]

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Several months ago, with some trepidation and the assistance of a friend who is somewhat more knowledgeable than myself about computer hardware, I took the plunge and installed Linux on my Pentium PC. Soon after, I downloaded a pile of assorted How-To’s, FAQS and Tutorials from the Internet to start doing something useful with Linux. […]

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Our company network is based on some sparcs and linux servers and windows (3.11 and 95) clients, wich telnet to the server to use a Cobol-written accounting program. After passing from nfs to samba (imagine the user’s fun when they first discovered winpopup), we decided to try some fax software. We had some alternatives: comercial […]

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Contents: About This Month’s Authors Not Linux Wayde Allen Wayde Allen is an Electrical Engineer involved with the maintenance and development of the U.S. primary rf power standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has been using Linux as his primary computing platform for about three years, and was instrumental in […]

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Sooner or later every UNIX user has a use for a shell script. You may just want to do a repetitive task easier, or you may want to add a bit more kick to an existing program. An easy way to accomplish this is to use a shell script. One of the first shell scripts […]

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The Front Page The MailBag More 2 Cent Tips News Bytes News in General Software Announcements The Answer Guy, by James T. Dennis Quick autofs Tutorial, by Mark Nielsen Buying A Laptop, by Joel Jaeggli Copying Files Using Mirror, by Gerd Bavendiek Linux Benchmarking: Part 3 — Interpreting Benchmark Results, by André D. Balsa LXNY […]

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v0.82, 31 December 1997 This is the third article in a series of articles on Linux Benchmarking, to be published by the Linux Gazette. The first two articles showed how to successfully run synthetic or application benchmarks to produce accurate, significant and relevant data. The present article deals with the correct interpretation of this data, […]

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