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<H4>Published by <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/"><I>Linux Journal</I></A></H4>
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<H1><font color="maroon">The Back Page</font></H1>
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<li><a HREF="#authors">About This Month's Authors</a>
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<li><a HREF="#notlinux">Not Linux</a>
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Larry Ayers</H4>
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Larry lives on a small farm
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in northern Missouri, where he is currently engaged in building a
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timber-frame house for his family. He operates a portable band-saw mill,
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does general woodworking, plays the fiddle and searches for rare
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prairie plants, as well as growing shiitake mushrooms. He is also
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struggling with configuring a Usenet news server for his local ISP.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jim Dennis</H4>
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Jim is the proprietor of <A href="http://www.starshine.org">
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Starshine Technical Services</A> and is now working for <A
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HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">LinuxCare</A>.
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His professional experience includes work in the technical
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support, quality assurance, and information services (MIS)
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departments of software companies like
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Quarterdeck, Symantec/Peter Norton Group and
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McAfee Associates -- as well as
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positions (field service rep) with smaller VAR's.
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He's been using Linux since version 0.99p10 and is an active
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participant on an ever-changing list of mailing lists and
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newsgroups. He's just started collaborating on the 2nd Edition
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for a book on Unix systems administration.
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Jim is an avid science fiction fan -- and was
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married at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Michael J. Hammel</H4>
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A Computer Science graduate of Texas Tech University, Michael J. Hammel,
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mjhammel@graphics-muse.org, is an software developer specializing in X/Motif
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living in Dallas, Texas (but calls Boulder, CO home for some reason).
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His background includes everything from data
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communications to GUI development to Interactive Cable systems, all based in
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Unix. He has worked for companies such as Nortel, Dell Computer, and
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Xi Graphics.
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Michael writes the monthly Graphics Muse column in the Linux Gazette,
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maintains the Graphics Muse Web site and theLinux Graphics mini-Howto, helps
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administer the Internet Ray Tracing Competition (http://irtc.org) and
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recently completed work on his new book "The Artist's Guide to the Gimp",
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published by SSC, Inc. His outside interests include running, basketball,
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Thai food, gardening, and dogs.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Norman M. Jacobowitz </H4>
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Norman is a freelance writer and marketing consultant
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based in Seattle, Washington. Please send your comments,
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criticisms, suggestions and job offers to <A HREF=mailto:normj@aa.net>
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normj@aa.net</A>.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Dr. Warren MacEvoy</H4>
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Dr. Warren MacEvoy (wmacevoy@mesastate.edu) has been a happy
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Linux user since 1993. He enjoys reading with his son, Bryce, eating
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really hot food and listening to disturbingly loud music. He also hates
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putting commas inside of ``quotes,'' especially when the comma
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is not part of what he is quoting!
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Bill Mote</H4>
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Bill is the Technical Support Services manager for a multi-billion dollar
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publishing company and is responsible for providing 1st and 2nd level
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support services to their 500+ roadwarrior sales force as well as their
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3,500 workstation and laptop users. He was introduced to Linux by a good
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friend in 1996 and thought Slackware was the end-all-be-all of the OS world
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... until he found Mandrake in early 1999. Since then he's used his
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documentation skills to help those new to Linux find their way.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Mark Nielsen</H4>
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Mark founded The Computer Underground, Inc. in June of 1998. Since then,
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he has been working on Linux solutions for his customers ranging from custom
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computer hardware sales to programming and networking. Mark specializes in Perl,
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SQL, and HTML programming along with Beowulf clusters. Mark believes in the
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concept of contributing back to the Linux community which helped to start his
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company. Mark and his employees are always looking for exciting projects to do.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Steve O'Neill</H4>
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Steve is an electronics engineer and been designing hardware for 30 years,
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more or less. He got interested in Linux several years ago when he worked for a
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local ISP: he put Linux on his machine and haven't looked back since. He like
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to say he's semi-retired. That means when the money runs out, he'll go back to
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work. :-)
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">JC Pollman</H4>
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I have been playing with linux since kernel 1.0.59. I spend way too much
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time at the keyboard and even let my day job - the military - interfere once in
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a while. My biggest concern about linux is the lack of documentation for the
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intermediate user. There is already too much beginner's stuff, and the
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professional material is often beyond the new enthusiast.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Erik Severinghaus</H4>
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Erik is going to be a senior at North Raleigh Christian Academy next year. He's
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been using Linux for a couple years now, and currently runs Debian. When he's
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not staring at a monitor, he loves to ski, camp, backpack, and play basketball.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Anderson Silva</H4>
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<A HREF="http://www.4christ.org/anderson.html">Anderson</A>
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is a Senior at Liberty University majoring in Computer Science.
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Originally from Brazil, now he works at the University's
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<A HREF="http://www.liberty.edu/itrc">Information Technology
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Center</A>. He is also a member of the <A HREF="http://www.lylug.org/">
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Lynchburg Linux User Group</A> in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jan W. Stumpel</H4>
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Jan lives in Oegstgeest, The Netherlands.
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Not Linux</font></H3></center>
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There's not much to say this month. I was excited by the news about
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Amiga adopting the Linux kernel (and about the rumors about Transmeta),
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and by the report about TurboLinux outselling at least one version of
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Windows 98 in Japan. I learned from JC Pollman's article about DNS.
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<P> JC, by the way, has agreed to do a new monthly series called
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"The Linux Home System Administrator". These articles will be a little
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more advanced than our articles for beginners.
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<P> Now, if only I hadn't been sick the past week and a half...
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Have fun!
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<P>-Mike Orr<br>
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Editor, <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/"><i>Linux Gazette</i></A>, <A
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HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</a>
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<I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 44, August 1999,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/">http://www.linuxgazette.com</A><BR>
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This page written and maintained by the Editor of <I>Linux Gazette</I>,
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<A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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<H5>Copyright © 1999 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc.<br>
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