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Linux Journal Issue #132/April 2005

Features

Finding Your Way with GPSdrive  by Charles Curley
Integrate this navigation package with speech synthesis, wireless network mapping and your choice of map data.
Building Your Own Live CD  by Daniel Barlow
Live CDs let you turn any computer into a temporary Linux box. Make it a Linux box with your chosen software and configuration.
Building Impress and PowerPoint Slides with LaTeX and Perl  by Paul Barry
Take advantage of Openoffice.org's well-documented file formats to create presentations as easily as a Web site.

Indepth

Performers Go Web  by Patricia Jung
That on-line animation was pretty funny, but how about performing a show live? Here's new software that makes it possible.
My Favorite bash Tips and Tricks  by Prentice Bisbal
These command-line stunts will have you manipulating lots of files as easily as you would do one before. The sooner you start, the more time you'll save.
File Synchronization with Unison  by Erik Inge Bolso
Is the latest version of that file on my server, my desktop or my laptop? With Unison, the answer is “yes”.
Using C for CGI Programming  by Clay Dowling
Your Web app doesn't have to be written in some newfangled scripting malarkey. Check out the speed when you try it in C.
Part III: AFS—A Secure Distributed Filesystem  by Alf Wachsmann
Reconfigure servers without changing mount points on the clients with this Kerberos-authenticated network filesystem.

Embedded

Linux on a Small Satellite  by Christopher Huffine
If you need to get a satellite launched in a year, think standard parts, creative reuse and shell scripts.

Toolbox

At the Forge   Column 100  by Reuven M. Lerner
Kernel Korner   Dynamic Interrupt Request Allocation for Device Drivers  by Dr B. Thangaraju
Cooking with Linux   The Cook's Collection  by Marcel Gagné
Paranoid Penguin   Securing WLANs with WPA and FreeRADIUS, Part I  by Mick Bauer

Columns

Linux for Suits   The No-Party System  by Doc Searls
EOF   Open Access for Science  by Christopher Frenz

Review

LifeKeeper  by Sean Tierney

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