" tend to read science fiction
E or fantasy for entertainment
I and/or escape from reality. In
fact, I suspect my childhood would
have been far less tolerable had I
not been able to escape to Mordor
for a time or hide from the bugs
with Johnnie Rico. And as much
as I loved watching the exploits of
Captain Picard and his crew, there
was never an episode on how to
build a replicator. Or a holodeck.
Or a phaser. And that's what I've
loved about Linux Journal for far
longer than I've been on staff: it
shows how to do stuff!
This issue not only continues that
legacy, but it also even focuses on it!
I apologize in advance for any lost
productivity at work while you live out
the How-To issue this month.
Reuven I\/I. Lerner starts out with
a look back at 20 years of Web
development. It's hard to believe it's
been 20 years since the first www was
put in a browser's address bar, but
what a 20 years it's been! No more
blink tags and far fewer animated GIFs
make the Web a lot more fun, even if
it is still "Under Construction".
Necessity truly is the mother of
invention, and Dave Taylor knows that
better than anyone. As he continues
to battle with a DDOS on his server,
he shares his process with us all.
While scripting is the Swiss Army
knife of system administration, it's not
terribly helpful if your scripts have a
"dull blade". Dave shows some best
practices on creating scripts that can
provide invaluable information.
Kyle Rankin reveals that he's really
been lying all these years, and that
he uses Windows Vista on a 17"
sports utility laptop. Okay, that's a
complete lie—I couldn't resist, sorry
Kyle. In true Kyle Rankin form, he
describes how to use and manipulate
a command-line calendaring app,
gcalcli. If you want to use Google
Calendar, but don't want to load
up that pesky browser, Kyle's article
is for you.
Rather than teach how to do
something this month, I took the time
in my column to show you how I do
things. I get lots of e-mail asking what
sort of hardware and software I use,
so I figured the How-To issue was a
good time to spill the beans. Some of
my setup is probably not surprising,
but part of it might be. I'm looking
forward to feedback and to seeing
what everyone else uses.
Next up, Peter Cook provides a
review and tweak guide for the Acer
C7 Chromebook. While targeting
a similar market to the ARIVI-based
Samsung Chromebook Bill Childers
reviewed recently, the C7 uses the
Intel architecture, and sports a full
hard drive. lt's upgradeable, and after
reading Peter's article, you'll see it's
quite customizable.
Janos Gyerik follows with an
excellent article on command-line
tricks. I've been using Linux for
almost two decades, and I learned
a lot from Janos' cornucopia of CLI
tricks. Somewhere, Kyle Rankin has
to be proud. I also learned some
cool things from Petros Koutoupis
this month with his article on hard
drive caching. Hard drives are slow,
and even the fastest spinning media
is the bottleneck in any system.
By caching to RAM or SSD, Petros
explains how to take advantage of
Linux's powerful caching abilities.
CURRENT_lSSUE.TAR.GZ
Bill Childers finishes up our
How-To articles with his tutorial
on setting up vcsh for managing
configuration files. If you've ever
tar'd up your /etc directory, and
called that good enough, you won't
want to miss BilI's article. In fact,
most articles in this issue start with
the premise of, "you used to do it
this way, but you should try this! "
That's part of the reason I love the
Linux community so much. The old
I Il
saying “if it ain't broke, don t fix it
is all well and good, but if you're a
Linux user, a better saying might be
“if it ain't broke, good, that means
we can work on making it better!"
This issue showcases what made
me a Linux Journa/ reader years
before I was on staff. I love to read
about stuff, but nothing is quite as
exciting as getting to do that stuff
yourself. I hope you enjoy this issue
as much as we've enjoyed putting it
together. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm
going to use my replicator and make
some Earl Grey, hot. Beam on over
and I'll make you a cup too.I
Shawn Powers is the Associate Editor for Linux Journal.
He's also the Gadget Guy for LinuxJournal.com, and he has
an interesting collection of vintage Garfield coffee mugs.
Don't let his silly hairdo fool you, he's a pretty ordinary guy
and can be reached via e-mail at shawn@linuxjournal.com.
Ur. swing by the #linuxjournal IRC channel on Freenode.net.
E or fantasy for entertainment
I and/or escape from reality. In
fact, I suspect my childhood would
have been far less tolerable had I
not been able to escape to Mordor
for a time or hide from the bugs
with Johnnie Rico. And as much
as I loved watching the exploits of
Captain Picard and his crew, there
was never an episode on how to
build a replicator. Or a holodeck.
Or a phaser. And that's what I've
loved about Linux Journal for far
longer than I've been on staff: it
shows how to do stuff!
This issue not only continues that
legacy, but it also even focuses on it!
I apologize in advance for any lost
productivity at work while you live out
the How-To issue this month.
Reuven I\/I. Lerner starts out with
a look back at 20 years of Web
development. It's hard to believe it's
been 20 years since the first www was
put in a browser's address bar, but
what a 20 years it's been! No more
blink tags and far fewer animated GIFs
make the Web a lot more fun, even if
it is still "Under Construction".
Necessity truly is the mother of
invention, and Dave Taylor knows that
better than anyone. As he continues
to battle with a DDOS on his server,
he shares his process with us all.
While scripting is the Swiss Army
knife of system administration, it's not
terribly helpful if your scripts have a
"dull blade". Dave shows some best
practices on creating scripts that can
provide invaluable information.
Kyle Rankin reveals that he's really
been lying all these years, and that
he uses Windows Vista on a 17"
sports utility laptop. Okay, that's a
complete lie—I couldn't resist, sorry
Kyle. In true Kyle Rankin form, he
describes how to use and manipulate
a command-line calendaring app,
gcalcli. If you want to use Google
Calendar, but don't want to load
up that pesky browser, Kyle's article
is for you.
Rather than teach how to do
something this month, I took the time
in my column to show you how I do
things. I get lots of e-mail asking what
sort of hardware and software I use,
so I figured the How-To issue was a
good time to spill the beans. Some of
my setup is probably not surprising,
but part of it might be. I'm looking
forward to feedback and to seeing
what everyone else uses.
Next up, Peter Cook provides a
review and tweak guide for the Acer
C7 Chromebook. While targeting
a similar market to the ARIVI-based
Samsung Chromebook Bill Childers
reviewed recently, the C7 uses the
Intel architecture, and sports a full
hard drive. lt's upgradeable, and after
reading Peter's article, you'll see it's
quite customizable.
Janos Gyerik follows with an
excellent article on command-line
tricks. I've been using Linux for
almost two decades, and I learned
a lot from Janos' cornucopia of CLI
tricks. Somewhere, Kyle Rankin has
to be proud. I also learned some
cool things from Petros Koutoupis
this month with his article on hard
drive caching. Hard drives are slow,
and even the fastest spinning media
is the bottleneck in any system.
By caching to RAM or SSD, Petros
explains how to take advantage of
Linux's powerful caching abilities.
CURRENT_lSSUE.TAR.GZ
Bill Childers finishes up our
How-To articles with his tutorial
on setting up vcsh for managing
configuration files. If you've ever
tar'd up your /etc directory, and
called that good enough, you won't
want to miss BilI's article. In fact,
most articles in this issue start with
the premise of, "you used to do it
this way, but you should try this! "
That's part of the reason I love the
Linux community so much. The old
I Il
saying “if it ain't broke, don t fix it
is all well and good, but if you're a
Linux user, a better saying might be
“if it ain't broke, good, that means
we can work on making it better!"
This issue showcases what made
me a Linux Journa/ reader years
before I was on staff. I love to read
about stuff, but nothing is quite as
exciting as getting to do that stuff
yourself. I hope you enjoy this issue
as much as we've enjoyed putting it
together. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm
going to use my replicator and make
some Earl Grey, hot. Beam on over
and I'll make you a cup too.I
Shawn Powers is the Associate Editor for Linux Journal.
He's also the Gadget Guy for LinuxJournal.com, and he has
an interesting collection of vintage Garfield coffee mugs.
Don't let his silly hairdo fool you, he's a pretty ordinary guy
and can be reached via e-mail at shawn@linuxjournal.com.
Ur. swing by the #linuxjournal IRC channel on Freenode.net.
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