Linux Journal Contents #61, May 1999

Larry Wall, The Guru of Perl by Marjorie Richardson: What's happening with the Perl scripting language--a bit of history and a look at the future.
CORBA Program Development, Part 1 by J. Mark Shacklette and Jeff Illian: The authors provide some basics to get the new CORBA programmer started.
GUI Development with Java by Ian Darwin: Mr. Darwin takes a look at Java and describes the steps for writing a user interface in Java.
DSP Software Development by Ian V. McLoughlin: Follow the development of speech algorithms for digital radios through the complete project life cycle.
Introduction to Multi-Threaded Programming by Brian Masney: A description of thread programming basics for C programmers.

An Overview of Intel's MMX Technology by Ariel Ortiz Ramirez: An introduction to MMX and how to take advantage of its capabilities in your program.
Troll Tech's QPL by Craig Knudsen: A look at the new Qt public license and the effects it may have on software development for KDE and GNOME.
Creat: An Embedded Systems Project by Nick Bailey: CREAT is a tool set for teaching embedded systems. In designing it, Mr. Bailey wanted it to be useful for real problems, cheap enough to build on the pittance which is an undergraduate's project budget, and totally open and accessible to the curious.

Linux Means Business: Upgrading Linux Over the Internet by Daniel Dee and Dale Nielsen
A real life experience in remote upgrading of a Linux PC across the Pacific Ocean.
Focus on Software: Focus on Software by David A. Bandel
The Cutting Edge: LiS: Linux STREAMS by Fransisco Ballesteros, Denis Froschauer, David Grothe and
System Administration: Adding Features to Dial-Up PPP Service by Lindsay Haisley
Mr. Haisley provides some PPP customization scripts for web hosting services.
Linux Apprentice: A Toolbox for the X User by Christoph Dalitz
An introduction to several small graphical tools for the daily work of system administration.
At the Forge: Reading E-mail Via the Web by Reuven M. Lerner
How to write your own program to read and send mail to any server on the Internet.

Improve Bash Shell Scripts Using Dialog by Mihai Bisca: The dialog command enables the use of window boxes in shell scripts to make their use more interactive.
A Standard for Application Starters by Rui Anastacio: Mr. Anastacio demonstrates how to write an aplication starter in a standard format.
Using Linux in the University by Jeremy Dinsel: Mr. Dinsel tells us how his former college is using Linux as a web server and teaching tool.
A Look at the Buffer-Overflow Hack by Eddie Harari: Mr. Harari disects the buffer-overflow hack, thereby giving us the necessary information to avoid this problem.
Memory Access Error Checkers by Cesare Pizzi: A look at three programs designed to help the C programmer find the cause of segmentation fault errors.