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Everybody talks about Linux these days. Maybe you feel that this was already the case last year but I think there is an important change going on. So far only people with a technical background have been talking about the benefits of Linux. This seems to change now.
Watch your friends and colleagues or take a look at this article "Banks Want to Swim With Penguin" from wired.com. Reuters has ported its popular Reuters Market Data System to Linux and financial industry heavyweights such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs have all announced major Linux deployments.

This trend will continue and we will see a "snow ball effect": The more applications are available for Linux the more people will use it and this again will cause more companies to port their applications. A nice trend, finally ;-)

-- Guido Socher

System Administration

• Secure your connections with SSH , by Bernard Perrot
  
  This article is an in depth description of SSH.

• External attacks , by Eric Detoisien
  
  This article presents the different types of external attacks that a cracker can use.

• Accessing PostgreSQL through JDBC via a Java SSL tunnel , by Chianglin Ng
  
  This article shows how to set up JDBC access for PostgreSQL on redhat 8.0 and how to create a SSL tunnel using Sun's Java Secured Socket Extensions, to enable secured access to a remote postgres database.

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Webdesign

• Bookreview: Beginning PHP4 Databases , by Alessandro Pellizzari
  
  Beginning PHP4 Databases is a book from Wrox press.

Forum

• Basic acoustics and Signal Processing , by John Perr
  
  Everything about sound. The physics, wave forms, the human ear.... What is digital sound...?

Hardware

• Linux USB LCD display with watchdog and buttons , by Guido Socher
  
  This article explains how to modify the LCD display presented in May2002 to work with the USB interface. The design is based on a chip from www.ftdichip.com.

• Measuring air pressure with Linux , by Ralf Wieland
  
  This article describes an inexpensive solution to messure air pressure with a Linux PC.

Software Development

• Concurrent programming - Message queues (1) , by Leonardo Giordani
  
  The continues the series on Concurrent programming. Read also the articles from the previous 2 issues.

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