Linux Journal Contents #51, July 1998

Emphasis: Science and Engineering

The Crystal Experiment: Linux in a Physics Lab by Emanuele Leonardi and Giovanni Organtini: Linux is now being used in high-energy nuclear studies in Geneva by CERN.
Due South with the British Antarctic Survey by Craig Donlon and James Crawshaw: Linux now facilitates scientific research in the Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica.
Linux in a Scientific Laboratory by Przemek Klosowski, Nick Maliszewskyj and Bud Dickerson: The authors tell us how they use Linux daily to fulfill the requirements of their lab.
Global Position Reporting by Richard Parry: Although the GPS was originally intended for use by the military, in peace time it has given rise to applications that were heretofore limited to science fiction.
Javalanche: An Avalanche Predictor by Richard Sevenich and Rick Price: This article introduces a prototypical avalanche predicting software package implemented with a Fuzzy Logic algorithm.
ROOT: An Object-Oriented Data Analysis Framework by Fons Rademakers and Rene Brun: A report on a data analysis tool currently being developed at CERN.

A Glimpse of Icon: A Language For the Rest of Us by Clinton Jeffery and Shamim Mohamed: This article gives a quick introduction to the programming language Icon, developed at the University of Arizona.
Having Fun on ViewSurf by Pierre Ficheux: This article explains how linux is used in the ViewSurf "Beach Report", a fun WebCAM-based service.
Encrypted File Systems by Bear Giles: Here's a good way to protect your files. Mr. Giles explains how to encrypt your entire file system rather than individual files.
Graphical Desktop Korn Shell by George Kraft IV: The Graphical Desktop Korn Shell (DtKsh) is a featured part of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). DtKsh provides a consistent and reliable graphical Motif shell language that is supported on all CDE-compliant systems.
A SCSI Test Tool for Linux by Pete Popov
Introducing Samba by John Blair: When you need to network your Linux box with Windows, Samba is the way to do it.

Letters to the Editor
Stop the Presses: COMDEX/Spring 1998 by Jon "maddog" Hall
Take Command: lex and yacc: Tools Worth Knowing by Dean Allen Provins
Today, computers can talk and they can listen--but how often do they do what you want?
New Products
Kernel Korner: Miscellaneous Character Drivers by Alessandro Rubini
Mr. Rubini tells us how to register a small device needing a single entry point with the misc driver.
Linux Gazette: The Yorick Programming Language by Cary O'Brien
Yorick is an interpreted language for numerical analysis used by scientist on machines from Linux laptops to Cray supercomputers.
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