Linux Journal Contents #75, July 2000

Gri: A Language for Scientific Illustration by Dan E. Kelley and Peter S. Galbraith: This scripting language avoids integrating analysis and display capabilities and instead focuses on providing precise and flexible control over the display of technical material.
Tracking Satellites with PREDICT by John A. Magliacane: A look at the development and use of an open-source satellite-tracking and orbital-prediction program.
Detecting Chaos in the Field by Juergen Kahrs: All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real. -- G.W.F. Hegel, 1770-1831
THOR: A Versatile Commodity Component of Supercomputer Development by Robert A. Davis: CERN continues to use Linux as their OS of choice for modeling and simulation studies.
A GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone by Steve Mann: This fully fuctioning prototype, designed and built by Steve Mann in 1998, was demonstrated in 1999, and later used to deliver a videoconference at ISSCC 2000.

Three-Tier Architecture by Ariel Ortiz Ramirez: Professor Ortiz presents a little of the theory behind the three-tier architecture and shows how it may be applied using Linux, Java and MiniSQL.
cgimodel: CGI Programming Made Easy with Python by Chenna Ramu and Christina Gemuend: Always look on the bright side of life and at a method for debugging CGI programs on the command line.
Mapping Lightning with Linux by Timothy Hamlin: NM Tech studies lightning to determine basic charge structures and learn more about storm morphology.
Using Linux in Embedded and Real-Time Systems by Rick Lehrbaum: When you need an embedded operating system, Linux is a good place to start. Here's why.
Troll Tech Announces Embedded GUI Toolkit by Craig Knudsen: Troll Tech enters the embedded systems market--here's what's happening.
The Montreal 2000 Linux Expo by Marcel Gagne: LJ's French chef visits Montreal April 10-12 for more than the food.

Take Command: The System Logging Daemons, syslogd and klog by Michael A. Schwarz: Take command of your log files by learning to handle those pesky logging daemons.
Linux Means Business: Using Linux at Left Field Productions by David Ashley: One programmer's experiece developing a Gameboy emulator on Linux.
System Administration: Getting the NT Out--and the Linux In by David C. Smith: An overview of configuring Linux using Samba to replace the services provided from Windows NT servers.
Kernel Korner: Linux System Calls by Moshe Bar: How to use the mechanism provided by the IA32 architecture for handling system calls.
Linley on Linux Voice Recognition Ready for Consumer Devices by Linley Gwennap
Cooking with Linux: An Appetite for Discovery by Marcel Gagne: Looking at the skies for stars and aliens can both be done on Linux systems.
At the Forge: Press Releases with Mason by Reuven M. Lerner
Focus on Software by David A. Bandel
Embedded Systems News by Rick Lehrbaum

Mastering Algorithms with C by John Kacur
Red Hat Linux 6 for Small Business by Paul Dunne
Low-Bandwidth Communication Tools for Science by Enrique Canessa and Clement Onime: No access to the Internet? Browse the Web via e-mail instead!
Security Technologies for the World Wide Web by Wael Hassan
Getting Started in Computer Consulting by Ralph Krause
Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours by Ralph Krause
Linux Administration A Beginner's Guide by Harvey Friedman
AIPS and Linux: A Historical Reminiscence by Patrick P. Murphy: The Astronomical Image Processing System looks at the sky using the radio wave section of the electromagnetic spectrum.