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Welcome to the LinuxFocus July/August 2002 issue

System Administration

• Securing a heterogeneous network with free software tools , by Georges Tarbouriech
  
  Security in computers networks is probably one of the biggest technology challenges of the 21st century. This article provides a general overview over the most important aspects.

• Receiving faxes with efax , by Mark Nielsen
  
  Setting up Efax to send and receive faxes on RedHat 7.2.

Hardware

• Hardware watchdog and shutdown button , by Guido Socher
  
  This is a simple circuit to connect to the serial line of your server.

Articles at Linux Netmag Trinux & Co. Small distributions raccess Your PC needs a call Firewall Setting Up a Windowmanager Ready for a new Dial-In-Server ISDN

Articles at Linux Gazette The MailBag More 2-Cent Tips The Answer Gang News Bytes Pl/Python and Cursors in Pl/Pgsql for PostgreSQL , by Mark Nielsen Red Hat and USB devices , by Mark Nielsen Configuring GDM 2.2 , by Mark Nielsen The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers , by Mike Orr Qubism , by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem Wine: Raising a toast to your Windows Apps on Linux , by Gaurav Taneja My Guide To Linux Security , by Rob Tougher

Kernel Corner

• Compile your own Linux kernel , by Philip de Groot
  
  Many people are scared when they hear "recompile the kernel". This article shows how you do it and how easy it is.

Applications

• Plugins and Mozilla , by Mark Nielsen
  
  How I setup Mozilla for Real Player, Acrobat, Flash, and a generic plug-in Plugger.

• Light, Camera, Action... Kino! , by Katja Socher
  
  Connect your digital video camera via firewire to Linux and start cutting.

• Bookreview: Beginning Databases with MySQL , by Bruno Sousa
  
  Beginning Databases with MySQL is a new book from Wrox-press.

The LinuxFocus Tip

Removing the damm trash can from KDE

In KDE 3 it is now possible to remove the "Trash" from the Desktop!

1. Delete the ~/KDesktop/Trash directory
2. Set KDE Control Center->Look & Feel->Desktop->Paths->Trash to /dev/null and see complain that you don't own it.
3. Restart KDE.

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