Archived Articles
Viewpoints
March 03, 2005 - Reply-To Header Notes
A few observations on the use and misuse of the Reply-To header
April 03, 2003 - Linux Newcomers
Bruce Gordon has some advice and a link for newcomers.
Reviews
January 13, 2004 - Xandros 2 Review
A follow-up to Brad's original Xandros review.
November 04, 2003 - Xandros Review
Online version of the Xandros review from the November BGLUG meeting.
July 29, 2003 - Lindows Review
Brad Rodriguez writes about his experience with Lindows.
June 2003 - Linux Gaming [ PDF ]
From a presentation on the state of Linux gaming, presented by Andrew Howlett.
April 02, 2003 - Win4Lin Review
Brad Rodriguez follows up his presentation with a written review.
December 23, 2002 - Email Clients Review
Brad Rodriguez gives insight into his process of selecting a suitable email client.
Tech Articles
July 04, 2006 - Linux Network System Monitoring
This is Daniel Dickinson's presentation on linux network monitoring (including Munin, Nagios and various other tools). Done as a presentation for BGLUG at the July 2006 meeting.
March 11, 2006 - Handouts from Jeff's LAN cable presentation (March meeting)
Wire Presentation [PDF]
Patch Cables [PDF]
Do's and Don'ts of Cabling [PDF]
November 06, 2005 - Wifi notes
Jeff has posted his notes from the wifi presentation that he did at the November meeting.
September 08, 2004 (updated 20050322) - How to Install Software (with apt and dpkg) [ PDF ]
Andrew Howlett provides an intro to installing software on an apt/dpkg system. Note that apt is also available for RPM based Linux distributions, so this isn't completely DEB specific.
August 30, 2004 - XMAME [ PDF ]
Andrew Howlett explains how to setup your Linux PC to emulate arcade machines using XMAME.
April 07, 2004 - Linux Boot Process [ PDF ] [ HTML ]
A somewhat technical overview of the Linux boot process. This was a presentation done at the April BGLUG meeting.
December 12, 2003 - Freetype, Mozilla, OpenOffice and TTF hinting
A tutorial on getting TTF hinting working for easy to read text.
October 23, 2003 - The infamous SCSI vs IDE mutt test
If you use ReiserFS, then you might be interested in this.
April 2003 - TCP/IP basics [ PDF ]
TCP/IP packets (with respect to packet filtering firewalls).
April 2003 - NAT and IP Masquerade [ PDF ]
NAT and IP Masquerade. What's the difference? How do they work?
April 2003 - Packet Filtering [ PDF ]
iptables and packet filtering firewalls.
