2003 November

[3.43M]
US$29.95

http://www.7tools.com/pm/index.html
Need to manage your partitions and make room for multiple operating systems (up to sixteen), but you’d rather save the skull-splitting headache sure to ensue for another, more worthwhile project? Drop the Advil and pick up this handy little effort-saver. This update to the popular 7tools Partition Manager fixes a few bugs present from earlier [...]

[4.8M]
US$39

http://www.opera.com/download/?session=be81adbd18385ac388d780fb15b11ef6
What new tricks does this old dog have up its, er, paws? The return to an optional “kiosk mode” (not seen since version 6) will be welcomed by institutions such as libraries, computer labs, coffeehouses, and asylums that, for the sake of liability and resource management, have good reason to restrict their users from accessing [...]

[4.8M]
US$39

http://www.openoffice.org/
Like dreaming, OpenOffice.org 1.1 is free! You may be among the 16 million+ users who downloaded version 1.0 and couldn’t believe this open-source product/project could be so good, and now it’s been bug-fixed and improved to be, as they say, “more powerful, more compatible, more international, more accessible, more open than ever!” Its word processor, spreadsheet, [...]

Kevin Kelly suggests that you might quite enjoy swapping time behind your computer monitor for eighty-six minutes in front of a television screen in order to feast your senses on a little gem of a movie called Revolution OS. In his words:
“Two themes that normally don’t intersect in true films come together surprisingly well in [...]

Would you be shocked if someone were to tell you that Linux is more secure than Windows XP? No? Not us, either. But it seems to have surprised the folks over at businesswire.com, who write:
“Evans Data Corporation’s Fall 2003 North American Development Survey has found that Linux has increased its lead in developers’ minds as [...]

Want to learn how to “roll your own” firewall with Netfilter? The Linux Journal details exactly how right here!
An excerpt:
“Every self-respecting Linux guru should be familiar with firewalls and how to install and configure them. With this in mind, Linux gurus also should be curious about how firewalls function and how to build a firewall [...]

As in the days of David and Goliath, it might seem unthinkable that a tiny hero could rise to challenge the might of a much-feared giant. While the giant in this case hasn’t exactly been felled, stones are flying and, against the odds, Goliath seems to be flinching! Robert Weisman of The Boston Globe talks [...]

Author Roderick W. Smith sets out to explain the most painless and effective ways to recover from filesystem corruption in NewsForge’s quite lengthy but extremely helpful excerpt from his book, “Linux Power Tools.”
As Mr. Smith summarizes:
Linux, like any OS, is built on its filesystems. The ext2 filesystem has long been the standard for Linux, but [...]

In the far east, Linux is busting out all over! Already poised “to become an explosive hit in Japan,” Linux is being considered by the governments of other Asian countries like China, South Korea, and Taiwan. “The Chinese are determined to say goodbye to Mr Bill Gates. The South Korean government is thinking seriously about [...]

Ahoy, gentle readers! For those of you who didn’t already know, we’re on fire out here in Southern California! No, that’s not an allusion to our funky fresh Lockergnome sexy karaoke style (Not now, anyway. That’ll be for a later issue, and there might be pictures. Maybe). I mean it. Literally. The place is going [...]