The July 1998 issue of Linux Journal (#51) will be mailed from the printers in Post Falls, Idaho on June 5, 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS LINUX JOURNAL July 1998 _________________________________________________________________ Features * The Crystal Experiment: Linux in a Physics Lab by Emanuele Leonardi and Giovanni Organtini High-energy nuclear studies using Linux. * Due South with the British Antarctic Survey by Craig Donlon and James Crawshaw Using Linux for research on a boat in the south Atlantic. * Linux in a Scientific Laboratory by Przemek Klosowski, Nick Maliszewskyj and Bud Dickerson The NIST Center for Neutron Research uses Linux daily. * Global Position Reporting by Richard Parry An introduction to GPS and APRS technolgies * JavaLanche: An Avalanche Predictor by Richard Sevenich and Rick Price Here's how Fuzzy Logic is being used to predict avalanches. * ROOT: An Object-Oriented Data Analysis Framework by Fons Rademakers and Rene Brun A data analysis tool developed and used by CERN. News & Articles * A Glimpse of Icon: A Language For the Rest of Us by Clinton Jeffery and Shamim Mohamed * Having Fun on ViewSurf by Pierre Ficheux * Encrypted File Systems by Bear Giles * Graphical Desktop Korn Shell by George Kraft IV * A SCSI Test Tool for Linux by Pete Popov * Introducing Samba by John Blair Reviews * Product Review + Softfocus BTree/ISAM v3.1 by Edmund P. Morgan + Insure++ by Jim Nance WWWsmith * At the Forge: Combining Apache and Perl by Reuven M. Lerner Columns * Letters to the Editor * Best of Technical Support * Stop the Presses: COMDEX/Spring 1998 by Jon "maddog" Hall * Take Command: lex and yacc: Tools Worth Knowing by Dean Allen Provins * Kernel Korner: Miscellaneous Character Drivers by Alessandro Rubini * Linux Gazette: The Yorick Programming Language by Cary O'Brien * New Products + STREAMS Data Comm Protocols, Gcom, Inc. + Raven SSL Module for Apache, Covalent Technologies + Java Workshop 2.0 for Linux, S.u.S.E. + VariCAD, VariCad LLC + Cobalt Qube Microserver, Cobalt Micoroserver, Inc. + Screamer 633MHz Custom Workstations, Microway + NetTracker Proxy 3.5, Sane Solutions LLC Directories & References * Advertisers Index _________________________________________________________________ Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all Computer Literacy stores) and is delivered to newsstands by a newsstand distributor. If you know a place that sells magazines that you feel should stock LJ, send e-mail to dist@ssc.com or have them call SSC at 206-782-7733. Getting LJ on newsstands is one of the best ways we can show the non-Internet crowd that Linux is for real. Subscriptions are: US$22/year U.S. US$27/year Canada US$37/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada US$59/2 years Foreign Linux Journal P.O. Box 85867 Seattle, WA 98145-1867 Fax: +1 206-782-7191 Tel: +1 888-66-LINUX E-mail: subs@ssc.com URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Our public key (for encrypting your credit card number) is available by fingering linux@ssc.com. Subscriptions begin with the *upcoming* issue. Back issues are available (except for Issues #1, #3, #4, #5, #30 and #44, we're out) for $6 each or $8 each non-North American airmail. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars*** Other questions/comments can be sent to: linux@ssc.com