The July 2000 issue of Linux Journal (#75) will be mailed from the printers in Waseca, Minnesota on May 19, 2000. Linux Journal Contents -- #75 -- July 2000 _________________________________________________________________ Subscribers: If your issue is late arriving, you can find all of these articles on our interactive site at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/ Focus * Science & Engineering by Marjorie Richardson Features * Gri: A Language for Scientific Illustration by Dan E. Kelley and Peter S. Galbraith Gri, a scripting language, avoids integrating analysis anddisplay capabilities, in order to focus on providing preciseand flexible control over the display of technical material. * Tracking Satellites with PREDICT by John A. Magliacane A look at the development and use of a Linux-based,open-source, satellite-tracking and orbital-predictionprogram. * Detecting Chaos in the Field by Juergen Kahrs Using sound cards for data acquisition in the field. * THOR: A Versatile Commodity Component of Supercomputer Devel by Robert A. Davis Linux to use as a development system for extremely fast highenergy particle physics triggers. * A GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone by Steve Mann It's a fully functional wristwatch videoconferencing systemthat runs...you guessed it, GNU LINUX. Forum * Three-Tier Architecture by Ariel Ortiz Ramirez * cgimodel: CGI Programming Made Easy with Python by Chenna Ramu and Christina Gemuend * Mapping Lightning with Linux by Timothy Hamlin * Using Linux in Embedded and Real-Time Systems by Rick Lehrbaum * Troll Tech Announces Embedded GUI Toolkit by Craig Knudsen * The Montreal 2000 Linux Expo by Marcel Gagne Reviews * Product Reviews + Medusa DS9 Security System by Robert Dobozy + Cygwin: For Windows NT by Daniel Lazenby + Understudy by Daniel Allen Columns * Take Command: The System Logging Daemons, syslogd and klog by Michael A. Schwarz * Linux Means Business: Using Linux at Left Field Productions by David Ashley * System Administration: Installing Linux as an NT Replacement by David C. Smith * Kernel Korner: Linux System Calls by Moshe Bar * Cooking with Linux: An Appetite for Discovery by Marcel Gagne * At the Forge: Press Releases with Mason by Reuven M. Lerner * Linley on Linux: Voice Recognition Ready for Consumer Devices by Linley Gwennap * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel * Embedded Systems News by Rick Lehrbaum Departments * Letters * upFRONT * Penguin's Progress: Collecting RFCs by Peter H. Salus * Linux for Suits: The Message by Doc Searls * Best of Technical Support * New Products + RAIDpod, LAND-5 + iBrow, Merinta, Inc. + Eon--The Anything Box, Neoware Systems, Inc. + ATX35 E-Disk, BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. + LONE-TAR version 3.2.3.1, Lone Stare Software Corp. + Mortgage Builder through Linux, Mortgage Builder Software + RAID Controllers, ICP vortex Corporation + Red Hat Linux 6.2 and eCos 1.3, Red Hat, Inc. + smartNIC Linux Driver, smartBridges Pte. Ltd. + SuSE Linux version 6.4, SuSE GmbH + uClinux System Builder Kit, Rt-Control Inc. + Diffpack Datafilter Toolbox 1.0, Numerical Objects AS + Linux-Mandrake Secure Server 7.0, InformIT * Advertisers Index Strictly On-Line * 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 * 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 Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all fatbrain.com 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 & Mexico US$37/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada & Mexico US$64/2 years Foreign Linux Journal P.O. Box 55549 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 USA Fax: +1 206-297-7515 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 *next upcoming* issue. While supplies last, back issues are available for $6 ($8 airmail) for one back issue, $5 ($7 airmail) for additional issues on the same order. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars***