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Ask Dr. UN*X Continued
Contributed by Brian Wilson in Network

This is the rest of the letter that Dr. UN*X is sending to Adrian about his question onto how can people connect to his system using the two DSL lines connected to it, read on to see the rest of the letter.

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Multimedia

Installing NVIDIA 3D Drivers
Contributed by Maurice Lawles in Multimedia

I find myself retelling how to manually install the NVIDIA 3D drivers an awful lot. Here's a short tutorial that should work on any distro, but is tailored in spots for SuSE...
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Reviews

Art Tyde's Ginza Visit
Contributed by Lyle Saxon in Reviews

February 25th, I took a couple of trains across town to Ginza for a special TLUG meeting with Art Tyde. Being a Saturday, I had mixed feelings about going out for something that seemed a little more like work than fun, but the man crossed the Pacific, so the least I could do was to cross Tokyo! The last time I attended a meeting, I was expecting to meet a California man and I met someone from South Africa, so this time I was pleased to discover someone from my old stomping grounds in San Francisco and Silicon Valley (no problem with South Africa mind you, I just mean it was nice to meet someone from my old hometown).

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Knoppix 3.6 Review
Contributed by Andy Kissner in Reviews

Knoppix is a “Live CD” version of Linux, which means a distribution which boots from a CD and allows you to use a wide array of built-in programs and utilities without ever having to install anything on your hard-drive.

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Converging Paths in Tokyo
Contributed by Lyle Saxon in Reviews

I was in the middle of testing Ubuntu and Kubuntu on a test box when an e-mail landed on the TLUG mailing list from a member of an Ubuntu users' group. According to the e-mail, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, would be visiting Tokyo and meeting with Linux users for a roundtable discussion about Ubuntu Linux and the current state of the free software movement in Japan.  "Well - that sounds interesting," I thought, and I fired off a message saying that I would like to attend.
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Security

HOWTO: Recover root password
Contributed by B. Johnson in Security

A common problem faced by new users ( and sometimes even experienced users ) is not knowing what to do when they lose their password. Even worse, when they lose the password for 'root'. Luckily, there are several solutions to help you recover access to your system.
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Servers

One Shell To Rule Them All
Contributed by KIVILCIM Hindstan in Servers

In the age of easy to install, easier to use GNU/Linux distributions, the shell is the worlds best kept secret for beginners.
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HOWTO: Fileserver with Samba and Printserver with CUPS
Contributed by Alexander Kurusingal in Servers

Considering the substantial increase in linux desktops, it seems likely that more and more of these users will need to integrate into Windows based networks. I have provided a breif howto on Printer and File Sharing with Samba.
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Network

Ask Dr. UN*X
Contributed by Brian Wilson in Network

Dr. UN*X gets an email from Adrian saying that he recently added a second DSL line and he wants remote sites to be able to connect to his system using either DSL lines.
Read on and see Dr. UN*X's answer to Adrian.

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WLAN Cards and Linux
Contributed by Graham Armstrong in Network

This is a brief tutorial on how to get wireless LAN cards working on Linux. Although the instructions were written for Suse 9.3, they should work on all distributions.
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Applications

Using diff and patch
Contributed by Scott Robbins in Applications

The diff and patch utilites can be intimidating to the newcomer, but they are not all that difficult to use, even for the non-programmer. If you are at all familiar with makefiles, you might find yourself frequently wanting to patch a file, either to correct an error that you've found or to add something that you need to the makefile.

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Using mutt with ssmtp, getmail and maildrop
Contributed by Scott Robbins in Applications

Despite the plethora of email clients available nowadays, the text based mutt is still the choice of many gurus. It follows the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well rather than trying to do many things.
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The Screen Program
Contributed by Scott Robbins in Applications

Sometimes, you discover a particular program by chance. You have a problem, post on a mailing list or forum and someone suggests using program foo or program bar. Perhaps it's something that someone else is advised to use, you read about it on your favorite mailing list and think, "Gee, that sounds interesting. Let me try it."
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Misc

Understanding /proc
Contributed by Andy Kissner in Misc

Throughout my experience, many users on Linux Help Forums or IRC have had questions that require information from /proc to diagnose. And every single time, I've had to walk them through the process of using and understanding /proc so that I could help them with their problem. For that reason, I think that a brief tutorial on the basics of /proc is in order.

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