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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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	LinuxCare,
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<dd><A HREF="tag/1.html"
	><strong>Routing Revisited</strong></a>

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<br>("helpless" in TAG #44)

<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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<dd><A HREF="tag/3.html"
	><strong>TCPMux Revisited:  
	You'll need a Daemon for it, or a Better inetd</strong></a>

<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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<dd><A HREF="tag/4.html"
	><strong>A Staging Server</strong></a>

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	></a>Another "respawning" question --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag/5.html"
	><strong>Id "x" respawning too fast: Murdered Mysteriously</strong></a>

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	><strong> Large File Support Under Linux/x86</strong></a>

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	></a>http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/lg/issue13/answer.html --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag/7.html"
	><strong>From the Dim History: EQL Revisited</strong></a>
<br>Bandwidth Load Sharing w/o ISP Support

<dt><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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	><strong>High School Modem</strong></a>

<dt><A HREF="tag/9.html"
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<dd><A HREF="tag/9.html"
	><strong>Who is Jim Dennis?</strong></a>

<dt><A HREF="tag/10.html"
	><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
	  alt="(?)" border="0"
	></a>redirection of stdin-stdout --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag/10.html"
	><strong>Programming Question about Regaining stdin/stdout</strong></a>

<dt><A HREF="tag/11.html"
	><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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	></a>outgoing email using Netscape --or--
<dd><A HREF="tag/11.html"
	><strong>Outgoing Mail Problems</strong></a>

<dt><A HREF="tag/12.html"
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<p>There's new excitement at the Answer Guy household this month - my book is
shipping!  I know this because I pre-ordered it from Amazon, and my order 
has arrived.  So, now I can tell you it has a purple binding, and that
the cover is white, with a black and white river scene along the top.</p>

<p><em>[ In the plugs department, if you're going to buy it from Amazon, buy
	it through the associate link at our science fiction club, the
	<a href="http://www.lasfs.org/">Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society</a>.
	You'll get a discount, and help a literary organization at the same
	time. -- Heather ]</em></p>

<p>My lovely wife Heather notes that it should also be at Computer Literacy,
if there's one in your area, or you prefer to online shop there.</p>

<p><em>[ <a href="http://www.svlug.org/">SVLUG</a>'s installfests are held
	there, and I asked the staff if it was in yet.  They said it was at
	the warehouse but hadn't hit the stores.  That was a week ago, so
	they should be in by now. -- Heather ] </em></p>

<p>Onward to Linux itself.  The 2.2.13pre kernel is (fingers indicating tiny 
space) <em>this close</em> to being ready.  2.2.10 through 12 have some 
memory leaks, so a lot of people are safer staying with whatever their 
distribution shipped until it's settled in.  Alan Cox is putting a lot of 
effort into this one really being solid.</p>

<p>You won't find it mentioned at <a href="http://kernelnotes.org/"
	>KernelNotes.org</a> - they have good stuff, but 
they don't bother to mention the pre-kernels.  If you're a brave soul and 
really want to see the latest kernel details, you have to go to kernel.org.  
I found the .13pre code at 
<a href="http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.13pre/"
	>http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.13pre/</a>
though as I've said many times before, I'm no programmer.   I just read
README's and comments.  (BTW, you can pick a closer mirror if you're in
another country, by replacing "us" with your two letter country code.
Round robin DNS does the rest.)</p>

<p>LinuxCare is sending me on another training visit to another state.
(Although I enjoyed myself in Japan, I'm glad this one is a shorter trip.)
Someone must be looking out for me - the very topic I needed to investigate,
embedded systems, seems to be the big topic for 
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/">Linux Journal</a> this month.</p>

<p>I'm sure you didn't come here to read all about that.  You came for the
articles.  There's a new footer this month to make it easy to get to the
<a href="../lg_index_tag.html">past articles</a>, too.  With the short 
deadline this month, there will be more than usual next time, I think.</p>
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 46 October 1999</H5>
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