UNIX Riot
Mark Hall

I'll believe it when I see it...
...unless it's a photograph. That's the message most speakers at IDG Books' Digital Deception panel relayed to the audience during this week's Seybold conference in San Francisco.

UNIX is annoying Americans...
...while they eat. Or at least, applications that depend on UNIX are.

"Muni sucks!" So sayeth...
...a San Francisco commuter stuck in the seemingly infinite wait in another failure in the city's real-time transit hell.

Cache As Cache Can
Kevin Reichard
Caching is not a new concept in the Internet world.

Big-Pipe Dreams
Brent Dorshkind
Scott Adams has a theory about the relentless corporate demand for more Internet bandwidth, and it has nothing to do with multimedia, e-commerce, or Java applets

Interfaces And Classes
Jim Waldo
One of the greatest strengths of the Java language (or any object-oriented language) is the polymorphic nature of the type system.

Threaded Programs
William LeFebvre
I recently had the pleasure of working on several threaded-programming projects.

Books, Books, Books, Books...
Stan Kelly-Bootle
My title (ah, the increasingly difficult monthly struggle to create a fresh, pithy heading to encapsulate the ensuing badinage, especially under the new taut, unipaginational columnar dispensation which discourages my parenthetical verbosity) echoes Kipling's "Boots, boots, boots, boots, marching up and down again!

In Bad Company
Tim Ash
It's a scary new world out there.

Godzilla vs. Your System
Eric Foster-Johnson
In case you haven't heard, Netscape decided to make its Navigator Web browser a freeware product.

Kerberos: A Secure Passport
Joseph Salowey
Every day, employees log in to their company's computers to work with various resources.