Q&A
Hanging Windows.
by Matthew Huff

The Computing Place
Ralph Barker

In our increasingly virtual, Internet-driven world, we often forget that enterprise computing and the corporate slice of the Web are, in reality, dependent on a single place, and much more so than the fading PC-centric way of computing.

Arts, Religions, And Sciences
Stan Kelly-Bootle

There's a long thread of raveled disputation between what we may loosely call the Artistic, Religious, and Scientific interpretations of reality (add your own weasel-quotes; I intend to use my month's quota). I happen to be the modest, ordained Master Weaver, offering a unique Magic Carpet with an accrued-mileage points plan and easy-slot-machine beverage coupons-valid except where invalid.

An appliance in every office
Kevin Reichard

Most Web servers run on a PC, workstation, or server system of some sort, in a relatively open arrangement: the server software is installed as one piece of the puzzle, with a full operating system -- HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, SunOS, Windows NT -- supplying many pieces and capabilities that don't necessarily have anything to do with running a Web server.

Linux in India
Shailaja V.R.

India is UNIX country-Indian programmers are almost obsessed with UNIX. And its cost. A free and powerful OS is needed by users in India, and Linux is a dream come true.

Regular Expressions
William LeFebvre

Regular expressions are endemic to UNIX. It is possible to use and administer UNIX without knowing what they are, but you aren't using the full power of UNIX if you don't understand how to use them.

Little Gnomes, Crawling All Around
Eric Foster-Johnson

It's been a great year for little critters. The GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME), the little critter that provides a freeware graphical desktop on top of the X Window system, has been making great strides recently to add functionality to and stabilize the desktop.

Speed Changes Everything
Tom Yager

Remember when you got your first T1? How you stayed up all those nights downloading stuff, hitting graphics-laden Web sites and listening to streaming audio?

Compiling Regular Expressions
Randal Schwartz

Perl's regular expressions set Perl apart from most other scripting languages. Some features (like the positive and negative lookahead, and the optional lazy evaluation of multipliers) make matching troublesome strings trivial in Perl.

Bristol Technology's Tributary
Review by Tim Parker  

Developing rapid applications for Solaris gets a boost from this Windows-based IDE.

Sun's ULTRA 5 with SunPCi
Review by Ralph Barker  

Does adding a PC coprocessor card to an UltraSPARC machine turn it into the perfect cross-OS workstation?