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1.	Building a Linux-Driven Digital Picture Frame, Part 1 By Seth Fogie Mar 18, 2005 If you want a digital picture frame, you can expect to pay anywhere between $300 and $2,000. In this article, Seth Fogie provides a very inexpensive ($50) alternative that can give you much the same effect, but for a fraction of the cost.
2.	Building a Linux-Driven Digital Picture Frame, Part 2 By Seth Fogie Mar 25, 2005 In part 2 of his series on converting an old laptop into a digital picture frame, Seth Fogie loads Linux and assembles the finished product.
3.	Converting an IDE HD Mass Storage to SATA Storage in Linux By A. Lizard Nov 2, 2007 A.Lizard shows what it takes to outfit your Linux box with a new SATA-generation hard drive.
4.	Duct Tape and Design: Applying Extreme Programming to System Administration By Pat Eyler Jul 13, 2001 Just as system administration isn't all duct tape and chewing gum, extreme programming (XP) isn't just for cowboy coders, says Pat Eyler.
5.	Functions and Aliases in bash By Pat Eyler Jul 13, 2001 Addicted to aliases? Maybe you should be investigating functions instead, says Pat Eyler.
6.	GNOME Interview By Pat Eyler Jul 13, 2001 Pat Eyler interviews Jacob Berkman and Jamin Gray about GNOME 1.4 and new free software product releases.
7.	Inside the Symbian Kernel By David Chisnall Apr 26, 2010 David Chisnall takes a look at the design of the recently open-sourced Symbian operating system and what makes it special.
8.	Installing and Configuring TrueCrypt for Full Disk Encryption By Randy Nash Nov 24, 2008 Security expert Randy Nash describes how he deployed a FDE solution using the free, cross-platform, and open-source solution from TrueCrypt.
9.	Pandora: An Open Console By David Chisnall Jun 2, 2009 David Chisnall looks at the OpenPandora project and considers what the impact of this handheld computing project is likely to be.
10.	Remote Control Software Solves "Friends and Family" Support Issues By Ed Tittel Jan 10, 2012 In this lively autobiographical article, Ed Tittel describes his long-distance quest to help his father diagnose and fix computer issues.
11.	Security Tools By Pat Eyler Jul 13, 2001 Make room in your toolkit. This article covers six security tools that every administrator ought to have.
12.	Taming the Wild Eee PC: Replacing the Operating System, Part 1 By A. Lizard Feb 20, 2009 A. Lizard discusses one of the possible options for replacing the limited OEM operating system in the Asus Eee PC.
13.	Taming the Wild Eee PC: Replacing the Operating System, Part 2 By A. Lizard Feb 27, 2009 A. Lizard discusses installing a slightly modified version of Ubuntu as the Asus Eee PC base operating system.
14.	The X Window System Startup By Robert Napier May 11, 2001 Although most Linux users make use of the X Window System, few understand how it gets started and where it can be configured. Robert Napier walks you through this "maze of twisty little passages" to get you comfortable exploring on your own.
15.	Using Apache with SSL By Robert Napier May 11, 2001 One of the best additions that you can make to your server room is to include the Apache Web server on a Linux machine. In this article, Robert Napier explains how to build your own secure Apache server with the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
16.	Variable Mangling in bash with String Operators By Pat Eyler Jul 13, 2001 In this article, Pat Eyler shows two very useful versions of variable substitution in bash--pattern matching and substitution.
17.	Welcome to Konqueror By Robert Napier May 11, 2001 The Konqueror browser is a powerful addition to KDE 2. Besides working as a filesystem browser and manager, Konqueror can act as an FTP client, a World Wide Web browser, an image viewer, and more. Learn here how to use its capabilities.