The March 2000 issue of Linux Journal (#71) will be mailed from the printers in Waseca, Minnesota on February 12, 1999. Linux Journal Contents -- #71 -- March 2000 _________________________________________________________________ Subscribers: To voice your opinions on and join discussion groups about these articles, go to our interactive site at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/ Focus * Linux Training by Marjorie Richardson Features * A Web-Based Linux Training Course by Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando The president of Future Technologies describes his FTLinux Course training program for Linux. * Technology Training: Trends for the 21st Century by Brian Holt Sitting in front of a chalkboard with a teacher paid by thehour is not the best way to learn. Discuss shortcomings oftraditional learning environments. Advances in technology * Jim Higgins, Caldera Training by Marjorie Richardson What's happening in the Education Department at Caldera Systems? Read on... * Instructor-Led Training by Marty Ferguson Networked systems in the workplace continue to grow andexpand. A Linux training solution that is designed to growalong with an organization brings benefits that can permeate Forum * Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator by Wael Hassan * Using Apache Proxy to Suppress Banner Ads by Raj Mathur * Home Entertainment Linux MP3 Player by Goran Devic * Linux DVD Update by Craig Knudsen * Linux and IBM PowerPcs by Daniel Lazenby * Update on LPI Certification for Linux Professionals by Dan York * Validation of Linux Certification by Rick Hynum Reviews * Product Reviews + Velocis Beta-3.0 Database Server by Avygdor Moise + XESS Spreadsheet for Linux, Standard Edition by Jason Kroll + Netwinder Office Server by Jason Kroll + ProConnect by Ralph Krause * Book Reviews + Oracle Database Administrationby Charles Curley + Using Caldera Open Linux: Special Editionby Ben Crowder + Linux System Administrationby Paul Almquist + Learning Debian GNU/Linuxby Marjorie Richardson Columns * Linux Apprentice: Shell Functions and Path Variables Part 1 by Stephen Collyer * Take Command: Sending Files by E-mail by Marjorie Richardson * System Administration: Account Administration for K12 School Systems by Steve Tonnesen * Kernel Korner: The Linux Process Model by Moshe Bar * Cooking with Linux: Fun Educational Morsels, Linux-Style by Marcel Gagne * At the Forge: Consumer Rankings by Reuven M. Lerner * The Last Word: Unit Safety by Stan Kelly-Bootle * Linux in Education: Linux Goes to Algebra Class by Gail Fultz * The Cutting Edge: Moving to SMP by Michael S. Keller * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel * Embedded Systems News Briefs by Rick Lehrbaum Departments * Letters * upFRONT * From the Publisher: April 2000 by Phil Hughes * Penguin's Progress: Teaching Linux by Peter H. Salus * Linux for Suits: Canon Fodder by Doc Searls * Best of Technical Support * New Products AVP for Linux/FreeBSD UNIX, Kaspersky Lab Ltd. API PowerRAC Chassis 320, Alpha Processor Inc. ODBC-ODBC Bridge, Easysoft Ltd. LinkScan 6.1, Electronic Software Publishing Corporation Metro-X Enhanced Server CD, Metro Link, Inc. P-STAT Statistical Software, P-STAT, Inc. System Manager in a Box v1.0, PegaSoft Canada PGI Workstation 3.1, PGI Quick Restore 2.6, Workstation Solutions, Inc. Threads.h++ and Tools.h++ Professional, Rogue Wave Software Scriptics Connect 1.0, 1.1, Scriptics Corporation TapeWare 6.2 Backup Software, Yosemite Technologies, Inc. DoubleVision for Linux Systems, Tridia Corporation * Advertisers Index Strictly On-Line * Network Monitoring with Linux by Tristan Greaves * An Introduction to Using Linux as a Multipurpose Firewall by Jeff Regan * LUIGUI--Linux/UNIX Independent Group for Usability Info by Randy Jay Yarger * Unix Shells by Example by Ben Crowder Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all fatbrain.com stores) and is delivered to newsstands by a newsstand distributor. If you know a place that sells magazines that you feel should stock LJ, send e-mail to dist@ssc.com or have them call SSC at 206-782-7733. Getting LJ on newsstands is one of the best ways we can show the non-Internet crowd that Linux is for real. Subscriptions are: US$22/year U.S. US$27/year Canada & Mexico US$37/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada & Mexico US$37/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada & Mexico US$64/2 years Foreign Linux Journal P.O. Box 55549 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 USA Fax: +1 206-297-7515 Tel: +1 888-66-LINUX E-mail: subs@ssc.com URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Our public key (for encrypting your credit card number) is available by fingering linux@ssc.com. Subscriptions begin with the *next upcoming* issue. Back issues are available (except for Issues #1, #3, #4, #5, #30 and #44, #47, #48, #54, #56 and #57, we're out) for $6 each or $8 each non-North American airmail. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars***