The May 2000 issue of Linux Journal (#73) will be mailed from the printers in Waseca, Minnesota on April 12, 2000. Linux Journal Contents -- #73 -- May 2000 _________________________________________________________________ Subscribers: If your issue is late arriving, you can find all of these articles on our interactive site at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/ Focus * Programming by Marjorie Richardson Features * The Code Analyser LCLint by David Santo Orcero * Embedding Python in Multi-Threaded C/C++ Applications by Ivan Pulleyn Python provides a clean intuitive interface to complex,threaded applications. * X/Motif Programming by Ibrahim F. Haddad * Parametric Modelling: Killer Apps for Linux Clusters by David Abramson Forum * An Introduction to PHP3 by John Holland * Creating Smart Print Queues by Mark Plimley * Palm Pilot Development Tools by Eddie Harari * Daryl Strauss, Precision Insight by Steven Pritchard * Building a Wireless Nework with Linux by Billy Ball * Linux Webpads Give PC Competition by Linley Gwennap Reviews * Product Reviews + Etherminal J by David Weis + Moreton Bay PoPToP/NetTEL by Jon Valesh + Conectiva Linux by Jason Kroll + The Raritan CompuSwitch by Alex Heizer * Book Reviews + Red Hat Certified Engineer Program (RHCE Exam Cram)by Andrew G. Feinberg + JavaScript Application Cookbookby Ben Crowder + Programming Pearls, 2nd Editionby Harvey Friedman Columns * Linux Apprentice: Bourne Shell Scripts by Randy Parker * Take Command: xv: The X Viewer by Marjorie Richardson * Linux Means Business: Linux Use Rocketing at Jet Propulsion Laboratories by Drew Robb and Joe Zwers * System Administration: The Linux Trace Toolkit by Karim Yaghmour and Michael Dagenais * Kernel Korner: Kernel Korner by Moshe Bar * Cooking with Linux: Rapid Program-Delivery Morsels, RPM by Marcel Gagne * At the Forge: Creating Queries by Reuven M. Lerner * The Last Word: The Magritte Factor by Stan Kelly-Bootle * Linux in Education: Linux at Yorktown High School by Justin Maurer * Games We Play The New and The Old by Jason Kroll * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel * Embedded Systems News Briefs by Rick Lehrbaum Departments * Letters * upFRONT * Penguin's Progress: Getcha Program! by Peter H. Salus * Linux for Suits: Patent Absurdities by Doc Searls * Best of Technical Support * New Products + New Products * Advertisers Index Strictly On-Line * Dynamic Class Loading in C++ by James Norton * WordPerfect for Linux Bible by Ben Crowder * The Network Block Device by P.T. Breuer, A. Marín Lopez, Arturo García Ares * Linux Administration for Dummies by Harvey Friedman * A Real-Time Data Plotting Program by David Watt * Shell Functions and Path Variables, Part 3 by Stephen Collyer * IBM's Universal Database by Paul Zikopoulos 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$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, #7, #30 and #44, #47, #48, #53, #54, #56, #57, and #62 we're out) for $6 each or $8 each non-North American airmail. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars***