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## August 2009 (#165):

- Mailbag
- Talkback
- 2-Cent Tips
- News Bytes, by Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff
- Away Mission: JavaOne, SemTech, and Velocity, by Howard Dyckoff
- Away Mission - LinuxWorld Morphs into OpenSource World, by Howard Dyckoff
- Software Development on the Nokia Internet Tablets, by Bruce Forsberg
- Linux Layer 8 Puppet, by Lisa Kachold
- GNOME and Red Hat Linux Eleven Years Ago, by Oscar Laycock
- Encryption with TrueCrypt, by Ariel Maiorano
- Real World Cases For Apache's mod_rewrite, by Anderson Silva
- Ecol, by Javier Malonda
- XKCD, by Randall Munroe
- Doomed to Obscurity, by Pete Trbovich
- The Linux Launderette
- The Backpage, by Ben Okopnik

or read TWDT

Members of the LG Staff who provided additional services in this issue:

- Proofing/Technical Editing: Rick Moen, René Pfeiffer, Srijon Biswas, Steve Brown, Kat Tanaka Okopnik