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# Table of Contents
December 1997 Issue #23

- The Front Page
- The MailBag
  - Article Ideas
  - Help Wanted
  - General Mail
- More 2 Cent Tips
  - Spinning Down Unused HDs
  - Finding What You Want with find
  - Cutting and Pasting Without a Mouse
  - Slow Modem
  - Finding Strings with find
  - Another Calculator Tip
  - Upgrading a Laptop Hard Disk
  - Wallpaper
  - PostScript
  - Linux Virtual Console Key Sequences
  - Netscape Hidden "Easter Eggs"
- News Bytes
  - News in General
  - Software Announcements
- The Answer Guy, by James T. Dennis
  - Running Multiple Instances of X
  - VC Madness
  - Linux and OSPF
  - Security Problems with pop3
  - Cryptographic System
  - An Interesting De-Referencing Problem
  - Reminder!
  - pcmcia ide Drives
  - KDE BETA 1
  - Compression Program
  - loadlin
  - WipeOut
- Boulder Linux Users Group, by Wayde Allen
- Clueless At The Prompt, by Mike List
- COMDEX/Fall '97, by Carlie Fairchild
- Configuring procmail with The Dotfile Generator, by Jesper Pedersen
- Graphics Muse, by Michael J. Hammel
- Linux Benchmarking: Part 2 -- Practical Concepts, by André D. Balsa
- New Release Reviews, by Larry Ayers
  - Comfortable Ftp
  - TkMan
- Processes on Linux and Windows NT, by Glen Flower
- Roll your own DBMS?!?, by Idan Shoham
- Unioncamere Emilia-Romagna: an Italian Public Administration Using Linux, by Giamaolo Montaletti
- Weekend Mechanic, by John Fisk
- x3270 and Linux, by Chris Mason
- The Back Page
  - About This Month's Authors
  - Not Linux

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