Dear Reader,
We've got a bevy of articles this week with the Labor Day holiday
last Monday, so to get started, here's an introduction to a
relatively new PHP development called "Smarty." If you're a PHP
developer you've probably included other files in your PHP scripts
in an effort to reuse code. Smarty makes that job easier and
allows you to separate HMTL layout from code logic. A PHP template
engine, Smarty has several unique features, including the ability
to compile parsed templates into PHP scripts, and then reuse the
compiled template when appropriate. Find out more in:
Introducing Smarty: A PHP Template Engine
Also, in this week's FreeBSD Basics column, Dru Lavigne explores
the world of FreeBSD on the desktop by rebuilding the system from
source and installing all of the common desktop components.
Turn FreeBSD into a Multimedia Workstation
We also have a look at Nagios, a system- and network-monitoring
application. It watches hosts and services that you specify,
alerting you when things go bad and when they get better.
Installing Nagios
And if you'd like to be able to program your set-top box to do what
you want, you might want to read about Video Disk Recorder. VDR
is a user interface for building a digital satellite TV receiver
and recorder box running under Linux.
Roll Your Own Digital Video Recorder
In last week's Big Scary Daemons column, Michael Lucas showed how
to implement sudo, which you may already have, since it is
integrated into OpenBSD and Mac OS X. It's also an add-on package
for just about every other Unix-like operating system out there.
Eliminating Root with Sudo
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Finally, Emmanual Dreyfus explains how to start an IRIX binary by
implementing the program's arguments, environment, and for dynamic
binaries, the ELF auxiliary table.
IRIX Binary Compatibility, Part 2
Thanks for reading,
Tara A. McGoldrick
tara@oreilly.com
Web Editor
O'Reilly Network
Roll Your Own Digital Video Recorder
Video Disk Recorder, or VDR, is a user interface for building a
digital satellite TV receiver and recorder box running under Linux.
Though not yet available in the U.S., VDR is for people who like
to program their set-top to do what they want, and not just what
products like TiVo will let them do.
Speeding up Linux Using hdparm
Instantly double the I/O performance of your disks or, in some
cases, show 6 to 10 times your existing throughput!
Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linux
Howard Wen takes a look at Sony's upcoming Linux distribution kit
for the PlayStation 2.
The Sharp Zaurus -- A Lovely Little Computer
Simson Garfinkel reviews Sharp's new Zaurus SL-5500 palmtop
computer. With its GNU/Linux-based operating system and
applications, the Zaurus is turning heads in the open source
community.
Getting Started with SQL
In the second half of his inaugural column, John Paul Ashenfelter
introduces us to several good SQL learning tools and begins to
define database terms.
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