December 2000
A lot of common programming is dealing with things that change. Things do indeed change, and sometimes we'd like to know how they changed.
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Shell Corner, hosted by Ed Schaefer.
I've seen XML getting a lot of press for uses in e-commerce or B2B solutions, but little coverage of its usefulness for solutions to the problems that systems administrators and other Unix power users face. It's a shame, because XML should be catching on throughout all IT professions, not just the Web-centric ones.
In this column, I will build on that information and explain the different Fibre Channel architectures: point-to-point, fabric, and arbitrated loop.
The Linux Professional Institute offers three levels of certification, with each level consisting of two exams that you must pass. The upper two levels are still in development, but the first level is now available. The two exams at the first level are 101 and 102.
Jim Miller, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kansas, takes the SGI 330L Visual Workstation for a test drive.
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