Stories by: Mark Gibbs

Last week we dug into the Samba system and suggested that you download a copy so we could set it up. Given the number of possible server operating systems that Samba is available on, we're going to overview this procedure over Linux.

Recently, we threatened to discuss Samba, the open source freeware implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Well, it was no idle threat. Here we go . . .

Wow. Did you see the recent Business Week story titled The Linux Uprising?

We've always loved those smart-alecky names that programmers give to their applications. In particular, we rejoice in the recursive names such as Pine and PHP. Pine used to be one of the most widely used e-mail packages for Unix and came after another e-mail program called Elm. PINE is a recursive acronym that stands for "Pine Is Not Elm" (yes, you have to be a geek to find this stuff funny).

A DNS record type is the pointer, or PTR record. This record type reverse maps addresses to names.