Unix on Panther: Accessing the Internet -- Learn how to remotely access your Mac from other computers, how to copy files between computers, and how the Connect to Server capability of Terminal can make common connections a breeze, in this excerpt from Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther.

Eleven Metrics to Monitor for a Happy and Healthy Squid -- Duane Wessels offers 11 tips to help you stay on top of Squid's performance. Duane is the creator of Squid and the author of Squid: The Definitive Guide.

An Interview with OpenBSD's Marc Espie -- Federico Biancuzzi interviews Marc Espie about OpenBSD's secure coding, the ports infrastructure, licensing, and future plans for the project. BSD users will find a wealth of valuable info in Dru Lavigne's upcoming BSD Hacks.

Growing with Gentoo -- Daniel Robbins, Gentoo's chief architect, recently spoke to students and professors at Stanford University's Computer Systems Lab. Learn how Gentoo evolved, what problems and opportunities it's encountering, and Daniel's opinions on its future.

Tapping RSS with Shell Scripts -- Learn how to write a shell script that watches the news from Slashdot.org. After applying the code in this article by Dave Taylor all you'll have to do is launch the Terminal to see the latest Slash headlines. Dave is a coauthor of Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther.

Cooking with sendmail, Part 2 -- Learn how to configure sendmail to offer STARTTLS service and how to limit the SMTP command set in these sample recipes from O'Reilly's sendmail Cookbook.

Cooking with sendmail -- If you've been asked to configure sendmail to use the IETF Internet Draft Schema and read internal mail-routing information from the LDAP server, you'll find complete instructions for both the LDAP and the sendmail system administrator in this sample recipe from sendmail Cookbook.

Happy Hacking! Mike Langberg writes, "Most of us look at a toaster and see a kitchen appliance for crisping bread. Scott Fullam looks at a toaster and sees an engineering challenge. . . ," in this Mercury News book review of Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks.

Safari Gets Bigger and Better -- There are now more than 2,000 books from the industry's leading technical publishers available on Safari Bookshelf. As the library grows, so does its functionality: searches are powerfully precise and as broad or specific as you wish; and now, with a Safari Max subscription, you can download chapters to read offline. Safari will help you save time, reduce errors, keep current, and save more money than ever with up to 35% off print copies of your favorite books. If you haven't yet gone on Safari, try a free trial subscription.

Linux Untethered -- Wireless Linux is great, if you can find a hotspot. If you can't, you might consider a cellular data connection. It may be neither as slow nor as expensive as you think. In this article, Brian Jepson explores the state of cellular networking with Linux. Brian is a coauthor of Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther.

Troubleshooting with Postfix Logs -- Learn how to get the most out of Postfix's standard logging, including how to find all the relevant information in the logs, and how to increase the amount of logging when more information is needed, in this article by Kyle Dent, author of Postfix: The Definitive Guide.

Five Tips for a Better sendmail Configuration -- Craig Hunt says creating a custom sendmail configuration will give you better reliability, security, and maintainability, and he offers five tips to help you build a better sendmail configuration. Craig is the author of the recently released sendmail Cookbook.

Gastronomy for Geeks -- Pizza, Twinkies, and Jolt are geek haute cuisine for a stereotypical few. Many of you know the difference between au jus and baba ghanoush, and that Thai shish kabob isn't called sauté. So, you Geek Gourmets, come share your favorite recipes, and see what your peers are cooking.

Automating Administrative Tasks -- A few simple shell scripts will bring reliability, regularity, and enhanced system efficiency to the systems you administer. Learn how from Chapter 14 of Essential System Administration. Get a free trial to read this and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.

Most Indispensable Linux Books -- Over 7,500 readers visited the Linux Journal web site and voted on 28 categories in the 2003 Readers' Choice Awards. The number three pick for most indispensable Linux book is O'Reilly's Running Linux. And the winner is Linux in a Nutshell.

O'Reilly's Linux Lab Tests a New Perspective -- Linux is perceived as a geek's operating system, targeted at advanced users instead of the typical home user. But Linux offers many features that are far cheaper than the Windows alternatives. See how even marketing wonks can build, partition, and customize Linux on an old PC, as well as on a state-of-the-art AMD 64-bit system running SuSE 9.0 Linux, at O'Reilly's Linux Lounge.

Basic Unix Commands and Concepts -- If you've come to Linux from Windows or another non-Unix operating system, a knowledge of basic commands is vital. Chapter 4 of Running Linux, 4th Edition will give you a solid foundation. Get a free trial to read this and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.

Single Sign-on for Your Web Applications -- Jason Garman walks you through the implementation of SPNEGO, which allows for single sign-on of your web applications with Apache and Kerberos. Jason is the author of Kerberos: The Definitive Guide.

Five Lessons Open Source Developers Should Learn from Extreme Programming -- It may be hard to see how Extreme Programming (XP) can apply to open source projects, especially those without a formal customer. But to build a successful open source project, you must solve many of the same problems you'd face with an in-house project. Here are five lessons open source developers can learn from XP, from chromatic, the author of Extreme Programming Pocket Guide.

Linux Journal's Editors' Choice Awards -- Linux Journal has announced its editors' picks for this year's outstanding product developments and achievements in the Linux space, and O'Reilly won the category for Best Book in 2003: Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2nd Edition.

Secure Cooking with Linux, Part 3 -- Learn how to use PAM to restrict authentication on Linux systems and how to use SMTP to accept connections from arbitrary clients securely in these latest sample recipes from Linux Security Cookbook.