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- HiR 8 - Hacker Newz 3-1-1999
- (Look! Y2K Compliant! ^^^^ )
-
- An editorial Comment:
-
- Sorry for such a huge delay in issues... We still aren't dead,
- just hanging out. This issue fell victim to many trials and tribulations,
- but we pulled it through. We discovered that we can't release (reliably)
- every 2 months. There's just not enough time in a day to think about
- ideas for the 'zine. Most 'zines actually start to give up after the
- initial burst of ideas wears itself out and they are forced to gain more
- knowledge just so they can continue publication. I'd like to say for as
- small as the HiR Crew is, the group has perservered rathr nicely and I
- couldn't have kept this 'zine alive by myself. Asmo and Frogman, as
- writers and friends have kept things going, and our readers send us
- e-mail, keeping our spirits high. We never really know if anyone is
- actually READING the zine (okay, we kind of do, as we have http access
- logs, and I'm sure HiR has been posted on other BBS's, websites, etc)
- unless we get mail from those who read our works. Thanks for waiting it
- out till HiR 8, and we'll have HiR 9 out as soon as we have the material
- and writings gathered up (hopefully not 6 months down the road)
-
- --The Axon
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- In other news...
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- Axon has started messing with various server-tuned OS's and (in
- collaboration with other writers), will be throwing together some
- comparitive articles between each Operating system. Things included:
- Windows NT (Axon's forced to take an NT Class), Linux (maybe a few
- different Distributions of it), FreeBSD, and (Maybe) OpenBSD and NetBSD.
- We'll try to cover difficulty of installation, set-up, default security,
- and performance (All OS's will be installed on removeable hard drives in a
- Pentium 120 with 64 megs of ram, a machine that should be able to run just
- fine, but obviously will not be performing massive server tasks.)
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- The HiR Crew is also working on some "Linux Inside" Stickers. A .jpg of
- it will be available under the News page on the HiR Distro Site later. We
- are coming up with StarOffice and MS Word document files that can be
- printed on Avery Address labels. This project isn't complete yet, but
- it'll be fun when it's all finished! The prototypes of these labels are
- already in use on several workstations, rack-mount linux servers, etc.
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