With the release of NVIDIA's 1.0 drivers for Linux, TV-out is now a reality and Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and even coding under Linux on a 50" projection is now possible. But as we were soon to find out, it comes with some modifications to your existing setup that may not be all that obvious. If you have a card that supports TV-out and have been deciding whether or not to give it a try, our crash-course guide to NVIDIA TV-out under Linux is a must read.

If you're curious about the best way to preserve your vinyl LP's digitally, this is article for you. It says that some of your most precious LPs can be turned into more durable CDs. With the cost of disk space dropping, consider devoting a drive to music. Maggie Biggs offers a guide to recording and cleaning up the audio quality of your records.

Here is a guide that explains how soundcard drivers work, some common sources for them (using the kernel's built-in drivers, ALSA, or 4Front's OSS). It also talks about the future of Linux soundcard development.

Unfortunately there is no one standard procedure for logging on to an ISP. Although each ISP uses a slightly different variation, the following procedure steps through various possibilities to help you discover what your ISP wants. Note that your ISP may have been "creative" and found some other way to confuse the users. This technique should still help you figure out what your ISP really wants.

Nessus is an extemely versatile and efficient application that not only identifies nasty vulnerabilities that could be exploited, but tells you how to prevent hackers from taking advantage of your system, and even gives you a risk level for each vulnerability it discovers. There are an infinite number of ways that it can be configured and utilized. Heres a quick and easy step-by-step guide to getting Nessus up and running on your system.

Robotics enthusiasts are probably familiar with Nitinol: an alloy that "remembers" its shape when heated electrically. It's the basis of the notorious"Stiquito" robots, which weigh mere ounces and get around on their own power. This article shows how to build a Nitonol-based robot which is control with a Linux PC using the parallel port interface.

It's now time for a little summary about what's going on with GNOME 2.0 and how you can help with it. As you might already know, we have several new CVS modules for GNOME 2.0. Here's a list of all of them together with a description and in the correct compilation order. Unless otherwise specified, all modules come from CVS HEAD.

"Plug-and-play (PnP) is a system which automatically detects PC devices such as disks, sound cards, ethernet cards, modems, etc. It also does some low-level configuring of them. To be detected by PnP, the device must be designed for PnP. Non-PnP devices (or PnP devices which have been correctly PnP-configured), can often be detected by non-PnP methods."

After talking to coworkers and friends who either had Linux training, or who had used Linux at home, Wayne Bridges decided on the Linux-Mandrake distribution as the most user friendly. He got an off-the-shelf copy of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and headed home to get started. Here he describes how to install and configure it.

This updated howto covers selecting, connecting, configuring, troubleshooting, and understanding modems for a PC running Linux.