In This Issue

*The Fury of Magnetars
*When Stars Collide
*Our Fickle Sun
*Stormy Dynamos
*Ultradense Neutron Stars
*Cannibalistic White Dwarfs
*Bright Births of Black Holes

The main themes:

*Your essential guide to creating your best ever photos.

* Master Your DSLR. Understand exposure, metering,
aperture, shuter speed, flash, white balance and much more.

* Learn how to...
+ Get Creative with shutter speeds.
+ Create great B&W photos.
+ Master exposure techniques.
+Transform your pics with HDR.
+ Use filters for perfect landscapes.

* Plus Panoramas, Using flash, Raw JPEG and more...

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This month's focus is Languages. Parlez-Vous Français? Wait, not those types of languages, programming languages. We've got a few different ones this time around: Inform, Sleep and Falcon. And, on a more traditional front, Guido Van Rossum talks about Python 3000. Our monthly columns also include discussions of JavaScript, PHP using Eclipse, and bash, and Chef Marcel talks about languages more generally.

On other fronts, if you're interested in audio, we've got part II of Dave Phillips' Linux Audio series; Kyle Rankin shows you how to connect some musical instruments to your system and use them with a number of audio programs; and Dan Sawyer shows you where to store all that audio data in his review of the HP Media Valut. All that and more in this month's issue of Linux Journal.