I have a book case (that lovely light-blue/green thing) we can use for books. I think I have some to donate too...
Jamie larry price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:36:21 -0800, perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fedora Unleashed by SAMS is pretty good. I would recommend it over > > this book and its available at Borders, if you're one of the few > > people on the list willing to patronize them. > > > I'm willing to patronize them, > but I don't usually buy computer books there, > unless I can proxy through at least a 20% discount. > > As far as books for learning unix like operating systems, > forget those "Mastering $distro in 5 easy lessons (with pictures!)" > if you are going to spend good money on a book, get > "Unix Power Tools" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt3/ > since you'll still be reading it long after $distro has gone the way > of disco ducks, and pet rocks and grunge rock. > > Speaking of books, I have a stack that I'm willing to trade for other books: > > HAVE: > Learning Debian GNU/Linux (5 years old , may be useful to a newbie > but some parts are badly outdated) > > Linux Network Administrators Guide 2nd ed. (good for a novice > sysadmin, some of the protocol stuff is interesting; if you've never > heard of UUCP this may be for you) > > Linux Application Development. (Addison Wesley- if you are just > becoming cognizant of programming in a Linux environment this may be > for you. Basics of dealing with system calls, error trapping, pipes, > and sockets ) > > Practical Unix & Internet Security 3rd ed. ( security classic by > Garfinkel, Spafford and Schwartz. if you build any sort of publicly > acessible service available to the internet at large you will > eventually be hacked, learn the basics of how to prevent it in the > first place, limit the damage that can happen, detect that it has > happened, and recover from the damage without making your system more > vulnerable ) > > Newton's Wake (Ken Macleod, SciFi, postsingularity space opera, > amusing but not as kick as the fall revolution series) > > Diaspora (Greg Egan, Scifi, portrait of an explorer as a young > program, best posthuman birthing scene evah!) > > assortment of scifi paperbacks, some old programming textbooks. > > WANT: > Postfix the definitive guide (O'Reilly) > > select Books on topics where books don't suck and topic like, > databases > Apache internals > Concurrency > RDF > prolog (programming language) > O'Caml (programming language) > graph algorithms made easy > genetic algorithms made simple > > > I'll bring my box of books to Jamies on thursday night. > > > -- > http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained > Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
