That sounds almost as bad as a series of un-named books that had one paragraph on what the command was and then the man pages for that command.
-mmiller On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Robert McGrew <[email protected]> wrote: > I requested and received a review copy of this, on the off chance that > it fell into the category of "weird and eccentric, but completely > brilliant" (see Russell Walter's "Secret Guide to Computers", amazing > work, do check this out). > > It doesn't fall into this category at all. > > It's exactly as bad as you are imagining. I don't have the PDF handy > to cite exactly what, but I do recall that it's poorly formatted, > poorly written, chews up a lot of pages with lists and screenshots, > and contains a lot of information that is just plain wrong. (Just > like a lot of non-novelty-press books I get! :) ) > > It was bad enough that I just didn't even want to write anything about > it. I figured there wasn't much risk that readers of my site would > care to spend any money on it anyways, so I'd just be beating on it > for the humor. That's fun too sometimes, but I just couldn't bring > myself to spend any more time with it. > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just found this and wondered how I'd got on so long in security without it. >> >> http://learn-how-to-hack.net/index.php >> >> Quote: "You will aquire knowledge nonexistant to 99.9% of the people >> in the world!" >> >> I want to be in that 0.1%! >> >> Follow the link at the bottom to get to this page: >> http://rafayhackingarticles.blogspot.com/ >> >> I think it should be in all our RSS feeds. >> >> Enjoy >> >> Robin >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > > -- > Wesley McGrew > http://mcgrewsecurity.com > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
