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Mac OS X (second edition) - The Missing Manual
I love that Apple has gone in this direction. It's wonderful, because it opens up whole new worlds for Unix folk. It also helps the Linux software market and vice versa: if you write software for one, a port to the other should certainly be a lot easier than a port to Windows.
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts I often take a dim view of books that use superlatives in their titles. I also don't think there is anything "wicked cool" about shell scripting in general: if you need anything complex at all, Perl or something else is probably a much better way to to it. Shell scripting gets awfully nasty awfully fast.
PC Hardware in a Nutshell (3rd Edition) Hardware has never been my strong point, but after more than 20 years of doing this stuff day after day, I have become fairly proficient. I remember when I first opened a PC to upgrade memory. This was back when memory chips had legs on them and came in tubes. Replacing these things was not easy because the little legs were so easy to bend and even break. The chips weren't cheap, and my palms were drenched in nervous sweat. It all worked though, and over the years I've become much more sanguine about hardware in general. There's nothing I'm really afraid to tackle, though there are things I'd just rather not do, either because the procedures are tricky or just more difficult than I'd like. I don't like replacing motherboards, and I don't like replacing almost anything on those very small desktop units where you have to take out floppy drives and cd's just to get at memory. I CAN do those things, but I try hard not to.
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts I often take a dim view of books that use superlatives in their titles. I also don't think there is anything "wicked cool" about shell scripting in general: if you need anything complex at all, Perl or something else is probably a much better way to to it. Shell scripting gets awfully nasty awfully fast.
PC Hardware in a Nutshell (3rd Edition) Hardware has never been my strong point, but after more than 20 years of doing this stuff day after day, I have become fairly proficient. I remember when I first opened a PC to upgrade memory. This was back when memory chips had legs on them and came in tubes. Replacing these things was not easy because the little legs were so easy to bend and even break. The chips weren't cheap, and my palms were drenched in nervous sweat. It all worked though, and over the years I've become much more sanguine about hardware in general. There's nothing I'm really afraid to tackle, though there are things I'd just rather not do, either because the procedures are tricky or just more difficult than I'd like. I don't like replacing motherboards, and I don't like replacing almost anything on those very small desktop units where you have to take out floppy drives and cd's just to get at memory. I CAN do those things, but I try hard not to.
| Title | Date | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point and click Linux! | 2005 01 | ||||
| Linux|Unix Cookbook Second Edition | 2004 10 | ||||
| Creating Cool Web Sites | 2004 06 | ||||
| Wicked Cool Shell Scripts | 2004 03 | ||||
| PC Hardware in a Nutshell (3rd Edition) | 2003 08 | ||||
| Linux|Unix and the Unix Philosophy | 2003 08 | ||||
| Linux|Unix Security Cookbook | 2003 07 | ||||
| Mac OS X Hacks | 2003 04 | ||||
| Learning Unix for Mac OS X | 2003 02 | ||||
| Halting the Hacker | 2003 02 | ||||
| Mac OS X for Unix Geeks | 2003 01 | ||||
| Running Linux (4th Edition) | 2003 01 | ||||
| Leo Laporte's Technology Almanacs | 2002 11 | ||||
| Mac OS X (second edition) - The Missing Manual | 2002 11 | ||||
| Linux|Unix Cookbook by Michael Stutz | 2001 12 | 2005/02/18 21:49 TonyLawrence | |||
| Perl for Web Site Management | 2001 11 | ||||
| Unix- The Complete Reference | 2001 05 | ||||
| Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web | 2000 10 | ||||
| Unix for the Impatient | 1998 10 | ||||
| Essential System Administration (Unix) | 1997 | ||||
| SCO Companion | 1997 | ||||
