Good Starting Books

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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.


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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 

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