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Gosh, don't you just hate that? I do too, that is why I only run my servers off the Debian root floppy. With five virtual terminals, who needs a base system or other stuff from "third-parties"? Why should I let this GNU stuff get between my server and pure Linux kernel goodness?

Joke over. Here is a little story about the development of BSD. It kind of looks like other free software develoment, where lots of "third-parties" throw in their useful contributions. I'll admit that some distros are getting a little bloated but that's no reason to be nasty about things. OpenBSD is a nice, easy to use and secure dist.

Would be nice to have a book with more than just one chapter on web services.

You might be interested in Programming Web Services with Perl then.

Why do so many Apple dorks think of themselves as "alpha-geeks"?

I don't know any Apple dorks, so I can't provide any insight into that particular question. However, I can explain that my choice of "alpha-geek" was influenced by O'Reilly's attempts to explain the Mac OS X attraction.

Using BBEdit is not macho, and being attracted to shiny objects is not a sign of intellegence...

Right, because Slashdotters are sooooo macho to begin with :) Intelligent perhaps. But (couldn't resist the self-description as a "Windows dork" just for counterpoint) then again . . .

O'Reilly has a great service called Safari where you can read the entire book, searchable and everything, on their website.

Great link indeed. Too bad you can only use the full version for 14 days free.

Still $14.99 / month isn't _so_ bad, if you really would use these...

Very handy for cut-and-pasting long chunks of code without having to retype it while reading the page.

Here's the link to read PHP and MySQL Web Development as reviewed here.

Very handy for cut-and-pasting long chunks of code without having to retype it while reading the page.

Here's the link to read PHP and MySQL Web Development as reviewed here.

Things get interesting if you go to this page and read what Marshall Kirk McKusick has to say about this in his piece on the history of BSD:

"The lawsuit settlement also stipulated that USL would not sue any organization using 4.4BSD-Lite as the base for their system."

Of course, I can't tell if this would apply to this situation to SCO or not.

Doesn't this entire SCO suing [insert vendor name here] for using the UNIX IP remind anyone of the days when AT&T was getting in Berkley's face over using the UNIX IP - then Berkley rewrote the entire BSD so there was no AT&T UNIX code in there?

• "We've been looking at this for months. Every time we turn over a stone, there's something there," McBride said. "If you pull down (Mac) OS X you'll see a lot of copyright postings that point back to Unix Systems Laboratories, which is what we hold."

• The University's suit claimed that USL had failed in their obligation to provide due credit to the University for the use of BSD code in System V as required by the license that they had signed with the University. If the claim were found to be valid, the University asked that USL be forced to reprint all their documentation with the appropriate due credit added, to notify all their licensees of their oversight, and to run full-page advertisements in major publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine notifying the business world of their inadvertent oversight.
  ...
  The result was that three files were removed from the 18,000 that made up [BSD 4.4] Networking Release 2, and a number of minor changes were made to other files. In addition, the University agreed to add USL copyrights to about 70 files, although those files continued to be freely redistributed.
  ...
  The lawsuit settlement also stipulated that USL would not sue any organization using 4.4BSD-Lite as the base for their system.

As a FYI... if you don't want to run out and buy the XP books, you can view them online at O'Reilly's Safari website.

• Designing SVG Web Graphics (amazon.com)
• Teach Yourself Svg in 24 Hours (site, amazon.com)
• SVG Essentials (amazon.com)
• SVG Unleashed (amazon.com)
• Svg Programming (amazon.com)
• SVG For Designers

Some online demos from SVG Unleashed

Lego encouraged the extensive reverse-engineering and third-party applications for their Mindstorms series of toy robots. Sony wasn't at all happy to see Linux on a PS2.

I hope iRobot follows Lego's lead when it comes to modding the Roomba.

Thank you, a good review of an excellent book. I have maybe 10 java books, most of them from O'Reilly and none have been as beneficial to my development in Java as this one.

The code and the text are both very clear and concise, and you can read the book cover to cover, coming back later to study each advice more in depth.

I think you can get it from reading between the lines in the review, but just to make it clear to any curious beginner, this is not the first book you should buy if you are just starting to learn java. Use
The Java Tutorial instead, and maybe
Learning Java.

System V. Ha, ha, ha, I wonder what they won't claim. It's a rumor, no one is that stupid, right?

That's interesting. I was thinking it smells like C# - except for compiled instead of JITed.

You knew that MS bought Anders Hejlsberg away from Borland (where he was the main force behind Delphi)so he could architect MS Java^H^H^H^H C# for them, right? So D and C# may have an ancestor in common.

I think the misconception lies in the unfortunate naming of the collection of essays published by O'Reily. People pick up this book and write of the implications of CatB (the title of the collection of essays) when they are probably talking more about essays like The Magic Cauldron.

Both great ideas, but... it's not like we'd lack mailers/browsers anyway, is it? What I'd really like to see them (or someone) do is an integrated mail+news reader. Like (pine, emacs, the good'uns...) but graphical too. ("For my woman" ;-)

So you can keep one library for mail and news articles, and search/move stuff around there to your heart's content.

It only makes sense, since the format is basically the same, and news traffic often intermingles with mail anyway. People sending you private answers, etc.

Right now, Mozilla is the only one that comes close -- afaik, it's the only integrated mail+news reader in Aqua. The bliss of saving a news post onto your imap box, drag & drop.

But why, oh why, does it have to keep also the browser in the same process? This soon gets humongous (nearly 100 Mb at the moment), and why should your mailer crash at the whim of any miscoded javascript site? That doesn't make sense.

So here's to Mail+News.app -- or else, a nice Minotaur/Thunderbird.

Try listening to Lawrence Lessig's talk titled free_culture and it may suddenly not seem all that far-fetched.

All you people going on and on about how Stallman is an unrealistic madman should read Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallmans Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams which happens to be available under the GNU FDL and you might understand him a little bit better. The book was initially supposed to be an ebook with all the regular protections in place (as described by Lessig's presentation). I found the epilogue particularly touching.

I can't honestly see any advantage in ebooks for libraries in their crippled form. Well, maybe storage space but that is about it. You get more restrictions on your access to the information, less durable way to store it and somewhat clumsy readers but no advantages over traditional books. You could offer so much more with this without DRM.

O'Reilly do this for IT books - it looks great and I really must sign up for a trial. Hopefully it could help me improve my 1 in 10 average rate of buying decent IT books.

• Grokking The Gimp
  
• Vi IMproved - Vim
  
• Karl Vogel's Open Source Development with CVS
  
• Thinking In Java
  

>>This is a tremendous departure for a mainstream publisher.

ORA has done this already with a MySQL book. At the time of publication no less.

Granted, it's the printed version of the electronic reference manual. But it IS an open source book. I think they're calling it O'Reilly Community press.

Additionally, ORA open sources some of their out of prints.

Pah! Amateur :-) Having just counted up, I have 51 of thier books. In all of those, there's only one that I feel really doesn't match the quality of the rest, and that's Power Programming with RPC. To this day, I still can't work out why they published it, when it's so obviosuly not up to scratch. But among the rest, there are some real gems, covering most of my favourite geeky subjects. And of course, the X11 books are indispensable...

"Open Sources" is exactly the right book for your purposes, at least in my opinion. Its a collection of essays and articles on the subject, and provides not only one interpretation of the open source vision common to all authors in this book.

Better still, remaining in the spirit of the texts inside , the whole book is available for free from the O`Reilly site.

Get it here.

We really don't need another regex book.

This one does just fine.

Thanks to AC for the pointer to the Struts in Action review, I don't know how I missed that one. I put in a link, since your URL got munged by the Slashcode...

And, thanks to James Turner for the heads-up about Safari and the sample chapter over at strutskickstart.com. I'll check it out right away. Good luck with the book, it looks like it is getting a lot of good reviews so far.

I have a copy of Running Linux, which I read as a newbie, and to say the truth, its not the first book I'd recommend to a linux newbie. I'd suggest Unix Power Tools and The Linux Cookbook. But don't take my word for it: there is a sample chapter of Unix Power Tools and the full text of the Linux Cookbook online.

The reason I recommend the Linux Cookbook is that it tells what programs can do what things. As a newbie, I don't know how to use a scanner, or how to record a CD. (OTOH, the Linux Cookbook does tend to lean heavily towards Debian).

Unix Power Tools is a must read because it is a thick collection of simple tricks of the trade. Plus, its a good example how to think like Unix. I'm not sure about you, but the reason why I run Linux on two of my computers is that it can get things done quickly and easily.

Speaking of quickly and easily, I'd also have to strongly recommend Learning Perl as a primer to perl and the Perl Cookbook as a collection of perl snippets. Perl is a damn useful language to know, as Learning Perl says : "Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible".

Anyways, my choices tend to be more 'how to do things' rather then 'how the current version or distro works'. Heck, other then for the Linux Cookbook, the rest are good reading for *BSD and other unix users. I prefer advocating the unix mentality instead of one specific distro or kernel.

To be fair, I haven't read Running Linux in awhile. Perhaps my memory is cloudy. There is also the Linux Problem Solver, which I find a tad too simple and shallow, but might be helpful to a few people out there.

Btw, I know book budgets tend to suck. (And O'Reilly books [or any technical book really]) tend to be budget breakers. However, at least one book chain that I know of (Barnes & Nobles) marks down O'Reilly books into the $10-or-so range when a new edition comes out, and for a few of the technical books, Ebay can offer a fraction of the cover price. Be wise though - I tend to avoid older editions if they were published pre-1998 or so unless I know the book is still relevant - the linux world is changing pretty fast.

Hmmmm.... I wonder if I should have recommended a good book on LaTeX. For those unix users who have to type a lot of papers, LaTeX is worth taking a look at. Then again, I haven't found a good LaTeX book yet myself. :)

I have a copy of Running Linux, which I read as a newbie, and to say the truth, its not the first book I'd recommend to a linux newbie. I'd suggest Unix Power Tools and The Linux Cookbook. But don't take my word for it: there is a sample chapter of Unix Power Tools and the full text of the Linux Cookbook online.

The reason I recommend the Linux Cookbook is that it tells what programs can do what things. As a newbie, I don't know how to use a scanner, or how to record a CD. (OTOH, the Linux Cookbook does tend to lean heavily towards Debian).

Unix Power Tools is a must read because it is a thick collection of simple tricks of the trade. Plus, its a good example how to think like Unix. I'm not sure about you, but the reason why I run Linux on two of my computers is that it can get things done quickly and easily.

Speaking of quickly and easily, I'd also have to strongly recommend Learning Perl as a primer to perl and the Perl Cookbook as a collection of perl snippets. Perl is a damn useful language to know, as Learning Perl says : "Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible".

Anyways, my choices tend to be more 'how to do things' rather then 'how the current version or distro works'. Heck, other then for the Linux Cookbook, the rest are good reading for *BSD and other unix users. I prefer advocating the unix mentality instead of one specific distro or kernel.

To be fair, I haven't read Running Linux in awhile. Perhaps my memory is cloudy. There is also the Linux Problem Solver, which I find a tad too simple and shallow, but might be helpful to a few people out there.

Btw, I know book budgets tend to suck. (And O'Reilly books [or any technical book really]) tend to be budget breakers. However, at least one book chain that I know of (Barnes & Nobles) marks down O'Reilly books into the $10-or-so range when a new edition comes out, and for a few of the technical books, Ebay can offer a fraction of the cover price. Be wise though - I tend to avoid older editions if they were published pre-1998 or so unless I know the book is still relevant - the linux world is changing pretty fast.

Hmmmm.... I wonder if I should have recommended a good book on LaTeX. For those unix users who have to type a lot of papers, LaTeX is worth taking a look at. Then again, I haven't found a good LaTeX book yet myself. :)

I have a copy of Running Linux, which I read as a newbie, and to say the truth, its not the first book I'd recommend to a linux newbie. I'd suggest Unix Power Tools and The Linux Cookbook. But don't take my word for it: there is a sample chapter of Unix Power Tools and the full text of the Linux Cookbook online.

The reason I recommend the Linux Cookbook is that it tells what programs can do what things. As a newbie, I don't know how to use a scanner, or how to record a CD. (OTOH, the Linux Cookbook does tend to lean heavily towards Debian).

Unix Power Tools is a must read because it is a thick collection of simple tricks of the trade. Plus, its a good example how to think like Unix. I'm not sure about you, but the reason why I run Linux on two of my computers is that it can get things done quickly and easily.

Speaking of quickly and easily, I'd also have to strongly recommend Learning Perl as a primer to perl and the Perl Cookbook as a collection of perl snippets. Perl is a damn useful language to know, as Learning Perl says : "Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible".

Anyways, my choices tend to be more 'how to do things' rather then 'how the current version or distro works'. Heck, other then for the Linux Cookbook, the rest are good reading for *BSD and other unix users. I prefer advocating the unix mentality instead of one specific distro or kernel.

To be fair, I haven't read Running Linux in awhile. Perhaps my memory is cloudy. There is also the Linux Problem Solver, which I find a tad too simple and shallow, but might be helpful to a few people out there.

Btw, I know book budgets tend to suck. (And O'Reilly books [or any technical book really]) tend to be budget breakers. However, at least one book chain that I know of (Barnes & Nobles) marks down O'Reilly books into the $10-or-so range when a new edition comes out, and for a few of the technical books, Ebay can offer a fraction of the cover price. Be wise though - I tend to avoid older editions if they were published pre-1998 or so unless I know the book is still relevant - the linux world is changing pretty fast.

Hmmmm.... I wonder if I should have recommended a good book on LaTeX. For those unix users who have to type a lot of papers, LaTeX is worth taking a look at. Then again, I haven't found a good LaTeX book yet myself. :)

I have a copy of Running Linux, which I read as a newbie, and to say the truth, its not the first book I'd recommend to a linux newbie. I'd suggest Unix Power Tools and The Linux Cookbook. But don't take my word for it: there is a sample chapter of Unix Power Tools and the full text of the Linux Cookbook online.

The reason I recommend the Linux Cookbook is that it tells what programs can do what things. As a newbie, I don't know how to use a scanner, or how to record a CD. (OTOH, the Linux Cookbook does tend to lean heavily towards Debian).

Unix Power Tools is a must read because it is a thick collection of simple tricks of the trade. Plus, its a good example how to think like Unix. I'm not sure about you, but the reason why I run Linux on two of my computers is that it can get things done quickly and easily.

Speaking of quickly and easily, I'd also have to strongly recommend Learning Perl as a primer to perl and the Perl Cookbook as a collection of perl snippets. Perl is a damn useful language to know, as Learning Perl says : "Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible".

Anyways, my choices tend to be more 'how to do things' rather then 'how the current version or distro works'. Heck, other then for the Linux Cookbook, the rest are good reading for *BSD and other unix users. I prefer advocating the unix mentality instead of one specific distro or kernel.

To be fair, I haven't read Running Linux in awhile. Perhaps my memory is cloudy. There is also the Linux Problem Solver, which I find a tad too simple and shallow, but might be helpful to a few people out there.

Btw, I know book budgets tend to suck. (And O'Reilly books [or any technical book really]) tend to be budget breakers. However, at least one book chain that I know of (Barnes & Nobles) marks down O'Reilly books into the $10-or-so range when a new edition comes out, and for a few of the technical books, Ebay can offer a fraction of the cover price. Be wise though - I tend to avoid older editions if they were published pre-1998 or so unless I know the book is still relevant - the linux world is changing pretty fast.

Hmmmm.... I wonder if I should have recommended a good book on LaTeX. For those unix users who have to type a lot of papers, LaTeX is worth taking a look at. Then again, I haven't found a good LaTeX book yet myself. :)

I have a copy of Running Linux, which I read as a newbie, and to say the truth, its not the first book I'd recommend to a linux newbie. I'd suggest Unix Power Tools and The Linux Cookbook. But don't take my word for it: there is a sample chapter of Unix Power Tools and the full text of the Linux Cookbook online.

The reason I recommend the Linux Cookbook is that it tells what programs can do what things. As a newbie, I don't know how to use a scanner, or how to record a CD. (OTOH, the Linux Cookbook does tend to lean heavily towards Debian).

Unix Power Tools is a must read because it is a thick collection of simple tricks of the trade. Plus, its a good example how to think like Unix. I'm not sure about you, but the reason why I run Linux on two of my computers is that it can get things done quickly and easily.

Speaking of quickly and easily, I'd also have to strongly recommend Learning Perl as a primer to perl and the Perl Cookbook as a collection of perl snippets. Perl is a damn useful language to know, as Learning Perl says : "Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible".

Anyways, my choices tend to be more 'how to do things' rather then 'how the current version or distro works'. Heck, other then for the Linux Cookbook, the rest are good reading for *BSD and other unix users. I prefer advocating the unix mentality instead of one specific distro or kernel.

To be fair, I haven't read Running Linux in awhile. Perhaps my memory is cloudy. There is also the Linux Problem Solver, which I find a tad too simple and shallow, but might be helpful to a few people out there.

Btw, I know book budgets tend to suck. (And O'Reilly books [or any technical book really]) tend to be budget breakers. However, at least one book chain that I know of (Barnes & Nobles) marks down O'Reilly books into the $10-or-so range when a new edition comes out, and for a few of the technical books, Ebay can offer a fraction of the cover price. Be wise though - I tend to avoid older editions if they were published pre-1998 or so unless I know the book is still relevant - the linux world is changing pretty fast.

Hmmmm.... I wonder if I should have recommended a good book on LaTeX. For those unix users who have to type a lot of papers, LaTeX is worth taking a look at. Then again, I haven't found a good LaTeX book yet myself. :)

Running Linux?

when you can change yourself?

Kim stanley robinson's mars series portrays a successful terraformation, and how the first colonists mourn the loss of the red planet, even though they can now walk about without helmets.

Which leads me to ask, why not leave the planet looking and feeling much the same, but make plants and animals altered to survive the low pressures, cold, lack of a magnetosphere etc. Then make genetically modified humans to populate the place and go forth and subdue it.

In the whole history of life as we know it, life has always adapted to the environment. Why change the winning formula?

Uh, why don't you read the full description?

Since you don't seem inclined to investigate these matters yourself, the answer is "yes".

Has anyone read the new O'Reilly book on securing 802.11b networks? Does it offer any cross-platform, cross-vendor solutions to general 802.11b insecurity?

Why oh why didn't you put that in an external document and link to it? Huge, slightly off topic posts aren't any fun.

Anyway, geeks interested in OS X don't need to look any further than Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. All the zesty flavor of the parent post in easily digestible chapters.

Fin.

I just thought I would mention that this book will likely be on Oreilly Safari since the Rev. 1 is already there. I'm a big fan of Safari since I: rarely read a tech book cover to cover, I have a shelf of outdated tech books and I like their search features. [disclaimer] I have no affiliation with Oreilly Safari other than I subscribe to the service [/disclaimer]

I just thought I would mention that this book will likely be on Oreilly Safari since the Rev. 1 is already there. I'm a big fan of Safari since I: rarely read a tech book cover to cover, I have a shelf of outdated tech books and I like their search features. [disclaimer] I have no affiliation with Oreilly Safari other than I subscribe to the service [/disclaimer]

Other Linux security book authors, on the other hand, clearly are in it for more than just books. Brian Hatch of hacking linux exposed writes a free hacking newsletter every week (archives)
as well as Security Focus stuff. Michael Bauer of
Building Secure Servers with Linux writes articles for O'Reilly and is the security editor for Linux Journal.

Especially in the area of Linux, I expect to have experts. I've read RWLS 1, and was very dissapointed in the amount of fear mongering vs useful security info.

Haven't seen mention of this yet... HTML::Mason is one of a few embedded Perl solutions that operates very similar to PHP/ASP/JSP, etc.

To take your above example, rewritten in HTML::Mason would look like this:

% if ( something ) {
Something was selected
% } else {
Something was not selected
% }

HTML::Mason also takes care of the variable collection. All arguments are put into %ARGS, in addition to putting them into declared variables:

<%args>
$id => 0
$name
</%args>

Also, general printing of variables is easy, too:

Hello, <% $name %>!

In general, a very decent system that addresses what you thought Perl couldn't do. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg for Mason. I won't even go into its inheritance model, it's default handlers, autohandlers, component model... that's worthy of an entire O'Reilly Book. =)

</perl-plug focus="HTML::Mason">
In the end, use the tool you're more comfortable with. If you like canned scripts (mail submit forms, BBSes, etc), PHP has a ton of them. If you want to code more of it yourself, Perl's CPAN is extensive. JSP for... uh, something, I'm sure. And if you're masochistic, there's ASP. ;P

-Ducky

How about this?

I wonder, to what depth, has OReilly actually explored digital media , that he can make such authoritative comments.

There are the freely-available O'Reilly books online, there's Safari with over a thousand books in electronic format, and there's the O'Reilly Network, with weblogs, articles, and book excerpts.

I wonder, to what depth, has OReilly actually explored digital media , that he can make such authoritative comments.

There are the freely-available O'Reilly books online, there's Safari with over a thousand books in electronic format, and there's the O'Reilly Network, with weblogs, articles, and book excerpts.

VA doesn't make money off of the book. Now krow has talked about offering Slash hosting and custom Slash consulting, but I'm not sure he has the time to do much with it. It's probably not a big enough market to sustain VA resources, either.

OSDir isn't owned by O'Reilly. It is a member of the O'Reilly Network, but it's Steve Mallet's baby. Steve has been thinking about SourceForge for over a year. (13 months, today, according to the link).

I oppose Amazon.com's 1-Click Patent
As one of the founding programmers at Amazon.com, I was very dismayed to learn
of the company's legal attempts to enforce its 1-Click (TM) patent. ...
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Amazon, Barnes&Noble settle patent suit - Tech News - CNET.com
... The story behind Amazon's 1-Click patent Mark Grant, author, Law
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Apple - Media & Analyst Information - Press Releases
Apple Licenses Amazon.com 1-Click Patent and Trademark. New Apple Online
Store with 1-Click Shopping Premieres Today CUPERTINO, California ...
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Salon Technology | Amazon to world: We control how many times you ...
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for a more conventional, bare-knuckles corporate strategy. ...
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... At the same time, I completely agree with RMS that the Amazon 1-Click Patent
is one more example of an intellectual property milieu gone mad. ...
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Hey. how's this for conspiracy theory:

OSDir.com is owned by O'Reilly, which in turn was very involved, in fact I think a big shareholder of Collab.net, which is VA's main competitor in selling SF. Collab's product is also closed source, just like SourceForge.

So by plugging gForge and anti-VA sentiment with Tim, OSDir is helping OReilly drive some FUD about its competitor.

That's my fun conspiracy theory for the day.

http://www.google.com/search?q=pthreads shows, for starters :

• A Pthreads Tutorial, written by Andrae Muys
• O'Reilly "Pthreads Programming"
• Pthreads Overview
• Introduction to PThreads

Pick up one of the following books: Running Linux from O'Reilly or Linux System Administration: A User's Guide from Addison-Wesley. Browse the books to get a general idea on what to do for basic tasks.

Next, find a friendly distribution that will allow you to get started, such as Mandrake.

Finally, use the OS. Try doing as much as possible in Linux. I'd suggest trying to connect to the internet first, the wealth of information available will help you with any later problems. But with each task you don't know how to do or problem you need to solve, look it up in the book you purchased or online. It may seem fustrating at times, but it really seems to stick in memory better if you actually have to do the task.

Running Linux 4 ed. and Learning Debian GNU/Linux however the debian book is availible only on-line. i found people new to linux can very easily manage with debian with this book as a refereance.

let us also not forget Linux docs can be an invaluble reference for the newbie (and experianced alike ;-)

-frozen

Running Linux 4 ed. and Learning Debian GNU/Linux however the debian book is availible only on-line. i found people new to linux can very easily manage with debian with this book as a refereance.

let us also not forget Linux docs can be an invaluble reference for the newbie (and experianced alike ;-)

-frozen