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Really nice to see the 'plumbing' mindset catching on. When the parallels to real-world utility work were first pointed out a lot of people were resistant to it because they felt insulted to have their high technology work compared to dirty low technology.
only business types make make this analogy
You mention this book as targetting pentesters. Do you have any advice on tools or skills to know for a software engineer to transition to a pentesting role?
I ask because there are many resources for pentesting, but not any that I have found to reflect what happens in industry.
Thank you again!
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It's 5.18.19 on the side I'm on too.... did something happen recently that reduced the price of knowledge?
Was it not showing $0 for you pests? Just want to make sure I'm not hitting some threshold with Gumroad...coming up on 2000 copies requested!
My comment was unfortunately a snarky response to what I thought was a complaint about the full price that I felt was unwarrented at the time.
I've started reading and had already intended to email you my thoughts. Thank you for your work!
Looks great, thanks for sharing. Any plan to make an epub available? I’d love to read it on an e-ink display.
Haven't had too many requests for that yet. Do you have any recommendations for creating an epub file? The book was written in LaTeX with VS Code. I worry that a lot of the command line stuff and images wouldn't look good on a reader.
Looks great, thanks for sharing. Any plan to make an epub available? I’d love to read it on an e-ink display.
Haven't had too many requests for that yet. Do you have any recommendations for creating an epub file? The book was written in LaTeX with VS Code. I worry that a lot of the command line stuff and images wouldn't look good on a reader.
Images are not problematic at all on an e-reader. Here’s an example of how an illustration looks like on my old Kindle:
https://i.imgur.com/zfqbnOO.jpg
Tables and such are also usually just raster images embedded in the epub’s XML:
https://i.imgur.com/SHYUrNL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/u0tZ2TO.jpg
…and so are code blocks, usually displayed in a monospaced but condensed font and converted to raster image as well to avoid wrapping:
https://i.imgur.com/d7ly8GH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/g0lIPpj.jpg
Long story short: Images are not an issue, and there’s a way to ensure code blocks will look good by converting them to images. That would indeed require some work, but maybe there's a tool to automate that?
Edit: All examples are from UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook by Garth Snyder et al., Addison-Wesley Professional; 5th edition (2017)
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That's a shame. Plumbing is an essential and frankly civilization-changing technology
Indeed. It's always amazing to me when I think about the incredible applications of running water and plumbing in ancient Rome that was effectively lost for so many centuries starting with the dark ages.
I found it to be extremely advanced tbh.
Really nice to see the 'plumbing' mindset catching on. When the parallels to real-world utility work were first pointed out a lot of people were resistant to it because they felt insulted to have their high technology work compared to dirty low technology.
only business types make make this analogy
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haven't had too many requests for that yet. Do you have any recommendations for creating an epub file? The book was written in LaTeX with VS Code. I worry that a lot of the command line stuff and images wouldn't look good on a reader.
There are definitely several options, but I would recommend Pandoc to compile an epub from LaTeX source — off the top of my head. Images are not problematic at all on an e-reader. Here’s an example of how an illustration looks like on my old Kindle: https://i.imgur.com/zfqbnOO.jpg Tables and such are also usually just raster images embedded in the epub’s XML: https://i.imgur.com/SHYUrNL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/u0tZ2T…
Wow, this looks great, thanks for sharing! You mention this book as targetting pentesters. Do you have any advice on tools or skills to know for a software engineer to transition to a pentesting role? I ask because there are many resources for pentesting, but not any that I have found to reflect what happens in industry. Thank you again!
Check out Hack The Box (hackthebox.eu) which are a bunch of vulnerable virtual machines that can be hacked. It's totally free. The Offensive Security Certified Professional (https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-cert...) is the gold standard in terms of getting a cert. You get 24 hours to exploit 5 boxes and elevate to admin/root.
