My favourite is "The Linux Programming Interface". It's a fantastic book... very thick too.
This is not part of the bundle - or did I miss something?
Humble Book Bundle: Unix
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I have to mention DJB whenever there's a mention of DNS. Thank you PRJ, JdeBP, smarden, skarnet. You have done a shitload for me and my close (and distant) ones. https://cr.yp.to/donations.html PS In case you've been wondering, djbdns+curvedns is a very capable implementation of DNS servers and client-side utilities. Both authoritative server and recursive cache; each independent of the other. Plus wonderful commandl…
Sure, there are somewhat simpler DNS servers than BIND, of which djbdns is a good example, but realistically speaking, the reasons to avoid BIND are historic and no longer relevant. BIND has seen multiple major overhauls since the bad old BIND 4 days, and its security has been fine for more than a decade. In the past I would talk about other DNS servers as reasonable things to spend time on (and have contributed to a…
Bind is a total disaster. bind 4, of course. Bind 8 was also a major disaster. Bind 9 has security problems as well. It is huge and, due in part to DNSSEC it is way too complicated. It is more sensible to use more compact services like nsd for authoritative dns and unbound for a caching server. Or Dan Bernstein tools, even
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O'Reilly, NoStarch, Packt and Leanpub books are fine since they're completely clean. But books from Pragmatic Programmers, Manning, Apress, Addison Wesley, Pearson and Sams are watermarked which I consider just as bad as DRM. I never buy digital books from publishers who watermark.
Why is watermarking "just as bad"? It doesn't interfere with me using the files, so I personally don't care.
Watermarking puts the liability (maybe not legally) on the customer to protect the files from any third party access because there's always the risk that someone who gains access to them puts the files on the net with your name/email or user id on it. This is something no customer can realistically ensure and to me this is a huge restriction to the usage of the books. Second it's ugly as hell to have the watermark on every page. Third it sends the message to me as a customer that I'm not trusted. WTF dear publisher. I want to buy your ebook although I could find 90% of all ebooks for free on the net. Why do you think would I do that if I didn't want to support your business? You watermarking publishers need to realize that by watermarking you create a defective product. The people who pirate your books get a better product, one without a disgracing watermark. Whenever something like that happens, where the pirated product is better than the legally purchased one, it is a clear indication that the anti-piracy mechanism should be dropped. Big respect to Tim O'Reilly and Bill Pollock who are two of the few people who have fully understood that.
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#124Just to be clear the prices are not per book. I don't know if anyone else here stood dangerously long in that misunderstanding, almost preventing them from pulling the trigger. It's $1 for all the books on the first tier, $8 for all the books on the first and second tiers, or $15 for all of the books on the page. At first I was like, well maybe I'll get this book, this book, and that book. But then it was a no-brainer. In fact on the recommendation of a couple of posts here for DNS & Bind, I bought the whole hog.
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$1:
Unix in a Nutshell (4th ed.)
sed & awk (2nd ed.)
lex and yacc (2nd ed.)
Learning the bash Shell (3rd ed.)
Linux Pocket Guide (3rd ed.)
$8: (all of the above, plus)
bash Cookbook
Classic Shell Scripting
Learning GNU Emacs (3rd ed.)
Unix Power Tools
Learning the vi and Vim Editors (7th ed.)
Bash Pocket Reference (2nd ed.)
Learning Unix for OS X (2nd ed.)
$15: (all of the above, plus)
Essential System Administration (3rd ed.)
TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd ed.)
DNS and BIND (5th ed.)
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#125The $1 tier is great for anyone just starting out with bash or Unix. The $8 is amazing value, that's beginner through intermediate Unix skills, basically as much as most anyone would need. The $15 tier, IMO, is completely optional unless you know that you need those books. And at that point, you probably already have them. Good sale!
I'm asking myself how relevant they are today? Tcp/Ip 3rd is from 2002, as well as Essential Sysadmin 3rd.
One of the nicer things about Unix is that it tends not to change. There's a lot of inertia to overcome in Unix, which is why Ubuntu made (and continues to make) such a big splash, for being willing to change things quickly (and not always for the better).
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#126"Pay what you want" is a false statement. When I wanted to pay 1 cent they demanded a minimum of one dollar. I may be a cheap ass for wanting these things for a cent but that doesn't change the fact that "Pay what you want" is a total and utter lie.
There are many reasons why they do this, not least of which is that they handle Steam keys, and by imposing a minimum cost, it means bad actors can't as easily get tonnes of Steam keys for resale or using their purchases to game Steam and other services in other ways. They now apply this policy across the board.
Read more here: http://www.gamesradar.com/humble-indie-bundle-responds-steam...
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They are being imprecise by your own admission. Yes.
One can be deceptive by being imprecise The question is whether this imprecision qualifies as deception.
The question implies certain meanings not explicitly stated. As does the answer.
edit: hey buddy, thanks for voting me down. Why the hell should I answer you when it's all I get. I have nothing left to say to you other than you are unable to respect differing opinions.
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I have to mention DJB whenever there's a mention of DNS. Thank you PRJ, JdeBP, smarden, skarnet. You have done a shitload for me and my close (and distant) ones. https://cr.yp.to/donations.html PS In case you've been wondering, djbdns+curvedns is a very capable implementation of DNS servers and client-side utilities. Both authoritative server and recursive cache; each independent of the other. Plus wonderful commandl…
Capable how? Does it support IPv6 queries? IPv6 records? SRV records? How about a syntax for defining a TXT record that doesn't involve octal?
IPv6 records and SRV records were supported from the start, Bernstein himself explaining that the generic binary record format covered that. The syntax wasn't pretty, but the support was there. Extensions to the database source form that are prettier have been around for many years. I have a DNS database with this record in it, for example:
+jdebp.info:2001_41d0_2_aa92_0_ff_fe23_8e7a
S_sip._udp.jdebp.info::sip.jdebp.info:5060:10:20
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Capable more than enough in all the ways that mattered to me, my employers and their customers throughout this millenium. IPv6 records require a patch. Any records defined for IPv4 are supported out-of-the-box (your last question gives away you know this and the encoding used in the tinydns database). What was your point?
My point is that it's feature set is not from this millennium.
It was rather spoiled by the fact that your knowledge of djbdns is not from this millennium. Felix von Leitner's work dates from back at the turn of the century, and it went into things like the NetBSD packaged djbdns very quickly.