[SunRescue] Completely useless book

[Chris Byrne]

Now that's an interesting thought.

I used to be a professional writer of howto articles and OS reviews for the
gartner group. It can be a fun thing when you get down to it.

Chirs Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Ken Hansen
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 08:53
To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Completely useless book


I like the Complete Solaris book (osborne/McGraw-Hill), and Janice Windsor's
latest  Solaris Admin book (new cover design).

They are not very newbie friendly, but someone a little Unix experienced,
they should allow them to do many useful things.

The book I'd like to see would be a "Solaris at Home" book, covering the set
up and configuration of a mid-level machine (Ultra 1/170 or SS/5-170 say)
for home use as a browser, Star Office machine, with web server, internet
connection sharing, email retrieval (from ISP POP servers), programming,
games (Doom!?), etc...

Maybe that would be a good sunhelp community project? Anyone interested???

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Byrne [mailto:chris at chrisbyrne.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 4:42 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Completely useless book
>
>
> So I was in the local B&N the other day (there are actually 2
> B&N 2 Borders,
> and a Half Price books in my town) and I saw what looked to
> be a potentially
> interesting book "Solaris Administration, a Beginners guide"
>
> Now I've been administering Solaris for a while, but most of
> my admin skills
> are self taught so I figured "What the heck, I'm sure it coudltn hurt"
>
> I was wrong.
>
> This book is painfully bad. It isn't for beginners, or for
> dummies, it's for
> complete frikken morons. Not only that but there are several
> areas where it
> is just plain wrong.
>
> The book shows all of it scripting examples in bash.
>
> It supposedly has sections on mail setup and dns setup but
> doesnt include
> any useful configuration info or instructions but instead
> tells you how to
> use elm and netscape mail locally, and what the resolv.conf file is.
>
> These are just a few of the many examples why you should not buy or
> recommend this book to anyone, even a total beginner. Just
> get Solaris 8 a
> complete reference (the only good recommendation this book makes)
>
>
> Chris Byrne
>
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