[SunRescue] Completely useless book

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Aren't you also having a honeymoon tomorrow?

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> I'll setup a list for this tomorrow.  Right now i'm having a honeymoon.
> 
> 8-)
> 
> bill
> 
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:41:48PM -0700, Chris Byrne wrote:
> > 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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> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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