Security has always been a concern when using a computer. First, we thought physical security was enough. After all, if the computer is in the house, how could anyone else get to it? But in today’s wo ...
_Practical Ruby for System Administration_, which was written by Andre Ben Hamou and published by Apress, is a lightning introduction to this modern scripting language and is a reasonably detailed, ex ...
Honeypots look like victim systems waiting or searching for malware and other nefarious attacks, registering the enemy's practices in high-resolution gory, blood-ridden detail. Virtualization allows o ...
MySQL is one of the dominant players in the database market—a solid pillar in the **L**inux, **A**pache, **M**ySQL and **P**HP or LAMP stack. _SQL for MySQL Developers_, written by Rick F. van der Lan ...
OpenOffice.org is a fantastic office suite, finally undermining Microsoft’s monopoly on Office-like software (word processing, presentations, etc.). Out of all of the OpenOffice.org programs, _Writer_ ...
I am not paranoid... honest, but we are all surrounded, surrounded by consumer appliances such as wireless network routers, media centers and even some clever fridges and microwaves. I am even sure th ...
What are computer networks? And where does FLOSS fit in? A brief but to-the-point slim book, with loads of links, brought out by a program linked to the United Nations.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the last process I would think of when making my homepage. However, when fighting for customers or the possibility for an audience and thus advertising revenue thro ...
Linus Torvalds once wrote on linux.dev.kernel, “Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)”. While his humorous comment ...
One positive example of a book that is ageless when measured against internet time is _Linux Programming by Example_ by Arnold Robbins and published by Prentice Hall. Don’t let the 2004 publishing dat ...
Knowing what information is traveling across your network is what keeps you out of trouble. Are there unknown hosts chatting away with each other? Is my machine talking to strangers? You need a packet ...
Qmail is an old, well-written, reliable security friendly email server that has proudly stood the test of time and corrosive use. Architecturally solid, with its components divided across workflow wit ...
With so many database engine choices, it’s not easy to choose one. For those that choose SQLite, Michael Owens makes it easy to configure and operate. As the original creator of PySQLite, he knows a t ...
Setting up an enterprise mail system can be a daunting task for anyone. Curtis Smith shows you how to do it easily. When you first open this book, you may think it’s merely a software guide. Curtis Sm ...
_WordPress Complete_ is a guide to “set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress”. A beginner’s guide, but much more. Interestingly, its author studied in Bangladesh, and it is published by ...
ImageMagick, as many would know, is a software suite for image manipulation and display, supporting a wide variety of formats. But, what is less widely known is the many facets it has, and the wide ar ...
AJAX is the broadest of broad acronyms for a series of technologies that enable fashionably dynamic Web 2.0 applications. Edmond Woychowsky’s valid, technically correct and humorous book _AJAX: Creati ...
I picked up _Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Second Edition_ with a sense of familiarity; I also had the pleasure of reviewing the First Edition and found the experience to be a gentle and very complete intro ...
Dedicated to UNIX system managers, the book covers all there is to know about Samba (as of version 3.0.22), how it relates to Microsoft’s Active Directory networking (shares, accounts, printing) and t ...
In my geek career, I have been many things: DBA, programmer, help-desk, engineer, systems administrator. I have worked with VMS, MS-DOS, various flavors of UNIX, MS-Windows of all sorts, OS/2, and MPE ...