[SunRescue] Completely useless book

[Ken Hansen]

Chris,

Maybe the thing to do would be to work with Bill and set up a discussion
forum for such an effort, then create topics under that - each topic listing
areas of interest. Folks would be encouraged to provide tips/pointers for
each topic, which woul dbe edited and organized into a coherent document,
which would gather additional input. Then folks could contribute their input
wherever it fit, and the heavy lifting would come when someone choose to
take on a topic.

Sound like an interesting idea?

I know I don't know all the answers, but I can contribute topics from a
hardware selection, upgrade paths, basic desktop use, simple network
connectivity, etc, but things like mucking with Sendmail (note the
capitalization, a sign of respect ;^), DNS servers, etc are beyond my
abilities, but within my interests...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Byrne" <chris at chrisbyrne.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:41 PM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] Completely useless book


> 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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