I don’t know how long it’ll last, but Brian Jepson and I are both delighted to see that the latest version of our popular book Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther (from O’Reilly & Associates) is climbing the charts at Amazon and is currently #8 on the Computer & Internet best sellers list! You
I received a lovely Hannukah present from O’Reilly and Associates this afternoon when FedEx delivered the first copy of Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther. I can’t stress how much it’s improved over the previous editions, with both Brian Jepson and I substantially rewriting major sections, swapping out a chapter completely, and making it even more Mac-centric than it was. Yet it’s still only 168 pages long, and costs about the same as two cups of latté and a scone at Starbucks.
A reader of Solaris 9 for Dummies reports:
“Is there a typo in Chapter 15? I’m referring to page 288-289. The book says you should modify the S30network.sh file in step 3 then says you should modify the same place in the same file in step 6. (although this time ‘shcat’ is just ‘cat’) I was wondering if in step 6 I should be actually modifying a different file rather than remodify the change just made?”
My friend Barbara Feldman has written a very interesting article about techniques for avoiding what she calls “link rot”, when the links on your pages and in your print material end up being obsolete. If you’re just getting started with your site design, of course, this might not seem like anything you need to worry about, but I’ll bet you’ve gone to a site, seen a list of favorites, and found that most of them don’t exist any more.
We’ve settled on the covert art – a retro 50’s robot – and the cover copy, and I’ve almost completed the page proofs (only have the games chapter left). This means that the book is only weeks away from being completed, and about a month away from being published and in the distribution channels. And,
We’re very, very close to shipping off Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther to the printers, after my co-author Brian Jepson and I finished going through the entire manuscript PDF with a fine-tooth comb. A number of glitches — all ironed out, of course — and this book is really going to be a
If you’re already delving into the exciting new world of Panther, the 10.3 release of Mac OS X, then you’ll want to know that Apple’s released a security update for the Terminal.app program itself, as detailed:
Security Update 2003-11-04 addresses a potential vulnerability with the Terminal application in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.
A common tool people use for managing spam is SpamAssassin, and if you are using it, or just interested in learning more, you’ll want to check out my new Guide to Writing your own Add-On Rules for SpamAssassin.
