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Summary: Akpache Server For Dummies
Comment: An older book at a nice price, but still contains all the basice info for working with the Apache web server.
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Summary: Irritated and disappointed
Comment: This is the first Apache book i have read, based on the strength of reviews and reccomendations on Amazon.In short, this book currently has me irritated and disappointed. In terms of structure, the sections and subsections are not clearly introduced or delimited and even the section headings are often 100% meaningless. Also it is sometimes unclear whether you are being given a sequence of instructions to use or just a list of commands for reference. Generally the English used in this book contains some apallingly bad, complex and ambigous syntax which is quite unneccesary. The problem with ambiguous syntax is that you often have to already know what the writer is talking about in order to be able to figure the correct interpretation for what he writes. Also, the "for dummies" style of writing is applied as annoyingly as ever. That is to say that the stuff you read is interrupted without warning (mid-sentence) by a string of gibberish that is supposed to be friendly and humorous. It is not humorous, it is very annoying and yet another unnceccesary source of confusion. I really hope there are better books out there by now.
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Summary: Satisfactory
Comment: Assumes, and rightly so, that the reader is a newbie ... but doesn't cover enough information. Also, far too much assumption about the user being a Windows user when most Apache distributions are run on *nix boxes.
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Summary: Apache Server for Dummies
Comment: This book is a good book for exactly that, beginners, and even if you downloaded the apache software and read some of the on-line docs, you might be missing out on some things that you never even knew about, this is because it's hard to find a source on the internet that explains everything about a subject you want to read about in one concentracted place, instead it's spread all-over...So even if you have some experiance, I would recommend this book and then get a better one later, more advanced. Raymond....
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Summary: Apache for Macs
Comment: Apache web server comes with MacOSX (I have the beta of course) that lets your system act as a server, with TelNet and FTP functionality. OSX is not an update to MacOS9. OSX is a new OS from the ground up, with a BSD Unix kernal, protected memory, preemptive multi-tasking, and full emplimentations of Java 2 and TCP/IP. Also, there is a program called NetProbe that had Ping functions as well as other functions. Mac is not dead!
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