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Summary: A cookbook for sysadmins.
Comment: This book is a great help for any sysadmin. It provides yopu with recipes to solve problems quickly. These recipes are also an excellent entry point for the described topic. It helps you to solve a problem instantly from there you can find out more. This is more fun and educating than reading manuals for two days before starting.
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Summary: One of the best...
Comment: ... linux books I've read in a long time. The more time I spend with Linux (6 years now) the less I find useful in book offerings. Too many books are written with the new user only in mind, no thought given to the intermediate to advanced user. While many of the things in the book appear elsewhere on the web and print, this is the first volume I've seen that brings it all together in a cogent and succinct package. Kudo's to the authors and to O'reilly for putting this book out.
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Summary: Lots of Wonderful "Tips & Tricks"
Comment: Being a one-time "Sys Admin," I can appreciate the drudgery of numerous system tasks. This book offers a number of tricks (or "hacks) to make some of these tasks a little less dreary. There are several sections (Server Basics, Revision Control, Backups, and Networking to name a few), along with lots of these tricks. Since I'm a mp3 fan, I especially liked the ones about CDR's and burning a CD without creating an ISO file!This book is a collection of various hacks that probably would take you forever to find (and what sys admin has any time anyway?) if they weren't in this book. There's probably many more out there that are undocumented, but these 100 were the ones the authors considered the best ones. This book is the first in a series of "Hacks" books by O'Reilly and I'm looking forward to the subsequent ones.
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Summary: What Sam's "Teach yourself" Series wishes it could be
Comment: O'Reilly books have a tradition of great technical coverage and easy to read style. This book is no exception.I love the "hack" series. Just what I need - an adrenalin filled 10 minute tip that will almost always teach/remind me of a better way to do things. A novice will be able to follow the tips due to thorough explanations. The more experienced user will be familiar with many of the topics and recipes, but it still makes a great refresh. It is jam packed with every kind of tip an administrator or power user might be interested in. Most will also apply to other *nix's - or will at least point you in the right direction.
I gave it the full 5 stars because of its size - you could condense other books 3 times bigger and not get as much in the end. Sections are compartmentalized and cross referenced. You get exactly what you need and no fluff... WONDERFULL Definitely a great library addition.
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Summary: Good Production Level Information
Comment: Finally, a good book on production level tips/tricks to help all of us poor, misunderstood and struggling Sys Admins out there (these are the jokes - chuckle, chuckle ya'll). Honestly, good stuff. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is - IT'S NOT ENOUGH! I hope this is the first of many, more bulky editions to come. Thanks Rob Flickenger, but I know you're holding back the really cool stuff buddy - 8-).
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