Computing Book Reviews

These are book reviews by Nick Christenson, npc@jetcafe.org on the topic of computing.

• Abbate, J., Inventing the Internet from January 14, 2001.
• Albitz, P., Liu, C., DNS and BIND, 3rd Ed. from October 25, 1998.
• Ballew, S., Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers from December 6, 1997.
  This book review was printed in the Feburary 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Benner, A., Fibre Channel from May 22, 1998.
• Blinn, B., Portable Shell Programming from June 9, 1998.
• Bolinger, D., Bronson, T., Applying RCS and SCCS from June 29, 1998.
  This book review was printed in the December 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Burgess, M., Principles of Network and System Administration from November 22, 2001.
• Charalabidis, A., The Book of IRC from August 10, 2002.
• Clark, T., Designing Storage Area Networks from November 26, 2000.
• Costales, B., Allman, E., sendmail, 2nd Edition from February 25, 1998.
• Costales, B., et. al., sendmail 8.13 Companion from January 5, 2005.
• DiBona, C., Ockman, S., Stone, M., Open Sources from July 5, 1999.
• Drake, C., Brown, K., Panic!, Unix System Crash Dump Analysis from March 30, 1998.
• Fink, J., Sherer, M., Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning, from April 2, 2002.
• Flickenger, R., Wireless Hacks, from October 10, 2003.
• Freedman, D., Mann, C., At Large from December 31, 1997.
  This book review was printed in the June 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Friess, M., Protecting Networks with SATAN from July 7, 1998.
  This book review was printed in the December 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Gabriel, R., Patterns of Software from August 19, 1998.
• Gast, M., 802.11 Wireless Networks from September 25, 2003.
• Graham, P., Hackers & Painters from June 9, 2005.
• Hafner, K., Lyon, M., Where Wizards Stay Up Late from July 28, 2001.
• Hauben, M., Hauben, R., Netizens from April 14, 1998.
• Hunt, C., Linux Sendmail Administration from December 5, 2001.
• Jain, R., FDDI Handbook from April 1, 1998.
• Jepson, B., Rothman, E., Mac OS X for Unix geeks from June 27, 2003.
• Lavigne, D., BSD Hacks from August 10, 2004.
• Lewis, C., Cisco TCP/IP Routing Professional Reference from November 12, 1997.
  This book review was printed in the Feburary 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Libes, D., Exploring Expect from April 15, 1998.
• Liu, C., DNS & BIND Cookbook from April 21, 2003.
• McDermott, J., Phillips, J., Administering Usenet News Servers from July 18, 1997.
  This book review was printed in the December 1997 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Mullet, D., Mullet, K., Managing IMAP from March 24, 2001.
• Mulligan, G., Removing the Spam from February 13, 2000.
• Musumeci, G., Loukides, M., System Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition from March 11, 2002.
• Petersen, R., Red Hat Linux: The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition from May 5, 2002.
• Preston, W., Using SANs and NAS from November 13, 2002.
• Raymond, E., The Cathedral and the Bazaar from May 30, 2000.
• Rubin, A., Geer, D., Ranum., M., Web Security Sourcebook from June 8, 1998.
• Sandred, J., Managing Open Source Projects from August 28, 2001.
• Schwartz, A., SpamAssassin from September 23, 2004.
• Schwartz, A., Garfinkel, S., Stopping Spam from November 11, 1998.
• Shenk, D., Data Smog, Surviving in the Information Glut from March 31, 1998.
• Siyan, K., Hare, C., Internet Firewalls and Network Security from June 29, 1998.
• Snevely, R., Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology from May 23, 2002.
• Spencer, H., Lawrence, D., Managing Usenet from March 28, 1998.
  This book review was printed in the June 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Stewart, J., BGP4: Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet from April 25, 1999.
• Torvalds, L, Diamond, D., Just for Fun, from June 17, 2003.
• Trulove, J., Lan Wiring from May 22, 1998.
• Vixie, P., Avolio, F., Sendmail: Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition, from March 14, 2002.
• von Hagen, W., Linux Filesystems from April 15, 2002.
• Wong, B., Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers from February 24, 1998.
  This book review was printed in the June 1998 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Wood, D., Programming Internet Email from December 4, 1999.
• Yourdon, E., Death March from July 8, 1997.
  This book review was printed in the December 1997 issue of ;login: magazine.
• Zeltserman, D., Puoplo, G., Building Network Management Tools with Tcl/Tk from October 22, 1998.

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