Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Old question, but ... on Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:56:49PM +0200, Nobrin ;-" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Great! That's what I'm looking for. Do you know any text about this? Kernighan & Pike's _The UNIX Programming Environment_, Prentice Hall, 1985 (or thereabouts) is a dated but very good refere

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-07-04 Thread Nobrin ;-\\
Great! That's what I'm looking for. Do you know any text about this? Thanks! ps The idea of linux from scratch is great too. > Hi Norbin, > here is a simplified view on unix: > hardware->kernel-modules->kernel->libraries->applications/servers > harware(screen,mouse,hard drive,modem...) > kernel

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-07-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 05:58:21PM +0200, Nobrin ;-" wrote: > I would like to read an in depth book about GNU/Linux structure. I > mean, about how the parts works together in the big picture. > > I wouldn't like a book about vi, emacs, bash, awk, iptables rules and > so on, because it would just g

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-07-02 Thread Adam Fabian
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 05:58:21PM +0200, Nobrin ;-" wrote: > I would like to read an in depth book about GNU/Linux structure. I > mean, about how the parts works together in the big picture. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO/ -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-07-02 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
I haven't read their book, but I mean to someday... There is no learning experience like doing... http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/whatislfs.html the book: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ or http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/ Nobrin ;-\ wrote: I would lik

[OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-07-02 Thread Nobrin ;-\\
I would like to read an in depth book about GNU/Linux structure. I mean, about how the parts works together in the big picture. I wouldn't like a book about vi, emacs, bash, awk, iptables rules and so on, because it would just give some hints about these topics (about them entire books have been w

Re: WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-28 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:43:35 +, Gavin Henry wrote: > > Again, sorry to waste everyones time, but you have all helped me out. > Don't you be concerned about it, buddy. There exist some really pathetic anal retentive people who probably don't get out much and have never had a girlfriend or b

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:37:56PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: > I need some good books. I used to have one called "A Book On C", but sold it, > and I have been reading various tutorials on the web and the many devoted > websites. > > Anyone have any recommendations? There's a book called "The G

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-28 Thread HdV
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Gavin Henry wrote: > I need some good books. I used to have one called "A Book On C", but sold it, > and I have been reading various tutorials on the web and the many devoted > websites. > > Anyone have any recommendations? Well, the definitive ones are written by Kernighan a

Re: WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:45:15 -0600 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 15:43, Gavin Henry wrote: > --snip-- > > What is Fedora then? > --snip-- > > Fedora is for people who don't know any better. Those who do know > better, of course, use Debian. :) > > And not to

Re: WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 15:43, Gavin Henry wrote: --snip-- > What is Fedora then? --snip-- Fedora is for people who don't know any better. Those who do know better, of course, use Debian. :) And not to imply that some frequenters of other GNU/Linux distro lists are arrogant assholes of course (thou

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Gavin Henry
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Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Mario Vukelic
C: Learning As others have pointed out, K&R. Avoid common pitfalls: Summit: C Programming FAQs (Addison Wesley) Van der Linden: Expert C Programming (Prentice Hall) Fun: Feuer: C Puzzle Book (Addison Wesley) As a reference: Harbison/Steel: C - A Reference Manual (Prentice Hall) Algorithms: Se

WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-27 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Everyone, I was had this pointed out to me, by Simon Perreault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (with my reply): "On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 8:49 pm, you wrote: > 1) Please do not cross-post. (This means sending the same message to many > lists.) OK, guilty,

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Gavin... On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:37:56PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: > During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we > did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest > and didn't see the point. Lucky you. I studied computer science

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread panda
Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as

RE: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread David Turetsky
out as you need to. Hopefully this will help you from getting too much indigestion! -- David richSOB.com -Original Message- From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A good book on C Programming? -BEGIN PGP

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Gavin Henry: > I need some good books. I used to have one called "A Book On C", but sold it, > and I have been reading various tutorials on the web and the many devoted > websites. > > Anyone have any recommendations? I always suggest picking up a copy of "The C Programming Language

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Russ Schneider
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Gavin Henry wrote: > Anyone have any recommendations? The C Programming Language by K&R http://tinyurl.com/3abhn -- [ Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo) ] [ http://www.sugapablo.com <--music ] [ http://www.sugapablo.net <--personal ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--jabber

A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see a point wit

Re: Good Book on dselect

2002-11-27 Thread Russell
Dominic Iadicicco wrote: Anyone know of a good book on dselect? -- Just ask here. As root: # dselect Select the Access method (only needs to be done very infrequently). Use "apt" to get packages from the net. Select Update to download a list of online packages (needed infrequentl

Re: Good Book on dselect

2002-11-27 Thread pierre
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 18:29, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: Here the only one i could find you may need a translator to read it. > dselect -- Pierre webmaster of. http://www.linux411.net your help with linux http://www.linux411.org your software and forum resources http://www.cecug.info Child

Good Book on dselect

2002-11-27 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
Anyone know of a good book on dselect? -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: good book

2001-12-04 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Just C/C++ I usually mix them together. For GUI is more suitable C++ and I'm used to write my action rutines in C Mirek Dobsicek ps: maybe I need to get rid of this bad habbit of mixing Preben Randhol wrote: Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/12/2001 (19:04) : Hi, I'm

Re: good book

2001-12-04 Thread Preben Randhol
Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/12/2001 (19:04) : > Hi, > I'm about to buy the book Professional Linux Programming -- by Neil > Matthew and Richard Stones. Which programming language do you want to use? -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --

good book

2001-12-04 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Hi, I'm about to buy the book Professional Linux Programming -- by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones. I'd like to learn programming under linux (some basic skills I already have) and then develop Gnome (oaf) application. But the Gnome is now going to its version 2, so is this book good choice? S

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
> > All my information dates from approximately 1997. At the time there were > many T1 cards with integrated CSU/DSU's in development, but I didn't > consider any of them quite ready for prime time yet. You might be able to > save more money by finding one of them. Sangoma makes a capable T1 ca

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been using deb linux for some 5 years now and am quite happy > with it. It has been a webserver for me for only 1 of those years and > that is on a DSL. As it trns out, some of the people I've done some > contract work with wish to install a

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:59:32 PDT, George Bonser writes: >On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> i think your best off contacting your local telco company and asking them >> what they reccomend as far as CSU/DSU, and as far as routers, depends on >> your needs, i usually use cisco 2500 s

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i think your best off contacting your local telco company and asking them > what they reccomend as far as CSU/DSU, and as far as routers, depends on > your needs, i usually use cisco 2500 series for t1s. The 1600's are several hundreds of dollars

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i think your best off contacting your local telco company and asking them what they reccomend as far as CSU/DSU, and as far as routers, depends on your needs, i usually use cisco 2500 series for t1s. and i'd probably reccomend having the telco setup the CSU/DSU and have your isp setup the router.

Re: Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread George Bonser
> > Anyway, I have not done this before... maybe someone could point me in the > direction of a list of hardware needed.. CSU/DSU, routers, etc... > Thanks, > Jack Well, You can get a small Cisco router, say a 1600 series with a WIC card that has an integrated CSU/DSU. You just plug the T1 line

Good Book for setting up T-1?

2000-09-30 Thread jack
Hello all, I have been using deb linux for some 5 years now and am quite happy with it. It has been a webserver for me for only 1 of those years and that is on a DSL. As it trns out, some of the people I've done some contract work with wish to install a t1 line and run debian as the OS on all

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:39:01PM -0500, Tim Ayers wrote: > I agree with others that 'Learning Perl' is the best book for people > with little programming experiencing. Be certain to get the second > edition that has been updated to Perl 5 (which is VERY different from > Perl 4 that the first edit

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: good book to learn perl Date: Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 08:36:49AM -0600 In reply to:Dave Sherohman Quoting Dave Sherohman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Wayne Topa said: >| > I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from >| > bookpool. >| &g

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Wayne Topa said: > I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from > bookpool. I've had Very Bad Experiences with bookpool - lousy service (particularly in dealing with backorders), slow (and expensive) shipping... I placed one order with them and will never do it again. For tech

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: good book to learn perl Date: Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 03:37:13PM +0200 In reply to:Shaul Karl Quoting Shaul Karl([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| > >| > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho >| > >| >| Isn't www.b

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho > Isn't www.bookpool.com generally cheaper then amazon ?

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote: > I haven't seen the second edition so I don't know how Randal starts it > off but in case he doesn't or for those who learn from the man pages > or by looking at scripts I will give an unsolicited edict: > > Start every program with > > #!/usr/l

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Tim Ayers
This is probably more than people wanted to know, but... >>>>> "N" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: N> can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl N> ? :) N> i have virtually no programming experience, although i have ma

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
Don't forget the perl manpages! I've found they contain about 80% of the same text that is in the Camel Book (_Programming Perl_), plus a few things that aren't in that book. There are something like 40 different manuals on different aspects of Perl there! Admittedly, it's not as easy as having a b

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
Also available from O'Reilly is the "Perl CD Bookshelf". It's 6 books in html format on one cd. You get: Learning Perl Learning Perl on Win32 Systems Programming Perl Advanced Perl Programming Perl Cookbook Perl in a Nutshell ... all in html format, plus a bonus dead tree copy of "Perl in a Nutshe

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-22 Thread Adam Shand
> I have "Perl Cookbook" ISBN 1-56592-243-3. Here is the blurb on the back > cover: i would tend to recommend the oreilly "learning perl" for a novice. just read a chapter a night and do the excercises and in a week you should no 90% of the perl you're likely to need. if you need more after t

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Tooke
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, aphro wrote: > can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) > > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho > > i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to > hack so

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 01:47:52PM -0600, ktb wrote: > aphro wrote: > > > > can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > > ? :) > recommend "Learning Perl", Schwartz and Christiansen. Don't let chapter I second that recomme

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Dave Baker
> can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) Go with the O'Reilly "Camel" books - you can't go wrong with them. try: http://www.perl.com and: http://www.oreilly.com -Dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread ktb
aphro wrote: > > can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) > > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho > > i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to > hack some perl scripts

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Ian Stirling
what I expected from Tom and Nat, pillars of the Perl community." - Jon Orwant, editor of The Perl Journal. Try bn.com as well as Amazon: their prices vary. Ian Stirling aphro wrote: > > can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) > > sa

good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread aphro
can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl ? :) saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to hack some perl scripts up at times. thanks! nate

Re: Looking for a good book...

1999-05-01 Thread David B.Teague
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Matthew Roberts wrote: > I'm a Debian Newbie (just installed my first system yesterday). I'm > looking for a good Linux book, preferably something specifically for > Debian. I would like the purchase to benefit Debian. > > I saw the Debian User's Guide at debian.org. Is

Re: Looking for a good book...

1999-04-30 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I found O'Reilly's book: Running Linux, written by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman a very useful book. It is not a specail debian book. It is about Linux in general. I am also quite new to Linux (my first contact with Linux was in februari of this year) and I have learned a lot from the book. I hope

Looking for a good book...

1999-04-30 Thread Matthew Roberts
Hi, I'm a Debian Newbie (just installed my first system yesterday). I'm looking for a good Linux book, preferably something specifically for Debian. I would like the purchase to benefit Debian. I saw the Debian User's Guide at debian.org. Is that basically all there is? If I buy it does any o

Re: another good book

1998-08-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Aug-98 D'jinnie wrote: > "Unix in a Nutshell" is a must-have reference...there are quite a few > good O'Reilly books. I also like "Unix for the Impatient" but don't recall > the author or ISBN... Paul W. Abrahams & Bruce A. Larsen "UNIX forthe Impatient" 2nd Edn 1995, Addison Wesley ISBN 0

Re: another good book

1998-08-10 Thread D'jinnie
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, David Parmet wrote: :Can anyone recommend some good reading on basic programming? I have no :knowledge aside from knowing a bash shell from a hole in the ground and :I'd like to learn some basic skill so I can figure out how this thing :works? "Unix in a Nutshell" is a must-h

Re: another good book

1998-08-10 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, David Parmet wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:07:27 -0400 (EDT) > From: David Parmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: another good book > > Can anyone recommend some good reading on basic programming? I have no > knowledge aside from knowing a bash

another good book

1998-08-10 Thread David Parmet
ok.. I got 2.0 installed and running. Can anyone recommend some good reading on basic programming? I have no knowledge aside from knowing a bash shell from a hole in the ground and I'd like to learn some basic skill so I can figure out how this thing works? thanks.

Re: Good book

1998-08-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Howard wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my > local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general > Linux book. Thank you. A practical guide to Linux, by Mark Sobell. It's good, and p

Re: Good book

1998-08-10 Thread Allan Bart
> On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 08:16:59PM -0400, Howard wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general Linux book. Thank you. > > > _Running_Linux_ by Matt Welsh, p

Re: Good book

1998-08-10 Thread the lone gunman
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 08:16:59PM -0400, Howard wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my > local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general > Linux book. Thank you. _Running_Linux_ by Matt Welsh, published by

Good book

1998-08-10 Thread Howard
Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general Linux book. Thank you.

Re: Any good book on numerical analysis?

1997-04-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi, On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: > Hi, > I am a beginner in C/C++ and i search a book on numerical analysis. Anyone > know a book accessible for me? I have the Numerical Recipies and i woulk > like to have a book in C/C++ training me in numerical analysis. > Thanks, > Dany Dionne >

Any good book on numerical analysis?

1997-04-17 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, I am a beginner in C/C++ and i search a book on numerical analysis. Anyone know a book accessible for me? I have the Numerical Recipies and i woulk like to have a book in C/C++ training me in numerical analysis. Thanks, Dany Dionne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un