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--- balug:books_and_publications [2015-06-19T01:09:34+0000] – inventory update michael_paoli
+++ balug:books_and_publications [2025-06-29T07:31:54+0000] (current) – +Learning the vi Editor michael_paoli
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- ====== Books and Publications, etc. ======
+====== Books and Publications, etc. ======
 It's fairly common for some books/publications, etc. to be made available at [[http://www.balug.org/|BALUG]] and other User Group meetings.
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 and some other user group meetings
 (e.g.
-[[http://www.buug.org/|Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG)]],
+[[http://www.berkeleylug.com/|Berkeley Linux Users Group]]).\\
-[[http://bad.debian.net/|Bay Area Debian (BAD)]],
-[[http://www.berkeleylug.com/|Berkeley Linux Users Group]],
-[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour|Ubuntu Hour]] [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UbuntuHours|(San Francisco & Berkeley)]],
-and sometimes [[http://www.sf-lug.com/|San Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)]]
-and others).\\
 Other folks may also bring (some of) these and/or additional books, publications, etc.
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 I'll consider these factors:
   * make it to the meeting (that's where I generally give the book(s) away for some person(s) in the user group)
-  * drop a note to the relevant [L]UG's (talk/discussion) list regarding which title(s) you're interested in (in preference order if more than one), (and for what (noble) purpose(s))
+  * drop a note to the relevant [L]UG's (talk/discussion) list regarding which title(s) you're interested in (in preference order if more than one), (and for what (noble) purpose(s)) (and preferably reasonably in advance of the meeting - e.g. I may opt not to schlep book(s) with me if no one has expressed interest in them before I pack for my trek to the meeting - which may be rather early in the morning if I'm doing other stuff (e.g. work) before meeting and may head straight to meeting after that)
-  * make it to the meeting on time (or best approximations thereof) which such note(s) of interest are posted earliest/earlier to list
+  * make it to the meeting on time (or best approximations thereof)
+  * which such note(s) of interest are posted earliest/earlier to list
-This first set is courtesy of Pearson Education's User Group program (they'd love if one writes a review of these, and especially on-line, and most especially on Amazon):
+These titles currently (while they last) available courtesy of Michael Paoli:
-Pe%%%%rl by Example, 5th Edition \\
+Learning the vi Editor, Fifth edition \\
-By Ellie Quigley \\
+Linda Lamb \\
-Published Dec 17, 2014 by Prentice Hall. \\
+(c) 1990 \\
-Copyright 2015 \\
+O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. \\
-Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8" \\
+~200 pages \\
-Pages: 888 \\
+ \\
-Edition: 5th \\
+Practical Unix & Internet Security, 2nd Edition \\
-Book \\
+Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford \\
-ISBN-10: 0-13-376081-2 \\
+(c) 1996, 1991 \\
-ISBN-13: 978-0-13-376081-1 \\
+O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. \\
-http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0133760812 \\
+~1004 pages \\
+ \\
+How Linux Works (What Every Superuser Should Know) \\
+Brian Ward \\
+(c) 2004 \\
+No Starch Press \\
+~365 pages \\
+ \\
+Linux Server Security, 2nd Edition \\
+Michael D. Bauer \\
+(c) 2005, 2003 \\
+O'Reilly \\
+~542 pages \\
+ \\
+Security Power Tools \\
+Burns, et. al. \\
+(c) 2007 \\
+O'Reilly \\
+~855 pages \\
+The immediately below item(s) courtesy of [[http://www.pearsoned.com/|Pearson Education]]'s User Group program (they'd love if one writes a review of these, and especially on-line, and most especially on Amazon):
 Docker Containers LiveLessons \\
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 .5+ Hours of Video Instruction \\
 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0134096134 \\
-(the above publications from Pearson Education's User Group program - \\
-they'd of course also love it if one writes a review - especially \\
-on-line and most especially on Amazon) \\