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BSD Hacks

Dru Lavigne

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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In the world of Unix operating systems, the various BSDs come with a long heritage of high-quality software and well-designed solutions, making them a favorite OS of a wide range of users. Among budget-minded users who adopted BSD early on to developers of some of today's largest Internet sites, the popularity of BSD systems continues to grow. If you use the BSD operating system, then you know that the secret of its success is not just in its price tag: practical, reliable, extraordinarily stable and flexible, BSD also offers plenty of fertile ground for creative, time-saving tweaks and tricks, and yes, even the chance to have some fun. "Fun?" you ask. Perhaps "fun" wasn't covered in the manual that taught you to install BSD and administer it effectively. But BSD Hacks, the latest in O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, offers a unique set of practical tips, tricks, tools--and even fun--for administrators and power users of BSD systems. BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and getting more done, with fewer resources. You'll take advantage of the tools and concepts that make the world's top Unix users more productive. Rather than spending hours with a dry technical document learning what switches go with a command, you'll learn concrete, practical uses for that command. The book begins with hacks to customize the user environment. You'll learn how to be more productive in the command line, timesaving tips for setting user-defaults, how to automate long commands, and save long sessions for later review. Other hacks in the book are grouped in the following areas:

• Customizing the User Environment
• Dealing with Files and Filesystems
• The Boot and Login Environments
• Backing Up
• Networking Hacks
• Securing the System
• Going Beyond the Basics
• Keeping Up-to-Date
• Grokking BSD

If you want more than your average BSD user--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own--BSD Hacks is a must-have. This book will turn regular users into power users and system administrators into super system administrators.

The Mac Tiger Server Black Book (Little Black Books (Paraglyph Press))

Charles Edge

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WHAT'S IN YOUR LITTLE BLACK BOOK? TIGER!! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Are you a user or system administrator that needs to get the most out of Mac networking with Tiger Server? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Charles Edge, has done an outstanding job of writing a cool book that will help you tap the unused potential of your server.

Edge, begins by describing the concepts and terminology of basic network communications. Then, the author takes a look at what requirements are needed to run Tiger Server. Next, the author covers the management utilities that are used in maintaining and working with Tiger server. He also covers the various services that the Tiger X Server can offer to administrators to help in managing networks. The author continues by covering the concepts required to build a good backup plan for any organization. Then, he provides an introduction to many of the command line utilities used in managing a Tiger Server and Mac network environment. Finally, the author explains the various other aspects of managing a long-term Tiger Server and the network the server lives on.

After reading this most excellent book, you should end up with the ability to find your way around an OSX Server. Perhaps more importantly, you'll enjoy the process.

Editorial Review:

This unique black book will guide networking professionals and those wanting to set up a server through all the aspects of the new Mac Tiger Server including understanding the Apple network, managing network access, and network protocols such as TCP/IP AppleTalk, and the OSI model.

The book is divided into two sections: the "In Depth" section covers all the concepts being introduced, followed by the "Immediate Solutions" sections that provide hands-on real-world techniques to solve problems. It covers Web-based administration, open directory and managed preferences, protocols for routing, switching and Web services. The book is jam-packed with hundreds of "how-to" tips to ensure that servers are set up correctly and they operate as efficiently as possible. Numerous time-saving techniques are also provided to help web server administrators save time and reduce aggravation.

SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com (HP Professional Series)

Michael Missbach, Uwe M. Hoffmann

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Very Good Book for beginners or experts 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I wish that I had this book when we started our SAP project. This book will help anyone who is thinking about installing or upgrading SAP. It helps explain how SAP software will use the hardware. And how all of the pieces fit together. Even though this book is by HP press it stays true to the theme. They do try and "sell" HP hardware or solutions every once in awhile, but for the most part this book is generic in vendor. You won't go wrong with reading this book or just having it for reference the next time you have to upgrade your hardware or if you are having response problems and need to know how to evaluate your hardware. We have been an SAP customer for six years and have grown up with SAP in the US (started at version 2.1 and have just completed our 4.6 upgrade!).

Excellent reference on SAP Infrastructure 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I highly recommend this book to companies that are going to start an SAP project. The book provides the foundation to design and build a solid technical infrastructure for SAP. Moreover, it is easy to read, covers every aspect, and is plenty of examples.

I am an experienced SAP technical consultant and wish this book were available some years ago. On common problem I have seen is that companies don't understand, from the infrastructure point of view, what an SAP project involves. The objective of this book is to make them aware of what they don't know (and could hurt them) at the right time, which is before the project actually starts.

Becoming an SAP Consultant (Prima Techs SAP Book Series)

Gareth M. De Bruyn, Ken Kroes

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Utterly ridiculous 1 out of 5 stars.
20 of 20 people found this review helpful.

This book is so incredibly contrived, I'm not sure where to begin. How about the part about recommending that a consultant learn to type fast, as it allows one to get more work done per minute and gives the impression that you are busy? In the end, it's just another thinly-veiled attempt by some self-appointed "experts" to cash in on the R/3 phenomenon. There are better books out there that provide a lot more knowledgeable insight on being an independent consultant; they might not be SAP-specific, but neither is a lot of this book's content--in spite of its title.

Editorial Review:

The Consultant's Guide to SAP R/3 is the complete reference for consultants and business managers looking to hire or work with an SAP R/3 specialist. As a prospective consultant, you will learn good consultant etiquette, successful interviewing strategies, and tax tips for running a consulting business. You will also gain valuable insight on the high-tech consultant culture. If you are a business manager, you will learn how to determine if you really need an SAP consultant, how to evaluate SAP consultants on their experience (not their marketing materials), and strategies for working successfully with consultants. Any Enterprise Resource Planning consultant, or anyone looking to use an ERP consultant's services, will benefit from this book.

AppleShare IP

Tom Dell

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the new AppleShare IP design, features, and capabilities, and a thorough explanation of how to apply these new elements to a Macintosh-based networking environment. The book includes interviews with network administrators, Apple engineers, and end-users, and plenty of hands-on exercises to get users mastering this new network operating system in no time. Topics include choosing servers, configuration, and access privileges; the AppleShare file service; print, e-mail, and web services; MacDNS; and interfacing with PCs. Contents cover IP 5.0. CD-ROM features an AppleShare IP Administrator's Toolkit for readers to keep track of server configuration data, RAID allocations, backup tape rotation, ISP configuration data, IP address mappings, troubleshooting logs, user training "cheat sheets," and vendor information.

Key Features
* Properly deploy AppleShare IP's file, Web, email, print and DNS servers
* Optimize AppleShare IP and the Apple Workgroup Server performance
* Work with protocols such as AFP, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, PAP, and TCP
* Create strategies for supporting end users on both Mac OS computers and PCs
* Migrate from System 7 to Mac OS 8 access privilege schemes
* Improve server security with Dantz's Retrospect and Santorini's Server Manager/Server Tools
* Add functionality and improve performance with Open Door Network's HomeDoor and LogDoor, StarNine's ListSTAR, and RUN, Inc.'s RunShare

ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP

Arvind Nagpal, Gareth De Bruyn, Robert Lyfareff

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ALE, EDI, & IDoc Technologies for SAP is the first authoritative book on the market covering SAP's hottest technologies. Readers learn the concepts behind these technologies, use this knowledge to configure standard ALE and EDI scenarios, and develop custom scenarios by extending or developing new IDocs for different business situations. Prima Tech's expert SAP author covers every detail of the ALE and EDI planning and implementation stages, including all technical and business issues.

Whether readers seek to enter the dynamic ALE/EDI market or wish to expand their knowledge in an environment they currently work in, they'll benefit from the programming examples, system configuration strategies, and testing and troubleshooting techniques included in this comprehensive, authoritative guide.

The author earned his Masters degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems at North Carolina State University and has over four years' experience in SAP R/3 cross-application technologies. He has consulted for several Fortune 50 companies and has been hired by SAP on several occasions to teach SAP's ALE, EDI, IDoc, and workflow courses. His students think very highly of him as an instructor.

What Every Business Needs to Know About SAP (Prima Tech's SAP Book Series)

Lisa Ramsay Dietz

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An SAP Fairy Tale - Complete with deus ex machina 1 out of 5 stars.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful.

This book is an homage to SAP, first, and consultants, second.

According to the fairy tale included as a "real world example" of an SAP implementation, when your implementation gets rough, all you need to do is throw more money and consultants at it because the consultants know best. If you just turn your company over to the knowledgeable consultants, and don't worry about the bill, everything will work out fine.

The book does not include any detailed information about how the system works. It does not include any information about how to deal with interfaces or data conversion or any discussion of customizations and modifications. It does not include any discussion of any of the widely publicized failed SAP implementations and why they went wrong.

Basically, the book tells you the history of SAP (as a software and as a company), gives you a high level fairy tale (an SAP version of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" where the business is suffering during the SAP implementation and the consultants magically come in and solve all the problems and the company lives happily ever after), and then goes on to say that SAP is so good that even when the author had criticisms about the software, it was just because she wasn't taking a broad enough view of how the SAP software was evolving, and once she talked to the nice developers at SAP, they showed her why what they were doing was right.

The bottom line from this book:

1) SAP good 2) Consultants wise and helpful

For more depth, you'll have to go somewhere else.

Editorial Review:

This book helps executives and managers break through the mystery of an SAP implementation. Topics covered include the SAP marketplace, the benefits of implementing SAP and how it affects a company as a whole, budgeting for the transition, assembling an SAP project team, working with implementation partners and consultants, and the cost of a successful implementation. Based on the field experience of a Fortune 50 consultant, this book walks readers through the decision to choose SAP, provides executives with realistic expectations for the implementation process, and shares insight into the future of SAP.

Planning and Managing Web Sites on the Macintosh: The Complete Guide to WebStar and MacHTTP

Jon Wiederspan, Chuck Shotton

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Good book for 1996...but not 2000 1 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

In brief, this book has not been updated since 1996. Much of its information (and the contents of the companion CD-ROM) is sorely outdated.

The introductory chapters, which give an encapsulated history of the Internet and the Web (and all the terminology that goes with it), are interesting. But after that, it's basically an abridged Webstar 1.2 manual. The latter chapters on CGI scripting are still helpful.

Those interested in specifically learning about running and managing your own site server are better off going online or just reading the current Webstar manual.

Editorial Review:

Wiederspan has been a world-recognized guru of Macintosh WWW software and site administration for years, and wrote one of the first WYSIWIG HTML editors. Now he teams with Chuck Shotton -- creator of WebSTAR and MacHTTP -- to teach you everything you know to set up a Mac-based WWW site. Includes a strong chapter on writing CGI applications in AppleScript, C and other languages, and a CD-ROM with WebStar and everything else you need to set up and effectively administer a Mac WWW site. Recommended.

Managing Appleshare and Workgroup Servers (Network Frontiers Field Manual Series)

Dorian J. Cougias, Tom Dell

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