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Book recommendation - maybe not!
From: mike.mikemiller at gmail.com (Michael Miller)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:38:18 -0800
That sounds almost as bad as a series of un-named books that had one paragraph on what the command was and then the man pages for that command. -mmiller On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Robert McGrew <wesleymcgrew at gmail.com> wrote:
I requested and received a review copy of this, on the off chance that it fell into the category of "weird and eccentric, but completely brilliant" (see Russell Walter's "Secret Guide to Computers", amazing work, do check this out). It doesn't fall into this category at all. It's exactly as bad as you are imagining. ?I don't have the PDF handy to cite exactly what, but I do recall that it's poorly formatted, poorly written, chews up a lot of pages with lists and screenshots, and contains a lot of information that is just plain wrong. ?(Just like a lot of non-novelty-press books I get! :) ) It was bad enough that I just didn't even want to write anything about it. ?I figured there wasn't much risk that readers of my site would care to spend any money on it anyways, so I'd just be beating on it for the humor. ?That's fun too sometimes, but I just couldn't bring myself to spend any more time with it. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:I just found this and wondered how I'd got on so long in security without it. http://learn-how-to-hack.net/index.php Quote: "You will aquire knowledge nonexistant to 99.9% of the people in the world!" I want to be in that 0.1%! Follow the link at the bottom to get to this page: http://rafayhackingarticles.blogspot.com/ I think it should be in all our RSS feeds. Enjoy Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com-- Wesley McGrew http://mcgrewsecurity.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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- Book recommendation - maybe not! Robin Wood (Dec 30)
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- Book recommendation - maybe not! Robin Wood (Dec 31)
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- Book recommendation - maybe not! Robert McGrew (Dec 31)
- Book recommendation - maybe not! John Strand (Dec 31)
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