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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Unix Power Tools, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Shelley Powers, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides Rating: 5/5  I was stuck in a corporate software mess with a compilation of legacy UNIX Script, awk and other languages calling and executing both locally and remotely. With only intermediate experience in UNIX, a rather large pot of coffee and Jerry Peeks UNIX tools I was able to filter through, straighten out, and document the nightmare legacy code within half the time I expected. The book has an outstanding state of the art, referencing and indexing to key words and commands while you read. I did not find myself flipping back and forth to the index. I was able to get the information very quickly without loosing train of thought. A fantastic book, I have several UNIX books and many in other languages and this one has the best layout and most complete reference. Only one suggestion... don't let this book go out of print for so long. I had to wait months to get this new version. The old version was sold out all over the US. Maybe I will buy a few extra copies for investment purposes.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Envisioning Information Publisher: Graphics Press Authors: Edward R. Tufte Rating: 5/5 This is the second book in Ed Tufte's trilogy on graphical displays. It is a sequel to "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". In this book Tufte shows how color, multiple pictures from different perspectives, graphs, charts and even newspaper text can be used to convey on a flat piece of paper information for high-dimesional data. Most important is the ability of two-dimensional pictures to display the information of the three dimensional world that the human mind can comprehend through sight. This is the reason for the title to the first chapter "Escaping Flatland". However, as interesting as the pictures are themselves it is necessary to read the text and look back and forth between pictures to fully appreciate the points of the text. As with his earlier work, Tufte demonstrates the principles of good graphics through effective demonstartaion of ideas conveyed by good and bad examples. The difference is a broader coverage of techniques and greater emphasis on the good examples. This book is a nice lead in for the third book, "Visual Explanations", which deals with examples where Tufte believes the graphical displays actually lead to good inferences about a problem under study.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-290): Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Dan Holme, Orin Thomas Rating: 2/5  Chapters are very informative and a must read. However, answers of the Objective review questions in the book are not matching with the answers of the same questions in the CD. Example: Objective 5.3 Questions section, question #3 has "(A)THe server will continiue operating and no data will be lost." as correct answer. The same question on CD is answered as (B) All data will be lost, a stripe set rather than RAID-5 is required for fault tolerance." And the erreta has no correction to that along with other mistakes. CD has also incomplete question lines and poorly constructed questions.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Ed Wilson Rating: 5/5 This is THE book for learning VB Scripting The book has labs and practice scripts that relates to real life scenarios.It is written in a matter so it is easy to understand he concepts of scripting.I can recomment this book for anyone that needs to learn VB Script. Both for advanced and beginners.
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