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Linux-Announce Digest #236
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Linux-Announce Digest #236, Volume #5 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
No Starch Press Releases: "The TCP/IP Guide" ("Kerry Beck")
man-1.6b released (flucifredi@acm.org)
A $10 Linux Answering Machine (Bob Smith)
No Starch Press Releases "The TCP/IP Guide" ("Kerry Beck")
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:59:32 CST
From: "Kerry Beck" <nostarchpr@oreilly.com>
Subject: No Starch Press Releases: "The TCP/IP Guide"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact: Liz Maples
liz@nostarch.com
415.863.9900 x300
FINALLY, AN UP-TO-DATE, WELL-ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE TCP/IP PROTOCOL
SUITE
At long last, network professionals, internetworking educators, and
students have a comprehensive and user-friendly desk reference for TCP/IP
September 20, 2005, San Francisco - The TCP/IP protocol suite is the basic
framework that underlies all traffic on the modern Internet. Yet despite
its importance, network professionals and students have had to rely on the
same old reference books for years. "The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive,
Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference" (No Starch Press, September '05)
fills that void. At over 1600 pages, this new hardcover book is the most
complete, up-to-date, well-illustrated, and accessible TCP/IP resource on
the market - and it's written in a friendly, readable style not found in
most technical volumes.
Packed with over 300 illustrations that explain the finer points of this
complex topic, and over 500 tables for easy reference, "The TCP/IP Guide
details the core protocols that make TCP/IP internetworks function, as
well as the most important classic TCP/IP applications. The book's
personal, user-friendly writing style makes plain English of the dozens of
protocols and technologies that run the Internet, with full coverage of
PPP, ARP, IP, IPv6, IP NAT, IPSec, Mobile IP, ICMP, RIP, BGP, TCP, UDP,
DNS, DHCP, SNMP, FTP, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP, Telnet, and much more.
Readers can also look forward to:
-Complete coverage of IPv6 throughout-the foundation of the next
generation of the Internet
-Thorough coverage of background information on networking for beginners,
including a full explanation of the OSI Reference Model
-A free online version, including full-color diagrams, hyperlinks between
topics and a searchable index
-More complete and illustrative diagrams than any other TCP/IP book
"Unfortunately, even the best-selling TCP/IP books are well out-of-date,
with the most recent one having been published in 2000," said Bill
Pollock, founder of No Starch Press. "'The TCP/IP Guide' is remarkably well
developed, extremely well illustrated, and undeniably complete. It's
actually a pleasure, rather than a chore, to read."
Charles M. Kozierok is the author and publisher of The PC Guide
(www.PCGuide.com), an extensive online reference work on personal
computers, as well as several other educational websites, including "The
TCP/IP Guide" (www.TCPIPGuide.com). He holds master's degrees from MIT in
management and in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), and
worked in various technical and managerial roles before dedicating himself
full-time to writing and educational pursuits. He lives in rural Vermont
with his wife and three sons.
The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols
Reference by Charles M. Kozierok. September 2005, 1648 pp., $79.95, ISBN
1-59327-047-X
Available at fine bookstores everywhere, from www.oreilly.com/nostarch, or
directly from No Starch Press (www.nostarch.com, orders@nostarch.com,
800.420.7240).
ABOUT NO STARCH PRESS: Founded in 1994, No Starch Press is one of the few
remaining independent computer book publishers. We publish the finest in
geek entertainment - unique books on technology, with a focus on Open
Source, security, hacking, programming, and alternative operating systems.
Our titles have personality, our authors are passionate, and our books
tackle topics that people care about. See www.nostarch.com for more. (And
by the way, most No Starch Press books use RepKover, a lay-flat binding
that won't snap shut. Geeks love it.)
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:21:11 CST
From: flucifredi@acm.org
Subject: man-1.6b released
Man version 1.6b is available for download at:
http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/man-1.6b.tar.gz
This is a minor release covering:
- Additional changes for parallel Make (Octavio Ruiz).
- New French locale man pages translation (Alain Portal).
- New French locale message catalog translation (Alain Portal).
- Minor changes in manual pages (Giorgos Keramidas, flc).
- Minor corrections in the docs (flc).
man is a man pager. It has support for compressed pages
(both man pages and cat pages), and for locale ($LANG)
and for message catalogs ($LC_MESSAGES). It will format
files given explicitly (man ./foo.man.gz).
It conforms to FSSTND or FHS, and handles stray cats.
* man2html is a utility that converts man pages to html
* hman is a man browser that uses your favourite browser.
For use with lynx, no http daemon is required.
Keywords: man manpath apropos whatis makewhatis man.conf man2html
man2dvi
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-- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish
(Federico L. Lucifredi)
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:43:27 CST
From: Bob Smith <bsmith@linuxtoys.org>
Subject: A $10 Linux Answering Machine
The LinuxToys.Org website has a new article on how to
use a popular, low cost winmodem as a Linux based
telephone answering machine. The article is at:
http://www.linuxtoys.org/answer/answering_machine.html
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:43:37 CST
From: "Kerry Beck" <nostarchpr@oreilly.com>
Subject: No Starch Press Releases "The TCP/IP Guide"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact: Liz Maples
liz@nostarch.com
415.863.9900 x300
FINALLY, AN UP-TO-DATE, WELL-ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE TCP/IP PROTOCOL
SUITE
At long last, network professionals, internetworking educators, and
students have a comprehensive and user-friendly desk reference for TCP/IP
September 20, 2005, San Francisco - The TCP/IP protocol suite is the basic
framework that underlies all traffic on the modern Internet. Yet despite
its importance, network professionals and students have had to rely on the
same old reference books for years. "The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive,
Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference" (No Starch Press, September '05)
fills that void. At over 1600 pages, this new hardcover book is the most
complete, up-to-date, well-illustrated, and accessible TCP/IP resource on
the market - and it's written in a friendly, readable style not found in
most technical volumes.
Packed with over 300 illustrations that explain the finer points of this
complex topic, and over 500 tables for easy reference, "The TCP/IP Guide
details the core protocols that make TCP/IP internetworks function, as
well as the most important classic TCP/IP applications. The book's
personal, user-friendly writing style makes plain English of the dozens of
protocols and technologies that run the Internet, with full coverage of
PPP, ARP, IP, IPv6, IP NAT, IPSec, Mobile IP, ICMP, RIP, BGP, TCP, UDP,
DNS, DHCP, SNMP, FTP, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP, Telnet, and much more.
Readers can also look forward to:
-Complete coverage of IPv6 throughout-the foundation of the next
generation of the Internet
-Thorough coverage of background information on networking for beginners,
including a full explanation of the OSI Reference Model
-A free online version, including full-color diagrams, hyperlinks between
topics and a searchable index
-More complete and illustrative diagrams than any other TCP/IP book
"Unfortunately, even the best-selling TCP/IP books are well out-of-date,
with the most recent one having been published in 2000," said Bill
Pollock, founder of No Starch Press. "'The TCP/IP Guide' is remarkably well
developed, extremely well illustrated, and undeniably complete. It's
actually a pleasure, rather than a chore, to read."
Charles M. Kozierok is the author and publisher of The PC Guide
(www.PCGuide.com), an extensive online reference work on personal
computers, as well as several other educational websites, including "The
TCP/IP Guide" (www.TCPIPGuide.com). He holds master's degrees from MIT in
management and in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), and
worked in various technical and managerial roles before dedicating himself
full-time to writing and educational pursuits. He lives in rural Vermont
with his wife and three sons.
The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols
Reference by Charles M. Kozierok. September 2005, 1648 pp., $79.95, ISBN
1-59327-047-X
Available at fine bookstores everywhere, from www.oreilly.com/nostarch, or
directly from No Starch Press (www.nostarch.com, orders@nostarch.com,
800.420.7240).
ABOUT NO STARCH PRESS: Founded in 1994, No Starch Press is one of the few
remaining independent computer book publishers. We publish the finest in
geek entertainment - unique books on technology, with a focus on Open
Source, security, hacking, programming, and alternative operating systems.
Our titles have personality, our authors are passionate, and our books
tackle topics that people care about. See www.nostarch.com for more. (And
by the way, most No Starch Press books use RepKover, a lay-flat binding
that won't snap shut. Geeks love it.)
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