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Open Source Development with CVS
is a book published by
Coriolis Inc.
as part of the Coriolis OpenPress series.
![[Grocking the Gimp]](images/osd_with_cvs.gif)
Chapters 2, 4, 6, 8,
9, and 10 -- comprising a complete introduction, tutorial and
reference to CVS -- have been
released free
under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.These chapters are a complete CVS
book unto themselves; they amount to approximately 225 printed
pages. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't want to
discourage you from purchasing the published treeware version.
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Grokking the Gimp
. Carey Bunks' great introduction to using the GIMP. From the intro...
![[Grocking the Gimp]](images/grocking-sm.jpg)
Working with digital images requires
some understanding of what needs to be done. It's not a
``choose the right tool, one click, and you're done'' subject.
Most books on digital image
manipulation would have you believe the contrary...and perhaps they're
right. However, that is not what this book is about. It is not about
tips and tricks, and
it's not a collection of recipes for solving someone's favorite image
manipulation problems. It is first about understanding image
manipulation concepts,
second about knowing which GIMP tools are most effective, and
third about the savvy use of these tools.
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The Hacker Crackdown. Bruce Sterling's saga of turmoil
in cyberspace.
![[Maximum RPM]](images/hacker_crack_down.gif)
Bruce Sterling's classic work highlights the 1990 assault on
hackers, when law-enforcement officials successfully arrested
scores of suspected illicit hackers and other computer-based
law-breakers. These raids became symbolic of the debate between
fighting serious computer crime and protecting civil liberties.
However, The Hacker Crackdown is about far more than a series of
police sting operations. It's a lively tour of three cyberspace
subcultures--the hacker underworld, the realm of the cybercops,
and the idealistic culture of the cybercivil libertarians.
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Maximum RPM
![[Maximum RPM]](images/maximum_rpm.gif)
. Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit.
Edward C. Bailey's book about the Red Hat Package Manager or,
as it is known to it's friends, RPM. This is the online version of the
definitive RPM reference book, at least untill version 2 comes out.
From the Publisher... "The complete reference for the RPM software package that is the
heart of the Red Hat Linux distribution. Designed for both the
novice and advanced users, Maximum RPM enables anyone to take
full advantage of the benefits of building software packages
with the Red Hat Package management tools to ensure that they
install simply and accurately each and every time. - The most
requested topic for a book from Linux users, according
to Red Hat software's research."
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![[Using Samba]](images/samba.s.gif)
Using Samba
If you've heard about Samba and you want to see what it can do for
you, this is the place to start. In this online version of the
O'Reilly
book
by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, and Peter Kelly
will get you started on the path to understanding Samba and its
potential. Before long, you will be able to provide Unix services
to all your Windows machines - all without spending tons of
extra time or money.
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The Internet
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The Art of Port Scanning
by Fyodor <fyodor@dhp.com>.
This paper details many of the techniques used to determine what
ports (or similar protocol abstraction) of a host are listening for
connections. These ports represent potential communication channels.
Mapping their existence facilitates the exchange of information with
the host, and thus it is quite useful for anyone wishing to explore
their networked environment, including hackers.
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Connected:
An Internet Encyclopedia focusing on major Internet concepts and
features by Brent Baccala. Contains many useful RFCs
with searchable indices. Connected is now mirrored nightly.
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The Hacker Crackdown. Bruce Sterling's saga of turmoil
in cyberspace.
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Snake Oil Warning Signs:
Encryption Software to Avoid from the Snake Oil FAQ.
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So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup
. A FAQ to help people get the most out of alt, as well as a
reflection of some established procedures.
Also by David Barr.
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The State of the Japanese Internet, 1997.
An essay by Bruce M. Hahne.
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World Wide Web
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Apache HTTP Server User's Guide.
Documentation for the world's most popular web server.
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Apache Mod Perl Developer's Mini Guide.
The Apache/Perl integration project brings together the full power of
the Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server. With mod_perl
it is possible to write Apache modules entirely in Perl. The persistent
interpreter embedded in the server avoids the overhead of starting an
external interpreter, the penalty of Perl start-up time and loading
and compiling the modules and the scripts. Example modules can be
located via the
Apache/Perl Module List. A copy of the
Mod_perl FAQ is
also available.
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Apache Mod PHP3 Guide.
PHP Version 3.0 is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language
for use with the Apache web server. Perhaps the strongest and most significant
feature of PHP3 is its database integration layer, which makes writing a
database-enabled web page incredibly simple.
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Bare Bones Guide To HTML.
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML lists all the tags that current
browsers are likely to recognize. Included are all the elements in
the official HTML 4.0 recommendation with common attributes, as
well as Netscape and Microsoft extensions. This document is a quick
reference guide by
Kevin Werbach.
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RGB to Color Name Mapping
. A composite of MIT's Xconsortum red/green/blue (RGB) color
specifications.
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Special Characters
. A table of basic HTML and ISO 8859 Latin-1
special characters as aranged by
Martin Ramsch.
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