The same humor we know from "Alphabet of manliness" - ignorant, childish, and absolutely brilliant. Maddox comments childrens drawings on over 300 pages, and throws in some of his own drawings as well. Some of the constructions found on the childrens drawings are taken out in real life, for example a Ferrari with wheels on the roof.

If one likes the best page in the universe, Alphabet of manliness and similar humor, this book is a must have.

This is nothing but a work of genius/es. Nothing more, and definitively nothing less! The video makes it a 6-star song.

This "book" is a complete fraud, actually I'm surprised things like this is legally sold, especially to that price.

Reading the Amazon summary a bit sloppy (like i did) gives the impression that it's a book about OpenCA. In reality, it is a collection of Wikipedia articles. There is a reason one cannot preview this book, that is because after flipping one page (i am not kidding) the part about OpenCA is over. Which is just the article lifted off Wikipedia word for word.

The book continues with "related" wikipedia articles consisting of various security related topics, the longest one seem to be "Signals Intelligence operations platform by nations". Hello?

The only single good thing about this book is that the "authors" incloded the GNU Free Documentation License at the end of the book. This one goes back to Amazon - this is nothing else than false advertising.

Rather baffled by the fact that this even got to publishing, more so that it's actually possible to pay for it when it _obviously_ have nothing to do with the OpenCA product (apart from that one single page in the book is a hardcopy of the Wikipedia article)

Absolutely great.

Childish? Yes.

Partly written with a very bad taste? Yes.

Ironic? to ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.

I'd recommend this book. It contains lots of art and screenshots as well as lots of facts.

Sure, it doesn't contain the genius artwork of Van Burhams' "Supercade", nor the the depth of facts like Kent's "Ultimate History of video games" but it does an excellent job of being a "light version" of both the above mentioned books.

If you like this book, you'll definitively love the both books above. Burhams book is my favourite for flipping-through and Kents book is great for reading details about the background (lawsuits etc).

Arcade fever is a great book on its own as well, and contains some information not mentioned in the above books.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who is faced with using VM Technologies; in my case virtualization of machines. Who knew that the LSI adapter in VMWare gives you better performance than the BusLogic one? Not me. Who removes floppy disks, CDs etc from his/her virtual machines? Not me - at least not before i read this book.

The book covers MS Virtual PC/Server, VMWare Workstation, GSX and partly ESX. Given that the book have almost 2 years under the belt some parts are irrelevant or has changed drastically. However, the core technology stays valid.

The chapters on storage and clustering are also very well written, and tries to keep to the important parts/facts without boring you with details.

The only negative thing i can say about this book is that it's a little bit repetitive; i.e. "now let's do task X in VMWare Workstation, now let's do it in MS Virtual PC, now let's do it with GSX". Do not let the pagecount frighten you because some of the chapters have quite a lot of screenshots.

The writing is light and contains the occasional joke, yet not babbly and gets to the points quickly. It stays away from describing basic tasks / technologies and keep to the track promised by the title: Virtualization.

Haven't read any books on virutalization before so it's hard to put this in a context, but i was definitively not dissappointed with this book, and learnt a lot from it, things that can directly be applied in the real world.

I guess a book like this is a very good start, and then some additional book on the specific product/s you are about to use.

I can recommend this book if you are in the position, or will be in the position, of network and device monitoring. The chapter about SAP monitoring was absolutely brilliant and luckily contained both networkers' language as well as "SAP-lingo", as opposed to other guides, which seem to contain only one or the other.

This is the third book on Nagios i got and the first to actually be of use.

If you are using nagios or consider using it, this is the book for you.

Contents: 1 star

Writing : 4 stars

For me, this book was pretty much useless. It goes through all the standard IT security topics, "what is a vpn", some of the usual IPSec-bashing ("IPSec is insecure because it's so complicated" - but no sources or references are mentioned). A significant amount of this book is devoted to the installation under different distributions and *BSDs, firewall configuration with different GUIs, PKI setups. In chapter 7 (of 11) the book starts to discuss OpenVPN "for real" - everything up until then has been extremely simple examples and generic discussions. And of course, how to install it. Unfortunately this is only one short chapter, and then it starts describing OSS PKIs and firewall GUIs. In chapter 10 the discussion is again turned to OpenVPN, but also this chapter is very short.

In itself, the book isn't bad, but the title is seriously misleading. Most of this book is about package management and GUIs for iptables and PKIs.

I would recommend the book if you need to implement openvpn and have no clue about linux, but if you already have it up and running and want to know what's going on, this book doesn't help you much.