How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs

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Wicked funny tales of the dark side of the kitchen

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More culinary gossip from big name memoirs.

How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
Kimberly Witherspoon , and Peter Meehan
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
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ASIN: 1596912472
Release Date: 2006-10-31

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In this spectacular sequel to Don’t Try This at Home, forty of the world’s greatest chefs relate true tales about learning to cook. Hilarious, touching, and always surprising, these essays cover everything from early adversity to unexpected, seminal triumphs. How I Learned to Cook is an irresistible treat for cooks (and foodies) of all levels of abilities, and includes stories by culinary giants such as Dan Barber, Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud, Anthony Bourdain, Gabrielle Hamilton, Fergus Henderson, Paul Kahan, Pino Luongo, Michel Richard, Norman Van Aken, and more.

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Wicked funny tales of the dark side of the kitchen.......2007-09-27

Next to eating and cooking, one of my favorite activities is reading about food. And in the last decade or so, there has been a plethora of choices now available to Americans -- cookbooks are one of the biggest selling sectors of the publishing world, the cult of the celebrity chef is booming, and the megamarts are swarming with new and exotic foods from around the world. Along with that, the American palate has been becoming more cosmopolitan and discerning, all of this adding up a nearly insatisable demand for knowledge and interest in the art of cuisine.

One aspect that I've really gotten to enjoy about life in the middle of food are the various accounts written by various chefs in the trade. There's something to be learned in these personal stories of culinary discoveries, failures and triumphs.

Edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Peter Meehan, this includes more than forty stories, most of which are painfully funny, thoughtful, downright bawdy, and full of insights into what makes a chef. My favorites among the stories were those from:

Anthony Bourdain -- about the horrors to be found while shilling his book across the country. Terrificly funny, and downright rude in spots. I thought he was the most foul-mouthed chef around, until I heard Gordon Ramsey in a couple of his television programs.

Masaharu Morimoto -- this popular Iron Chef reveals that he had another passion besides food, namely baseball, and very nearly became a professional player in Japan. Talk about having to make choices!

Tamara Murphy's tale of an early experiment in baking had me rolling and just to make sure I had indeed read it right, went back and reread it just to make sure.

That's just a taste of what is in here. There are stories of irate, tantrum throwing chefs, drunk and/or drugged out line cooks, the mysteries of finally understanding an ingredient or recipe and other delights. Nearly everyone in this book are slighly on the oddball side of life, with just a little touch of craziness for good measure. Most of all, each one is very passionate about what they do, and it shows -- perhaps it is there which separate the merely good from those who make it great.

One thing that I've noticed to nearly every contributor in this book is that they have an incredible hunger for knowledge and food. None of them are arrogant enough to claim that that they know it all, nor do they shy away from admitting their mistakes. That takes a lot of courage in our modern world that demands perfection above all else. Another aspect that I found interesting was that nearly all of the chefs in this book had either attended the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) or had been taught their craft in France in apprenticeship programs.

All in all, this is a delightful gift for the foodie that you know, or perhaps the budding chef that you know. None of the stories are very long, and each one reveals an aspect of the cooking world that proves to be interesting. Others are wickedly funny, and will have you guffawing.

Recommended.

A lot of fun to read.......2007-07-07

I'm actually enjoying this collection of anecdotes more than I did "Don't Try This at Home" -- this is more down-to-earth and not as outrageous as the stories gathered in the first book. An excellent keep-in-the-car book for when you have five or ten minutes to kill, you can knock off a couple more chapters. This would make a great gift for someone who likes to cook or who likes to eat, and who doesn't like to eat?!

Lots of Fun and A Great Buy.......2007-06-22

This is a fun book. Not interviews with chefs but 5-7 page chapters written by each of them. Not so much "how I learned to cook" (which would probably be boring, anyway after about the 5th one), as "some of my adventures/experiences as a chef".

I agree with the other review for the most part, but wanted to post my 5 star response based on different expectations. If you enjoy reading the experiences of some of the best chefs (and food writers) around, and enjoy a mixture of emotions (from Rick Bayless's sweet and heartfelt reflections on how Julia Child affected his life to Tony Bourdain's entertaining experiences trying to demonstrate recipes while hawking books on tv), this is a fun read--with information about food and techniques and "how to get from here to there" somewhat embedded throughout i. \

A fun glimpse into the personalities and experiences of many familiar names (nicely organized alphabetically--Ferran Adria kicks it off). I enjoyed this book very much.

More culinary gossip from big name memoirs........2006-12-25

`How I Learned to Cook' collected and edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Peter Meehan is simply a Part II of `Don't Try This At Home' edited by Witherspoon and culinary literary collaborator, Andrew Friedman in the place of Meehan. If the books were movies, they would probably be considered `exploitation' flicks, working off the interest in Tony Bourdain's `Kitchen Confidential' and a host of other culinary memoirs.

Not only is there less difference between the books than is suggested by the titles, this second volume shares most of the quirks and slight misrepresentations of the original volume. The following quote from my review of the first volume is exactly true of this new effort:

"Two things which are misleading from the title are the fact that some of the contributors are not among `The World's Greatest Chefs' (from the subtitle at the top of the page) and many of the incidents recounted in the book are less about cooking per se than about relations between people in the kitchen, between the kitchen and management, and between the kitchen (back of the house) and the wait staff (front of the house)."

We even have a very similar list of contributors, giving us the notion that the material for the two books was collected at the same time, and this second volume is `leftovers'. This is slightly misleading, as I believe the quality of the material in the two books is roughly the same. Note that while several of the contributors such as Mark Bittman, Anthony Bourdain, Marcella Hazan and Tamasin Day-Lewis are not among `the world's greatest chefs', they ARE among the world's most articulate culinary writers! In fact, the party line on Bourdain is that he is actually a much better writer than he is a chef (Witness his self-confessed cheating at the CIA when he sneaked bouillon cubes into his stock making classes).
That is not to say we don't have a fair serving of true 'worlds greatest chefs' such as Ferran Adria, Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Tom Colicchio, Pierre Herme, Michel Richard, Eric Rippert, and Norm Van Aken.

Some of the lessons in these essays may be accidental. For example, Mark Bittman's piece says practically nothing about how he learned how to cook, but it speaks volumes about the difference between someone who writes about cooking and a professional cook. I can imagine that if a talented chef such as Tom Colicchio were put into Bittman's position of discovering they had to cook for a party of eight with four hours to go, Colicchio would have handled it in a walk, without even breaking a sweat.

The level of true culinary information is also, like the earlier volume, pretty slim. One group of `accidental' lessons is the extent to which those two great teachers, Julia Child and Madeleine Kamman were respected by their counterparts among the up and coming ranks of professional chefs. It also gives a small glimpse into the differences between the unflappable Child and the sometimes petulant Kamman.

A third type of lesson is some insights into the vast difference between the qualities of two different kitchens with roughly equal reputations. One example reveals how horrible it was for a Chez Panisse alum to find themselves staging at a Michelin two star restaurant which practiced sanitation poorer than a second rate Jersey diner. One would like to think this kind of thing reported so graphically by George Orwell in `Down and Out in London and Paris' had disappeared with the advent of the Michelin guides and their copiers, but apparently it has not.

My final verdict on the first volume is the same as my findings on this one. To wit:

"In many ways, this book is the culinary version of `The world's funniest pets'. It's a guilty pleasure which may contribute to your understanding of human nature, but it is not likely to help your cooking one wit. The greatest impression I get from the book is the difference between the professional culinary workplace and the kind of technical, research oriented business office with which I am familiar. ... I do get the sense from this and other sources that the professional kitchen is a human pressure cooker where tempers get as hot as the sautéed sole, about as often as that fish may be ordered.

Thus, I found this book remarkably entertaining and informative, but not for the reasons you may gather from the cover or the editors' introduction. If you liked `Kitchen Confidential', you will certainly like this book." On the other hand, if you are really interested primarily in culinary education, invest in Child's 'Mastering the Ard of French Cooking' or Kamman's 'The New Education of a Chef'!

Operation Greylord: Brockton Lockwood's Story

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Operation Greylord: Brockton Lockwood's Story
Brocton Lockwood , and Harlan H. Mendenhall
Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
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Judge Brocton Lockwood wore a wire for the FBI to help clean up a corrupt Chicago traffic court.

In 1978 newly appointed Associate Judge Lockwood reported to Chicago to fulfill the obligation all southern Illinois judges have to serve six weeks each year to reduce the backlog in the Cook County system.

Corruption so pervaded traffic court that Lockwood, who at first merely wanted to complete his Cook County stint and go home, was moved to contact the FBI: "As the time for our meeting approached, I brooded on the potential for leaks. I created all kinds of worrisome scenarios that kept me awake at night."

Once committed, Lockwood (codename Winston) had to fight not only a corrupt system and his own fears but also frustration engendered by official timidity and the grindingly slow bureaucracy of the FBI. "My spy duties seemed extremely dull and tedious 99 percent of the time; the other 1 percent was filled with terror." The story is exciting, it is true, it put criminals behind bars, and it effected changes in the Cook County court system.

Brocton Lockwood resigned his judgeship after Operation Greylord. He currently practices law in Marion, Illinois.

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Peter Cook Remembered
Lin Cook
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A well-researched and understanding biography
Amused

Biography of Peter Cook
Harry Thompson
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A well-researched and understanding biography.......2005-02-13

Peter Cook was a man of contradictions: an amazing talent who eventually failed in the harsh world of show business; a kind, friendly, good-humoured man who destroyed his marriages and repelled his best friends through drunkenness and cruelty. Now that is a challenge for a biographer - and Harry Thompson has risen superbly to the occasion. This 480-page blockbuster, crammed with detailed reminiscences, gives an unparalleled insight into the personality of this most English of comedians.

What a long way it is from Peter Cook's grandfather, a railway official in Kuala Lumpur who shot himself under the stress of a big promotion, and his father - a "sea-green incorruptible" colonial administrator - to the party he threw at the Cobden Working Men's Club in 1993, where the Rolling Stones rubbed shoulders with the Monty Python crew, two England cricket captains, Julian Clary and a mass of other celebrities. So tight was the scrum that Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller never managed to greet their host at all.

Like a stock market boom/bust cycle, the ups and downs of Cook's career were hugely amplified by the dictates of fashion. He was lucky enough to catch the early 1960s satire wave, and quickly became so sought-after that President Kennedy and his wife actually had to go and meet him, after he declined an invitation to the White House. Other than becoming global dictator, there was hardly anywhere to go after that but down - and Cook's perfectionism and lack of ambition conspired to make the descent almost as fast as the rise.

Cook's attitude to alcohol may have been at the root of his downfall. He simply wasn't prepared to give it up, and - like many people to whom money is no object - found himself drinking more and more. He even turned up for shows hardly able to stand, although he redeemed himself by recovering miraculously when the curtain went up. Like Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, who had a similar problem with heroin, Cook showed a curious fatalism about the habit that he knew very well was killing him and driving away the people who meant most to him. Also like Garcia, he managed to kick it in his final years, when his health had already been ruined.

Like all great biographies, this book involves us in the tragedy of success that contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is also the story of a tremendously talented and likeable man.

Amused.......2000-05-12

This is a fascinating biography of a man who bored himself to death. Surreal, satirical and often plain silly, Peter Cook's comedy was like Monty Python with fangs. Achieving everything he could hope for at the beginning of his career, he spent the rest of his life looking for a vehicle, suffering the same fate as countless other unique comic talents - years ahead of his time, he was eventually marginalised by an establishment that couldn't find a role for him, ending his career with a few brilliant flourishes and a sense that he never really fitted in.

The biography itself is the best that can be hoped for - despite a lack of support from Cook's last wife, Harry Thompson interviews almost everybody who knew him, and the book covers everything he did up to and including 'Why Bother?', with Chris Morris. At the end of the book you'll want to go out and buy the complete 'Beyond the Fringe' recordings, and a higher compliment cannot be paid.

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Beyond the Fringe...and Beyond: a Critical Biography of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore
Ronald Bergan
Manufacturer: Virgin Books
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Pleased say that we personally know a great author, congrats

Not the definitive book on Cook.

Brilliant! Long overdue!

Washburn and Cherici leave no doubt !!

Who's the dishonorable one ?

The Dishonorable Dr. Cook: Debunking the Notorious McKinley Hoax
Bradford Washburn , and Peter Cherici
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
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Pleased say that we personally know a great author, congrats.......2002-04-17

Pete did a wonderful job in this book, Cook clearly was a fraud. No more question in my mind. Hope Pete gets in touch with us soon, its been far to long. Great Work! Ron & Anita

Not the definitive book on Cook........2002-04-16

As interesting as this book is, it cannot be considered the definitive work on the controversial Cook. Bradford Washburn is one of the most important names in American mountaineering. His photographs rival Ansel Adams. However, in publishing this book at 91, with a co-author, he seems to have failed to source his material. Robert M. Bryce published several years ago an exhaustive treatment of Cook and his claims. He consulted Washburn, who wrote him a note warmly congratulating Bryce on his work when the book was published. However, when this book was published, which lacks footnotes, Washburn failed to credit Bryce in any way. This was a complete error, as his co-author admitted; he submitted a bibiography that identifies Bryce as a source. But when reached by the Washington Post, and asked to explain the omission of Bryce's book, Washburn told the Post, "I don't know Bryce" and "to the best of my knowledge I've never laid eyes on his book. But you've got to remember you're dealing with a 91-year-old guy here." The sad fact is that Washburn is probably telling the truth based on his present memory, but that memory is just not very good. Washburn's coauthor admits that he "naturally" drew facts and sequences from Bryce's book, since it was both the most comprehensive and the most recent biography of Cook. The entire controversy is well covered in a February 4. 2002 article in the Washington Post. Apparently the omission of any mention of Bryce was due to someone who lives at Washburn's retirement home retyping the bibliography.

There is no doubt that Washburn drew on a vast amount of his own research for this book, although how much he wrote and how much was written by his coauthor is not clear. It is also clear that he reached his conclusion concerning Cook's false claim to have climbed Mount McKinley long before Bryce started his work. This is not a case of deliberate plagarism, and it not clear that Bryce's text was copied. However, it is unfortunate, that such a distinguished career ends on this note.

Nevertheless, if you are really interested in this subject, and Cook is very interesting, you need to read Bryce's book. He has footnoted his sources, discussed the matter at greater detail and his conclusion seems irrefutable.

Brilliant! Long overdue!.......2002-02-08

Washburn is a thorough detective who leaves no doubt Cook was a fraud. His photography from airplanes, and the illustrations show the true scale of the mountains, peaks, glaciers, etc. surrounding McKinley. This makes it easy to understand why his companions back at camp immediately recognized Cook's claim as a lie. They knew he could not have covered all that distance, climbed that mother of all mountains, and then come back in so few days.

What fascinates me is how Cook got the public to believe it by working the media. His magazine stories and photos, books, lectures, all created the illusion that he had done something spectacular. But he had not! He only went camping ...

Washburn is a remarkable individual, a fine writer, and a photographer on a par with Ansel Adams. This work is a masterpiece from a mountaineering genius. It is too bad he had nothing more than Cook to use as a foil.

By the way - the publisher made a serious mistake using the smallest type font used for body text I have ever seen in a book. One could increase font size several points and still have generous margins. What were they thinking? This is tiny text! A flaw I'll try to overlook from this magnificent end to the Cook debate.

Washburn and Cherici leave no doubt !!.......2001-12-12

Washburn and Cherici leave no doubt that Dr. Cook was a fraud. The book carefully lays out its claim in undisputable evidence both through text and pictures.

I couldn't put the book down. I will be surprised if this work doesn't nail the lid on the century long controversy.

Who's the dishonorable one ?.......2001-11-28

I bought this book as an admirer of a great mountaineer and photographer, Bradford Washburn. Frankly, I was disappointed with his denigration of Dr. Albert Cook who seemed to have accomplished quite a bit in his day and who I did not think deserved the criticism he received. What about his service with Admiral Peary in Greenland and with the Belgians in the Antarctic ?. And he apparently did quite a creditable job in 1902 when he explored but didn't reach the summit of Mt. McKinley.

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Starts with the basics of Red Hat, the leading Linux distribution in the U.S., such as network planning and Red Hat installation and configuration
Offers a close look at the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Fedora Core 4 releases
New chapters cover configuring a database server, creating a VNC server, monitoring performance, providing Web services, exploring SELinux security basics, and exploring desktops
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Not a great guide, not really great........2007-02-02

If I could I would give this book two and a half stars, but 2 will do. I am a complete noob when it comes to Linux and got this book for class. The book is getting really outdated. I had several different problems installing fedora and it was no hope. Not a great guide for a true beginner but makes a decent reference. I like a lot of examples when starting something new and the examples in this book are lacking. For being 1,000 pages its surprising what is left out.

No experience necessary.......2006-03-08

I have been working in a Windows IT environment for over 7 years, but had no Linux experience except for installing it on a test machine (but then again, even a 5 year-old could install it since it's so easy). But I never had to work with it in an enterprise level until now. Without any solid experience with Linux and armed only with this book (and 7 years of "figuring it out" IT skills), I managed to get Redhat ES v3 running on an old server class machine with an older RAID controller. I even got it to talk to Windows clients AND the old HP-UX servers (I didn't have Unix experience either!). The boss was impressed! This is an excellent book that doesn't get annoying (like those Dummies books) or pretends to be a "Linux Admin book for Beginners" like that other book that's out there. I started with an older version of this book from the library, and this new version is even better. This book is a great investment and I'm glad I bought it.

Right at my level.......2005-10-19

Now in its third edition along with a DVD that includes Full Fedora Core 4, the latest (as of 10/18/05). People have complained that this book (in its earlier editions) are too simplified and beginnerish. I guess then that I'm not enough of a guru to go to something more advanced.

I find the background that this book gives is exactly at the level I need. Some books that simply say 'type this in.' Other books take a few hundred pages to explain what's happening at a level where I've forgotten the question by the time I get to the end of the description. This book is positioned at a nice level inbetween. I know what to type in and I have some understanding of why.

I further like the writing style and the way they use bold face, 'Notes' and 'Tips' to emphasize things. These features enable me to find out what I need more quickly. Finally, there are additions from the earlier editions which explain things that caused questions or were left out.

I'd rank this as an intermediate level book. It's not a here's how to start with Linux book. Nor is it an in great depth geek level book. I guess I like it so well, because it's at about the level I need.

Very good book.......2005-02-10

Very good book with lots of information, but sometimes the author gets carried away with his so-called version of MAN pages. If you need more detail on some stuff, you will need to reference some other book or check online. The book did have some errors and wrong diagrams, just wished someone have proof read it better....

Great Reference.......2005-02-05

Don't listen to any reviews on this page that are dated before 2004 as they refer to the first edition of this book. The second edition covers RH Enterprise. What I like about this book is that it doesn't have all the "fluff" found in may sys. admin. books. By fluff I mean, introductions to basic commands, piping, ect. The System Administration sections contain a lot of little, specific details that most books simply don't include. Overall, an excellent reference book.

Red Hat Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guide)

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Excellent book for people looking to start with Linux
Provides what it says
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Solid read
Great way to get my feet wet!!

Red Hat Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guide)
Michael Turner , and Steve Shah
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Perfect for systems and network administrators migrating from Windows NT to Linux, or experimenting with bringing Linux into their network topology. Even novice users will find plenty of helpful information on administering the open source operating system—including installation, initial configuration, using the bash command shell, managing files, managing software, and granting rights to users.

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Perfect for systems and network administrators migrating from Windows NT to Linux, or experimenting with bringing Linux into their network topology. Even novice users will find plenty of helpful information on administering the open source operating system-including installation, initial configuration, using the bash command shell, managing files, managing software, and granting rights to users.

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Excellent book for people looking to start with Linux.......2005-02-12

I used this book to teach a Beginners Linux Administration class, and found it to be a great book.

The only downfall, and this does not really matter at the beginners level, is -- this book is written with Red Hat 8 when we have had 3 oor 4 versions after that.

Beyond that this is a great book.

Provides what it says.......2004-11-27

This is strictly a beginner's guide to Linux. The author goes to great lengths to explain only the rudimentry. For example, the author explains around 12 useful commands for the beginners and ignores the rest. Of course, there are far more commands to learn to be truly competent with Linux.

If you already know how to install and configure Linux, stay away from this book. On the other hand, if you just learned how to spell Linux, then this book is a good place to start. Just remember to buy an another more advanced reference to raise your understanding.

My only gripe about this book is that the author lacks strong understanding of Windows but criticizes it nonetheless. For example, the author claims that when a Windows GUI crashes, the entire OS crashes with it. This WAS true....about ten years ago.

good for a beginner.......2003-03-05

I think this book accomplishes exactly what the title mentions, "A Beginner's Guide". I guess I thought myself as in the "beginner" category, but after reading this book, I realized that I was not and needed something with a bit more depth to help me. But in any case, it was a good read.

Solid read.......2003-02-21

New users to Linux (Power Users or Windows Admins) will find this book a solid read. I'm not sure how it would be as a beginner's book with no previous experience. I suppose even a beginner could use it, since it covers all the important parts of administration, Linux or whatever. It contains lots of skill building exercises and projects, as well as reusable blueprints. It emphasizes basic areas small business system's administrators would use It covers topics like file systems, backups, printers, user management, security (SSH), various GUIs, task automation, etc. It covers stuff like Apache, sendmail and nameservers, talking to Windows with Samba, exceptionally well.

Great way to get my feet wet!!.......2003-02-20

I've messed around with a bit of UNIX at work as a shell account user, but with this economy, it never hurts to know more tech and be a little less dispensable, so I wanted to set up my own system at home and get my hands dirty.

This book has been a miracle, helping me get through everything from setting up the basics on an old computer I had sitting in the garage (nice to get more use out of it) to implementing a GUI, setting up server daemons, even doing some troubleshooting.

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Streamline Red Hat Linux server admin tasks. Here's everything you need to start administering a low-cost, high-performance Red Hat Linux 6.0 server complete with powerful, versatile, ready-to-run sys admin tools. Charles Fisher's Red Hat Linux 5.0 Administration Tools delivers both Quick Start and Quick Fix guides for rapid-fire solutions to a host of day-to-day server management challenges. His book/CD-ROM combo shows you how to: *Install and configure your Red Hat Linux server software *Establish PPP connections *Set up firewalls *Provide basic and dynamic-content Web services *Implement a database server *Use SAMBA to deliver Windows connectivity *Handle image editing with GIMP *Rebuild the Linux kernel *Record CDs *Much more

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Excellent How-To Primer for RedHat.......2001-03-16

I found the author's walk through of Sybase installation to be of great use. Each section of the book provided enough detail to get you started, without overwhelming you with a vast tome. Not a lot of fluff in the book.

If you want to step up to a more powerful relational database on Linux, the Database Servers chapter is a must read. The book also provides an excellent head start on using PHP scripting on Apache to access Sybase or PostgreSQL.

Rock On Charles Fisher!.......2000-05-07

This book has been very helpful to me in learning the basics of Linux. It is well written in an easy to understand format. The front cover graphics could be better. But what do I know; I'm just a little troll.

Rock On Red Hat!.......2000-05-07

This book has been very helpful to me in learning the basics of Linux. It is well written in an easy to understand format. The front cover graphics could be a little better. But what do I know; I'm just a little troll.

Rock On Red Hat!.......2000-05-07

Red Hat Linux Administration (Beginner's Guides (Osborne))

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Red Hat Linux Administration (Beginner's Guides (Osborne))
Michael Turner , Steve Shah , and Narender Reddy Muthyala
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