Book
Review: Managing Information Security Risks
by Cameron Laird January
2003
Does a review of Managing Information Security Risks belong in
UnixReview.com? According to Laird, it does.
Book
Review: Customizing and Upgrading Linux, 2nd Edition
by Emmett Dulaney January
2003
Among the Linux shelves, there is no shortage of beginner books, and
there are a plethora of titles on high-end topics. Dulaney discovers
that the one thing that makes Customizing and Upgrading Linux
stand out most is that it is an intermediate-level book.
Regular
Expressions: Compromises
by Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz January
2003
It's bad to do wrong things, of course. Sometimes it's also good, though.
The authors say a few words about how to compromise in coding, and how
doing right sometimes isn't doing best.
Book
Review: Understanding PKI
by Cameron Laird January
2003
PKI is hard, really hard. According to Laird, Understanding PKI
is pretty helpful.
Shell
Corner: Processing Command-line Arguments with my_getopts
Hosted by Ed Schaefer January
2003
Congratulations and 100 bucks go to Michael Wang for providing this
month's winning "my_getopts" function.
Tool
of the Month: Keeping Users in Check
by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier January
2003
This month, Zonker covers two tools — the first is scponly, a tool
that allows you to restrict users to using scp to copy files, and the
other is the KNOPPIX live-on-CD Linux distribution.
Book
Reviews: Interaction Design and The Essential Guide to User
Interface Design
by Ben Rothke January
2003
Check out Rothke's review of two books that focus on interface design,
but from different perspectives.
Book
Review: Sendmail Performance Tuning
by Russell J.T. Dyer January
2003
If you want to improve your sendmail server's performance and reliability,
this book might be right for you.
Review:
CanIt Spam Trap
by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier January
2003
CanIt is a product that tries to identify spam, and claims to "never
discard a valid email message". Zonker opens up CanIt.
