[lopsa-discuss] book recommendation - learning command line

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Parsons
I've been tasked with teaching a colleague general Unix-ish command line skills. I'd like to find a good book to work with him on. He uses Mac OS X, but the book doesn't necessarily have to be focused on that OS. In fact, an OS-agnostic book would be ideal, as he does have to ssh into Linux boxes s

Re: [lopsa-discuss] book recommendation - learning command line

2010-01-11 Thread Arthur Gaer
When I last looked at it and recommended it, the short O'Reilly book "Learning the Unix Operating System, Fifth Edition: A Concise Guide for the New User" by Jerry Peek, Grace Todino, John Strang looked pretty good. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596002619/ Earlier MacOS versions of David P

Re: [lopsa-discuss] book recommendation - learning command line

2010-01-11 Thread Trey Darley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Think Unix, by Jon Lasserm is just the ticket. http://www.amazon.com/Think-UNIX-Jon-Lasser/dp/078972376X Cheers, - --Trey Quoth Dan Parsons [01/11/2010 10:10 PM] : > I've been tasked with teaching a colleague general Unix-ish command line > skills.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] book recommendation - learning command line

2010-01-11 Thread Atom Powers
Unix Shells by Example It is more of a reference than a how-to, but otherwise the best I've found so far. http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Shells-Example-Ellie-Quigley/dp/0130212229 -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- __

Re: [lopsa-discuss] book recommendation - learning command line

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Perrine
Dan Parsons wrote: > I've been tasked with teaching a colleague general Unix-ish command line > skills. I'd like to find a good book to work with him on. He uses Mac OS > X, but the book doesn't necessarily have to be focused on that OS. In > fact, an OS-agnostic book would be ideal, as he does hav

[lopsa-discuss] Offices on opposite sides of oceans

2010-01-11 Thread Jeremy Charles
I'd like to hear from those who have had to manage IT resources for offices that are located on opposite sides of oceans. Our primary challenge right now is this: Our original offices, and our CIFS file servers, are located in Wisconsin, USA. We also have an office in the Netherlands. The f

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Offices on opposite sides of oceans

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Perrine
Jeremy Charles wrote: > I'd like to hear from those who have had to manage IT resources for offices > that are located on opposite sides of > oceans. > > Our primary challenge right now is this: Our original offices, and our CIFS > file servers, are located in Wisconsin, > USA. We also have a

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Offices on opposite sides of oceans

2010-01-11 Thread Atom Powers
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jeremy Charles wrote: > I'd like to hear from those who have had to manage IT resources for offices > that are located on opposite sides of oceans. > > Performance was understandably painful for the Netherlands folks until we > added a Riverbed system to optimize

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Offices on opposite sides of oceans

2010-01-11 Thread Nathan Hruby
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jeremy Charles wrote: > I'd like to hear from those who have had to manage IT resources for offices > that are located on opposite sides of oceans. > > Our primary challenge right now is this:   Our original offices, and our CIFS > file servers, are located in Wi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Offices on opposite sides of oceans

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Perrine
One note on the WAN accelerators... The WANscaler and Riverbed products also do protocol "ack spoofing" for CIFS and (I think) NFS. The appliance actually acks the client's transaction immediately, before the server even gets the packet. This tries to turn the stop/start, request/ack protocol

[lopsa-discuss] high density wireless

2010-01-11 Thread david
When attending confrences in past years I have been frustrated at the quality/reliability of the wireless access. In many cases it's been clear that the person setting things up did not understand the effects of many computers in a small area.. Well, I now have a chance to show that I can do a