Last chance to get the special edition outside of charity auctions. Reader TC sent me this, and I feel obliged to suggest you tag yourself. I’m bottom left.| Michael W Lucas
If you back the campaign, you also get copies of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and SSH Mastery. I wouldn’t be shocked to break the $ git commit murder stretch goal. I would be surprised to break the Advanced ZFS goal. Plus there’s the online “launch party,” which is a highfalutin’ way to say “I’ll open a … Continue reading "“Networking for System Administrators” Kickstarter closing soon"| Michael W Lucas
The silly thing funded in fifteen minutes, and has gone high enough that all backers get a bonus ebook of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS. Yes, Allan and I are working on a new edition of the ZFS book. But the old one is still good, and applies to OpenZFS on any Unixy system. Anyway, it’s there … Continue reading "“Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed” Kickstarter is live"| Michael W Lucas
The N4SA2e Kickstarter opens tomorrow, about 8AM EDT. Why “about?” The launch is manual. I must log in and hit a button. The first 512 bytes of my brainstem are barely enough to hold the instructions for obtaining caffeine, so it won’t be first thing. This one feels weird. With 232 sponsors, 170 of them … Continue reading "Launching tomorrow: “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd edition”"| Michael W Lucas
By Ren Cedar Fuller In the fall of 2020, my child, Indigo, flew back to their East Coast college. During a weekend phone call, I told them about a writing class I was taking online through Hugo House, and asked, “What would you think of me writing about the golden afternoon?” I meant the day […]| The Brevity Blog