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SECOND CONTACTAidan Redding''s entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan.The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more.The answers explain it all. And ruin everything.On a world where gravity changes every second, Redding finds herself involuntarily allied with a mathematician from Soviet Texas as she races to save not just herself but civilization.Forget aliens. Nothing threatens Earth''s golden age so much as ordinary human beings.

The Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP, empowers you to invoke ancient standards from the void. SNMP exposes the secrets of your network and servers, and—if you’re careless—reconfigures them into unspeakable nightmares. It exposes your inadequate brain to the vast alien dimensions underlying modern computing.SNMP is authentic dark magic.Abdul Alhazred’s infamously rumored Networknomicon, or SNMP Mastery, has long been blamed for the Spanish Inquisition, the Second World War, and Cleveland. While nuclear “testing” was thought to have eradicated all copies of the manuscript, an astute student with a baggy shirt and considerable mob debts recently liberated one tattered survivor from the Miskatonic University Library of Computer Science.Tilted Windmill Press is pleased to present this facsimile edition, freshly translated from Alien Syntax Notation.1 into English by dubiously acclaimed and unquestionably foolhardy author Michael W. Lucas.The publisher is not responsible for extradimensional incursion, overloaded monitoring systems, bouts of madness, saltwater in servers, nonexistent colors, rats in the walls of crumbling ancient data centers, triangles with too many degrees, unparseable MIB files, sojourns out of Time and Space, self-medication, self-trepanation, self-destruction, Lego-induced foot trauma, or any other harm, transformation, or impact of any sort, that might be plausibly or implausibly ascribed to this tome.

Jails are FreeBSD's most legendary feature: known to be powerful, tricky to master, and cloaked in decades of dubious lore. Deploying jails calls upon every sysadmin skill you have, and more-but unleashing lightweight virtualization is so worth it. "FreeBSD Mastery: Jails" cuts through the clutter to expose the inner mechanisms of jails.

Meet the new universe, same as the old universe—but thirteen billion years younger.Aidan Redding’s new assignment? A space station in a universe so young it’s barely invented hydrogen. Researchers study the cosmos’ earliest days, discover whole new realms of science…and go screaming insane.The mathematicians claim this universe obeys the same natural laws as Redding’s own.At the beginning of time, though, the universe writes its own rules…

There’s no grounds for murder. There’s no ground at all.The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems.But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything.

Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.Not a normal night anywhere.Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM.The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init.So Systemd comes for Terry.Wearing skin-tight leather pants.No, not a normal night in the computer room at all…

Filesystems for everything!FreeBSD includes many special-purpose filesystems. FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems takes you through these filesystems, helping you solve problems you didn’t know you have. These filesystems underlie everything from application servers to jails.You’ll learn to manage:removable mediaMSDOS and Linux filesystemsCD, DVD, and Blu-Ray disksdevfsprocess filesystemsthe file descriptor filesystemthe POSIX message queue filesystemunion mountsnull mountsboth memory filesystems, and when to use eachNFS versions 2, 3, and 4iSCSI targets and initiatorsthe Common Internet File Systemnetworked disk redundancy with geom_gate and HASThigh availability storage with HAST and iSCSINFSv4 Access Control ListsUser Space FilesystemsFreeBSD’s Solaris-compatible automounterSystem administrators of any expertise level will expand their FreeBSD mastery with FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems.

Let me be perfectly clear: ed is the standard Unix text editor. If you don't know ed, you're not a real sysadmin.Forty years after ed's introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the mysteries of ed for everyone. With Ed Mastery, you too can become a proper sysadmin.Ed Mastery will help you: understand buffers and addresses insert, remove, and mangle text master file management and shell escapes comprehend regular expressions, searches, and substitutions create high-performance scripts for transforming files You must be at least this competent to use this computer. Read Ed Mastery today! Every so often, men contact the author complaining that his books use both male and female pronouns. This special edition, using only male third person pronouns, is for those special people. As the market is so much smaller, it's unfortunately priced higher. For each copy of the Manly McManface edition sold, the author will donate one dollar to his local chapter of Soroptomists International.

21st-Century Data StorageZFS, the fast, flexible, self-healing filesystem, revolutionized data storage. Leveraging ZFS changes everything about managing FreeBSD systems.With FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, you'll learn to: understand how your hardware affects ZFS arrange your storage for optimal performance configure datasets that match your enterprise's needs repair and monitor storage pools expand your storage use compression to enhance performance determine if deduplication is right for your data understand how copy-on-write changes everything snapshot filesystems automatically rotate snapshots clone filesystems understand how ZFS uses and manages space do custom FreeBSD ZFS installsWhether you're a long-term FreeBSD administrator or a new user, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS will help you simplify storage.Master ZFS with FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS.

FreeBSD is one of the oldest and most featureful open-source Unix-like operating systems. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials takes you on a deep dive into FreeBSD's disk management systems.You'll learn about:* identifying your storage hardware* the Common Access Method* GEOM-FreeBSD's powerful and flexible stackable storage system* GUID Partition Tables, the modern disk partitioning standard* MBR/disklabel partitioning, used by older and embedded systems* avoiding common partitioning errors* aligning partitions to the physical disk, for peak performance* the high-performance Unix File System* tuning UFS to fit your environment and load* Two ways to journal filesystems, and when to use each* The GELI and GBDE disk encryption systems, and when to use each* Software-based disk mirroring, striping, RAID-5 and RAID-10.* Custom FreeBSD installsAnd more!Don't just configure your storage. Understand it. Get FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials today!

ZFS improves everything about systems administration. Once you peek under the hood, though, ZFS’ bewildering array of knobs and tunables can overwhelm anyone. ZFS experts can make their servers zing—and now you can, too, with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.This small book teaches you to:Use boot environments to make the riskiest sysadmin tasks boringDelegate filesystem privileges to usersContainerize ZFS datasets with jailsQuickly and efficiently replicate data between machinessplit layers off of mirrorsoptimize ZFS block storagehandle large storage arraysselect caching strategies to improve performancemanage next-generation storage hardwareidentify and remove bottlenecksbuild screaming fast database storagedive deep into pools, metaslabs, and more!Whether you manage a single small server or international datacenters, simplify your storgae with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.