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I found that Marc Farley's Building Storage Networks provides answers to these questions. The book is written for IT administrators, and covers such additional topics as network I/O, RAID, and network backup.
The book is half resource manual and half textbook, meaning that certain topics can be looked up in the index--like a resource manual. At the same time, the book can be read like a textbook, with the reader moving from point to point without becoming completely baffled by jargon.
I would say that anyone interested in building and maintaining storage networks should read this book.
Mike Downing, Editor, Mass Storage News
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Spragg, a writer with a keen awareness of word sentence balance is also an extraordinary storyteller. The characters in this book are vividly, boldly, and yet tenderly drawn. They captivate the reader. Each character is well developed and clearly defined with the exception of the woman who motivates the central action of the novel, the quest; she is ephemeral, sylph-like, enigmatic, and thus fascinating. She lures, beckons and frustrates both the reader and the protagonist. Gretchen carries Milton in her book bag, but it is the poet John Keats' ballad "Belle Dame sans Merci" which best describes her. She is the beautiful woman without mercy.
In the current literary landscape littered with drugstore cowboys, Mark Spragg's, McEban stands out as the genuine article as we follow him and his best friend Bennett through the mountains and plains of Wyoming and Montana, back to Wyoming and into Nebraska, an illusive Gretchen ever alluring, ever beckoning,
In the loneliness of the harsh plains and the high mountains of Wyoming the ability to trust a friend can and often does determine the survival of an individual. Spragg's cleanly drawn protagonist, rancher McEban and his best friend Bennett enjoy such a relationship.
This is a fine, rich western novel. It would be a mistake to dismiss Mark Spragg as merely a regional writer. His characters speak for the West as William Faulkner's speak for the South.
There are many money savings tips in the book, but I didn't count them to see if there were "hundreds" as the book's cover claims. The book is very informative, covers many diverse topics and is worth the price of less than $12 on Amazon.com, but I felt that the subtitle and cover claims are over the top.
Overall its a 3.5
My only complaint is that the book is not organized in a way that makes it easy to read through front-to-back. Rather, it's sort of a quick reference on a large number of topics with little or no transition between topics. But if that's what you're looking for, it does its job well!
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When this volatile mix of circumstances collides, the father and daughter are forced to lead the deranged convicts on a harrowing journey into the bowels of the earth.
On the surface, Whitney Burke, wife and mother of the kidnapped pair, is left no choice but to face her worst fear. As the only available person qualified to navigate the monstrous cave system known as the Labyrinth, she must lead a team of U.S. marshals into the cave in an attempt to save her family.
Little does she know that the government considers her life and the lives of her family as secondary in importance to retrieving the lost moon stone which they believe is hidden in the cave. Shattered by nightmares of a caving accident that took the life of a friend, Whitney struggles for strength, and then re-enters the dark pit where she swore she would never again set foot.
Tom and Cricket suffer abuse at the hands of the convicts but are determined to wear their captors down in the unforgivable environment of the cave. Tom is puzzled by what might be a hidden agenda held by the prison guard who assisted in the escape and kidnapping. But before he can make any sense of it he finds himself separated from Cricket. He realizes that it will take all of his skill and knowledge of the cave to reunite with his daughter before time runs out.
Meanwhile, Cricket is alone with a psychopathic killer with a history of strangling his victims with his bare hands. And Whitney, with her dwindling escort of U.S. marshals is forced deeper and deeper into the cave, even as the waters from a hundred year storm rise to unprecedented levels and threaten to trap them all.
A good read, though, with plenty to keep you occupied.
RECOMMENDED.
Three years later NASA hires Tom Burke and his daughter Cricket to escort them into Labyrinth Cave to find the missing rock. His wife Whitney suffers nightmares and though internationally famous refuses to enter the cave where last year her assistant died while she barely escaped.
However, Gregor escapes with some fellow prisoners and heads to Labyrinth Cave to collect the rock that will make him rich and famous. He and his associates capture the Burkes and the NASA team inside the cave. Only Whitney can lead a rescue party, but she has not entered any cavern since the nightmare occurred, but the stakes are the two people she loves most.
At times LABYRINTH seems more like a Hollywood thriller than a novel, but Mark T. Sullivan cleverly augments the plot with a personal crisis and an incredible underworld panorama. The story line is loaded with action on a global scale and on an individual level as the world is in trouble if Gregor regains the rock while Whitney battles herself. Mr. Sullivan provides a powerful tale that winks at the movie industry, which works fine for this novel.
Harriet Klausner
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Lakoff gives examples from life for various metaphors, for example, TIME IS MONEY (or TIME IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY), and shows how we use these metaphors in our everyday thoughts and actions ("Spending time", "wasting time", "saving time", etc). He shows how many different ideas can be expressed with simlar metaphors, ie HAPPINESS IS UP / SADNESS IS DOWN, HEALTH IS UP / SICKNESS IS DOWN, and so on.
Lakoff sets forth his case clearly and coherently, and with some of his examples, quite entertainingly. If you want some insight into how we think, buy this book.
This is some of Lakoff and Johnson's fascinating description of the pervasive role of metaphor in human cognition. To this reader, it has all the hallmarks of a great scientific discovery: it is original, profound, simple, and obviously true. For this reason alone, the book deserves five stars.
However, the book fails to give it's marvelous subject the treatment it deserves. The writing, while clear and full of common sense, is often uneven. The organization is lopsided -- much of the book is devoted to attacking straw men and and hand waving attempts to expand their discovery into some kind of murky philosphical revolution. This is confusing, easy to criticize, and a waste of time. Worst of all, they blunt the greatest weapon of any truly great idea: its simplicity.
If Lakoff and Johnson really want to start a revolution they should take a lesson from the master: Darwin. His Origin of Species presented only the things he could prove: his evidence and his discovery. Lakoff and Johnson would have included a critique of the Bible.
This is some of Lakoff and Johnson's fascinating description of the pervasive role of metaphor in human cognition. To this reader, it has all the hallmarks of a great scientific discovery: it is original, profound, simple, and obviously true. For this reason alone, the book deserves five stars.
However, the book fails to give it's marvelous subject the treatment it deserves. The writing, while clear and full of common sense, is often uneven. The organization is lopsided -- much of the book is devoted to attacking straw men and and hand waving attempts to expand their discovery into some kind of murky philosphical revolution. This is confusing, easy to criticize, and a waste of time. Worst of all, they blunt the greatest weapon of any truly great idea: its simplicity. If Lakoff and Johnson really want to start a revolution they should take a lesson from the master: Darwin. His Origin of Species presented only the things he could prove: his evidence and his discovery. Lakoff and Johnson would have included a critique of the Bible.
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When I learned that Billingham was a standup comic, I could hardly believe it. What must his comedy be like? I wish I knew.
I can truly say that I sat down with this book and did not get up until I had finished it. And it is not a piece of froth that one can easily breeze through - it was just that riveting. I'm now on to Scaredy Cat, Billingham's second book.
In short, it signposts amazing talent.
The plot is great...its really original, and very compelling. shadows of a motive are given all the way throughout the book, WHAT the killer wants, and a hint or two about why he wants, but Billingham doesnt fully discolse the killers motivations until the end. And the killer himself is chilling...what he seeks to do to his victims is horrifying.
The plot is well paced, and the characters are drawn very well. Tom Thorne is a likeable, very human man, dirven by failures from his past. (Arent they all.) An able hero, his intelligence is high, but when no one listens to him when he tells them who he thinks the killer is, he is at a loss for what to do, and pursues his enquiries doggedly, despite the marked disbelief of others.
His relationship with Anne Coburn is great, freshens up the material and adds a really interesting subplot. The reader roots for the two characters to suceed in their relationship, such do we care about and like them.
The plotting is tight, and the book subtly turns its way towards a great conclusion.
I can't wait to read "Scaredy Cat."
As is typical, our cop hero is haunted by mistakes of cases past gone. He likes to drink, sometimes too much, though he has given up cigarrettes, and that is at least original. Our villian is brilliant and knows it, also typical. Still, there is a lot that isn't typical in this story. Our copper ends up falling for a woman who is fortyish and less than perfect, and all may not end up happily ever after. Allison, a victim of the locked-in sydrome, contributes her 'thoughts' on the subject at the beginning of every chapter, thoughts which are often hysterical and very welcome to the reader in need of a laugh.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who enjoys the crime novel sort of thing. Between the suspense of the hero and villian catting around with each other, there is a lot of dark humor in this novel to keep things fun. Best of all, I was actually surprised at the ending, something that rarely happens these days for me. That alone was worth the purchase price alone.
This mysterious "naked man" was dropped by the other Synoptic gospels, but it is possible that he led directly to the amazing stuff which Morton Smith discovered in his historic manuscript discovery, described in "The Secret Gospel."
Mark improves on Homer, of course. He is aiming to present a BETTER man than Odysseus. So where Odysseus kills the bad guys, in Mark the bad guys kill Jesus. But of course Jesus has the last laugh, and rises from the dead as the immortal Son of God.
It's all very dramatic, but it's all about miracle-working and it is all apparently a made-up story. Since Mark is basically our only source for the life of Jesus, um, what's left??
A note to those unfamiliar with Mr. J.P. Holding... he attacks anything that doesn't fit his preconceived ideas of Christianity and his "review" here is classic "Robert Turkel" (his real name).
The idea that "Mark" used content from the Odyssey and the Iliad to help him create his gospel is a relatively new (several years) idea but clearly, there is no doubt of it. One great example of mimesis (although not specifically Homeric) is when MacDonald exposes the source behind Jesus renaming James and John to the "Sons of Thunder". In Antiquity, the mythical twins, Castor and Polydeuces, were referred to as the sons of Zeus or boys of Zeus and we all remember that Zeus was a god of thunder. These twins were often depicted on coins, art, etc. as being on the left and right of a deity and they always were seen as a team and mostly referred to as "Castor and Polydeuces" in that order. What did James and John ask Jesus in Mark?
Mark 36 And He said to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?" 37 They said to Him, "Grant that we may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory."
Also, in Mark, James and John are referred to as "James and John" always in that order except for once. Of course, without reading the book and more detailed analysis, one could dismiss this as mere coincidence. Read this book! It is not coincidence.
This idea is going to change Biblical scholarship and explode the myth that the gospels are historically reliable.
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In fact, "Millionaire's Secrets" includes some romantic love, some (all-important) Real World challenges for the young millionaire and even a bit of skulduggery, Hollywood style.
If you're going to read this book, read "Instant Millionaire" first. "Millionaire's Secrets", while covering many similar topics, lacks the all- important Six Year Formula laid out in "Instant" and, therefore there is a proper order that this material should be discovered in.
To be quite honest, when I began applying the principles laid out in Fisher's books, I got the strongest results early on. I had some intriguing 'glimpses' that were utterly bewitching. I can't be more specific, because it's hard to put those experiences into words.
I will definitely persevere with this path, despite the sporadic hit-and-miss results.
I strongly recommend "Secrets of the Rainmaker" (Success Without Stress) to accompany the Fisher Millionaire books. "Rainmaker", written by Chin Ning Chu, covers similar topics again, but it does so with a more scientific approach, helping you understand what is actually going on (within you) while you do your concentration and meditation exercises.
Mark Fisher's books are enjoyable to read, making it clear that, until you have your mind in proper shape, nothing good will start to happen.
It must be said that the premise of "Millionaire's Secrets" is less believable than "Instant Millionaire", but if you can get it to work for you, then by all means. I read the book in one sitting - around 5 hours, give or take, and will no doubt refer back to it frequently.
The book ends on a mysterious note, suggesting there'll be more to come. Perhaps there's another book already, one I'm not familiar with.
The bottom line is: read Fisher's books. I found "Rainmaker" to answer a lot of questions I had, fitting in neatly with the Millionaire titles, and I am glad there are many books around of similar subject matter. Obviously it creates repetition, but readers of Mark Fisher books should know by now just how good repetition can be for you!
You've nothing to lose. Read this book. It flows well, is entertaining and is much easier to wade through than many other personal development, / goal setting / prosperity consciousness books.
Let's face it, a LOT of people seem to relate closely to the young struggling hopeful who is detailed in this book. I suspect you may be one of them yourself!
However, those flashes
I've read many self help books on finance and was able to triple my income in 5 years. Money is a strange intangable / tangable. Simmiliar to how light is a photon and exhibits properties of waves and particles simultanously.
I became engrossed in this book and finnished it off in two nights.
Enjoy!
The 'Blueprint' section is somewhat confusing, especially if you are not storage savvy. I have been building storage systems for several years now and had to read the blueprints several times to fully understand them. They could have been done better.
Overall the book is good reference material, but it was not what I was expecting. To me, it appears the author started out with good intentions, but could not decide what 'extra' information could/should be left out. He could have just summarized some topics. There are numerous books on RAID, SCSI, etc that the author should have just referenced at the end of each chapter. This would have cut the size of book down considerably.