When I bought this book, I wasn't quite sure it would be all that useful to me. Once I got into it, I discovered how good it was.

I didn't find the first two chapters particularly useful, but from the third onwards it was simply enlightening. Reading chapter 3 I finally understood what Cross Site Scripting attacks were, and made clear how important it is to know stuff (HTTP in particular) in if you are serious about security (and about system administration in general).

The chapter about configuring Apache in Jail was great, and so it was the chapter about mod_rewrite . In general, the whole book was fantastic, and explained so much about security and Apache. In general, I didn't think there was so much to know about security and Apache, until reading this book that showed them to me so clearly.

I would have liked more depth in some of the chapters (like "Logging", that is very interesting but probably not detailed enough), but overall this book was a great buy.

A colleague of mine is a very experienced system administrator and said that you would find out about all that stuff slowly, working and looking up stuff quite a lot. I found that this book put my on a different level, closer to a senior system administrator.

Good buy!

Here's a great set of recipes for every spud-lover in your life. Every recipe is a main course--some fudge a little, like "steak frites," but the authors claim it's not steak frites without the frites. Fair enough. But beyond those, there are a terrific set of international dishes, from Congolese to Japanese, from Chinese to Chilean. Who knew the spud was such an international favorite? And there are plenty of home-spun, American recipes, too. From latkes to hash, here's a book that will make the potato the centerpiece of any plate.

This is a responsible and useful (if a bit dull) guide to Brazilian popular music of this century up to the early 1970s (when it was first published). It's very weak on the last twenty years, however. A good resource, but not as good as "The Brazilian Sound" (Temple University Press), which is much more comprehensive and also more fun to read.