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Jenkins, Graham
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Australia
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| | Graham Jenkins has an ME and a BSc from the University of Adelaide. He taught mathematics at Canberra Institute, then worked at Telstra Research Labs in Melbourne for a number of years before moving to Mayne Nickless as a systems manager for an integrated transport booking and billing application. He moved subsequently to Cincinnati Bell Information Systems as a support specialist on telecommunications management systems, and later to a similar role with IBM Global Services Australia. In more recent times, Graham has worked as a Linux specialist on high-performance computing systems at Monash University and at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing. When he’s not at the keyboard, he can be found running with various groups around Melbourne in an ongoing battle to control his weight. |
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 Cloud computing basics: a non-technical introduction
Lisdorf A., Apress, New York, NY, 2021. 208 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484269-20-6)
I was expecting to learn about cloud technologies like Xen/Citrix/VMware virtualization, Kubernetes clusters, and how to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)/Simple Storage Service (S3) compute/storage services. What I got instead wa...
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Mar 22 2022 |
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The hardware hacker: adventures in making and breaking hardware
Huang A., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2017. 416 pp. Type: Book (978-1-593277-58-1)
Andrew “bunnie” Huang was Chumby’s lead hardware engineer for its WiFi-equipped embedded computer device, chumby, which premiered in 2006. He was charged with the task of traveling from the US to Shenzhen,...
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Nov 17 2020 |
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Linux hardening in hostile networks: server security from TLS to Tor
Rankin K., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2017. 272 pp. Type: Book (978-0-134173-26-9)
The book’s preface notes that many of the available hardening guides were written some years ago. Its chapters are therefore intended to replace the outdated information found in those guides with recommendations that provide...
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Nov 15 2018 |
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The friendly orange glow: the untold story of the PLATO system and the dawn of cyberculture
Dear B., Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 2017. 640 pp. Type: Book (978-1-101871-55-3)
The back cover notes: “a group of visionary engineers and designers ... in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, com...
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Jul 25 2018 |
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Stack frames: a look from inside
Di Cataldo G., Apress, New York, NY, 2016. 171 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484221-80-8)
Those of you who have written programs in C for Linux or Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) computers may well have wondered how your compiled programs are loaded into memory for execution, and perhaps why you might select options li...
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Jun 7 2017 |
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The official Ubuntu book (9th ed.)
Helmke M., Joseph E., Rey J., Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2016. 368 pp. Type: Book (978-0-134513-42-3)
This book has been revised and updated to cover Ubuntu 16.04, and comes with an installation DVD for the 64-bit (AMD64) desktop version thereof. The back cover promises that readers will “learn how to reliably install, custom...
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Nov 16 2016 |
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The book of PF (3rd ed.): a no-nonsense guide to the OpenBSD firewall
Hansteen P., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2014. 248 pp. Type: Book (978-1-593275-89-1)
PF is a packet filter developed originally on the OpenBSD operating system, and now also available on NetBSD, FreeBSD, and FreeBSD derivatives such as DragonFly BSD. It can be used to control access to your network, mitigate spam attac...
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Feb 6 2015 |
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Linux Mint essentials
LaCroix J., Packt Publishing, Birmingham, UK, 2014. 300 pp. Type: Book (978-1-782168-15-7), Reviews: (1 of 2)
For a Linux workstation installation, a novice user would choose a well-supported distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora, wouldn’t he? It seems that the authors of this book recognize this, and in chapter 1 they suggest that by b...
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Dec 3 2014 |
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Ubuntu unleashed 2014 edition: covering 13.10 and 14.04
Helmke M., Sams publishing, Indianapolis, IN, 2013. 900 pp. Type: Book (978-0-672336-93-5)
This is the latest in a series of books published since 2006, and it is intended to cover Ubuntu versions 13.10 and 14.04 LTS. A 13.10 32-bit installation DVD is included inside its back cover, and a bonus 14.04 chapter will be availab...
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Mar 26 2014 |
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The official Ubuntu Server book
Rankin K., Hill B., Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2013. 600 pp. Type: Book (978-0-133017-53-3)
If you want to build a new Linux workstation, there is a fair chance that you would install an Ubuntu distribution or one of its variants such as Xubuntu. But to build a server, you would use a Red Hat distribution or a derivative like...
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Dec 2 2013 |
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