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Passport Argentina: Your Pocket Guide to Argentine Business, Customs & Etiquette (Passport to the World)

1 review
Jaime Campos

O'Reilly & Associates, 1999

The best that can be expected from a small booklet
Many a pocket calculator is larger than this booklet and with 88 pages it didn't take me much more than an hour to read. Then again: it does put a lot of information in the little space available and virtually all of that is spot-on. Also the selection of topics is exactly that which is needed on a first reading. At the moment where I write this (April 2002), some of the info out of the 2000 ...

Unix in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for System V & Solaris 2.0

28 reviews
Daniel Gilly

O'Reilly & Associates, 1998

Concise UNIX reference
There isn't much I can add about this gem. My copy, from 1993, is starting to really show its age - physically. I still use it regularly because so much of the information in it is still relevant and applicable, even to Linux. I have UNIX in Nutshell (4th Ed.) and Linux in a Nutshell (5th Ed.), and while both of those are powerful tomes containing more and newer information than the 2nd Edition, ...

Programming Perl

6 reviews
Larry; Schwartz, Randal L. Wall

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1992

Gonzo Learning
This book almost immediately moves to the full essence of Perl programming. Thereby violating all rules of "good writing." The start is VERY difficult to understand. But I stuck to it and read it over and over again, carefully. When I finally understood the first chapter, I understood Perl. Learning the rest was mostly details. So this "immersion" style worked, at least for me. The later ...

Travelers' Tales Brazil (Travelers' Tales Guides)

10 reviews

O'Reilly & Associates, 1997

So much more fun and interesting than a typical travel guide
I so enjoyed reading about the people and places of Brazil in this book. I am hooked on "Travelers' Tales" books now. I am excited to have a deeper knowledge now of the heart of this place in preparation for my trip there. The short story format is ideal for me and the variety of entries paints a colorful picture. Anyone traveling to Brazil should pick this up for before and after the trip.

The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst

7 reviews
Steve Talbott

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995

A must read for anyone living with technology
This book should be read by all those who live with the Internet and technology. While not exactly a Luddite (Talbott uses computers and the Internet a great deal), the author presents many reasons why we should not just accept the promises of a technological paradise without reflecting on its consequences.

X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual for X11 Release 4 and Release 5 (The Definitive Guides to the X Window ...

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1992

The X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual is a complete programmer's reference for the X Toolkit. This volume is based on Xt documentation from the X Consortium and has been reorganized and expanded for X11 Release 5. It provides reference pages for each of the Xt functions, as well as the widget classes defined by Xt and the Athena widgets, and many useful appendices. This manual is a companion to Volume 4M, the X Toolkit Intrinsics ...

The Future of the Internet Protocol (Geek of the Week)
Carl Malamud

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc, 1994

The explosion of interest in the Internet puts stress on what was originally designed as a research and education network. The sheer number of users is requiring new strategies for Internet address allocation; multimedia applications are requiring greater bandwidth and strategies such as "resource reservation" to provide synchronous end-to-end service. In this series of eight interviews, Carl Malamud talks to some of the researchers who are ...