Unix: Your visual blueprint to the universe of Unix [Paperback]

Michael Bellomo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0764534807 | ISBN-13: 978-0764534805

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Inside you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 100 key Unix tasks, including:

• Changing directories with cd
• Permissioning files
• Searching with Pipe, Grep and ps
• Executing a shell script
• Determining root file ownership
• Creating user accounts
• Login in with Telnet
• Setting up Netscape
• Archiving files with tar
• Finding disk and CPU hogs

The companion CD-ROM includes:

• Unix applications and utilities
• Tripwire 2.0 for Linux
• Logwatch 1.4.6
• Diskcheck 3.1.1
• Plus, all sample code and an eversion of the book

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From the Back Cover

Read Less, Learn More

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 100 key Unix tasks, including:

• Creating directories with cd
• Permissioning files
• Searching with Pipe, Grep, and ps
• Executing a shell script
• Determining root file ownership
• Creating user accounts
• logging in with Telnet
• Setting up Netscape
• Archiving files with tar
• Finding disk and CPU hogs

Unix applications on CD-ROM!

• Tripwire 2.0 for Linux
• Logwatch 1.4.6
• Diskcheck 3.1.1
• Plus all code and examples from the text and a fully searchable e-version of the book

Extra — Apply It

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips
• Succinct explanations walk you through step-by-step
• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author

Michael Bellomo is certified in UNIX System Administration and has over five years of experience as a UNIX (Solaris and Linux) and Microsoft Windows NT Network Manager serving with software and financial technology companies in the Silicon Valley. He is the author of Linux Administration For Dummies, MASTER Red Hat Linux Visually, Debian Linux For Dummies, Windows 2000 Administration For Dummies, and Unix: Your visual blueprint to the universe of Unix.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Visual (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764534807
• ISBN-13: 978-0764534805
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,872,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Bellomo holds an MBA from the University of California at Irvine, a Juris Doctor in Law from UC San Francisco, and a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma Manufacturing Techniques from UC San Diego.

Currently he is a manager at a major biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the manufacture of plasma-based medicines and therapies.

Michael has written 19 books in various non-fiction fields, including technology, business operations, and 'mass market' science. Michael's books have been published internationally in Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Korean, German, Russian, and Chinese.

Since the Silicon Valley dotcom boom, he has worked as a financial e-commerce manager, a think-tank analyst studying how new technologies (TiVo, eBay, Blackberry) change consumer markets, and as a risk assessment engineer with a DoD consulting firm.

Michael was part of the team that analyzed what went wrong during the Columbia shuttle disaster. He has worked on projects ranging from how to stop bioterrorists to streamlining NASA's ability to send payloads to the International Space Station. Due to his background as a voiceover artist, he was selected by NASA to be the featured narrator for a DVD presentation sent to Congress on the development of the Orbital Space Plane.

He is the co-author of two Amazon bestsellers involving technology and science: eBay Your Business and Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague?, a chilling work on how vulnerable we are to new, exotic diseases and acts of biological terrorism. The book is now a required text for upper division biology courses at California State University, Sacramento and San Francisco City College.

In December 2006, Michael was invited as a guest lecturer and panel participant at Harvard University for his latest popular science book, The Stem Cell Divide. The book is a look into the kaleidoscope of scientific wonder, religious dogma, and the hype machine surrounding the field of stem cell science research.

Michael lives in Los Angeles, California.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage of the basics, June 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Unix: Your visual blueprint to the universe of Unix (Paperback)

This book was a good, general introduction to UNIX. I'm writing this to let others know what to expect. The book is presented in a step-by-step format. Every two pages cover a specific lesson. The examples are simple and well explained. The majority of the book covers shell usage/commands. The rest dealing with features of the Solaris GUI. Know that 1/4 of this book is tailored for Solaris. The rest is neutral. Also know that the examples are extremely simple.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars must read for beginners, October 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Unix: Your visual blueprint to the universe of Unix (Paperback)

This is a must read for anyone trying to understand the basics of UNIX. The author really made it so easy and I have to say "if you think you can never understand UNIX, this is your saviour".

4.0 out of 5 stars Main focus is Solaris (not FreeBSD or Linux), January 25, 2009

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This review is from: Unix: Your visual blueprint to the universe of Unix (Paperback)

This is a good book to learn Unix. I tend to be a visual learner and this book has plenty of sceenshots so you could follow along on your workstation. There are some downsides however.

Some of the commands will work on different versions of Unix or "Unix-Like" operating systems such as the many Linux distributions, but it's meant mainly to be followed along by people with Solaris installed. All the screenshots are from the CDE gui.

I don't mind that most, if not all, of the screenshots were from the Solaris operating system but I think the book would've been more effective and been able to reach a larger audience if the book would've focused on the three major operating systems (Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux) and just note the slight differences in the commands where applicable.

This book has a lot of information for the beginner to get up and running with Unix but it's geared towards the novice who has no experience. It would be nice to have one of these visual books that go into more advanced issues such as setting up servers and getting Unix play nice with Microsoft Windows.