Josh More - Entropologist
Helpful votes received on reviews, lists & guides:
82% (71 of 87)
Nickname: guppie-public
In My Own Words:
Unlike many, I don't really draw a line between my personal life and my work life. The way I see it, I just have one life, so why divide it? I am interested in the space where science and art combine. I thrive in the intersection of business, security, and information technology, and enjoy helping clients balance the three to reduce risk, or to accept the risk and make changes to improve and enha… Read moreUnlike many, I don't really draw a line between my personal life and my work life. The way I see it, I just have one life, so why divide it?
I am interested in the space where science and art combine. I thrive in the intersection of business, security, and information technology, and enjoy helping clients balance the three to reduce risk, or to accept the risk and make changes to improve and enhance their business. I enjoy reading books from various genres (my current favorites are Business, Photography, Mythology, Mythic Fiction and Natural History). I also enjoy the practice of the artistic sciences, currently focusing on Photography and Cooking.
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Reviews
Classic Reviewer Rank: 79,881
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I've had the book Apache Security for a while now, so I thought I'd give it a quick review.
Like most O'Reilly books, it's well thought out and fairly complete. Unsurprisingly, it focuses on the standard LAMP stack, giving advice on building and deploying Apache and hooking in PHP and SSL. Ruby seem to be missing, and Perl is just discussed within a chroot environment. It discusses performance tuning a bit, in the guise of protection against DOS, and then moves onto issues in a shared hosting environment.
Much of what is in this book is more general than just Apache, so it's best to consider this as a general security book for people running both Linux and… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
When you pick up a book by a new author, you never know what you're going to get. However, those of us that read a lot get a feeling for what a book will be like. Looking at Finding Creatures, I expected a blending of Celtic and Native American mythology ("Aboriginal" if you're Canadian ;) In such collections you often find similar characters that all inhabit the same world, and each story follows a pattern of introduction, meeting the other, learning the other isn't so strange after all, oh wait, yes they are, but they're OK anyway.
I am pleased to say that this collection does not match the trope.
Each story is unique and special. Moreover, each is told in a… Read more
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
I was all set to love this book. Green Glass Sea was incredible. Portable Childhoods was amazing. White Sands, Red Menace was just OK. It was a sequel and not really much more than that. It was nice to revisit the characters I had grown to love in the original, but not much happened.
In many ways, this isn't surprising. World War II is a much more interesting backdrop than the early Cold War, especially from the point of view of children. There was some attempt at drama involving the parents, and it sort of worked, but it wasn't as powerful as what happened to Dewey's father in the first book. The racism issues were interesting, but the Nazi aspects were sadly lacking… Read more
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