A Year With Swollen Appendices: The Diary of Brian Eno

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This year in the life of provocateur and cerebral rock star Brian Eno covers four recording projects caught in different times in their evolution. Some artists involved are U2, David Bowie, and James.

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Insight into a great mind..........2006-03-01

Fun, fast read. Eno is a pioneer and true rennaisance man. Recommended for anyone acutely interested in the music and art worlds, particularly those places where they intersect.

Delightfully Intimate.......2006-02-25

This is a great read - Eno is very honest and open... Plus it is amazing how busy but also how laid back is at times. It's full of great insights.

Like Good Food.......2005-08-11

This is a wonderful book. It reminds me of some of my favorite foods. . . I wouldn't mind snacking on them for a moment or two, having a normal meal of them-- or maybe even a large, feast-like meal-- what's my point? Eno's diary is easy to read, and fun, and is perfect for browsing for a moment or two, or for more involved reading sessions. If you are interested, there are "story-lines" that develop-- relationships, projects, points of view-- so there is a sense of coherence in spite of the brevity of some entries. An added dimension is the kind of people mentioned and described-- from David Bowie to the members of James. It is very interesting to hear people like these described and discussed in intimate detail.

After reading a few pages of this diary, you will feel famous, too!

think.......2004-10-28

my well-worn copy was purchased when the book came out. a fan of eno from his roxy music days, he lead the pack in being ahead of the pack when it came to ambient music, among other things. that's why they call it 'avant guarde' folks - the advance guard, going where it's dangerous, well ahead of the rest of the followers.

for those that only gave the book a one or two star review, put it down early, etc., in short, they just don't get it, and most likely never will. that's ok. you can lead a horse to water...

forget eno as musician, producer, artist, educator, etc. , first and foremost he is a thinker, a man of ideas. his article in "wired" a decade ago said, in short , "there is not enough africa in computers". what do culture and technology have in common? what do art and life - heck, forget about life - what do art and death have in common? read the book. find out.

my copy is dog-earred, with a good number passeges underlined. why does one do that? because it reinfornces ideas one already posseses, often by putting them in a new light. and if you already have a penchant for thinking, eno may help sharpen some of those fuzzy thoughts. or even make them fuzzier, if warranted.

'oblique strategies' was a thought process eno developed with a collaborator to find new, creative ways of dealing with the issues that arise in any creative endeavor. 'oblique' and 'strategy' say much about eno's analytical mind, but if one listens to his contributions and colaborations with jon hassell or talking heads, you'llknw he brings more to the table than analysis.

here are some of his thoughts: "culture is not different from this: it is an ivitation to you to engage with a different world, a world of your and someone else's imagination. without your active engagement in that invitation, nothing happens. you are never actually a passive consumer of culture, because the only sense in which the verb 'to consume' has any meaning inthis context is when it means 'to agree to engage with'".

so, engage. consume. read this book. and fight the good fight.

marc english
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Not for everybody - great book for producers.......2003-11-06

If you are a record producer or a musician interested in production you are certainly familiar with Eno's work. Have you ever wondered what his routine is like? Well, I did. The book gave me an idea of how he works on a project, how ideas are created in his studio and how he works with musicians.

The book is his diary of 1995 and it is focused on his work, not so much his personal life. There are no juicy gossips and no confessions. It is mostly cold and impersonal. Steps were clearly taken to preserve his personal life. And you have to ignore some of the obvious embelishing (c'mon, Brian, if you are such a good cook, shouldn't you own a restaurant instead?).

But if you are involved in music you will get a glimpse into the tools and processes that make this man one of the great creative minds in contemporary music. And also understand where some of his shortcomings come from.

It is the closest thing to being a guest in his studio for a week.

Apart from the diary there are some texts at the end packed with original ideas.

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The 1960s, writes Roger Kimball, "has become less the name of a decade than a provocation." This incisive critique of that turbulent time won't calm the debate. The Long March will enthrall conservatives who think of themselves as culture warriors and infuriate liberals who still celebrate "the purple decade." Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and author of Tenured Radicals, is one of the Right's most articulate writers. He argues forcefully that the pernicious influence of the 1960s can still be felt: "The success of America's recent cultural revolution can be measured not in toppled governments but in shattered values. If we often forget what great changes this revolution brought in its wake, that, too, is a sign of its success: having changed ourselves, we no longer perceive the extent of our transformation."

The Long March proceeds as a series of stimulating essays on important cultural figures and movements, beginning with the Beats. Norman Mailer comes in for an eloquent trashing ("From the late 1940s until the 1980s, he showed himself to be extraordinarily deft at persuading credulous intellectuals to collaborate in his megalomania"), as do any number of counterculture icons. I.F. Stone's articles, writes Kimball, "read like neo-Stalinist equivalents of those multipart articles on staple crops with which The New Yorker used to anesthetize its readers." And of The New York Review of Books, that bastion of elite liberal opinion, Kimball says: "Quite apart from the irresponsibility of the politics, there was an intellectual irresponsibility at work here, a preening, ineradicable frivolousness toward the cultural values that the journal was supposedly created to nurture." There's a distinctly conservative crankiness to Kimball's writing; the jazz of Miles Davis is inevitably "drug-inspired" and rock music "was not only an aesthetic disaster of gigantic proportions: it was also a moral disaster whose effects are nearly impossible to calculate precisely because they are so pervasive." Yet this inclination can lead to fascinating, if arguable, insights about modern American culture: "Everywhere one looks one sees the elevation of youth--that is to say, of immaturity--over experience. It may seem like a small thing that nearly everyone of whatever age dresses in blue jeans now; but the universalization of that sartorial badge of the counterculture speaks volumes."

Kimball's writing is at once highbrow and accessible. Fans of Robert Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind--or readers who have never quite believed all the English professors proclaiming Allen Ginsberg a poetic genius--will find The Long March engrossing and indispensable. --John J. Miller

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For all that has been written about the counterculture, until now there has not been a chronicle of how this revolutionary movement succeeded and how its ideas helped provoke today's culture wars. The Long March fills this gap with a compelling and well-informed narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and debate.

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cultural indigestion.......2007-07-08

Roger Kimball's acerbic wit and lively intellect make this book a pleasure to read. As Kimball notes, "The Sixties" is just an evocation; as a slice of history it actually encompassed nearly twenty years. "It began some time in the late 1950s and lasted at least until the mid-1970s."

It's instructive to note that the "cultural revolution" Kimball discusses coincides exactly with the period of the Vietnam War; 1959 to April 30, 1975. The cultural revolutionaries that Kimball describes were spawned by the Vietnam conflict. It was the longest war of U.S. history, over 50,000 American youth were killed, and the Army was filled with draftees; "conscripts paid to kill", as Joan Baez hauntingly lyricized. It was this combination, the war, the draft and the popular resistance to both, that provided the backdrop of the sixties principal motif, "rebellion against authority." This antipathy to authority merged with left wing ideology, which held that all of humanity should live together in a peaceful egalitarian utopia.

(Aside: Kimball commits a serious omission in that he never mentions musician and poet Bob Dylan once in his book. Dylan's lyrics, style and cultural dominance of the sixties cannot be overstated: "The Times They Are a-Changing" Also, although the Vietnam War is discussed in several places, I don't believe Kimball gives it the central place it deserves as a "permitting condition" for the cultural revolt of the sixties.)

Most of this book is spent exposing the intellectual vacuity of the revolutionaries. They were against the war but their leftist radicalism took some bizarre and twisted turns. Kimball describes the main and peripheral characters; the boorish egoist Norman Mailer, the narcissistic "intellectual poseur" Susan Sontag, the freakish sociopath Eldridge Cleaver, the fat, dumb and happy Allen Ginsberg, the drugged out Timothy Leary, the murderous Black Panthers and dozens more cultural icons who stood for nothing more than an attack on authority - all authority. (Note: epithets are mine, not Kimball's.)

The Chapter on Susan Sontag is worth the price of the book. In fact, it is priceless. Kimball takes the ideas of these cultural icons apart as easily as disassembling a cheap tinker toy set.

The most ominous theme to emerge from these hare-brained people who were going to save the world (along with saving the Viet Cong) was the antinomian view that their morality was "above the law." Yale Chaplin William Sloane Coffin Jr. and the two brothers, Priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan, became carried away with their own virtue and burned draft records and helped young Americans flee to Canada. They exempted themselves from the claims of democratically established authority to pursue the calling of a "higher authority."

Civil disobedience was born. I recall seeing tee-shirts on campus emblazoned "Question All Authority." Students came to class wearing ragged war surplus clothing. In one graduate class, "The Intellectual History of America" (at a California University I attended), one student always showed up dressed only in dirty Levi's; bare-foot and shirtless. Not long after this a number of students at Berkeley started attending classes totally naked. Apparently this was their expression of a higher morality. "If it feels good, do it."

How does all this sixties turmoil effect us today? The answer lies in the universities. The students who assimilated the religion of rebellion and anti-Americanism became the professors of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Many of these academics also became University administrators. This "intelligentsia" still controls the intellectual and moral discourse at the top of the cultural heap. (David Horowitz has documented this academic dominance of radical leftists in many of his books, articles, and on his website.) Perhaps, as historian Victor Davis Hanson has put it, this intelligentsia is like a large meal ingested by a boa constrictor. It has to slowly work its way through the intestines of the giant snake until it is finally digested. Maybe the academics and administrators have reached this point; maybe they have worked their way through the labyrinth of the universities and are about to be expelled from the other end.

Kimball at his best .......2007-01-20

I love all of Roger Kimbell's books so this may not be the most unbiased review that you will read here, however...

As usual, Kimball's well rounded education shines through in this book as he uses literary and cultural examples from the soon to be extinct Western Civilization (on campus anyway.) Of all of those who have contributed their thoughts to the culture wars, Kimball has to be one of the best. Never shrill, his criticisms in `The Long March..." of such icons of the New Left as Susan Sontag, the Beats, and of course Eldridge Cleaver are well informed and backed up with ample evidence and citations.

In chapter 4, `The Liberal Capitulation', the author describes what is perhaps one of the most disgusting phenomena of the 60s, namely, college administrators siding with radical students and making deals instead of calling the authorities to deal with campus takeovers the way they should have been dealt with. I have to agree with Kimball that this was a turning point for the bad for higher education in this country - one from which we are still reeling to this day.

This is a great read for anyone interested in the culture wars and as usual, Kimball cites from enough texts to start a whole new reading list on the topic. I would not expect "progressives" out there to pick up this volume but for any open minded reader interested in the impact of 60s radicalism, this will a great addition to your library.

A necessary drop of Holy Water.......2006-11-23

"The Long March" is a very good start for anyone who wants to understand the degradation of our culture on multiple levels. The following quotes from Arthur Herman's "Joseph McCarthy (Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator)" explain the writhing & gnashing of teeth demonstrated by some reviewers:

"In fact, few conservatives saw anything new or unprecedented in McCarthy's efforts or in the hostile reaction it provoked...in the thirties, any author who attacked communism could count on a similar smear treatment..."

"...the struggle over McCarthy was part of a much longer struggle: the survival of a traditional conservatism in the face of a dominant liberal orthodoxy that seemed to find more to admire in Stalin's Russia than in it's own country's traditions."

"Two generations of American liberalism, wrote one conservative critic (of the 1950's) have called honorable men 'merchants of death' and Stalin a protagonist of human liberation; and for either misjudgment they had far less evidence than McCarthy did for his."

Yes, it's time for a deluge of Holy Water...
It's the Left, the 1960's radicals & their spawn, the red diaper babies that attempt to stifle debate...usually with labels of anti-this, anti-that, nativist, homophobe, xenophobe etc.

How?.......2006-07-27

The title of this book is: How the Cultural Revolution of the Sixties Changed America. Table of Contents:

What is a Cultural Revolution?
A Gospel of Emancipation
Norman Mailer's American Dream
Susan Sontag & the New Sensibility
The Liberal Capitulation
The Politics of Delegitimation
The Marriage of Marx & Frued
The Greening of America
The Project of Rejuvenilization
Eldridge Cleaver's Serial Extremism
A Nostalgia for Molotovs
What the Sixties Wrought

Kimball emphasizes the importance of colleges admitting unqualified persons, especially at a time when violent takeovers, protests and hostage-taking had become fashionable on campuses. The faith was that education could transform people. But people resent charity by whatever name it is called, and people resent having to compete with other people who are better qualified than they are. Violent protests were an easy and predictable way out. So was the demand for separate academic programs, separate grading systems, and ultimately a substitution of different content in all courses (thus eliminating the need to compete). This started as early as 1969 at Cornell. And as more and more minorities and other "victim" groups were given a free ride into the universities, more of them demanded separate academic programs, separate standards of grading, separate rules of conduct. And whatever they demanded, of course, they got. And as these special subjects became fashionable in the 1970s, the majority (white) students demanded that their courses reflect these trendy topics.

Kimball quotes Nathan Glazer who says we "can only admire the public-relations skill exhibited in the choice of a name" for their various actions (p. 106). That skill has since become a fine art, as reverse discrimination/charity has been christened "affirmative action", revolution has been re-christened "transformation", rejection of and denigration of Western culture has been dubbed "multiculturalism" and more recently "diversity".

Again, the title of this book is: How the Cultural Revolution of the Sixties Changed America. This book does describe a number of changes in America since the 1960s, but does not say HOW these changes were accomplished (undoubtedly because Kimball was not there).

For a more thorough and accurate account from an independent point of view, read the new While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within. In spite of the provocative title, this is a thoroughly researched, carefully reasoned book which nonetheless does not shrink from carrying the evidence to its logical conclusions.

Disappointing; the book stops short of its promise.......2006-05-31

While I agree that the 60s epitomize 12-18 years of self-indulgence, excess, moral decay, and rationalization, I found this book failed substantially to go from a cataloguing of horribles to a clear analysis of precisely how pervasively the perpetuation and idolization of these misguided ideals continue to undermine society.

The book promises just such an examination in its subtitle: "How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America," but falls far short of delivering on that promise.

Mr. Kimball's abrasive (though, IMHO, accurate) portayals of the icons of the revolution should be only one part of the book, but he fails to take it the rest of the way and go beyond his earlier essays assailing each of these malcontents.

A tough read, and definately not worth it.

The 1960s Cultural Revolution (Greenwood Press Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century)

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Progressing at a dizzying, frenetic pace, the 1960s were synonymous with rebellion and conflict. No other decade in the 20th century was so tumultuous. This gripping and engagingly written guide to the forces that shaped the 1960s cultural revolution examines the New Left, the antiwar movement, and the counterculture. A narrative historical overview puts the decade in perspective. Essays follow on each of the above topics, and a concluding essay discusses the legacy of the era. The work also features a wealth of ready reference material--a comprehensive timeline of events in the 1960s, biographical profiles of key players, the text of important primary documents associated with the political, social and cultural rebellion, a glossary of terms, and a helpful annotated bibliography of print and nonprint materials suitable for students. The author, an expert in the social history of the era, examines the political activism, protests, music, and social conduct that made the 1960s such an extraordinary era. He also demonstrates that contrary to popular thinking, only a small minority of the "baby boomers" who came of age then were directly involved in student demonstrations, protests against the Vietnam War, or antisocial behavior that many Americans perceive as typical of the 1960s. Bringing to life the passion of the era are the texts of primary documents such as statements from the Students for a Democratic Society, speeches by leaders of the student protest movement and the Hippies, interviews, and responses from establishment politicians. The analytical essays, primary documents, and ready-reference material will help students to gain a deeper understanding of the period.

Cultural Revolution?: The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s

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Are the cultural upheavals of the 1960s nothing more than a media myth, recycled as endless nostalgia? Woodstock, the Summer of Love, student protests, the debacle that was the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago evoke a period of material prosperity, cultural innovation, and youthful rebellion. But how far did the radical aspirations and utopian ideals really go? And what is the legacy of the social, political, and cultural transformations which characterized the decade?

In an interdisciplinary collection of specially commissioned essays, Cultural Revolution? uncovers the complex economic and political contexts in which these changes took place. Covering a wide variety of art forms--drama, television, music, film, poetry, literature, and the visual arts--the contributors investigate how the culture of the 1960s became politicized, and how its inherent contradictions still have repercussions for the arts today.

Cultural Revolution? will be an important resource for students and teachers involved in cultural studies, and media and communication studies.

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The Long March: How The Cultural Revolution of The 1960s Changed America

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Grade 1-6 The accuracy of the visualized Japanese landscape and architecture help considerably in casting this retold folktale into an Oriental mold. A very industrious widow watches her very lazy teenage son (whose nickname is the title of the book) grow up. And readers watch her watching him in tightly crafted scenes that are some what reminiscent of 17th- or 18th-Cen tury Japanese woodcuts: fishing boats on the river; bamboo-windowed houses; blue-mountained backdrops with birds in V-formation; etc. Smoothly applied paint (seemingly air brushed at times) depict the peaceful Japanese landscape. The costuming and facial gestures, as the boy tricks a rich neighbor into rebuilding his moth er's house and allowing him to marry his daughter, create a dramatic effect. There is a sense of authenticity to the pictures that informs readers about a particular lifestyle while simultaneous ly entertaining them with an engaging, almost universal trickster tale. Ken neth Marantz, Art Education Depart ment, Ohio State University, Colum bus Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the

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You'll be amazed!.......2006-11-28

This book tells the story of a lazy boy whose selfish plan backfires. I read this to a year 2 class studying a unit on Japan and they were spellbound. The story is exciting and the illustrations are beautifully detailed with many elements of Japanese culture. I thoroughly recommend this book for schoolchildren and kidults alike.

I love this book and i think you will too!.......2006-05-25

this book is the most wonderful book ever. you got to read it to belive. this book is about a boy who is very lazy and all he does is sleep and eat and sleep more. his mom didn't like this and she was always saying why can't you do chores like regular boys do. then he decides to turn himself into this scray person and would go to this that was his neigbor old man and warn him about his daughter which he loves that she must marry someone
like the next door neighbor. then they get married.

The Boy of the Three Year Nap.......2006-05-24

The Boy of the Three Year Nap is a book with tips for reality, mischeviousness, and humor. I believe this book is a humorous book but it doesn't have very good life lessons. When I read this story I vaguely got the impression that life always goes your way. But I know it does not. The boy who was lazy ended up marrying a nice, rich girl because of a lie he started. He never worked hard or anything. I think young children might get the wrong idea about life and honesty. So I would wouldn't recommend for young children to read this book because they might be in for a big dissappointment.

Used as a Thematic Unit!.......1999-12-11

I loved this book so much that I developed a Thematic Unit around it. The book has some of the most outstanding pictures one has ever seen. Through these pictures we get to see Japan's culture, customs, and landscape. The story is great too. Through this book I taught Reading, English, Math, Social Studies, Science, Art, and used the internet to go on a field trip. This is a wonderful book and keeps the reader guessing. Enjoy!

Very fun, even for older kids........1999-05-11

My son's third grade class has been studying Japan. They had a "Japan Day" with lots of Japanese activities. His teacher asked me to read this book to the class. I hadn't read it before and only one child had heard it. They loved it. I have come right home and am purchasing the book for our "library" right now. Highly recommended!

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Samba, the Server Message Block (SMB) server software that makes it relatively easy to integrate Unix or Linux servers into networks of Microsoft Windows workstations, has to date been mostly explained as an afterthought. Most often, it's appeared in the latter chapters of books about Linux. It deserves better, and the authors of Using Samba have delivered exactly that.

This book documents Samba 2.0.4 fully (version 2.0.5, source and binary, appears on the companion CD-ROM), focusing on smbd, nmbd, the command-line tools, and Samba's newfound ability to integrate itself securely with Windows NT domains.

Though it includes a bit of information on the SMB and Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocols that underlie Samba, the emphasis here is on setting up and configuring software. Explicit sections explain how to install Samba on a Unix/Linux system and how to set up Microsoft clients to communicate with the Samba machine. The authors pay lavish attention to the Samba configuration file, smb.conf, and explain exactly what settings you need to include in it to allow disk shares, network browsing, and integration with Windows domains. A highly useful reference that lists all Samba configuration options (along with their valid values, default values, and explanations) appears in an appendix. --David Wall

Topics covered: All aspects of setting up and configuring Samba 2.0 and its variants, including client configuration, file sharing, network browsing, file system differences between Windows and Unix/Linux, security, and the contents of the Samba configuration file.

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This book, which has been officially adopted by the Samba Team and is under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), is a comprehensive guide to Samba administration. The 2nd edition focuses on Samba 2.2 and covers the most important features of 3.0, which was under development as this book went to print. Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients. Samba is so robust, flexible, fast, and secure that many people are choosing it over Windows NT/2000/XP for their file and print services. Samba is also free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License. This book will help you make file and print sharing as robust, powerful, and efficient as possible. The authors delve into the internals of the Windows activities and protocols to an unprecedented degree, explaining the strengths and weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself. Using Samba takes you from basic installation and configuration--on both the client and server side, for a wide range of systems--to subtle details of security, cross-platform compatibility, and resource discovery that make the difference between whether a user sees the folder they expect or a cryptic error message. The range of this book knows few bounds. Wondering how to integrate Samba's authentication with that of a Windows PDC? How to get Samba to serve Microsoft Dfs shares? How to share files on Mac OS X? These and a dozen other issues of interest to system administrators are covered. A whole chapter is dedicated to troubleshooting. Whether you're playing on one note or a full three-octave range, on your personal computer or an enterprise network, Using Samba will give you an efficient and secure server.

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Using Samba.......2007-07-30

I was able to configure a samba server that met all my needs after reading only 4 chapters of this book.
I am not an expert but at no time at all did I feel like this book is outdated. Mine, 3rd edition, was focused on samba 3.0.22 -- correct release being 3.0.25.

A very good guide.......2007-07-17

This is a very good guide. It brings together information scattered over the net and provides good a deep explanation for many topics that samba administrator need to know.

THE Essential Samba Reference.......2007-05-30

'Using Samba' by Gerald Carter is the DEFINITIVE Samba reference for all Samaba users and administrators out there in the IT world. Now in its 3rd Edition, this gem of a book/tool takes you through all the necessary steps from setup, configuration, troubleshooting, you name it, it's in this book!! Written in a clear, concise manner, over 400 pages of information is contained within the following 12 chapters and 3 appendixes:

01. An Introduction to Samba
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04. The Samba Configuration File
05. Accounts, Authentication, and Authorization
06. Advanced Disk Shares
07. Printing
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O'reilly books are the best.......2007-01-09

Very good, in depth coverage. Would recommend it to all.

Excellent.......2006-01-29

Samba is so cool! And this book is so perfect in getting you set up so that you can use it. I have slowly been introducing a Unix (freebsd) system into our office network (all Windows). I had NO idea how to set up Samba or anything.

But this book takes even a raw beginner like me to where I can, VOILA!, fet the Unix and the Windows computers easily see each other!

I have no complaints about this book whatsoever. It teaches you what you need to know to hook up networked Unix and Windows computers using Samba. Kudos to the author.

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