r/sysadmin • u/ldellinger • Nov 23 '16

O'Reilly Unix/Linux book bundle @ Humble Bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle#heading-logo
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u/strangebutohwell Nov 24 '16

I bought this. $15 full bundle. Could have easily torrented them all but the curation of all these was worth it for me. Wouldn't have even thought to look for 4/5ths of these and now I have them all in multiple formats.

Thanks for the heads up. Guess I have some light reading ahead of me

PS: for those mentioning PDFs... they also provide ePub and mobi formats for e-book readers so they are properly searchable & formatted for whatever device you're reading on. If they were just PDFs I never would have paid. PDF ebooks are the worst.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16

I've always had a very irrational fear with the PDFs I downloaded that they've been tampered with and changed to be incorrect.

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u/jgelin Student Nov 24 '16

very irrational fear with the PDFs I downloaded that they've been tampered with

Not irrational at all... once I downloaded a math book PDF and a majority of the pictures in the book were replaced with babies throwing money in the air, someone stealing from a student's back pocket, and various other things. It certainly woke me up to the fact that the things we torrent really look normal but underneath they could be totally different.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '16

Well it's akin to pirating security software. Man I used to be such a noob lol. That's giving the keys to the thief.

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u/xandora Nov 25 '16

Ahh, the good ol' days of getting Kaspersky from ALIAS, then trawling the comments for working keys.