FlashBack FlashBack O'Reilly Special ************************************ Contents: 1125: FlashBack O'Reilly Special 1126: About O'Reilly & Associates 1127: O'Reilly's Free Magazine/Catalog ora.com 1128: UNIX Review Award for O'Reilly & Associates 1129: The Wide Appeal of Linux from ora.com 1130: Getting the Big Picture on Mosaic 1131: O'Reilly's Catalog 1132: POSIX.4 - Real World Programming 1133: Writing Portable X Code 1134: Stopping the Information Railroad 1135: The Sendmail Story 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index How to send for articles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1125: FlashBack O'Reilly Special I have been granted permission by O'Reilly & Associates to repost some of the articles from their gopher and web servers. Most of these articles have been published their excellent ora.com catalog/newsletter. See URL's: o gopher://gopher.ora.com o http://www.ora.com I strongly recommend obtaining a copy of the ora.com catalog by sending your email address to catalog@ora.com. I recently listed to all of the Internet Audiotapes while driving in my car and I really enjoyed them! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1126: About O'Reilly & Associates O'Reilly & Associates is the leading publisher of books for UNIX, X, TCP/IP, and other open systems, as well as a pioneer in online publishing on the Internet. That's a fairly ambitious claim that smacks of marketing hype, but it also happens to be true. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1127: O'Reilly's Free Magazine/Catalog ora.com ora.com Issue 4, Fall 1994 Edited by Tim O'Reilly "ora.com" is a publication that we provide to our regular customers. If you'd like to receive a complimentary copy, and are not on our mailing list, simply email your postal address to catalog@ora.com In November, we released the fourth issue of our free magazine-plus-catalog entitled "ora.com." It presents a behind-the-scenes look at issues we at O'Reilly & Associates found interesting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1128: UNIX Review Award for O'Reilly & Associates "UNIX Review: The Magazine for Systems and Solutions Developers" just announced their 1994 Outstanding Product Awards. An "Editor's Award" went to O'Reilly & Associates. Thank you "UNIX Review" for the recognition and kind words -- and thanks to all the users, programmers, and system administrators who remain an integral part of O'Reilly's relationship to the world of UNIX and beyond. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1129: The Wide Appeal of Linux from ora.com In this interview Tim O'Reilly speaks with Olaf Kirch, author of the upcoming Linux Network Administrator's Guide, about the development of Linux. Olaf graduated from Technische Universitat Darmstadt in 1993 with a degree in mathematics and now works part-time as a C/C++ programmer for a company that's producing a UNIX-based CAD/CAM system. He has spent much of the past year and a half tracking changes in the networking code development of Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1130: Getting the Big Picture on Mosaic Dale Dougherty is the publisher of Global Network Navigator and an editor at O'Reilly & Associates. He is co-author of the Mosaic Handbooks: for Macintosh, Windows, and X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1131: O'Reilly's Catalog A 1 line entry for each of O'Reilly's books: o New Releases (9 titles) o Internet (15 titles) o Internet Audiotapes (8 titles) o UNIX and X Users (17 titles) o Berkeley 4.4 Software Distribution (7 titles) o System Administration (11 titles) o Programming: UNIX and C (18 books) o DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) (3 titles) o X Window System (16 titles) o X 3D Graphics (5 titles) o X Resource (12 issues) o Software Products (10 titles) o Business and Career (2 titles) o Travel (2 titles) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1132: POSIX.4 - Real World Programming Mike Loukides is editor of Bill Gallmeister's upcoming book: POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World 1st Edition November 1994 (est.) 400 pages (est.), ISBN: 1-56592-074-0, $29.95 (est.) We're convinced that this book will become the standard reference work on real-world programming. If you see real-time in your future -- and that includes areas like multimedia, games, and transaction processing -- you'll want to own this book. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1133: Writing Portable X Code This article appears in Issue 11 of The X Resource: A Practical Journal of the X Window System. We make it available here as a service to the X Consortium, so that developers can follow these guidelines as they write contributed software for X. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1134: Stopping the Information Railroad This article was excerpted from John Perry Barlow's USENIX Conference Keynote Address, the first offering from ORA's exciting new audiotape series Notable Speeches of the Information Age. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1135: The Sendmail Story Tim O'Reilly interviews Eric Allman Sendmail, the UNIX mail utility, has a reputation for being difficult and frustrating. As a matter of fact, if you're a system administrator, there's a good chance that you've cursed its existence once or twice. Our customers had been requesting that we write a book on the topic, and we were happy to oblige; however, the book took a lot longer than we liked. We went through three prospective authors before finding a team that was up to the job (sendmail, the book, was published in November of 93). Upon completion of the book, we had an opportunity to chat with Eric Allman, the creator of sendmail. Eric was also quite involved in the development of our book. He reviewed it chapter by chapter as it was being written, and from start to finish when it was done. Eric even developed a new version of sendmail, due in part to the questions and probings of Bryan Costales, the principal author of our book on sendmail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9001: General FlashBack/SunFlash Information This article contains general information about the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" I produced "The Florida SunFlash" for nearly six years. "SunFlash" is the continuation of that journal. When "SunFlash" grew to about 100 articles per month, 140,000+ subscribers and 30,000+ article requests per month I decided that it was time to make some changes. For a variety of reasons, I started the two new journals, "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" , and moved production of all three journals to an independent company with its own resouces and Internet domain (FlashBack.COM). My goal, as always, is to provide useful, timely, high-quality information to the Sun user community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9002: FlashBack and SunFlash Index This article contains a one line index entry for each of the articles posted to the electronic journals that I edit and publish: "SunFlash" , "The Sun FlashBack" and "The Internet Sun FlashBack" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You may send for any of these articles by sending mail to FlashBack@FlashBack.COM. 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