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April 21, 2019
FreeBSD Mastery: Jails – Bail Bond Denied Edition
I had a brilliant, hideous idea: to produce a charity edition of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails featuring the cover art I would use if I was imprisoned and did not have access to a real cover artist. (Never mind that I wouldn’t be permitted to release books while in jail: we creative sorts scoff at mere …
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April 15, 2019
Print Sponsor Gifts Mailed for “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”
I just got back from mailing the sponsor gifts for FreeBSD Mastery: Jails. Every time I ship sponsor gifts, I tell myself that I really need to intern at a shipping company, because there has got to be an easier way to do this. The pile on the right goes to international sponsors. This time …
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April 10, 2019
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple
A groaning UPS driver arrived at my door this morning and dropped off several dozen pounds of paper. Shipping these is a huge job. I’ll probably pack them up Saturday when I can bribe someone into helping me. (One person wrapping the book, one stuffing the book into the envelope, and one addressing/taping the envelope …
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April 3, 2019
Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019
I’ve written a jails talk to go with the book. I plan to give this talk three times: a dry run at next week’s Semibug, then in May at Penguicon and BSDCan. The Semibug talk, at 7 PM Tuesday at Altair Engineering, will be the most honest version of the talk. And by honest, I …
April 1, 2019
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella
The paperback, hardcover, and electronic versions of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails are all available at multiple stores. Not all stores–Powell’s and Waterstones, for example, always seems slow to get my new books. But it’s at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and several others. And the reviews seem positive: The timing for this book release is perfect; coinciding …
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March 27, 2019
“Sudo Mastery 2/e” sponsorships available
People, especially those who have previously sponsored my books, keep asking me when the sponsorships for the second edition of Sudo Mastery will be available. I don’t intend to start seriously writing this book until the end of April. May has Penguicon and BSDCan, which will take lumps of time out of my schedule. I …
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March 26, 2019
New sponsorship announcement mailing list
Many people who have sponsored books asked me to let them know when I have another book sponsorship open. They sincerely want to help me. Between the black pit masquerading as my inbox and my unease with daring to take money for books that I haven’t yet written, however, I can’t actually accomplish that. I …
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March 25, 2019
Restore Woocommerce Users from Backup
(This post is for sysadmins. If you use WooCommerce but aren’t a sysadmin, it won’t help you. I can’t help you either. Sorry.) I use WooCommerce on my bookstore. It’s built on top of WordPress and, as such, attracts spam users. About 40,000 of them since I opened it. The last time I investigated performance …
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” ebook escaping!
After far too long, the ebook of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails is out. Not all stores have it yet, I’m waiting for vendor databases to finish churning. The paperback and hardcovers? I have a paperback proof. They should be at Amazon within a few days, and at other stores as soon as book distributor IngramSpark completes …
March 11, 2019
End-of-February Update
Yeah, we’re a third of the way into March. I spent the first week of March at a writing workshop, which I might blog about separately. My writing workshops are basically 14-hour days, because if you’re not working why did you leave the house? Anyway, how did February measure up? 10,000 words. Yep. That’s it. …
