On Mon, February 9, 2015 3:28 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2015-02-09, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 11:12 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> On 2/9/2015 11:06 AM, Always Learning wrote: >>> > The third item was a 16.1 MB PDF of 1,344 pages. A quick scan of the >>> PDF >>> > shows every page appears to be readable. 11 pages devoted to BASH. >>> > Information on other interesting topics too. >>> >>> on a site hosted in Russia which appears to be FULL of copyright >>> violations. >> >> Probably not really a software pirate but an individual (and a keen >> cyclist) storing some old-ish PDFs on his own web site. > > The PDF *itself* is still pirated. It has nothing whatsoever to do with > "software" piracy. > >> So there is little to fear from the web site of a Russian cyclist who >> likes Linux. > > I don't even fully trust docs written by any third party until I can > cross-check it against official documentation. So I definitely do not > think it's okay to trust pirated documentation from a Russian site I > will never be able to know anything about. > Which should not reflect on the book I recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Administration-Handbook-Edition/dp/0131480057 (Neither should the fact that the one who recommended it - myself - has Russian origin too. I for one hate the fact that copyright - and decency - are so much violated on the territory of Russia). Still, as I stressed in my original suggestion: to get proficient in anything one has to learn fundamentals, so I would forget about blogs, web posts, and would begin with a really good book. Unless you are already an expert in a sense you know fundamentals (but this question is the one that one can only answer by himself). Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++