Tag Archives: Books

Jun
18
2012

Boat Hunting

by Skippy

B0atg1rl and I went boat hunting for a craft to call our own, this outing started with a virtual perambulation of the normal haunts, and then a trip to North Wales; while poking around Chirk Marina we came across a boat that looks like it will make us a lovely home. We found nbSteven, a 57ft narrowboat, built in 1992 [...]

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Jun
15
2012

Hippy’s cause trouble

by Skippy

Some of you may think I have some hippy tendancys; being that I live on a boat, and that I plan to be as off grid as I can, bma and I have over a number of years had a smiler talk; he is a fan of Greenpeace, the Green party, and CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). However [...]

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Jun
13
2012

Why eBooks changed my reading habit.

by Skippy

I read Delkaetre’s post on why she doesn’t have an ebook reader yet; I do have a Kindle, which I use in place of my book shelf most of the time. Her reasons for not liking an ebook reader include being able to Survive a fall onto a hard surface, (Readers are more fragile than books) Survive [...]

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May
28
2012

Book 9: DNS Management Guide

by Skippy

I use 123-reg as my domain registrar, I found this DNS Management Guide on there site. Its not a very big book; but it gives a nice quick overview to DNS, and gives examples of how to use different records. A records, CNAME records, MX records, nameservers…… confused? What will this guide help me with? This guide contains [...]

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May
28
2012

Book 8: Using OS X Lion Server at Home: A Step by Step Guide

by Skippy

We Got Served’s “Using OS X Lion Server at Home: A Step by Step Guide” by Terry Walsh is a good introduction to OS X Lion Server, I read this one after reading Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office, Its more aimed at setting up OS X Lion Server [...]

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May
28
2012

Book 7: Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office

by Skippy

Charles Edge’s “Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office” (published by O’Reilly books) is a good introduction into the setting up and configuring of Mac OS X Lion Server, its aimed at small workgroup installs, such as Home, SOHO, or Schools. If you’re considering a Mac OS X server for [...]

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Apr
25
2012

Book 4: Living Afloat

by Skippy

Peter Underwood’s (@Livingafloat) “Living Afloat” was a book that I picked up when it was free on Kindle; I follow Peter on Twitter where he is an active member of the #boatsthattweet group. The Kindle book seems to be unavailable; however you can still download the PDF files from Norbury Wharf Ltd’s Site here. This [...]

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Apr
12
2012

Book 2: Fox Talbot

by Skippy

John Hannavy’s ”Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Father of Modern Photography’, 1800 -1877″ Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His ‘calotype’ or ‘Talbotype’ process was the first working photographic process to use the now familiar format of negatives and positives. He was an ambitious man but [...]

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